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

Calvin & Cole

[colemoss]

Cole sleeps in late this morning, not because he and Calvin had attended the party at the Grotto (they'd come back to the cabin at a very reasonable hour) but because he'd stayed up half the night working on a painting with the brushes his boyfriend had given him for his birthday. The result is a chaotic swirl of colors and textures because of the unpredictable magical properties of the brushes, but it definitely gives the impression of an owl (as intended!) and has a strange beauty that he's very drawn to and very proud of. When he finally does get up, he pulls on a hoodie and some jeans before emerging from his bunk. He should probably shower before going out to breakfast (or lunch?) because the lingering smell of forest and alcohol and party is still clinging to him, but he wants to check with Calvin first.

He smiles faintly to himself when he sees that the other boy is still here and looking at something outside one of the cabin's front windows. He doesn't hesitate, but walks up behind him silently and slips his arms around his waist, hugging him from behind and leaning into him and resting his chin on the boy's shoulder. "Hi Calvin," he says warmly and a little blearily. He's still tired.

Calvin & Cole

[evercreep]

Calvin practically jumps out of his skin when someone suddenly grabs him from behind. The gentleness doesn't even occur to him, doesn't even matter. He nearly falls in his haste to get away from... Moss? He doesn't understand Moss at all, but this is a new level of inexplicable. Even free from the sudden embrace, Calvin can feel where his arms were around him, his chin on his shoulder.

Calvin's fingers fumble as he pulls his cardigan closer around his chest, defensive and alarmed. "What are you doing?"

Calvin & Cole

[colemoss]

The hold is gentle and getting free doesn't require a fraction of the force that Calvin actually uses. Entirely unprepared for rejection, the frantic way that the other boy pulls away from him leaves Cole completely dumbfounded and he looks back with his dark eyes big and his lips slightly parted. Apparently...he startled Calvin. He starts to apologize, but the expression on his boyfriend's face and the way he pulls the cardigan protectively around himself makes him stop.

He looks as confused as he feels when he murmurs, "I...um...saying hi?"

Calvin & Cole

[evercreep]

An incredulous look crosses Calvin's face. Cole can't possibly be this clueless. Not with the marks he gets, not with the way he looks. People must flirt with Cole all the time. He has to know what that felt like.

Calvin takes several steps back, increasing the distance between them. His face feels hot from embarrassment. "I can't believe I have to clarify this, but that isn't how you say hello, Moss."

Calvin & Cole

[colemoss]

The fact that Calvin just called him Moss, something which he hasn't done for months, doesn't escape Cole's notice. But he doesn't know what that means; he just knows it hurts a little. "Not to everyone," he says quickly, his tone earnest and soft but uncertain as he attempts to clarify what he'd meant, "Just to you."

Calvin & Cole

[evercreep]

Just to you.

Calvin thinks he knows what's going on, even though he can tell it's irrational and paranoid. Still, his mind is already making leaps to explain why this is happening. Cole's not this weird, but he is easily influenced. Somewhere in Calvin's heart he knows he should be understanding. It's not Cole's fault if someone convinced him do this... but the feelings of humiliation are too strong.

"Don't touch me again," he snaps, a slight tremor in his voice. "I don't know what kind of joke you think this is but... but I know what the punchline is."

Calvin & Cole

[colemoss]

As unprepared as Cole had been for Calvin pulling away from him, he's even less prepared for this. The sharpness in the other boy's voice makes him flinch and his dark eyes drop immediately to the floor because he can't look at Calvin when Calvin is looking at him like that. "It wasn't a..." he tries to protest, but he can already feel his resolve starting to wilt under the weight of shock and hurt feelings and the deepening certainty that this is his fault. Even if he hasn't figured out why yet. And he doesn't want to fight. He just wants to crawl back into his bed. Or into a hole. "I...won't touch you. Calvin," he promises in a dull, soft voice.

Calvin & Cole

[evercreep]

Calvin feels a pang of guilt. He always does when he yells at Cole, but he just makes him so confused angry. Cole's so perfect. So perfect and so innocent that he can't be blamed for anything. You can't get angry with him, you can't dislike him, you can't raise your voice to him. Everyone reminds you he didn't mean it and they beg you to be reasonable even when he invades your privacy and doesn't respect you just like everyone else—

And Calvin knows they're right. It just makes it feel worse.

"Good," he says instead of telling Cole he's sorry. Not knowing what else to do, Calvin grabs his satchel (it's only half-full; he hadn't even finished packing it) and storms towards the door. In his haste he doesn't even stop to put his cloak on, he just snatches it off the hook on the wall.