#suncrest

When in doubt, reskin literally the oldest and most common logic puzzle in existence, your players will never notice

Several months ago, Monongalia County Schools suggested using the old Suncrest Primary School as a facility for students who needed additional attention. It was a great idea; instead of abandoning an old school, it would continue to be used for its intended purpose. 

This though was an outrage to some of the neighborhood’s residents. They did not want outsiders in Suncrest. The old Suncrest Primary School was theirs, after all, and how dare other kids, no matter their needs, be allowed to sully the Suncrest neighborhood. These residents essentially said, “Can’t these awful children just be sent somewhere else?”

But as is always the case with Suncrest, the temper tantrum worked. The schools and the school board backed down from their plan and the new facility was located somewhere else. Those Suncrest residents, in other words, were rewarded for their unbelievable selfishness. This reward comes on the heels of Suncrest having been allowed to keep its neighborhood school for years after everywhere else in the county lost their own neighborhoods schools. And then, when Suncrest Primary was too crowded, the Suncrest neighborhood was awarded a new neighborhood school, a bit of charity that nobody else anywhere else in the county was ever given. 

One would think - think - that residents there would eventually realize their preferential treatment and at least have the decency to be nice about it. But parents will recognize that this isn’t what happens in the slightest; spoiled children don’t suddenly stop being spoiled. They keep acting as though the world owes them everything until something substantive changes. This is how we end up with this:

That is an invite to a public parade, permitted to be held on a public street, that explicitly bans the participation of anybody but children from Suncrest. Look at that language there in the middle:

“Please keep this in mind when inviting/sharing this event with others as it's not open to the general public.“

Oh really? 

For the record, this is a candy-free event, so this event’s organizers are not at all worried about the neighborhood running out of goodies for their children. They just do not want other children mixing with their own children. It is not clear how the Suncrest Neighborhood Association proposes to ban other, lesser children from their event. Maybe there will be mandatory ID checks? Whatever the case, this is, at best, completely tone-deaf monstrousness and it should be confronted as such. 

But how? 

Periodic campaign check-ins with your party are very important.

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[id: Two questions from a google form.

“What’s your character’s greatest fear?”

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