PLOT CALENDAR: April

[goosemods]

Please note: each player is limited to one plot for the first 2 hours. (See HERE for what time that would be for you.) After that, the only limit is one plot per character.

APRIL

SAT
1

🎂 Happy birthday, Regan Hobbs!

April Fool’s Day! Something is… off about the teachers. They’re all behaving oddly, and when you stop them for questions, their grasp on class material is weak. Did they have a party their last night off and are all hungover? What’s going on? They’re all laughing a lot, and it’s like they’re doing bad impressions of themselves.

At dinner, the surprise is revealed as all of the teachers stand up and an oddly chipper and mellow Healer Mufferaw gets up and counts down “One, two, three…” And he suddenly turns into Mr. Elmasry!

It turns out that this morning, a number of the teachers took Polyjuice Potion, and have been impersonating one another all day.

The switches were:

• Mr. Elmasry & Healer Mufferaw. Irene Lovelace goes to “Mufferaw” with a cold, and finds him to be uncharacteristically sympathetic and worried.


• Mr. Covington & Mr. Merrill. William Chase bumps into “Merrill” who goes off on a tangent about the way the wind sounds in the high mountains, and gets a little misty eyed.


• Ms. Poe & Ms. Whittle. Christopher Park has entire conversation with “Poe” talking about alien abductions.


• Mrs. O’Hare & Dr. O’Hare. They do terrible impressions of their spouse. [Character D] is confused by how they seem to be making fun of one another over lunch, but they’re actually genuinely trying.


• Mr. Oakes & Mr. Hightower. This comes as a surprise to everyone, as it turns out they can imitate one another perfectly. It’s not apparent anything is wrong until Ivy Templeton sees “Oakes” abruptly revert into Mr. Hightower mid-conversation long after all the other switches were revealed.

SUN
2

Mrs. O’Hare has a special announcement to make at lunch. She’s recently come into possession of a litter of kittens, and they’re in need of new homes. She’s happy to let familiar-less students adopt them! To sign up, see HERE.

MON
3

🎂 Happy birthday, Jonathan Wilde!

Mr. Hightower thinks Jonathan Wilde’s proposed Gardening Club is ready to go public, and says that Wilde just needs to recruit at least five members in addition to himself before the club can be put on the books.

• Your character may now sign up for Gardening Club, which will be added to the official list of clubs. Mr. Hightower is the sponsor, and Jonathan Wilde is the club president.


• Todd Skynner wants all clubs to have presidents now, and petitions to be made president of Event Committee.

TUE
4

🎂 Happy birthday, Damon Evercreech!

Prom King/Queen and Prince/Princess nominations open up! Your character may nominate anyone you like, and as many people as you like, although only juniors and seniors will be selected. The staff will then choose a number of candidates that are suitable for the honor.

• A post for submitting nominations will go up.


• The mods will select nominees based on activity, with a hint of IC suitability. The staff will be looking for (somewhat) well-behaved students who represent the spirit of Gooseberry.


• Voting will begin in May, and will be done by way of a screened dropbox. It’ll be a straight up popularity contest, with every character getting a vote. Your character may campaign IC for Prom King/Queen if you like, but you may not campaign OOC. (Which is to say, while you can express excitement at the prospect and share how your character would react to winning, you may not ask people OOC to vote for your character on the comms. Don’t be surprised if we gently scold you if we see it.)


• Prom itself will be held either at the very end of May or the beginning of June.


• Last year, Cristiane Downing and Ricardo Ramirez were Prom Queen and King. Magdalen Gillis and [Senior Boy H] were Prom Princess and Prince. (Note: Please be reasonable when claiming these spots. Your character must be reasonably popular and well-behaved, which we realize is subjective, but use your best judgement. We may decline joke submissions.)

While walking home after the lodge has closed for the night, Philippa Nightingale sees a single lamp post along the trail blinking in an irregular pattern before going back to normal. Several feet later on the trail, there’s another lamp post, blinking in the same pattern. Is that… Morse code?

WED
5

🎂 Happy birthday, Garrett Ogletree and Gavin Ogletree!

Drunk Shakespeare. That night, a bunch of Drama students sneak out to the Sorting Cave with a plan: get hammered and perform Romeo & Juliet for anyone willing to go out to see them. The attempt is guaranteed to be amusing and riddled with mistakes, and everyone is welcome to come watch. (We encourage these roles to go to characters involved in Drama, but other performers and/or dramatic personalities are welcome to nab them as well, because there are a lot.) DON’T BE SHY.

The cast will get together before the play, and they’ll draw straws whether or not they have to drink. If your name is drawn (RNG will determine this the day of the performance) your character must take four shots of whiskey or vodka, and then attempt to perform the play. There are 15 parts on this list (minor/unexciting parts were removed) and 5 of the cast members will be absolutely trashed while the rest try to keep the play on track.

• Apothecary, played by Ulysses Quayle
• Balthasar, servant to Romeo, played by Cameron Carney
• Benvolio, friend to Romeo, played by Susana Velasquez
• Escalus, prince of Verona, played by Ravinder Dhaliwal
• Friar Laurence, played by Diego Morales
• Juliet, daughter to Capulet, played by Levi Kramer
• Lady Capulet, wife to Lord Capulet, played by Tabitha Ogletree
• Lady Montague, wife to Lord Montague, played by Matteo Diaz
• Mercutio, friend to Romeo, played by Riley Stamper
• Lord Montague, played by Clementine Decourt
• Lord Capulet, played by Laurel Templeton
• Nurse to Juliet, played by Jade Otterwell
• Paris, betrothed to Juliet, played by Isabelle Sargent
• Romeo, son to Montague, played by Damon Evercreech
• Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet, played by Ty Hawkeswood

THU
6

Cameron Carney returned from Spring Break feeling oddly under the weather. They must have caught something while they were away, but it’s nothing too bad. They are feeling strangely forgetful, though. Oh well! Not enough to keep them out of the Grotto!

FRI
7

🎂 Happy birthday, Casey Patterson and Jacob Wood!

Happy birthday to the bros, with a Grotto party in their honour. Jacob and Casey get the crown and throne treatment, and the Grotto’s decor is particularly orange. Expect plenty of booze and beer pong!

• There will be games of Spin the Bottle and Seven Minutes in Heaven. If your character would like to participate, SIGN UP HERE.

On their way to the Grotto, Jeremiah Rasmussen and Zoey Valentine walk together, and find that it takes an unusually long time for them to reach the Grotto. They didn’t get lost, the path just seemed… longer? They arrive more than 20 minutes after all of their friends.

SAT
8

🌕 PINK MOON

Unfortunately, Cameron contracted [Disease Name TBD], a highly contagious but benign magical bug that causes those affected to spontaneously lose their memories. The legend is that a beleaguered witch in the early 1900’s tried to create a spell that harmlessly made everyone forget to ask her when she was going to get married already, but it got out of hand.

• This means all the infected characters will suffer from temporary amnesia, which may be wildly inconsistent and quite severe. You as players can pick and choose what your character can and cannot remember, and it might shift and change throughout the day.


• The bug only affects knowledge, not actual skills. So for instance, your character may forget names, faces, people, relationships and events, but they won’t forget how to walk, speak, eat, fly a broom, etc.


• In order to catch the disease, you must either attend the Grotto party or be a roommate or friend of Cameron. No kissing necessary! Please SIGN UP HERE.


• Luckily, it’s very easy to cure. Healer Mufferaw herds all the infected into YET ANOTHER quarantine, and by morning the cure has kicked in and they’re right as rain. (What this means is that aside from whatever interpersonal fallout you inflict on your character, all Quidditch players will perform just fine.)

SUN
9

QUIDDITCH GAME: Azurcrest v. Coppertale

MON
10

This month in Magizoology, students will be paired up to take care of a Squonk. Squonks are tragically hideous and smelly creatures about the size of a small dog, and they are very, very sad.

• Students quickly realize their Squonks are needy and cry basically all the time. If you’re hard on them at all (for instance, if you call them ugly or mention the smell), they literally melt into a pool of tears and bubbles.


• Luckily, Squonks can reform, but they need to be handled with love and care… and kept in a waterproof container.


• At the end of the month, the Squonks will be relocated to a reserve where everything is very safe and stress-free.


• There will be a post for Magizoology students to get results on how well their Squonk reacted to them, and their final grade on the project. This will come with an extra bonus of your characters being randomly assigned pairs.

TUE
11

🎂 Happy birthday, Henrietta Gray and Jeremiah Rasmussen!

The freshmen are at it again. Posted up in the lodge there’s a bunch of lists magically stuck to the wall with some of the cabins ranked by some arbitrary descriptor. (We will post the lists to the comm, and the ranking will all be RNG, and thus intentionally nonsensical. The mods will try to write hilarious commentary on the rankings justifying their order in the eyes of the freshmen that composed it. Claiming one of the lists for your cabin counts as taking a character spot on the calendar!)

• Hottest. Claimed by Olivia Sanchez for Junior Coppertale Girls.
• Smartest. Claimed by Joanna May for Sophomore Ebonhide Girls.
• Marriage material. Claimed by Avery Davenport for Junior Ribbonfin Girls.
• Best in a bar fight. Claimed by Sybilla Borgin for Junior Ebonhide Girls.
• Most closely resembles a llama. Claimed by Jonathan Wilde for Junior Ebonhide Boys.
• Most likely to get abducted by aliens. Claimed by [Character T2] for [Cabin].
• Strangest teeth. Claimed by [Character U2] for [Cabin].
• Most likely to end up a crazy cat lady. Claimed by Penelope Vargas for Senior Coppertale Girls.

WED
12

Estella Morales-Tran is having a rough day, and sits down on a log to collect themselves. They hear and feel their best friend sit next to them, comforting and familiar. However, when they look up, they’re definitely alone.

THU
13

DRAMA AUDITIONS for Into the Woods. Get ready to show how you can really belt!

FRI
14

MONTHLY BONDING ACTIVITY for all juniors.

SAT
15

🎂 Happy birthday, Jefferson Key!

Calvin Evercreech and Micah St. Clair organize the first game of Sophomore Intramural Quidditch.

SUN
16

🐇 Easter Sunday 🐇 Everyone get ready to participate in the annual Easter egg hunt! The night before, the house elves and teachers all went out to hide eggs and candy around campus. First thing in the morning the students are released to try and find as many treats as possible.

• The student that collects the most eggs is rewarded with an adorable bunny plush. A... huge adorable bunny plush. Like, it’s actually kind of cumbersome. Is that even going to fit in someone’s loft bed? (No, it won’t.)


• While searching, Quinn Cunningham finds an old PSP that’s been hollowed out and filled with little chunks of quartz. How odd.

MON
17

Dyngus Day! Much to the chagrin of the staff, some students are running around throwing buckets (or glasses, or bowls, or just using spells) of water on one another and smacking their butts with little branches. They wish you would stop. (IC/OOC to come where you will be asked who your character tries to throw water on and/or spank with a stick, and we will RNG their success.)

• [Character O] gets bold and douses [teacher of choice]. (Depending on whom you choose, you may get detention.)

TUE
18

In Gaming Club, Xavier Lewis is playing a vigorous game of Just Dance Wii when they accidentally lose their grip on their controller and hit Milo Greer in the face, giving them a bloody nose. Sorry!

WED
19

In Duelling Club, Ms. Lilywhite asks for volunteers to duel her, and warns everyone she’s not holding back. True to her word, every student who goes up against her is quickly dispatched, including Mercedes Estrada, who flips into the air when they’re thrown clear off the duelling platform, and Casper Kim, who gets stunned and slams their head on the ground. Robin Youngblood comes to the closest when they manage to disarm Lilywhite, but she uses wandless magic to summon her wand and hits them back.

In the end, a spectating Agent Larke steps up to challenge her, but Ms. Lilywhite says there’s no time and ends the club session. Some observers get the impression that Lilywhite, despite being a former Auror herself, doesn’t much care for the MACUSA agent.

THU
20

The cast list for Into the Woods is posted.

FRI
21

MONTHLY BONDING ACTIVITY for all sophomores.

SAT
22

🌑 NEW MOON

The Anonymous Writer should post tonight...

Another field trip may be in the works (but this time, you can bring your journal along).

SUN
23

QUIDDITCH MATCH: Ebonhide v. Ribbonfin

MON
24

Cricket Quayle is walking back to class when they run into Dr. O’Hare watching a huge black moose through binoculars. He ends up talking to Cricket for a few minutes about his suspicions that the entities in the forest like to take the form of moose, and that the kids should be careful when they see one. “Even a normal moose is dangerous,” he ends with a shrug. “So it’s a good idea in general.”

TUE
25

🎂 Happy birthday, Iliya Krum!

A terrible storm sets in, soaking campus. With nothing better to do, Oscar Zabinsky organizes a game of Hide & Seek in the lodge. Marilyn Fairchild, Antonia Papadakis, Dominic Tremblay & Regan Hobbs seek, and everyone else hides! (IC/OOC to come.)

• While playing, Cole Moss thinks they see a boy who looks a lot like Calvin Evercreech crying out on the docks in the rain. When they go out to check on him, he’s gone.
• Cassius Holcomb gets stranded in Azurcrest that night due to the heavy rain, and is allowed to stay in the cabin that matches their year and gender.

WED
26

After the storm, the Ornery Oak’s branches are full of debris, and it’s in a foul mood. It’s pettily throwing acorns at everyone who passes today. Hazel Keating can’t take it anymore and throws one back. This turns out to have been a bad idea, as the oak spends the next week looking for Hazel Keating to pelt them with yet more acorns.

THU
27

The Rainbow River’s finally ebbed. While walking to class, Ferdinand Ayers notices a single muddy leather shoe sitting on the riverbank. It’s antiquated in style, and rather small—does it belong to a freshman? However, when they try to pick up the shoe, it disintegrates in their hands, as though nothing was ever there in the first place.

FRI
28

MONTHLY BONDING ACTIVITY for all seniors.

SAT
29

Everyone wakes up to find fresh berries available at the breakfast buffet this saturday. They’re piled on top of clean leaves in an old basket. The house elves seem a little confused by how they got there, but before anyone can realize that the house elves didn’t bring out berries at all, a number of students have already eaten them.

To the immense distress of Agent Larke and Doctor O’Hare (and the rest of the staff), it seems like whatever is living in the forest saw the teachers playing with Polyjuice Potions at the beginning of the month, and wanted to let the kids have fun too.

Unfortunately, getting randomly dosed with Polyjuice Potion is less enjoyable when you didn’t plan on it.

• The staff try to regain control once again, but it’s chaos at Gooseberry as students end up taking on the form of their classmates for anywhere from thirty minutes to several hours. Mufferaw insists everyone affected stick around the lodge to preserve the privacy and dignity of anyone they changed into.


• This plot is opt-in. If you want your character to turn into someone else, or allow other to turn into them, you must give permission. You can make requests about who your character turns into, but they have to give you express permission first.


• If you want to sign up, please comment HERE.

SUN
30

🎂 Happy birthday, Ariadne Flint!

Damon Evercreech is in the lodge late when they see something odd. It’s Calvin Evercreech walking up the stairs to the upper floors. Something seems off, though. Dimi follows, but can’t quite catch up until they reach the third floor. Calvin is opening the windows, letting in a bitter chill. Dimi calls to them, and Calvin glances over their shoulder, a dull look in their eyes, before letting themselves fall limply out the window.

Dimi screams and runs to stop them, but it’s too late. They look down to the ground, expecting to see something unimaginably horrifying, but there’s nothing there. No body. Dimi nearly trips down the stairs in their haste to get out to where the body should have been, and lying on the ground is… a human skull.

• Calvin Evercreech, meanwhile, has fallen asleep elsewhere. They have a dream about how reluctant they are to go home at the end of the school year.


• If you would like your character to be considered for this plot, please comment HERE.

Comments

(frozen comment) KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[goosemods]

Mrs. O’Hare has a special announcement to make at lunch. She’s recently come into possession of a litter of kittens, and they’re in need of new homes. She’s happy to let students adopt them!

A few rules:

• If your character does not have a familiar, they may adopt a kitten.
• If your character has a familiar they have never or very seldom referenced in game canon, you may request to retcon that they never had an owl/rat/whatever. But if the pet is game canon, no new kitten for you. For instance, although Reid talks about his raven, Amelia, infrequently, she has been referenced enough that she cannot be retconned. Alternatively, Rafael’s hawk, Lisandro, has only come up in one IC conversation, and could be retconned.
• The limit is one kitten per player.
• The kittens are Ragdolls, so they’re going to be very floppy and affectionate and get hair all over everything. As magical animals, they’re also supernaturally intelligent.
• There will be a small IC/OOC so everyone can play with kittens.

If your character is going to adopt a kitten, fill out the following form and reply to this comment with the participating character(s):

<b>Character:</b> <b>Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?:</b> <b>Anything else?:</b>

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[quinning]

Character: Quinn Cunningham
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: LOL NO.
Anything else?: NOPE.

(frozen comment) and then i ramble about quinn + kittens

[quinning]

and now for a whole bunch of info nobody asked for that I'M SHARING ANYWAYS BECAUSE I WANT TO.

She's gonna go look at the baby cats because baby animals are the only ones she loses her shit over, and there she will fall in love with a li'l kitty. Maybe the kitten paws at her. Maybe it looks sad. Maybe both. She'll adopt it! This way, at least SOMETHING stays the same after graduation—minimum one person/ality in her life won't leave her to live on the other side of the continent (or like, travel the world). Maybe once she has her kitten she'll get the nerve actually open her gd Healing program letters. LOLLLL as if This is going to be a misadventure of many different proportions.

At least this time her 'questionable decision in a time of stress' isn't giving everybody Fever Fervor, ok.

the biggest q of all is which hockey player she names the cat after she may name it after the goosey griffins she's having a tough time adjusting with graduation how small can this text get before you can't read it anymore *goldblum voice* heeelp meee
actually there's a chance she'll name it after jesse's fave hockey player so i should tell aleena to GET THINKIN'


anyways she's going to adore the ever-loving heck out of this little ball o' fur

(frozen comment) Re: and then i ramble about quinn + kittens

[ninjaleo]

I don't know if I want to give Leo a kitten because he already has an owl that he needs for boring reasons and it makes sense to keep that
But can he please visit Quinn's kitten surreptitiously.
Since I have now decided it's funny to have him melt over small animals.
Ok thank you

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[threatens]

Character: Sylvester Stoker
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: N
Anything else?: I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS FOR WEEKS

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[browbeats]

omgomgomg ROSY WANTS TO CUDDLE YOUR DAMN KITTEN WHY IS IT SO MUCH CUTER THAN HER BITCHY OWL

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[threatens]

i actually don't know yet how this is going to go down

all i know is sy will look at this and he will not put the kitten down

it'll be like rosy's reaction to freddy but super belated

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[ulixes]

omg

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[duelled]

i'm dying sy with a kitten

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[browbeats]

i can't wait for it i'm so happy it's happening soon

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[shirtsoptional]

Character: Jacob Wood
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: YES. His familiar has never been referenced. :)
Anything else?: This whole plot calendar is great but I cannot get over my excitement for kittens. KITTENS!!! ♥

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[threatens]

manx manx sy and jacob's kittens will be siblings

they're...... family now

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[magitechnically]

marin marin omg i was hoping you would say that

all i want... is for this damn dorm to be friends... sometime prior to graduation

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[evercreep]

Character: Calvin Evercreech
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: Nope!
Anything else?: KITTENS!!!! I want a kitten for Calvin. :(

(frozen comment) solomon

[theniceboy]

Character: Solomon Webb
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: he has a rabbit that has never been mentioned once
Anything else?: solomon deserves an adorable kitten.

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[gdilevi]

Character: Levi Kramer
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: Nope!
Anything else?: thx for the fluff fodder. Levi and Cecil are gonna be even grosser raising a kitten together.

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[quinning]

quinn will be at their door every two hours

"MINE JUST MADE THIS SOUND LIKE hhhhnngghhh1!
DOES YOURS MAKE THAT SOUND
DO YOU THINK IT'S A BAD SOUND or is it a normal cat sound NO IT'S PROBABLY A BAD SOUND
LEVI LEVI WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR CAT MADE THAT SOUND?!?!"

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[professionalcorpse]

Character: Bash Lacroix
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: Nope!
Anything else?: I just - this kitten would probably be named Godzilla. To match Godzookie, the gigantic monster-dog he has at home. Which it will inevitably be the boss of.

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[get_fucked]

Character: Penny Vargas
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: Her pet snake. He was mentioned once in game when she first joined =/
Anything else?: Nope just i love cats yay

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[pintsizedsass]

Character: Susana Velasquez
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: No, she's never even mentioned her owl, although I'll prolly have her name the kitten the same thing LOL
Anything else?: I'm so sleepy lol

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[gonnabefamous]

Character: Cameron Carney
Do they have a previous familiar you’d like to retcon?: Yes. Mercutio the puffskein has never been mentioned ic, I don't think
Anything else?: If it's a boy, he's gonna name it Elvis Presley. If it's a girl, he still might.

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[casperkim]

Cameron.

Cameron.

Can Casper snuggle your kitten sometimes when he gets back?

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[ulixes]

ULYSSES IS GONNA KISS IT in secret

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[hisshiss]

Cam clearly adopted Ms. Elvis for the entire cabin. Congrats kitty you get five dads.

(frozen comment) Re: KITTEN ADOPTIONS

[iliya]

i want to know that the SOLE reason i didn't respond to this the second it came up was because the movie started as soon as i saw this comment

but omfg

iliya is going to be Cranky because he has a pet mouse and he's afraid of Yo-Yo getting eaten but also he just... wants to play with the kitten :(( when no one else is watching :((((