Reading a lot of the recent comments about Ruth Thomas. For me she is a key character and arguably the most important in the game barring of course the HM. Without her and her personality traits the game stops becoming a game with any meaningful challenge. If she is going to soften to the HM's methods then some other opposing force needs to come in.
Having said that, I would like to see her being punished by the HM and I could see her sacrificing her own interests for the sake of the students. If for instance she was to uncover the real intentions of Mr Mycock and his backers, this may lead to her, in an act of desperation coming to the HM in the hope that he will act to protect the girls from being taken from the school and put to some other sinister use. Seeing a glimmer of goodness in HM and knowing that the he wants ultimately what is best for the girls Ruth takes a gamble in the hope that you'll help her.
The HM then has the choice of working with Ruth and against Mycock in the hope that such a move won't upset Mycock too much given the positive currency the HM has already built up. Or alternatively he can rebuff her and continue as before but with her resisting his every move.
If the HM agrees to help, he can then open up certain options including possibly a punishment system for under-performing staff, including of course Ruth, convincing Ruth that in order to get the students passing at 100% rate is the only way to protect them and better teaching standards are therefore essential.
Other options would be to allow the HM greater powers towards the girls or for Ruth to agree to submitting to the HM for as long as the girls results are good and they are protected from Mycock.
As a nod to A&H, I have to say a big thank you for Ruth's stockings!!! I noticed the nylon right from the start and I did wonder if she was wearing stockings or it was pantyhose and I was delighted to see that it was the former. Being from a cold country many women wear skirts with pantyhose and I do sometimes fantasize that they are all running around in stockings instead. Alas I think my fantasies are just that, a fantasy.
Having said that, I would like to see her being punished by the HM and I could see her sacrificing her own interests for the sake of the students. If for instance she was to uncover the real intentions of Mr Mycock and his backers, this may lead to her, in an act of desperation coming to the HM in the hope that he will act to protect the girls from being taken from the school and put to some other sinister use. Seeing a glimmer of goodness in HM and knowing that the he wants ultimately what is best for the girls Ruth takes a gamble in the hope that you'll help her.
The HM then has the choice of working with Ruth and against Mycock in the hope that such a move won't upset Mycock too much given the positive currency the HM has already built up. Or alternatively he can rebuff her and continue as before but with her resisting his every move.
If the HM agrees to help, he can then open up certain options including possibly a punishment system for under-performing staff, including of course Ruth, convincing Ruth that in order to get the students passing at 100% rate is the only way to protect them and better teaching standards are therefore essential.
Other options would be to allow the HM greater powers towards the girls or for Ruth to agree to submitting to the HM for as long as the girls results are good and they are protected from Mycock.
As a nod to A&H, I have to say a big thank you for Ruth's stockings!!! I noticed the nylon right from the start and I did wonder if she was wearing stockings or it was pantyhose and I was delighted to see that it was the former. Being from a cold country many women wear skirts with pantyhose and I do sometimes fantasize that they are all running around in stockings instead. Alas I think my fantasies are just that, a fantasy.