Ok, I didn't want to have to deal with this stuff just before bed and after a pretty crappy day but . . . oh well.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=39842.msg2114969#msg2114969">Quote from: GrinningHound on 08-08-2009, 02:33:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">So, you're saying there's no areas for flyers in the courtyard?  Have you ever BEEN to a college campus?  There are posts and boards and stuff everywhere.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>1) This fictional school is not a "real" college.  Nor is it actually a college.  As was stated numerous times in PMs.  2) Yes, as noted previously I've been on nine U.S. college campuses (three as a student, technically four as employee, one as a conference attendee, three as a visitor), two Irish university campuses (as visitor and tourist), and one Canadian university campus (as conference attendee).  That's a grand total of 12 years on college campuses as either/both a student and/or employee.  In fact, I'm currently teaching on one.  3) That's all beside the point.  This group is in the Potterverse and as such follows the Potterverse's rules, which includes where things get posted.  Besides which, posting things on the exterior wall of a 1000+ year old castle's just a bad idea to begin with.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Also, in that case, you, as the GM, say "Flyers can't be posted in the courtyard." and I, as a player, say "Oh, then they go wherever they're allowed, instead" and we all move on instead of making a big deal out of nothing.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Actually, you're the one making a big deal out of things.  Neither I nor GF said a darn thing about that until you brought it up.  Her character reacted IC to what her character saw.  As GM/Mod, I reacted to something entirely different (Weyland openly carrying a sword, and that via PM, I might add), although present in the same post.  Deal with it.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Also, why would Weyland BE at the school, if he hadn't spoken to the Headmaster and gotten approval ahead of time?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That's nowhere near what was stated or the issue.  The issue of approval was a potential course.  Weyland would be at the school as a trainee teacher, which is the proposed character you gave me.  That doesn't mean he starts teaching his own classes automatically.  Nor does it grant instant IC approval for said ideas.  In fact, as I recall from PMs regarding this issue, I said, "sure you can run that by Vivienne IC" or something to that effect.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I didn't do anything to step on your toes</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This is entirely true.  OOC.  However, IC, your character did step on IC toes.  And IC actions have IC consequences.  If you can't handle that or keep IC and OOC separate, it's your problem.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I didn't want to play an apprentice.  I made my character old enough and experienced enough to be a teacher in his own right.  I opted to work under Vivienne, I could just as well have been a Charms professor.  I didn't think I would have to work for it.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That's not the profile you sent to me in PMs.  The profile you sent was an assistant, a new young assistant.  And assistants often have to work.  Besides which, as noted, you knew the DADA position was filled IC and could have chosen something else if you wanted the character to have more autonomy.  But, you didn't.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Why should I have to earn anything?  It's a GAME.  I want to relax, have some fun writing.  I have enough stress to deal with.  You're allowed to create a character that's a full professor, you didn't EARN anything.  Why should you make me?  Seems unfair. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Every character has to earn something, that's part of RP-ing and plot/writing.  If characters don't earn things, there's not plot and nothing interesting in the story.<br/><br/>So, why should your character have to earn things?  1) Because that's what characters do.  You think LotR would be interesting if Aragorn just walked into Gondor on page 15 and said "Hey, I'm king", nope, it'd be dull.  Or if Sherlock Holmes was handed the solution to the crime on page one?  There'd be no story.  2) Because you wanted to make a character who was effectively a student, albeit an advanced one, and who could be seen, IC, as challenging (IC) someone (IC) who was already more established (IC) than your character.  Again, IC decisions have IC consequences.<br/><br/>(Also PM-ing this to be safe.)