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Gooseberry Mods ([personal profile] goosemods) wrote in [community profile] gooseberryhigh2017-07-06 01:31 pm

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.

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
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Re: Chris & Rosy

[personal profile] bambae 2017-07-08 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Chris had no siblings going to this school after him, he didn't have that same kind of fear. He just had friends he was leaving behind, and his girlfriend. And of those friends, his main friends were still seniors, they were still leaving this shitshow with him. His sole concern was on Rosy.

And possibly Hazel and Roxie and Avery and half the females left. For some reason, he seemed to predominantly befriend females. Weird.

Chris drags his fingers through Rosy's hair. They both look like shit. There was no time to get ready or shower or change clothes for half the people here. Chris didn't even care. "Me too," he admits. "There were moments. Almost let myself get adopted by ghost dad. Robin almost got axed to death for distracting ghost dad from adopting me. That fucker put Ryan and Z in the side of a damn cliff. Twenty feet up. It was some kind of fucked up." But he's steadily getting over it. He liked to think it's because he's from Boston. Fucked up shit happens in Boston.

"Showed some emotion in front of Tess and Eldercreech I'm probably gonna regret in a week. What the worst part is though - those damn roses. Attacked the shit out of my face. My face. This is my money maker. This face is gonna look like this for the next fifty years if I moisturize it properly." That last part is clearly said in jest in an attempt to lighten the whole situation the fuck up.
browbeats: ((t) now with even more sarcasm)

Chris & Rosy

[personal profile] browbeats 2017-07-08 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Rosy looks like shit. Rosy knows she looks like shit, she's looking forward to hearing about it on the way home. She wonders vaguely if someone has a hair tie she can use so she can at least tie her hair back, and maybe she can scrape the mud off her cheeks and shorts, but now there's... fuck, is that grease on Chris' hand? Great, now she's got grease in her hair, and she's just too tired to care right now.

"I don't know who ghost dad is, but I'm glad I didn't have to fight him for you too," she says, running one thumb along a light scratch on his cheek. Then she glances to the side to make sure Sy hasn't disappeared since this conversation started. It's very possible, it only takes a second for a child to get stolen. Or a 6'1" not-sleeping brother.

She snatches Chris' hand with her own, hoping it wasn't some kind of ghost snot he was raking through her hair, and sniffs it delicately. "What the hell are you getting in my hair?"
Edited (i wrote this at like 8 am and forgot to hit send until right now whoops) 2017-07-08 20:15 (UTC)
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Chris & Rosy

[personal profile] bambae 2017-07-08 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nah, I can take care of myself," Chris says and he sounds confident about that, but even the events of last night had taken Chris off guard. This isn't going to leave any of them for a while, and that pisses him off. But it's a tired, defeated kind of pissed.

Chris smiles despite himself. "I'm pretty sure it's olive oil," he says. "That's probably my bad. Your hair looks good though. I don't think it's even noticeably." With his free hand he digs into the pocket of his jacket and pulls out a hair tie. It's hard to know where he got a hair tie. Chris's hair isn't long enough to tie. He holds it up for her, as if he can read her mind. "Wanna put it up?"
Edited (Chris is just gonna leave behind a collection of poor kids that keep "misplacing" their hair ties. ) 2017-07-08 20:30 (UTC)
browbeats: ((?) i'm doing my fucking hair)

Chris & Rosy

[personal profile] browbeats 2017-07-08 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Rosy plucks the hair tie from his hand and pulls her hair back into a sloppy ponytail. It's filled with twigs and dirt. This is why she doesn't like actually camping. "I can't believe the ghosts were fighting with olive oil, that's just wrong," she says with a sigh, absently playing with a knot in her hair. "I know it looks terrible, but," she leans forward, kissing the scratch on his cheek, "thanks for trying to lie to me to make me feel better."
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Re: Chris & Rosy

[personal profile] bambae 2017-07-08 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Chris doesn't correct her and tell her that the ghosts weren't exactly fighting with olive oil because the image is too amusing and they can use all the amusement can they get here. The softness of Rosy's comment catches him off guard. If he'd tried this a week ago, she would've called him a dumbass at some point in there. Somehow, this makes him more quietly pissed off at the anonymous writer.

"You always look beautiful to me," he says and finds that he really means it. She looks beautiful when she's angry and when she's happy and when she's competitive. She looked beautiful at prom, and she looks beautiful now, exhausted and gross. But he also knows that Rosy's mother is an asshole and Rosy's probably worried about it despite the hellish night they'd just had. He kisses her forehead. He's pretty sure there's dirt on her forehead. He tastes dirt.

"And even though you look beautiful covered in dirt and twigs, I can help you clean the dirt off before our parents get here if you want. We're magic. You won't even have to leave Sy unattended."