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mini event –

hi all. just a heads up that this is totally optional and it’s more like a fun game/thread prompt than “event.” essentially, i’m nostalgic for gilmore girls, so have this bullshit. i’ll twist something creepy into the plot as a result of this:

annually, as a private university, ashcroft does it’s picnic basket fundraiser. certain students that sign up submit picnic basket lunches anonymously and other students bid on the baskets without knowing who they’re bidding for. this year, the fundraiser will go to benefit the remodeling of the infamous east wing. thank you all for your participation and community spirit – we’re really excited to kick off our twenty-fifth annual picnic day.

how will this work?

if you’re interested in participating, please like this post by saturday, july 27, 8pm est. if you have multiple characters but would only like to participate with one of them, please clarify that ASAP otherwise i’ll assume that you want to participate with all of your characters.

on saturday night, i’ll divide the people participating with a random generator, and half of the characters will be “bidders” and half will have baskets. if you have multiple characters, i’ll try to make sure you can have one in each category, math permitting. 

people with baskets will be notified and required to submit a description of their basket by sunday, july 29, at 5pm est. 

following that, the baskets will be posted and “bidding” will begin, i.e. the bidders will send me their top 2-3 baskets (number fluctuating depending on how many people participate). 

on either tuesday or wednesday, depending how quickly people get back to me, i’ll post who got whose basket and you’ll do a picnic day para with that person. 

this three-ish months have been so fucking awesome for me ? odette has been one of my favorite characters to play and i’ve gotten to explore themes that i’ve never gotten the chance to before. i’m such a big fan of the dark academia genre so creating this, i was really just creating my dream rp and i’m so happy that i got to be in it with all of you. every single one of you plotted with me and encouraged all my crazy and elaborate plot ideas and i am so...happy for that and a better writer and plotter bc of it. a lot of you have thanked me for this group, but it’s really YOU who made it a home and an inspiring place with all of your thoughtful ideas. always after running a group for a while, i start to feel weird about bringing in new members because it can be hard to adjust, but i’ve always felt great about promoting this group in particular because you’re all such a welcoming, wonderful group of people and literally anyone is lucky to get to write with you. you made me excited to wake up, to check the dash, and read all of your threads. 

this goes for people in the group now and anyone who’s been in the group prior. i am so thankful and lucky to have anyone who dedicated their time and awesome ideas to mine and we really created some cool shit together. this is the reason i love rp and why i keep coming back to it – and why i’ll probably come back someday when i feel ready. i just don’t see myself being able to write anything else right now, so it’ll probably be a hot minute.

i do feel bad about leaving you hanging on the plot, i know some of you would hate me forever if i didn’t give u the lowdown, so i’ll give u the tl;dr of things i had planned for the future.

essentially, the murder was carried out by another society, a group of students called the infermi society, existing to rebel against imperium and take it down? anti-establishment. lydia had involvement and so did melissa.

however, that was being controlled by warren, which i wasn’t going to reveal for a while longer and prob after another murder 

warren’s family history had ties to the original murders, where lies his motive

if the rp went on longer than that reveal, i was gonna have to improvise eventually but i’m sure u all would have helped me lol

honestly the lydia thing was never in my original plan but things were going so well here i realized i had to figure out a way to extend the plot and add more plot drops in and lowkey i regretted it bc she was boring imo, i’m so sorry

obviously i was going to build that up and drop it a little more subtly...or you can pretend i was going to do that? anyways. this really hurts me to do and to leave all of you, i feel really sad about it, but i know i’m doing the right thing for myself in the long run. THAT BEING SAID, i’m not going to stop you if you want to keep rping. these are your characters and as far as i’m concerned, this plot belongs to you too. do whatever you want with it and i really hope you will stay in touch with one another and continue your plotlines if you have the muse. you have my permission, although you don’t need it. i personally won’t be posting, but do whatever u want. i love u.

Dear students,

As you may imagine, I’ve been in close contact with the Cromwell family over the past few weeks. We’ve found it to be quite fitting to re-do the East Wing and create a memorial for Quentin on our campus. I think most of you will understand why that’s necessary, and the memorial seems a fitting tribute to a student who touched the lives of so many of you. Quentin is still greatly missed, perhaps even more so as time passes. 

There will be several fundraising efforts throughout the next few weeks – the Cromwell family is contributing to the project, but it will require your contributions as well. As a result, our regular summer semester dance will be a ticketed event. Student council has decided that this year’s theme is masquerade, so suit up (or mask up) and come out to support the cause, I suppose. 

I know that this has been a difficult and confusing time, and I appreciate all of you for sticking to your studies and reminding me why Ashcroft is such a wonderful school full of the most driven people I have ever come across. Unfortunately, I do not have any updates as to the whereabouts of Lydia Tran, but please contact the authorities if you know or hear anything at all. 

Best, Warren Ashcroft. 

things wind down around 2 a.m. masks are taken off and the last of the guests file out of the great hall and retire to their beds. people leave stumbling drunk or beyond tired, with friends, roommates, lovers, or alone. it’s peaceful, for the most part, a quiet night not at all representative of the events of the party, and it seems that things have gone well without a hitch. the cromwell parents will take the next train out in the morning.

it’s 5 a.m. when the janitorial staff rolls in, cleaning up trash and spilled drinks, and even the occasional bloodstain off the floor from a fight that broke out during the night. they’ve been briefed one what happened and no one finds the blood suspicious, even when maybe they should. so, they clean it up. they find nothing too unusual until they get to cleaning one of the caterer’s tables – that’s where they find it. the knife. 

beside it is a message in red. the words: don’t look for answers that you don’t want to find. 

first, there’s a quick survey of campus, a census to make sure no one is missing and everyone made it back to their dormitories safely. for the most part, this is true. students file out into the hallways and everything is fine. the most damage that’s done is now everyone knows who went home with who. gossip spreads like wildfire, but it’s about more than hookups – it’s about what’s happened and whether anyone is safe at all. 

quentin cromwell lost his life in a way that was planned and methodical. a killer that seemed to come out of the woodwork, unexpected – perhaps the clues lay in history, in a series of deaths from long ago. but lydia? her disappearance was almost expected, everyone had their guard up for another attack. police patrolled the campus at the time and it seemed simply strange, that a girl could disappear under the noses of everyone’s watchful eyes. what was even more strange was that although no one said it, no one expected her to survive.

so, when she’s found alive, it’s all a little unexpected. even the police remark that they didn’t expect her to be so lucky. 

lydia is found in the exhumed graves of the imperium members who died 100 years ago, graves that haven’t been touched since. it seems like a sick joke that someone would want bury lydia alive along with them. lydia herself has gone blind from the shock and trauma and is currently being treated in ashcroft’s hospital wing. she is not allowed visitors and currently, she’s not making much sense. investigators know it will take time, but they believe it’s now just a ticking clock between now and when they can gather lydia’s story and put together the pieces of the puzzle – she might be able to tell us what connects the past and present. 

and the secret of the infermi society and what the attacks on imperium mean. 

but for now, students remain on edge, knowing that with lydia’s survival, the killer or killers must be growing desperate – tensions are high and it’s a race to the finish, wondering if there’s a chance that they’re actually close to conclusion. 

this marks the beginning of our dashboard event ! for now, all posts on the dashboard will pertain to this post. here’s what you need to know:

please put current threads on hold. feel free to drop ones that are growing stale and save the ones you want to continue to your drafts until this weekend.

post all open starters to #class:event but you’re welcome to use our (somewhat broken) starter tag as well. send your starters to the main so i can be sure to archive them on our starter blog.

closed starters are totally fine, but be sure that you are interacting with everyone and responding to all open starters as well. i’d love to see lots of open starters on the dash.

hello and welcome to the FOURTH character development task. as always, these are totally optional and you can pick and choose what sounds fun to you. this task is about family. so, this is a look at your character’s family relationships – cast their immediate family members and provide a short description of your character’s relationship with them and what they are/were like. here’s some of my old writing to use as an example? (don’t judge) but that is an idea of what i’m thinking of for this task. as always, you can tag your posts with #class:task and i’m so fucking excited to read about everyone’s ic families. 

previous tasks

task 01: moodboards.

task 02: playlists.

okay, here’s our third task ! ashcroft is putting together a TIME CAPSULE, to be opened 100 years from now. every character gets to put 3-5 things in the capsule of their choosing, along with a note. what will your character put in the capsule for people 100 years from now? these would be things that are important to them, things that they would really want people in the future to know about, things about this world that matter to them now. so, if your character will participate, post what things they would include in the capsule and if they’d write a note, include that too ! tag your posts with #class:task.

previous tasks

task 01: moodboards.