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Detention and you!
It's that happy time of year again. "What time is that?" you might ask. New character time? Summer? Basketball season?
No, in fact, it is...detention information post time! Yay!
Please to be containing your excitement.
What's detention? Why would I have it? When would I have to go?
Detentions are, for the most part and working exclusively from a theoretical standpoint here, punishments handed out to students for doing something wrong IG, breaking some sort of class rule, fighting on campus, and so on. Typical high school things. Faculty can give detentions for pretty much anything when you get right down to it, but most of them often won't. But it is their prerogative, so keep that in mind.
Detentions take place on Saturdays pretty much all day, or 9-5 EST if you want to assign numbers to it. (Bear in mind, that can vary due to time zones or other game events if necessary.) While it's intended as a punishment for your character, you as a player should have fun with it.
Detentions take place in The Danger Shop, a holographic environment that teachers can set up to look like pretty much anything they want.
Teacherly responsibilities
Teachers and workshop instructors (yes, hi there other grads and townies!) are allowed to give detentions for pretty much anything, but they must give some OOC warning that the student is skating around on thin ice before assigning it. This gives the student player a fair chance to back off if they'd rather not get one. That said, if a student volunteers for a detention in an OOC thread, they've waived that right and can be smacked down with the mighty teacher hand of smiting.
Workshop instructors can also sign up to run detentions every Saturday in a![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fh_office post (one will be going up shortly for that very purpose!). If for some reason, RL intervenes or whatever and you can't run a detention you signed up for, please let me know as soon as possible so that a backup can be contacted or found. Instructors are also responsible for submitting any detentions they assign to the Detention thread in the daily fh_office post.
Instructors running detention can do pretty much anything they want for detention with a few exceptions. That is the beauty of the Danger Shop. Anyway, the exceptions are:
1) No physically harming any students unless previously arranged with that student and at least checked with the admins (administration@fandomhigh.net). Psychological harm is discouraged, but acceptable a couple times a semester.
2) Detention posts should be up early enough on Saturday (or Friday night if that works better) that students can actually play in them and hopefully get through them by 5 EST. Noon EST is a good guideline for the latest you should have it up.
3) The typical detention post should consist of a sign-in thread, 2-3 activities, a break (generally lunch where visitors can stop by if and only if the instructor allows them to, so make sure to check OOCly if it's not specified before your visitors swing by), and another 2-3 activities, with an OOC thread for punctuation. (Don't want the internets to fall out, right? ;))Those are guidelines and do not have to be followed exactly. If you just have two long activities, that's fine. If your teacher is an evil bastard who won't allow lunch, that's fine. You have a lot of leeway.
4) The Danger Shop can make holograms of anyone, so it can be used for guest stars of a sort. These guests will NOT have any FH canon at the end of the day, of course, since they are holograms. Also, while any characters the instructor has a reason to know is fair game (Hades can have good ol' Cerberus show up and force the students to give him a bath), but characters they haven't met must be a bit more vague (Hades can have Cosmo Kramer show up, but shouldn't know his name or anything about him. You can still give him a bath, though.) When in doubt, trust your common sense or ping me or one of the other mods/admins.
Any guest characters need to be run out of the teacher character's journal, orfh_extras with admin approval. No unapproved guest journals, please.
Student Responsibilties
1) If you are assigned a detention, you're expected to attend it. If you can't for some reason, please contact me ASAP. The detention can either be moved back a week or we can work out an alternative punishment. If you can only attend a detention for a few hours, that's fine. Try to do what you can in that time.
2) Aside from a brief before detention post (if you're inclined to do such a post), we request that you not do any live playing while your character is serving detention. We want you to focus on the task at hand. Pre- or slow-play due to time zones is fine, but your focus should be on the detention. Once you hit 5 EST, though, you're free to do whatever.
3) On a similar note, if you have a character who could get around being in detention (by use of duplicates, teleportation, etc), please don't use that as a loophole without first checking with the instructor and an admin. If you received a detention, you very probably volunteered for it at some point, and we'd like you to remain in it unless it's part of plottiness that you get out of there..
4) Any violence on school/camp grounds in a public place (aside from sparring in the gym or salle, of course) will result in a detention, period. So if you're going to fight without punishment, you should either do it quietly in your room or out in town somewhere.
5) Only students who have been assigned detention can attend detention (aside from visitors during lunch if the instructor allows it). It's easy enough to get one. A lot of teachers even put out the offer to volunteer to receive a detention in the OOC thread of their class post. Otherwise, you can always talk to a workshop instructor OOCly and arrange something to receive a detention, or you can sign up for the Lottery. More on that in a moment.
Super-Duper Important Stuff omg!
This is really, really, really, really reallyreallyreally important.
Remember, if a detention isn't reported infh_office, it's not getting counted.
bigdamndean usually does a Friday morning announcement post noting everyone who has received a detention that week up to that point. Hooray for public embarrassment!
If you can't attend a detention you signed up for, please contact me or another member of the admin team/mod squad ASAP so alternate arrangements can be made.
And finally, there's the weekly detention lottery. Every week, for some reason, students are picked at random and thrown into detention. Depending on what characters are in the administration at the time, this is done either to make the students afraid, be a jerk, build character, have a positive role model in detention to show everyone how to do it, or possibly just fill seats. Who knows what the real reason is? Not me.
A post will go up on Thursday and you can sign up to be randomly selected. Depending on what detention looks like that week, the random selection can be a truly random picking of one person, or possibly a couple people, or if there's a good reason to do so, everyone who signed up can be picked. Good reasons include a light detention, a popular detention, and boredom.
Gimme pie and cookies now, plz. :D
Or questions?
No, in fact, it is...detention information post time! Yay!
Please to be containing your excitement.
What's detention? Why would I have it? When would I have to go?
Detentions are, for the most part and working exclusively from a theoretical standpoint here, punishments handed out to students for doing something wrong IG, breaking some sort of class rule, fighting on campus, and so on. Typical high school things. Faculty can give detentions for pretty much anything when you get right down to it, but most of them often won't. But it is their prerogative, so keep that in mind.
Detentions take place on Saturdays pretty much all day, or 9-5 EST if you want to assign numbers to it. (Bear in mind, that can vary due to time zones or other game events if necessary.) While it's intended as a punishment for your character, you as a player should have fun with it.
Detentions take place in The Danger Shop, a holographic environment that teachers can set up to look like pretty much anything they want.
Teacherly responsibilities
Teachers and workshop instructors (yes, hi there other grads and townies!) are allowed to give detentions for pretty much anything, but they must give some OOC warning that the student is skating around on thin ice before assigning it. This gives the student player a fair chance to back off if they'd rather not get one. That said, if a student volunteers for a detention in an OOC thread, they've waived that right and can be smacked down with the mighty teacher hand of smiting.
Workshop instructors can also sign up to run detentions every Saturday in a
fh_office post (one will be going up shortly for that very purpose!). If for some reason, RL intervenes or whatever and you can't run a detention you signed up for, please let me know as soon as possible so that a backup can be contacted or found. Instructors are also responsible for submitting any detentions they assign to the Detention thread in the daily fh_office post.Instructors running detention can do pretty much anything they want for detention with a few exceptions. That is the beauty of the Danger Shop. Anyway, the exceptions are:
1) No physically harming any students unless previously arranged with that student and at least checked with the admins (administration@fandomhigh.net). Psychological harm is discouraged, but acceptable a couple times a semester.
2) Detention posts should be up early enough on Saturday (or Friday night if that works better) that students can actually play in them and hopefully get through them by 5 EST. Noon EST is a good guideline for the latest you should have it up.
3) The typical detention post should consist of a sign-in thread, 2-3 activities, a break (generally lunch where visitors can stop by if and only if the instructor allows them to, so make sure to check OOCly if it's not specified before your visitors swing by), and another 2-3 activities, with an OOC thread for punctuation. (Don't want the internets to fall out, right? ;))Those are guidelines and do not have to be followed exactly. If you just have two long activities, that's fine. If your teacher is an evil bastard who won't allow lunch, that's fine. You have a lot of leeway.
4) The Danger Shop can make holograms of anyone, so it can be used for guest stars of a sort. These guests will NOT have any FH canon at the end of the day, of course, since they are holograms. Also, while any characters the instructor has a reason to know is fair game (Hades can have good ol' Cerberus show up and force the students to give him a bath), but characters they haven't met must be a bit more vague (Hades can have Cosmo Kramer show up, but shouldn't know his name or anything about him. You can still give him a bath, though.) When in doubt, trust your common sense or ping me or one of the other mods/admins.
Any guest characters need to be run out of the teacher character's journal, or
fh_extras with admin approval. No unapproved guest journals, please.Student Responsibilties
1) If you are assigned a detention, you're expected to attend it. If you can't for some reason, please contact me ASAP. The detention can either be moved back a week or we can work out an alternative punishment. If you can only attend a detention for a few hours, that's fine. Try to do what you can in that time.
2) Aside from a brief before detention post (if you're inclined to do such a post), we request that you not do any live playing while your character is serving detention. We want you to focus on the task at hand. Pre- or slow-play due to time zones is fine, but your focus should be on the detention. Once you hit 5 EST, though, you're free to do whatever.
3) On a similar note, if you have a character who could get around being in detention (by use of duplicates, teleportation, etc), please don't use that as a loophole without first checking with the instructor and an admin. If you received a detention, you very probably volunteered for it at some point, and we'd like you to remain in it unless it's part of plottiness that you get out of there..
4) Any violence on school/camp grounds in a public place (aside from sparring in the gym or salle, of course) will result in a detention, period. So if you're going to fight without punishment, you should either do it quietly in your room or out in town somewhere.
5) Only students who have been assigned detention can attend detention (aside from visitors during lunch if the instructor allows it). It's easy enough to get one. A lot of teachers even put out the offer to volunteer to receive a detention in the OOC thread of their class post. Otherwise, you can always talk to a workshop instructor OOCly and arrange something to receive a detention, or you can sign up for the Lottery. More on that in a moment.
Super-Duper Important Stuff omg!
This is really, really, really, really reallyreallyreally important.
Remember, if a detention isn't reported in
fh_office, it's not getting counted.bigdamndean usually does a Friday morning announcement post noting everyone who has received a detention that week up to that point. Hooray for public embarrassment!If you can't attend a detention you signed up for, please contact me or another member of the admin team/mod squad ASAP so alternate arrangements can be made.
And finally, there's the weekly detention lottery. Every week, for some reason, students are picked at random and thrown into detention. Depending on what characters are in the administration at the time, this is done either to make the students afraid, be a jerk, build character, have a positive role model in detention to show everyone how to do it, or possibly just fill seats. Who knows what the real reason is? Not me.
A post will go up on Thursday and you can sign up to be randomly selected. Depending on what detention looks like that week, the random selection can be a truly random picking of one person, or possibly a couple people, or if there's a good reason to do so, everyone who signed up can be picked. Good reasons include a light detention, a popular detention, and boredom.
Gimme pie and cookies now, plz. :D
Or questions?
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