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Rivek Ailinar: telling you where the ******** you should be and what the ******** you should be doing. All with a spoonful of disdain and sarcasm.

Hooray for neutrals who are neutrals because they dislike everyone equally. NARF.

I do not think I will be able to run a section, I really just want to do like 1-2 mini events with art as a prize, and then to have some NPCs to wander around and interact in the neutral area, or wander to other areas.

I want to make sure I have time to do the art and stuff during the contest, freebies etc. :3

Anyway, just throwing this out here as an idea: the sections could be like one large city and outlying areas?

Some sample ideas (probably wouldnt go well with a dark and gritty theme, but you get the idea):

- The highway and surrounding hills mountains, forest, desert, what have you
- Farms/Peasants and outlying areas
- Outer City
- The Foreigner's Section (for the neutral area)
- Thieves and Poor Section (shady)
- The sewers (even shadier)
- Merchant Quarter
- Industrial Section and Docks
- Nobles District
- Palace and Religious section


Some of the sections could be thrown together, like the shady parts of town as one area...

Any other ideas where we could have a central area with outlying places?

I like the four fortresses idea, seems more warlike and could have that dark edge, so we should think of why they are there, going with the steampunk theme?

I have to work today, but I will try to think of ideas. Steampunk has airships right? I'm imagining something up high, like at a mountain's edge, with airship docks and a red sky with blood, lots of it.. haha, jk.

Maybe they are four factions coming to meet or to compete, perhaps embassies for countries, or the factions of a large group with a purpose - like rebellion or the last defense/remnants of a failing kingdom... just rambling here, XD

Keep thinking guys! We should take our time and throw out as many ideas as possible. Brainstorm!

Maybe during the tournament, there is underlying political turmoil, a mystery...

Perhaps the main ruler (the tournament hosting country) recently died under strange circumstances and someone else has taken over the throne/seat of power, in an unorthodoxed manner.. or maybe its just the heir and everyone is suspicious of regicide... or maybe there is a new vote going on for the new leader depending the government, and scheming politicians are backstabbing - for real!

Danger! Danger!

kehee... no I don't but maybe thorny will be controlling the neutral zone? XD I am going to make a few NPCs who might be in a gang together or something, perhaps doing shady stuff.

Speaking of which, maybe he knows what he wants entirely already... wonder where thorny is!

Yay!

Yes, RP events are conducted by chars of the RP managers, which can be existing OCs or new OCs/NPCs. Then there'd be extra NPCs that mingle about and stuff. In the neutral area, you can do whatever you want, provided it doesn't hinder the main RP, for eg, activate the Doombringer's Clank of Chaos which promptly steamrolls the various factions.

Though if you were hoping for an event of such scale, we should discuss it and integrate it into the plot. If in doubt, ask, but generally it shouldn't be a problem.

And for the specific faction areas (I really think this needs to be done in the guild), RP events are up to the RP managers of each faction, and if you want to host smaller ones, you need to get permission from them first.

Yes, go ahead and post some character profiles if you'd like. I may do so too when I get the chance. Will make a thread for that after this.

I like the idea of airships, but if we stick with the 4 varying degrees of tech/magic levels, the lowest tech shouldn't have them. Instead of each faction having airships of their own perhaps only one has a big-a** armada of airships as a base, the next tech-dependent could have a rolling, tank-like fortress, the third locks themselves up in a secure mountain zone with magical turret guns while the fourth uses pure magic to hide their location. Mix and match, brainstorm more!

Love the ideas of the setting and the plot, perhaps we'd take it to a vote when we draft it all down.

So, it looks like Cart+Zien are willing to manage a faction, and Starlit also mentioned being up for it...which leaves us two more if I'm going to be running the neutral while Kim and Woe are bringing OCs for events and stuff. We need more help! xD