Fandom High Weapons Poll

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

[OOC: ATTN: This is non-binding, non-official (although some official types thought it might not be a bad idea), and just to see what's actually what out there in the school. Vala's name is only on it because we needed a paid account (I'm so weak!) to post from.

(Remember: principalconnor rules this place with her Scary Iron Fist Of Doom, so what she ultimately says is what actually goes.)

Please answer IN CHARACTER (As a FH issue it's locked to FH members, sorry Townies!) ]

ETA: Question two, where it reads "magic users", it should read "people with magical/superpowers/mutantpowers/etc."

ETA2: Any mis-votes can be fixed by just "re-voting". It will only count your last answers.

ETA3: Anything I (aka_vala) posted in comments below with the "FH ate my life" icon are OOC, and my mistake in spacing the fact that comments are IC. My bad, please ignore. :(

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Comments

[alchemy-4-arson.livejournal.com]

[[OOC: Thank you! Nicely coded poll.]]

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

[marieann-d.livejournal.com]

Question, does "magic-user" mean ONLY "person who uses magic" or does it mean "anyone who can do something different/special with only their body" too?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

I was wondering this too. I took it to mean any sort of extra powers

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

I'm meaning it as magic/superpowers/mutant powers/etc.

Basically Type 1 weapons you can lock up. Type 2, you can't. :)

Sorry, should have fixed the wording in question 2 as well... Ooops...

[marieann-d.livejournal.com]

Which would mean Faith and Buffy would both have to register too, I would assume.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

Yeah, that's the assumption Faith is operating under. I mean, it's only fair.

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

Since my answers won't fit in the 'other' boxes:

1. This being a high school, the thought of weapons makes me extremely uncomfortable. Perhaps it's just a sensitivity issue with the fact that I am a school teacher in real life, but I don't like the atmosphere that weaponry creates in this game.

2. I think the administration should be aware of every student's powers/abilities, but that no students should be using any powers or abilities against other students or teachers in a negative way.

[can_be_more]

*is not questioning about aliens, cuz...*

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Well... I don't think sensitivity to heat and the ability to postpone a pregancy for three years actually count as weapons. ;)

[alchemy-4-arson.livejournal.com]

When I suggested the poll, that's what I meant the term to mean, and I think most people are answering it that way.

[alchemy-4-arson.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's just a sensitivity issue with the fact that I am a school teacher in real life

The poll is meant to be in-character, though, not from the player's opinions outside the game.

[can_be_more]

I thought it was seven...? *g*

[neptune-wallace.livejournal.com]

As a "normal" student, (one with no supernatural abilities and one who would not carry a weapon in my own canon), I don't understand the need for all of this in a high school. I don't like the idea that Wallace might feel so uncomfortable being surrounded by his fellow students that he might be forced to do something so out of character just to keep up and or/not be completely left out.

[alchemy-4-arson.livejournal.com]

I think the administration should be aware of every student's powers/abilities, but that no students should be using any powers or abilities against other students or teachers in a negative way.

I wonder if people would get behind a compromise whereas the staff knew the abilities of the students, but that info was not released to the rest of the student body.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

Aside from that quote, my answers stand IC too.

[alchemy-4-arson.livejournal.com]

You can always add it to the post above or below the poll. :) I think most people understood it, though.

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Well, there's also the consideration that -- whatever the name may be -- this isn't actually set up like any RL high school that I know of. It's really designed more like a college, and I think people are largely playing it somewhere about half-way between the two.

Plus, of course, we have a bizarre unique student body, where "normal" simply isn't. ;)

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

((That's not how it is? One of my charries has been opperating under the idea that the Principal has a full record on each and every student.))

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Definitely vote against then. This is IC, and I can't imagine Wallace wouldn't.

(VM premiere tonight! Hee! ;-)

[positive-angel.livejournal.com]

*nodnodnod* That was one of my objections that seemed to keep getting lost in all of the hubbub noise.

I'm not a normal normal but I'm very passive and nonaggressive. I don't carry weapons and I don't have any magical abilities to hurt/harm/affect anyone except to heal.

Maybe we should form a coalition for our voices to at least to be heard. Sort of a support group thing.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

That was my original assumption also. Any information students wanted to reveal to other students was optional, then.

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Was it? (*is bad FS fangirl*)

[neptune-wallace.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it probably also gets lost because people like Wallace would feel too uncomfortable [and/or be too lazy] to argue their case vocally in study hall, for example. A united front would definitely feel more comfortable!