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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Ariadne has been staying with Bash and/or Lucas. She's spent most of her time writing a rather long piece for the Daily Prophet about the incident that's running on Monday. It's her first official by-line. It's beautifully written and strangely wistful, but a little detached and impersonal.

Reece has been in Mexico with his family, but left his phone number with anyone who wanted it. He's not hard to reach and will answer the phone at any time of day.

Clem is getting situated in her new apartment in the magic enclave that's home to the Klamath Krakens. She had a housewarming party for her close friends on the 4th of July.

Todd has been at home in Nevada. His parents badly want him to attend the local day school for his senior year, but he's decided that he wants to be an auror and wants to go somewhere more academically prestigious, and they've been arguing about that pretty intensely for the last couple weeks.

JD didn't leave Logan after it was clear that the rest of the buses hadn't made it, and would've been around when the school was evacuated. Eventually, she went home, where she's been quietly out of contact with everyone but Ophelia for the last couple weeks.

Tally took a brief trip to France on a "health retreat" to check in with her team of specialty healers and relax on the beach, but is back stateside now.

Ivy was a barnacle on the other Dead Senior Ribbonfins while the incident was going down, and has been checking up on all her friends since. Faye heard about this on the news and was basically like "shit lmao dodged that bullet" and then went back to the beach. She did somehow know to send Sofia an engagement present? Gossip hits Hawaii fast these days.

Asher'll send Ari a nice note about her article~

asher is a good boy and ari is sorry that his namesake paper got shut down after 1 year

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