Friday, November 26, 2010

Divination Lesson:  Advanced Mumblety-Peg with No-Face

After seven throws we’ll be able to study the pattern of floor-markings to determine something interesting about your personal future.  Yes, yes, zombie students will have a little difficulty with the manual dexterity portion of the lesson, but then the consequences aren’t so bad for them either, are they?  Please keep the duct tape handy.

Comments

Klisz:

26-11-2010 03:23:00 UTC

Studying, unless I’m studying something else and didn’t realize it.

FuzzyLogic:

26-11-2010 03:45:01 UTC

Studying under our most excellent faculty supervisor No-Face

Darknight: he/him

26-11-2010 04:05:32 UTC

Studying now that my bathroom break is done.

Purplebeard:

26-11-2010 08:11:49 UTC

Studying.

Blacky:

26-11-2010 08:25:36 UTC

Studying

Greytyphoon:

26-11-2010 14:08:33 UTC

Stydying.

Greytyphoon:

26-11-2010 14:08:50 UTC

Studying. Oops. ^^

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 14:57:57 UTC

I enter the room and screech at an incredibly high pitch. It’s a complete disaster, and everyone suffers as a result of my disrupting actions.

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 15:17:03 UTC

I drink my Potion of Fast Learning and Temporary Haunting to scootle out. So long, suckers!

Greytyphoon:

26-11-2010 15:22:56 UTC

Please recheck rule 2.5.3, Josh.

I’m fixing our grades now. ^^

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 15:25:16 UTC

Oh c’mon ^_^

Don’t bother, it just means the former class action wasn’t valid. I’ll do it right this time :)

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 15:25:41 UTC

Disrupting.

Greytyphoon:

26-11-2010 15:30:09 UTC

I thought I’d have the time to get away. ^^
Oh well.
=P

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 15:32:57 UTC

It leaves my own exit in a bit of limbo, though. Seeing as how I cast the spell while I hadn’t made a class action on this class, presumably it had no effect whatsoever, which is very annoying.

Purplebeard:

26-11-2010 15:37:57 UTC

I was just going to point that out. Quick, everyone disrupt this Lesson!

No wait, don’t. I’m in it.

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 15:38:35 UTC

AHA!

Fortunately I cast that spell illegally too, as I didn’t do the Explosive Language check. So I’m going to do that, then recast the spell, and hopefully be outtahere.

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 15:40:49 UTC

I drink my Potion of Fast Learning and Temporary Haunting to scootle out. So long, suckers!

William:

26-11-2010 15:52:17 UTC

Studying, because I can’t be bothered applying all the gndt changes required by a disruption.

Purplebeard:

26-11-2010 15:52:53 UTC

I don’t think it works that way, Josh. The Explosive Language check isn’t a requirement for casting a spell, it is a result of it.

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 15:58:06 UTC

I think that’s debatable. If it were the case that EL was a separate action rather than an integral part of the process then the casting of the spell would be unaffected by Explosive Language; but the success of casting the spell is actually contingent on the Explosive Language check being passed (“If an accident occurs, the spell fails” - not reverted, fails).

Naturally happy to see a CfJ over it though.

Greytyphoon:

26-11-2010 16:00:17 UTC

I agree with Purplebeard. ^^

Also, I had thought about this situation before proposing the potion. “If the Targeted Student was in a class that has not ended when the spell is cast,” means that it has no effect on you if you weren’t. =)

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 16:01:18 UTC

Yeah, we get that GT - we’re arguing over my actual casting of the spell is legal, not its effect.

Greytyphoon:

26-11-2010 16:04:41 UTC

As your LAT check was successful (I checked your roll in the GNDT), you casted the spell before going to class. It has no effect.

So, you are still in this class and will not be free until it ends.

Also, if others have something to say about this, we should call a CfJ, because:
1- We’re polluting this thread. ^^
2- The Headmaster may, at his discretion, give grudge to those who post non-class-action comments. =/

Josh: Observer he/they

26-11-2010 16:08:19 UTC

I already get a grudge so it doesn’t matter to me :D

If you check the time, the LAT check was made well after the event. By enacting the effects of the spell before making the LAT check I conducted an illegal action (I “must” do the LAT check or else the spell fails), therefore the spell itself is illegal.

Instead of reverting it and redoing it, I simply rolled the LAT roll, but that applies to the second iteration of the casting (i.e. the one that occurred after I successfully disrupted the class). Therefore it was legal and I am free to go.

Roujo: he/him

26-11-2010 19:06:10 UTC

Studying among the mayhem and conversations.

Also, I agree with Josh on this one. Failing to meet a requirement doesn’t make an action happen but fail, it prevents it from happening in the first place.

macgeorge:

26-11-2010 20:54:16 UTC

Studying.

Purplebeard:

26-11-2010 23:14:47 UTC

I think we’re all agreed on that point, Roujo, but I don’t think the LAT check is a requirement for casting a spell. If the rules said “to cast a spell, roll blah” I’d agree with Josh’s interpretation, but with the wording of “Whenever a Student casts a Spell,” it looks like an effect of the action to me. Just because Josh neglected to resolve all the effects of his casting doesn’t mean the casting itself is void.

Brendan: he/him

27-11-2010 05:39:42 UTC

At any rate, this lesson is Ended.