Time to Get Spooky! Group 3 Oktoberfest Closed

Interactions: Anastasia Beckett
Mentions: Scott Alexander

[FONT="Century Gothic"]Interacting with Anastasia Beckett, Ami Procoppio, Scott Alexander, and Elena Jangleton

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[FONT="Century Gothic"]Ah... Quinn's favorite time of year right next to ya know Christmas. Walking down the halls of the old scottish castle, there was a definite creep factor to the now decorated corridors. A little bit of a pep was in his step, and boy was he decked out. It took him quite sometime to actually get the necessary materials together though.

He was dressed in dark green suit slacks,, a jet black form fitting dress shirt. He wore a tie of a deep purple color, and over all of that he wore a suit jacket of the same dark green color as the slacks. The main difference was that the color and breast pockets for the jacket were of a light purple color, and about a dozen question marks of varying sizes adorned the jacket they were a darker green then the jacket so they would stand out more. Additionally he had black dress shoes, purple gloves, and a green bowler hat with a purple sash on it. To finish up his mysterious ensemble he wore a dark forest green domino mask and had a small plastic cane to top it off that he managed to bring from home.

Making his way to the entrance of the great hall, he eventually met his group. His eyes lighting up with excitement and curiosity as they fell onto his group. "Ami!" He excitedly ran over to his close friend, "Hey that's a neat outfit!" He chuckled quickly turning his attention to the rest of the group recognizing no one else. "Well me name be Quinn Healy, and it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance!" He energetically blurted out pressing his cane down. He tipped his hat bowing.

He glanced around a wicked smile on his outfit. He wondered if anyone would recognize the fact he was dressed as the riddler, his fiery orange curls being mostly hidden by the bowler hat.


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Interaction | Ami Procoppio | Scott Alexander | Elena Jangleton | Quinn Healy

Anastasia smiled at the redhead as she approached. She quite liked the girl's costume, since Christmas was probably her favorite holiday. The others were great and all, but none of the rest of them came with as many presents as Christmas, so that was that. "You too!" she told her, scanning the crowd to see if any of the other members of her group were on their way yet. Shortly, a Gryffindor boy approached. Anastasia vaguely thought that he was one of the other prefects, but they hadn't actually met before. "Anastasia Beckett, and I quite like your costume by the way," she replied brightly. She wondered if he was any specific scarecrow or just a generic one. The only one she could think of was the one from that book with the green witch and the scared lion. Wizard of something. It was one of the few muggle novels her parents had let her read, but it had been ages since she'd read it, so she couldn't remember it all that well. 

"Hi, Elena," Anastasia said, glad for a familiar face, even if the only time they'd really spoken had been in their boats to the Great Hall. That did strike her as a tad odd since they were both first-year Gryffindor girls, but she knew that she had been surprisingly busy and assumed Elena had as well. "We're waiting on two more."

"Lovely to meet you too, Quinn," Anastasia said, glancing at his getup. Unlike the other members of her group, she hadn't the faintest idea what the red-headed boy was dressed up as. "I'm Anastasia Beckett." It occured to her that they might have known who she was, since her name could have been on a sign up sheet or something, but she figured it would hardly hurt to confirm things. 

The young Gryffindor glanced around and did a quick headcount. They were still missing one person, but the other groups were starting to leave, and she didn't want to make everyone else wait because one person wasn't there on time.  

"Alright, here's the riddle to get us started," she said, pulling out a slip of parchment. She read the riddle aloud before holding the paper out for someone to take. 

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What can run but never walks, 
has a mouth but never talks,
has a head but never weeps,
has a bed but never sleeps?

"So, you lot will have ten minutes to discuss it, and then you can pick somebody to come tell me. Of course, I'll just take you wherever you say, I won't tell you whether or not it's correct. Questions?" she said. She looked at the group to make sure there weren't any issues before taking a seat at one of the nearby tables and pulling out her History of Magic homework. It wouldn't hurt anything to spend a few minutes going over her answers.

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Here we go! Jaden did not reply to my owl so as of right now, I don't think he'll be joining us. I'll let y'all know if that changes!

You will have one week exactly to post (Nov 2), but please try to make it less so we can get the tour going? Discuss amongst yourself the answer to this riddle, and when you think you have figured it out, pick someone to write out a reply with your answer! Good luck!

After about ten minutes, Anastasia folded up her homework and walked back over to her group. She was rather interested to see what the group would think the answer to the riddle was. She had figured it out fairly quickly, although she'd known the location beforehand, so that didn't mean all that much. Still, she loved riddles and was looking forward to seeing what her group thought about them. 

 "A river is a good answer, so where exactly do you think we're heading?" Anastasia replied when Elena told her the answer to the riddle. As she waited for a reply from Elena, or really anyone in the group, her fingers drummed restlessly against her thigh. Upon becoming aware of her unconscious movement, she quickly stilled her fingers and hoped none of the others had noticed. Her mother had always scolded her when she'd started fidgeting, no matter what the circumstance. Anastasia was hardly a nervous person, but she was naturally quite fidgeting and liked to be moving as much as possible.

Upon hearing a suggestion of a location, she grinned and said: "Well, off we go!" 

She turned on her heel, her ponytail swinging as she lead the group out of the Hall. She was doing fairly well so far, or at least, she sincerely hoped that she was. Still, seeing as most of the group were second years, she didn't think the tour aspect of their adventure was as important as it might be for other groups. 

Anastasia motioned for the others to stop as they reached the Great Lake. The Gryffindor glanced around when they arrived at the Great Lake, making sure she hadn't forgotten anyone. Once she was satisfied, she faced the group and smiled. The group did seem rather quiet, which she found a tad unnerving. Still, she supposed that was better than having an unruly group that she had to get to stop talking so she could give instructions.

Upon hearing the Hufflepuff girl, Ami, ask a question, she faced the older girl. "Excellent question, Ami!" Anastasia told her. "We're looking for a ghost that has our next riddle, so let's spend out and start looking for him." Anastasia was a bit surprised at her own level of perkiness, given the fact that she was rather tired. 

She'd been told what the riddles were in advance, but she hadn't actually been told where she was supposed to go, so she was only slightly more informed than her group. Sure, she had guesses, but she'd be as surprised as the rest of them if they were right or wrong. She wasn't exactly sure how she was supposed to find a ghost, seeing as it could be practically anywhere, but she supposed she was about to find out.