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 Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:59 pm
This message is brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Charming Penguin.
And on the insistence of a one Malcolm Lansing that we include booze in the title.
Now, on to the OOC stuff! 8D
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So...
An idea for a metaplot of some sort (perhaps not shop-wide, but at least involving a good number of the shop-goers :3) was brought up in the main shop thread, and with permission by BP, FerretPrince and I have rounded up the few ideas presented so far, and opened a plotting thread. :3
Ideas So Far None of these are solid, just ideas that've been thrown out there to use. n_nTheme: - In the worlds of Gryps Nemorensis, a large band of pirates lays siege to a city. What will happen? Nobody knows...but it'll involved our feathered, clawed, and ready-to-tumble friends, of course. - Contributed by Poetical RainSetting: - A small port-city, catering mostly to pirating and underground/black market activities. (Possibly convert Lori Village, or at least use the subforum for the roleplay?) - Contributed by Princess_FeylinSee the map below for an idea as to where the port city will be. It has thus far been christened "Port Medius." - Name contributed by Haisyn FierraPlot: [insert relevant plot here] Other Input "PIRATES ARE AWESOME." "PIRATES YOU SAY? 8D" "PIRATES. PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATES. [insert many pirate emotes here]" - Contributed by Haisyn Fierra and Starry Omega"I like pirates... ..::mutters::.. If we do pirates, our pirates would hafta be really-real pirates, not princesses-running-from-arranged-marriage-disguised-as-a-cabin-boy types, which seem to be pretty popular. Whole ships full of those would be weird. Unless they actually deliberately had a pirate captain (female) who wanted an entirely female crew. Which would be really impractical if they ever got captured, or spent a drunken night on the town and then nine months later everyone had babies. Which would also be funny. On the other hand, if everyone made a pirate character that would give us double the cast almost to work with. Hmm..." - Contributed by Princess_FeylinSome characters should get captured. Just for fun. And because Ferret and Rain want to do something funny. - Contribued by FerretPrince and Poetical RainVarun (the single pirate character in existence at the moment) should show up and do whatever he would do while being challenged by other pirates, and should also do all of this while drunk. :3 - Contributed by Poetical Rain, for Arctic VixenAs for a plot... and it would actually give me an excuse to drag Vic into the Gryps world in all her people-hating glory... what if there WAS something there worth a rather large bounty? Or someone transporting an item of rather great worth that shouldn't have it in the first place that may have crossed said pirates? (Does Shane have any more friends with nefarious backgrounds that could fill that role? Mal's too busy with all the OMGI'MANALBION?! stuff to get in that much trouble... well, maybe. It IS Mal, after all.) And I don't think it should be Lori Village, but another place on the coast. I see Lori as the sort of town that sits at the point were a handful of otherwise small trade routes converge. Which would make it a great place to hold the griffon races and stuff, because for all that it might not be huge it would be large and there would be travelers there from all over to make bets. XD - Contributed by Haisyn FierraI like the idea of transporting illegal goods. Maybe even slaves. That would give the pirates an excuse to go raiding and perhaps kidnap a few characters for that purpose. Or what if... what if there's some sort of gryphon show in the place? What if that's when the pirates attack because they want baby gryphons? It would be tricky to subdue and steal an adult gryphon, but baby ones and eggs... ah, now that would be a lot of money for pirates. - Contributed by FerretPrinceWhatever the case, Ferret and I were talking about Varun being one of the first to get hit by most of this. He's got several ships, and while being a pirate for himself, he'll be a pirate for whoever might pay him as well. Big 'noble' people, common people...as long as he's paid, he'll provide. These pirates aren't as nice as Varun, though. So...they take out a few of his ships, enslave his men, steal the cargo. That gets him out of the way, and gets t he people he's providing for pissed and talking. They'll steal from other ships and take their men and cargo, because you know eggs ahve to be imported from other places as well. More talking. Then, when they run out of ships, boom, they'll turn to land >D The ships that got past them with eggs had to go somewhere, after all. - Contributed by Arctic VixenI've been thinking that the main part of the attack would be to get baby gryphons and eggs so the pirates could sell them in a different place. If they just wanted to get gryphons out of the way, they would simply kill them all. It's easier to kill than to kidnap. - Contributed by FerretPrinceJust wanted to make a note about something Feylin mentioned... My Latin dictionary tells me that "Nemorensis" means "of a grove", sometimes "of Diana's grove" (i.e. the goddess). Hence "Gryps Nemorensis" means "the griffin of the grove", or "the griffin of Diana's grove"... Perhaps we could ask BP what specifically she meant it to mean, and build something off of that? In terms of naming the country and whatnot, I mean, not a plot, as we have a very interesting one of those already. X3 - Contributed by GriffinFireFeel free to post anymore ideas, and I'll add them up above. : D
Also, in a fit of random creativity, PR made a map of the Gryps world. It's a BAD map, but she got bored and...yeah. >.>
Metaplot city up near the left corner. Haisyn Fierra has suggested that the name be Port Medius (Medius is Latin for 'middle' and since the city's kinda in the middle of everything...xD).
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:00 am
Participating Characters!
***Key***
[[ Name of Character - Font Color/Style - Griffin (stage) - Played By ___ ]]
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Shane Tespia - Size 10 Indigo - n/a - Poetical Rain
??? - Size 10 Teal - Photion (juvenile) - Poetical Rain
Malcolm Lansing - Size 10 Default - Aeron (adult) - FerretPrinceMule
Remiel Quillan - Size 10 Dark Slate Blue - Taliesin (chick/juvenile) - FerretPrinceMule
Kita - Default Medium Blue- Nut (chick/juvenile), Aisha (adult) - Malikztiah Ankhere
Varun - Size 9 Orange-Red - Lunelai (adult) - Arctic Vixen
Kaisa d'Siriphine - Default Skyblue - Tiamat (adult), Fafnir (adult) - Haisyn Fierra
Victoria "Vic" Sypher - Default Dark Slate Blue - n/a - Haisyn Fierra
Finley Wingblade - Default Dark Goldenrod - Gringalet (adult) - GriffinFire
Silence Skywing - Size 9 Default - Trill (adult), Chade (adult) - Princess_Feylin
Meshach - Size 9 Default - n/a - Princess_Feylin
Patience Redclaw - Size 9 Default - Ambrosia (adult) - Princess Feylin
Laura Fields - Default Brown - Leolin (adult) - Ran-Ran-Chan
Mishu - Default Deep Pink - Creseyda (adult) - Aldessa
If you'd like to add a character to this list, please fill in and post the following code. 83 [b]Your Character's Name[/b] - [color=][size=]Font color and size, if applicable[/size][/color] - [u]Your Character's Griffin(s)[/u] - [i]Your Gaia Username[/i] Also, if you'd like to include the age of your griffins for the metaplot, as well as a link to their cert/image, please go ahead and post them, and I will add them to the list as well. Thank you! n_n
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:44 am
You can label us a consequence, Varun's always drunk, so that's not saying much. XD
I'm so for that, though. <3 And so is he
Varun - 'Runk? =D AYE AYE! Of how much you have to learn.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:24 pm
I dunno about the female pirate idea. It's a good idea and it gives them an excuse to run around kidnapping new members for their pirate gang, but... well, female pirates seem more funny than intimidating. Maybe if they're played really, really well they would be scary, but it would be damned difficult.
And Varun would probably try to pinch their booties. He would end up with a missing hand.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:20 pm
And that would be two characters of Vixie's that are missing appendages. xD
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:54 pm
*snork* I don't actually have any pirate characters, male or female, but I could toss in a female bounty hunter with a missing eye.
If anyone actually managed to get her mask off they'd see her eye got taken out by something that had claws large enough to be Abaddon's cousin. XD
*snorks again* Really, though... PIRATES ARE AWESOME.
As for a plot... and it would actually give me an excuse to drag Vic into the Gryps world in all her people-hating glory... what if there WAS something there worth a rather large bounty? Or someone transporting an item of rather great worth that shouldn't have it in the first place that may have crossed said pirates? (Does Shane have any more friends with nefarious backgrounds that could fill that role? Mal's too busy with all the OMGI'MANALBION?! stuff to get in that much trouble... well, maybe. It IS Mal, after all.)
And I don't think it should be Lori Village, but another place on the coast. I see Lori as the sort of town that sits at the point were a handful of otherwise small trade routes converge. Which would make it a great place to hold the griffon races and stuff, because for all that it might not be huge it would be large and there would be travelers there from all over to make bets. XD
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:47 pm
Actually, Shane does have a relation that does questionable business. I was actually hoping to introduce him by using this plot. 83'
But I really like that idea. Something valuable...maybe something magical, which makes it even more valuable? =O We'd have to ask Black about magic-related things, though. xD
Hm...we could always just use the main forums for the metaplot. I don't want to have to ask for another subforum to be made, since it does cost gold. xD;
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:30 pm
Mal's past is... questionable, at best. XD He does have a few enemies back in Cambria, hence why he's no longer there. I think that his enemies assume he's dead or no longer in any position to cause trouble. Or just not important enough to bother with. Now, if they figure out that he's related to the royal family, he might suddenly be worth bothering with again...
But, I want the plot to involve a lot of people. >.> So... yeah. Not after Mal this time. He got lucky.
I like the idea of transporting illegal goods. Maybe even slaves. That would give the pirates an excuse to go raiding and perhaps kidnap a few characters for that purpose.
EDIT: Or what if... what if there's some sort of gryphon show in the place? What if that's when the pirates attack because they want baby gryphons? It would be tricky to subdue and steal an adult gryphon, but baby ones and eggs... ah, now that would be a lot of money for pirates.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:39 pm
Oooh...stealing eggs and baby griffs would be a good idea too. =O And slaves would make a lot of sense, anyway.
*goes to add ideas to the first post*
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:24 pm
Griffy eggs would be a good idea. Griffys almost have to be a part of it, considering this is the Gryps griffy guild XD Slaves would be great too. People get pissed when mommy becomes part of human trafficking.
Whatever the case, Ferret and I were talking about Varun being one of the first to get hit by most of this. He's got several ships, and while being a pirate for himself, he'll be a pirate for whoever might pay him as well. Big 'noble' people, common people...as long as he's paid, he'll provide. These pirates aren't as nice as Varun, though. So...they take out a few of his ships, enslave his men, steal the cargo. That gets him out of the way, and gets t he people he's providing for pissed and talking. They'll steal from other ships and take their men and cargo, because you know eggs ahve to be imported from other places as well. More talking. Then, when they run out of ships, boom, they'll turn to land >D The ships that got past them with eggs had to go somewhere, after all.
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:07 am
I like these ideas, and I actually agree about Lori Village, Hai. It doesn't really seem like a seamy sort of place, but more like an overgrown caravanserai.
Trafficking in griffs...A very valid idea, but who wants them and why? Just throwing that out there. Perhaps someone means to launch an aerial attack and wants anything which flies and could fight out of the way, and so is removing all of the griffins to impress them into their forces. Maybe, like England, they employ "privateers" for their naval forces.
By the way, what is the name of the country where all this stuff takes place? If not already specified, I vote Nemoren, and then say that the Gryps nemorensis is a species specific to the country, and that other countries may have other native species.
Eh...Just thoughts.
..::edit::..
Just noticed the bit about slaves. Intriguing. I need to think about that idea and see if I can contribute anything there.
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:02 pm
There's been very little world-building, actually. I think PR, Vixie, and I have been doing the majority of world-building. ._.;; So far, I've been calling the country Xuan. Because of Xuan City.
I've been thinking that the main part of the attack would be to get baby gryphons and eggs so the pirates could sell them in a different place. If they just wanted to get gryphons out of the way, they would simply kill them all. It's easier to kill than to kidnap.
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:03 pm
I have nothing productive to add to the plot ideas themselves, though all the ideas sound great!
Just wanted to make a note about something Feylin mentioned... My Latin dictionary tells me that "Nemorensis" means "of a grove", sometimes "of Diana's grove" (i.e. the goddess). Hence "Gryps Nemorensis" means "the griffin of the grove", or "the griffin of Diana's grove"... Perhaps we could ask BP what specifically she meant it to mean, and build something off of that? In terms of naming the country and whatnot, I mean, not a plot, as we have a very interesting one of those already. X3
Sorry for barging in and being annoying. ^^;
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:14 am
I don't think you were being annoying. I didn't know that about the name. I just figured it was an interesting word. I consider myself enlightened.
It could mean that the country, which seems mostly to be temperate deciduous anyway, was just heavily forested when it was established and so it was called the grove country. Maybe the mountains were included in the boundaries later?
Xuan's not a bad name for the country either. And point, Ferret, about the killing versus kidnapping. I'm just batting ideas around.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:19 pm
You can label us a consequence, I think Griffin has a good idea. We need to consult BP on this XD After all, it is her creation. Granted, it's been largely left up to us, but...PR and I had to consult her for the first big RP that got put in here XP The big Deste/Iris one. Cause we didn't know what to do with names of places n stuff @.@ Of how much you have to learn.
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