Session #10: Praxis Seizure

An earlier picture that reflects the struggle between the need
to have a political gathering regarding the prince and an
opportunity to remember the brave and valiant dead.
(Professor Hadley and Gary Dodd pictured above)

This gathering was intended to be a funeral of Gary Dodd but we also needed a new prince because the old one had to leave the game.  As the Nosferatu memorial was to be held by a vampire who had never actually met the deceased in question, though he had good motivation to want to mourn the fellow due to a mixture of blood-based mood swings and clan affiliation, the rest of the court decided to have a gathering focused on the praxis instead.  Since they thought it would be poor form to bicker about politics during a memorial, or at least to openly bicker about politics, they chose to do the memorial later.

Michael Novichkov, eldest in Adelaide with an Embrace date of 1751, stepped forward and announced Jasmine Hadley as prince.  The gathering then split into a variety of political manoeuvres in back rooms which saw Novichkov as Marshall (sort of an externally focused tactician and court defender) and FatherMother as Sheriff (an internally focused lawbringer and investigator).  No one stepped forward as harpy now that Amity Fine had left the city so the position fell to her deputy, Talitha Salvatore, who was all right with recording boons but really didn't want the other responsibilities of policing society itself.

Gustaf Freya'barn wrangled the position of seneschal and successfully (though temporarily) argued against creating a position of emissary which is pretty much a herald to other supernatural groups who would be responsible for making diplomatic overtures.  This game the Circle of the Crone positions of sheriff and seneschal while the Ordo Dracul held the positions of prince, marshall and lesser harpy.  For the time being Dr. Jonathon Taylor was to act as liaison between the two covenants.  As you can imagine that was not a very fun position to be for poor Taylor.

Sheriff FatherMother immediately set to finding people who could assist with the task of tracking down and dealing with the serial killers.  She had an argument with Siobhan O'Baoill, childe of the second eldest vampire in the city, who loudly argued that the serial killers should be arrested rather than killed.  The sheriff told the neonate not to tell her how to do her job and that she would decide when the time came.  Siobhan demanded to be present at each hunt so that she could ensure their arrest.

Gustaf Freya'barn gathered up information and offered resources from the various vampires present as part of his role as seneschal to better provide advice to Prince Jasmine Hadley.

Prince Jasmine Hadley requested that people introduce themselves to her in the back room but the conversations stretched out, as they are wont to do, and many of the younger vampires didn't have the opportunity to do so.

Due to the small size of the court, those who would normally be primogen instead of legitimate covenant positions and titles.  Therefore the primogen's council is made up of those with greater level of responsibility and divided duties than most primogen who are generally elder representatives of covenant power.