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gooseberryhigh2017-07-06 01:31 pm
goosemods) wrote in gooseberryhigh2017-07-06 01:31 pm
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AFTERMATH & DEPARTURE
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.
» 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
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
The Lost & Found Box (Ivy, Leo, Quinn)
Ty doesn't need a bodyguard or a babysitter, she reminds herself for the twentieth time since they left Coppertale. He's off giving his statement to the Aurors and she tried to distract herself by watching the healers work. In two months she'd be at school again, learning to do what they do. Precisely what they do. She should be over there, observing, asking questions. Getting tips. But she feels removed from that reality somehow—and can probably blame that on how each of her bones seems to ache from exhaustion.
Quinn's eyes linger on Ty, again, across the large room. He is capable of taking care of himself. He doesn't need her to hover. She sighs. It's not hovering that she wants to do; she wants to wrap her arms around his waist and not let go. She wants him to bypass Oregon completely and get off the bus with her instead, and then sleep for a goddamn week. She takes her glasses off and sets them on her knee, closes her eyes.
The Lost & Found Box (Ivy, Leo, Quinn)
She keeps telling herself all of that, but her throat is still tight and she feels liable to burst into tears at any given second. There are so many people she doesn't recognize here. It's just unusual enough to remind her of the state of otherworldly wrongness the school was in last night. She takes a deep breath and looks around at her immediate surroundings one more time, and is relieved to see a familiar face.
"Hey," she says, sitting down on the cot right next to Quinn. She laces her fingers together and rests them over her knees, staring at her hands instead of out at the busy Atrium. "Did you talk to the aurors already?"
The Lost & Found Box (Ivy, Leo, Quinn)
This isn't his job yet, though. He can't go and harass the Aurors. There's just staying quiet and trying very hard to remember that it's okay to trust other people to do a good job. He's not sure it works.
He sees Ivy and Quinn nearby, and it's practically a beacon. He sighs in true relief; he hasn't seen them in a little while, and there's still the urge to make sure they don't separate until it's absolutely necessary. He hurries over, and sinks down on the other side of Quinn. "Hey." He says, simply, letting her answer Ivy's question first. It's good enough that they're back.
The Lost & Found Box
Hopefully.She doesn't even open her eyes as she shifts, finding a way to position her body where she can feel both sets of shoulders against hers."Their poker faces are fucking impressive." Leo gets a little wave, and as she speaks, she can feel small paws on her legs, then stomach, then chest. Apparently Goosey had tired of trying to hunt the cot's bottom side and come up to greet the newcomers. The kitten provides a different kind of reassurance (a fuzzy one), and she picks him up. She's only had the cat for a couple of months but she seems to have taken naturally to it (more specifically, this it). She buries her face in the fur. "Not a single smirk when I told them I tried to check a ghost's pulse. Nothing."
The Lost & Found Box
"Just another day at the office for them, I guess," Ivy says, leaning her head back against the wall. They're supposed to be going home today, and she's grateful for that. But it feels weird at the same time, that everything is still on-schedule here in the real world. She would've been less surprised to wake up in 2024 than she was to have woken up at seven in the morning.
"I wonder what's going to happen," she says, meaning with the school and the large governmental response but sounding absent-minded. Even though she's graduated and it wouldn't be unwarranted, she's not sure she wants to see the school shut down.
The Lost & Found Box
He grimaces, empathetic with Quinn. He hadn't loved telling a potential future colleague that he'd absolutely jumped in a lake, without knowing how to swim, without a wand, definitely endangering another student, just for a hint at a clue. He looks to his side, and smiles gently at the kitten, reaching out to scratch Goosey's ears just once. There are still kittens in the world. It's good to remember.
He peers around the Atrium like he'd be offered clues to that answer. He wonders, too. He's both relieved and terrified to leave forever, today. They're leaving behind so many more people. If Gooseberry reopens at all. "I don't know. I guess at least they have all summer to do a real investigation, now. That's good."
Maybe they'd actually find something.
The Lost & Found Box