Library Stuff

[agentthepaper]

Hi, everyone! A few quick announcements regarding the library.

1. Rather than make Yomiko and the minions library aides work their little fingers to the bone, every new student and faculty member should have handwavily received a library card in their orientation packet. If you are a returning student or faculty member who does not yet have a library card, you will find one slipped under your door by invisible library elves or something. *handwaves more* If, for some reason, you really want to play out getting a library card, we'll see what we can do.

2. Library rules are currently being revamped, as the IC rules still mentioned the first librarian's sword, and we have a more concrete idea of the OOC rules than we did previously.

3. We will be taking on one or two new library aides. Applications will be opening as soon as we write the application shortly.

Questions? Comments? Coffee?

Everything you never wanted to know about the radio

[likeguidelines.livejournal.com]

Now that the new characters are arriving on the island, I just wanted to remind you all about how conversations and actions end up on the radio.

IG, the pirate knows all through *handwavey* technology of handwaveyness. And the occasionally shrub-shaped outfit.

Um, the plant, not the president.

From a more practical angle, the radio has a group of researchers who go through and summarize every post and every thread that all of you make every single day. Yeah. Give them some serious love.

If you don't want something to be broadcast, please mark the post--if it's in a private room--with a NFB (not for broadcast) either in the headline, or at the bottom of the entry, and our researchers'll skip right past it. We'll also skip any post marked "private" or "OOC." You can also let us know that the people going in and out are mentionable, but not the contents of their conversations: we use this with the clinics and Blood Gulch Arms, just as a few examples. We've also been assuming that not even the pirate is foolhardy enough to have bugged the principal's office.

Because last year's detentions were supposed to be private to those involved and not for the general entertainment of the student population, if it was mentioned at all on the radio it was only in a "and there was detention" kind of way.

If your conversation is taking place in a public post (the park, the Perk, the gym, cafeteria, whatever) and you want the contents of it not to be for broadcast, mark the thread as such. Because it is in public, your characters will still be seen there but the *handwavey* technology of handwaveyness will have gone on the fritz,or the shrub will have gotten bored listening or whatever.

With the new influx of awesome and active characters, we are sorting through a good hundred plus threads of information every day (um, don't count yesterday's, which topped out at 267 links in the broadcast)--and those are on days when we're not having blizzards or forming up mobs--so help us help you keep plotty things and secret relationships secret by marking your posts as NFB.

The pirate and his crew o' buccaneers thank ye!

About Security

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

Just to add to the list of OOC notices going up for the new students, I thought I'd drop a line about security.

Meet Constable Benton Fraser, the head of school security at Fandom High. Basically, his job is to ensure the safety of the students and faculty while they're in classes and students while they're in their dorm rooms. He'll break up fights, keep an eye out for weapons on persons, and enforce any other rule that might endanger students and faculty.

If you know you're going to need security beforehand for a plot purpose, drop me an email so I'm not caught off guard and the admins can know about it.

Fraser won't interrupt posts unless it is absolutely necessary or if a prior arrangement has been made to stop a fight from breaking out etc.

Sometimes, I will just drop him in a thread to interact. He's friendly, I promise. And he'll let you wear his hat.

Your clinic and you

[ladder62.livejournal.com]

Because all the cool kids are OOCing for the newbies these days 8)

There is an NPC school nurse who staffs the school infirmary during normal school hours. Your character can feel free to handwavily visit her for basic medical needs (bandages, aspirin, condoms... ;) )

Fandom Town Emergency Clinic, or NAMBLA FTEC is where all townies go, as well as characters with major medical needs and/or the desire to RP out medical care. It's staffed by doctors, students with some sort of healing/medical experience, Tommy Gavin who has first-response training, and an NPC nurse who helps cover all the gaps.

The NPC nurse is always on duty regardless of whether or not the clinic post mentions it. Townies or anyone else who want to handwave medical care are free to use her without asking permission. Medical care that is RPed is covered by two shifts, day and night, and the schedule is always updated at fandom_clinic's userinfo so you know who's on staff. In RP time a general rule of thumb is that if it's before 6pm Fandom Time your character uses the day shift, if it's after 6pm Fandom time they should go to the night.

If you know in advance that a huge medical problem is coming up (this would include long-term overnight stays and RP events that will result in multiple characters showing up at the clinic at once) please please PLEASE contact either me or the person on staff that shift to give them advance warning. That way we can schedule extra hands to help, make sure the clinic's got the supplies you need, etc.

Finally, if any of the new characters would like to work clinic shifts you can let me know in the comments and we can make arrangements for Tommy to interview you. No guarantees on getting a job until we know what your character can bring to the party, but can't hurt to try =)

Weapons, Fandom High and You!

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Welcome one and all. Unfortunately, I have to bring up an issue that everyone needs to know about.

Weapons are not allowed on school grounds outside of the salle and gun range. All weapons should be checked into the weapons locker. Even those that have been concealed in rooms in the past please. You can access the weapons locker when you need to take it into town, the shooting range, or the salle, but all weapons should stay locked in the weapons locker when not used in those places unless you have admin approval.

There are cameras in all public areas and the video feeds are monitored. That means that if you have a weapon while walking around (whether it's loaded, is a gun, sword, knife, dagger, bommyknocker, anything) it MUST be concealed under your clothing - but really, there should be a good reason for you doing so. Just walking around with a weapon for the sake of it isn't on.

Anyone found using a weapon on campus will be expelled (or fired in case of teachers) except in the case of a standard monster invasion.

Anyone found carrying a weapon on campus outside of the gun range and salle will have their weapon permanently confiscated and there may be further punishment depending on the situation.

Please folks. This is a school setting. The administration is trying to make sure the school stays as a safe haven. This means not having kids running around with weapons. Otherwise we'll get to a point where there are shoot-outs in the hallways and paranoia will run rampant. We don't want that. Keep the weapons to an absolute minimum and keep them out of the dorms.

Thanks! Now get back to entertaining me.

*grabs popcorn*

Announcement

[freelancerchick.livejournal.com]

Good morning! I have two things to address today.

1) Once that our new teachers have figured out where they will be living, please don't forget to send in a townie form. Check out the Classified ads if you need help! Thank you kindly.

2) You know how annoying it is when you really don't want school to start again and yet everyone you talk to and all the stores decide to rub it in your face anyway? Yeah, that's what's happening over at Stuff for Sale this month. They've changed to the traditional 'Back to school' theme.

And that was it from me. Have a nice day!

Ultimate Defriending List v. 2.0!

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

So, let's say you're one of those players who just keeps forgetting to defriend all the character journals who have left the game.

Or maybe that's just me. Anyway...

With so many new characters showing up in Fandom this week, I thought this would be a good time to post an updated defriending list for all the old players to clean up their flists a bit. If you haven't used a friending/defriending list before, just copy the parts of the list you need into the admin console and hit the 'Execute' button.

This list contains commands to clear off everyone who's ever left Fandom High since September of last year, so most people probably won't need everything on here. The most recent defriending list (people who've left since April) is the section at the bottom of this post.

A big, big hand goes out to krycek_rat for keeping up the friending lists that I shamelessly ripped off used as a resource for this. If there's anyone else I should add to or take off this list, let me know and I'll update the post accordingly.

Past friending lists

***

( And on to the defriending list! )

FH Awards Reminder!

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

*jumps up and down!*

Tomorrow.

Midnight.

Nominations Close.

So go.  Nominate Someone Now.

your.name@fandomhigh.net

[notthetindog.livejournal.com]

You know you want it. Lots of other characters have one. Your own IC/OOC and fully functional (forwarding) fandomhigh.net address!

The format is set (for my own sanity) at

firstname.lastname@fandomhigh.net (examples -- mickey.smith@fandomhigh.net, rory.gilmore@fandomhigh.net, the.tick@fandomhigh.net)

...but beyond that, I can forward it to just about any functioning e-mail address. If you would like one of your very own, please comment to this post with your character's full name and preferred destination e-mail.

Oh, and please include the *full* name, the one that might've conceivably been put on the registration forms? Makes it more "real" in the sense of "computers don't get me."

Comments are screened.

Class Sign-Ups Reminder

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

Class sign-ups are open until Wednesday.