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Maybe the Katena should have underlings. Right now, the only character that i can make would be a lieutenant class or lower Shinigami since I already possess a captain level character. The problem with this however is that it would give me two characters on the same side and It really would not help out the story any. If the Katena had underlings then people who already have a Captain lvl character can choose something else than another Shinigami.

You weren't around entirely before the very mild revamp, but at first you could have three characters, two of which could be Captain Leveled, meaning one Katena and one Shinigami. However, when I added in the White Fifteen, giving us an Arrancar race, I took away that priveledge in the hopes we'd gather more members, as the guild, at this moment, now offers a whopping total of forty Captain level Positions (compared to the average, say, twenty-three). But, each group has its own strengths and weaknesses. The White Fifteen have the most Captain level positions. The Gotei has Captains and Lieutenants. The Katena, while seeming outnumbered have a distinct advantage in obtaining three release stages, the Kochaku stage being the strongest release stage in the guild. So I had to have some way of balancing them out.

That's a fair enough point. The only Arrancar we have hasn't done anything either. I think I may just do away with them (again) temporarily and re-introduce them once again. The only Katena I can really vouch for, if you call it that, is Blaze Ikari, our Horse Katena. While I'm not sure what it is, be it school, work or so on, when he finds the time to get on, he posts quite a bit and quite well. However, the problem with making an underling for the Katena is that there just isn't any. I don't mean that as in no one has desired to do so, I mean that there literally aren't any. They were all either exterminated, imprisoned, devoured, or conscripted into the original Gotei. And that was so long ago, memory of the Katena is totally gone.

Just to throw an idea out there, what if the Katena underlings were artificial beings created by the katena themselves? When the Katena were defeated, the ones that weren't destroyed went to sleep/stasis/turned off until the Katena returned and woke them up/turned them back on. You could have underlings that get reawakened by the Katena and underlings that are newly made to replace the busted ones.

As for a theme, they could be based off the Tarot; with the twenty two major Arcana being the Lieutenants and the 56 Minor Arcana being the non-ranked characters.

Possible Strengths: Major Arcana could be either generally lieutenant strength or be specialized based on their theme.
Possible Weaknesses: As created beings, the Tarot cannot get stronger; or something along that line.

For reference, the Major Arcana are Fool, Magician, High Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant, Lovers, Chariot, Strength, Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon, Sun, Judgement, and World.

Minor Arcana are organized like playing cards with thirteen cards in four suites: Wands, Swords, Rings, and Chalices.

I think we really need to update the current Captains list on the Guild front page. I think its confusing to people who just joined, thinking we have open Captain positions where we do not.

I can try my hand at it, but do you know what size the images are for the front page?

Sonus Venti

Auto escape: To escape a battle or area instantly with no post or no chance for being stopped.
Both of you are VCs and we are in a dead guild, do not make things worse by god modding.

SarahHuchiga

To be frank with you, you ignored the attack of my second-to-last post like it didn't happen it all. You didn't even make an attempt to avoid the attack, or even mention it. I went ahead and went with your reply for the sake of simplicity, but even with that, your narrative structure appears to give Hakora semi-omniscience about Raven's own zanpakuto, even when she hadn't used it yet. So before you try to call anyone out on godmodding, check yourself out. (Don't take this in an argumentative way either, I'm not trying to create more conflict)

Sonus Venti

My post involves god modding to counter act yours as quite honestly this guild is dead and if all three leave then there is really nothing left to RP. Three Katena is not enough to leave and come back for more later. We don't have many soul reapers ether.

For one, there is an entire plot growing here, did you read it? What about the Captain's Assembly Hall Here? Please do not try to justify your character's unstoppability in trying to capture a Katena with something that is untrue.

Okay then, let's see if I can do this without exhausting the character limit. I want this to be a one and done thing, and once it's decided, it's all under the bridge. Let's start with the issue of god modding, specifically involving the act of leaving straight to Yggdrasil by the Horse and Dragon Katena and the immediately affected.

As far as the issue of deciding whether they god modded or not, there is no reason to decide. They obviously left, and there's no fighting that. Between the two pms I received over the matter, the Katena party, at least one of them, not only admitted it, but is willing to accept the punishment that may be coming. So after reading both of these pms, I decided to take a look at the topic in question. I had already been following it up until today, so I was curious as to where, how, and why it suddenly seemed to spin out of control. I remember post number 30, Raven, and that it, upon my first read, did not appear to be an exit post, so I noticed that it had been edited while I was away. But that's not an issue, anyone can edit their posts whenever they see fit really. It was followed by Endou leaving. The post followed by Endou's though was of Hakora attacking Kiyoshi for the second time without knowing what the follow up to the first attack was, but with a little extra, namely capturing, binding, and placing Kiyoshi under arrest.

After reading this, it became rather clear I was dealing with one lone case, but rather, three individual cases of god modding. Splitting it apart, we had two Katena, each leaving immediately in their own way, albeit through the same portal. And then we have Hakora and his automatic capture of Kiyoshi, the third Katena there, who is played by Faustdeath, a fourth in the group of five who was dragged into a triad of god modding and god modded upon without his consent, as far as I can tell. So not only do I have three god modding cases to deal with (and dealing with three people I have known for a small while) but one of the three even goes so far as to create collateral damage.

Moving on, I stepped into OoC to see whether or not the problem had been talked about in there, as these things usually are (and consequently why I'm posting it here), and sure enough there was a couple mentions. Again, both these mentions involved god modding, brought up valid points, and one of the two admitted to what I will refer to as "accidental god modding" only because of the fact an attack was wholly ignored. However, again, accidental god modding based on somehow sliding over an attack is possible, I've done it before, so it's not a huge deal unless it's a recurring problem. But, I bring up the OoC for a more important reason. It was something isolated that was in the Karakura Town Park thread, but was brought back up in the OoC, meaning it hadn't been addressed. Someone countered god modding by god modding. Just stop and think on this point, all three of you. Correct me if I'm wrong, but usually, you stop and point this out to people before you continue to post, to make sure everything in the air is perfectly clear, right? Because that's what I'm used to do doing, or at the very least, posting while discussing it, and given I'm usually a good sport in battles of any kind, even letting that one particular instance slide. Or even better, if you're going to god mod, or would like to, ask the other person if you wouldn't mind if they did it. You'd be surprised by some of the answers you get, for a variety of reasons. A lot of the time it's still no, but those moments of yes usually happen for plot reasons or otherwise that someone as a basic member has no reason why it's happening.

Now I'm going to step back, take a breather, and bring up some outside points the three of you may or may not know were connected to this, and hopefully, have you understand why these points are included in this judgement. Not to mention, because plot was apparently used as an excuse to god mod, or at least, brought up as a possible explanation for such action. Blaze Ikari mentions this and this in particular. The first thread is the Development thread, which was posted, and linked, in an announcement upon request by the Katena (who was simply Sarah at the time), should a fight develop and they wished to buy some time to gather more members. Neither the post nor the announcement blatantly stated such, but they were more about causing hesitation than outright forcing retreat from Shinigami in fights. But even without that being my direct intention, Faustdeath's RPC, Sairento sent out a Hell's Butterfly containing a message that all Captains should stop what they're doing and attend a Captain's meeting of the utmost importance. Still, Hakora remained. This would have been fine as it is and created some tension to work with later, but seeing this makes me wonder about future encounters and if I need to be heavy handed in my tactics. My point though, is that both of these were to stall out battle to gather more Katena, or at the very least, just see if we couldn't gather more members in general while still developing a plot (including both the Assembly Hall and the Development thread) and keeping everything contained while the Katena readied themselves for a larger fight.

Sonus, you bring up the number of people who have recently been active. It is because of this people like Faustdeath and Blaze Ikari may have multiple RPCs. I saw that things would not last with forty Captain level positions and instead made a different decision that would leave us with less Captain positions but able to fill more spots, by allowing each member two Captain level rpcs, provided they could handle it. So while you bring up a valid point from the guild overall, in this particular case, it's a moot point, and at best completely extra information for the case.

However, coming back to the case of god modding, it is now time for my judgement on this case. And for this, I must quote one more person.


Faustdeath was involved and deserves to see the outcome. I will let the two instances of the Katena leaving pass this one time. Faustdeath's RPC, Kiyoshi, may react as he sees fit, whether it be leaving or being captured. This decision was made in response to seeing god modding repaid in kind, and not to mention, Faustdeath, having not having the chance to react to either attack before being automatically captured, was again, as far as I can tell, unwillingly dragged into this. As such, I give him freedom to handle his RPC's position for this instance as he sees fit.

However, none of you three are getting off Scot-free. If I get any other notices or messages about any of you acting out of line, and I can confirm it myself, there is, in all likelihood, the chance you will come out of it, at best, stripped of several privileges, namely your ability to hold Captain ranked rpcs. That is an at best scenario mind you. At worst, well I don't think I need to explain what will happen. I'm taking this course of action only because I see it the best for the plot, and consequently, the guild, provided we can obtain some more members.

Now then, related, but aside from the judgement, a personal message to the three of you. I expected better. I've known you each for varying amounts of time, and consequently, this makes things more shocking. More appalling however, is that one of you, dragged in someone who was in neither way god modding nor involved in the god mod between you three that created this case. That is completely and utterly unacceptable. If I ever see this again, especially from one of you three, there will be no case. I will let you know what you've done wrong and suspend you from the guild. It's as simple as that. Another involvement of god modding (especially answering god modding with god modding) will be a short road to being banned from the guild. If I have to resort to heavy handed measures, I certainly will, so I suggest that some of the first members of this guild show they can work things out on their own rather than have this happen again. As a Captain, I like to have things move smoothly, and in the worst instances, only become a last resort for future measures. So then, with that out of the way, this is my judgement, my reasons, and my expectations for the future. Do not disappoint me.