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Guys... the weapons ban and the rest of it are a direct result of in-character-actions leading to in-character-consequences.

Please try to separate the game admin players from the school admin characters.

The decisions about weapons and the like were made by Principal Connor and Spider Jerusalem in order to protect their students. The game admin couldn't care less about whether or not you shoot each other up until it comes down to player compaints about same. Which it did, admittedly, but that's not the point.

OOC carrying on will not get the ban lifted. Period. Full stop. It's not the game admin you need to convince... but the school admin. IE, the characters who made the ban.

IC work on your fellow students and IC suggestions of a practical nature as well as guarantees of accountability directed to

jerusalem_s and

principalconnor are what will be required.

Edit: Please note. Evil is good. Evil is fine... but take a look at the staff roster for a minute. If you really want to be evil and get away with it, shooting for subtle will get you a lot further. Otherwise, you're gonna get a lot of detentions and ass-kicking. I mean, c'mon. Do you REALLY want Gandalf showing up at your door with a sorrowful expression and rover in tow?

Further Edit (because I'm still not feeling well and keeping realizing I left things off): Good example here. Draco = Evil. Angelus = Evil. Draco isn't even raising eyebrows 'cause he's subtle. Angelus, being IC a bit of raging bull in a china shop, is attracting a lot of attention. All is IC. All is good.

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You know, unlike some people who are complaining, I actually find it a very fun turn of events. :D

Though I do have to ask would Jonathan's fear toxin count as a weapon? Because if so, that could be an interesting plotline *g*

It would definitely be, although it's harder to detect and confiscate. As he hasn't been obvious about it, I doubt anyone in authority has noticed it or will until he does something evil with it. *grins*

And technically, he does a science class. That could be homework. *snerk*

You know, considering the number of times we've either declared our love to one another, proposed marriage, or offered to bear each other's children, Spider and Sarah may be technically married in at least three states and fourteen countries.

Excuse me while I go off now to scrub my brain with Brillo now. ;)

(In other words ... WORD.)

I am STILL not taking you to Homecoming. There are limits.

I know I'd pay to see that. :)

... well, that fucking sucks.

(OOC: *sputters orange juice all over computer screen*)

A High School DANCE? Are you mad, woman? I might take you to a nice, comfy war or a small, intimate riot, but I have some standards!

((OOC: Hah!))

*cocks an eyebrow* You honestly think Homecoming won't dissolve into a nice, comfy war or a small, intimate riot? With this crowd?

*snort* Optimist.

(OOC: *giggles*)

... point. In fact, I'd think it's practically our duty to be there, under the circumstances. You bring the key to the gun cabinet and I'll provide the booze.

You're on.

... nobody better expect me to wear a fucking dress.

*loves on you both* Since the weapons ban doesn't affect Rogue, since you can't really tell her to store her skin in the firing range, whatever everyone decides is 100% fine with me.

I'm easy. Sosueme. ^_^

Or I could be posting with the right login.

Still easy, tho.

*rover makes squishy squeaky motions at the professor*

...wow. To the person who screwed this up for the rest of us: thank you. So much. No, really.

I did try to point out that I'm all for IC consequences--up until the point where one dick RPer makes the game not fun for the rest of us. I'm finding ways to try to make it interesting, but staying in a game where we're all going to get slammed every time one player (and yes, it ultimately comes down to the player, screw the IC/OOC debate) shows bad judgment. Especially since I don't see what was so offensive about the note yesterday (and neither did a lot of people judging by the comments over in Angelus' journal). We're not psychic, we can't tell what's going to set some player off as being 'inappropriate' for the game, and I don't like the thought of having the game disrupted by ever increasing in-game sanctions because of it. I can't see how torqueing everyone off in-game is going to solve the problem of some players not liking some of the plotlines anyway. All it's ding is making the student body more agitated.

And frankly, I'd like to be able to play the game. Character has classes. Character has friends she'd like to interact with. Character can't do that if she has to dump all that to petition the principal in game for stuff that was basically player and not character wank.

Angelus = Evil

OMG who told?????

;)

*looks innocent*

"Do you REALLY want Gandald showing up at your door with a sorrowful expression and rover in tow?"

Thanks. I managed to get ice cream through my nose, and onto my computer.

There were SPRINKLES in it, for god's sake!

On the other hand, I love you a lot.

*rover does wonder what the wizard wears under his robes*

I love you. A lot.

*thinks rover is a total perv*

I've heard their staffs have a knob on the end.

I don't mind any of the decisions -- I figure that in return for all the modding and list-keeping and general gruntwork that goes into making a game like this work, the least I can do is respect the rules Spider and the Principal set.

What does bother me is that people feel the need to complain about how other people play the game. I can imagine a few extreme situations in which that might be appropriate -- e.g., repeated harassment of or violence towards a character whose writer has made it clear that s/he isn't interested in that storyline -- but I haven't seen anything in the game that would rise to that level, and I'm not sure the complaints are even coming from the alleged victims. (Though I don't read the admin's email, and it's entirely possible I just haven't been paying attention.)

I don't want to say "if you don't like it, don't read it," but ... yeah. That's kind of where I am.

Sadly, that's not how it works. No one cares or will complain about a plot line that doesn't affect them... but both of these plot lines were directly affecting the student body as a whole.

Teacher/student violence, suggested violence, etc... that does directly impact the school as a whole.

Threatening/frightening notes in a public place... directly impacts the people who move/work in that public place.

If you throw something like that out where the world can see it... it affects everyone. This is a closed environment. It is completely IC for everyone to be affected, and those who do NOT want their characters affected by something that's the equivalent of dropping food coloring into the shared swimming pool have every right to complain.

It is also our right to tell them to suck it up and, frankly, if both things weren't guaranteed to IC upset any student with an ounce of timidity or naivete (and yes, we have them and they have as much right to be here as anyone) then we probably would have.

It's about having respect for your fellow players wanting to remain IC without having their characters terrified/traumatized.

From now on, if anyone wants to do something that is going to affect the student body as a whole (and I mean that in a psychological sense, not in a 'gremlins run amuck' sense) they're going to have to check with the admin first. That we HAVE the option of being sure that the more sensitive characters won't have to deal with the crap they have no interest in being involved in.

Thank you.

See, I understand that, but also ... I don't. (And I say this as someone who is writing a relatively naive character.) Ultimately, you chose what your character sees and reacts to, and how strongly s/he is affected. If Angela reacted to everything at this school in a completely IC way based on the world she came from, I'd have to give her a lot of conversations about "what do you mean, there's real magic?" and "how come George Bush is president again?". Which is just boring.

So to me, deciding "yes, this would likely be a traumatic event, but my character won't react to it unless directly prompted" isn't any different from not making Angela obsess about tiny cell phones. It's all using OOC concerns to determine IC reactions.

But, like I said in my original comment, I totally respect the amount of work that goes into this community, and I'm not arguing with your decisions, merely reacting to them.

Just a heads-up. I've re-opened the cookery course, and there are lots of knives in that kitchen.

I've included an admonition about the policy in the post concerned.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/112913.html

*rover...shivers*

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Cookery and the weapons ban

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