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I feel guilty, but I've just lost the spark.


Now that is a pun I will remember. XD
I really want you to stay, Spark. =< I was so happy seeing you ask so many questions and being so involved in this. I hope I can change your mind with that PM, but if you still wish to stay back, I won't be offended. Hopefully, we can role-play together sometime. =3

And yay! Another "MAGI" lover! You should definitely read the entire manga, Alida =D The last arc, which was about Solomon and Alma Toran, ended, I believe, with the latest chapter. Plenty of people thought it was too long, but I personally enjoyed it, because I was really curious about how everything happened exactly. I suppose the haters were just too impatient X3
Who is your favorite character? My favorites are Judal, Ali Baba and Morgiana, but I'm a supporter of the AliXKougyoku ship. My most hated characters are Sinbad and Gyokuen.
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Wooooh! :D I've never met anyone who knew about the manga before! I must admit that I'll have to read the whole thing again to refresh my memory xD I read the manga while she was still working on it, so the last one I read is volume 7. Since it took about a month between two volumes to appear online, at some point I slightly forgot. I actually prefer to read manga's who are (almost) finished, 'cause I'll read about 5 volumes a day when I like the manga. Goodness, it seems like it's already been 2 years since I last read it o_o'

But so far I really loved Morgiana, Ali Baba, Alladin (he's odd but cute xD) and Sinbad. I suppose he will however turn bad at some point, since he's already acting a bit suspicious if I remember correctly. Geez, I was so sad when Kassim died :'c And I truly love the author's artwork, it's so gorgeous, detailed and yet so clear and clena that the art almost looks simple.

Also, if you enjoyed "Ookami no kodomo Ame to Yuki" I'm sure you will enjoy "Hotarubi No Mori E" which is also a short movie that will surely make you spill a few tears. I can truly recommend that one :)
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Hehe, there are more characters for you to discover in the manga =3 On Mangafox they upload a new chapter ever week, whenever the author publishes, at least. And yah, Kassim's death was saddening.

I've already seen "Hotarubi no Mori E" XD It was such a sad tale. I shed some tears at the end. Have you seen "Kotonoha no Niwa" ("The Garden of Words")? It's also a wonderful love story movie I would recommend to anyone who likes slice-of-life.
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Sorry for the very late reply: Real life stuff and I almost finished my cs ^_^ Only some details left to polish but then I'll submit it to you!

I know right! At the moment when you finally realized that not all stories have a happy ending, and that not all stories are supposed to. I must admit that I haven't seen that one, yet. I'll check it out once I have some free time :3 College is killing me already though. I'm in my second year and my (Indian) professor for early modern Indian history literally said to us: "You don't need to worry about your essay, as long as you spent every day from 9 am to 9 pm in the library, studying and researching. So it'll be fine" X__X She's really sweet... but sorry... I don't think I'm able to do that, lol.

Okay, so far for complaints. Would you mind if I invite some friends to take a look at this rp? :)
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Don't worry. I totally understand how hard it is when real life starts banging on your inspiration door.

Wow, collage sounds hard from the sidelines XD I'm still not done with my summer break, but next Monday I'll be entering my last year in high-school. From then on it will be sweet university~ I'm a bit nervous about the tests I have to take to get in, but everybody says I'll pass easily X3. I'll be entering a university with veterinary medicine, but currently, at school, I'm in a class with a specialty in Biology and Chemistry. How about you? What specialization do you have in collage?

And of course I wouldn't mind you inviting people =3 I've been sending a few PMs to people I don't even know after scouting around other role-plays XD So far, no confirmations. I'll still try asking, though. Feel free to tell anyone about this role-play.
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Gaaah now I'm really jealous of you, Phones! I wish I still had summer break xD You're kidding me right, I thought you were at least 20, lol. Owow, we've got a bèta-man/woman in our midst. Impressive! I'm studying history (surprise surprise so is my character haha). I really love it because it's so interesting and I believe that when you know the history of a people, a nation or an individual, you'll have a much easier time understanding it :)

Okay then, I'll help you on your quest for more writers lol!
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Hmm... I'm interested just a bit intimidated by standards 'xD. Well, if I don't fill them I simply don't get in~ The amount of work you've put in this RP is awesome! I have yet to go through the whole info site, but I'm seriously amazed by what I've seen this far. And I'm having fun wondering what nationalites I could convincingly mix.

About the school system of Oblak City, is it based on any real school system? What kind of a grading scale is used? How long is compulsory education and in which age it starts? What is the school system like in general? How hard it is to get into different schools? And I don't even know yet if I'm about to make a student character or not. :D

Edit: AlidaMaria and Headphones, do you both have randomized sigs? And I don't watch too much anime myself, but I love Kobato!
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Edit: AlidaMaria and Headphones, do you both have randomized sigs? And I don't watch too much anime myself, but I love Kobato!


Yeah, Spark showed me how to randomise it, I'll show you a link to a site where you can make one if you want to and once I'm on my computer c:

Goodness, yeeeessss! Kobato is such a sweet story :D I have the manga's and watched the anime haha. Especially the ending made me cry so hard and then so happy! ^_^
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Thanks, but I'm too lazy to make sig Welp, I guess I'm actually pretty interested! Just a bit out of ideas and time, but when I have both a randomised sig would be really cool. :D Thanks! Though I won't be online for long since I have to do some schoolwork for tomorrow and it's already half past nine here.

And yup, it's one of the sweetest stories I've ever read/watched. I don't own the manga, but I've read it. And the anime was one of the few series which were actually worth of watching after reading the original.
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Just say the word and I'll give you the link ^_^ I know right, I don't think I'll be online tomorrow due to schoolwork. Half past nine? Then we're in the same time zone! Which country are you in Vulpes?
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In Finland, how about you?
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The Netherlands, not all that close by lol.
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In the same continent anyway. :D Most of people here live waay further. But I have to go now. ^^
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True, rather annoying those different timezones. Good luck with work! :)
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Hehee, Vulpes is in the same time zone as me ^ ^. Alida, you're one hour behind~ We are in the future =D

I had never heard of "Kobato" until now. I'll make sure to check it out after posting this. While still on the anime/manga note, are you two following "Kuroshitsuji"? Tomorrow will be the last episode of the "third" (actually second) season.

When it comes to the signature, I used to have an account at a site called "avviesig" or something like that, but I lost my password and there's no way to get it back. Not to mention that their uploading process was slightly bothersome with the three at a time method. I'm currently using a rotator from "sig.grumpybumpers" and have a total of 124 gifs running in the rotator XD

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About the school system of Oblak City, is it based on any real school system? What kind of a grading scale is used? How long is compulsory education and in which age it starts? What is the school system like in general? How hard it is to get into different schools? And I don't even know yet if I'm about to make a student character or not. :D


For my own personal convenience, because your western systems ofttimes confuse me, and due to the fact that Oblak City was built on what was originally Russian ground and the leading shareholder is Russia, the schools have a five-point grading system. In attempts to make it different than the Russian grading system, which is from 1 to 5, students get their results with a system from 2 to 6.
6 - Excellent
5 - Very Good
4 - Good
3 - Middle
2 - Low

Children enter grade 1 at the age of seven years. In their last year, grade 12, they are either eighteen or nineteen, which highly depend on the birthday date. My character Amaya is a fairly standard student who started at age seven and is at age sixteen in tenth grade.
Elementary-school ranges from the 1st to the 5th grade. Middle-school ranges from 6th to 9th. High-school ranges from 10th to 12th.
Both middle- and high-school together form what is known as middle education. Middle education is the lowest requirement for a worker and those, who only have a diploma for middle education, are part of the poorer classes and have simpler low-ranking jobs in the majority of cases.

Higher education are the years spent in university. After grade 12 all students need to pass a compulsory written exam in English and Literature (one exam altogether) and one compulsory exam in a subject of the student's choice. There is also an option for a third exam, but that entirely depends on whether a student wants to or not.
Universities differ in their requirements. Depending on the specialization, some take students with their grades in specific subjects and with a compulsory exam, or they take the student's grades in specific subjects and make them take a written exam in one or two subjects specifically for their university.
It should be noted that the compulsory exam that is in a subject by the student's choice is rather easy when compared with a written exam enforced by the university. The first is, in most cases, a simple test with one or two correct answers for each questions. The latter, however, may involve a small test with open questions whose answers are long, a test
with "closed questions" (a, b, c, etc.) and "open questions" (yet with small answers), or might give the students a theme on which to write on.
The sum of the grades is then divided by the number of grades taken.

For example, a student wants to enter a university with medicine as their specialization, in order to become a doctor. The grades that will be required are those in Biology and Chemistry. However, that university enforces a written exam by their rules. Thus the student must go to the university at a specific date, sit down and take an exam. The exam is then graded on the scale from 2 to 6 ( .25, .50 and .75 are allowed) by the teachers. The three grades are then summed up and divided by 3. The higher score you have, the better your chances of getting into the university. Depending on how many people want to enter the university, how well they perform on the exams and how many places there are for the specialization in the university, the amount needed to be accepted differs. If a university has plenty of spaces, you can easily be accepted. If in your year fewer children were born in comparison to other years, that means less participants and a higher chance for you to be accepted.

However, you might ask yourself "But why 3 numbers when the classes are from 1 to 12?". Allow me to explain by taking that student that wants to study medicine as an example.
The student has studied Biology and Chemistry at school. At the end of each year they receive a final grade in every subject. These final grades are then summed up and divided by the number of grades taken at the end of the grade 12. The result is the grade the student walks out with from school. While at the end of every year the students receive such final grades, only those from high-school ( grades 10, 11 and 12) are summed up to form that truly final grade, which is taken by the universities.

But how is a final year grade formed, you may ask?

The school year is divided in two terms and at the end of each there is an exam in every subject. The form of the exam entirely depends on the teacher, but usually it's a test with "closed questions", with the exception of Literature, where you will be told to sit down and write an essay or interpretation on a theme given by the teacher. The grades a student receives are important and, while the first term's exams only include what has been learned during the first term, the second term's exams usually include everything that has been learned during the entire year. However, these two grades from the end of the two terms are not the only ones that make out the student's final year grade.
During the entire year each and every student can be tested at any, and I do mean any, time. It depends on the teacher entirely. Being tested during the year means to be orally asked questions. Depending on how well a student answers these questions, the teacher scores the answers and writes down a grade in the class register. A teacher can also make students take written exams during the school year, which are also graded, but this practice isn't commonly used (they are flags for evil teachers XD). When being tested orally, a student may be made to stay in their seat, stand up or even go in front of the class by the black/white board and speak. A student may resign from being orally questioned, which has different results. Some teachers will only give a warning, but others will outright write down a 2 (lowest grade) in the student's row in the register.

Each class ( A, B, C, D, etc.) has their own class register. In there are written the full names of the students in an alphabetic order, the full name and phone number of one of the guardians of each student, the full address of each student, the full names of all the teachers teaching this class, the class' schedules and every student's grades and absences.
The first page is reserved for presentation, where the name of the class, the name of the homeroom teacher, the principle's name and seal all are.
The following pages are full of names and addresses.

After them are pages reserved for the class' schedule, remarks and absences.
On the page to the left are four columns: a small one to the left, an even smaller one and two larger ones next to it until the end of the page. There are, of course, horizontal lines, which divide these columns.
In the smaller one are written the subjects for the day in a chronological order. Students in grades 1 to 4 have five subjects a day, those from grades 5 to 8 have six subjects a day and those from grades 9 to 12 have seven hours a day. All of the subjects for one week are written on that one page, thicker lines dividing the last subject of the day from the first subject of the next.
The teachers have to write down their signatures by their subjects in the smallest column on the day.
In the larger columns, in the row of their subject, the teachers have to write down the numbers of the students that are absent. The first column are for those that remain absent for the first 15 minutes of class and the second is for those who make it to class within the first 15 minutes after the start. The first case scenario is regarded as a full absence, whilst the second is considered a "1/3 absence". An absence can be excused by the homeroom teacher by circling the student's number so long as the student has a note from their doctor or sometimes a note from their parent ( in other words, a believable excuse [a.k.a. can be fake]).
The week's number and dates and the numbers of the students who are on duty during that week are written on the top of the left page.
The page to the right is similar, with the rows from the other page continuing on it. There are a total of six columns on this page, a large one to the left and five very small ones to the right of the page.
The large column is where every teacher has the right to write down a negative remark about one or several students in their subject's row. Such negative remarks usually refer to a student's misbehavior during class, their unpreparedness for an oral testing or appearance. In some schools, teachers no longer bother writing these remarks.
From left to right, the five small columns are for: a student's number (explained below), a student's excused absences for the week, a student's unexcused absences for the week, the total amount of a student's excused absences and the total amount of a student's unexcused absences.
The total number of excused and unexcused absences is written down at the end of the year in every student's markbook.
After five unexcused absences a student will receive a warning and will not receive social funding for the duration of the term.
After ten unexcused absences a student will receive another warning and will be subjected to punishment.
After fifteen unexcused absences the school will have every right to expel the student.
It should be noted that the majority of schools don't enforce the last rule and a good portion of then don't insist on the second rule, either.

Afterwords, however, are the most important pages of a student's school life.
On the top of every page horizontally are written the names of the subjects, four subjects on every page.
Below the name of every subject there are six small squares placed next to each other in a horizontal line. Within the first is written II, in the following - III, then IV, then V, then VI and finally "Average".
Below them are a total of seven columns, one under each square and a free one to the far left. These columns also have horizontal lines running across them, thus creating a chequered pattern on the page. In each square of the last column mentioned is written an Arabic numeral, a number that represent a student. Every student has a number and is often referred to by their number, rather than by their name, by teachers. The number is decided by ordering the students' names in an alphabetic order. The roman numerals mentioned earlier symbolize the weeks. A student's grades are written in the row across their number. In the square under "Average" is written the final grade for the term.
All the subjects are written in this manner and are written twice for both terms in that one register. There is also a page for the final year grades.
All the grades the student receives should also be written in their makrbooks by their teachers.

I hope this helps answer your questions, Vulpis =3 When it comes to schools, elementary schools just depend on your timing, since parents just go and sign their kids up. First comes, first serves XD. Middle schools are pretty much the same. However, at the end of grade 7 all students must pass two exams: in English and Literature (combined) and in Mathematics. High school may start from grade 9, but the acceptance happens after grade 7, because high school buildings usually house students from grade 8 to 12. The administration is simply settled like this. The students with the best scores get a place.

If you are wondering about subjects, the lists are quite a few and, seeing as this post is long already, I would like you to ask me separately which grade and class you are interested in.
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Hehee, Vulpes is in the same time zone as me ^ ^. Alida, you're one hour behind~ We are in the future =DI had never heard of "Kobato" until now. I'll make sure to check it out after posting this. While still on the anime/manga note, are you two following "Kuroshitsuji"? Tomorrow will be the last episode of the "third" (actually second) season.

Where do you live? And I have read a few volumes of manga, but then I forgot in which part I was and got tired on it anyway. ^^'

When it comes to the signature, I used to have an account at a site called "avviesig" or something like that, but I lost my password and there's no way to get it back. Not to mention that their uploading process was slightly bothersome with the three at a time method. I'm currently using a rotator from "sig.grumpybumpers" and have a total of 124 gifs running in the rotator XD

Thanks! I will remember that when I'll do my siggy.

For my own personal convenience, because your western systems ofttimes confuse me, and due to the fact that Oblak City was built on what was originally Russian ground and the leading shareholder is Russia, the schools have a five-point grading system. -- -- If you are wondering about subjects, the lists are quite a few and, seeing as this post is long already, I would like you to ask me separately which grade and class you are interested in.


Thanks a lot from info! I'm not completely sure about grade and subjects yet so I'll ask properly about it later, though I'm planning my character to be about eighteen. Hopefully I'll have enough time to write the CS at the weekend. Another question, a lot simpler this time, in which age can people there get a driving license?
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I live in Bulgaria =3 Lovely little place at the end of the world XD

As for driving license, you have to be 18 years of age. When it comes to firearms, they aren't allowed for the general public. You have be in the police or some sort of defense force, like a security guard or personal guard, to get one or you have to go through piles of paperwork through the police ( or you can own one illegally, of course ).

And I feel the need to share this here, because I am in love with this song X3
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Headphones, I have one more small (and hopefully less stupid) question for you. I saw you mentioned the University of Business and Management, the University of Law and Business and Oblak's Musical university. Would there also be a university of the (literary) arts? Or would one of the other universities have a faculty of arts? (With arts I mean studies such as history, psychology, sociology, different languages, journalism etc.) I believe I remember reading about such a thing but when I searched the site and the intro post, I couldn't find it.

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I live in Bulgaria =3 Lovely little place at the end of the world XD [...].And I feel the need to share this here, because I am in love with this song X3


Bulgariaaa, goodness now I'm really jealous of you guys. America, Finland, Bulgaria. Such beautiful and interesting places T-T

Also, I listened to the song and I loved it ;3
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I kind of neglected the site for the past few days, didn't I? ^ ^" I told myself "Wait a bit more to see if there are really any people out there, unless you want your work to go to waste like last time." If you guys are impressed by this site, you should have seen the one for my failed role-play attempt XD

Well, if your character isn't super rich, they would most likely go to either Bunka University in Shinsekai or Open Mind University in Main Okrug.
The first is more of a cultural university, with faculties such as Byzantine studies, African studies, Hindi, Galician, Celtic, Ancient and Classical History, etc.
The second is more business-oriented and has a faculty in journalism, movie production, languages with the business of the specific country, etc. This university is cheaper than the former. XD
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Awesome! Thanks :) And also... do you happen to have a sketch/small map of the city? I tried to draw it but I got really confused by the eas-west-north-south-directions (yep, in that aspect I confirm the stereoptype about women lol).
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