5/28/02 - Entropy

You ever get that feeling that things are starting to slip. Sometimes the feeling isn't about you, but about someone else. Its starts as a little stumble, one that gains speed until there's no turning back, and the best you can hope for is to land with a minimal amount of personal injury.

Arkady will be naming the Setite, Robert Anderson, as chief harpy of a status system he created. I find there's several similarities to this new system to the system used by anarchs in Los Angeles. Though there were no harpies to decide these things, a person's status (or Reputation as it were), was based mainly on their actions and deeds. Arkady's system would grant "status" to those who killed Sabbat or risked their life in the line of duty. I suppose Robert's duty in this case would be to keep score.

Of course, that leaves a lot of things left out, the Camarilla system of status being largely based on age, holdings, etiquette being thrown out the window, and kudos only going to those who have the ability to fight. I suppose it could work, a city ruled by fear. After all, who would challenge a Brujah that had killed a half dozen sabbat. Or who would challenge a Setite that was the one who decided your personal value among the sect. Its like some horrible twisted hybrid, born of anarchy and camarilla politics. Not quite reputation, not quite status. I suppose in the end, it can go either way.

So, I'm left with trying to decide whether to let it slip or not. As Robert was so kind as to mention, I have no say in Filitov's decisions regarding a change in the camarilla status system. Maybe not now, but if status is being handing out like Reputation, then the idea of who has a voice and who doesn't becomes not based on age, but on ability to fight. And the primogen, like Mel Duchesne, Elena Hawkley, Ren Several....they're going down. Ren Several can't fight his way out of a paper bag, by the way. Which, if sliding farther, and taking this to its natural conclusion, I will have a say eventually, but it won't be a say in Camarilla affairs at all.