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Gooseberry Mods (goosemods) wrote in gooseberry,
@ 2017-01-10 07:59:00

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! ic/ooc, gabriela flores, irene lovelace, philippa nightingale, ravinder dhaliwal

BILLYWIG INFESTATION

Zoey Valentine is going through the Potions storage room, looking for some spare cauldrons. As she searches, she accidentally disturbs a large nest of billywigs! Zoey is stung immediately, and the strange insects scatter through the school.

Although Mrs. O’Hare has a handle on the situation within hours, a lot of students get stung. It's certainly not the most chaos that Gooseberry has ever seen, but it's enough to stir things up again. Even some of the staff members get stung, namely Ms. Lilywhite and Mr. Chettri. Headmistress Bloom herself acts as a substitute for their classes. (Please note the following staff cannot be chosen: Healer Mufferaw, Mr. Covington, Mrs. Bloom, Mrs. O'Hare, Ms. Petrichor.)

Mufferaw is refusing to excuse anyone from class, because there's nothing life threatening about a Billywig sting. He handles the giddy victims with gruff amusement, but his only order is that students who are stung need to stay near the lodge until the high wears off for safety reasons. "I don't want some high as a kite Azurcrest breaking their neck on that hill."

THE RULES

If your character is stung by a Billywig, they'll experience giddiness, euphoria, and relaxation. The feeling will be similar to laughing gas.

However, it won't impair their judgement to the point where you need to worry about your character doing anything that they would regret.

Victims of Billywig stings also float—but for the sake of RP we're saying this symptom is optional or intermittent, in case you forget or want to have a character sit, fall over or lie down.

It'll last about three hours, and your character can be stung any time during the late morning/afternoon of January 10th. The Billywigs are only located in the lodge.

Mufferaw has ordered that students who were stung must remain in the lodge or in its immediate area until the high wears off. If you call it another quarantine, he's rolling his eyes at you and telling you to get out of his infirmary.

Classes are not cancelled, but some teachers clearly wish they were. Stop laughing and focus!

Getting stung is optional.

» Atrium: It's louder than usual from all the laughter.

» Library: Ms. Petrichor isn't allowing anyone who's been stung into her library. THIS IS A SAFE SPACE.

» Classrooms: Yes, you still have to go to class. No, it's not going to be a very productive lesson. There is a chance that you could get a teacher response if you describe your character's behavior in class today.

» Outside: After the recent blizzard, there are mounds and mounds of soft, fresh snow for students to play in. Mr. Covington hovers around the clearing just outside the lodge to make sure no one with impaired judgement gets hurt.

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

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Levi Kramer, the Billywig Sting Supplier (Open to Multiple)

idfk
2017-01-10 05:10 pm UTC (link)

When Levi steps out of music class, he notices something is amiss. All it takes is the overheard mention of a "Billywig" for Levi to recognize what's going on. He spots something blue and buzzing from the corner of his eye, and he flicks his wand with a skillfully executed, "Stupefy!" that hits the insect with pinpoint precision and it falls from the air. Levi steps toward it and instead of crushing it beneath his shoe, he picks it up and holds its body firmly between his fingers, stinger out.

Because Levi very rarely uses his talents for good when mischief is an option.

Knowing full well what happens next, he pricks the tip of his finger against the stinger. Free high, heyyy. He bets some of his classmates would be up for a little sting, too.

((Note: he won't be stinging people against their will, but he's there to provide stings for the people who ask for them.))

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	but how many people can a billywig sting before it runs out of venom? orangepip 2017-01-10 05:18 pm UTC (link)
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Levi Kramer, Bad Influence on Naïve Sophomores?

magicnumber
2017-01-10 06:12 pm UTC (link)

Jeffy has not been stung today. Yet. So far. He doesn’t know how (it’s not like he’s trying very hard to avoid them, he keeps getting caught off guard by one of his friends yelping and then suddenly floating), but he is firmly on the ground, definitely maintaining a normal (…relatively) level of happiness and energy, and 100% capable of sitting through an entire class without breaking into hysteric gigglefits.

But he’s also totally curious about this whole billywig sting thing. Because, like, it seems fun, and harmless, and PEOPLE ARE FLOATING, and like all of the prefects have been stung. So they’re not gonna be disappointed with him. The teachers might. But. The prefects have all been taken down. The role models. Who else is he supposed to emulate?

Oh, how about someone who is definitely not a prefect. How about Levi? “DUDE,” he yells when he sees his super cool fellow Chaser walking his pet billywig down the hall, “what is that?? Is that a billywig??? HOW DID YOU CATCH ONE?”

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Levi Kramer, Bad Influence on Everyone.

idfk
2017-01-10 10:27 pm UTC (link)

Levi stops in his tracks, turning to grin broadly at Jeffy. "YEAH!! HIS NAME IS BILLY!!" he announces, screaming it down the hall at him. He float-skips to meet him, tugging Billy along by his leash. Billy's given up his hope for freedom, but he hasn't lost his will to live yet. It's still early in the day. "What you gotta do-- okay, listen close cause it's a secret-- what you gotta do is stupefy one and then get some string or whatever to tie around it while it's still knocked out. And then it wakes up and it's your dog!!"

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	Levi Kramer, Bad Influence on Everyone. magicnumber 2017-01-10 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	"Dude, you're a GENIUS!!" Jeffy says in his best emulation of an inside voice. It's not great. "And it doesn't STING YOU?? How???" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Levi Kramer, Bad Influence on Everyone. idfk 2017-01-10 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, he stings me," he cheerfully responds, plucking the billywig from the air and pressing his thumb to the base of the stinger to hold it still as the insect writhes in the palm of his hand. "Because I want him to." Levi laughs, extending his hand toward Jeffy to show him the stinger. "This right here is the key to one of the best feelings in the world." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Levi Kramer, Bad Influence on Everyone.

magicnumber
2017-01-11 02:09 am UTC (link)

Okay, hold up, hang on a second, that sounded awesome. That also sounded like a drug dealer from an after school special.

But, then again, the prefects had fallen.

"For real? Like, for actual real or for exaggerating for effect real???" And then a pause, as the after school special-watching side of him briefly battled with the insatiably curious side. Like, really briefly. "Can I try??"

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Levi Kramer, Bad Influence on Everyone.

idfk
2017-01-11 02:20 am UTC (link)

Levi is absolutely the drug dealer from an after school special. Except cleaner looking. Do drug dealers wear cute, properly fitted school uniforms? Do they wear their cloaks in the wintertime and make fun swooshing noises? They sure don't.

Levi can clearly be trusted.

"Yeah, here. Prick your finger, see for yourself if you wanna. Mufferaw says it's nothing to worry about." At least, that's what he's heard. Those words are clearly twisted and didn't come from Mufferaw's mouth, but he's willing to accept them at face value if it benefits him. He laughs. "I mean, there's still classes going on."

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Levi Kramer, Bad Influence on Everyone.

magicnumber
2017-01-12 04:42 pm UTC (link)

For the record I wrote this earlier and managed to delete the whole thing so you had to wait until I stopped angrily breaking things to get this.

There should be more after school specials with well-dressed and charismatic drug dealers. Maybe then Jeffy would know the right thing to say right now. Maybe then Jeffy's eyes wouldn't be so big they look like they got swapped with a horse's.

But there's not, so instead Jeffy slowly raises his finger to poor, doomed Billy's stinger and pricks the pad of his middle finger. And the only immediately apparent result is that he is now floating like eight inches off the ground. Because it's not like Jeffy ever stops grinning or laughing, or ever even starts worrying.

"DUDE. Why don't we have basketball courts here???" Jeffy says in an even worse approximation of appropriate volume levels. "I COULD DUNK SO HARD RIGHT NOW."

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	Billy is no longer available for stings after 3PM thanks to SOME ASSHOLE named CHRIS idfk 2017-01-10 07:20 pm UTC (link)
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	lmfao BILLY WANTED IT doyouevenlift 2017-01-10 07:26 pm UTC (link)
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Re: Levi Kramer, the Billywig Sting Supplier (Open to Multiple)

reehobbs
2017-01-10 08:32 pm UTC (link)

Ree should not be doing this. She should not. She is a prefect.

But hey, billywig stings are not actually against the rules. And she's curious. And everyone else is having fun, and no one is actually getting hurt, Mufferaw says they'll all be fine, and this is no worse than smoking before Grotto parties or whatever. So.

"Hey, Levi," she says, sidling on up when she pots him. It's really subtle, a five-foot-eight multicoloured-haired girl sidling up to a six-three troublemaking senior, but hey. There's a LOT going on today. "Having fun?"

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	idfk 2017-01-10 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	"A blast," he answers, serenely floating in place. In his hand, he holds a leash attached to his billywig, who seems fairly non-aggressive after the venom's been taken from him several times. "Wanna try it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	reehobbs 2017-01-10 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	"I dunno," Ree admits thoughtfully, looking up at Levi. "Seems like a cheat. Like, I ought to come by it honestly. Prefect. But then again..." she shrugs. "You're looking more zen than usual." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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