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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!

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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.

Edited (Kazim, Kurt, and Quinn are all bug-free.) 2017-04-08 20:26 (UTC)

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?

Yes, that would be suuuper!

Your icon use suggests otherwise :(

j/k

IF ANYONE (so many of you) are tracking this post and want to jump in with hijinks from Casey's Birthday Grotto party last year, feel free! I'll have a journal entry up soon!

I GAVE HIM AN APPROPRIATE NEW DEFAULT. LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT HOW ALPHA HE IS, AND HOW HIS FACE SAYS "DON'T MESS WITH ME OR I'LL FUCK YOU UP."

WHOO! Casey's writing will be ....... even worse than it already is. Lawd help us.

IDK. He looks upset with me :( I'm NOT messing with you Casey. Leave me alone.

RE: Beer Pong. Nevermind, I'm an idiot. They came up with that name this year and there was an implication that Cricket hadn't played before???

The darkest timeline Casey. ;__;

YUP

but at least when it's all over maybe he'll realize how much the people around him have changed him for the better?

Awww Casey <3

Hopefully it's like an epiphany!

I think an epiphany all at once might be too much for our little dance machine to handle. Let's start with "a series of small realizations that occur gradually" and work up from there. :P

Edited 2017-04-08 21:24 (UTC)

Chris would prolly try to hook up with casey tbh

Or start a fight. He has no chill on this day

Hello, yes, Casey would be amenable to either and/or both. Both.

They should try to fight pre-quarantine and try to make out (but get pulled apart because them's the rules) during the break-out.

Wait Roz

If that happened, we should do an entry or scene where they try hatching plans to sneak away and hook up

Yes yes let's do it. Chris will get macgyver about this escape plan to hook up.

And then tomorrow hate himself for wanting to hook up with casey

Wow ironically he gets Rosy on a level he never wanted to

YESSS

ejfwjnadwa NOW DO YOU GET IT, CHRIS?!

Casey can just strengthen his bond with Rosy

What a great guy. Helpful and shit with their mutual aversion to wanting to fuck him

So nice

i am currently vvvv miserable with a cold so i don't expect to make any ic appearances today but if you want to off-screen a conflict of some sort with jacob i am cool with that

ohhhh FOCUS ON GETTING BETTER! But I can let you know if I come up with anything ♥ BUT YOU MUST REST!

"Worst Casey Scenario" would be the title of one of the books if Gooseberry was a series like Babysitters Club or Sweet Valley High

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