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PLOT CALENDAR: May
BIG SPECIAL THANKS TO JENNY for writing a bunch of cute events while we were totally burnt out ♥♥♥
🎂 Happy birthday, Cassius Holcomb and Ginger O'Toole!
May Day! The highlight for many girls is the crowning of the May Queen.
Concordia Knight wakes up at dawn, and spots a tall antlered figure walking outside. Colorful wildflowers bloom in their wake, spreading over the soft green grass. When they approach the edge of the field, Anon transforms into an albino white moose, and disappears into the forest.
It seems as though London Holloway isn't the only victim of the locker vandal. Several freshman and Dinah Dixon find their lockers have been rooted through, with many belongings ruined or stolen.
While walking through campus, Jade Otterwell sees what appears to be Todd Skynner and Micah St. Clair making out against a tree. They correctly assume it's a pair of mimics, and throw a stunning hex at them. While their guess was correct, the mimics don't disappear this time. Instead, they shout several mean things about their attacker as they run off into the woods.
🎂 Happy birthday, Fern Mufferaw!
A freshman comes upon Balthazar Doyle making out with Ramon Delgado, and having heard about the mimics caught kissing behind a tree, decides to hex the couple. Unfortunately, they weren't actually mimics.
Looks like someone made a mistake at the owl post. Today at breakfast Rosemary Stoker receives two dozen copies of this month's Gryffin Beat, a double-sized "prom season" issue. Featuring a comprehensive two-page quiz that'll tell you which dreamy teen heartthrob should be your prom date!
Somehow, Paris Holloway managed to get every computer in the lab infected with Ransomware. Instead of their intended lesson plan for the day, Mr. Merrill teaches his muggle tech students how to do an oil change. Tech savvy Quentin Youngblood stays after class to help Mr. Merrill clean up all the infected computers and win 20 points for their house.
Riley Stamper gets a letter from home with some unexpected news: they're going to be a big sibling!
🔮 Drama Club's spring musical performs. Will everyone survive to the final curtain call?
🎂 Happy birthday, Casper Kim!
Rupert Wick was told by a freshman that they saw one of London Holloway's pens at the top of the stairs leading to the attic. Normally, students aren't allowed in there, but as he ascends, they see the door's open just a crack. Inside, they hear the sound of crunching and tearing, like someone ripping up notebooks and snapping pencils. Peering inside, he sees something that is in no way a fellow student. The large, hunched creature is ripping a notebook into shreds, surrounded by a pile of students' personal belongings. It's muttering to itself in a voice so hoarse it sounds like a bird. "So mean, no need to be mean. No need to sink like them. Children. My children."
Rupert starts to retreat, but a board creaks under his feet. The thing turns to face him, alarmingly fast. Under the layers and layers of tattered clothes there is a gaunt, sad face of someone dead so long that their features are scarcely human. There are tear tracks in the dust on its cheeks, and it moves with twitchy, broken gestures. "I'll not let them take another. I'll keep you. We'll go somewhere safe. I'm not going to let these ones have you. I can stop it this time." It's advancing, opening its robes as though it could envelop the terrified student.
"Expecto Patronus!" The dingy attic lights up with a warm, blue glow, and the ethereal patronus of Mr. Chettri appears between them. "They're my responsibility now, not yours." The hunched figure recoils, wails, and begins to melt into the floor until it's as though it was never there at all.
Rupert learns that this reclusive spirit is the unnamed ghost of a schoolteacher who led a search party to find the children that the younger brother abducted all those years ago. None of them ever returned. Something seems to have riled her up again, because ordinarily she's quite agreeable, if upsetting to look at.
🎂 Happy birthday, Jaime Castillo!
Grotto Party!
There will be games of Spin the Bottle and Seven Minutes in Heaven. If your character would like to participate, SIGN UP HERE.
There's a rumor going around that some serious mind blowing gossip is going to be dropped about Austin McNamara on the anon post tomorrow. No one's sure what it is exactly, but the freshmen seem convinced it'll ruin their life.
Sofia Delgado goes to watch the Quidditch players practice, but gets a bloody nose when they're hit square in the face by a stray Quaffle.
Freshmen in Charms just learned the Touch-Me-Not Hex - an enchantment that delivers an uncomfortable shock on contact. One of them decided to celebrate by charming random door knobs, chairs and lockers in the lodge with the spell. January James is unlucky enough to find every single charmed object.
Juniors in Charms are learning the Tongue Tying Charm and its counterspell. [Junior Charms Student N] is trying to practice after class when the spell backfires. They're left speaking gibberish for the rest of the afternoon!
🔮 An hour before curfew, Hazel Keating and Ariadne Flint happen to be on the trail that passes by the MACUSA camp at the same time. It's dark, and they can clearly see Agent Yaeger carrying a collapsed and unconscious Agent Monet back. (Yaeger and Monet are well-known to the students, as two Aurors who are often on security duty at the lodge's front doors.) The MACUSA camp seems to be in a bit of turmoil, and an older agent comes to shoo the students away.
The next morning at breakfast, an Auror representative explains to the students that there was a training accident the night before, but everything is fine. They decline to take questions before leaving. The tension between the MACUSA presence and the staff is palpable, as none of the teachers smile as the Auror exits the cafeteria.
Ophelia Noggins organizes the first annual Gooseberry Marathon! It runs around the trails of Gooseberry, and offers generous prizes to athletic winners. Mr. Thorn has decided that all Outdoor Education students have to participate. "I'm not asking you to win. Trying your best is all that matters."
The freshman who's the daughter of beauty icon Elodie Schön still thinks bribery is a great way to get popular. Over breakfast, owls deliver a dozen couture gowns, and she announces that she's holding a prom fashion show and wants to recruit models! Ennis Harper is the only upperclassman chosen, but they get an amazingly expensive gown out of it.
Senior Charms students are learning the Frictionless Charm today. There's no way these kids would use this for something sketchy, right? Wrong. Avery Davenport puts the new charm to work at their campsite, cordoning off a large rectangle and creating a temporary rink for frictionless hijinks outside the cabins.
🎂 Happy birthday, Phineas Bones!
Cassius Holcomb decides to study outside, but when they hear a hushed argument coming in their direction, they make the decision to quickly duck behind a tree. It's Director Grimshaw, as cool and pleasant as usual, but he doesn't sound happy. He's talking to Dr. O'Hare. "They don't want to talk to you," O'Hare explains to Grimshaw, sounding irritated. It sounds like they're arguing about the forest entities, but they move on before saying anything else of note.
🎂 Happy birthday, Estella Morales-Tran!
Heathcliff Lacey learns they failed a test, and goes to sit on a bench outside to cool off. They're happened upon by Agent Yaeger, the Auror from earlier in the month. He sits with them and tells them about how he struggled in school, too, but there's always time to turn things around. "You're still young." When gently pressed about what's going on, Yaeger surprisingly doesn't shut down the conversation like the other Aurors would've. He admits to being worried, especially after what happened to Agent Monet. "It's crazy that everyone keeps insisting the Moose Men aren't dangerous."
A freshman desperately tries to convince Liberty Chan that the Aurors have a Dementor with them. She even claims to have gathered evidence of it when she went back to confirm... but it turns out she just has a photo of Agent Strangeways, a 6'3" Auror with a love of dramatic hooded cloaks.
🎂 Happy birthday, Charlotte Meer!
Fern Mufferaw wakes up early one morning to a strange sound. Upon going outside, they find what they initially believe are a litter of kittens abandoned by their mother under the cabin walkway. When Mrs. O'Hare comes, she's quick to point out the error. Those aren't cats - they're kits! A skulk of baby foxes. She tasks the student with warning everyone to keep their distance for the rest of the day, in case the mother returns for her babies. In the morning, Mrs. O'Hare will arrange to move the kits (and rehabilitate, if their mother doesn't return).
Ms. Poe asked for volunteers to serve as art models all week as she lets students work with live subjects. At the end of the week, the freshmen have made a list ranking the models. Chloe Shepherd, Casey Patterson, Evangeline Bagman, Roxanne Barringer and Noel Finnigan-Thomas are unfortunate to make it on the very public poster.
Natalie Prince finds that the interior of the lodge has been plastered with shoddily copied photos of them that have been graffitied with devil horns, a mustache and a monocle. They're all labeled PROM FLOOZY. Unfortunately, the duplication charm was so sloppy that a lot of the photos bear a strange resemblance to Justin Timberlake and say GROOM LOOSELY.
Prom night! Everyone's been looking forward to this. Or, well, most everyone. It's known by now that the dance will be taking place off-campus. Details to come!
Clementine Decourt decides to host anti-prom at the school by throwing a Grotto party! (Please note: this plot event is a promise that you'll host an IC/OOC Grotto party, and that your character will not be attending prom. You can make it as simple or as complicated as you like.)
Salem Wagonblast catches a group of freshmen who were sneaking out to T.P. and egg the Prom Queen's cabin. In a failed attempt to escape, the little rascals throw several eggs at the prefect as they flee.
Eileen Coffin receives a lovely bouquet of wildflowers from a freshman, today. Unfortunately it somewhat prominently features poison ivy in the arrangement and they wind up with a nasty rash on their hands, arms and face that puts them in the infirmary for the afternoon.
🌕 STURGEON MOON
🔮 News spreads that a freshman's kitten has gone missing, and they're hysterical about it. [Petition Character] happens to spot the kitten ambling off the path in a far-flung corner of campus. They follow it into the forest, only to hear a crack and crunch as the ground gives out beneath them. They fall ten feet into an abandoned mine shaft, and break their ankle. The student calls for help and soon hears footsteps above them. It seems as though their savior is here... but the person staring down at them is a perfect copy of themselves.
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