AMNESIA BUG

[goosemods]

AMNESIA BUG

It's a somewhat dreary morning, with a light, misty rain all across campus. It's business as usual, though, except... some students are acting particularly forgetful today.

HOW THIS WORKS

• Full symptoms will have set in by 11:30 AM. You can decide exactly when and how quickly your character is hit with the amnesia bug, i.e. from the time they wake up, or later in the morning.


• Your characters have two brief windows in which to do amnesia things around campus: 7 AM-12 PM, before Mufferaw is certain what's happening, and 5:00-5:45 PM when there's a brief breakout.


• Teachers are on high alert to make sure that none of the affected students are hurt or otherwise taken advantage of. They'll break up any canoodling that's not between people they know are a couple, and there will be no opportunities to have sex. Please just use this as your blanket OOC safety net: Staff will save your character from doing anything you don't want them to do.


• Characters will be allowed to keep their journals while in quarantine.


• They'll all be given a cure before bed.


• Everyone affected is spending the night in the lodge.


• In the morning, they'll wake up with all of their memories intact, including memories of what they did Saturday.


• Memory loss is entirely defined by you. You do what works best for your character. It does not need to be consistent across characters.


• However, the bug does not create new memories. Your character will not think they're a different person unless some outside influence successfully convinces them. And they'd need to be, like, ridiculously gullible.


• Similarly, it does not take away skills, although your character may forget they have them. For instance, they might forget they can speak another language, but they still have the ability. No one will forget how to walk, talk, etc.


• If you have any questions or are uncertain about something you want to do,
  just ask the mods!

THE INFECTED

• Ferdinand Ayers
• Cameron Carney
• Avery Davenport
• Clem Decourt
• Bianca Dubois
• Calvin Evercreech
• Dimi Evercreech
• Marilyn Fairchild
• Leonardo Fiori
• Henrietta Gray
• Ennis Harper
• Ryan Hertz
• Cecil Honeychurch
• Casper Kim
• Levi Kramer
• Iliya Krum
• Sebastien Lacroix
• Jesse McBride
• Diego Morales
• Fern Mufferaw
• Antonia Papadakis
• Casey Patterson
• Veronica Powers
• Christopher Park
• Cricket Quayle
• Ulysses Quayle
• Rafael Ramirez
• Riley Stamper
• Rosy Stoker
• Sylvester Stoker
• Ivy Templeton
• Laurel Templeton
• Susana Velasquez
• Jonathan Wilde
• Solomon Webb
• Oscar Zabinsky

» symptoms set in: When the infected wake up, they feel a little off. Forgetful. Small details escape them. Their short and long term memories are spotty. By 11:30 AM it's clear it's yet another plague, and everyone is going to enjoy another classic Gooseberry Quarantine.

» the lodge: quarantine: It's not long before all the infected students are gathered up by staff, and everyone's in quarantine by 12 PM. Because the infection is really more of a mild magical curse, it's easy to tell who's got it and who doesn't with a quick detection spell.

• » the lodge: the infirmary: This is where Mufferaw would prefer you all be so he can keep an eye on you, but he can't entertain dozens of energetic teenagers in here.


• » the lodge: the atrium: A portion of the atrium has been cordoned off, and the amnesiacs can access the Wii, the TV and the ping-pong table. Their friends can come visit them, but there's always a teacher on guard to make sure no one picks on the forgetful kids.

» breakout: After several hours locked in the lodge, Rafael "Definitely Not a Prefect" Ramirez gets impatient enough to stage a breakout. He waits until Healer Mufferaw takes a break and is replaced by Ms. Whittle, and then sends a freshmen to go ask her what Star Trek is. After that, he leads a number of interested students to the sole balcony they have access to, and reveals there's a rarely used fire escape that leads down to the shore.

• If your character escapes: You have about 45 minutes of freedom before the teachers track everyone down again. Because no one's in their right mind, they won't give detention, but oh my god you're all so difficult.


• For our sanity and everyone's comfort, if you plan on having anything uniquely bad happen to your character, please privately run it by the mods first. And let's just say everyone's too busy scattering and running to get up to any accidental amnesia cheating, hm?

» the next morning: remembering: Everyone wakes up Sunday morning feeling a little bleary. All of their memories are back, as well as the memories of how they behaved yesterday.

» OOC - What's going on with your character: If you want, briefly describe OOC the state your character's in and what they forgot.

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

Comments

OOC - WHAT'S GOING ON WITH YOUR CHARACTER

[goosemods]

Leo and Ferdinand; the thesis. I'm sorry.

[ninjaleo]

HELLO OKAY.
So I needed to struggle through this real quick before I Actually Wrote Anything because memory is a complex and dangerous thing, ok. I'm sorry, it's long, I write essays.

I am imagining Leo's memory loss as kind of a faulty wipe like he was an active in Dollhouse? (Yes, my nerd is showing and no I DON'T CARE.) He will have 0 memories of who he is, why he is the way he is, and will not be able to control such things as his accent, his presentation as a Very Serious Person, his blind ambition will be less focused and more just...ambition. He WILL, however, still retain imprinted relationships (will still love Rafael, will still adore his team, will still remember who his friends are, will probably actually be more vocal re: admiration and opinions of other people.) His core personality will not change and will actually be more on display, because he can't mute it or sublimate it anymore. So long story short, today Leo is ambitious without a cause, not hidden about being willing to break rules to get what he wants, may tell you how he feels about you, finally. There just won't be any reasons for it. YAY!

And then Ferdie I am doing this to break into his head and break down some of the many walls (he has too many walls to even PLAY sometimes, so that was dumb of me,) that he has put up. So I will be more specific carving into his headbrain. He will remember he's from Chicago. He will not remember his mother is Irene Ayers, MACUSA SPY. He will remember he is a prefect, but pretty much that's a good thing in his life, so that's ok. He will not remember the reason he's been so hesitant to talk to his classmates in the past (reason: he was insanely sheltered! He didn't really know how!) He will remember that he likes talking to people, that he's not bad at it, and I am going to Make a Real Effort to get him out there and do so this time. So if you want a more outgoing Ferdie in your direction please let me knooow.

Re: Leo and Ferdinand; the thesis. I'm sorry.

[duelled]

i... love dollhouse

Ulysses

[ulixes]

oh, uhhh, ulysses is getting tabula rasa'd, which means he'll remember JACK and also SHIT. if you want him to remember something about your character, just let me know and i'll say it came back to him, lol, but otherwise you can assume that ulysses does not recall anything beyond imprinted feelings, re: relationships and ?places. he also may instinctively recognise cricket as family. idk, that's probably it.

ulysses thinks a lot about social rules and most of his behavior gets filtered through his weird "does this make me look dumb/uncool/like a baby" algorithm, which is why he's so prone to scribble scribble scribbles. but not today! today, he forgets a solid handful of both his neuroses and his manners. ... sorry in advance. ETA: also SORRY LEO b/c he definitely forgot he had quidditch practice. guess who's sleepin' in, holla.

Re: Ulysses

[ninjaleo]

WELL YOU'RE IN LUCK bc Leo will definitely not remember who this mysterious Ulysses Quayle (?) is or why his name is not checked on the sign in sheet. Or why they have a sign in sheet for 7-9 people. Who even does that.

Re: Ulysses

[quinning]

because dru doesn't exist in this timeline and laurel and etta were plagued, mercy and quinn have the cabin to themselves tonight. once quinn is absolutely SURE that there are no more reasons to leave the cabin and curfew's passed, she's slamming a bottle of tequila down on their coffee table and demanding they play a drinking game.

Rafael, Diego, Calvin

[indiefolk]

Rafael is going to remember the majority of how things currently are (who he's friends with, who he'd dating, etc.) and nothing at all about how he got there. He's also going to forget he's a prefect. He's going to notice pretty early that stuff is Gone, but the lack of memories about this difficult year and all of his issues with his brother and his home life will make him a lot more relaxed.

Diego is going to forget everything about his love life. He has no idea who he has dated, hooked up with, had a crush on, etc. Diego will think he's fine until someone points it out to him.

Calvin is regressing back to the beginning of the year where EVERYTHING IS VERY UPSETTING and he trusts basically no one. He'll be constantly on the defensive, and think he has no friends outside of the soph Azurbabes.

Re: Rafael, Diego, Calvin

[sunsoutgunsout]

Did Rafael run barre this morning or did he forget?

Re: Rafael, Diego, Calvin

[dooomcookie]

VEE IS LIKE "wait this isn't my Diego :("

Avery & Oscar

[un_kept]

Avery is forgetting everything. I mean it. Everything. Her name, her family, her friends, everything. She doesn't even know she's a witch. HOWEVER, as skills are not lost, she will find out at some point that she can do some magic and can recall some spells but really she has no idea why where when or how or wtf is going on. She is going to be terribly, horribly scared the whole time and she makes a run for it when Rafael stages the break out. She proceeds to "attack" a teacher when they try and capture her - which they easily sidestep. Feeling like a friend might work better, the teacher recruits [Volunteer?] to convince her to go back to the lodge/quarantine.

Oscar will be kind of the opposite. He remembers his whole life except he doesn't remember any of the people in it. Like everyone's faces and names are gone from his memories and cannot remember a single social/emotional tie he has to anyone at the school. Which is going to make him a very very sad Oscar for the day.

Bianca

[insightfulness]

B is hungover, tired, and doesn't remember a damn thing. She'll probably just wander around the school looking at things and wondering where the hell she is until someone finds her. If someone actually wants to run into her let me know!

Worst Casey Scenario

[sunsoutgunsout]

Casey thinks it's September 2011, the beginning of his freshman year, and has reverted to that version of himself. He only remembers the people he knew back then: roomies sans Jacob, some Mean Girls, and the Coppertale cheer squad. He hasn't made amends with his Lake Union Prep crew, isn't under the tutelage of dancers-in-residence Rafael or Ty, hasn't tried D&D, and his parents haven't yet hired Cricket as his tutor.

TL;DR: This is the worst case(y) scenario. He's trying to assert his dominance as the big wolf on campus and his game plan involves pushing buttons, belittling people that he perceives as a threat, and trying to start fights. It's a given that the staff will stop fights in their tracks so he won't be able to end them, but by golly is he ever going to start them.

P.S. He is not woke af in this state and if he negs anyone I am so, so, so sorry.

I found out when I started writing Casey in the first place that I'm just not good with playing an actual bully so... this will be an experiment.

Worst Casey Scenario

[chryseis]

Cricket is going to revert back to exactly one year ago, so maybe she can ward him about ... the first ever time they created Team Dick Clark?

Re: Worst Casey Scenario

[cheerpowers]

The darkest timeline Casey. ;__;

Chris and Solomon

[bambae]

Chris is getting a reboot of this entire year. In essence he's rewinding to the first week of September, right when the year's just started. He will be forgetting all the messy emotional shit with Levi, all the anti bullying shit, making team gooseberry and being removed as captain, his growing annoyance with Sy, the mounting (and slight ease) of tension in his cabin, his deepening friendship with Robin and their Christmas and spring breaks together (sorry that sounds way gayer than it is), who the fuck Dimi is and what happened to Wes, his growing distrust of the woods, the feeling that he's driving his friends away, and his current relationship with rosy. Apparently a lot has happened this year and he's forgetting it all.

What this means is that on the surface he gets to go back to being happy and unstressed. He will try to hook up with multiple people throughout the day, including his usual hook up, Levi, Bc in his mind - they've just returned from summer vacation. But internally, it also means he's losing a lot of character development and self awareness. He hasn't made a ton of new friends so he's aware of who all his friends are, he's just unaware of how the relationships between him and his friends have changed in the last 9+ months. And since in September he was a lot more scowly and crass and a lot less open, he gets to go back to that too.

Solomon is not losing that much time. He's losing about four months. But since his mind is positive it's November, he's also going to notice immediately that something's wrong based purely on the weather. Not a lot will change for Solomon. He just gets to be happy and chatty and oblivious to real world problems for a minute. He gets to be a lot less careful about how he talks and to who he talks. But since he's lost four months, he's also rewinding to being a lot less confident. He's more eager to please and more concerned about screwing up. So he definitely rushed to quidditch practice because he definitely cares.

Dimi & Nia

[heyitsnia]

Dimi has lost one full year, and does not know where he is or who any of you are. So, like, operating pretty close to normal??

Nia remembers everything up to this morning and has lost the ability to form new memories. She also feels like she's misplaced something and is very concerned about what it is she's lost. By 11:30, she's forgetting names and faces, too, and will need to be reminded of who people are frequently.

Levi & Ennis

[gdilevi]

Levi is reverting to his Sophomore year, close to when he first arrived at Gooseberry. He knows who his roommates are, he's familiar with the people who were on AzurQuid in the 2011-2012 school year, and he knows some Azurcrests and other seniors in his classes, plus everyone he knew from Ilvermorny.

Since he's the new kid, he's trying hard to make friends at his new school so he's a lot friendlier and less likely to be antagonistic toward strangers because he's not as comfortable with his classmates yet. He's charming and overly flirtatious, but in a non-committal way, and isn't as eager to just hop in the sack with someone and sloot about because he lacks the experience.

Ennis is losing most of his memories, but has a vague recollection of his relationships and the feelings he has toward people though he has no memory of the history behind those relationships to back it up. He's gonna be suuuuuuuuper chill, probably, unless someone does something to upset him/mess with him. (But let him have this. :( Let this child know peace.)

A lot of his anxieties come from the death of his father triggering anxiety and depression in his mother, who, in turn, projected a lot of her worries onto Ennis. AND ALSO they really fucked him over by not really giving him many opportunities to socialize with kids his age nor giving him a proper, well-rounded education before Ilvermorny. So he was super reliant on teachers and extra help sessions and peer tutoring and he became really apologetic for being a burden on others, doubtful of his own intelligence and ability, and self-conscious about how others perceived him.

BUT!!! Now he doesn't remember any of that, yet he's retained the skills he's learned over the years from that hard work and those extra study sessions and he has the memories left to know how to use them. So he can read and write and do math and cast magic, but he doesn't know where he is and he only has a vague idea of who he is although he can tell something is definitely off about his situation. But he's not stressed about it. He's sort of taken back to how he was as a carefree child with zero worries or responsibilities: kind, peaceable, incredibly curious of the world around him and eager to explore. He's probably just going to wander around campus just looking at things and eventually fuck off into the woods because remnants of his memories make him strangely drawn to them. [Volunteer] (a student's preferred for the relationship development potential once he gets his memories back and is suuuper grateful they looked after him, but I'll say an NPC teacher found him if nobody wants it?) can find him playing around and looking under rocks and trying to climb trees and lead him back toward the lodge in time for the quarantine. He won't be too far into the woods or hard to find (he doesn't know where the Grotto is) and he's not even trying to hide, so he could totally be visible from one of the trails if that makes it easier.

WHAT'S GOING ON WITH YOUR CRICKET & JESSE

[chryseis]

Cricket is reverting back to exactly one year ago, so this means Cricket thinks:

• She is not a prefect


• She's HIGH KEY in love with Maggie and hasn't told anyone


• Maggie's girlfriend is Head Girl and she is VERY jealous of her


• She's been tutoring Casey for about a year


• Casey's 16th (instead of 17th) Grotto party was last night


• All other junior yeary things apply, ie: Quinn & Rafael are dating, she isn't afraid of the woods, Wes is still around, who da fuck are the exchange students?

Jesse is reverting back to the end of his 8th grade year at Allegheny Prep, so this means:

• Jesse knows about Gooseberry and has applied, but hasn't started yet


• He has no idea who any of you people are or where he is


• Doesn't understand the journal he is carrying around is connected to anything


• Will be SHOCKED by the appearance and capabilities of Gus Gus and SUPER STRESSED that someone has been messing with his apparition machines


• And he's mentally ~14 years old, soooo....

RILEY & ROSY

[riledup]

RILEY thinks it's last year. She should be at Hogwarts. She's at Goosegoose. This is a good thing and she is very happy, but she's also jumpy af and thinks someone is just around the corner to give her a swirly or something idk.

ROSY is basically empty and operating purely on instinct today. She don't know who any of you fuckers are. But she's pretending she knows exactly what's going on and is not going to admit she has no memory of anything at all.

I don't really know any details other than that whoops

Sebastien

[professionalcorpse]

Bash is pretty much getting reset back to a wee baby Freshman. Shiny and new and barely settled in. Honestly, he's kind of fuzzy on the details of this. (He remembers getting into school? He sort of remembers getting there? He thinks. Yes?) He was, somehow, even more of an anxious disaster at this point of his life. All of the volume with a quarter of the confidence!

He's very much not used to being without his sister around to tell him what to do all of the time. He's also not used to being called Bash. Will possibly do the kid during first day of school attendance 'Huh? Oh! Me. Right - that's totally me. And my name. You are saying. To me. Yes. I knew that.' thing when referred to by it. He will laugh in your face if told he's a Prefect.

Sy & Iliya

[threatens]

Iliya is a blank slate. Easy! I still need to decide what this means for his personality but I think this might make him rather more casual than usual, although not necessarily more friendly. He was born this cranky.

Sy has forgotten everything that makes him feel competitive. This is pretty wide-ranging, but so far I've decided he's forgotten Quidditch, being captain and having a team, and his family, including Rosy. He remembers his name and he remembers other people, but his memory of you may be significantly impaired if you're a Quidditch player. (e.g. He remembers Reid's name and that he's a roommate and maybe also a friend, but he doesn't remember that they're teammates or even that Sy ever considered him a rival.) Sy's memory of his own twin is just... unbelievably borked. I'M FIGURING IT OUT AS I GO

Clem & Ivy

[duelled]

Clem is also Tabula Rasa'd. She remembers pretty much no personal information about herself. She & Ulysses have been calling each other "CD" and "UQ" all day, having gotten their first initials and last names off their Quidditch jerseys. After talking to Cricket they've come to the vague conclusion that they're Quidditch players, and have headed down to the pitch, where they'll promptly be rounded up for quarantine.

Ivy has selectively forgotten about Laurel's existence, because I'm evil. Everything else is more-or-less intact, although if she knows you primarily because you're Laurel's friend her memory might be a little foggy. She's also a little bit more assertive and a tiny bit meaner.

Marilyn, Vee, Ryan, and Ana

[dreamsofdragons]

Marilyn has reverted back to when she first got to GB, once the mean girls sunk their claws into her and showed her what being ~pretty~ is like and that you can be mean to people and it's the way to be. She also probably is really trying to hide her love for the ladies still :(

Vee has forgotten all of the recent drama with Jeremy. She thinks everything is fine and she feels FANTASTIC because she's not sad and upset and depressed about it.

Ryan has forgotten Chris. Literally. He has no recollection of meet Chris, becoming his bro, being adopted by mom, etc. Which means he's a little more dry and mean since he didn't have Chris as constant support (and he didn't need to balance his best friend out, lbr) He also didn't have anyone to really turn to or anywhere to escape his shitty dad at, so. He's a little more #giveszerofucks

Ana has forgotten Quidditch. Entirely. And she's terrified of it when someone shows her LOL

Cameron and Fern

[gonnabefamous]

As patient zero, Cameron has COMPLETE AMNESIA. Total blank slate. He doesn't know who he is, who you are, etc etc. He has also forgotten that he pretends to be dumber than he is, and that he acts out for attention.

Fern remembers most things about GB, she just... doesn't remember very much about life outside of GB. Where does she live? Does she have siblings? What are her non-school hobbies? She doesn't remember that she's angry and bitter, or that she doesn't want to be at this school, and once she gets taken to the infirmary, she's going to just hang out with Papa Plaid and try to be his helpful lil buddy.

Henrietta

[unregrettable]

Etta is one of the least affected -- she doesn't remember Quidditch, but apart from that she's pretty solid? So she has no idea what a Seeker is, or that she's captain of the Azurcrest team, or that they have a game tomorrow, or that she should maybe be running practice instead of being cooped up in the infirmary...