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

[ulixes]

meanwhile, ms vector, a MONSTER

[sheepish]

mr. hightower is the dad who pretends to be asleep when you sneak home at an unreasonable hour

[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?

[sheepish]

yeah i was about to ask if cigarettes would be considered contraband if the student is 18, or if they fall under "drugs"

salvia doesn't get them in trouble, but would cigarettes?

[quinning]

awww yeah bitchez i forgot she's 18~

[ulixes]

her talk is actually just healer mufferaw being like "50% of bladder cancer is caused by smoking cunningham"

[quinning]

or just mentioning the possibilities without stats or context bc he knows she's an overachiever.

"lung cancer. bladder cancer. emphysema."

[ulixes]

lmfaoo such an overachiever that she gets all the pathologies

god id just die of shame if i got scolded by a teach like that im sorry quinn i hope you get off scot free

[sheepish]

i just wonder if it's a "smoke-free campus" like muggle schools or if they're more lax because they're wizards and there's way worse shit to breathe in than cigarette smoke

[sheepish]

I MEAN, it's no secret to staff that levi smokes since he's gone to class with that cigarette smell in his clothes. he's almost completely swapped to vaping because he's trying to quit as his new years resolution, but he'd leave both his remaining cigarettes and his vape kit in his drawer if he knows he won't get in too much trouble for it.

[riledup]

And Nate has chew (HE'S SORRY MAGGIE AND CRICKET, HE'S NOT GOING TO STOP UNTIL AT LEAST AFTER GRADUATION).

Is Rhee going to be so disappointed in him even if it's not illegal.

[sheepish]

maggie's just like, "but your pretty teeth, nate. :("

[riledup]

"BUT MY FRAGILE SANITY, MAGGIE"

[goosemods]

Smoking is strongly discouraged, but it's considered a lesser offense and cigarettes will just be confiscated today. Gooseberry's a boarding school, though, so... yeah the teachers don't want you smoking. But if you're over 18, you can legally smoke, so the highest consequences are a slap on the wrist, losing your supplies, and a lecture about ~*health*~ and ~*do you need help quitting*~. Prefects caught with tobacco will get a bonus ~*you need to set an example*~ talk.

[quinning]

those bring me back. i demand to henceforth only be referred to as ~*kas*~

in that case, quinn's leaving half a pack of cigarettes in her desk. they're decoy smokes in case there's a snitch in the cunningplan ward because OBVIOUSLY she'd have put her cigarettes in whatever supposed bags she supposedly made, DUH???

[gdilevi]

yeah, levi's leaving cigarettes in his drawer as a decoy too. it's gonna look really fucking suspicious if he has nothing and he knows that

[quinning]

aleena posted this in quinn's dropbox last night. applies here.

quinn & levi at breakfast like

[gdilevi]

and he could've given quinn a pack of his smokes (they're the cheapest brand available) so she didn't have to sacrifice her good ones

[quinning]

omg ty sweet levi but she also smokes shit because she is similarly skint :(