Awai's Castle

**Awai's Castle** is a large castle in the Outskirts of Hiroshima that was built in a single night. Led by the Countess of Hiroshima Awai, the castle contains a microsociety of vampires qualified as Awai's maids.

Organized, the maids are quite independent from Awai just having for obligations to respect and obey her. The society is neither really anarchic, tyrannic or democratic, it just depends on Awai's will who can be an absolute leader but still make some decisions voted instead.

## Description

### Facility

The castle is a giant fortified palace with bastion fortifications, mixing traditional Japanese and Gothic architectures, with large windows and high spires. It is irregular pentagon-shaped with two yards, a large garden yard and a smaller with a fountain. Both glass roofs and all windows are made with tainted glass blocking UVs.

The palace is separated into 5 parts : the keep with the small yard; the two wings around the large yard, the Bastille and the chapel at the opposite of the keep. The keep is a quad 5-story Gothic building with four large angle towers with high spires on the top; the wings are traditional japanese buildings connected to the keep; the Bastille is a large rectangular building with four small angle towers with low spires, and the chapel is a round building of baroque architecture.

### Microsociety

The castle's microsociety is exclusively made of vampires at the service of Awai, most of which she turned into vampires herself. Even if considered vampire minions, they're autonomous, capable of handling their own objectives and missions at the sole condition they obey to Awai in priority and that their objectives don't conflict with hers. Their second priority after obeying Awai is to survive so they can be useful for her, then their third is to ensure their growth and assure their role.

As they only need blood to survive they live on the blood of visitors and enemies, and of outsiders, and their armory is adapted for these purposes. They avoid weaponry that could damage their victims' bodies too greatly or that would corrupt their blood and prefer syringes and harpoons, as well as anything that allow them to capture their target or to draw its blood.

Every maids belong to a group each with different roles and a Head Maid to command them. They all get their own food, but they all do different things that are complementary to the other, making each of them crucial. Because of their number, 5, they are named after fingers and the society is given the name of "Pale Hand".

### Awai's leadership

Awai is the leader and has the last word over everything even the maids' personal matters. She is an absolute leader that can even be sexual with one whatever the maid's will, but she can delegate her power, organize votes when she can't decide. She also is the most powerful vampire, more powerful than the whole microsociety so she can prevent rebellions and uprising.

Seen as a mother, Awai is loved and admired. She is the founding mother and the countess who houses and rule over everyone and despite her powers and possibilities she doesn't get too involved with the maids and gives them enough autonomy so they're not actually dependent of her.

### Prescript

A Prescript is an order processed and written within the chapel by the Index group. It is either manually written by a Head Maid or by Awai or randomly generated, and are always an absolute order that should be considered like one of Awai's. Usually, randomly generated Prescripts are cruel or nonsensical and reserved to the subjects of Awai's castles, the population it dominates, whereas a manually written Prescript is destined to maids and meant for strategic actions.

The Prescript is usually a cloth paper on which the order is written in large letters. While manual written prescripts are written with brushes, random generated ones are written using a pendulum moving according to the vibrations of a kind of catalyst that happen to always create "coherent" text. It actually reacts to the wills, the wants of people for which it writes.

## Groups

### The Little

The Little are the Elite Group close to Awai, composed of her closest maids and concubines, with miss Chi as the Head Maid. They are the best equipped and wear for uniforms armored black and white maid outfits covering the totality of their body. Their close proximity to Awai, skills and equipment make them a personal bodyguard for her with the purpose of enforcing her orders and rules.

They live with Awai in the keep they set with apartments and a harem, and common installations for all the groups.

### The Ring

The RIng are the Manufacturer, composed of vampires specializing in crafting, cooking, researching and smithing, with miss Kagu as the Head Maid. They do all the vampires' equipment and furniture and have blue and yellow maid outfits with aprons. Their role make them stay always at home and get out at night only to get materials and food.

They live in the right wing they set with apartments, factories, labs and kitchens.

### The Middle

The Middle are the Torturer, composed of the most perverted vampires that enjoy torture and rape, with miss Muchi as the Head Maid. They wear pink skimpy maid outfits easy to remove and revealing enough to make their wearers and the witnesses horny. They deal with the captured prisoners and punish maids that made grave mistakes and pose problem, through torture and rape. They also contain and restraint them, and ensure they're at their mercy and are considered as the main suppliers of concubines. As they're the most perverted maids and the punishers, the other groups prefer to avoid them.

They live in the Bastille they set with prisons and torture rooms, and apartments.

### The Index

The Index are the Messengers, composed of loyal and disciplined vampires that obey to orders without question, with miss Yan as the Head Maid. They wear black maid clothing with white cloaks and deal with making and delivering Prescripts to which they obey themselves. They're versatile to do whatever a Prescript asks and are able to explain the randomly generated ones. They live almost entirely according to the Prescripts and nearly nothing else.

They live in the chapel they set with apartments and writing rooms.

### The Thumb

The Thumb are the Soldiers, composed of brutes, strong and iron-willed vampires that resort to violence with great efficiency when required, with miss Panchi as the Head Maid. They wear dark maid outfits with red coats. They defend the castle and enforce its rules, and follow their protocols strictly. Their brutal nature make them little appreciated by others than the Middle that consider everyone as potential sexual slaves without distinction anyway.

They live in the left wing they set with apartments, armory, and training rooms.