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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MadBlue" data-source="post: 851530" data-attributes="member: 7552">I teach at a Junior High School in Japan. Maybe I can give some suggestions.Alzrius gave some good advice. Sports Day (in fall) and Culture Day (in spring) are also very big events in Jr. and Sr. High. At age 13-15, the characters would be 1st to 3rd year Jr. High students, or in the first half of Sr. High.The school year starts in April and ends in March. Students get a month off in summer, but they're tested the week they get back to school in the Fall, so they have to study all summer. For a lot of kids, the school uniform acts as a kind of secret identity. With 50+ students in most classrooms, many teachers don't recognize their students outside of their uniforms. So as a Mage with Arete, you can almost be guaranteed that your school life and your private life are separate - at least as far as authority figures are concerned.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />You'll definitely want to check out <a href="http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/index.html" target="_blank">Mainichi Daily News Online</a>, and particularly the WaiWai link on the right -  just to get an idea of what the seedy side of life in Japan is like without the supernatural out and about. I think the Cult of Ecstasy would be much more popular than the Akashic Brotherhood.I played in a Mage game set in Tokyo for over a year. It was a lot of fun. My character was a "Takenoko" (Orphan) mage who owned a game center near Tokyo Tower. That was a lot of fun. The GM moved back to Canada, though.MadBlue</blockquote>

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