AFTERMATH & DEPARTURE

[goosemods]

AFTERMATH & DEPARTURE

Mr. Merrill, still half-asleep, hikes up the hill to Azurcrest to run the last middle-of-the-night headcount. Inconvenience turns to fear as he discovers that half of his students are missing, and the other are in a sleep so deep he can't rouse them.

The unresponsive students are taken to the atrium for Healer Mufferaw to tend to, and Agent Larke is already contacting the MACUSA. The government descends on the school, with Aurors and Hitwizards to lead search parties. They head out immediately to scour the woods for the missing students. Heads of House confer with one another and the agents about the emergency, and decide parents need to be informed about the situation immediately.

There's no sign of any missing students for hours. Furthermore, there's no response from the apparently comatose children in the lodge. Not until 7:14 AM, anyway. The students that weren't taken begin to stir, and within minutes Agent Larke bursts in, clearly having ran all the way there. She announces that the missing students have been found, and are being escorted to the lodge.

Agent Larke had been organizing a new search party when Ivy Templeton stumbled out of their cabin, still half-asleep. It was discovered that inside the cabins, all the missing students had mysteriously reappeared in their beds.

All of the missing students are taken to the lodge by Aurors and Hitwizards, and a thorough headcount is done. Meanwhile, emergency Healers and Healer Mufferaw do thorough checks. The MACUSA representatives interview all the students individually. Students are only in the lodge for about an hour and a half before the order comes down: evacuate students and staff. Students are to be released to their families immediately. Personal belongings will be delivered to their homes at a later date.

The school buses are familiar, but the mood of the bus ride home after summer break isn't quite the same. They don't deliver students to their doorsteps or international stops, but to a staging area in Logan, hidden from Muggle eyes, where countless fearful relatives wait to take their children home.

HOW THIS WORKS:

• All dreamers have been rescued. All rescuers have reunited with their friends.


• The seven students who took part in the Finding the Heart adventure also wake up at the same time. To their friends, it will seem like they disappeared for 15 minutes max before everyone wakes up. To the seven students, it will seem like they were gone for hours.


• Everyone will wake up after 7:14 AM. Ideally, they all wake up at the same time, but if you'd like to put it a bit later for dramatic purposes, you may.


• Your character will be picked up at a staging area in Logan by a legal guardian, or escorted by a MACUSA agent to pre-arranged international transportation. If your character has only Muggle relatives, MACUSA will transport them to and from home.


• If you are a rescuer or dreamer:
  
  • You will wake up in your own bed, unless for some reason you want your character to wake up in someone else's bed. e.g. Gabi can wake up in the Ribbonfin soph girls' cabin, or she can wake up in the Ebonhide soph boys' cabin with Bash and Wyatt, since she was with them.
  
  
  • You will keep all injuries you incurred during the event. However, you will not have any traces of ghost blood on you! Or ghost viscera of any kind.
  
  
  • You will be wearing what you had on when the event ended, i.e. your pajamas and the clothing given to you by Brother. If you gave something away to another student during the event, e.g. a jacket, that other character will be wearing it instead.
  
  
  • You will have all objects you started the event with, i.e. things in your pockets, unless you dropped them or gave away those items to an NPC. Then they're gone forever, sorry!
  
  
  • You will not have any objects you picked up during the course of the event. This includes rocks, twigs, and personal items like Diego's crucifix, Sy's captain's badge, etc. All that stuff was imaginary! Those objects still exist in the real world.


• If you are a non-participant:
  
  • You will wake up on a cot in the Atrium. Please assume you are decently dressed. You will see Healers checking on other students, and government Aurors guarding the room. Your Head of House will tell you that you were moved here for observation because you were discovered in a state of deep sleep and no one could wake you. If you ask about your other friends, your teacher will admit that they've gone missing and the MACUSA is here to find them.
  
  
  • Mere minutes after you've woken up, you will all hear from the Aurors that the other students have been found in their cabins.
  
  
  • You have no memory of your roommates leaving the cabin, or being moved to the Atrium. You slept straight through the night. You did not have any dreams.

» MORNING: You wake up. You're in, well, a bed. It may or may not be your own, and the people you were with when you were in the other world may be with you.

» AFTERMATH: As soon as the staff realize that all the missing students have been found, everyone is promptly escorted to the lodge. Campus is crawling with MACUSA presence, and hitwizards and Aurors alike lead the students to the lodge. Everyone is looked over by emergency healers, and give quick statements to the authorities.

» BUSES: Understandably, everyone's families are impatient to get their children back. Students are hurried onto buses to be taken to a relay point outside of the anti-apparition zone, where their families will be to take them home.

» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS

Comments

Ariadne & Jade

[odder]

Jade coos for the cat (hers is in a basket, well-behaved,) but lets it leave when it decides it wants to explore. She can understand that. She sinks back in her chair, glad without saying it that Ari took the spot next to her. Everyone else is so upset. She never quite knows how to navigate that. Jade's curbed most of her jokes for at least the day, but she doesn't like it. All that's left is anger at the forest-things, and maybe a little fear.

But she and Ariadne don't have to talk about any of that. Jade stares out the window of the bus, knocking a soft tune on to the glass. She doesn't particularly want to think about Japan, either. "Probably." She admits, turning to her friend. She doesn't sound any more enthusiastic than she feels. "Unless I claim someone else's parents' today, and make them take me somewhere more reasonable."

This is not entirely a joke.

Ariadne & Jade

[untarnish]

Ari wouldn't mind a new set of parents herself, but she's smart enough to treat this like a joke even if it isn't one.

"Do you think Essie would take us in?" she wonders. She doesn't know exactly where Essie lives, but she knows it's somewhere nearby. Although she's more than ready to take a break from Gooseberry, it might not be so bad to stay in America, or even Utah. Especially if it meant staying with friends.

It's not a real possibility, so there's no need to overthink it, but she indulges herself for a second.

Ariadne & Jade

[odder]

Because she's indulging Jade in this, Ari gets the most mischievous grin Jade is capable of. She raises one eyebrow and glances out the window like she could see Essie's poor parents, their targets, from here. "Oh, I doubt it. They'd regret that immediately." (She sounds proud of this.)

But it brings to mind again the uncomfortable truth that she and Ari wouldn't be able to see each other all summer. Jade wouldn't be seeing anyone. She feels very alone already, but covers for it by letting out a short exhale, like she's impatient at how long this bus is taking. "Are you going to be in England all summer?"

Two months suddenly feels very long.

Ariadne & Jade

[untarnish]

Ari grins back at her self-satisfied tone, but the small smile quickly falls off her face as she leans her head back against the headrest.

"Yes," she says. Her brother probably wouldn't mind her wandering off on her own for a day or two, but floo powder and portkey trips cost money, and that's something she doesn't have an awful lot of. "I'm starting at the Daily Prophet next month, for six weeks." She's scheduled to finish the Friday before she returns to school, which doesn't leave very long for relaxation. Not that she was expecting much of that in the first place.

She has her journal tucked into her pocket and pulls it out to turn it over on her lap. "Will these still work?" she wonders aloud. She knows they worked over the breaks, but she hasn't been around long enough to know if they'll work over the summer as well.

Ariadne & Jade

[odder]

That's probably not going to be fun, either. Jade doesn't know what to do to help that other than offer a small shrug in sympathy. Which is probably not very helpful, all told. "I'm sure it'll go quickly." That's what her parents always told her about trips, too, and the words sound stupid, no matter how much conviction she manages.

"They work, for about another month. Then they go dead so they can make updates and delete the seniors." Which she doesn't like, because it's August when she's sure everyone's going to seem even further away.