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Plot suggestions
By: Plagosus Date: July 5, 2022, 2:19 pm
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As res ipsa loquitur did not put people off, I'm thinking of
going for volenti non fit injuria, explained here:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volenti_non_fit_injuria
Plot suggestions are welcome.
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Re: Plot suggestions
By: Kat Date: July 5, 2022, 3:56 pm
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One idea would require pupils a little older than your usual
characters. In this scenario, two boys are friends. They attend
a school that allows prefects to use the cane on other pupils.
When one of the boys becomes a prefect, his friend volunteers
himself for practice. The new prefect's enthusiasm makes him
reckless. He doesn't practice first on a pillow or other
insentient object but launches straight into a caning of his
friend's bare bottom. A minor injury, such as a cut or a welt
outside the target area, leads to discovery of the activity. The
injured friend has to defend the prefect on the basis of
thingummy.
In a different scenario, a younger boy manipulates circumstances
to make himself appear guilty of some misdemeanor or other.
Perhaps he's just curious or perhaps he wants to overcome the
stigma of appearing priggish. His teacher or headmaster duly
canes him. However, when Mum finds out about the caning, she
knows her son can't be guilty and wants to make trouble for the
teacher/headmaster. The boy must then come clean to exonerate
the teacher/hm on the basis he volunteered for the caning.
One possible way to set himself up: trace over a legitimate
signature to make it look like a forgery.
Kat
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Re: Plot suggestions
By: Zyngaru Date: July 5, 2022, 11:55 pm
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[quote author=Kat link=topic=2676.msg25082#msg25082
date=1657054579]
One idea would require pupils a little older than your usual
characters. In this scenario, two boys are friends. They attend
a school that allows prefects to use the cane on other pupils.
When one of the boys becomes a prefect, his friend volunteers
himself for practice. The new prefect's enthusiasm makes him
reckless. He doesn't practice first on a pillow or other
insentient object but launches straight into a caning of his
friend's bare bottom. A minor injury, such as a cut or a welt
outside the target area, leads to discovery of the activity. The
injured friend has to defend the prefect on the basis of
thingummy.
In a different scenario, a younger boy manipulates circumstances
to make himself appear guilty of some misdemeanor or other.
Perhaps he's just curious or perhaps he wants to overcome the
stigma of appearing priggish. His teacher or headmaster duly
canes him. However, when Mum finds out about the caning, she
knows her son can't be guilty and wants to make trouble for the
teacher/headmaster. The boy must then come clean to exonerate
the teacher/hm on the basis he volunteered for the caning.
One possible way to set himself up: trace over a legitimate
signature to make it look like a forgery.
Kat
[/quote]
OH! Kat. I really like that second plot line. The tracing
over a signature is genius. No teacher would think a boy would
trace over a legitimate signature, because why he need to? They
would for sure think it's a forgery.
You know I am going to have to steal that idea at some point in
time. Not in the near future, too many people would know I
stole it right from you.
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Re: Plot suggestions
By: Plagosus Date: July 6, 2022, 7:06 am
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When I posted I thought that if I get more than one idea which
sparks a story I'll do a muti-part submission of "vignettes".
Kat's two ideas have distinct promise. Anyone else?
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Re: Plot suggestions
By: Skip Trace Date: July 6, 2022, 3:54 pm
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Speaking of forgery...
A boy wants to go on a school outing, and the parental consent
form includes a volenti non fit injuria clause. (It could be
anything from a museum trip to Brighton Palace Pier. When my
grandson and I were at the Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studio
in Leavesden a couple of months ago, it was crawling with
uniformed schoolkids.)
The parental units won't sign the consent form. (Harry Potter
promotes Satanism!!! :D ) This would consign the boy to an
extremely boring, daylong prep period. So he forges a parent's
signature on the consent form. All would have been well except
that the boy broke his arm at some point (tumbling off the
quidditch broom at the green screen demonstration?).
What a mess! A minor presumably can't accept risk, and he was
misrepresenting himself anyway. I'm not sure if anyone is going
to get sued, but I imagine that someone is going to get spanked!
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Re: Plot suggestions
By: afinch Date: July 6, 2022, 4:15 pm
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[quote author=Skip Trace link=topic=2676.msg25092#msg25092
date=1657140879]
Speaking of forgery...
A boy wants to go on a school outing, and the parental consent
form includes a volenti non fit injuria clause. (It could be
anything from a museum trip to Brighton Palace Pier. When my
grandson and I were at the Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studio
in Leavesden a couple of months ago, it was crawling with
uniformed schoolkids.)
The parental units won't sign the consent form. (Harry Potter
promotes Satanism!!! :D ) This would consign the boy to an
extremely boring, daylong prep period. So he forges a parent's
signature on the consent form. All would have been well except
that the boy broke his arm at some point (tumbling off the
quidditch broom at the green screen demonstration?).
What a mess! A minor presumably can't accept risk, and he was
misrepresenting himself anyway. I'm not sure if anyone is going
to get sued, but I imagine that someone is going to get spanked!
[/quote]
Maybe something less severe than fracturing an arm. I wouldn't
have the heart to spank a kid who'd just gone through that, and
would have threatened a parent with CPS who said they were going
to when they got him (or her) home if I'd been the treating
physician. The rest of the scenario works though. Maybe just a
mildly skinned knee--a kiss and a bandaid kind of boo boo that
would still have to be reported to parents.
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