gooseberryhigh | 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.

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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Casper. That's it. She thinks about taking out her notebook and writing that down, but her hands are full.

"Of course I know how to play ping pong." She huffs, momentarily flustered, but it passes and she holds one of the paddles out toward him. "I'll walk you through it. The basics: Hit the ball with the paddle, back and forth until someone misses it. That's a point. Don't hit the net. One bounce per side. Yadda yadda." She waves the paddles in the air and then holds the one she was offering to Casper before back out to him, "Ping pong."

After a second's pause, she adds sincerely, "Thank you."

Dropping the book on the sofa, Casper climbs to his feet and walks over to Nia and accepts the paddle. The rules seem simple enough and, based on her indignance at the question, are probably something he should've known. But he's accustomed to that feeling by now and it doesn't bother him. He nods brusquely. "Sure. Thanks for asking me. I'm getting restless just sitting around anyway."

He pauses, lingering near her for a moment rather than heading to his side of the table. "I'm...going to need you to tell me yours too. Your name. I know I know you, but..." He shrugs.

"Nia Papadakis." She starts to offer her hand for a shake, but then reconsiders. That's totally dumb. "We're co-prefects. That's pretty much the only thing I remember about you. Sorry."

Nia grabs up the little plastic ball and dribbles it against the table with her paddle as she waits for Casper to take his position. "This is shitsville, huh? You seem to be hanging in there, though, even if you can't remember ping pong. Have any good adventures today? Not that I'll remember them in ten minutes. But it's good to make conversation."

"Nia, then." Casper says the name aloud and nods, more for himself than for her, then adds, "Don't worry about it. That's more than I remembered about me." Then he walks around to the opposite side of the small table, turning the paddle easily in his hand. Maybe he plays a lot of ping pong. Maybe he's just dextrous. He really has no idea. Once he's in position, he lifts the paddle and waits for Nia to start the game.

"It's...not bad? Just boring now that we're stuck here," he admits, thinking back on the day and finding relatively little to complain about. He's been confused, but he's also spent most of the day with his friends and with an inexplicable feeling of lightness. Like there's nothing in the world he needs to worry about. Probably because, for all he knows, there isn't. He's at school. He's with his classmates. Apart from some bizarre campuswide magical misfire, everything seems to be fine. Then, to answer her question, he says, "I hung out with my roommates. I wandered around a lot. I talked to a snake. Because I can do that, apparently." He thinks very briefly of Casey Patterson and the accusations of dark magic; it makes him bristle. But he doesn't linger on that. Because it's not dark magic and he hadn't done anything wrong.

Then, along with the first shot the girl sends across the net, he returns, "Would you remember if you'd had any adventures today?"

Nia laughs, scrunching up her nose. "You can talk to snakes? Wish I could talk to snakes."

She returns the ping pong ball with ease. It makes a pleasing 'plok' noise when it hits the table. "Sounds like a nice enough day. I don't remember," She pauses as she reaches to catch the ball with her paddle again. "Hah! But the notes in my journal say I told six different people I'd wait--" Plok. "For them to take me to the infirmary and then wandered back and forth between--" Plok. "Ebonhide and the Ornery Oak for like two hours."

Nia squints. Her head is starting to feel fuzzy, again. Maybe if she keeps talking, she can keep things from getting away from her. "So, did the snake tell you any cool snake secrets?"

"I can talk to snakes," Casper agrees, smiling a little as he knocks the ball back across the net. Plok. Because if Nia wants to be able to do the same, that must mean that she doesn't consider the act dark magic and, even if her memory isn't intact, that's reassuring to him. He doesn't know why he'd been so ready to let Casey get to him. He doesn't know why he'd been so ready to agree with Casey that being a Parselmouth is a bad thing. Fuck that.

Listening to the summary of Nia's afternoon, which sounds far more frustrating than the situation he's found himself in, Casper nods sympathetically. "I'm sorry." Plok. "That's shit. I hope this 'Mufferaw' guy knows what he's doing and can get this sorted out." He catches the expression on the girl's face, frowns slightly and supplies in an attempt to aid her failing memory, "Still Casper. Your co-prefect. We're still the Lodge. You're still pretty solid at ping pong."

Plok. They're both pretty solid at ping pong, really. Though, he is finding that it's a struggle not to hit the ball much harder; his instinct is to the ball harder.

He shakes his head, then has to give it a little toss to get his hair out of his face. "No. She just told me about where she suns herself and that she's worried about people getting so close to her den. It's near one of the trails, so I went and marked it. Hopefully, people will steer clear now. Riley thinks she's lonely. And that's why she was talking to me. But I don't know. Do snakes get lonely?"

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