#ogdenplot

[ogdencollegerp]

DECEMBER 31ST, 2023

10... 9... 8...

The clock was ticking down, the new year approaching, and with it, the attendee's of THE SOCIAL BUTTERFLY's party hopes of leaving this all in the past.

7... 6... 5...

They should've known they wouldn't be able to.

4...... 3......

Because as the CLOCK struck TWELVE....

2...... 1......

G struck again.

OOC; get any threads revolving around midnight in now .... and stay tuned for what is next !!!

[ogden-gossip]

may 7th, 2023

it's time you all start to play on my level.

because you're still not playing along, like you don't realize that i can make you look GUILTY. because i know all of your secrets...and greer's too.

because penny knew why greer left. and now she's DEAD.

....or maybe it was it penny's secret, that greer knew ??

either way, secrets are DANGEROUS. and you're all keeping so, so many. including two of your so called FRIENDS who played the game pretty well tonight. two of your peers who decided what i'm going to tell you....

someone planned to leave before THE GOLDEN GIRL did. a fight, some jealousy, and a plan dragged into the open for greer to sabotage. to steal. shaking off expectations, and leaving to start a new life as their true self. except for they are still here. and greer is not. but at least they're still living, which is more than someone else can say for the person they got in a fight with. a confession to THE GOLDEN GIRL, to something she could relate - a stalker of sorts, who go to close. close enough that the only solution was to give them a little shove. straight into the water in which they drowned.

such BURDENS for the golden girl to bear.

to those who know these faults are their own - do you want to own up to them ??

you have a week to decide. either you do.... or you pick SOMEONE ELSE to sell out.

xoxo....

[ogden-narrator]

For most of the students who were searching the rave desperately, they'd find no trace of G. As the minutes passed, the clock ticked away the chance to find whoever had sent the photo, their phones eventually chimed again with another set of messages that provided little info on who they had been looking for - other than they didn't find them.

@ironlvngs

g: looking for me ?? g: you're cold, cold, cold....

@ollieinoue, @anyaexe

g: nice try, but i'd expect more from you. g: considering both of your hobbies.

@sassa-fiske, @idaclarke

g: you'd think after i crashed your valentine's party, you two would be a bit smarter !!! g: the secrets you're desperate to cover up are just the start... g: so get ready to play with higher stakes, babes.

@aletheapierce, @cinnamonfm

g: remember when the investigator's office was broken into ?? g: here we were, all worried about what people would spill in the name of their so-called innocence. g: but everyone seemed to bite their tongues instead. g: guess you all know you're guilty.

@logiyande

g: please. you'll have to learn to be way more subtle than that if you're hoping to play this game g: maybe ask leaky about it sometime.... g: he picked up on my methods real quick, getting into the dean's office like that.

One student, who got a high vantage point, looking over the party so that even G couldn't miss them, got a reward...the slightest tidbit of info to reward their attempts.

@novadodson

g: you're smart, so i'll say it to you straight g: greer knew.

And then one pair, stumbled across where the picture had been taken. They would've found G - if G had been dumb enough to wait around. But, no...G was long gone. And all that was left was the tease of secrets that had brought them all there that night.

That G knew....and now some that they were about to know too.

@reinaazarolla

g: the effort is admirable. g: now, if only you had been a bit faster.... g: so so many people confided in greer. g: it was a good thing she could keep a secret - but you know just how good she was at that, don't you ?? g: me ?? not so much. g: so tell me, reina. which secret do you want me to spill ?? g: the person who dreamed up disappearing first ?? or the one who would never dare ??

@morrisxn02

g: the effort is admirable. g: now, if only you had been a bit faster.... g: so so many people confided in greer. g: it was a good thing she could keep a secret - but you know just how good she was at that, don't you ?? g: me ?? not so much. g: so tell me, edward. which secret do you want me to spill ?? g: one that involves greer nearly killing someone ?? or one where someone confided in her that they did ??

ooc: these texts are each directed at the individual character(s) tagged, but please continue to incorporate their reactions into the appropriate threads/paras - and if they received info (as vague as G is still being), feel free to have your muse share that !!! And for the muses who have a decision to make...please have them to do in either a thread or self para as well.

[ogden-narrator]

@sassa-fiske

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: i told you to leave the blackmail to me - so since you've been so obliging....now i'll deliver. g: the observatory. 11:00 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

where: the observatory, 11:00 pm

who: ??? @ogden-narrator

charlie might have been tempted to ignore the text. after all, she was known to say she had a decidedly uncurious mind. she was extremely cautious about not finding herself starring in a horror movie; she'd seen enough to know what happened to the promiscuous blonde. no, she'd had her share of ominous texts from g, and was starting to be convinced they were all bark and no bite, and she almost thumbed her way to delete the message.

until she saw the dress code.

maybe this was greer after all. she would know charlie could never resist a costume party.

metallic boots echoing loudly through the empty observatory, she meandered around with her phone as a flashlight, looking for anything that looked particularly saw-esque. "come out, come out, wherever you are," she crooned under her breath.

[ogdencollegerp]

The students had all been at THE SOCIAL BUTTERFLY's winter trip for a few days, doing the best to put the past behind them and enjoy their holiday, when all of their phones chimed, buzzed, light up with a message.

g: don't you wonder being in the last place greer was known to be seen... g: and with everyone who had something to do with her leaving here.... g: what there must be to find...

It left the students who had been invited on edge, as they so often had been for the past year and a half. It hadn't gone unnoticed by perhaps anyone that they were at the place of the last party THE GOLDEN GIRL had been confirmed to be at was, a morbid reminder of her disappearance and alleged death, but perhaps the best place to try to put her memory to rest.

And now, with the taunting reminders....perhaps, get answers at last. Even if they still didn't know who from.

[ogden-narrator]

@walshparker

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: first up - you and i are not the only one keeping secrets. and since yours went over so well with you-know-who, it's only fair if we flip the script. g: the pool. 11:00 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

@milonavarroo

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: but maybe we should see if you can figure out who chose to rat you out first. g: the fieldhouse. 11 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

@samjimcnez

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: i know how you really felt about greer. the thing is, you weren't the only one. even if no one will admit it publicly. g: the varsity house. 11 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

@ironlvngs

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: haven't you just felt so guilty, considering your last interaction with greer ?? wouldn't you just love to find someone to commiserate ?? g: the auditorium. 11 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

[ogden-gossip]

february 17th, 2023

roses are red, secrets lie in disguise, in a world of privilege, where truth often dies.  a mysterious voice whispers in the dark,  unveiling secrets that leave a lasting mark. 

a forbidden affair, hidden in the night, passions ignited, with consequences in sight. behind closed doors, a deceitful game, where loyalty wavers, tarnishing each name.

a hidden past, a skeleton in the closet, a secret child, a scandal to deposit. betrayal runs deep within this elite sphere, as alliances shift, and trust disappears.

whispers in the hallways, eyes filled with fear, for my venomous tongue draws near. a web of intrigue, woven with care, unmasking the players, exposing what's rare. 

so hold onto your secrets, hold them tight,  for g’s arrival is a matter of night. roses may be red, but the truth will unveil the secrets of ogden students, destined to prevail.

xoxo….

[ogden-narrator]

@cara-mrrsn

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: have you finally learned to bite your tongue ?? g: the hockey rink. 11:00 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

[ @ogden-narrator ]

WHERE: the hockey rink. 10:45pm WHO: mika & ???

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g:and since i know you don’t mind biting your tongue even when you know something is suspicious…. g: the hockey rink. 11:00 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

A sense of dread had taken up all the space in Mika's room. As she dressed, as she applied ridiculous makeup in an attempt to pass time, as she read and reread the texts and wondered how she'd managed to get herself wrapped up in this mess. She could trace it all back to one single choice— one single, stupid decision that she'd still swear had been a decision made selflessly. It didn't bring air back to the room, though, and sooner rather than later, she found herself fleeing the stifling space, wheeling across campus on her heelies as she headed for the hockey rink.

As a chronically early person, it was no surprise she'd gotten there fifteen minutes before she'd been told. Part of her hoped she'd catch this elusive G in the act, but as she shouldered through the doors, she was met with an icy chill and an empty rink. She ran her hands over her bare arms and wished she'd had enough forethought to bring a jacket. At least if she came face to face with G, she could cut her with her nipples.

The silence stretched on, uncomfortable and unsettling, and Mika spoke into the emptiness just so that she wouldn't feel so alone. So weak and helpless. "Hey, G— if you're here— do you take suggestions? Helpful criticism? Maybe you should actually do something at some point? Empty threats only work for so long, you know." Was it a good idea to bait an unknown threat? Probably not. But it was fine, anyway. Only the empty silence responded, leaving her to wonder and wait.

[ogdencollegerp]

THE WINTER BREAK TRIP

Thanks to THE SOCIAL BUTTERFLY's genoristy and continuing presence at the center of all social circles, all students who were close to THE GOLDEN GIRL (or at least appeared to be and maybe some mistakes) have been invited out to the Hamptons. It's the offseason - so whilst many people are jetting off to ski resorts or warm islands, the beaches are deserted, quiet, and covered in snow.

Perfect to celebrate the end of a year - and most importantly, honor Greer's life, of course.

See below the cut for the roommates everyone will have while on the trip !!!

IC DATE: DECEMBER 26TH - JANUARY 2ND

OOC DATE: AUGUST 25TH - ....TBD

PLEASE NOTE: Current threads do not have to be paused for the duration of the event, but any starters (both open and closed) should take place during winter break. Please note there will be further plot/date markers from the main throughout the event, as IC it is taking place across a week. As always, feel free to DM the main with any questions or concerns !!!

BEDROOM 1:

Robin Morgan

Charlie Fletcher

Henrietta Astor

Sassa Fiske

BEDROOM 2:

Freddie Kolbeck

Milo Navarro

Cara Morrison

Logan Iyande

BEDROOM 3:

Monty Richler

Ollie Inoue

Minnie Lee

Lola Rhodes

BEDROOM 4:

Edward Morrison

Genevieve Upton-Crane

Mari Zuko

Natalia Vega

BEDROOM 5:

Nathaniel Shaw

Jesse Hart

Silja Spence

Anya Saetang

BEDROOM 6:

Parker Walsh

Rhiannon Falla

Jacqui Velazquez

[ogdencollegerp]

MARCH 15TH, 2024

G had given everyone an ultimatum - a deadline. And yet, as students gave their answers, they were more than content to leave them hanging, waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Over two weeks had passed.

And then, just after midnight, the Friday before midterms began...

G decided to strike again.

OOC; please check your submits for the task G has assigned your muse in response to their answer !!! as always, if you have any questions, please let me know !!!

[ogden-narrator]

@morrisxn02

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: the disapproval of a sibling is a powerful thing. luckily, greer could keep a secret. or could she ?? g: the commons. 11:00 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

[ @ogden-narrator ]

WHERE: the commons. 10:55pm. WHO: nat & ???

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: the disapproval of a sibling is a powerful thing. luckily, greer could keep a secret. you knew that already though, didn’t you ?? g: the commons. 11:00 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

There was a little subsect of Nat's closet— the furthest, darkest corner— where she'd blindly reached, pulling free a glittery pleather body suit full of buttons, and buckles, and barely-there straps that left almost nothing to the imagination. She'd dressed in silence, her blood running cold through her veins.

Briefly she considered, as she donned and buttoned up a large trench coat, that maybe Greer had been receiving texts like this. Maybe that was why she'd disappeared. It sure made Nat want to disappear. She was rattled, her nerves shot, which she was sure had been the intention. But as she read through the messages once again before slipping her phone into her clutch, she wondered, truly, if this might finally be the end. Whatever that meant.

Her heels clicked against the floor, her teeth chattering for reasons that had nothing to do with temperature as she peered around the commons, unsure of what— or who— she might find.

Quietly, her voice reached out to the empty space. "Hello?"

[ogdencollegerp]

NOVEMBER 13TH, 2023

In the past year, it had become an unfortunately familiar sight to see FBI agents and a police force, in addition to the campus security, around Ogden College. In the recent months, it was the only sign that the idyllic surface of the campus was nothing but a front, clearly hiding a dark side that had started to expose itself to students who had been close to the missing GOLDEN GIRL.

A dark side that had apparently been discovered by none other than the anonymous person that had christened themselves G.

But since returning this year, since Greer's disappearance had been marked a cold case, things had been...quiet.

Too quiet.

Even with the quiet, the gradual increase of the security presence on campus over the past few weeks seemingly went unnoticed by most. Until one day in mid-November, it seemed the campus was swarmed by them again. It was a random Wednesday, everyone waking that morning and wondering what had happened - wasn't the case no longer actively being investigated ??

Luckily - or perhaps not - it didn't take long for the explanation to come in, the campus wide alert system going off on everyone's phone that afternoon.

ALERT : REASON TO SUSPECT DISAPPEARANCE OF GREER MORRISON IS DUE TO HER DEATH.

PERHAPS MAY BE CONNECTED TO OTHER OGDEN STUDENTS. PLEASE BE ALERT ON CAMPUS AND REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.

As if it couldn't get worse, shortly afterwards, another message arrived on a select few students phones. But this one was somehow from someone even less welcome.

g: this is no longer a missing persons case. g: it's a murder investigation.

[ogdencollegerp]

OCTOBER 13TH, 2023

BREAKING NEWS: 

MISSING STUDENT IS A COLD CASE - CAMPUS DEATHS DISMISSED AS UNRELATED 

Just about a year after Ogden College student Greer Morrison was declared missing, the news has come that the team investigating her disappearance has said the case is cold. Despite information coming in, they have no further paths to investigate, and will no longer be actively searching for her. This comes at a tulmutous time for the college, with two students having passed away in the past year as well. When questioned, the investigators have said those deaths have been dismissed as unrelated to the disappearance of Morrison, and there is no foul play suspected. 

If anyone has any information, they may send tips still.

As the weather started to creep further into fall with a chill in the air, the campus suspiciously calm in the wake of everything that had happened, the news came that was perhaps the last thing any of the students were expecting. THE GOLDEN GIRL was still missing, THE POLLYANNA had been arrested, and those are the fates you'd wish for in comparison to that of THE TEACHER'S PET or THE SIREN. After the threats that had been leveraged at all of them, it seemed...too easy for this all to be dismissed, set aside as if nothing happened.

Of course, they should've known it was too good to be true.

Because, after months of silence....

Phones started to buzz.

g: no foul play ?? do they think THE SIREN really just fell ?? that THE TEACHER'S PET was covered in blood because she froze to death ?? they may say that these are accidents, that THE GOLDEN GIRL just disappeared... g:  well i'm here to tell you they weren't accidents. greer didn't leave because she wanted to.  g: maybe she left because of what i know. g: maybe she left because .... [check your submits !!!] g: maybe....you know as well as i that that’s only part of it. g: but now someone else knows too.  g: ...you didn’t think really i’d spill a secret without telling yours too, did you ?? g: play your cards right and maybe i’ll tell you who you need to watch out for. play them wrong ?? you might be the next to go.

[ogdencollegerp]

JANUARY 14TH, 2024

As students return to campus this year...things still seem eerily quiet, the normal hustle and bustle of a returning campus missing. They hoped that perhaps it was just due to the students slowly trickling back, but they soon realized.... that was not the case.

No, instead....there had been a major switch up to the administration of Ogden College. Because Dean Zuko had been fired.

BREAKING NEWS : LEAK OF TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN TWO DECEASED OGDEN COLLEGE STUDENTS LEAD TO FIRING OF DEAN

In what is a breaking story only two days before the college is set to resume for its spring semester, a source from the administration has confirmed Dean Zuko was fired due to the implication of his involvement in what is recently recovered communication between two students, one of whom passed away one year ago on a school trip, and one of whom is Greer Morrison, whose disappearance has plagued the school for nearly two years now.

Fig. 1: an exclusive printing of the leaked text messages:

[ogden-narrator]

@cinnamonfm

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: haven’t you just felt so guilty, considering your last interaction with greer ?? wouldn’t you just love to find someone to commiserate ?? g: the auditorium. 11 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g

— CLOSED STARTER

for: ?? when & where: 10:45 - the auditorium @ogden-narrator

g: let’s play a game… g: there’s nothing quite like sneaking around and finding out info you weren’t meant to know. and boy, have i done a LOT of that. some might even consider it a bit of a hobby of mine. g: and tonight, you’re gonna get to see what fun it is too. see if you can sneak around on my level. i’ll even play nice and give you some clues. if you figure them out, well…you might just figure me out. g: haven't you just felt so guilty, considering your last interaction with greer ?? wouldn't you just love to find someone to commiserate ?? g: the auditorium. 11 pm tonight. dress ready to rave. g: xx, g 10:45. not exactly the same time g told them to come, but link thought that maybe he could catch them off guard. if there was anyone that link despised more than anything at the moment, it would be whoever g was. first to leak two things he was trying to keep hidden for everyone to see, and now this cryptic text eluding to knowing what his last conversation with greer was ? link was furious — all that anger that he's held onto for years and has been trying to keep at bay was single-handedly being pulled right out of him, as if they were being played with. though g was someone link was impressed with at first, they were now becoming their worst nightmare — flipping their own game around on them, and playing it even better.

so even if he had to wait fifteen minutes, so be it. link settled into a seat somewhere in a corner at the top, hoping that it was as hidden as he could be.... just in case. they almost wanted to not listen to g's order, dress ready to rave — and they didn't, for the most part, wearing an old linkin park black t-shirt over olive cargo pants. but much to his dismay, he couldn't help but add a little flair to his eyes.

[ogdencollegerp]

JANUARY 7TH - 13TH

THE INVESTIGATION

After investigating all the students again, the FBI agents released no further information before the students were released from campus for the holidays. With the long break, they face returning to campus still left entirely in the dark.

OOC; don't forget - if your character wishes to report something officially, they may always do so in an ask to the main. If they saw something they think should be public, but don't want to be the one to report it to the authorities...don't forget they can always send an anonymous tip to the gossip blog.

CAMPUS NEWS

Campus housing officially reopens for the SPRING 2024 SEMESTER on Monday, January 8th, a week in advance of classes beginning !!!

SOCIAL EVENTS

The week before classes begins is always a huge party week, so while there are no campus official events yet, there is plenty to do. Though for some reason, as students return to campus this year...things still seem eerily quiet, the normal hustle and bustle of a returning campus missing.

BIRTHDAYS

none !!!