Fandom High OOC

But first... *points at nekkid Harriet icon!*

Now that that's out of the way - sign up here for detention on Saturday morning - breakfast may be supplied. It is going to be based on interaction with each other, as opposed to with NPCs, so please only sign up if you're raring for a bit of inter-player interaction!

Numbers will be limited, so it'll get lotteried if we get many many lots.

It's a new semester, which means new classes, new students, and all sorts of opportunities to give detentions!


So what's this detention thing all about?

Teachers have the power to hand out detention to students, and they don't even need a good reason. Student annoying you? Did they leave a horse in your office? Smart off in study hall? Toss them in detention! Detentions can be handed out both inside and outside of class.

OOC, you must let the student's player know that detention might be looming, so it's not a complete surprise. This can be done either by email, IM, or OOC notes within the thread.

A Fandom High Office post goes up every weekday, and it has a thread for teachers to record the names of students who've received detention.


How does it work?

Detention used to be held on Saturdays and last the entire day, with most detentions being held in the Danger Shop. We've been looking at a way to make detention shorter and to mix it up a little, and this is what we've come up with.

From now on, Detention will last for half a day only -- Saturday morning or afternoon, depending on the convenor's availability, and it will be held only three weeks out of four: the first Saturday in each month will be detention free! It will also be cancelled if there's an event on Saturday, so players don't miss out on pre-planned fun stuff.

Even though it's been the norm, detention doesn't have to be held in the Danger Shop: there's an entire island to choose from. Detention also doesn't need to be cracky, nor wildly difficult, nor does the interaction need to rely on the Teacher. Remember, you can always recruit other players to play detention NPCs!

Feel free to make students interact with each other while your Teacher relaxes and watches the fun. Lifting events or plots from books, TV, film, even songs is perfectly acceptable! (I personally want to see a detention consisting of a greased pig contest.)

The only proviso is that while it is IC punishment, it should be fun to play OOC.


Who Can take Detention

Detention may be taken by a single Teacher, or Teachers can pair up to take it. Also, from now on, a Teacher will be welcome to involve a Townie in the detention. For example, one of the Teachers might think it was a great idea to round up the students and take them down to the church, to spend the morning cleaning up for Gabriel. Fun times!

All we ask is that you work it out OOC beforehand - no descending on a townie as an OOC surprise, though an IC surprise could be entertaining.

Detention could also take the form of community service to the school or town, or a beautification project, particularly if there's an event coming up.


Volunteering and you

Teachers
We're going to put up a post once a month, asking for Teachers to volunteer to take detention and for Townies to put up their hand if they're interested in helping with detention. That way, if a Teacher wants to rope a Townie into helping they know where to start!

If you can spare a Saturday morning or afternoon to have fun with a small group of students, (and wow that sounds dirty), please consider signing up! We can't do it without Teacher involvement, after all.

Students

A post for students to volunteer to be randomly selected for detention by the handy dandy RNG will go up weekly. With the change to only half a day, it leaves the rest of Saturday free for weekend playing!


Suggestion Box

Have a great idea for a detention? Want to share it with the world, or at least this bit of it? Here's your chance! There will be a link to a Detention Suggestion Box post, with comments screened, so please drop your ideas there. And, of course, due credit will be given if they're used.


And that's detention in a very large nutshell! Questions, comments, suggestions, ideas are absolutely welcome and encouraged.