(03-10-2014, 05:30 AM)Kempeitai Wrote: Do note. That the current state of Kusari internal affairs is... quite a bit more complicated then it appears on the surface.
About a half dozen Dragon factions and groups have come and gone since the NovaPG. Most of them were mindless pvp groups. This is sounding more and more like the latter.
I caution you to ensure you can RP as much, and indeed much more, than you can PvP. If so, we will be happy to reciprocate. Make sure to avoid the pitfalls that Kusari factions tend to face: cliqueism and closed-mindedness.
Otherwise, I bid you good luck.
(03-10-2014, 05:33 AM)New_World_Order Wrote: Ahem, so:
The Blood Dragons are based upon the Kamakura Period, so peraps read up on their way of their life you're gonna do a BD faction.
Secondly, Corsairs should be hostile, Outcasts neutral-unfriendly and you're secretly allied with the GMG.
Finally, RP is a major part of the BD. PvP is good, but they have a tragic and noble backstory. Don't waste that on pews.
EDIT: Kishiro should be shunned in Unfriendly
Ah, thank you. I wasn't sure exactly where to put Kishiro since I've never actually seen any dragon player ever interact with a kishiro one before. As for the GMG, seems to have been a mistake on my end, pushed up to allied. As for the Corsairs, I've actually seen the previous (non-official) dragon faction show a sort of..neutrality towards corsairs at times, and it is my belief that Vanilla Dragon lore simply puts them hostile with the corsairs because the Dragons were on the Outcast side of the hispanic war. That obviously isn't the case nor has it been for a while, I'd rather reflect that for the League.
I'll also presume that by "PvP and RP" you mean Non-lethal/Conversational RP and combative/PvP-based RP specifically.
Dragons do have a tragic and noble backstory..of blood. Both lore and roleplay dictate that a Blood Dragon's main focus will be near the PvP aspect of RP. Non-PvP would obviously also play a large part, we can't just create resources out of nowhere nor can we simply kill our way to our objective, politics/diplomacy/assassination(something that can't actually be done in a real sense with ingame-pvp)/propaganda/etc will be needed in order to secure and defend a political foothold within the Kusarian government (secretly) and in the minds of the Kusarian citizenry.
(03-10-2014, 05:38 AM)Kazinsal Wrote: So what are you going to do to stick around and make a statement that the other Blood Dragons are not doing?
Do you mean Story or Player-wise?
Player-wise (which I assume would be a faction), what other Blood Dragons? There aren't any.
Story-wise, the Dragons have no real hierarchy at the moment, they're all separated into their own groups, there's not a single one that controls the rest (no official faction or even an indi one). The League is the union of 3 of these Shogunates, they are no different from other Dragons except for the fact that they realize they must unite once more in order to reach their objective. By using that kind of lore (instead of a faction that has a central hierarchy) I leave any indi Dragons to their own devices in a realistic sense.
(For example even though the [LN] or [KNF] might have their Fleet Admirals, indis don't -actually- have to care about their orders rule-wise, though if based on reality, they would be required to. So by using this backstory for the League, we'd have no realism-based control over other non-League dragons)
(03-10-2014, 05:57 AM)Thexare Wrote: The idea at its core seems sound, particularly the part about trying to unify the Dragons after the (very obvious in and out of RP) divisions. NWO and whoever's behind the Kempeitai account have sound concerns, though.
Kusari is complicated (read: screwy), so it may take some work to get everything straight. I'd suggest contacting someone that's more familiar with the Dragons to work through the details before going too much further with this
It's a niche that needs to be filled, just make sure you do it right.
Indeed it is screwy, hence my reasons of never actually playing there (other than very short periods of time for the sake of blue messages) in my entire 6+ years of Discovery. But things -seem- to be changing, might as well take my chances.
And yeah I'll be needing someone (or multiple) with extensive dragon history to help me, I have a few in mind, though I'm not sure if they would actually care enough.
(03-10-2014, 08:47 AM)Lythrilux Wrote: Looks good, though I warn you that the road of maintaining blood dragon groups isn't easy, and a lot of them tend to fall. Otherwise, I can simply say good luck. It'd be nice to see more pirates in Kusari alongside JM.
Oh, also, I suggest to maaaaaaybe lay off the katanas for now. People will be a lot of more inclined to play with your group if you're killable.
Dragons are far from being common pirates, they don't pirate for the sake of becoming rich, they do it -in their perspective- for the greater good. And uhh, I wouldn't say it'd be "nice" for you guys to see us ingame. Since the League will put down any slavers or cardamine smugglers without remorse. But ye, I guess the interactions would be interesting, given the Dragon's current political/diplomatical stance with the factions in the ZoI.
