DETAILS ON CABIN SEARCHES

[goosemods]

Cabin searches! All the Heads of House, plus Ms. Lilywhite and Mr. Covington, go to perform searches on cabins and lockers, looking for the stolen jewelry. But if they find contraband along the way, you'll have to face the consequences!

Luckily, Quinn Cunningham's plan was a success, allowing students across campus to hide their drugs and alcohol. What this means is that your character won't get in trouble unless you want them to. Staff is focused on finding the stolen jewelry, they're not interested in a witch hunt. As such, any minor offenses are likely to get off with a warning.

Locker searches will be done in the morning, during breakfast, with cabin searches happening immediately after. Cabin searches start with the freshmen cabins, and move up towards the senior cabins. Students will be asked to wait out by the fire pit while their cabin is being searched. Only male staff will search the boys' cabins, and only female staff will search the girls' cabins. Once they're finished, students will be allowed to return to their cabin. If contraband or something else troubling is found (i.e. something that makes staff concerned for the well-being of a student), they will be pulled aside privately to talk.

The search will be performed with Detection Spells, which will scan for contraband. There will be spells that will detect Dark artifacts, and can inspect areas in a X-ray-like fashion. They will automatically flag contraband items and concealment spells of any kind. If the spells get a hit on a forbidden item or any traces of spells meant to hide, deceive or disguise, the drawer/bed/box/etc. will be searched. If staff has an issue with something you own, e.g. a locked container with suspicious spells on it, they'll ask you to open it so they can inspect it. Long story short, your contraband must be out of the cabin to avoid being found.

As for who knew this was coming, yesterday...

Mr. Hightower told Ravinder Dhaliwal and Sun-mi Choi.

Mr. Merrill told Cecil Honeychurch, with the assumption he would inform Quinn Cunningham and Jesse McBride.

Ms. Rhee told Magdalen Gillis.

Ms. Vector told... nobody. You kids are accountable for yourselves.

The cabin searches are being done in the following order:

• Ribbonfin


• Azurcrest


• Coppertale


• Ebonhide

The following items are considered contraband and will get confiscated, and your character will likely be punished:

• Drugs


• Alcohol


• Medication you don't have a prescription for


• Fireworks


• Blades longer than 5"


• Weapons (brass knuckles, etc. You're not losing LARP weapons so long as they're made of foam and/or fiberglass.)


• Magical "bigger on the inside" tents


• Items with offensive messages/iconography (i.e. no hate speech; your weed memorabilia and t-shirt with a swear word on it are safe)


• ETA: Tobacco


• Anything else the staff find that they deem unsafe or a potential fire hazard. If you're not sure, just ask!

The following items are grounds for immediate suspension, pending probable expulsion. (They're screened for upon arriving at camp, and your character just straight up can't get them onto campus. We don't want these in the game setting.)

• Firearms


• Ammunition


• Explosives


• Hard drugs, like cocaine, methamphetamine, etc.

The rules on food:

• Non-perishable snacks kept in sealed containers are allowed


• If you are discovered to have a pantry full of food, staff will ask you to cut back


• No heating or cooling units, magical or otherwise, are allowed in cabins

You will not get in trouble for:

• Medicine with alcoholic content that does not require a prescription


• Salvia (it's legal in Utah! ... Calvin and Cole may not know this.)


• Medication you have a prescription for (obviously)


• Cookies, a few pieces of fruit, non-perishable food, etc. Although staff would prefer only non-perishables, as long as your snacks are properly sealed, you'll get off with a warning to eat it before it goes bad or mice find it.

Comments

[goosemods]

FYI, the reason Ribbonfin is being searched first is because Mr. Hightower volunteered his house to go first in order to buy time for Azurcrest to get their shit together. He's looking out for you miscreants. :|

[riledup]

Mr. Hightower you are too nice to these awful babies and they don't deserve you

[quinning]

aristotle, the true MVP of the cabin search.

& yes, katie informed me last night that cecil passed on the word to quinn and jesse! (hence her earlier-than-expected entry.)

if a prefect (i.e. quinn) got caught with a half pack of cigarettes, it would still be a wee talk?

[momblogger]

People Maggie would've passed the info down to:

Cecil (while under the false assumption Merrill didn't tell.)
Her cabin.
Ebonhide prefects.
Ulybear.
Tess & Raf.
Etta.

--

Maggie doesn't personally have any contraband, but she was still sweating over anything being found in the Ebonhide cabin. She didn't want to tip everyone off so that a possible jewel thief would know to hide the stash, so she told the Ebonhide prefects so they could choose who in their cabin to tip off.

Maggie has a magically locked jewelry box for her own jewelry and she went ahead and emptied it, left it open to show that it's empty, and laid the pieces neatly out on her desk for inspection.

[ulixes]

thank u maggie :') saving his bacon as per usual

ulysses luvs his boyz and does not want to see any of them get in trouble, esp since casper has had recent Struggles and Talks With Rhee, so he would have brought that info back to his cabin posthaste (altho casper may have beat him to it)

[sheepish]

Ennis has his grandpa's cookies in a properly sealed container in his desk drawer. All his other perishables are gone and there's nothing magically concealed or locked.

But ohhh, boy, does he look guilty. He's so worried those cookies are about to be found and thrown away.

[goosemods]

I'm having fascinating adventures reading up on the legality of salvia in Utah.

Suffice to say, a lot of people in Utah are not happy that salvia is so unrestricted.

[colemoss]

Sorry Cole is such a problem child~ ♥

[riledup]

I'm just imagining the senior ebonboys' hiding any contraband. Nate tosses a can of chew out the window. Takeru crams a half-eaten Hershey bar in his mouth.

That's all.

They still feel really tense as they stand outside their cabin, wondering if that Hershey bar wrapper is going to give them away.

[ninjaleo]

Leo gives a speech about how he's not losing his scholarship for your candy, Maeda.

[ulixes]

GOOD JOB W THE TEAM WORK, GUYS

— ulysses is fortuitously out of booze for the mo, but he does have a skosh of weed (thanks chris) that he slips into a contrabag. maybe like... some whippits? i feel like that would be his drug of choice (low-risk dissociatives? oh boy), but also maybe he's smarter than that, idk. anyway, he's cool as a cucumber about the search b/c he lowkey thinks he's invincible/above the law. his one (1) positive trait is loyalty to his cabin, and so he'll do anything he can to help out any ebonboys who need to hide their shit.

— cash, while a Good Boy, probably does have some misc. suspicious odds n ends that ought to go in the contrabag, along with his his coffee tin. his little pocket knife (perfectly within the rules, but just in case, yanno?) goes in too. he's quite stressed at the prospect getting caught, but also he gives a good poker face, so it's aight.

yeesh, this looks kinda bad when i type it out. send my kids to juvie, y'all.

[quinning]

"maybe like... some whippits?"

[gdilevi]

Levi's locker looks a lot like this, but instead of the random furby guarding it, there's the FurReal Friend Diego got him for Christmas. Levi forgot alllll about them checking lockers because he was so focused on getting contraband out of his cabin. There's no hardcore contraband in his locker, just crushed and half-eaten bags of Doritos rubberbanded closed and shoved in there for later and some smushed hohos. On the inside door of his locker are illustrations of male versions of famous female pin-ups, but they all have Stubby Boardman's face cut out and taped over them.

In his room, he left a few improperly stored snacks in his desk drawer (chip bags rubberbanded up again) and there's a half-empty pack of cigarettes, his vape, and the wizarding equivalent of Nicorette gum. There's also salvia planted in there, even though he doesn't really use it when there are alternatives. He's hoping the staff will be so shocked by what else is inside that second drawer that they'll leave his smokes alone. He's prepared for the sacrifice, though. He knows it's going to be extra suspicious if he's found with nothing and he considers this such a minor offense, he's willing to take the slap on the wrist.

[riledup]

Stubby Boardman would state that he's uncomfortable with his face being on these pinups

But he ran away to be a cat mayor in Alaska so he's ~*~blissfully unaware~*~

[addytives]

Addy luckily disposed of her last Emergency Vodka bottle shortly after being named prefect because she felt bad.
She won't have contraband. Upon searches today, though, she still has to rush to get the smell and evidence of a thousand smashed bottles out of the dorm before being kicked out herself. (Ty Riley ♥.) But she does manage this; coming from the other side of the law helps so much as a prefect sometimes.

[firstposition.insanejournal.com]

Rafael did not warn his cabin (despite advising that Casper should warn his own), because the thought of getting into another fight with Chris and Robin makes his stomach turn. He knows Ty's clean, and Dimi's too new to have accumulated a stash. BASES COVERED.

But really, he knows the rumor is out that there's a cabin search coming. Coppertale doesn't need him to hold their hands, and he can't have that attached to his reputation anyway.

Unsurprisingly, Rafael has no contraband!

[quinning]

just you wait, rafael

[sylla]

SO. Sylla's feathers aren't ruffled too much by the search, though one single cigarette is found in one of her desk drawers - her father's preferred brand, with the end just barely scorched but otherwise not used. If asked, she sighs and says she sometimes lights it for the scent when she feels homesick. (CIGARETTES ARE NOT INCENSE, SYLLA 💁)

HOWEVER. She's a Borgin, and her jewelry is mostly old family and things from the store, kept in a box that her mother hexed that only she can open. (It's probably a blood spell. Those Burkes are into blood magic, especially Sylla's mother. They're shady as hell.) The box may emanate some faint traces of dark magic, most likely from their provenance and protection spells and general Borgin & Burkes-ness, but otherwise are not dangerous.

[lfmkarapst.insanejournal.com]

Trixie already knew of this happening and last night drug a bag of things into the Artificing shed but leaving enough materials around her bed that it wouldn't look too suspicious. She figures the staff already knows of her creations and if there wasn't anything in her cabin, they would think something was up. This means there are circuits, batteries, wires, and other assorted things all of which are cleaned up and kept in a very safe storage system.

Trixie also has a very well made magical/electric smoothie maker (http://goosemods.insanejournal.com/4249.html?thread=186009#t186009) which has been set up as to not create any sparks after the first time and is very well made. Her inventions have come a long way since first made. She also has a small french press and bags of coffee sealed up in containers as Tess would have made sure most of her stuff was sealed up since the bear incident.

The only thing of worry would be her fruit as she does have a bunch of it in her cabin stolen from meals. It would also be contained as well as possible though she could get a stern talking to about it and be really concerned much like last time. I'm sure Tess and Trixie had many fruit salads over the last day.

[puphart]

kurt has a birding guide that his dad brought back from norway and you can't buy it in the states hopefully that doesn't make it illegal.

he checked with rosy and it's not illegal. PHEW.

but also that carrot he brought back from the cafeteria that's on his desk, he was going to give to lacey real soon, he promises. :(

i should have posted all mine in one comment, sorry. :( not that anyone needs to know these things.

[sunsoutgunsout]

casey's contraband is hidden safely in the contrabags (not that he had much of anything). the staff will find like 10 of those safe sex kits, one of the abstinence flyers, and a modest stack of porno mags. (featuring both men and women.)

[bambae]

Chris has zero contraband. Contraband before the SOB mission is mostly just pot (he realized at some point that he has too much pot to dispose of by smoking it all), pot paraphernalia, a small bottle of whiskey, cigarettes. He hides all that shit. Noncontaband shit is his materials for his senior project, which are borderline circuitry and artificing equipment neatly arranged on his desk. And for some reason, Chris also seems to have one half of a rock? (Tho Chris also has a hiding charm on a box of specific items in a drawer, such as that half of a rock, and any letter he's received from either of his parents, including the previous letter he received from his father. But he has no problem opening the box for the inspecting staff. He probably just completely forgot about it because none of that shit is illegal)

Olivia as a prefect has no contraband herself either. She doesn't even have to quickly hide anything, she literally has no contraband.

Solomon also owns not a single contraband, but he does hide the knife he received from Ferris in one of those contraband bags because he doesn't have a measuring tape and doesn't know how long that knife actually is?

Matteo hides the remaining of his pot that wasn't disposed of during the ribbonfin party and any pieces that go with the pot. That's it. That's all his contraband. He just wants everybody to be able to be zen and feel good, you guys.

[lfmkarapst.insanejournal.com]

Chris and Trixie are gonna be like

[riledup]

I GUESS IF WE'RE ALL DOING IT:

Nate has chewing tobacco, and that might actually be the worst thing in that cabin. Nathaniel, you’re a prefect. He didn’t use the contrabags because what, no one told him about that. He just shoved like three cans in his pockets and went, “Uh, well, I guess maybe now’s a good enough time to cut back??” (I’m assuming the students themselves are not being searched?)

Riley accidentally destroyed all of hers. She had a couple bottles of Captain Morgan and some weed. The Captain Morgan went crashing to the ground when she dropped the box, the weed got vanished along with it. Riley, predictably enough, threw a fucking tantrum.

Rosy has no contraband, are you kidding me. She doesn’t even have junk food. When Kurt asked her about his birding guide she thought that was fucking precious, then thought she was being condescending by finding that precious, then thought that’s because she's mean and doesn’t belong in this adorable fluffy fish house, then thought that means she needs to protect all of them oh my god, how are you going to survive in the real world?? Rosy had a rollercoaster morning y'all.

Robin I honestly don’t know. He has cigarettes that he would have shoved in his pockets or the bags, I have no clue if he actually has more than one or two knives and at least one of them is a smaller folding knife (he bluffs so much you guys, and yet even he doesn’t realize he’s bluffing, it’s a real problem). He eats apples with it. But he would have shoved the bigger one in a bag and then kept the other one on him. Those glitter traps probably should have been disabled, though. Did…did you think of that, Robin? (I really really don’t know. Since I haven’t mentioned them in a while, we can maybe say they were disabled after the last time one went off and everyone was like, “youngblood we are seriously sick of your shit are you fucking kidding me, I LOOK LIKE AN AZURCREST WITH THIS MUCH GLITTER ON ME.”)

Jeffy is an innocent little lamb are you kidding me.

[riledup]

I said some form of "are you kidding me" three times in this comment

r u kidding me alex

[duelled]

Ivy disposed of enough of her junk food that she had a reasonable, properly contained amount by the time cabin checks happened. Good teamwork, Ribbonfin.

Clementine had a large sum of betting cash & a betting ledger that she hid in a contrabag.

Todd, like Cash, has a bunch of weird, borderline illegal odds and ends that he doesn't precisely need, and that all gets bagged (i'm talking shit like foreign bootleg dvds of recent theatrical releases. why does he have this? where did he get it? who knows).

Reece and Ariadne do not have contraband. (Ari, like some of the other Sacred 28 family girls, has a suspiciously hexed jewellery box, but she's already turned that over for inspection.)

[uponawire]

Frank is an angel and has nothing. But her cat is now a drug mule, so she really doesn't have any room to talk. You hush up, Frances. Your morality is firmly in the gray.

Bash ... also has nothing in the way of contraband. Though he has some minor palpitations over the general existence of his Adderall. Despite it being very clearly labeled and definitely medically prescribed. (He just gets nervous, okay? It happens.)

Roxie just very calmly hands over three throwing knives. They're dulled and charmed not to hit live targets - but she isn't going to measure them and she can always get new (shorter) ones the next time she goes home.

[destructobot.insanejournal.com]

Laurel usually leeches shit off of other people, so she doesn't have a lot to hide except for a fifth of vodka that she always forgets she has (usually hidden in the piles and piles of costuming stuff around her bed). Thankfully all this SOB business has reminded her! ... It's that and a lot of food.

Z has a thermos with whiskey in it + some cigarettes, a pipe & weed (she keeps the latter three in a disguised book with heavy security charmwork applied). Hooo.

Wilde has depleted the majority of his stash of anything except for the fabled Emergency Flask. ;-;

[duelled]

the twins and their food stash are my fave

[gonnabefamous]

Tess has some good ass, fancy Mexican vanilla extract that may show up on scans because it does have alcohol in it, of course, but it would be a small bottle. She's probably checked that she's allowed to have it. She's just not leaving it in the magical rudiments classroom where just anyone can use it. That shit is expensive.

Chloe disposed of all of her open food, but she still has a downright preposterous amount of snack foods. Someone is probably going to lecture her about healthy eating.

Cameron disposed of his contraband by drinking it yesterday, and is therefore hungover today. He does have like maybe an open bag of candy in a random drawer he forgot about, but he doesn't notice if it's thrown out.

Fern has an empty steel flask in her top drawer. She also has a porn magazine and a whole row of condoms laid out on her desk in plain view.