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[peanutbuttercup]

So, unsurprisingly, boating club might not be for me. What are the reviews on drama club? I might be able to help out painting sets or with costumes.

[...]

Speaking of which, if anyone needs help with their Halloween costumes, just let me know. I have mine done already.

WARDED TO ROXIE & ZACH

I have an idea that I might need your help with, but first I have a question. Do you think the underclassmen would hate me if I made them learn math to get their candy at the Halloween dance?

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[peanutbuttercup]

But I can tell from your apologetic tone that you'd be willing to do it to win.

[Monster Mash Ward]
So there's this nomaj gameshow called "Let's Make a Deal", and they have this game where there are three closed doors. And they tell the contestant, behind one of the doors is a brand new car, and behind the other one are goats. Obviously you want to get the car. So they have you pick one door, and after you do, the host opens one of the remaining two doors to show you that there's a goat behind it. Then he asks you if you want to switch doors.

The question is: should you switch? Should you stay with your original choice? Or does it not matter?

[uponawire]

Maybe. But I'd feel very bad about it afterward?

[Monster Mash Ward]

Oh. It's a logic problem. Like the cups I wasn't very good a

So there's a chance you were right the whole time and you switch to get it wrong, there's a chance you were wrong and you switch to get it right, and there's the chance of sticking with whatever you had and that being right or wrong. So it's a chance game and a math game. I don't think you'll frustrate the underclassmen too much with that.

[peanutbuttercup]

As long as you came to visit me in the infirmary I'd forgive you.

[Monster Mash Ward]
Exactly. Your odds are actually a little better if you switch doors, which is where the math comes in. It's a little counter-intuitive, because you'd think your odds would be about the same either way. I just think it's interesting. But you could still play without doing the math.

Also, since it's Halloween, I was thinking "something spooky" instead of "a goat", which is where you guys would come in.

[uponawire]

I'd bring you food. And tokens of my affection and deep apology for potentially breaking your bones.

[Monster Mash Ward]

The math is where you lose me a bit, but I follow for the most part. It's like a Midway game. Probably less fixed than a Midway game, though.

I'd like to think that I'm at least more frightening than a goat.

[peanutbuttercup]

I've actually never broken a bone before. I wonder if I'm imagining it worse than it actually is.

[Monster Mash Ward]
Carnival games are fixed?!

I'm going to be Dr. Frankenstein if you want to be my monster.

[uponawire]

Depends on what you break. Arms aren't too bad. Collarbones are pretty terrible.

[Monster Mash Ward]

Tragic, but true. We are liars and thieves.

Yes. Definitely. I've always wanted to be stitched together from a bunch of other girls.

[peanutbuttercup]

Just thinking about a broken collarbone gives me the heeby jeebies. I don't know how you guys all deal with breaking bones so often.

[Monster Mash Ward]
I really thought I could knock the cans over if I just tried hard enough.

Excellent. Maybe Zach can be Dracula.

[uponawire]

Other people definitely get it worse than I do.

[Monster Mash Ward]

Well, if the person running the stall likes you, they'll give you a fair chance.

I think he'd make a fine vampire. Or a mummy.

MONSTER MASH

[readingrainbows]

Which one is spookier? Personally, I'm not EXACTLY sure what's so scary about mummies [...], except for how they're TOTALLY REAL and sometimes GROSS. Have you ever heard of a mellified man? I DON'T mean to sound DISRESPECTFUL, but I don't think I would eat a person even IF I thought it could cure my broken bones.

MONSTER MASH

[peanutbuttercup]

I mean... Dracula was kind of just a poncy dude that couldn't come into your house, right?

MONSTER MASH

[readingrainbows]

He was also a legilimens who didn't like bread.

MONSTER MASH

[peanutbuttercup]

He was Romanian, though. That's kind of scary.

MONSTER MASH

[readingrainbows]

And a tsar! No, wait [...] a boyer. Jeez, it hasn't even been that long since I've read Dracula. My brain is like swiss cheese.

MONSTER MASH

[uponawire]

No, you’re right. Maybe it’s just the part where they were occasionally buried alive that freaks me out?

MONSTER MASH

[readingrainbows]

Did that really happen?

MONSTER MASH

[uponawire]

Well, the Screaming Mummy was either that or poison?

MONSTER MASH

[readingrainbows]

[ there's a solid 20 mins where zach just drops everything and runs over to the library ]

Wow!!! You're right!! I hate it!!!

This is a VERY good fun fact.

[readingrainbows]

If any of my Quidditch playing friends are reading this, PLEASE don't break any bones! Thank you!

THEY DID THE MASH
Why are so many HORROR STORIES told with the epistolary format? Is LETTER WRITING really that scary?

Monster Mash Ward

[peanutbuttercup]

It's like the found footage film of the 19th century.

Monster Mash Ward

[readingrainbows]

That's true. Imagine STUMBLING on something like that? It'd be at LEAST as creepy as the BLAIR WITCH.

[...] I wonder if what the writing equivalent of a SHAKY CAMERA is? Deeeeeaaaaar Quiiiiincey! My handwriting is reeeeaaaaaalllllly baaaaad. Ooooh!

Monster Mash Ward

[peanutbuttercup]

And now I shall peeeeerishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Monster Mash Ward

[readingrainbows]

Ha!

[...] Did you hear any of my stories at the pumpkin carving contest? Cole recruited me to write some SCARES. He said they were good, but I'm STARTING to REGRET writing a WHOLE conte cruel where the antagonist was the act of forgetting to vote.

[ .......... ] The one about the GIANT SPIDER was pretty okay though. I think.