Last night I made some minor adjustments to our rank structure that bring us better into line with the "crime school" theme we've built. It wasn't right for instructors like Charisma to be "Senior Sisters" alongside students like Kelli, or for any of our seven instructors (like Greta) to be mere "Staff."
VG rank is now a better indicator of your role at the school. There's still one boss, that's me, but since we have several teachers I am simply "Headmistress" now instead of "Faculty Mentor." Beneath me are the other Faculty -- In Absentia, Dr. Octavia, Charisma Calloway, and the other three Cardinal Sins which we have not yet filled. In the third place are Staff, a position for non-students and non-faculty. (ie, Sibrina Styles) Fourth in status are the Sisters, who are students at the school: Felicia Onyx, Babydoll Slayer, Ersatz Evil, Kali's Embrace. We could take about four more students right now (I am keeping a roughly 2-students-to-1-teacher ratio) and, if we fill out our faculty, about half a dozen more than that. Finally, we maintain our Pledge rank for new girls who are checking out the Sorority for a week or two and may not stay.
The sub/dom relationships within the school are perfectly intact and aren't going anywhere; it's just that your rank in the VG is not as precise a guide as it was before. The rule of thumb is still pretty simple: lower ranks serve as subs to higher ranks. The sole exception will be individuals who have managed to avoid the sub-dom relationship; this would be unheard of for students, possible for staff, easily done for faculty. We're never going to have a topsy-turvy case in which a teacher is subbing to a student; this would undermine discipline at the school and as Headmistress I have to put my stiletto heel down.
Each student will still have a faculty mentor who looks after her and is her dom -- but not all faculty doms will necessarily have a sub (though they probably should; as the faculty and student population fills out it is easy to imagine that pecking order among the teachers will be determined by how many students each teacher has). Staff members will probably belong to an instructor, but can stay out of the system if the player wishes to. Teachers can dom or not, as they choose. New faculty hires go straight into the faculty rank; staff go straight into the Staff rank; new students are Pledged until they pick a mentor, at which point they become Sisters.
It's my hope this rank structure will be easy and helpful to our RP. Our VG has so few resources at this time that the only mechanical thing which rank really influences is the power to invite new members, which every Sister can do. If there are any questions, or if anyone has concerns about this system, just ask. I promise not to bite.
6 comments:
I haz two questions...
1) Is it possible to be mentored by one instructor and belong to another?
2). RPwise, do we consider each Sin to be like a Harry-Potter-House (ex. Kelli and Ivy would be Sisters of Pride, Felicia would be a sister of Greed, etc)?
3) How many is two again?
4). If you can be mentored by one teacher and dommed by another, what house (if applicable) do you belong to?
1) No. The definition of the teacher-student relationship is dom/sub. Your teacher may choose not to exploit that relationship -- and players who do not want to get involved in the sexual politics of the school must be respected -- but if you are pledged to a teacher, that is your faculty mentor, and that is your dom.
2) You could say that. I've not referred to it that way myself yet, but we certainly could. Note that because the school is staying small, most teachers are going to have 0-3 students, so each "House" is pretty small. I wouldn't use the word "House" to refer to one sin and its affiliated teacher and students, only because we already use "House" to refer to the Sorority House, and it would get confusing.
3) Thou shalt count not to four. Thou shalt count not to two unless followed directly by three. Five is right out.
4) This can't happen; see (1).
Ok, but but but...::Scrunches face::...are students assigned to a teacher, or do teachers lay claim?
I think I'm confused by the "2:1" ratio idea. Is that just the average in general, or do we "Even build" like it's houses in Monopoly?
Is it possible for one teacher to have six subs, and another to have zero or one? Are we assuming that all students will sub to someone?
You're thinking about it too hard. Two students per teacher is an average. It could be 0. It could be 3. I have a hard time imagining how it could be 6, but I suppose if we had one really popular teacher and the rest of you all sucked, it would be possible.
Players should come to an agreement about which teacher will mentor each student, and then they can IC that decision however they like. The teacher may "claim" the student, the student may "pick" the teacher. Its something the two players should decide.
Yes, all students must sub to someone.
Ok, one last thing. In a situation where a student doms a student, does the teacher have control over the complete tree? For example, Nadja owns Kelli, who owns Ivy. Is Nadja ultimately responsable for Ivy (Headmistress posiiton aside)?
Just trying to put the whole political structure out there, 'cause I think too many things.
Presumably, yes, Nadja is Ivy's faculty mentor.
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