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gooseberryhigh2017-04-08 10:45 am
goosemods) wrote in gooseberryhigh2017-04-08 10:45 am
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AMNESIA BUG
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.
» 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.
» 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!
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.
- 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?
» 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!
Levi & Ennis
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.
Re: Levi & Ennis
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