goose_ooc | ANNOUNCEMENTS: Jul 7

Hello everyone! Here's details on how to handle the remaining three weeks of game:

On the evening of Sat, Jun 23, the world gets back into contact with the remaining evacuees of Gooseberry High. MACUSA immediately seizes control of the school for further investigation. This includes shutting down the magical journal system for two weeks.

A funeral is held for Zebulon Merrill in Salt Lake City, UT, on Sat, Jun 30. He is remembered by his wife and two adult children, and will be interred in Brigham City Cemetery. All current and former students of Gooseberry are invited to attend, and several of Mr. Merrill's colleagues deliver speeches. (We won't be posting anything for this, but you can reference this event happening.)

On Sun, Jul 8, access to the magical journal system is restored. Everyone who was a student from 2014–15 (i.e. not last year's graduates) can write posts and comments again. Anything that was written before July 8 (e.g. endgame posts) is still visible but can't be responded to anymore.

The return of the magical journal system coincides with the announcement that Gooseberry Alternative High School is shut down until further notice. All freshmen, sophomores and juniors (including exchange students) are all automatically given admission to Ilvermorny, should they wish to continue at an American boarding school. If they choose to continue their studies elsewhere, their academic records will be sent to the new school. Everyone will have received this news by owl post on July 8.

Gooseberry's magical journal system will officially deactivate forever on Wed, Aug 1.

What does this mean for you?

Starting tomorrow, you can post journal entries/comments, IC/OOCs, letters, etc. like normal. It's summer vacation! PLOT HERE about your characters' activities for the past two weeks.

Although graduates can't post on the journals, they are allowed to show up in any summer IC/OOCs or to send mail to current characters.

Your mods are off-duty except for two posts we'll do sometime soon: the "Where Are They Now?" meme (for discussion of your characters' futures) and the 10 Year Reunion IC/OOC. All former students of Gooseberry will be invited to the reunion, regardless of when they attended.

Tue, Jul 31 will be the last day of the game. You will still be able to backtag for as long as you want, but no new posts will be allowed in either the IC or OOC comms as of Aug 1. Everything will stand as a record of the incredible love and work we've all put into this game for the past two years.

♥ Meggie & Marin

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i'm so glad austin is officially a trash junior

Casper will feel bad when he realizes how much they care. But it is mostly a practical 'well, it's easier for you to visit me in the hospital and share insurance with me, so' sort of arrangement to him.

There's no Artificing and Essie can already turn into a tiny rodent, so she's definitely just going to spend the year getting in trouble for talking to friends and chasing the latest murder forest mystery.

Edited (and maybe play some quodpot because she misses regular explosions) 2018-07-09 22:22 (UTC)

ulysses bribes the entire postal system

Edited (im jk but not that k) 2018-07-09 22:22 (UTC)

Fjksbsjsn please don't cry guys that's so embarrassing

It's just for practical reasons Ravi!!! He doesn't want to waste your time!!

Bully them into a reception after the fact

And they did it on a whim guys, c'mon. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ NO BIG. They'll have been together for a long time at that point.

hey i'm very much a casper on this issue and god forbid i ever get hitched this is 1000% how and why i'd be doing it BUT

ulysses will absolutely go ape at hearing "it was easier for him to visit me in the hospital" as an explanation lmfaooo 1) THAT'S NOT A GOOD ENOUGH REASON, 2) WHAT DO YOU MEAN IN THE HOSPITAL CASPER GET A NEW AND BETTER JOB

(Warm Regards,
Ulysses Quayle)

All the Gooseberry kids are like "Jinkies I bet something spooky's going on here" and they wind up pissing off some ancient evil locked beneath the center of the school and all the regular Ilvermorny kids are just like "jesus fuck."

And that's how the Gooseberry class of 2016 gets branded as a colonial organism/dangerous cryptid and sequestered by the government.

Sounds like a legit Y3 plot to me.

iliya agrees with casper but will side with ulysses and also probably cameron when they start blowing up the group chat with scandalized all caps texts about ""not being invited to"" casper's ""wedding""

HEY ME TOO. We are unromantic garbage.

But omg Ulysses. :'))) ♥ SORRY BUDDY. Casper is pragmatic and he will not quit his very dangerous job. He'll be fiiiiiiiiine.

i hope "write a y3 log that involves some lovecraftian horror being unleashed upon a poor unsuspecting public school" is included on the rp bingo card

It was a financially sound decision at the time and they had the day free.

This is a perfect use of quotes and Iliya's a traitor. :')

thank you iliya please buy a fancy fork

look according to the canonical dumpster fire that is Hogwarts Mystery, apparently Hogwarts has been concealing cursed vaults for hundreds of years that will kill anyone who tries to open them so

this scenario is really not impossible and if ANYONE's going to break this case open it's our bad dumb children

Casper cancelled a meeting with his superiors for this, Asher. Is that not romance?

he doesn't have that kind of money???? not all of us came from a family that founded one of the most important wizarding cities in america, quayle

The most romantic!!!!

At least they'll have rings

it's like 200 dragots max iliya SHEESH are you living in a poorhouse

Edited (you don't have to buy the set of 14 forks you can just buy one if youre a poor) 2018-07-09 22:36 (UTC)

i'd also rather die than own heirloom quality anything so maybe this particular curse says more about me than anything else

YOU KNOW WHAT CASPER he was going to insist that you be part of his side of the wedding party for the carney-krum nuptials so you could just wear plain black instead of whatever glitter/sequin outfit cameron's going to custom tailor

but nvm

Mostly if she'd drag her butt to ilvermorny or not

But fox school is very tempting

..... :| Don't do this to him, Krum. He'll have to stand by Riley and Casey and he can't.

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