The VRA demonstration!
Hey ya'll! Since Nick here has a VRA demonstration tonight (8 pm outside the MoM), I thought I'd drop a line in case your characters were in attendance.
It's a larger demonstration of about 50 vampires, give or take. Each held a sign. One side of the sign detailed their employable skills in short, clear phrases. (ie: foreign languages known, writing/technology/mini resumes). The other sign describes what he or she actually does for a living. Most will be unemployed thanks to, as Nick will say, unfair Ministry laws. (Nick's sign, for the record, will read "teaching/agricultural/writing, French, Latin, and German language" on one side, and "VRA rabble rouser" on the other, for the record).
As far as demonstrations go, it did get loud, but it was peaceful outside of the to-be-expected heckling. Nick would have been running around saying hello to everyone and asking for their signatures on a petition to protect jobs for qualified vampiric candidates, and in general being excited and friendly. At the end of the night he would have given a speech detailing advancements made for the VRA as well as encourage participants to write their local pubs to stock the recently-invented blood substitute, NuBlood. Then he would have taken a brief Q & A.