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

Diego & Ravi

[knightly]

Ravi immediately lets go of the towel, and takes a step back. "Ah."

He'd figured out earlier that Diego had forgotten most of the past year. Not early enough to save himself from the mortification of how unobservant he is, but he very well knows now that if Diego's still affected, then the most he remembers about Ravi is that he's the Ribbonfin prefect who's friends with Tabitha and Zoey and Xavier. And also that Diego shouldn't be out of quarantine.

"Diego..." Ravi looks out the window, where it's still raining, and shakes his head. "Alright, but you're going back to Healer Mufferaw in thirty minutes, tops. Do you want to sit?" He leads Diego to the warm fire and chairs in the back, where Ravi's already covered the surface of the little table with acceptance letters to Healer schools—lined up neatly like tiles, so he can stare at all of them at once and not make any decisions. "Sorry, let me—" Ravi starts tidying up.

Diego & Ravi

[indiefolk]

Diego lets the towel rest on his damp shoulders. He's visibly pleased to be let in, and the warmth of the cabin and the fire is just what he needed. He's surprised, though. He'd expected a short conversation under the awning, or to be escorted back immediately. Although... they're dating, apparently. And Diego knows full well how he'd react if a girl he loved showed up on his doorstep having ran through the rain to see him. This was perhaps slightly manipulative of him.

He watches Ravi's back curiously as he follows him to the fireplace. Special attention is paid to the curve of Ravi's back, and whether or not Diego could imagine his hands on those hips.

But as he sits, he's distracted by the papers Ravi's gathering up. Diego quickly catches a few key words and phrases. Healer program. Welcome. We're delighted to inform you. Congratulations. Diego says the last one out loud, wearing a crooked smile as he looks up at Ravi. "Hey. Congratulations."

Diego & Ravi

[knightly]

Ravi pauses a moment, looking down at the letter on top of the stack. St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. "Thank you. I was trying to decide which to accept." Ravi smiles back at him, and finishes gathering up the papers, placing them on the side of the table for later. He sits, hands primly in his lap. He doesn't know why he feels nervous. It's not as though he was trying to hide any of this from Diego. He just... maybe... neglected to mention it to Diego before now.

Before now, when Diego has been inflicted with magical amnesia and doesn't even remember why he might care where Ravi goes after graduation. Stop overthinking things. Ravi's smiling wryly as he looks Diego over, and reaches into his pocket for a clean handkerchief. "Here. For the rain on your glasses."