Justin Finch-Fletchley (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alt_justin) wrote2014-09-30 03:30 pm
alt_justin) wrote2014-09-30 03:30 pm
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Duelling Salle
It's one of those days when one feels truly lucky to be resident in the Protectorate. The opportunity to take advantage of a duelling course such as the Headmaster and Professor Desai have provided is jolly well exciting. I can't wait to test out the dummies; Headmaster Dolohov was bally well pleased with the job he and Professor Desai did on them. He hinted at a few surprises that ought to present quite the challenge.
The Headmaster has also asked me to provide brief tutorials to those of you who might be unfamiliar with etiquette for a duelling obstacle course. I was fortunate enough to have run the course already this morning, what, and found it quite the workout. I plan to go through it another two or three times this week.
So if anyone would like an orientation, I should be able to take four or five people through the basics in about half an hour. I say, what about Saturday, for those of you who need to arrange your testing with the Professors? I'll conduct one tour at 9:30, after breakfast, and another before supper, at 5:30. For everyone's safety, what, one ought to limit the number to no more than six, so please leave a note here to let me know if you'd like to participate.
-Finch-Fletchley
The Headmaster has also asked me to provide brief tutorials to those of you who might be unfamiliar with etiquette for a duelling obstacle course. I was fortunate enough to have run the course already this morning, what, and found it quite the workout. I plan to go through it another two or three times this week.
So if anyone would like an orientation, I should be able to take four or five people through the basics in about half an hour. I say, what about Saturday, for those of you who need to arrange your testing with the Professors? I'll conduct one tour at 9:30, after breakfast, and another before supper, at 5:30. For everyone's safety, what, one ought to limit the number to no more than six, so please leave a note here to let me know if you'd like to participate.
-Finch-Fletchley
Re: Order Only
I need to start doing more of my own training, again, but I have no desire for Savitha or Lana to know what I'm up to in any specific, so I'll be asking carefully about whether anything beyond presence is logged.
(You all will remember, I'm sure, that there are charms that can show cast spells in a space. Deprehensio and its cousins, we were exploring
beforelast year, but I more care about them knowing who cast what.)Is there anything else I should ask about of use anyone can think of? I'm fairly sure I can get away with asking near anything, between wanting my own privacy and wanting to avoid the problems of two years ago.
Re: Order Only
There is a way to log what's been cast. Deliberately, if you want a record, but when I asked more about who might see, he gave me one of those answers that made it clear he wanted to respect my privacy, but couldn't guarantee that Savitha or Lana or someone might not add their own tracking. (Had to think about it for an hour to sort it out. One of those kinds of answers.)
Which makes the thing near useless to me for more than what I want to let them know about, worse luck. Unless someone has a good idea about detecting that kind of charm in action? Rachel, do you know? I do have a workroom set aside in the tower, but it's got nothing fancy in it, just space.
Means you lot shouldn't use anything you don't want them to know you know, either, obviously.
Way he said it also makes me think he'll be logging for a bit, until it's clear no one's going to be an idiot, but that's just - guesswork. Knowing him. I can't pin down exactly why I think it.
Beyond that, there's a list of, oh, three dozen spells, the really dangerous ones, that will send out an alarm if they're used when there's no professor logged entering recently. I don't think any of you will be likely to try them, mind. (Pomona, he wanted me to reassure you on that point, I think. And Poppy. I can explain enough of the theory over tea, if you want, why those and how it works.)
Re: Order Only