[ When you enter the room, there's a man dressed like he could have stepped out of the Prohibition era reclined in one of the front row seats, and he's going through a folder that appears to hold a printed version of the official class list. On the large holoscreen set up front, there is a video playing on mute, and it appears to be a news broadcast dated December 21, 2012.
Once everyone is seated, the man stands, scans the whole of the class as if to check if anyone is missing, before he pauses the feed. ]
The term "vigil", taken from the Latin vigilia, is a practice of deliberate wakefulness. An officer's stakeout, a birdwatcher's day spent in a particular section of the woods, gatherings dedicated to an entire evening spent in silence and prayer for a cause, a person, an event.
[ He gestures to the screen behind him at that. ]
Most of you would not know the content of this video. I find that regrettable, because under the most ideal of circumstances -- you should. [ A beat, then: ] The impression that history is relegated to books and the past is incorrect. History informs the present: culture, beliefs, interactions, even the language we speak, the association we make as individuals.
As members of ASC, and I am very sure you have heard this at least once today, you have all taken on the responsibility of pursuing a career as Keepers of the Vigil within the next six months.
A career as a hunter is not a pursuit that one assigns the self to lightly, so the assumption that you will step out of my classroom in six months time is not that you are competent in the subject matter that I will be teaching you, because to be 'competent' means that you will not pass this class. To be 'competent' means that you have meet the minimum requirement, and as a Hunter, the minimum will not do.
On your consoles, you have been provided copies of the series of videos called collectively by scholars as "The Luminous Apocrpha". These feeds were aired between the first of October and the thirtieth of November in the year 2012, with this [ pointing back to the screen now ] final video airing on the twenty-first of December soon-after followed by the period history books will refer to as "The Breaking of the Veil".
For the next thirty minutes, I would like each of you to go through one of the videos and write down any questions, thoughts or insights you might glean from them. At the end of the thirty minutes, I will open the floor for discussion.
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OOC NOTES: Roll either Intelligence + Occult or Intelligence + Politics, specialty: Vigil to see if your character understood the data provided to them in the videos. Depending on the number of your successes, I'll ping you with what they would have gotten.
RILEY FALNER || Teaching: The Vigil, ASC (OTA)
Once everyone is seated, the man stands, scans the whole of the class as if to check if anyone is missing, before he pauses the feed. ]
The term "vigil", taken from the Latin vigilia, is a practice of deliberate wakefulness. An officer's stakeout, a birdwatcher's day spent in a particular section of the woods, gatherings dedicated to an entire evening spent in silence and prayer for a cause, a person, an event.
[ He gestures to the screen behind him at that. ]
Most of you would not know the content of this video. I find that regrettable, because under the most ideal of circumstances -- you should. [ A beat, then: ] The impression that history is relegated to books and the past is incorrect. History informs the present: culture, beliefs, interactions, even the language we speak, the association we make as individuals.
As members of ASC, and I am very sure you have heard this at least once today, you have all taken on the responsibility of pursuing a career as Keepers of the Vigil within the next six months.
A career as a hunter is not a pursuit that one assigns the self to lightly, so the assumption that you will step out of my classroom in six months time is not that you are competent in the subject matter that I will be teaching you, because to be 'competent' means that you will not pass this class. To be 'competent' means that you have meet the minimum requirement, and as a Hunter, the minimum will not do.
On your consoles, you have been provided copies of the series of videos called collectively by scholars as "The Luminous Apocrpha". These feeds were aired between the first of October and the thirtieth of November in the year 2012, with this [ pointing back to the screen now ] final video airing on the twenty-first of December soon-after followed by the period history books will refer to as "The Breaking of the Veil".
For the next thirty minutes, I would like each of you to go through one of the videos and write down any questions, thoughts or insights you might glean from them. At the end of the thirty minutes, I will open the floor for discussion.
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OOC NOTES: Roll either Intelligence + Occult or Intelligence + Politics, specialty: Vigil to see if your character understood the data provided to them in the videos. Depending on the number of your successes, I'll ping you with what they would have gotten.