Azereiah

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To be fair, Rolf tried to listen :P
He's not exactly in top condition at the moment~

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Rolf was running late. He was always running late, but this was a bit moreso than usual. Normally he wouldn't have bothered showing up after finding himself almost an hour behind schedule, but not going wasn't an option. Thankfully, the important part of the opening ceremony hadn't yet started, and he slowly - almost painfully - lurched through the gate, rolling a comically large trunk on wheels along behind him. He was rather tired, as he hadn't slept at all the previous two nights on account of all the packing. An uneven paver stone caught the tail of his greying and wrinkled white coat beneath his boot, and he stumbled some, though less than he would have had he been moving at a reasonable pace.

People were scattered about the area, illuminated by lamps and moonlight alike, and Rolf took up a position along a wall not too far from the gate. The scene was almost like an old painting, with brilliant contrasting shades between the darkness and the light, the living and the world. The name 'Monet' floated through his head, no doubt because everything was a hazy blur to him. He sat upon the trunk and drifted off almost immediately. Zaria's voice woke him, though, and he promptly stood up again, with the fresh understanding that if he sat or laid down, he wouldn't be getting back up again for at least ten hours. Fear of falling asleep in a place packed with vampires of various temperaments kept him standing for the rest of the ceremony.

Rolf only vaguely understood everything Zaria was saying. He heard the words just fine, of course, but they felt far-off, as if someone else were listening to them instead. Something about a partner...? More immediate than the words, though, was the light tingling feeling in the hand in which he was tightly gripping the letter handed to him. It was slightly crumpled, but it felt as though something about it had changed, and he gave it a thorough examination. It was finally open. The letters on the page felt scrambled and incomprehensible, but there was a picture of... Someone. He stared at it for several minutes.

"Oh."

A quick look over the crowd showed that most people had started pairing up, or trying to pair up, and the general idea of what was going on finally popped into his head. He opted to stay standing right where he was, well away from the rest of the crowd. Whoever the guy in the picture was, they probably had a picture of him as well. No sense moving about and wasting energy when he would just be found anyway. Another look at the picture showed that his partner seemed to be almost the same age, and something about Kyran's eyes put Rolf at relative ease. At least, compared to the feeling of intense hunger he felt from some of the older and more refined vampires wandering about the crowd.

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@The One

Fixed. Try again.

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@WeepingLiberty@Kidd@Coppycat_element_dragon@RabidAnubis@Rawk@Renny@Dusksong@Ellion@Achronum@The One@KiwiBaer

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There we go. Forgot to do the [@mention] stuff first. This should be everyone.

Get in here so the OOC tab doesn't take over the universe~

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Here y'all go.
Erryone get in here!
GM too, pls~

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Doing it now.

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@Dusksong

Might be a good idea to set that up. Otherwise we'll be one of those weird RPs with 30 pages of OOC before the first IC post goes up.

Edit: Should I do it, or should someone else?

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@Ellion

Open to comments, suggestions, etc. This is pretty rudimentary, and might not quite fit Libby's idea of how the world works, so I'm perfectly happy to work with anything else that's suggested~

Thingy

I'm thinking that a fair number of mage children (who are permitted to) generally get sent to a human-run boarding school during their childhood - similar base curriculum to normal public schools, but with elective courses of study during what would normally be "high school", to give students some sort of trade skill. "Service Skills" classes most likely taught by either a turned vampire or a retired mage are mandatory, and train students to be able to successfully live alongside vampires.

Mage children born in the service of vampires who disagree with allowing mages to get their childhood education would be raised more like slaves or servants, whereas those permitted to go to human-owned lower education establishments are trained to behave more as equals - lifelong business partners or butlers, more or less.

Contact with family is usually limited during the stay at the boarding schools in order to help them get used to the sort of environment they'll be working in as adults - under someone else's constant eye, often with very strict rules and unreasonable requests.

Normal human schools might also be a possibility for mage children too young to use their talents, but I'm not sure what sort of rules would go into that sort of thing.

Think 1850-1920 boarding school culture. The treaty between humans and vampires has likely stifled certain aspects of social progress, and some schools are more prone to corporal punishment than others.

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@Ellion

I'm really not sure how to answer that. Should I post what I think would be a good, extremely "basic" description of Rolf's childhood, or what? Because I expect it would vary wildly based on a mage family's patron vampires are like, and whether the mage child was born to other mages or to normal humans.

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@Dusksong

Probably tastes like blood.