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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

1. Dimi got whatever the wizard equivalent of a red eye flight was to Logan, Utah and is selfishly insisting that Calvin stay with him and not go back home. Mum and Dad it's fine there's plenty more room at his place than at home.
2. Asher is moving out of the Guthrie-Lewis Abode and Zav...maybe...will be asking Reid to move in together?
3. Nisha's going to have a small meltdown over whether she and Archie are going to go to the same school once they find out Gooseberry's closing. She's going to be in his hair all summer, somehow. :C

1. Calvin is going to spend the whole summer with Dimi at this rate.
2. Omgggggg Reid would love to move in with Zav :c He has to apparate away for practice with the Kill Devils every morning but coming home to Zav is the best part of his day
3. Nisha will be promised Archie will be going to Ilvermorny, and he's been writing her long, rambling letters every day

love that reid and sy were fully just like "fuck living in jersey"

no one wants to live in jersey. it's the law

i absolutely planned for sy to live in jersey but then endgame made the stokers EVEN MORE CODEPENDENT not less

somehow, i should have expected this, and yet

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