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I mean, I know I wasn't stupid enough to think everything would just work,.... but I never realized how much it takes to motivate people.... everyone's having fun in my Coven, the copmlaints have stopped, journals aren't trying to roast me alive.... yep yep... all good on the western front...





Time to start moving on the Eastern one now... how does one get people to want to play the games for favor... the mark thing isn't working... though I think that in part has to do with the fact that some of the members I've traded for come with favor on thier stat spots... I wish I had thought to find write down how much they brought with them... because now I'm not sure who'll reach the five hundred without counting what they didn't bring to our Coven...

I'm struggling to find the right balance between being a nice person and being friendly and approachable... but I don't want to be everyone's best friend. I'm going to do the best I can by my coven and that means sometimes being a hardass...



I think there are some serious misconceptions about how the Covens and House system works in the minds of many of my members.



I'm keeping the inducts fairly steady... I keep finding someone I really want at the same time as I run out of inducts for the day. I try to keep them spread through out the day. This way if someone has posted to my thread in the sandbox or has messaged and asked I can induct them into the Coven..



This also allows that if no one has I can just grab some poor random MOFO and force them in... I've seen people go both ways... sometimes they come in, play games and keep silent and somtimes they just glare... sometimes they leave a bunch of messages... lol



So far I have released the only member that truly seemed to care about being forcably inducted... everyone else I've managed to calm down...



Been getting busy with all the little things. Like figuring out which threads work best... and OMG I am soooo stealing ideas from Jason.. lol



Jason if you read this, I love you... thanks for the great advice.. and sorry if the I love you part is freaky... I love everyone..



That goes for Daire as well.. I can only dream to be as feared as he is.. though I don't really see him as all that scary.... I like him.. :P

now I hope he doesn't read it.. lol



Either way I think I'm happy with the way things are starting out... it's an adventure.

Vampire Siren keeps giving me permission to ask or trade for her when I reach a certain amount of members... I'm tempted to try and trade for her without waiting just to annoy her... lol.



It's not that I'm mean, it's that......... wait, it might be because I'm mean... :-)



I just think it's so funny how everyone is treating the coven thing. Like something I should ask them for becuase otherwise it'll break down... and perhaps they are right. But I plan to keep a good mix.



The main problem with taking people who want to be there, instead of people who's profiles are great, means that my score is like 4. something... which really sucks

I logged on, all excited to see what's going on with my Coven...



Well let me tell you what's going on. I had at least three e-mails asking to be removed and letting me know they don't appriate the effort.



Alright, responded to all those with various messages that included the link for the Societies FAQ...



Thought better of that after... and copied and pasted the whole FAQ and sent it as a system message... someone get the frickin frackin point.

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Chapter 1

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I have reached Sire with Cancer's mark....



This means that I'll be moving on my Coven plans... such as they are... hoping they will adapt and evolve as the Coven begins to take on it's shape and such...





As much as I want to jump now while Cancer is online, I've decided I will wait until Jason is online... I love the Spider House, and I'm REALLY going to miss it...



I'm thinking of asking him if my Coven can be almost an ally of his... they wouldn't really have anything to do with each other, but we could do things like have amical trades... or even contests... I totally plan to steal his first contest idea and put a symbol somewhere...



Imagine if they had to go through both my house members and Jasons .... that would help make them explore other profiles besides just the House members profiles...



He's already offered me so much helpful advice for my Coven, and I really wouldn't feel right leaving without talking to him first...



I love my House, this is going to be harder than I thought...

I take it all back again, I don't want to focus on runes....



They must have been thinking of me when they said women change their mind a lot.

I give up for now... I'm not sure where I want to go with the Coven idea and I need time to think about it....

Ok, maybe not forget it, because I'm sure to recycle some of my ideas... like the camp, I think that will probably be the same....



A new name, a new crest, a new mark even....





and LOADS of research... maybe this will keep me busy longer...



That's the great thing about the Coven not being real yet, I can change anything and everything I so desire without so much as warning anyone....

This is the picture I did, a very rough sketch, of what the camp looks like...



KEY

Olive Green: Camp Polizia

Tan: Camp Giornale

Sky Blue: Camp Il Resto

Light blue box: La Penna

Brown octagon: Camp Instala

I reside within the center tent...

The wall covered in flowers may look peaceful, but this is our safe guard... this is our protection against the elements and enemies... and ourselves...


If the Judge and Jury has reason to meet, they shall do so here. Within the very wall that protects us all shall they protect us...
CONTEST: Any Coven member will be able to enter this. Simply put we're trying to update our materials, and let's admit it folks... lilly isn't the best artist... so instead I'll offer a mark to the artist that manages to show off our camp to it's fullest potential.

Heads of Camp: These are the heads of each group. The Judge is the head of the Court House... Then each camp has it's own head...



CAMPS: The coven is broken down into camps spread across a green field. We are perched atop a cliff, and nothing but ocean lays at our backs. The wind blows the long grasses, and it almost looks like a sea of grass. Our camp is surrounded by a huge wall, with rooms within for the Heads of Camp to meet.

The camps are as follows.



Instala: This you know from the positions of power. This is the camp where those who are traders resided.



polizia: This is where the Forţat stay. Their camp.



giornale: Those who are in the message weekly stay here.



il resto: This is the general camp, where most of the members stay.



La Penna: This lovely little pen in the middle of the camp (about twenty feet from my own tent), holds members who have been blinded and are being held for Coven Purposes... they are available for trade with any House or Coven..



I know all this seems confusing, and it is, the way I have it now... but what I am going to do is create something that will lay it out... maybe a cheat sheet kind of thing... lol

These are the rules, these are the law.... Read them, come back to them often... Never forget them.

Instala

Those who are able to do trades... or inductions...

Judecător

The Judge

Juraţi

the Jury

Jucător:

The title of those who are allowed to open roleplay forums.... They have strict rules, and they also have the powers of forţat...

Forţat

This is the title of those giving the power of policing the forums...

Gazetă

Those in the message weekly...

Coven of the Obscure Quietus

cour de jeu des ombres

playground of shadows

French



au sol d'ombre

Shadow grounds

French



motivi dell'ombra

shadow grounds

Italian



Il campo da giuoco del diavolo

The Devil's playground

Italian

Let's see, gotta brainstorm here, can't think right now.....



New World Vampire's is a no go, Cancer canceled the idea. Of course I knew there was a really good chance of that in the first place, which is why I asked... but it still sucks...



Alright, the Coven is going to be trying to attract



WRITERS

POETS

ROLE PLAYERS

PEOPLE INTERESTED IN HTML



What do I think of when I see that list... well the bottom doesn't help but the other three make me think of melodramatic... drama... theater even... Hehehe, there's no way in hell I'd get away with the one from Anne Rice's story...



How about somthing along the lines of



The Vampire's Playhouse



or playground even...



Wonder if that will fly with Cancer, if it sounds better... he doesn't like the word vampire right in it I think...

What about Romanian? That's a language that's old and definatly in the right scheme of things....





teren de joacă is playground

vampir is vampire ... hehehe, might be too obvious for him to let me have it.. lol



Vampir Teren De Joacă



Doesn't look too bad, does it?

he wants something more 'archaic' which I looked up and it generally means older and more dignifiyed...



*mutter mutter*



see, good thing I'm not a Sire now or I'd really be muttering... lol



Thanks be to Cancer for actually answering the message... actually expected it to get ignored... :-)

Favor:



This isn't as important as one would first assume.

I would rather have great profiles and high status members that hated the contests than a bunch of eager eyed level fives who play all the time... but then again, it would be perfect to have a good mix of them.



Favor, when people really start getting into the Covens and Houses, will be changing all the time. Trades have barely begun. Everything is still so new...



My stragerdy will have to do more with getting some of the best members. The Coven really will depend on it's members.



For instance, I don't think I'll go around filling up ranks right away with level fives, unless I have no choice... I might have to induct a certain amount at first...



I'm thinking more along the lines of posting a thread in the forums as a sort of open audition.

One thing about each House/Coven is that though everyone starts off with the same things everything can, and should, go in different ways.



For instance, the house I am in, The Spider house as I affectionatly refer to it, has 8 halls. None of the other houses have this as far as I know.



So I am going to do some brainstorming and see how I can make my coven different from what's already out there. Hopefully no one will steal any of this before then, or even happen to use it by coming up with it on their own .. :-p



Let's see, as far as I can tell the Master of the House/Coven can grant out powers to some of it's members.



actually I just deleted all the guesswork because I found it the FAQ's ... lets see



Forum Master - Can Open/Close/Edit/Delete Forum messages.

This is a job that's going to be very important in the Coven. New World Vampires will be based on roleplaying and thus will have very active forums. In turn this means that old forums will have to be put to rest often, to keep from clogging anything. Those possesing this power shall be refered to as the People of Location.



News Master - Can Add/Delete News articles.



Detail Master - Can change the House crest, representation, mark, and description.



News Master and Datail Master are two powers I shall keep in reserve. I see no reason to have others working on that unless sometime in the future the Coven grows large enough to need it.



House Message Master - Can send House messages.

Yes, I totally have plans for someone to do this. I want a newsletter. Not silly things, but contest winners, important site news, reminders, that kind of thing. Something weekly or bi weekly. Will have to get a team together first, and then eventually assign an editor. Those with this power will be the Paperboy/Papergirl



Trade Master - Can initiate and accept trade offers from other Houses or Covens.

The Cabinet: This team will be chosen carefully and if anyone should make the wrong move they will be expelled from the Cabinet. Our Coven is going to be all about our members. The Cabinet is to work for my will, not against it.



Level Master - Can alter the level of House members.

I will most likely allow the heads of the Coven this power, as long as it isn't abused.



Assistant House Master - All House powers. The only excluded power is marking.

I hope I don't have to assign one right away as this position is one that I don't want just anyone to have. I don't know a lot of people on the site yet, and no one that I would give control of the Coven to, so I shall wait a while with this.





So that gives me

The Cabinet

The people of locution

The paperboy/papergirl



Yeah, those are definatly odd enough to be me... good...

COVEN RULES



1. There is no one above the Prince, and as such Cancer's will shall dominate in every way.



2. Second to the Prince my own will shall dominate the Coven, and my will shall be reflected in those who run the Coven as well. Those who represent the Coven, and do so wrongly, shall be punished.



3. Drama is our goal, but only the type that one would like to see on a stage, not Jerry Springer. As such, fighting in public SHALL NOT BE TOLERATED. There is no way anyone in this Coven will bring shame down on us, or they shall be expelled from the Coven in short order.



4. Tolerance is about being kind, understanding, and pateint. We shall always strive to be tolerant of our fellow Coven members, and also anyone we should enconunter on the site.



5. A Coven such as this will use a lot of forums and thus they will be carefully monitored and controlled. There will be no room for the silly sandbox threads, they shall go to the sandbox in the public forums.



6. This Coven concerns itself with the VR community and thus we strive to always be the best within it. We shall focus on making our profiles the best we can, we will be known as fair and helpful raters, entertaining forum posters, and well educated.



7. I love contests, and as such I will be having a lot of them. If anyone is caught cheating for memberships, marks, favor, or anything else involved in VR, they will be blinded and then put on trial. If found guilty they shall be removed from the Coven.



8. The Court may not always be fair, but it is the law enforcement system of this Coven and thus all calls coming from the Court shall be respected. If you are found guilty, feel free to file for an appeal.