WARD FAILURE RULES

[goosemods]

WARD FAILURE RULES

The student body is oblivious to the fact that someone has begun researching and investigating the journal network. Their orders? Get access, don't let anyone know. Their attempts to do so will have unfortunate consequences for the student body.

HOW THIS WORKS

• PLEASE READ ALL RULES CAREFULLY! We don't want to have to scold anyone for breaking them. :(


• Starting tomorrow (March 7) wards will be potentially subject to failing due to MACUSA interference with the journal system. Their attempts at surveillance and bypassing the journal security will fail, but will also cause grave errors in the journal network.


• MACUSA will not be able to gain access or read what's behind wards, but the contents of a number of warded conversations will be revealed on the morning of March 9. Martin Pratt will inform students of what happened later that evening. Following this, all wards will be secure again, possibly with extra security measures.


• Any wards written on March 7 or 8 are qualified to have failed if all players involved consent. We're trusting you to get permission on your own, but if someone submits a ward for failure that you didn't agree to or feel comfortable with, inform the mods ASAP.


• If you want a ward to fail, you must submit it to this post with the names of the characters involved, and a short, specific description of the content. This will let your fellow players quickly see what's going on for maximum drama! Don't be vague!


• If your failed ward is directed at a large group, just so you don't literally have to contact everyone who plays a girl or every sophomore or whatever, you can simply add an OOC disclaimer that says something like "[OOC: If you reply to this post, you're agreeing to be part of a failed ward.]"


• On March 9, we'll post an IC/OOC which will announce when the wards fail, contain a list of the failed wards, and provide opportunities to write scenes in the aftermath. Don't react to failed wards until this post goes up.


• Any wards not on that list will be considered safe, normal and private. Please be responsible for yourself, both when it comes to submitting failed wards on time, and checking to see what wards failed that your character is allowed to react to.


• In the aftermath, failed wards may not be replied to. Please create new posts to discuss the plot so we can maintain forward motion on the comm, and link to the failed ward in question. You'll thank us when you're reading the game nostalgically a year from now.


• Until March 9, all wards will appear normal and functional. Again, do not react to failed wards until the mod post goes up indicating phase 2 of the event is in progress.


• Any wards written on March 9 will be secure. This is so that phase 1 and 2 of the event don't overlap.


• All failed wards must be started and submitted by Thu, Mar 8 at 11:59 PM MT. No exceptions!


• You can forward-date failed wards today if your schedule's a bit of a crunch, but you may not backdate failed wards after March 8!


• You may respond to and discuss reactions on this post.

Don't be shy to ask questions if you don't understand the system, or think you might have an edge case!

» FAILED WARD SUBMISSIONS: If you have a ward you want to be revealed, submit it here with the following form.

Who: List all characters in the ward.
What: In one sentence, explain what was discussed. The more specific and honest you are, the more responses you're likely to get.
Link: Please give us a link to the warded conversation.
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Everyone in the ward must agree to being submitted for ward failure.
Anything else?:

<b>Who:</b> List all characters in the ward. <b>What:</b> In one sentence, explain what was discussed. The more specific and honest you are, the more responses you're likely to get. <b>Link:</b> Please give us a link to the warded conversation. <b>Did you receive permission from all parties involved?:</b> Everyone in the ward must agree to being submitted for ward failure. <b>Anything else?:</b>

» OOC Discussion

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FAILED WARD SUBMISSIONS

[goosemods]

Reid & Sy

[cygninae]

Who: Reid Wainwright & Sylvester Stoker
What: Reid and Sy talk about how they want to play on the same Quidditch team as adults, and Reid tells Sy there's a real chance of that happening.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/956009.html?thread=65716329
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yes!
Anything else?: Sad jocks. Posting this early as an example!

Rosy & Danny

[browbeats]

Who: Rosemary Stoker & Daniel Notoriano
What: Rosy and Danny pretend they're not flirting by talking about a pen, but they're totally flirting.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/956349.html?thread=65738685#cmt65738685
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: ayup
Anything else?: bad

A Cryptic Word List

[bubblewrapped]

Who: Lucas
What: A list of words starting with CIRC, some have been marked for importance.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/959407.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: It was hard fought but yes.
Anything else?: who doesn't love a list of words without context.

Raccoon ahoy

[butterbear]

Who: Teddy, Max, Issy
What: Teddy and Max have an accidentally innuendo-laden convo, before they discuss the fallout of Teddy declaring his love under Amortentia; Teddy and Issy make plans and get too cute.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/958186.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yes, Jordan and Anya
Anything else?: Animagi cause so many problems.

Iliya & Kenzie

[iliya]

Who: Mackenzie Prince & Iliya Krum
What: Kenzie and Iliya discuss purposefully infecting Iliya with strep so he can dodge Music's instrument swap, and chat about their friends.
Link: HERE and HERE
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Y
Anything else?: most absurd way to avoid singing in front of the school

Gwencident #1

[gwenniepop]

Who: Gwen, Calvin, Ennis
What: Gwen and Calvin talk about Gwen's unrequited crush on Casper, her continuing struggle with Avery, and her burgeoning relationship with Webster, while she and Ennis just talk about LARP and body shots.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/957786.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: I believe we are all good.
Anything else?: Don't let Gwen into LARP, she already almost ruins Gaming club every month.

Solo & Sam

[theniceboy]

Who: Sam and Solo
What: They have a very serious talk about broken trust and drinking
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/959956.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yep
Anything else?: it's probably really awkward to read and solo feels real bad about it

Quentin & Dia

[taxation_is_theft]

Who: Quentin Youngblood and Concordia Knight
What: Quentin and Dia discuss their emotions, which span how they feel about briefly being in love and how Dia's super kinda gay
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/959658.html#comments
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yep
Anything else?: Quentin outs himself for having the capacity for compassion and dia outs herself for having the capacity for girls

Hazel & Ari

[lilwitchhazel]

Who: Hazel Keating & Ariadne Flint
What: Hazel actually expresses how scared and worried she is about how the year is playing out and sort of stops playing at being so tough.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/957526.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yep!
Anything else?: ♥

Rupert & Balthazar

[somethingwick_ed]

Who: Rupert Wick & Balthazar Doyle
What: Rupert asks a lot of questions about Iggy, discusses how he thinks she feels about him, and is super transparent about having a crush on her but won't actually admit it.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/961682.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yep!
Anything else?: ♥ ♥

Sofia is in lurrrrrrrve

[sovain]

Who: Sofia, Lilika, Riley, Kenzie, Addy, Iliya, Wilde.
What: Sofia freaks out because she's realized she's in love with Phin and doesn't want to ruin their fwb thing.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/955804.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: There's a disclaimer at the end of the post stating whoever replies has agreed to being apart of the failed ward.
Anything else?: LETS RUIN HER LIFEEEEE

Ophelia & Todd

[useyournoggin]

Who: Ophelia Noggins & Todd Skynner
What: Ophelia takes it upon herself to interrogate Todd about why he and Austin aren't official yet.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/961282.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yyyup.
Anything else?: Ophelia continuing to wreck havoc on these two sweet boys.

Calvin & Micah

[evercreep]

Who: Micah St. Clair & Calvin Evercreech
What: Calvin asks Micah if he wants to have sex with him during spring break.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/960106.html?thread=65968490
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Affirmative!
Anything else?: Time to embarrass my little rain cloud.

Trash Twins

[electable]

Who: JD & Jonah Pitchford
What: Talking about JD's dumb ???crush??? on Ophelia and also eventually about whether or not Rosy is too good for Danny.
Link: Here.
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yes.
Anything else?: Cam and I are reaaaaally gonna try to finish this convo before the deadline but sadly our free time only overlapped by about 3 hrs over this whole plot.

Addy & Nia

[addytives]

Who: Addy Foster-Hayes and Nia Papadakis
What: Head Girl plans a future with Trash Child who somehow got into really cool schools
Link: here!
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Jenny said I could
Anything else?: In 1 year you'll all be getting unprompted Nia's Band Merch in the mail so this is just a warning rly

Jade & Ari

[novelling]

Who: Jade Otterwell, Ariadne Flint
What: Discussion of how best to murder Cameron and Riley to steal their roles in the musical.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/962673.html?view=66076017&posted=1#cmt66076017
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yes.
Anything else?: Hopefully this is unidentifiable as flirting?

CASEY & Victims

[sunsoutgunsout]

Who: *DEEP BREATH* Casey Patterson, Adeline Foster-Hayes, Antonia Papadakis, Cameron Carney, Casper Kim, Ennis Harper, Iliya Krum, January James, Phineas Bones, Riley Stamper, and Rosemary Stoker.
What: Casey solicits smooches from unsuspecting bystanders, plans next book club meeting.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/964057.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yes! (Via email & chat.)
Anything else?: I can update the "what" as replies come in if needed, but I wanted to type this up right now while I had a moment.

Kurt & Big Fish

[puphart]

Who: Senior Ribbonfins. (Kurt Wolfhart, Avery Davenport, Ursula de Luca, Gweneth Popplestone, Chloe Shepherd, Rosemary Stoker, Ferdinand Ayers, Ennis Harper, Yancey Montgomery, and Sandford Owsley.)
What: The Big Fish plan an exclusive sauna party and may end up inviting half the school.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/964184.html
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yes! (Via email.)
Anything else?: NOPE. I'll post a player event to the pcal when a time/date is decided.

Vee and Oz

[dumb_ass]

Who: Veronica Powers and Oscar Zabinsky
What: Discussing Oz's homelessness.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/959124.html?thread=65981076#cmt65981076
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yes
Anything else?:

Avery & Gwen

[un_kept]

Who: Gwen Popplestone & Avery Davenport
What: Trying to reconcile, again. Also, talking about Gwen's hiding out.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/960351.html?thread=65938527#cmt65938527
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yes
Anything else?:

Salem & Eve

[salem_wagonblast]

Who: Evangeline Bagman & Salem Wagonblast
What: Eve & Salem discuss Eve's death wish and why she doesn't want to go home.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/962060.html?thread=66007052#cmt66007052
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Yes
Anything else?:

Chickabros sans Noel

[bubblewrapped]

Who: Chickabros sans Noel
What: The boys once again discuss how best to broach the subject of This School Is Fuckin Dangerous to Noel, go on a Feelings Detour.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/960106.html?thread=65939562#cmt65939562
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: Y
Anything else?: my good upbeat traumatized sons

Rosy & Sy

[browbeats]

Who: Rosemary & Sylvester Stoker
What: Rosy and Sy talk about senior projects, their shitty parents, their futures, and generally insult each other.
Link: https://gooseberryhigh.dreamwidth.org/956349.html?thread=65737917#cmt65737917
Did you receive permission from all parties involved?: aye
Anything else?: I might update the description if they say anything juicy or hilarious stay tuned

OOC ✒️ QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[goosemods]

Re: OOC ✒️ QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION

[soundscaped]

Hey I'm glad you specified we can't reply to old wards, I've been thinking about that for literally days for some reason.

Is it okay if we continue go backtag failed wards if we're a part of the ward, or should we make sure we get all our drama out by the deadline?