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Shiro Academy OOC
Topic Started: Nov 24 2006, 05:03:29 PM (4,158 Views)
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Erm, Dann, in terms of procedure, FPS police are very similar to...well, I'll go with the NYPD, since I have a healthy respect for that organization. In terms of attitude...well, every cop is different, of course. Play it as you wish...you can have an ass who is pissed about a friend who was hurt during the riot or a kind guy whose just trying to do his job.
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Apr 7 2007, 04:28 AM
Erm, Dann, in terms of procedure, FPS police are very similar to...well, I'll go with the NYPD, since I have a healthy respect for that organization. In terms of attitude...well, every cop is different, of course. Play it as you wish...you can have an ass who is pissed about a friend who was hurt during the riot or a kind guy whose just trying to do his job.

Or better yet, an ass who's pissed about a friend who got hurt in the riot, and his squad partner, a kind guy who's just trying to do his job.
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Kandarin should just implode from the sheer ridiculousness of it all.
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I mean, no nation could ever sustain that many contradicting belief systems and still exist.
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No one is beholdin my evil power?

To look upon it is madness.
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Kandarin should just implode from the sheer ridiculousness of it all.
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I mean, no nation could ever sustain that many contradicting belief systems and still exist.
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No one is beholdin my evil power?

To look upon it is madness.

but my evil was used for good, I gave FPS what he wanted.
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(*still beholding loop's evil power, he finally dares to move A BIT his own lips*)

uhm... just wondering... hadn't we told something like "let's jump some days ahead"? am i wrong or we haven't done it, in the end? :lol:

and above all... WHEN will the ball be?
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Writer's block... <_<

EDIT: It's over! :)
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to bring all up to speed on my side,
Nei was Abducted by the scientologists, and is being held in their compound in brownwater, and Monkeyfist is investigating on his own so he is ready in case he is needed.
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I'd like to get involved in Shiro so I just wanted to post what I had in mind here... I thought my character could meet up with the other students while attending some social function for Matt Terrus in Liberty City. My character would already be destined for Shiro anyway (Kandarin and Kangarawa advised me on this). I just wanted to know if anyone had any objections and if I am okay with the rest of the RPers to go ahead and join.
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Some food for thought:

Liberty City is not a backwater. It is a cosmopolitan city. It plays host to countless visitors, businessmen, dignitaries, and uninvited guests from many, many different countries, many of whom get injured or sick and many of whom are not standard-pattern humans. Indeed, FPS' population contains a few substantial non-human minorities and more than a few non-substantial ones. The health system of Liberty City cannot afford a human-exclusive or even human-specific medical emphasis even if much of the rest of the country can.

The upshot of all that is that while the first medics on the scene surely wouldn't understand Vincent, there are doctors back at the hospitals who would, and who have dealt with his kind before.
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Kandarin should just implode from the sheer ridiculousness of it all.
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I mean, no nation could ever sustain that many contradicting belief systems and still exist.
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Just something to note: Xastrikans were historically sedentary, so Vincent may well be the first of his kind in the East Pacific.
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It's more a matter of mindset in any case. A medical system that's used to dealing with non-humans, part-humans, and the like, would be more capable than most of understanding when this is the case with a patient, and willing to look up species they don't have information on. They have, after all, done it before.

In any case, as Karen and Vincent pointed out, the differences aren't quite severe enough to really change the medical approach to an injury. Both Vincent's folk and standard-pattern humans are roughly the same shape and size, consume most of the same nutrients, and have the same organs (give or take a couple) in the same general places that do more or less the same things.

It's those "most of"s, "roughly"s, and "give or take"s that make things interesting. The devil is in the details. ^_^
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And the blood. Vincent wouldn't do good if you gave him normal human blood... However, his system could adapt to human blood with increased iron levels, and most everything else is exactly the same or similar enough so as to not cause too much of a problem at this point.
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May 2 2007, 03:19 PM
Some food for thought:

Liberty City is not a backwater. It is a cosmopolitan city. It plays host to countless visitors, businessmen, dignitaries, and uninvited guests from many, many different countries, many of whom get injured or sick and many of whom are not standard-pattern humans. Indeed, FPS' population contains a few substantial non-human minorities and more than a few non-substantial ones. The health system of Liberty City cannot afford a human-exclusive or even human-specific medical emphasis even if much of the rest of the country can.

The upshot of all that is that while the first medics on the scene surely wouldn't understand Vincent, there are doctors back at the hospitals who would, and who have dealt with his kind before.

Liberty City also plays host to some of the EP's Finest Riots and Public Demonstrations.
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Why, those aren't riots! They're just public demonstrations of...um...violence...:P

Though the Liberty City Health System may never have seen the like of Vincent before, it'll be far from confounded by him. Most of the hospitals have treated aliens of the like they'd never seen (and certainly never studied) before.

So, yes, they'll have their limitations (no blood to give him), but they'll still be able to treat him at large after some quick study.
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Of course you wait for EXACTLY twelve posts. lol
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I was thinking about introducing the guy who hit Vincent. That alright with everyone?

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Anna is correct to think that her father dislikes their mutual last name. Nevertheless, he still uses it for a number of reasons, mostly having to do with Kandarinese naming conventions.

For the Kandarinese, as with most of us in the modern Western world, first names are forever. One is known primarily by a first name. To change one's first name is a sign of a dramatic, life-shaking, usually irreversible change in worldview, personality, or some combination thereof (See: Yousef Islam, formerly Cat Stevens). For this reason it almost never happens and is societally discouraged.

Middle names, again as with those of us in the real world, are of little consequence. They may be changed, but nobody would notice.

Kandarinese last names change often. A change of last name is an accepted and societally encouraged response to a change in one's career, marital, or social status. It's quite common upon coming of age, entering a caste (more on that later), marriage, divorce, promotion, or some achievement of note. This gets more common the higher up the social ladder one goes. To use a very visible example, Lady Rachel has changed her last name four times: First upon being adopted by her Eldar position's forebear, second upon succeeding his position, third on her wedding day, and fourth after the success of the White Revolution.

Last names are used not to describe family identity but to provide a statement of up-to-date, relevant information on an individual, although this is usually encoded in a name so rife with personal meaning that any sort of interpretation is difficult. Some, it should be said, do use permanent familial last names, but even that is still a statement, declaring that one values family ties above all else. Names used for a sufficiently long time may also effectively become permanent, acquiring the same status as first names as an individual becomes too strongly identified with one name to change again.

Within the ruling caste itself (as well as some of the other small upper castes), last names are expected to be exclusive, and individuals have the quasi-legal right to expect that others within the caste can't use their name without their permission. To do so would be tantamount to hostility.

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Back to the Khaz conundrum. Some 300-odd years ago, Duncan Virenci Khazardi rebelled against his father, Lord Lucian Khazardi, in order to form his own organization and his own Eldar position. He had no intention of killing Lucian or completely conquering his organization. As a result, he did not keep the name Khazardi. Instead, he nom de guerred it into "Vire Khaz". This had the desired effect of insulting and alienating Lucian in every way possible. In so doing he declared that he was a new, utterly different person, rebellious against all his previous self had stood for (by dropping his first name), and declared his disdain for Khazardi (by butchering his middle and last names).

300 years later, Lord Khaz adopted Anna. He recognized and accepted that she would be a very different person from him, and so didn't want to give her his own last name. He felt that the only alternative was to use his old, familial last name instead, but Lorenzo Khazardi (whose family, incidentally, is one of those that use familial last names for the meaning inherant in that act) had the aforementioned quasi-legal rights to it and refused to allow him to "put my name on that thing". Khaz would have changed his own name, but he'd been using it for too long to really be able to get rid of it anymore. So now both of them are stuck with a last name they can't stand.

(If you read all of that, you have too much time on your hands. Join the club. We have cookies.)
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(If you read all of that, you have too much time on your hands. Join the club. We have cookies.)

Chocolate ones, by any chance?
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Gingerbread, actually.
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Aww... well, I get free cookies anyway. :D
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I think it's time to move on to the day of the ball. Everything's more or less wrapped up except Anna and the cops, and I can do that in recap. Any objections?
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None from me.
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None whatsoever.
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Do the subways in Liberty City run 24/7?

Just curious b/c I'd expect Vincent to have slept on one by now.
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Do the subways in Liberty City run 24/7?

Just curious b/c I'd expect Vincent to have slept on one by now.

Subways in New York run 24/7, so on a guess, I'd say yes.

Of course, there'd be fewer trains at less active hours, and somebody would probably try to sweep the bums off the trains (or institutionalize them, this being FPS and all). :skwirl:
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Ooh... so would there be no way for that to work?
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No, he still could. In fact, that'd make a fun addition to a post. Maybe that's what wakes him up?
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That would wok, I suppose. Of course, I can't have Vincent actually institutionalized since there's the event that night and all.
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