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YEAR 2: CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS & PLOTTING

CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS & PLOTTING

Hello everyone, and welcome (back) to Gooseberry! We still have a couple weeks until the actual game opens, but we anticipate a lot of new characters joining us.

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So the OOC comm isn't flooded with dozens of new introduction posts, please introduce your new characters here!

Remember to put your character's name in the subject line!

You can say as much or as little as you like. Consider hitting the basics like, house, classes, clubs and year, then describe their personality and interests briefly. Mention what kinds of storylines you want (friends, enemies, etc.) and get to plotting!

Then go around and reply to other peoples' introductions, establishing lines and relationships.

If you have some plot you'd like to talk to people about that involves a returning character, comment here explaining what you're planning!

Be courteous and limit yourself to only one medium/small gif or image! We don't have cuts here, so be kind to your friends who might be on mobile.

» NEW CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS: Introduce your new characters to the game, plot with other new characters, etc!

» OTHER PLOTTING: If you have plotting you'd like to do with a returning character, post it here!

» OOC - Questions, comments & concerns!

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Welcome welcome!

Hi everyone! This is Meggie, one of your mods, with my new Ebonhide sophomore, Archimedes Rose! You can read his whole profile here!

Classes: (Core) Charms, Herbology, Hermeticism, Potions. (Electives) Aesthetic Magic, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Magical Rudiments. (AS) Muggle Tech (beginner).
Clubs: Quidditch (reserve), gardening, D&F

Archie's one of the two students known for dosing everyone with Amortentia last year, and everyone would proooobably know that. His participation is common knowledge. As far as your characters would be aware, the only other responsible student (Scott Johnson) was the mastermind, and he was expelled. Archie was only suspended. Archie's a soft-spoken eccentric who lacks compassion but has a wily and precocious attitude, and he's very secretive about his home life and day-to-day activities. He's kind of destructive in his curiosity, and last year he would steal peoples' electronics to dissect them.

Archie has one major bad habit, which is that he tends to get overly obsessed with his crushes. He'll develop short-lived infatuations with people that go way beyond propriety as he stalks them across campus to gather information on them. The depth of his stalking probably isn't common knowledge unless you're relatively close to him, but anyone can tell that Archie's kiiiiind of a creep and becomes obsessed with his friends, and crushes a lot on upperclassmen.

BUT EVEN CREEPY KIDS NEED FRIENDS. And enemies! And whatever else! I'd also need to find a volunteer for the first person he develops a crush on in-game. I'm going to be testing how I want to run this aspect of his personality, aaaand I'd like it to be someone who's played against my characters a little and actually enjoyed it because uh I don't know how this will go. SO HIT ME UP IF YOU'RE INTERESTED. ♥

Also, please let me know at my dropbox if you have any strong feelings for or against Archie targeting your characters. I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable or ruin his relationship with someone who'd like to be on good terms with him, and I get that realizing this kid stole a lock of your hair and a handwriting sample might be a friendship killer. You can also let me know if you REALLY REALLY want him to go after your character and I'll do my best to oblige eventually haha.

THANKS FOR INDULGING ME, I LOVE YOU. ♥

here's a little guide i made for how to make notif emails from specific posts skip your gmail inbox and go into a certain label. this way you can track the post but you won't constantly get push notifications for a bazillion new emails!!! yay!!!

(& note: if you already have filters and labels set up for tagging things that mention your characters this will not override those. which is a good thing.)

ETA: i changed it so it's easier to find the post ID number. 💜 I'M DONE NOW. I PROMISE.

Edited (fixed the url and whatever I'M OFFICIALLY OFFICIALLY DONE NOW i'm so sorry for all these emails) 2017-08-16 15:13 (UTC)

OK, I keep saying I am going to put this together and it's not pretty but.. whatever. This is a list of IC flavor roles within Event Committee and what I kind of imagine they do and does not imply any OOC responsibility to actually perform the assigned tasks. It's just stuff for your kids to yammer about. Ursula's goal is to build a strong ~team~, but if this turns into a bunch of mini-dictators instead, I will not be complaining. I am also giving everyone silly garbage titles in Ursula's corporate org chart because I can.

CEO & President: Attend club meetings, represent the interests of their class, lead activities and oversee club funding, collaborate with class representatives and manage department heads, and meet with the ~~dictatorship watchdog~~ club sponsor to discuss activities. This role is taken by Ursula.
EVP, Junior Class Representative: Attend club meetings, represent the interests of their class, and collaborate with the club president. In the president's absence, the EVP will run club meetings. This role is taken by Todd.
SVP, Sophomore Class Representative: ~~Get bossed around a lot by upperclassmen while plotting your future rule.~~ Attend club meetings, represent the interests of their class, and collaborate with the club president. This role is open.
~~#1 Delivery Freshmen~~ AVP, Freshmen Class Representative: ~~Get bossed around a lot by upperclassmen & that sophomore twerp while plotting your future rule.~~ Attend club meetings, represent the interests of their class, and collaborate with the club president. This role is open, but obviously an NPC.
CFO & Treasurer: Don't steal money. Complain about budgets. Suggest fundraisers. This role is open.
Corporate Secretary: Takes notes real guud. This role is open.

Department Heads are responsible for working with a team of Event Committee members to accomplish the following tasks. Actual sub-committee members aren't going to be tracked and will obviously include a lot of overlap.

VP of Decorations: Hang streamers. Cover everything in glitter. Provide general ambiance. This role is open, but I wanted to offer it to Riley first.
VP of Refreshments: Coordinate with house elves or other students to provide food and drink. Don't forget alternative dietary needs! This role is open.
VP of Entertainment: Make the fun happen. Provide event-themed games and sub-activities such as karaoke, kissing booths, etc. School bands are expected to be invited to perform during dances. This role is open, but I wanted to offer it to Cameron first.
VP of Logistics: Scout out and secure event locations. ~~Oversee~~ Liason with delivery freshmen. This role is open.

I have a preference for roles to be given to characters who don't have a lot of other special things going on, but the club isn't THAT big either, so. I will get an actual EC dropbox properly setup before Sept 1 to centralize OOC brainstorming or whatever, BUT ANYWAY. Here's the actual EC roles/plotting info for now~ If you are interested in snagging one of this sweet, sweet roles let me know. (Replying here is FINE, so obviously I won't be updating this post as roles get snagged. :X)

Helloooo. It's Jenny. Nisha Lewis is a coppertale sophomore and you can check her out in detail here. I was bad and posted the almanac meme for Nini last night, but here's a quicker rundown:

Classes: Charms, Hermeticism, Potions, Transfiguration, Outdoor Exploration, Wizard Lit, Rudiments, Muggle Tech Studies
Clubs: Quidditch (Chaser), Boating, Archery, LARP, Dance/Morning Barre

Nini is new to GB this year, having come from Ilvermorny where she was in Wampus. She is a former competitive gymnast, specializing in uneven bars and vault and also enjoying messing around on the steady rings - she's, generally speaking, more about strength than grace. Now she is a pro-quidditch hopeful and is extremely serious aboit her aspirations. She also just likes flying in general so if she can get away with being on a broom she will be on a broom. MACUSA kids would know Nisha as the daughter of ultra-intense activist, human shark and representative of West Virginia, Annie (Ankita) Lewis. Oh yeah and I guess like some people may've been familiar with her older brother but he's dead now so toot toot. 😖

Nisha is aggressively weird and loves pranks and will be pranking this year so hold onto your butts and also I am sorry M&M I am probably going to live in the mod dropbox this year asking if Nisha gets caught doing dumb shit. She is also eager to please people she thinks are cool, despite having a rough exterior.

UH SO. FRIENDS, RIVALS, FRESHSOPH GANG, CONNECTIONS FROM ILVERMORNY!!! I am up for it.

I am very so excited for Archie 8)

You can always stalk any of mine for your first attempt if you wanna. Lucas would probably not be the one to do because he would just nope out completely and turn invisible, but Nia or Nisha or my impending 4th would all probably react in a more entertaining way.

YAY URSULA ♥

So, the mods (and therefore Calvin) are going to handle the anonymous Valentine's delivery fundraiser again just because that got so massive and chaotic, and I would hate to pass it off on some unsuspecting player. If Ursula wants to give him some title she can buuuut he'll just be everyone's grumpy cupid come Valentine's day. ♥

Thank you, VP of Romance!! ♥

Yeah, I figured Calvin would be handling that one and that bigger events like the dances will still be mod things(?) that IC discussions can influence, but I haven't wanted to bother you about messy details while you are working on WAY MORE IMPORTANT things.

God yes, put Riley in charge of glitter and streamers and pray she doesn't completely forget and cause a total meltdown when the winter formal has the wrong color streamers.

Or pray it does cause a meltdown, much joy will be had either way.

ohhhhh my gosh I love Riley so much

YES please give Ursula all the heart attacks this year. THE JOB IS YOURS.

HELLO HELLO I'M VERY TIRED! BUT THIS IS ALEX! And THIS is DINAH DANGER DIXON, Coppertale Soph!! Her whole profile is here and I wrote her history in a single sitting and never looked back so judge it accordingly.

Classes: Core - Charms, Herbology, History of Magic, Transfig
Elective - Aesthetic Magic, Magizoology, Artificing
Clubs: Boating, Coppertale Quidditch (Reserve), Gaming, OE, Archery, and also she calls herself an honorary cheerleader because she dances along with them on the sidelines.

BULLET POINTS:

Her parents are (magic) marine biologists who also run a cryptid-themed houseboat B&B in British Columbia. She grew up on a boat. She likes her little cramped spaces.
Only child of older parents, growing up just kind of isolated and surrounded by mostly adults. She's awkward around people her own age and doesn't know how to actually talk to people but she's going to TRY, DANGIT.
Terrible at understanding concepts like personal space, volume control, and her own mortality. Or subtlety. Or style?
Is more confident than she should be honestly. But her parents were yuppies who, like, refused to use the word No with her and talked to her like she was an adult and basically she doesn't understand that the world doesn't revolve around her. Metaphorically. She understands that scientifically. Duh.
Has a very overactive imagination and tends to draw a lot of comics that involve not-even-thinly-veiled inserts of all y'all. Her self insert is called DINAH DANGER, and she's a VIGILANTE (for what? It changes a lot, Dinah Danger has a lot of causes).
She has a bandana and a skateboard 🤘

Idk other stuff?? I need to do my work. But LET'S GET A STUPID GIRL GANG AND SHIT HELL YEAH.

Edited (I FORGOT MY GIF) 2017-08-16 16:35 (UTC)

Hi, it's Kas and I'm here to break the seal on really long intros! Corrigan Bailey is one of the new Ebonhide sophomores! Here's her profile!

Concept: Former child star proves her worth with sass, audacity, and big bat.
Classes: (Core) Charms, Hermeticism, Potions, Transfiguration. (Elective) Defense Against the Dark Arts, Magical Rudiments. (Advanced) Music.
Clubs: Quidditch (Beater, reserve last year), Archery, Choir, Duelling & Fencing, Gaming.

Corrigan grew up in Austin, TX, and went to a local day school before entering GB in her freshman year. Although she's halfblood she was raised primarily No-Maj and received a lot of her education through tutoring as opposed to classroom-based learning.
She was a child celebrity. She and her sisters were cast in a Nick-esque TV show called Fly High where they portrayed a band of sisters called The Songbirds who balanced life, fame, and music. The show became a sensation overnight and, in the way that media aimed at preteens often is, Fly High and The Songbirds were marketed through the wazoo. For four years (8-12) her time was split between shooting, tutoring, appearances, interviews, and actual concerts (performing as The Songbirds). Eventually Fly High's popularity waned and the girls' contracts weren't renewed; they were pulled from the public eye and put back in day school with the public justification that "they need to focus on their education."
She's at Gooseberry on a music scholarship: she sings and her fave instruments are the acoustic guitar and the harmonica). Her parents were a famous indie rock duo in the '90s but they haven't been successful since pre-kids. They constantly chase the celebrity bug and see their daughters as a way to get there again so there's a lot of pressure for Corrigan to succeed, but only in what they want: music.
Quidditch has become her passion. She's doing everything she can to do well by the team and she looks at its seniors with stars in her eyes (sorry, Solo) because she thinks they're JUST THE COOLEST. Especially Casper Kim, whose opinions on everything she has decided are crucial to becoming a better Beater.
She's sassy, energetic, and stubborn, curious, outspoken, and friendly — but flighty at the same time, and uninterested in people who have made a bad impression, or who she finds boring. She latches onto friends like they're family and will defend them tooth and nail. (Even those who don't realize it, like the members of the Quidditch team that she interacts with the least.)
She thinks she's behind in everything (especially magic things) and does whatever she can to rectify that. This applies to anything from playing Quidditch to knowing what tequila tastes like. It can get her into trouble because her need to be on par with her peers, and accepted by them, overrules her desire to behave.
She collects "curios," little magic-imbued figurines. Most are lined up on her desk and their spells sometimes clash, causing unexpected effects like turning her desk pink or whistling in response to nearby speech.
She hates the name "Corrie" because it was her character's name in Fly High and she's trying to become her own person. Last year she insisted people only call her "Corrigan," but "Cor" is fine this year. Just... not Corrigan.

ALL LINES ARE OPEN! CALL NOW! She needs friends, enemies, rivals, anything and everything! The couple of groups that she'll already be pestering for sure are her roomies (hello bright pink girl gang!! 💖 ) and the Ebonhide sophomore boys, and the ebonhide Quidditch team. Her dropbox is available, too. :D

Edited 2017-08-16 16:40 (UTC)

Jeffy had a crush on her middle sister when he was a wee lad, this is a fact, this is canon now.

It's cool nobody looks at solomon with stars in their eyes. But he never watched the show she was in, so she is kinda a whole new person to him. But they have a lot in common. They're both here on music scholarships. So he'll probably treat her the same as he treats anybody. He'll be nice and understanding and if she expresses an interest in anything, he'll have a billion facts to add to that.

I'm sure he'll also make the comment 'he's not mad, that's just his face' to Corrigan about casper at some point this year too.

IT'S MEGGIE. AGAIN. Spencer Sweet is a Coppertale junior and a member of the cheer squad! You can read aaaaaaall about him here.

Classes: [CORE] Charms, Hermeticism, History of Magic, Potions, Transfiguration [ELECTIVES] Astronomy, DADA, Magical Rudiments
Clubs: Archery, dance, cheer, drama.

Some quick notes on him:

Spencer's an aspiring professional figure skater whose career is on hold because he lost his temper and beat up a competitor backstage. OOPS. If your character's deep into the online figure skating fandom they might have heard of this, but Spencer hadn't yet achieved fame before being told to go focus on his education and cool off.

He arrived sophomore year. This is his second year at Gooseberry.

He has a nearly perfect autobiographical and photographic memory that makes school a breeze for him, but also causes him to be a little intense and hard to deal with in other areas. He can forget things, but hates it when people point it out and gets very defensive.

He's LOUD and puts his foot in his mouth a lot. But he's also friendly and warm if you can get past how intense he can be. Spencer doesn't relax and has a short fuse, but typically ends up falling back on altruism.

Spencer's very self-conscious and worries a lot that he's irritating. He can, in fact, be exactly that.

He's currently dating Micah St. Clair... but they're going to break up the first week of school. Their summer romance was very tumultuous.

Which means in due time he's going to revert back to his default stage: being a big dumb flirt and a trashy party boy.

I need friends! Past flings! Future flings! Enemies! People he's tussled with!

hey spencer never ask micah where you rank on his favourite sophjuniors list, you won't like the answer

Hey Micah Spencer's moving on to BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS and he's not going to miss you AT ALL he's OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE.

Edited (none of this is true he's gonna be upset) 2017-08-16 17:09 (UTC)

no it's totally true, micah's never going to make out with someone this hot again... unless we count hazel, then he is totally going to make out with someone hot like a day after you two break up

BUT UGH OK SERIOUSLY micah is very impulsive and self-absorbed, but i imagine he's going to feel bad about the breakup like... just as soon as it's too late to take it back, which i am sure will result in NOTHING AWKWARD AT ALL. it's a good thing they don't share 38 best friends and won't be making things tense during social gatherings!!!

THAT'S FINE. MAYBE SPENCER WILL GO MAKE OUT WITH SOMEONE HOT IMMEDIATELY TOO.

It's fine I'm sure these two very mature young men can handle this messy breakup and not make it agonizing at all to navigate the road back to friendship!!! But yeah Spencer won't want it to end, per se, but once Micah's crossed that line he's going to be super d o n e. He's too intense to take this lightly.

Ahhhhhhh you're the best!

If nobody else wants it, and it's ok with you, Vee could do the refreshments! She loves helping and food and yes! Lol But she does have a captain spot so I don't wanna seem gredy

I foresee at least one emergency (attempted) trip to Logan to buy last minute decorations that Riley TOTALLY has somewhere, she SUPER swears

corrigan maintains that stevie is the lamest sister even if she's a better shot than allegra >:(

:( it still makes me sad! he's not a junior or her yearmate, so he's.... lowest rung. BUT HE'S STILL SUPER COOL, I PROMISE.

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YEAR 2: CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS & PLOTTING

NEW CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS

OTHER PLOTTING

OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

Archie Rose!!!

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Event Committee 🎊 🎉

Nisha Lewis

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Dinah Dixon!!

Corrigan Bailey!

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Spencer Sweet

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