gooseberryhigh | HOUSE POINTS: December/January

House Points:
December/January

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.

Because we missed it for December, results will be rolled twice for every character, for December and January! You may get both rolls regardless of when your character was accepted.

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

House point contributions for December/January will stop being rolled on Tue, Feb 6 at 11:59 PM MT!

CURRENT TOTALS
EBONHIDE	RIBBONFIN	AZURCREST	COPPERTALE
598	538	374	311

» Ebonhide: Ms. Rhee has been impossibly smug all winter about how brilliant her kids are, and didn't even get offended when Ms. Vector passive-aggressively reminded her about the current Quidditch scores.

» Ribbonfin: Mr. Hightower isn't disappointed, just concerned. The House Cup matters less than making sure all of you are okay. Are you okay? Okay enough to maybe... take first place from Ms. Rhee?

» Azurcrest: Mr. Merrill is honestly pretty pleased, but that doesn't mean you couldn't do better! He told your parents that this is the BEST house, and it would be GREAT to have some proof to back it up!

» Coppertale: Ms. Vector forced you to shovel snow in December so she could have an excuse to give you points, even knowing you'll tank it again. The House Mug is an Azurcrest conspiracy to reward mediocrity. Stop.

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