Gooseberry High

[Warded to Ebonhide; excluding prefects outside of Casper; Sorry :( ]

Tomorrow, I have a mission to do during lunch while the rest of the school is distracted. If anybody wants to go on an adventure with me. It'll be worth it, I promise. I mean, worth it in a secret kind of nobody will know it was you kind of way. Volunteers?

( SOPHOMORE MONTHLY BONDING ACTIVITY )

( Warded to Cecil and Jesse. Who isn't in play. So I want to make up a different OOC reason every day for why he can't be reached. Today's reason: He's in the Himalayas trying to Find Himself. )

I would like to lodge a formal complaint that I'll have Herbology first thing in the morning after Hallowe'en. Maybe I should dress as a giant plant and sleep in the greenhouses so that I'm actually awake for classes. Are there any good giant plant costumes that I could still dance in? The only idea I have is Audrey II from The Little Shop of Horrors, but I'd never be able to move in that.

Um.

I-- Should I tell Mr. Hi

Did someone drop some seeds or something at the campfire party? And then come by here late at night to make something grow overnight?

[Ribbonfin Junior Girls]

Did any of you hear anything out of the ordinary outside our cabin last night? Or have a secret admirer you haven't told me about?

Seven days after the anonymous post, Rosemary Stoker wakes up in Ribbonfin to see a large flower has bloomed in her cabin window. It has round orange petals and almost reminds her of a face peeking in to check on her; although oddly, there's a sense of comfort every time she sees it, like a reminder that she is not, and will never be, alone.

Across the school grounds, in Coppertale, Sylvester Stoker sees an identical flower in his window, and feels the same strangely reassuring sense of not being alone.

If anyone goes to investigate, they'll find that a plant has poked through a crack in the wraparound balcony, and climbed up the outside wall of the cabin to the Stoker twin's window. Other orange flowers have bloomed on the plant, but the biggest is still the one facing into their window. If they have some Herbology expertise, it's obvious that magic was used to get the plant to grow this way overnight, but there's no indication of who might've done it, or why...

[Warded to Tess]

We need to discuss what we want for Coppertale regarding house parties. Magdalen and Cecil have given senior prefects the authority to decide what's best for our house.

So. If Ribbonfin and Ebonhide are going to disallow all drugs and alcohol at parties outside the Grotto, we should too.

We need consistency and camaraderie. The prefects need to have a unified front. It will be better if as many of us as possible support this decision. It will be unpopular, so we can't waver. We need to be seen as a strong, cooperative team. No weak links amongst the seniors. The younger prefects will soon realize it's not so bad, their friends will forgive them, and they can blame us for being hardasses. I don't know what Azurcrest will do, but the other three houses should be together on this... Especially if Azurcrest decides to enforce more rules. They will need our help, they will need to see no one is bending.

Coppertale's biggest problems are not drinking and smoking anyway. It's fighting. Going too hard. That mixes badly with alcohol. If it happens in the Grotto, we deal with it, but it should not happen where we live.

Magdalen asked me to make the announcement of the policy change when everyone has finished talking.

[Warded to Senior Prefects + Maggie and Cecil]

I will be making an announcement of the new expectations at camp parties as soon as we're done talking to one another.

My understanding so far is that Ebonhide and Ribbonfin are going to allow no use of alcohol and drugs at campsite parties. Azurcrest and Coppertale are still discussing. Are there any other nuances I should be aware of?

So my mom taught me how to cook at least well enough that I wouldn't burn every damn thing I put in an oven or on a stove. When you are cooking it doesn't matter so much that you are a half teaspoon off of salt or some other spice. If you don't put enough flour in a cake, if you are off a tiny bit, it still is edible.

So why the fuck is it so difficult in potions? What does it matter if I'm a centimeter off on my cutting or I stir once instead of twice? Come on cauldron, get this shit together and stop trying to make me look like an idiot. This is a class I can pass but this shit is way too picky.

Who: Will Chase, Not Calvin Evercreech and OPEN
What: Will spots something weird.
When: October 6th, 2013
Status/Rating: Open/Incomplete

( Will had been the last one out of the library that day, absentmindedly staring out of the window as he packed his things back into his bag. )

So, you know what was super weird? I was in the lodge, looking out of the window, like you do, and I see somebody sitting on the docks. That's not the weird bit. Because you see, he's there curled up and absolutely sobbing his damn eyes out, practically hardly moving at all.

Because I'm not an ass, I go grab my stuff and RUN down there. And I literally mean running because holy cow, seriously, this kid looked so distraught I thought he was on the verge of hurting himself. And when I get down to the docks, not only has he COMPLETELY VANISHED but I ran into a group of bb Ribbonfins (I recognised the person, by the way, did I not mention that? Ribbonfin!) and they said they hadn't seen him all day.

I AM SO CONFUSED.

Evercreech

Yeah dude, it's you I'm talking about. You don't have a secret not-evil twin, do you? Or do you have something you need to talk about?

Good luck this weekend, Ribbonfin! I'm sure the whole house will come out to support our Quidditch and Cheer teams as they face off against Azurcrest. Now, I don't know much about broom-flying or human pyramids, but I do know about cheering on the best team in the school, which is why I will be out there in green and copper, passionately... making sure no one causes trouble in the stands.

Sorry, I have to leave the yelling and chanting "Ribbonfin!!!" to people with louder voices. ;)

( Ribbonfin Prefects )

( Cecil Honeychurch )