[Open, Major Event] Drag My Feet Along the Floor

[geistnet]

Class Log #001, 14 June 2066 (Monday)

School's in, guys! Welcome to the class log for Balamb, Netsach's premier hunting academy situated in the Falner Estate's North District. All the information you need concerning the school, it's programs and available courses, class schedules, list of faculty, and uniforms can be accessed from the navigation to your right.

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[conscient]

[ Said Daywalker has noted your presence and the fact that he can sniff the mix of anxiety and eagerness off of you. He was initially surprised ( pleasantly so ) to have heard that you had chosen to opt for ASC, but after hearing more and rereading your file, Riley realizes that he probably shouldn't have been.

All the same, he plans to wait before he finally approaches you. It was deliberate, his choice to distance himself from your case, both because his people have already moved in his stead to provide all that you need, and because he understands his own inclinations to empathize with one of his own.

But that is a conversation for another time and another place.

He moves off to the side, hands folded behind his back so that he might stand by the window that faces Balamb Academy's Quad. Down below, students from the other two programs have decided to congregate to study or to simply be children.

What you won't know though, is that while he is doing that, he is also listening to the specific video that you have chosen: it is an early recording of the vampire burnings in the United States. You will see how safe houses were outed on a mass scale, and how members of the Kindred were forced out into the sun.

Terrible, isn't it? The kind of suffering faced at the beginning of it all. It must have been so disillusioning for supernaturals to realize, quite bluntly, that the food chain is a myth. ]

[nimble_fingaz]

(OOC: I have no idea how an attempt at action tags is gonna look through email, but here goes.)

[ Mason is, quite frankly, absolutely terrified -- here he is, former prince of a domain that tried to impose the 'old ways' of the Kindred, being shown how much of a sham it is for the Invictus to think themselves the apex predators of the concrete jungle.

Of course he heard about this stuff during his education as a mortal (what little he could get, growing up in the streets of Detroit), but seeing it after his vampiric upbringing threatens to shake him to the core.

He puts up a fight against his shock, though, and strives to keep a straight face on while the video continues. ]

this works! :)

[conscient]

[ Catching that, but making no move to step away from that window as you go through the video. The Veil breaking had done much to turn the world upside-down, and instances such as the Burnings had been many.

You are young, Mr. Turner, but you have grit. Riley appreciates that. One needs grit in order to be able to step up as a Keeper of the Vigil.

He'll observe you like this for a while longer; listen to the changes in your breathing, the pauses in-between. And then once the thirty minutes is up, perhaps you will share your thoughts with the rest of the class. ]

Re: this works! :)

[nimble_fingaz]

[ He's clearly zeroing in on the bits about American history: Black Christmas, the border lockdown and so on. While he's keeping a straight face, anyone observing him at length can clearly see his fist start to clench while he reads through what the Darkest Vigil did to the good ole U.S. of A. It's becoming glaringly obvious that he's only now starting to see the bigger picture beyond the (formerly) Invictus-run Detroit.

Once he has his next opportunity to select videos, he specifically starts attempting to trace the history of the Invictus and its interactions with the Vigil -- particularly the reign of Detroit's prince before him. Looks like somebody's starting to do some homework. ]

[conscient]

[ And this one's watching you out of the corner of his eye, noting all those little details that tell him how you feel about all the information that's been offered up for you to take if that is your wish.

You're an intriguing one, Mason Turner: young and brash, and yet you show clear signs of one who is incredibly driven. He cannot help but wonder now about your story. Perhaps you will tell him once the both of you have an opportunity to speak outside of this classroom. ]