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Brainstorming Time!

Um, I might have spaced on this last month, but... holidays, so yay? Anyway! I know SOMEONE has been waiting for this, and I am in no way looking pointedly at YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Here be your more-or-less monthly brainstorming post, wherein you do that thing. With the suggesting new ideas and possibly developing on previously proposed ones.

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Okay, so starting this by admitting that I have nooooo idea how this would or should work. But with radio now being broadcast over the school's PA system in homeroom, I was thinking it might be fun to actually have homeroom. If nothing else, skipping homeroom was an important part of my high school experience.

With radio being posted that way, people are starting to ping back into the broadcasts with IC reactions again because student are ICly hearing it again, at least on days when they have classes. But reactions tagged into the radio kind of exist in a vacuum; threads don't (can't?) happen there. Except, with the idea that people hearing this over the PA system, some of these reactions should be happening where other people can see them and possibly interact with them. If Karla's trying to facepalm herself into a coma over something radio says, I think it might be good to have one place for Alex to be able to mock her and Emma to try to get the gossip and Raven be concerned about how she's feeling. It might even make it easier for characters who don't really know each other well to get threads going, because if I put up a room post of Karla facepalming over radio, odds are only her friends will stop by, but if she's doing in homeroom anyone can see or comment. And it's one convenient place for any student who wants to react, rather than having IC-reaction threads spread over the comms, leading to someone brooding on the roof and someone feeling smug in their room, and someone else throwing a tantrum on the beach or something.

Of course, homeroom wouldn't have to be limited to radio-reaction pings, it's just what gave me the idea.

But something like this would take a lot of shuffling and organizing, which is why I've got it here in general ideas. I admit; it might not be feasible. It might end up like the study hall posts and the cafeteria, which don't get a lot of use. We'd have to figure out how it would be run and organized. One big homeroom for all the students who have classes that day? One post, with OCD for each class? Should it get posted every day by a volunteer teacher, or only get posted when someone wants a homeroom post?

So, yeah. That's my (really long) idea. I don't know if it's a workable idea or if it's even a good one, but I figured tossing it out here was the best way to see if it sinks or swims.

Ooh, I like this idea! It gives people the opportunity to gossip and pass notes and other stuff like that.

The only objection I have is that it's limited to kids who have class that day. What if it was like, an obligatory homeroom for everyone kind of thing? Almost like a headcount, because our students tend to scoot off-island, get kidnapped, etc. It would give our kids who don't have classes that day something to bitch about, and would still embrace the pseudo-college atmosphere at FH that we already have, with kids showing up in pajamas, etc.

Plus, and I'm spitballing here as someone who's run plots that rely on people noticing that someone's gone/been gone too long -- it's a spot for people to see their friends and notice the absence of their friends. And for the sake of not interfering with those plots I mention, it could also handwavily be something where, like, the admins only notice if you're gone if you want them to? I don't know, I'm sort of just running all over this idea. :D

Please run all over this idea! Turn it into a racetrack, I dun care. Honestly, when I first envisioned it, I was thinking of four teachers posting homeroom every weekday with people pinging in. I wasn't sure if people would be happy with having their kids have to ping in even when they don't have class (and that idea seemed a little excessive anyway), so I tried to figure out other, more laid-back options.

That being said, I do think it'll be handy for noticing when people are missing. And skipping too many homerooms might be an excellent reason to get a detention.

...Not that I ever did. La.

I love, love, love the showing-up-in-pajamas idea. George would bring a pillow and nap.

I also love the idea of two people showing up and trying not to look like they were coming from the same room or wearing the same clothes they had on last night hmmm what walk of shame don't know what you're talking about ...

Question! Would participating in homeroom be opt-in? I happen to love the idea, especially if I can pop mine in to react to things or not, as the case may be, but I would kind of hope that we could handwave furiously that ours were there or not.

I don't mind it being mandatory IC, but if I had to tag in to each post with mine OOC each time, it'd feel like a chore.

If we're handwaving, people could even note OOC something about "Bob isn't here" for the necessary plot reactions.

... I need to remember to switch to Rinoa's account for OOC commenting. Too many of George's icons look bitchy. (Which is great IC but not so hot OOC ...)

See? Way less bitchy. Vast improvement.

I think it shouldn't be mandatory, because we have classes for that? Though if someone wanted to get in trouble for skipping homeroom, that's one thing, but I don't think it should get to the point where it feels like a chore.

Maybe something like, "All students are assumed to be present unless it is noted otherwise?" So if Karla's off on a plot or George makes a post about how she was feeling lazy and blew off homeroom or slept till noon or something, or someone just posted to the OOC to say "Bob's not in today," then people can make mention of it or a teacher could decide to enforce the rules or something, but other than that, it's assumed that everyone is handwavily there?

RIGHT. I am in no way, shape or form trying to give us something we HAVE to ping into, because omg I barely keep up with classes as it is! But it's totes expected that your character is there unless specified otherwise, because it's an ICly mandatory thing. Hopefully that makes some sense.

WHAT IS WITH EVERYONE ASSUMING BOB(BY) WOULDN'T SHOW UP TO HOMEROOM.

GOD, YOU GUYS ;)

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