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The OOC Organisational Thread for the Imperial Coronation

IC Thread At This Link (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=535538)


First of all, thank you for bothering with the read. The IC thread is open, as is usual with, on certain rules that many of you are already accustomed with.

I mentioned in the last post that foreign dignitaries or their diplomatic representatives, as well as the representatives of foreign churches (if anyone wishes to bother) are already at the Cathedral. So, if you want to post anything introductory on your characters, feel free.

For those who are not accustomed with the rules, here is the complete list.

1. The thread is generally open, as long as you are respectful and responsible. Even nations I had no contact with previously can participate, new contact is always welcome. If you are unsure whether you can come, it is safe to verify in this thread.

2. Your characters are in a Cathedral. This means that they are dressed elegantly and respectfully. Women are not obligated to cover their hair in a Taraskovyan church, although it is seen as a sign of respect and good will if they do.

3. If your characters are not "human" in the general understanding of the word, you can still come. As long as they are not red skinned with tails and horns on the head, because the clergy doesn’t like those. Of course, if you RP a race of alien giants that won't fit into the Cathedral, then you can't come, either, for obvious reasons.

4. No Flight Permission RP (as in no circling over the country post after post asking for permission to land). The logic is that if you are invited, you have all the permissions. If you are not invited, then you won’t be getting any permissions anyway. So there’s no point in RPing flight permissions.

5. You can bring personal guard units along, but no fire arms allowed. Cold weapons are allowed, but they shall be peace-bonded to their scabbards. Peace bonds are bands of fabric with quite fine emitters in them (hi-tech and all, really really thin, invisible, etc, etc, etc). Unsheathe the weapon (takes no effort at all) and you set off the emitter and then you have lots of unhappy security guards on the spot in a matter of seconds.

6. There shall be no violence or terrorist attacks of any kind. Taraskovya is a wanktastic sci-fi nation that knows how to guarantee the security of its dignitaries (except for whem I feel like killing them). Yes, it makes the thread boring, but meh, a little boring is nice from time to time.

The reasons for these rules are a compromise between strict security and allowing players to walk around with ceremonial weaponry. Also, due to the fact that Taraskovya has a multi-vector foreign policy and tends to stay out of large alliance blocs, it is not rare for it to host events attended by sworn enemies. Do not consider this a chance to settle the counts, as the NashSec and the Leib Guard are extremely unhappy with pesky foreigners that come around to stir up trouble in the majestic Heaven on Earth that is Taraskovya.

As far as the Cathedral of Pokrov is concerned, it is largely based on the IRL Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. Just… bigger and not exactly the same, but it doesn’t really matter. Just know that it is spacious and huge.

Addition! As far as housing is concerned, those guests wishing so are offered spacious apartments at the Winter Palace. Otherwise, feel free to settle down anywhere. After the party, or once they wish so, your characters shall be provided with all necessary transport according to their tastes and desires.

The Plan for the threat is simple:

Phase 1. Boring Coronation Ceremony.

Phase 2. Hopefully not so boring party and celebration.

Phase 3. Everybody goes sleep at the Winter Palace and then maybe another day of celebrations.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them.

Most of the information about Taraskovya on NSWiki is more or less up to date, so feel free to roam about.

Yours,
Jester

Since I actually had questions on the interior of the cathedral, I made a rough and quick graphic in Photoshop. Sorry for the bad quality, but I never managed to make good graphic plans of anything simply because I always lose myself in measures.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/Namellar/GDT/PokrovPlanRough.png

Legend:
Blue Lines represent church sectors.
Red lines represent the chain formed by Cavalier Guards on foot.
A: closed altar area. Seen from outside as a chapel within the gigantic hall of the cathedral.
B: Tribunes for diplomatic personnel and foreing dignitaries.
C: Tribunes for the representatives of various Taraskovyan faiths and of foreign churches.
D: The throne upon which the future Emperor will sit for the closing stages of the ceremony.
E: Chorus
F: Seated sectors for the general audience.
G: Standing sectors for the general audience.

Both B and C are equipped with comfortable seats. But I guess that if somebody wants to have his characters stand, this is not a problem either. Nothing is set in stone, after all.

The entire hall is supposed to house about twenty thousand or so people, so... there is space.

Foreign religious leaders may attend? Can I add that after my government representatives? Do they have to be associated with the government, like the Orthodox Bishops in Aerion are not necessarily officially associated with government but might have interest to attend.



If you could also include a way we can start our roleplay poses, for instance we should already be seated prior to the Grand Duke entering the Cathedral? So we should pose being seated now?

Foreign religious leaders may attend? Can I add that after my government representatives? Do they have to be associated with the government, like the Orthodox Bishops in Aerion are not necessarily officially associated with government but might have interest to attend.

Aaaah! This reminds me I forgot to add an important bit of information while going off about how spiffy the Leib Guard is. Stupid me.

Foreign dignitaries are invited by the political leadership. You can send anyone from an official representative to a head of state. Coming with your ambassador to Vigvar is just as good.

Foreign religious representatives are invited by the Taraskovyan Church and the Church of the Seven Deities. As such, if you are a Christian nation, you are welcome to come with a bishop or two. Non-christians are a bit tricky. But generally the Taraskovyan Church shows an extensive tolerance of non-Christians. The Church of the Seven Deities thinks everybody but them and the Vigvar Patriarchate (=Taraskovyan Church) are idiots, so not worthy of either love or hate anyway.

If you could also include a way we can start our roleplay poses, for instance we should already be seated prior to the Grand Duke entering the Cathedral? So we should pose being seated now?

Well, according to the third post, the foreigners enter the Cathedral before the Grand Duke sets out from the Palace to the Cathedral. The procession shall arrive there in the next post of mine.

As of how to do your intro, I admit I did not really give much way of doing it since I didn't find a good means of doing so. As such, any intro can do. Your representatives marvelling at all the pretty fresuqes and icons... everywhere. Or on the spiffy outfits of the Cavalier Guards.

I could also post in this OOC thread the arrival means to Vigvar (as in the International Aerospace Port), as well as the various security procedures (such as ID cards) if it can help you out with an intro.

Well as far as intro I mean do you want us to include arrival roleplay in our single intro posting, such as passing through airport, getting into cars, and the like or would you prefer we start with entering the cathedral and being seated? I sometimes include that all in one posting, I know you did not want arrival interactions and to bypass that but as far as defining how we arrived?

Well as far as intro I mean do you want us to include arrival roleplay in our single intro posting, such as passing through airport, getting into cars, and the like or would you prefer we start with entering the cathedral and being seated? I sometimes include that all in one posting, I know you did not want arrival interactions and to bypass that but as far as defining how we arrived?

What I did not want was the usual "Vigvar Air control, this is Aircraft Number This And That. We have Very Extremely Important Dudes on board and request permission to land. Over." Simply because I find it silly.

However, you are free to RP the arrival at the aerospace port. Allow me to describe the procedures.

Vigvar International Aerospace Port

The Grand Duke Alexei International Aerospace Port is huge. Tremendously huge. Capable of accepting and servicing frigates and destroyers of the military if there is an urgent need to land it.

It has facilities and terminals to accept jet liners and VTOL liners. There is a specific area for VIP arrivals, such as foreign dignitaries and all that.

Transport can be done by ground with an honourary convoy, or by air in a spiffy and comfy VTOL aircraft.

Foreigner Identity Card

Just as every Taraskovyan citizen of 12 years of age and on is obligated to bear his ID card on them, thus do every foreigners receive an FID for the duration of their stay in Taraskovya.

Every foreigner (for the small exceptions, see further below), even coming from the closest of Taraskovyan allies, has to have an FID. The difference between allies and "those other nations" is that allied citizens have much less hussle and do not require a preliminary visa to get the FID and their FIDs last longer.

The standard procedure for a citizen of a nation having no particular agreements in the field with Taraskovya is the following.

1. Apply for a visa at the nearest Taraskovyan consulate. The procedure takes a couple hours, but requires the receiver's presence at the consulate and a valid identity document of his country of origin. During those couple hours, the consualte does a complete background check through the NashSec database. The visa is "stamped" into a passport or is issued in the form of a card. There is always an electronic backup anyway.

2. Arrive at the point of entry into Taraskovya. Show your visa.

3. You are then delivered an FID with your biometric information and DNA and all that after a second check. The procedure takes five to ten minutes.

4. Happy stay!

Each FID has a specific time after which it goes void. If you cross the border before it goes void, you're a good foreigner and are welcome back. If it goes void within Taraskovya, you'll have the Gendarmerie, the NashSec and the Migration Service on your butt.

Foreign Heads of State, heads of Government and members of the national Cabinet of Ministers and their closest family do not require either visas or FIDs. It is, after all, understood that foreign leaders shall not immigrate illegaly into Taraskovya.Their staff, however, do require such cards, but in case of official delegations the huss and fuss is minimal, because the information is requested beforehand and the FIDs are ready upon the arrival of the aircraft with the dignitaries.

I can draw scantily clad (or not clad at all) women, but for some Holy Theotokos only knows why reason all my attempts at a topographic plan end up in complete and utter fiasco and desire to throw the computer out the window, preferably on somebody's head.

So, please forgive me, but I like my PC and in between throwing it out or giving up on plan-drawing, I prefer the latter.

I forgot to mention housing. Your characters can either stay at the Winter Palace (huge palace, after all), or have other arrangements as your heart desires. Vigvar is a huge city, but a small population, since a good half of the city is parks and palaces/manors.

After the party is finished, or upon their desire, the guests shall be provided with transport back to their residence of choice.

Uh...question. Since I haven't posted prior to the start of the ball, do you want me to assume I attended the coronation?

It doesn't matter too much to me, I can work with whatever.

Uh...question. Since I haven't posted prior to the start of the ball, do you want me to assume I attended the coronation?

It doesn't matter too much to me, I can work with whatever.

All of the guests are considered as having attended the coronation and to have been present ever since. So, yes, even if you post now, your characters were at the liturgy, even if they did not want to and had to pinch each other all the time to not fall asleep o/

If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to preface diplomatic relations with a small delegation paying their respects to the new sovereign. Snefaldia is a quasi-theocracy, so religious figures technically are political figures, but it would only be five or so, coming to network and introduce the country at large. You requested an intro post, so I figured it would be a good plan to make humble requests first.

If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to preface diplomatic relations with a small delegation paying their respects to the new sovereign. Snefaldia is a quasi-theocracy, so religious figures technically are political figures, but it would only be five or so, coming to network and introduce the country at large. You requested an intro post, so I figured it would be a good plan to make humble requests first.

Well, does this mean that you are next in line for the private audience? Because I admit I have been at odds at seeing who would bother saying "hai" to the Vasilevs, so I did not mention the Guards laying their gaze on anyone in particular.

If you are next, then the Guards will catch you in my next post. *nodnods*

Peter and Gwendolyn want to talk to him too. They are just making other conversation as they wait for the right moment.

Peter and Gwendolyn want to talk to him too. They are just making other conversation as they wait for the right moment.

Then I shall have the Alexander Guards catch your characters in my next post, as you have posted ICly befoer Snefaldia and I admit I might have missed the audience "request" in your post.

Ah, the joys of the university year beginning when your brains just can't handle anything else but the lists of tasks to do and books to buy. =(

Well, does this mean that you are next in line for the private audience? Because I admit I have been at odds at seeing who would bother saying "hai" to the Vasilevs, so I did not mention the Guards laying their gaze on anyone in particular.

If you are next, then the Guards will catch you in my next post. *nodnods*

To clarify- My delegation is there to pay their respects as representatives of the Snefaldian government to the Vasilevs, we don't necessarily need an audience- just a chance to introduce ourselves, our nation, wish the best, yadda yadda, basic diplomatic niceties. Then they'll try and mingle with the other delegates and if possible other Taraskovyan eminences.

I think we're all good, though.

I was going to mention it in the next post. I can wait on Snefaldia though. I am having some good RP with Largent in the meantime anyway.

I don't really mind if you mix up the order- my delegation can wait. As a fellow uni student in the clutches of studies, I sympathize. ;)

I was wondering if it wouldn't be too late to join in? As a nation that styles itself an empire, I think the Imperium and Tarasovka would get along quite well. Also, as a returning nation, I always was looking for a good excuse to "open" relations, and never quite found the time or place.

I was wondering if it wouldn't be too late to join in? As a nation that styles itself an empire, I think the Imperium and Tarasovka would get along quite well. Also, as a returning nation, I always was looking for a good excuse to "open" relations, and never quite found the time or place.


People can hop in at any moment in time they wish. For the reasons of RP and for the sake of simplicity, they shall be considered as having been present at the coronation ceremony proper and then to have been walking around ever since. *nodnods*