FACULTY IN-SERVICE - MAY

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FACULTYIN-SERVICE - MAY
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May’s Teacher’s In-Service convenes over a number of disciplinary actions, which will require the attention of the Faculty. All students have been found to be taking part in serious actions that could endanger the student body. While the school tries to avoid restricting movement and interaction among the students, it does have a number of tracking capabilities, such as imposing a Rune of Penitence upon the student that will allow chosen Faculty to observe them at any time, as well as transmit detailed information whenever the student attempts to use any kind of magic, flame, or other power. The rune also allows chosen Faculty to warp immediately to the student’s side, should it be warranted. Up to three Faculty can be assigned to man the rune. Beyond that, the general shape of the punishment is up to the Faculty and what they feel is appropriate.

[Faculty will have the ability to impose IC punishments upon the students based on their actions. Faculty may discuss and put forward recommendations as they wish in the Formal Proposal thread, which can either be voted upon by the faculty or, if there is general consensus, placed in as the final decision. Please keep this strictly to IC punishments that make sense for the character’s actions, while the character has been breaking the rules the players themselves absolutely have not and we want to use this as a way to encourage roleplay, not discourage it. If the mod team feels the finalized punishment is too much or will impede a player’s ability to play, we will modify it before imposing the final penalty. No characters have requested any specific exceptions to punishment, so you are otherwise free to impose what you feel is appropriate within reason. The students, and their infractions are listed below]

Kano:
Unauthorized summoning of daemons on campus
Multiple daemonic contracts with no regard for personal health or safety
Continuous risk-taking with no regards for personal safety and reckless endangerment of other students
Damage to campus property (drilled hole in dormitory floor without permission)
Toki:
Causing general alarm among student body with sudden outbursts of procroclimations of doom, and generally taking poor care of self when it comes seer abilities
Spreading inflammatory and baseless rumors about others
Tried to run away while on overseas trip
Involved with risk-taking situations with Kano above
Rex:
Distribution of military-grade weaponry to students without authorization
Upgrading of student weaponry without authorization
Intent to distribute further military-grade weaponry to a larger group of students without authorization

The final order of business is that of visions. All seers are beginning to see an imposing, dangerous figure who seems well aware that their Sight is drawn to it. The High Seeress herself makes an appearance to brief the faculty.

“I am afraid our time grows short. We have reason to believe that the visions we are seeing are of a creature borne of Nightfall. We have dubbed this creature a ‘Herald’, and its presence signifies our impending doom. By our estimation we have around a year remaining before darkness envelops this world. The Herald’s emergence will be met with apocalyptic power, and our first priority will be to take it down and lessen its impact. Our estimation is that the Herald possesses the power to bring about Nightfall if not stopped. While this creature is powerful beyond measure, our visions strongly suggest that it is but the first. The time to prepare and the time to act is coming. We will leave it to you to determine how you will break the news to your students.”

code bases by tricklet

Comments

Punishment Proposals

[thewatchers]

Toki

[thewatchers]

[nor_iron_bars]

[Jail generally isn't concerned with student punishments- Daybreak doesn't do anything cruel enough to push her to intervene, she doesn't care enough about rulebreaking to invent any of her own, and she tends to be of the opinion that the point is not getting caught in any case.]

[But having looked over the record of infractions for Toki, and having started tutoring him for his seer abilities, she feels a vague sense that she should argue one point on the list:]

Not gonna say the kid didn't fuck up there, but "taking poor care of self in regards to seer abilities" is kinda it's own punishment, y'know? [She's been through enough bad vision aftermaths to know.] Definitely needs to get it through his head that it ain't safe to ignore the side effects, but I dunno if that's something he should get punished for instead of, like. Therapy.

[arcadianvampire]

[Valvatorez was... understandably, quite livid about hearing the news about some of these goings-on that required disciplinary action. Mostly at the scope of it. Good lord, was that just a mess. And frankly, his sour mood was evident, and he made no attempt to hide it.

Still, despite his anger and disappointment, he kept himself collected.]

...On that much I agree. Mr. Rikugou's lack of self care, while disturbing, is not something I would do something purely punitive over. Other than perhaps mandating he attend therapy sessions. On that much, he needs guidance more than penance, and realistically, many of his other problematic acts are best suited to be dealt with that way. The rascal means well at heart, but he's a wreck in more ways than one.

His participation with Kano's recklessness, on the other hand... that should be looked at judiciously.

[spelleton]

He doesn't seem to be aware that what he does can affect himself, let alone other people. I agree that he doesn't need a punishment, exactly, but he needs safety gear and a way to track his health and state of mind, at the very least.

[ He's pretty sure Toki has a helmet now, at least?? ] Until he can manage on his own, he needs supervision of some kind, which technically falls under disciplinary action.

[sauerfacedcyborg]

In regards to Toki, he seems to be harboring mistaken beliefs about the school. Last month, I had to disabuse him of the notion that students were being treated as prisoners and obligated to act as soldiers. I believe he could benefit from a discussion regarding conspiracy theories, as well as more cautious monitoring. His claims incited another student to attack his chaperone on the assumption that she was there to restrict general student behavior.

[unpocoloco]

Toki's reactive but he's a good kid. I agree, he needs less punishment than he does some help, and most importantly, someone who will make sure he gets that help with regularity. He tends to... postpone things for himself. Classes, help... but I've never seen him fall through for anyone else.

As far as his running away, I was informed by a friend of his that that too was done for the sake of helping a friend of his. It's not ideal, but I don't think it's something that ought to be punished, all things considered.

Do we have any kind of staff her who could stay with him? Act as a personal supervisor, even on shift?

[spelleton]

[ After the talk has died down, Ekkehardt consults his notes. ]

Mandatory therapy and a monitoring sigil in addition to supervision by certain members of staff he trusts. Are we in agreement?

Kano

[thewatchers]

[spelleton]

I'd propose a tracker sigil. Preferably one that monitors his health and general state. [ He sounds a little irritable. ]

He gets into trouble as it is, and I'd prefer to have a way of finding him quickly rather than being called to the aftermath.

[nor_iron_bars]

...Well, I can teach him how to repair a floor. That oughtta come in handy if he tries to put another hole in it.

Dunno what the fuck we're doing about the rest of this, though.

[sauerfacedcyborg]

That sort of risk taking...concerns me, particularly as he didn't seem to have any failsafe to preserve his own safety in this latest incident. Has he spoken with a therapist at any point?

[talkstoposters]

Uh, what about the contracts he's already made? We just gonna let them slide or are we gonna do something about them?

[arcadianvampire]

[Valvatorez was still flipping through the student record file of Kano as the topic came up, his annoyance plain.]

Personally, while I do not know Kano individually or as a student... this list of offenses is not to be taken lightly. We're talking about a case where students actually got seriously hurt and killed, even if temporarily. That's not even speaking of the stupid recklessness he puts upon himself by cutting deals with daemons.

The lad might need mental help, that much is true, and he should be given it.

But I am not keen on being lenient in his case. I propose more sweeping disciplinary action here. Mandatory therapy, a tracking sigil, harder lines of detention to keep him in a place where he's more easily observed, and perhaps even magic nullification fields in his dorm room to make sure he cannot summon anything without being somewhere conspicuous. And even that might not be enough.

...Also I would suggest that he be enrolled in my daemon defense class as well as Professor Atchison's contracting class if he hasn't taken it already next semester. Someone needs to drill it into this rascal's head not to deal with daemons in such a cavalier fashion.

[spelleton]

[ Ekkehardt ticks off the various ideas that seem to have met with general consensus on his fingers. ]

Monitoring sigil. Mandatory therapy sessions. Possible disciplinary action that restricts his movement.

Are we agreed?

Rex

[thewatchers]

[bejustorbedead]

He actually showed up to my sword lessons with his own weapons, that he forged himself.

[He sounds incredulous]

It - I definitely suggest he can't be allowed in the forge unsupervised, and get a list of students he already had modified or given equipment to.

[nor_iron_bars]

...wait, we had a rule against that?

[eyes_are_uphere]

I have no idea who this is, so question. How is a student able to get access to that type of materials and the tools to make it without anyone knowing until about now?

That just seems like oversight.

[bikerbarbie]

Not really seeing a problem. We're fighting monsters, we need weapons for that.

*Claire you keep an angel sword by your pillow, of course you're not seeing a problem.*

[arcadianvampire]

I must admit, the initiative this boy has is... impressive. Rare do we run into a case of a student this industrious with the forge and with the tools we provide. Clearly, he has a rare talent for the art of craftsmanship and engineering. I am loathe to want to discourage such talent too much.

[But then the vampire clears his throat.]

Be that as it may, distributing military grade hardware to students not trained to use it, and perhaps worse, not mature enough to handle it is something we should take very seriously. I would agree with the proposals to keep his forge work supervised and making sure the projects he works on are properly secured with no intent to distribute.

...The last thing we need are more explosions in the dorms by someone who thinks a grenade launcher is a toy. It's hard enough wrangling our would-be mages from doing something similar, and in the case of weapons is perfectly preventable.

[evangelclairvoyance]

Hm....

What if we were to redirect his passion elsewhere? The training devices he set up on campus were quite impressive.

[inflictwounds]

...I think we should be careful. If we crack down on him, he might find other means to go about the creation of his projects. Creative and engineer types don't like being told "no, you can't do that", in my experience.

Using the forge with supervision is still less dangerous than finding somewhere else to make magical artifacts and weapons.

[unpocoloco]

[Getting to Rex's part of the meeting had done a lot to render him silent. His face is uncharacteristically blank, right up until the fight starts and he flinches. The fight resolves again and he almost thinks to sit out the rest of it. Only to blurt, voice both quiet and rough--]

I think he should have tabs kept on him with a sigil and regular check-ins, both on him and to see the tracking rune is holding up. Not just have him be supervised at the forge. The- the problem is that he's passing these things along right? So, seeing who he's around might help.

[spelleton]

So, let's see.

Mandatory supervision while using the forge, if not outside of that to some degree. For our part, projects that Mr Arany can divert his clearly considerable amount of creative energy to that aren't mass producing weaponry.

Is that all?