The Public College of Rotation and Current, commonly known as the Dynamo Club, was one of the nine chit clubs founded under imperial charter in 276, for the instruction of children preparing to take the Balogh-Isoherranen Exams. These colleges eventually became mere entry-points for membership in the influential political factions that bore their names. The Dynamo Club, like the decendents of the other eight chartered clubs, was a major military-political bloc in the Late Imperial Period, and is best known for the part it played in the Arpapella Essay scandal and the Míshnay Glowny riots. 

In the days when the Dynamo Club was still solely, or mainly, a school, it was widely considered the most selective and prestigious of the Public Colleges, and certainly the most famous of all chit clubs, thanks to the popular "Right Out!" series. Of the eightpenny novelettes that filled fourth-century newsstands and bookstalls, "club stories" were the hardiest of perennial bestsellers. Most were set at one of a hodgepodge of invented "alternative" schools, modeled after any of the hundreds of fly-by-night unchartered clubs that cropped up in those years. These were, however, portrayed as far more venerable and elite than they actually were. (Real unchartered clubs were more than happy to encourage this fiction, and there are many records of the shock their graduates felt when they emerged into the real world and were disabused of these illusions.) The "Right Out!" books were the first to make the bold move of placing its characters in a genuine chartered club, and readers responded with enthusiasm.

The Dynamo Club stories do not appear to the modern eye to be of noticeably different quality than any of the others, though they were certainly by far the best loved. All operate on a similar good-clean-fun model, with particular attention lavished upon students' licit and illicit romps, usually involving plenty of food: midnight picnics, trips to the local Coenobite confectionery, inter-club pig roasts, minor disasters in the College pastry kitchen, and so on. A frequently recurring storyline is a larky variation on the theme of The Incompetent Warrior Who Never Recieves His Comeuppance, in which one student is accused of another boy's misdeed, and is too upright to argue the point; the truth never comes out, and instead the misunderstanding works out for the best for everyone involved, usually by landing all the characters in the post-Exam positions best suited to their personalities.

The "Right Out!" books milked the supposed charms of Dynamo Club life for all they were worth, and as there was hardly any halfway-literate child of the era who did not read at least one novelette in the series, the result was that generations of Uzdumalians grew up with feelings of proprietary affection for the club. Later Dynamo factioneers took advantage of these feelings by adopting habits that capitalized on this public goodwill. It is for this reason that so many of the most ruthless Dynamites were known by almost parodically clubby nicknames, such as Boffie, Pantser, Guppy, or Bingo. More than one also made certain to publicize his sentimental attachment to weaselry, alluding of course to the Right Out! gang's faithful stable of stoats and badgers.

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