Ooookay

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RE: http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhighdorms/78124.html

If any of you were hoping to get your weapons back? Sorry, not gonna happen. Whoever you are, thank you for fucking it up for the rest of us.

Allow me to clarify for the masses

I know who did it. Telling me that you didn't do it has no effect. Everyone calm down. Character pissiness is leaking over onto the OOC on my part, and I apologize for that.

However... the weapons thing is principalconnor's call at the end of the day. As long as things continue to tend toward violence in the school between students or teachers or students and teachers, the weapons ban will probably stand.

The originally stated goal of this RP was for crazy hijinks... not scaring people. The weapons will remain gone until things have calmed.

Comments

[can_be_more]

So here's my take on it, and I don't know if anyone cares, BUT.

I think as long as it's IC, there shouldn't be a problem. Because see, you have someone like Veronica Mars (picked at random), high school student, doesn't have to deal with day to day violence in her life. And then you have someone like Harry Potter, who can use magic and lord knows that would probably make a character or two uncomfortable. Or you have Angelus, who is going to do something creepy because the username is a huge clue as to the motivation there. Or you have several characters who are going to want to be armed because it's what they know and that is their character.

Playing a character who's grown up with the military life and knowing how to handle weapons? She's going to be pissy as hell being separated from her weapon for that long. There's even a line in the show about her even showering with her pulse rifle. She's going to find it safer to actually have a weapon rather than being relatively defenseless and the thing is, IT'S IN CHARACTER. It's cool to find a middle ground or something, but this became a plotline I didn't want Aeryn to have but I feel I need to take it there because that's what she would do.

So find a way to mediate it, but taking it away completely can actually change the character, and that's not cool, either.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Being someone who has carried a weapon since they were old enough to do so IRL... it's still bloody inappropriate in a high school setting and the various players should have seriously considered that.

That having been said, allow me to repeat. HIGH SCHOOL. There are a number of players here who seemed to have missed that entire point. Wacky hijinks aside, there were no weapons bans till players started complaining that they were going to have difficulty/no fun running their characters in an atmosphere of fear.

I'm very, very sorry if you're upset by this...

But I think I can safely say, at this point, that I'm the one getting the most grief.

Again. HIGH. SCHOOL. Adventures and wacky hijinks. IC actions equal IC consequences and the school was not meant to and will never be a place where the students are afraid of anyone but the monsters and the administration. If your character needs a weapon to feel 'safe'... then we have a serious problem.

[can_be_more]

I'm not trying to cause anyone grief, I'm simply stating that from a character standpoint, if you bring in all these people from all these other fandoms, some of which are going to be evil or whatever, you're going to have this problem. You have werewolf and vampire characters and don't expect other characters to be scared of it? If my character's going to be more comfortable with a weapon no matter what's going on, that's very simply the way it is.

Personally, I don't even know how this atomosphere or fear thing started. I was completely clueless until I saw this post and freaked out that characters were going to get blamed for something they didn't do. All I know is that one day wham, no more weapons, and I had no idea why. Why can't we all establish some sort of ground rules about what's acceptable and what's not before a huge rule like that is passed considering so many people are freaking out about certain things?

(And I know, it all comes down to principalconnor in the end, but I think I've got a valid suggestion here.)

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

From a character standpoint, you're all supposed to be teenagers. Everyone was supposed to start with a clean slate, and this was supposed to be crack!rp... which mean that weapons would be more or less humorous although certainly available to be used in a serious situation.

Things got started with a student beating followed by difficulties between an armed adult and a student.

The SCHOOL ADMIN, not the game admin, cracked down. Things escalated, leading - again, to a SCHOOL ADMIN crackdown. It's character behaviors that brought a character reaction.

As long as the characters behave, they get their rights. Characters misbehaved, bringing IC consequences. Sorry, but this is a school setting... and this is a totally IC response from the school admin.

If you want the weapons back, start looking for a handle on the other students in an IC fashion. Arguing OOC to reverse IC decisions... isn't going to help. Get your character, IC to start working on getting the weapons ban lifted.

[can_be_more]

My character has been at work, IC. I'm just trying to explain OOC, since the whole subject was brought up OOC in the comments to a post in the OOC comm.

All I'm doing is offering a dissenting opinion. I just don't agree and I'm allowed to. Sorry, and don't worry, I'm done with the topic.