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So lets get crackin on this, we'll figure things out here and make a new thread out of the results.

a good jungle city should be a rather large place that a new character can easily slip into, structured enough that to some extent all the characters see the same world, with out it being so complex that the shear size scares them away

Er...what planning exactly do you need? That about sums it up, I think.

Although personally I think the Jungle City should be a very large place, and we could even get away with having a wilder side to it...like pasha's guilds that pay off the local constables to look the other direction while they do imports and whatnot. Dunno if you wanna go that route, but I've read some awesome cities like that. Gives characters lots of messes to get into and lots of tangles to unwravel. Makes GMing very simple.

Hm...well, I dunno if you want me to just start adding stuff to what you've got, so I'll put it here, I suppose... I'm just gonna make up some of this stuff, as you haven't been very specific. If you don't like something, feel free to change it or omit it or whatever!! This is just my take on the people after having read the city description...



I had more, but my brain just died...how am I doing so far?? I've written it so if you like it, you can just pin it to the bottom of what you've already got.

So we've been working on the subforum, I think it's getting towards done, most of which we can thank Marael for, but anyways, theres a good chance once I get rid of this headache I'll make an attempt to work on it, and I'm wondering what the rest of yall would like to see in the subforum.

At the moment we have a shopping area, the piers, an open air market, the Red Goblet is planned. The thread we're all RPing in now is gonna stay in the main forum as a convenient entry point for new players. Though I'm not sure what it will be now.

That sounds good, and leads me to another point.

We have four species actively entwined into our little world, Humans, Cetan, Korat, and Teroa. First off we should work up a sticky describing them enough that new people aren't limited to human or creating their own race like Dilagence, he did a good job but we can't let that happen to much or we'll have five dozen vaguely described races consisting of one person each.

Secondly we should decide on where they all come from, it's a minor point but my mind got snagged on it.

By what we have it seems that the Korat and the Cetan both come from the soon-to-be-named jungle continent, and humans are newcomers probably originating in the archipelagos. I use new in a relative way, they've probably been there for a thousand or so years but the other two were there since the beginning of their civilizations. They are both ancient civilizations but the jungle continent is an almost eden like world, or at least it was, so they were in no hurry to build cities, invent technologies, or generally work towards a world as we know it.

The Korat and Cetan represented very opposed lifestyles in that kind of world. I see the Korat as being very country folk, only a few real cities but mostly small closely knit tribe like groups. They are a good deal religious, or maybe just very spiritual, ether way they have a lot of faith through which they got very close to nature. The Cetan are highly social and nearly all of them lived in a few major cities, they do have religion and spirituality but in a more pure form, valuing the soul and mind above possessions, even if they do have appreciation for them. Before any major Human population moved over the two races had a highly symbiotic relationship and an especially peaceful one at that.

When the Humans came over the Cetan were very much against them joining the equation but they were up against a weather hardened empire of greed; to add to the calamity they had just gotten themselves into that empire was the predecessor of Ace Sia's Sun Empire and ruled with the same Ace (there seems to be a trend here) and thats what caused the war.

The Teroa I'm not so sure about, Dila can pick that if he wants.

Eventually I'd like to have some race based out of the desert continent and five is probably the limit of reason, I can't think of a good theme for a desert race, one that would let them still be in the rest of the world with out being irrational. They could be related to the crater so they don't have to fit in with the rest of the world's nature but they should be something people can play and not be limited to pets.

After writing all this it is very clear to me that very little of it has to do with the jungle continent...

So, going with naturalistic patriarchal cat people as a theme what sort of name would fit? (comments on everything else please quote the post into the proper thread, if it doesn't exist yet feel free to make it)