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Post by shimakaze on Apr 2, 2011 7:33:05 GMT -5
Restructuring of the Blue Lotus Alliance
Empress Miko has asked me to put forth her idea to restructure the alliance in the hopes that it will make for better role playing and define the chain of command within the alliance, making easier for new and old players alike to understand and follow.
Please read through this and vote using the poll. Please note two (2) things; 1 By voting you’re not saying you want the change to happen or not happen, just how you how you feel about the proposed changes, 2 when voting please post your comments about the change good or bad and any and all Ideas you may have to improve this.
The proposal is as follows;
Disband the Army of the Iron Lotus (AoIl)
Establish a guild the will house just the members of the Imperial Court (Name to be determined based on the availability of the letters for a guild Tag)
Combining all military forces under the guild Tokuno Defense forces (TDF), with all new members playing fighting types placed in this guild
Maintain the Blue Lotus guild as is, for use as scouts & spies, with all new members playing ninjas placed in this guild
All non-nobles, ninjas, samurais and/or fighters would be under the guild Citizens of Tokuno (CTOK), with all new players playing non-fighters, ninjas, or nobles placed in this guild.
The formation of the alliance would look like this;
Both the Blue Lotus and the Tokuno Defense Forces would have a published rank structure for these organizations, this will allow new members to see and understand the scale they will move up as they gain favor and promotions. Hatamoto’s, Samurai’s and the Ninja equal should be the highest ranks with in the guilds, with the title of Shomyo (lesser lord) or Daimyo (Greater Lord) given by the throne.
Guild meetings would be as follows;
Empress & Elders at 8pm on Sundays
An Alliance Meeting (open to all) following the Empress & Elders
Individual Guild meetings as per the GM of that guild
As for characters in the Citizens of Tokuno guild, to ensure they do not lose the root of their home guild as published code system would be established to Identify which house they belong to. This would mean establishment of houses within the alliance.
For an example Ta’Koo (TDF) Master Crafter under the new system would have a guild tag of “Ta’Koo (CTOK) HS Crafter” The HS shows House Shimakaze. |
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Post by Miko Nakamura on Apr 2, 2011 19:13:47 GMT -5
As Ikrua stated we did discuss this just yesterday EVERYONE always has a say, but my main concern was always splintering, and really the Army has always been hard to fulfill, and I think it makes sense to combine it with that of TDF. Blue Lotus is really an entity onto itself, it always has been, the ranking used for it would not change in the least the elders are still the elders etc.
This is an attempt to make it easier, like the suggestion of having any meetings on Sunday was for the simple fact Sunday was orginally always BL meeting, and it did evolve to include all aspects of Tokuno, I do not see anything wrong with it. I am looking forward to seeing everyone's suggests and comments
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Post by Reiketsukan on Apr 2, 2011 20:19:16 GMT -5
I like the idea and it puts the classes where they belong. Its not practical for poor Ta'koo to claim to be part of the Tokuno Defense Forces when the guy doesnt even carry a sword. Just as we also need a known structure for the purpose of RP. I find myself walking around and I meet people and have no idea what their supposed station is, weather I am equal or lesser (Some would say this is a good thing) but I've been running into the same people often and still do not understand where I fit into the rank and file around here. Hopefully this will clarify things and make it abit easyer for folks to communicate. (If all the soldiers are hanging out in one group its easyer to go out and hunt with some coordination than if we are 3 or 4 seperate guilds each following our own ways. This seems anal retintive now but how many times have you been on a hunt only to have the members of guild A doing things "their way" without even communicating it to you and felt somewhat. . stranded? I know I have.)
I look forward to the change, and if it goes to pot we can always go back. . .
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Post by yoshi on Apr 2, 2011 22:46:31 GMT -5
I am as a leaf on a river.
The river carries me.
I do not try to change the river.
I do not try to bend the river.
I simply go where the river wills it.
At times the river changes; Change is eneviadable. Change is good.
This change is good.
And the river flows on.
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Post by Miko Nakamura on Apr 12, 2011 22:26:17 GMT -5
I would like to implement some of these changes in phases, its been posted for 10 days, Probably the first will take place either this weekend or the following, so Going once, Going twice...... If you have concerns or questions here's your chance!!!!
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Post by Miko Nakamura on Apr 22, 2011 22:25:35 GMT -5
The switch in Alliance set up is passed with a 4-0 vote. The articles outlined in the post will begin Sunday May 1st. Its IMPORTANT that everyone make it to this meeting. So we can begin to set customs, chain of command and anwser any questions people may have. Thank you!!!
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Post by Masaaki on Apr 23, 2011 9:47:35 GMT -5
As I see things currently there is a flaw with this plan.... it was stated above that (All non-nobles, ninjas, samurais and/or fighters would be under the guild Citizens of Tokuno (CTOK), with all new players playing non-fighters, ninjas, or nobles placed in this guild) ...ok well if new ninja players were to be placed in the BL and the other fighters placed in TDF...if that is the case then this statement makes no since because a fighter of ninja noble or not would still be a fighter and would fall under BL if a ninja or TDF for others... that really would leave noone but say crafters or perhaps nonfighting people that simply rp in the community tavern events or random things in Zento to be placed in CTOK otherwise there really would not seem much use for that branch of the alliance either....
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Post by shimakaze on Apr 23, 2011 16:55:27 GMT -5
As I see things currently there is a flaw with this plan.... it was stated above that (All non-nobles, ninjas, samurais and/or fighters would be under the guild Citizens of Tokuno (CTOK), with all new players playing non-fighters, ninjas, or nobles placed in this guild) ...ok well if new ninja players were to be placed in the BL and the other fighters placed in TDF...if that is the case then this statement makes no since because a fighter of ninja noble or not would still be a fighter and would fall under BL if a ninja or TDF for others... that really would leave noone but say crafters or perhaps nonfighting people that simply rp in the community tavern events or random things in Zento to be placed in CTOK otherwise there really would not seem much use for that branch of the alliance either....
Members of the ruling house and special appointed personal would be in The Imperial Court.
All Ninjas would be in Blue Lotus.
All Fighters would be in TDF
All others would be in the Citizen guild |
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Post by Masaaki on Apr 29, 2011 15:20:21 GMT -5
makessince but tdoes that also mean that if there are members in BL TDF and CTOK that are in TIC that they would have dual titles as far as tags would go or a wayto be addressed in the rp world or would that simply be something like a secret society that noone would know of unless they were privy to TIC (TIC = THE IMPERIAL COURT)
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Post by shimakaze on Apr 29, 2011 21:24:49 GMT -5
The Imperial court is a small group, The Empress and just a hand full of others Like Yoshi, All use Yoshi as an eample; Yoshi Shimakaze *HS* Tenji (TIC)
The HS is the code for House Shimakaze.
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Post by Ka-Kurembo on May 1, 2011 17:09:28 GMT -5
im kwel wit it i just wonder, some of us ninjas are fighters "an" spies as well so do we go under TDF? or do we need to have two tags? an i agree it would be good to have one from each Tag on the counsel, every seat on the BL counsel has a purpose exp: Spying, Magic/sorcery, intell gathering ,healers/monk's, assassin's/combat (my wake Suneku) if there's one from each then that means the only one to sit on the counsel from BL would be Soke Bishimi or his next in command, then the "secret society" (us) will not be seen or heard till that time for each. my example:curse of the golden flower, where the ninjas weren't seen til the empror commanded them. or am i reading too much into it. still i like the idea that TDF has samuri's an BL is ninjas. the high ranking of each should be respected, example: Ikura enters a place of ninjas all will reconized him (bows head)upon entering as he is the head samuri that serves the empire with a ferociousness an Bishimi (like all ninjas are feared for there secrets) (bows head) upon entering the place of samuri's, all still will "kneel" for the empress/empror. don't know how samuri ranking go but BL has a few ranks all answer to all elders within BL, (exp) when i was shidoshi of Suneku a fighter wake i answered to Crawler of the stealth, because his rank was higher than mines as he was the next ranking elder under Bishimi, i also would do so to the Samuri's head of command an his second an that would be as far as it went. a list needs to be made of all rankings from both then go from there. just my input
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Post by Ka-Kurembo on May 1, 2011 17:35:55 GMT -5
my char is a Ninja in Suneku the battle wake of BL an a proud one, fighting is his key to being a ninja Ka's place is head of that wake (till Garret returns hopefully)  . my char serves his clan with coincieted loyality, an sense the Soke serves Empress Miko with unquestioning loyality, so shall he. this is a base rufdraft profile of ka |
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Post by Reiketsukan on May 1, 2011 18:03:34 GMT -5
Year 1400 - 1600 A.D. Both the feudal era, and also contain the Dark Ages of Europe. So anything from even 1300 to 1700 AD would have relavence.
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Post by Ka-Kurembo on May 1, 2011 18:12:50 GMT -5
works for me!
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Post by Miko Nakamura on May 1, 2011 18:20:23 GMT -5
K to anwser your quesiton who or what is BL is still BL, that is never NOT what is changing, its more of simply melding the Iron Lotus army in with TDF that is it.
The Empress will have a different guild that will be in teh alliance as far as it being her Imperial blah blah blah...
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. my char serves his clan with coincieted loyality, an sense the Soke serves Empress Miko with unquestioning loyality, so shall he.