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WELCOME TO THE ANNUAL STUDENT COUNCIL SIGNUPS

A large, colour sign seems to be tacked up right next to the school cafeteria, there is no way to miss something that blatant and obvious. It kind of looks like a little frightschooler went crazy with their crayons and created this giant, colourful monstrosity of a banner, complete with balloon frogs and rubber snakes streamers.

An over-eager third year, sporting quite a magnificent pin collection stares at you and smiles.

"Hey there, would you like to try out for student council?" She attempts to shove her clipboard in front of you.

(( OOC: WHAT IS STUDENT COUNCIL

ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS are eligible for student council. Students can apply for any position available on the clipboard, but you can only apply and run for one.

Once again, the positions are:

• President You are the figurehead of the student council and are the person who makes announcements and talks on the ickycom regarding student council decisions. You cannot however make a decision on your own without the approval of at least two of your council members.
  
• Vice president If the president is busy, you are the person to go to to manage the remaining issues. You help the president as well on making the big decisions or planning ideas.
  
• Secretary You manage and organize events and do all the paperwork. You are more of a planner, not a thinker.
  
• Public Relations: The student who creates all the ads, the banners, the colourful posters and anything they can think of in regards to an event. You help organise and manage actual events student council has thought of.
  
• Treasurer You (ICLY) organise all the money and funds student council has as well as how much costs you are alloted to what event, granted to you from the school. You can also fundraise from students to help with council events.

- ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN HELP PLOT OR PLAN EVENTS, propose them and make them into reality!


So what happens after I sign my student up to run?

- Advertising Campaign: Once sign ups are closed, you will have a bit over a week to ICly create an open thread with their 'voting campaigns' , or do rps with their voting campaigns to attract more votes, whatever you like. Make buttons, make banners, be as creative or as fun as you would like for it! You can even do such things as ICly getting your 'friends' to stand up for you or to pass by buttons or the likes in an open rp. They can even pose outside the school yelling their lungs out, the options are limitless.

- Public Speaking: Near the end of the 'campaigning', the 'public speaking thread' will open up. Students will get exactly one post of 500 words or less to convince other students to vote for them.

- Voting: A few days after the public speaking, the actual 'voting process' will begin. All approved enrolled students are eligible for voting! Students wanting to vote must POST icly their character going into the ballet box and voting. All votes will be pmed to the MULE and tallied PRIVATELY. Students can vote for one of each, but it must be submitted in one 'voting sheet' as to not create confusion

- Results: Results will be announced and the new student council shown for the semester!

NOTE: The student council runs EVERY SEMESTER. That means come Febuary/March after exams, there will be a new election. Old student council members can still get renominated.



WHAT CAN STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS DO?

- It is like a glorified student club. Student council members have their own exclusive club which they can choose to create club rps for or not. There they can discuss events they want to run. THESE WILL BE COME STICKIED into orp events, such as an idea for 'spirit week' will be treated like how the 'monster ball' is being treated currently. Whatever open rp events they want to come up with is up to them!
- They can also propose smaller scale 'meta' events that might affect all rpers. This again is up to them how they want to deal with it, all proposals can be brought up with admin staff and approved before getting started. This could be anything from something like a "school mystery hunt" to a "student council auction week" (where you sell the a student for pumpkin seeds to 'buy for a day', sounds familiar??)
- Student council will also be able to hand out an exclusive 'student council' minipet themselves (each council member has this ability).
- Each student council member also gets their own shiny status badge. Ooooh! ))

Sin wasn't actually totally confident about running for student council, but she had to look confident. So like most things in her life she put on a small smirk of confidence and tossed her hair back. Being tall, pretty, and a demon helped quite a bit if you were going to pretend to be cocksure.

"Sure I'll bet I could do some good on the council." She took the pen and eyed the positions open. She should have put her name down for president, it was expected no doubt. Her parents would want her to go for the top of the food chain, they would have wanted her in control. She moved her hand and signed instead on the line for Vice President, Sin Err. The R ended in a flourish and she handed the pen back with a small smile.

"I hope I'll have your vote?" She winked and grinned turning and walking off. Inside her mind was s sudden turmoiled tangle, oh boy what had she just done. This was going to mean competition, and planning, and work...she sighed softly. Oh well no one ever said school was going to be easy.

Lilura was happily walking away from the library with with a brand new book to read about hexes when she saw the big sign for Student Counsil. She immediately tried to avoid any eye contact with the third year with a clipboard.

"Nina, perhaps you should try out," Tartalo said to her. He thought it would be a wonderful experience for the girl.

"Why would I want to do that? I mean it's just a student counsil," she said back.

"Nina, you will be head of the house one day. You need some experience in a leadership roll," he replied sagely.

She sighed; dear hecate why did he always have to be right? She would be head of house and everyone would be looking up to her to lead them. She might as well get use to the idea even though it terrified. Then again maybe Daisuke would help her campaign, she liked that idea. She smiled to herself a little and took the clipboard, scribbled her name and position down, then handled it back to the other student.

Wandering into the cafeteria, Kasumi pondered what to have for lunch today. Well, ghosts didn't actually need to eat anything, but it was the act itself that was comforting. She smoothed out her hair and looked to find someone to sit next to. Was Belladonna here? Or maybe Tess? Before she could find someone specific, a sign caught her eye with an eager third-year student sitting beneath it. How she aspired to reach her third year of learning! Oh wait, what did the sign say?

Student Council

Ah, something right up Kasumi's alley! She loved organizing things and would adore assisting someone, especially a female president. That would be AMAZING. Taking up the clipboard, Kasumi jotted down her name and desired position.



Now to come up with campaign ideas! She was so excited that she forgot to even consider lunch again.

"Shehk... Shehk c'mon... ... c'mon, baby, don't... ...but I don't want to join the jacking student counsel, they're losers! NO I'm not saying your friends are losers! ... ok, well maybe that one but... ... yeah. ......... yeah. ... yeah? ... Swear? .....ok fine."

The sound of a skellular phone clicking shut wasn't really a sound that any student at Amityville really took notice at, and this one was no exception. Everyone had them now a days, and all the students seemed to be on them constantly, so everyone had pretty much tuned it out by now, along with the sounds of screaming ringtones (as long as they didn't go off in class, of course.) Nukpana, however, was a very unlikely candidate when it came to that sort of thing. For the most part, the skinwalker didn't act at all social, beyond hanging with his gang or his buds, and he certainly didn't need to talk to them constantly. He much preferred things in person, anyway.

Shehk was the exception, of course.

Shehk was the exception to everything.

Growling under his breath, Nuk stalked over to the table, snatching up a pen and scribbling his name down, tossing it back on the table when he was done and half storming away from it, shoulders hunched.



Exception to everything. Including student counsel, it seemed.

Tabitha didn't eat - But by Jack she adored watching the rest of the school fight down whatever that horrid looking lunch lady had prepared for the day. It was always so entertaining and in it's own way felt to her as though it was a special play just for her. Like the interactive puppet shows her father used to make for her with dead rats. Grinning ear-to-ear she was making her fourth pass by the 'new plot twist' when what was actually happening sunk into her thick skull. Words like 'president' were being thrown around and that girl had so many pretty pins it was mesmerizing. Staring at the sign-up roster Tabi clicked her fingers together as she deliberated on what position she wanted to try for. Of course she wanted all of them, but the pushy girl with the pen had been very adamant about choosing one and sticking to it.

On the one hand 'Treasurer' had the word treasure in it and who didn't like treasure? But again- No. Pin Girl, upon request with a bright smile, informed Tabi that the position of treasure entailed working with the council's money. Which meant math. Which meant being able to do math. With a sigh, the skeleton had shaken her head.

'Secretary Tabitha' had sounded awesome as well, and yet again it was a let-down. With the same smile, a little more forced this time, Pin Girl explained that the secretary was the note taker of the council. It was a very important job. A job that required clear hand-writing and spelling. A job that required you could spell. Another head-shake from Tabitha and the job was passed up.

'Public Relations' just sounded boring and didn't sound right as 'Publick Relations Tabitha'. It made her sound like those 'working' ghouls she'd seen in town that barely wore any clothes and would get in carriages for money. She didn't like that idea. 'Vice President' was described as the second-in-command and Tabitha, future ruler of Halloween, was not going to be anyone's second anything. With another shake of her head and obvious eye-rolling from Pin Girl Tabitha dipped her finger into an ink-pot and nodded.



President was perfect. With a face as similar to :3 as she could get, she skipped off to watch the rest of Pro Lunch Wrestling.

Bubbling over with a ridiculous amount of excitement as a standard himself, Thackery was happy to give the third year his attention. He marveled at her pin collection (ooh, he wanted that many pins!) before returning her cheery smile.

"Student council~?" He considered the offer, taking the clipboard from her and eyeing the names already scribbled down. Erebus! His very own brother! Oh, he was so proud! His fluffy tail began to wag as he thought about helping with his sibling's campaign - which gave him a frighteningly fantastic idea. The "Public Relations" position was staring at him. He thought he might have seen it beckon. It was possibly dancing.

"I'd love to sign up! I like the public! And relations!" The awkwardness of his last comment completely went over his dog-eared little head. He signed his name in the next empty space, ending it with a happy smile to show how much he loved the idea.