rumor meme time!

[wontgraham]

It's time for a rumors meme!

This is a meme for OOCly spreading IC information (and misinformation). Rumors, basic facts, twisted gossip — it's all fair game. To play:

• Tell everyone what might be circulating about your characters in your top levels. What rumors might have been made about them? What accurate (but unfortunate or embarrassing) information might be making the rounds? What about complete lies or misunderstandings?
• Tag into each other to add on what rumors your character is hearing/circulating about them. Or just plot out how to incorporate the rumors into threads. Or neg each other. The world is your oyster!
• If you do want to incorporate a rumor into having in-game consequences, just make sure everyone's okay with that OOCly first!
• An example post of this kind of meme can be found over here! Another example is below.

TOP LEVEL: "Dracula is usually seen lurking around at night and he wears weird clothes. This means rumors are circulating that he's actually super into raves and has the best info on where good parties are. Feel free to mistakenly ask him where to get body glitter and darklight paint."
COMMENT INTO TOP LEVEL: "Van Helsing heard that Dracula is obsessed with bats."

have fun!

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Peter Graham | Hereditary (cw: a dash of drugs, a good dose of murder, demonic possession...)

[possessum]

Rumour has it that Peter Graham...

— is some sort of creature, probably a vampire. Have you seen his dark circles? Mirrors seem to make him nervous — does he even have a reflection? Someone swore they saw him turn into a large bat once and fly away. It has neither been confirmed nor denied.
— is on drugs
— has multiple personalities in there
— has no personality in there. Like. There's just nothing, nobody home, his body is an empty husk
— is into some... questionable things in his free time. Frequently seen sporting new physical injuries, often to his face.
— murdered his entire family (oh... ouch, y'all)
— is haunted and/or possessed, because.. I mean... There may also be any other rumours related to his... odd habits, which typically are witnessed presenting themselves in a classroom environment, where he's in one place for several hours. There is his tendency to go into fits, throw himself around, attack himself, sit and stare into space entirely zoned out, walk around entirely zoned out, fall asleep right on the floor or in broom closets, and, perhaps most alarmingly, cluck at random times. There are also rumours from some highschoolers who claim to have seen him floating up to the ceiling in the midst of lessons. Still others, teachers and students alike, may have been caught in the crossfires of his "bad spells". Maybe you think he's a Satanist, or an experiment gone wrong.
— a variety of rumours involving Luna Lovegood: they are very commonly seen together, often with Peter following her around like a shadow. Given how odd the pair of them are, having been found sitting together in closets or napping, and Luna being seen petting his face a lot, they've earned a reputation among some students as dating. Alternatively, there are probably also some whispers that he has much more creepy intentions. Probably murder.
— a variety of rumours involving Henry Coles: they live together in a large house near the river, where passerby may have heard screams coming from on occasion. In December when Henry went M.I.A., there were probably a few inevitable rumours circulating that Peter murdered her.

** Feel free to add any more! There are sure to be a lot of rumours particularly around the high school about this creepy kid, whether silly or more serious.

[fumitory]

Ben heard students' suspicions of Peter having been abducted by aliens once to explain his odd schizo-like behavior, featuring theorizing details about the semi-torturous experiments that these 'aliens' might have performed on Peter.

Ben conducted an anti-gossip seminar that day with aforementioned students (aka detention) after school in his classroom. (this is, however, how Ben got the level of detail that he did, until he lobbed some very excruciatingly dull geography assignments at them to hush them up.)