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VOTE SYLVIA REDBRIGHT – A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR ALL.

Welcome all to the Redbright Institute Open Days! Taking place on 15th and 16th April, this event is an opportunity for prospective employees, students, parents, and other interested parties to take a look around the school and see what it has to offer. Coincidentally, it is also a focal point of the Chancellor Sylvia Redbright's re-election campaign. While Sylvia herself won't be making a speech, there are plenty of volunteers with "I'M VOTING REDBRIGHT" badges around who are happy to convince you to vote for her.

The school is open from 12pm-10pm Friday 15th and Saturday 16th April.

Rules of entry
• No weapons. This is a school, there are children present. Any weapons or objects that could be used as weapons will be confiscated.
• No drugs or alcohol. Obviously. Don't try to sneak any in.
• No violence.

There is security within the school and present during the event. (In fact, if your character is a member of the Redbright Institute, you could have them acting as security if you want.) They will respond to and put a stop to any trouble.

Places to go
When you walk into the reception area, you can pick up a map which shows you where to go and a promotional leaflet outlining the Redbright Institute's fine work both as an educational institution and within the supernatural community.

The busiest area is the large Assembly Hall. Here a number of stands have been set up where you can talk to staff and student volunteers about various aspects of the school. Examples include: Job Opportunities, Student Applications, Evening Classes and Further Education, Equal Opportunities, Pastoral Care, Outreach, Learn About The Night Council, plus various sports and other societies. A giant banner reading "VOTE SYLVIA REDBRIGHT – A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR ALL" hangs from the ceiling, while eager supporters offer "I'M VOTING REDBRIGHT" badges to anyone who enters.

Food and drink can be bought from the cafeteria. The drinks are non-alcoholic.

The various academic subjects (all the normal ones like maths, science, history etc) are represented in the classrooms where you can talk to teachers and students about how that subject is taught, see examples of students' work and discuss course options (GCSEs, A-levels, etc).

Head over to the greenhouses, however, and you'll see a very different type of chemistry in the form of creating potions and magical items, as well as lessons in magic. The teachers are happy to demonstrate for the benefit of interested witches.

In the sports hall you can watch a demonstration of students being trained to control and use their powers. These are mostly meta humans with various flashy abilities, but there are others too honing their skills and athletic prowess.

At certain appointed times, you can join a tour of the library. Access is only permitted with supervised groups, but the librarian is very happy to tell you about the wealth of magical and supernatural knowledge contained here.

Finally, as you move around between areas you may find yourself accosted by various students of different political affiliations shoving flyers into your hands or urging you to vote for the candidate of their choice. None of them are allowed to campaign in the main hall and they're moved along very quickly, but it may get a little rowdy.

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Pictures of Sylvia have become ubiquitous lately, so one might be forgiven for doing a double take when encountering her in the flesh. She's present for a couple of hours on each day at least, keeping to the Assembly Hall which has the most tightly controlled security. Officially she's here to represent the school like all other staff, but of course she's fielding a lot of questions about her other job as President of the Night Council.

She greets each visitor with practised ease, offering a smile and kind word to every one. Questions? Of course, she's happy to chat. And there are lots of people who want to talk.

So much as he dislikes crowds and the like Norrell would be remiss to ignore an opportunity when it presents itself. So, of course, on at least one day he makes himself available to very kindly be present at the Night Council's stand. He answers questions as pleasantly as he can, willing to talk to students and other interested folk who come forward, and is always ready to talk about what an excellent president Miss Redbright has been. How much he has enjoyed working with her! How much good she has done! How well they have all worked together, and how much good they have done!

There are one or two slightly irate questions directed his way, but despite an arch of an eyebrow he deals with them relatively smoothly. Norrell is well versed in people disagreeing with and mocking him, it makes bitterness simmer unhappily inside him but he can handle it.

Those who have visited him before may even recognise the bright red hair of Lascelles mixing with the people near his stand (no doubt talking up how great Norrell is) and Drawlight's extravagantly dressed figure subtly spreading gossip about the other candidates. Norrell himself, however, stays on the stand -- and offers a small smile to anyone who comes to speak with him and a questioning loft of one eyebrow.

Kyle's mostly clueless as to why he's here. Redbright suggested attending the open house to get some questions answered, but now that he's here, he has no idea who of the masses of people to try to ask. So he starts chatting people up at random, flashing them a charismatic smile that he knows often gets him what he wants and trying to steer the conversation away from the fact that he's human — yes, just a regular human. If the person seems amicable enough, he might even get to asking them their thoughts about the Night Council, Redbright, the witches, and dark magic. He wants to learn more about the differences between Daybreak and Midnight from people outside of it, who are more likely to be objective.

Otherwise, well, he's still a young guy who's interested in chatting up attractive girls and palling around with the guys his age. He might even, somewhat begrudgingly, be dragged into conversations with adults whom he's already familiar with. Whatever he can do to fill the night.

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