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This information is vital! It tells you all about the school, so please read it, and refer back to it regularly.

St Trinians School For Young Ladies was founded during the General Strike of 1926, by Millicent Fritton, and her sister, Freda. Although it was originally a very reputable establishment, a series of financial problems and rapidly decreasing standards soon led to it becoming little more than a training ground for female delinquents of every denomination. The teaching staff themselves were far from salubrious, as qualified and honest teachers would not stay at a school where they were unlikely to be paid reglarly, and the pupils ran riot, often in the most literal sense.

Since those days, the school has remained open by a series of fortunate events, devious plots, the irrepressible resolve of the pupils, and the determination of the Fritton family.

Location
The school is located in the County of Barset, which lies an hour's train ride west of London, out of Paddington Station. The County Town of Barset is Barchester. The local residents of the surrounding area all live in fear of the girls from the school, and being posted to the Barset Constabulary is considered by the police force to be a punishment far worse than being fired.

A map of Barset can be found here: http://www.trollopeusa.org/wp-...nBokkelenNichols.jpg

For the purposes of the game, the school is located between Mill Hill to the east, and Framley Mill to the west, near the centre of the map.

School Song
Most public schools have a traditional song, and St. Trinians is no different. However, always unconventional, the school has more than one song. The official song is as follows:

    Maidens of St Trinian's, gird your armour on.
    Grab the nearest weapon; never mind which one.
    The battle's to the strongest; might is always right.
    Trample on the weakest; glory in their plight.

    St Trinian's! St Trinian's! Our battle cry.
    St Trinian's! St Trinian's! Will never die.

    Stride towards your fortune boldly on your way,
    Never once forgetting there's one born every day.
    Let our motto be broadcast: "Get your blow in first!"
    She who draws the sword last always comes off worst.

The school has, in modern days, adopted an unofficial song that is more in keeping with the Twenty-First Century girls who carry on the traditions of mayhem that the school holds so dear:

Make us worthy, make us proud
Teach us not to be to loud
We'll try and fit in with the crowd
But we are St Trinians

We cant fake the way we feel
We were born to keep it real
Hockey sticks and balls of steel
We are St Trinians

You bite us, we'll bite you back
Better be scared when we attack
Feel the fear we're maniacs
St Trinians

Check out our battle cry
A song to terrify
No one can stand in our way

We are the best, so screw the rest
We do as we damn well please
Until the end, St Trinians
Defenders of anarchy

So scam all the toffs the neats and the freaks,
Blackmail the goths, the slappers and the geeks,
And if they complain we'll do it all again
We do as we damn well please

ASBOs, the chavs, the emos and their mates,
To torment the slags we offer special rates,
And if they complain we'll do it all again
Defenders of anarchy

We are the best, so screw the rest
We do as we damn well please
Until the end, St Trinians
Defenders of anarchy
St Trinians

So scam all the toffs, the neats and the freaks,
Blackmail the goths, the slappers and the geeks,
And if they complain we'll do it all again
We do as we damn well please

ASBOs, the chavs, the emos and their mates,
To torment the slags we offer special rates,
And if they complain we'll do it all again
Defenders of anarchy

Check out our battle cry
A song to terrify
No one can stand in our way

We are the best, so screw the rest
We do as we damn well please
Until the end, St Trinians
Defenders of anarchy

Victorious, Rebellious
We do as we damn well please
Until the end, St Trinians
Defenders of anarchy

St Trinians

Don't let the bastards get you down

The school also has a Fight Song, sung in support of the school Hockey Team while they are busy bludgeoning their opponents and, occasionally, remember to hit the ball as well:

    Whack it up, girls! Bung the ball
    Thro' Life's goalposts at the call.
    Who can stay the Island Blood?
    Rub their bustles in the mud!
    Gallant hearts and bulldog pans,
    Floreat St. Trinian's!
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:46, Fri 19 Feb 2016.

Sports Teams
St. Trinians has a very poor academic record, but has always had remarkable success in competitive sports. Many other schools, or other establishments, now refuse to even consider facing the school as humiliating defeat is inevitable.

The success of the school is for two reasons. Firstly, the girls have a bloodthirsty attitude to games, and will gleefully foul and cheat at every possible opportunity. Like everything else they do, the girls of St. Trinians never do this in half measures. When they aim a blow at a leg rather than at a ball, they do so with full force, and the piles of wounded opponents tend to litter the field in weeping, terrified heaps. (It says a great deal for the mentality of the games that betting on how many casualties will be produced in any fixture is a long-established tradition, and that itself is rife with match fixing and corruption.)

The second reason for success is the refusal of the players to accept any judgement made by an opposing referee or linesman. If the referee calls a foul, they are just as likely to swing a hockey stick in that direction as to completely ignore it. This blood and thunder approach to sports makes even the bravest official treat the girls carefully, and sensible referees tend to overlook the rule breaking simply to keep themselves safe.

There are several teams, but the following are the most notorious:

Hockey: St. Trinians. The hockey team has no specific name. The school considers it to be a mark of success that they do not need anything other than the school name to petrify their opponents.

Netball: The Angels. The St. Trinians Angels are just as viscious as their hockey-playing counterparts. The adoption of the name 'Angels' was initially to play down their reputation and get more games, but these days it is used to lure unsuspecting opponents into a false sense of security, before subjecting them to a sporting massacre - a terrible fate for players in a non-contact sport.

Football: The Harridans. The St. Trinians soccer team is little more than a viscious gang of bloodthirsty thugs, who gleefully attack each other once they have reduced their opponents to a state of unconsciousness. They are named after Hecate Harridan-Smythe, the team captain who, in 1963, used an axe to chop down the goal of an opposing school during an away fixture. She then tied the opposing team captain to the lumber, and was only prevented from burning the poor girl at the stake by the torrential rain that happened to be falling at the time. The team immoratlised this magnificent victory by naming the team after this sporting pioneer.

Chess: The Eviscerators. While the Hockey Girls have a terrifying reputation on the field of battle, the Nerds and Scientists (and even an occasional Goth) form the core of the chess team, the St. Trinians Eviscerators. Normally, chess is a game that is intense, but sedate and rarely involves casualties. St. Trinians have been known to take hammers to their opponent's chess pieces, and visits to hospital to have pawns extracted from nostrils, or to receive stitches after being smacked about the head by a wooden chessboard, are fairly regular events. The team have expressed an interest in forming a Scrabble team, but so far have been unable to find anyone prepared to take them on.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:19, Sun 24 July 2011.

School Motto

The original school motto was 'In Flagrante Delicto' but like the school song, it has been superceded by a more modern version, 'Non Illegitimus Carborundum.' Both are perfectly valid, though the latter version is displayed on the school's crest, shown on the school uniform. The earlier motto is still inscribed around the school building, however.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:31, Sun 24 July 2011.