SECRET STUDENT SEANCE

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SECRET STUDENT SEANCE

Drama Club president Micah St. Clair makes sure the auditorium is cleared out in the evening, in time for a secret seance involving select members of the junior class. Their goal: to enlist the help of Gooseberry's ghost children in monitoring the MACUSA presence. The Living Kids–Dead Kids Alliance is a go!

When the crew sneak one by one into the auditorium, they'll find a large table set up onstage, the same one from the winter play, complete with a black tablecloth and an old Ouija board in the center. White candles on tall candelabras (also repurposed stage props) surround the table for some ~mood lighting~, and Micah orders everyone into their seats and the lights turned down low as they set up to contact the spirits. Zachary Zheng is stationed outside the main entrance to the auditorium, tasked with keeping any inquistive students/teachers/Aurors from poking their heads in.

HOW THIS WORKS

• The seance starts at 7 PM and will last one or two hours, depending on how things go. The kids will get out in time for the lodge to close for the night.


• This IC/OOC is only open to Ari, Bash, Calvin, Cole, Essie, Fern, Hazel, Jade, Jeffy, Lucas, Micah, and Zach.


• Everyone will be allowed to keep asking questions until 8 PM MT*, at which point the seance will end. *If we decide to extend the seance for an hour, we'll make note of it in the OOC section.


• As this is happening before curfew and not in a forbidden area, no one is breaking the rules. However, staff still frowns upon trying to contact the ghosts, so if anyone is caught at this, they may receive a stern talking to.

» Arrivals: For making plans, sneaking in, or showing off your seance outfits.

» The Ouija Board: Where all the action is! Ask your questions here. Answers will come from the gooseburied journal.

» Observers: For those of you who don't want to risk ghost possession by touching the planchette.

» Departures: As in leaving the auditorium after the seance is over, not death. Ha ha ha.

» OOC Discussion

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ARRIVALS

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THE OUIJA BOARD

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QUESTIONS: Micah

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While Micah waits for everyone to get settled around the board, he burns some sage with his wand. There is an absurd amount of fire surrounding this table. Hey guys, please don't accidentally knock over a candelabra and light the whole stage on fire.

Finally, they're set. Micah calls for everyone to put their fingers on the planchette, and starts off with the most obvious question.

"Is anyone here?"

QUESTIONS: Jeffy

[racingstripe]

"Have, uh, any of us met you before??" Jeffy asks, raising an eyebrow. If they're going to propose an alliance, they should probably see if any of them are friends first.

QUESTIONS: Lucas

[bubblewrapped]

Talking to ghosts is not Lucas' idea of a good time. Still, they're here for a reason. "Have you noticed any of the adults doing anything unusual in the forest?"

MY NAME IS...

[gooseburied]

Once everyone (or most of the table, at least) offers their name, the planchette starts spelling again, moving slowly so they can catch each letter.

M. A. R. Then it hesitates, wobbling back and forth in bigger and bigger arcs as though competing forces are pulling on the planchette. Finally: G. Then it stops dead.

QUESTIONS: Ari

[novelling]

It takes Ari awhile to come up with a question to ask, and when she does speak, it's tentative. "Are... all of you... healing?"

QUESTIONS: Hazel

[lilwitchhazel]

"Are you on our side now?" Hazel isn't sure she's going to trust an affirmative answer here, but it's worth trying.

QUESTIONS: Fern

[nothalfplaid]

They don't know how long they have, and Fern sees no reason to fool around with anything unimportant. "Do you know what the mimics in the forest want?"

QUESTIONS: Micah

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Micah revisits Cole's question from earlier. "What's wrong? Is it the MACUSA? Are they messing with you guys?" Micah, please. One question at a time.

QUESTIONS: Jade

[odder]

"Have I met you in the auditorium before? Do you stay here?"
Okay, okay, yes, one question at a time. And it's not the most pertinent question. But she wants to be as sure as possible they're not dealing with an errant mimic or moose.

QUESTIONS: Essie

[magitechnically]

Essie wants to know about the magic associated with the auror scanners, but she remembers the ghosts are no-majs so they probably can't help there. Instead she asks, "Do the mimics ever bother you guys??? Cause you like all live in the forest together???"

QUESTIONS: Cole

[colemoss]

"Do you know why we're here?" It doesn't seem especially unlikely to Cole that Marg(eret?) would know their plan for tonight. It's hard to tell what the ghosts know and what they don't. But if she does know, it will make asking easier. And she seems to like them well enough. When they're not being loud.

OBSERVERS

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DEPARTURES

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Ari & Jade

[novelling]

Although she had rushed Jade out of the auditorium and down the hall past Zach, Ari slackens her pace when they hit the Atrium. It's largely empty this hour but not technically off-limits until nine, so it seems as good a place as any to get her wits about her before she has to walk back to Ebonhide.

She's shaking from adrenaline and fright and anger, but she tries to hide it by rubbing her knuckles. She doesn't want Jade to know she was afraid, but it seems to her that it must be painfully obvious.

"Should we wait for them?" she asks after a moment of silence.

Lucas & Bash

[bubblewrapped]

It was somewhere around the halfway point of the session that the knot in Lucas' stomach undid itself. Nauseous fear becoming uneasy caution and then, at the end, incredulity. They weren't getting the help they wanted. They weren't even getting answers, properly, were they?

It had been...frightening? Fun? Unhelpful? These thoughts twist around in his head as he helps pack up, mixed feelings written across his face. By the time he's ready to go, draping an arm over Bash's shoulder, he's settled into dissatisfied. "Walk back to Azurcrest with me?" He asks. "One of the guys and I can get you back to Ebonhide before curfew."

OOC 👻 DISCUSSION

[stclair]

I have a bad sense of humour, I'm sorry. ALSO let me know if you have any questions, since I just whipped up this post literally like... now.

Re: OOC 👻 DISCUSSION

[novelling]

i'm making mac n cheese but i'll be here in a hot second

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[racingstripe]

fuck i didn't get a chance to pick out a seance outfit

Re: OOC 👻 DISCUSSION

[magitechnically]

fuck i am cracking up

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[stclair]

guys wtf is the password to gooseburied. i got a new computer and i have to re-enter all of my lj juggler passwords

Re: OOC 👻 DISCUSSION

[magitechnically]

hey ya'll it's been awhile since we did one of these, so here's the last one for reference!!! https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/553841.html

Re: OOC 👻 DISCUSSION

[racingstripe]

well nothing bad happened when you handed out names BEFORE right kids???

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[stclair]

i'm listening to the IT soundtrack as background music, which is just delightful