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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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Hearing Jeffy's voice, she waves goodbye to Roxie, still confused as to why the older girl is suddenly so concerned about her. Did she miss something? Todd said she was a quidditch player but just remembering that practice situation makes her shiver. Nope. He must be thinking of another Ana.

Pausing so Jeffy can catch up, she gives him a half smile. "Today is the weirdest day," she mutters, stroking Titania's head as she pops her face out to look at Jeffy.

"Dude, tell me about it, some people have gone BONKERS," Jeffy says, shaking his head. He wiggles a finger in Titania's direction, waving at her cute little face poking out of Ana's pocket. He couldn't figure out how Ana had forgotten about a sport he was pretty sure she knew about before she even met him? But he also didn't know how this whole weird spell worked. "I heard some people got in a FIGHT, which is crazy, why would this make you want to fight?"

Nodding, she moves her finger over Titania's head as the cat sniffs at Jeffy's finger as if she wants him to come closer. The odds of a kitten nibble and a lick if he does so are equal. "These two guys were like cursing at each other on my journal entry?" Ana shakes her head, remembering the boys who kept taunting each other and telling each other to fuck off. "I don't even know who they are." Shaking her head, she looks around as if checking to see if the sky is falling or any other signs of the apocalypse are upon them.

"What do you mean by this?" she wonders, confusion twisting her face into a frown.

Jeffy moves his finger forward to scratch the kitten's head, hoping she doesn't take that as an opportunity to wrap her sharp little kitty claws around his index finger. "Oh man, I don't know, they were doing it everywhere, it was crazy." He shrugs, and he doesn't actually seem that concerned with how crazy it was.

"Oh, um, I mean," Jeffy stalls for a second, trying to remember if anyone had said they were supposed to tell the victims of the Great Forgetting that they were forgetting things?? Was it dangerous like waking a sleepwalker? Except, wait, that also wasn't true, it was super okay to wake a sleepwalker, so maybe it was also super okay to tell a Forgetter the truth?? This was getting complicated. "A lot of people are getting sick with something, it's SUPER crazy, people have been WAY worried all day."

To Ana's surprise, Titania does NOT bite Jeffy's hand. In fact, she sniffs it warily before giving it a gentle lick. A little purring begins at the head scratching too, which all in all is the best way this interaction could have gone. "Everywhere?" she repeats, shaking her head. "What is wrong with this school?" Ana can't help but look up at the sky as she says that, as if she's afraid the players will be following them to the lodge.

Her eyes turn to Jeffy as he seems to think about what he's going to answer her question with. She wonders if maybe he got distracted by something it's been so long, but then he's speaking. "Sick?" she repeats, crinkling her nose in adorable confusion/worry. "Like one of the many plagues we've had around here?" Sighing, she shakes her head sadly. "How sad for them. I hope they're okay," she murmurs, petting Titania absently as if that will make her feel better. "What does this plague do?"

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