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

Levi & Cecil

[choneychurch]

Cecil considers this, not knowing what it might mean that Levi had gone to sleep normal and woken up months (or years?) out of sync with the person he'd been the day before. Nothing good, probably. But he doesn't have much time to think about it before he's tensing and frowning earnestly at the other boy. "Nobody is going to put you in a nuthouse. You're fine. There's just something...odd going on. Just another week at Gooseberry." Unable to help himself, feeling protective and wanting to reassure Levi, he takes his hands again, "Okay?"

This leaves him entirely unable to push his not-quite-boyfriend, though. "Later's....fine. After lunch is fine," he adds, slowly letting go of his hands and looking a little uncomfortable. "Uric is ours. Mostly yours. The kitten, I mean. But, yeah, I've still got the bees."

Levi & Cecil

[gdilevi]

Waitwaitwait, hold up.

"Ours?" he asks, looking back up the path to the cabin before swiveling his head back to Cecil. "Like, a cabin pet or...?" He gestures between the two of them. "Are we co-parenting? Is it like a daddy-daddy thing?"

Levi & Cecil

[choneychurch]

That...might've been a misstep. Cecil hesitates, not certain how much he should say and not knowing if being honest will make Levi uncomfortable. But he's a terrible liar and he can already feel heat rising in his cheeks that could be answer enough. He mimics the other boy's gesture, then says quietly, "Ours. Yours and mine. It's...something like that. 'Co-parenting'."

Levi & Cecil

[gdilevi]

Levi's eyes scan Cecil's features, openly studying the shifts in his expressions as he considers the question. The color in his cheeks gives him away before he even answers, but when he does answer Levi doesn't seem to react negatively to it; there's a brief look of surprise that settles into smug satisfaction.

He knew there were tender feelings involved, but he didn't realize the scope of it. Co-parenting a cat with Cecil Honeychurch, Domestic God and All-Around Good Boy™.

"Sounds serious," he teases, reaching up to playfully tap a finger to Cecil's flushed cheek. Levi's completely unbothered and unconcerned by this notion, and even seems pleased by it. "Is he Uric Kramer, Uric Honeychurch, or did we hyphenate?"

Levi & Cecil

[choneychurch]

Despite himself and despite everything else, this makes Cecil smile. This is still Levi, after all, and Levi can almost always make him smile. "Well. We discussed it," he admits with a laugh, dark eyes finding the other boy's face again, "I think Uric Kramer is the most appropriate, but you suggested...Uric Kramer-Honeychurch-Kramer the First and Uric Kramer, as a middle name, Honeychurch-Kramer. Because you wanted him to have a 'strong name'. And some others, I think. Uric didn't seem to care either way. I assume you'll make the call at some point."

Then his smile softens a little. Then it just fades. "It's...serious. But you don't need to worry about that right now. I know it's not like that for you. We're just friends."

Levi & Cecil

[gdilevi]

"Uric middle-name-Kramer Honeychurch-hyphen-Kramer the First is the strongest name, I think," he jests as he steps past Cecil and holds his hand above his broom with the command of, "Up." When he turns back to look to him again and sees that he's no longer smiling, Levi isn't quite sure what to say. He feels bad for the guy, but Levi's in no hurry to return to his timeline.

Levi is a dumbass.

Still, there has to be something he can do to make him feel better. "I may not be your Levi, but..." He places a hand over his heart. "It's my promise to you that while Levi is gone, I, Levi, will be the best cat-dad I can be in his place." A pause. "And I promise I won't slut around while I borrow his body."