OOC MK I:
Kaelan wrote:OOC - at 270 exams I'm assuming that is lecture hall & not class size. What subject (field) are you grading. Just curios as a fellow engineer who's been thru the UK system, not the USA. When I went thru everybody was too scared to argue their marks as it tended to result in a remark that lowered your final score (examiners were more prone to find mistakes that you had made then they had the second time round).
It's actually less than 270, I was assuming people hadn't already deserted the other professor's class
en masse, which they had.
Probably more like 200 now. I'm grading one problem on each exam for two professors who gave identical exams simultaneously. I routinely let people argue their marks
if they find me to complain, it usually works out all right; on this exam there was one problem that accidentally asked the opposite of what the professor intended and I had to spend half an hour convincing him of it. Sigh.
Currently taking a short sanity break from the foolish answers.
"I bore Sir Oliver no malice until he insinuated that I acted as part of a conspiracy when I consider sneaking around like a thief to be disgraceful. I will accept an apology from Sir Oliver in lieu of fighting, however. Should he do so, I will bear no more ill will towards him and we shall go our separate ways. If he is unwilling to apologize, then may the best man win."
Now I'm really torn. One part of me wants the fight to be called off, but another wants me to should from the walls "Two men enter, one man leaves". I still have confidence that Sir Alfred can take him.
I don't. He's on horse, with a lance that has a bomb on it, wearing magic armor and a
professionally enchanted sword. The only thing Alfred has that he doesn't is hand grenades, and they're not very good hand grenades either.
IC:
Kaelan wrote:OOC
Just on a slight technical note, you are aware that William is not a man at arms, or in any bodies employment? Are you offering a job?
Larric's voice, rapidly hissing to William if William hesitates to step forward:
If he denied that you were working for him, Sir Oliver would be free to carve you like a roast for your insolence- and he'd do exactly that.
He's saving your damned life, Will! Quit trying to play the court jester, or
Sir Alfred will have to beat you into a pulp for it next time. And honestly, I just might help him.
OOC MK II:
Seriously, Kaelan, I think you'd better accept that your character can
really apologize for his conduct, no sneering and joking at a man of superior rank. Or he can die- and that Sir Alfred will probably be held responsible for putting William down like a rabid dog if he
doesn't apologize. Your choice.