HOUSE POINTS: April

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House Points: April

Over the course of the school year, the four houses compete for the House Cup, which is awarded to the house which wins the most house points by the end of June. After so many years of the House Cup almost exclusively bouncing between Ebonhide and Ribbonfin, Mr. Merrill introduced the House Mug (a coffee mug with "#1 House" written on it in Sharpie) for the house which lost the most points that year, just so Azurcrest and Coppertale could win something for once.

Things you might gain points for: answering questions correctly in class, doing exceptionally well on a test or assignment, assisting a teacher, helping another student, picking up trash on the trails, helping tidy after clubs, singing a song with Mr. Merrill, etc.

Things you might lose points for: breaking rules, such as wearing your uniform improperly during class hours, swearing in class, skipping class, being out after curfew, entering forbidden areas, getting into fights/duels, harassing another student, etc.

HOW THIS WORKS

• At the end of the month, we'll put up a House Points post where every character can get an RNG score that determines their contributions to their house's point standing for the month. Point standings will carry over to the next month, so hopefully by June, we can see who's the best and worst house!


• Every character posts to their house heading to get an RNG roll between 1–25. You determine if this number should be added or subtracted from the current house total.


• The choice of adding or subtracting your score should reflect what's IC for your character. For instance, if your character is generally well-behaved, they should gain points; but if they're a troublemaker, they should lose points.
  • But we're not going to nitpick, so if you feel your rascal has been pretty good this month, you can opt to gain points instead. Whatever!
  
  
  • If your character is more neutral when it comes to behavior, so just go with where you feel they're leaning this month.


• Rolls are abstract, i.e. if you roll a +5, it doesn't mean that you only gained 5 points for the entire month. Think of it as a sliding scale in which +25 is very good behavior for the month, and -25 is very bad behavior. Your roll should be considered a net value, i.e. if your character has both gained and lost points and you roll a +10, you can think of it as them gaining slightly more points than they've lost this month.


• Canonically, a house cannot go into negative points. If a house's point standing is in the red, they will begin the next month at zero.


• In addition to rolls, we will be counting: point gains/losses on the plot calendar, and point gains/losses as granted by NPCs. For the sake of our sanity, we're not counting point gains/losses from prefects, but you should definitely consider those in your IC reasoning of why your character is gaining/losing points this month.


• Note for prefects: Although prefects are unable to give points to or remove points from each other, they are still able to gain/lose house points from a staff member, so just complete your forms with that in mind.

To be counted, please post under your house heading with the following form:

<b>Character:</b> <b>Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?:</b> Win/Lose

House point contributions for April will stop being rolled on Mon, May 7 at 11:59 PM MT!

CURRENT TOTALS
EBONHIDE	RIBBONFIN	AZURCREST	COPPERTALE
853	943	941	556

» Ebonhide: Falling below Azurcrest in the rankings is distressing, but takes secondary importance to how many Ebonhide Quidditch players have been injured lately, and the troubling indications that the mimics are becoming active again. Ms. Rhee seems distracted, and often warns her students to be careful, even in innocuous conversations.

» Ribbonfin: Normally reserved Mr. Hightower punched the air and shouted "That's how you do it!" when his seniors scored the highest during the bonding activity, maybe the happiest any student remembers seeing him this year. He's returned to quiet and thoughtful. When he tells his students he's proud of them, he makes it sound oddly serious.

» Azurcrest: Mr. Merrill seems the same as ever, playful and embarrassingly effusive with praise with his students, although keen-eyed Jays may have noticed him "stopping by" Azurcrest more than usual this past week. "Just keeping you on your toes," he jokes as he tests the security charms on the cabins. "Red alert! Hide your contraband!"

» Coppertale: The lights in Hermeticism are always on, even when the lodge shuts down for the night, and when it opens at 6 AM every morning. Is the deputy headmistress working too hard? Ms. Vector prides herself on looking untouchable, so it's hard to say. Never a hair out of place, or a smile for an undeserving student. Get to class.

» OOC - Discussion

Comments

EBONHIDE

[goosemods]

Please post your forms for Ebonhide here.

(frozen comment) OTHER POINT GAINS/LOSSES

[goosemods]

Quidditch: +25 (tied game)

Re: EBONHIDE

[soundscaped]

Character: Austin McNamara
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Lose. My boy had a bad month.

Re: EBONHIDE

[casperkim]

Character: Casper Kim
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Win. Just another so-stressed-he-might-die prefect that's been doing his best to pull his cabin out of the negatives.

Re: EBONHIDE

[balthazard]

Character: Balthazar Doyle
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Win. The worst thing he's done this month is pick on Chad. And everyone picks on Chad.

Re: EBONHIDE

[cherubic]

Character: Archie Rose
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?:Lose, on account of another potions mishap.

Re: EBONHIDE

[heyitsnia]

Character: Nia Papadakis
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Lose ;) She only had three pieces of activity last month and one of them was conning the student body into finding her backpack. The head girl's slow spiral into madness is circling the drain.

Re: EBONHIDE

[tues]

Character: Tuesday North
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: My sad quidditch baby pouted but not bad. WIN.

Re: EBONHIDE

[destructobot]

Character: Wilde
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Lose. He swears he tried, Casper.

Re: EBONHIDE

[tartinedeflageolets]

Character: Pear Holloway
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Win. She was just her standard level of awful.

Re: EBONHIDE

[novelling]

Character: Ari Flint
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Look... lose

Re: EBONHIDE

[neattrick]

Character: Clem Decourt
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Lose, for visibly flipping off the Ilvermorny beaters after being asked to stop twice.

Re: EBONHIDE

[gonnabefamous]

Character: Cameron Carney
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Win

Re: EBONHIDE

[ghostbluster]

Character: Liberty Chan
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Lose.

Re: EBONHIDE

[cant_even]

Character: Isabelle Sargent
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Win

Re: EBONHIDE

[professionalcorpse]

Character: Sebastien Lacroix
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Win.

Re: EBONHIDE

[victimless]

Character: Hieronymus Lee
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Win. An angel who has never done anything wrong!!!!

Re: EBONHIDE

[iliya]

Character: Iliya Krum
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Win. He has to redeem himself in Casper's eyes.

Re: EBONHIDE

[ulixes]

Character: Ulysses
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Look, Casper... he's sorry, but... not that sorry. Lose, probably.

RIBBONFIN

[goosemods]

Please post your forms for Ribbonfin here.

(frozen comment) OTHER POINT GAINS/LOSSES

[goosemods]

Senior Bonding: +50

Re: RIBBONFIN

[browbeats]

Character: Rosemary Stoker
Are they winning or losing points for their house this month?: Win. No one saw her let her brother try and burn her boyfriend alive right

AZURCREST

[goosemods]

Please post your forms for Azurcrest here.

(frozen comment) OTHER POINT GAINS/LOSSES

[goosemods]

Quidditch: +25 (tied game)

COPPERTALE

[goosemods]

Please post your forms for Coppertale here.

(frozen comment) OTHER POINT GAINS/LOSSES

[goosemods]

Quidditch: +50

OOC ⏳ DISCUSSION

[goosemods]

If you lost/gained points from an NPC and I forgot to note it, please remind me here! :)

Re: OOC ⏳ DISCUSSION

[racingstripe]

hey i love all these teachers too much