Humans/ Vampires.
A re statements of some important IC and OOC facts, along with a bunch of random thoughts on play.
None of the bellow are new ideas or rules, what happens in a sim is that over time people begin to subtly change things in their mind and suddenly they begin talking about the changed ideas as if they are the rules. Then they kick up a storm when reminded of the original rules.
This is as said a re statement of some ideas prompted by some investigation into a few problems.
All humans live in an occupied land where they are oppressed and hunted by their overlords the vampires.
Humans are like mice in the land of cats, with all that implies.
Humans are universally seen as animals, as food
This is not a society where one section of humanity has enslaved another.
Vampires are alien creatures, no longer human at all.
If you are human and you are not interacting with vampires you are not playing the game.
You are here to be bitten. Or at least evade being bitten by clever RP. You are not here to chat with others of your kind and look pretty.
Vampires you are here to do what vampires do, bite humans!
If you take most of your Blood from bottles then you are not playing the game.
We may well very soon take drastic action with bottled blood .
Humans
The human condition is never happy, just endured.
The only rights humans have are those granted by their oppressors. These are not OOC rules! Just a few loose laws put together to stop mass slaughter.
No Vampire weeps for the death of a few humans who disappear on a dark night to a hungry brother or sister.
Humans are far weaker than their vampire masters!
Vampires, become what you are, arrogant overlords!
Humans are cattle until they become aggressive and go on the offensive. At which point they become vermin to be destroyed.
All resistance Should be ruthlessly crushed.
If you as human wish to start a revolutionary movement then please feel free to do so, but expect your movement and your character and all in your group to be Violently dealt with and possibly destroyed unless you learn once again how to grovel to your masters.
We have a permanent movement here for the rebellious approach, Vordensian.
Borghesia.
I have described them as looking more like the upper classes in France a while after the revolution began to bite, nervous and always on their guard, their grandiose appearance slowly becoming worn and shabby, dirty at the edges.
Do you think a vampire society would stand for a class that out dressed them?
No, all outward displays of arrogance would be seen as a subtle attack on authority.
Renting
The Rental system is what being a Borghesia is all about. If you avoid it in any way at all your are definitely in the wrong group. Think about this. You have joined this group because your preferred, not guaranteed, form of interaction with Vampires is by invitation through the rental system. This is your purpose in life. Your function in the sim, if it were not for this function, the vampires would kill you all.
Borhesia are not all upper class Citizens!
Some few of them are from the old upper class of the city who, when the vampires took over, had enough money to pay their way out of continual biting. However, since the rental system was set up by the Elders, anyone who wished to attempt to avoid continual attacks on the streets was allowed to become Borghesia.
Of course, many of the old Upper class families still think it is a group especially for them, but it is not. This fact has definitely been totally lost in the sim.
There is very little difference between a Borghesia and a Paesani.
The difference is that if a Borghesia is attacked on the street they have the right to lodge a complaint. That’s all.
This right to lodge a complaint does not mean an OOC mandate to stop Vampires in their tracks from attacking. This would be like waving a copy of the ten commandments in the face of a hungry wolf and pointing to the, though shalt not kill section.
You will always be open to ill use by vampires,you cannot really avoid this. Neither should you want to. What kind of game did you come to play ? This is a vampire sim!
But, you do have the right to get them into trouble after the event.
Of course this is not by any means an open invitation to vampires to attack Borhesia.
Most Vampires will of course stay within the laws of the city.
And of course, any vampire attacking and biting a Borghesia without rent must expect to be heavily fined at the very least. We are considering instant fines for this kind of attack rather than court cases that get missed and never happen. It is perfectly fine for people to break laws as long as they are always aware of the consequences and suffer accordingly.
I am aware that Vampires can seem far to keen to “rescue” these attacked Borghesia from the clutches of other vampires.
Of course there would always be such people in all societies, people who side with the underdog, with the mal treated slaves etc.
But remember this!
Any vampire who habitually sides with humans against other Vampires would be seen as a traitor to their own kind and should be shunned and attacked by their own kind.
Please understand, this is not modern day Europe where there are human rights that allow aggressive antisocial behaviour to have the luxury of free speech and sanctuary. This is a very closed and suspicious society of creatures who trust no one, especially those who openly display Characteristics unnatural to their kind.
The first thing you learn when you acquire eternal life is to never become attached to things that decay and die.
Courts
Why am I being judged by only a court full of Vampire leaders, where are my 12 good men and true drawn from all walks of life.?
Venexia is a rigged society. It is rigged so that almost always vampires win. Again many people suffer from projecting modern day thinking that has arisen in fairly settled societies, onto a young society which has just pulled itself out of constant internal war and has only racial self preservation in mind.
This might seem unfair but it is just a legal form of survival of the fittest. If you ran a society in a time of great upheaval and stress the last thing you would do is worry about those who were not of your kind. If you did this too often then you may just find these people who you so wish to help so much turn around and take your position at the top of the pile. Humans should not expect fair trials.
You should think of it more like a trial judged by a king. He chooses who he sees as furthering his own aims and those of his empire. The thought that humans can bring prosecutions against vampires in a society run by Vampires for vampires is foolish.. But there are laws and even vampires should stay within them. In a way humans never take vampires to court. No more than an animal takes a human to court. Vampires are prosecuted because they break their own social laws, which are set up to protect the vampire society as a whole, not because of some humane attitude to Humans.
Can Vampires Father babies or give birth to them ?
No!
I felt sure this was in the rules some place as it has always been clear in my head. But could not find it.
Vampires never settle in to the good old pipe and slippers family life. They are anti life, born out of death. There are far too many complicated biological explanations that would be needed to explain how a dead thing creates life. It is also far to human to want to love and care for babies, this does not strike me at all as having anything at all to do with vampires. This sim is not about vampires settling down and having kids.Vampires are not re born humans.
So how come they can have sex?
Well that’s a different thing. Having the capabilities to become sensually aroused does not in any way imply that the dead body can produce the chemistry needed to create life.
Nor should it be needed. What makes vampires unique is what they lost as well a what they gained when they we re born. To allow Vampires to have children is anti Vampire. Life implies death. Vampires do die nor age, or if they do it is at a terrifically slow rate. How then would you fit this fact into the birth of a child, does it take a thousand years to grow? Or are we producing Vampire human hybrids, that is just too messy to think out. No, it is a romantic notion that has no logic, not even a fantastic logic. It just sounds wrong and does not work in this world.
So to sum up, humans need to keep in mind always their place in this society.
Borghesia need to make sure they understand why they are playing the role they are, and not act like the law was written to protect them as human beings. It was written to protect them as food.
Vampires need to Play like Vampires, As was written way back at the beginning, Vampire society is based on arrogance and strength, weakness and displays of un natural behavior would be oppressed.
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Addendum
Just to make something very clear that I may have missed this morning. Borghesia are rented for feeding only. They are not rented for sex or torture or for a conversation when you are needing some company etc. Any other activities can only be pursued if both parties agree OOC. The RP should, unless agreed otherwise, be centred around feeding. Anyone looking for sexual activities might like to keep an eye on the bordello where a similar rental board and system will be set up for courtesans very soon.
If this rule is adhered to then there should be very little need for borghesia to refuse a rent. If you are refusing a rent for other reasons such as not wishing to RP with the person who has rented you , then that person should be on your RP ban list. Refusal of rental may also be considered for instant fines.