Rightio time to unleash one of the things that float around in my brain, which I call ideas on these forums. Let's see... perhaps an introduction first:

The city-state of Bagdenburch, a great commercial city build by humans in ages past and visited by all kinds of different races: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, Orcs, Goblins, etc who have all come there to trade or make their homes there, with a latest population count of approx. 1.5 million people. The reason that all these races walk peacefully amongst eachother is becouse the entire city-state was declared neutral territory 200 years in the past and becouse the cityguards patrolled the city in vast numbers. Since that time the city-state has gained recognition as a great city of trade and diplomacy.

During it's independent state it has always been ruled by the guilds in the city. The city had only known peace and stability in the last 200 years, but that was about to change.

In the recent years the strength of the cityguard has been reduced so that the city could spend more of it's wealth to improve trade instead of city security, where most thought it wasn't necessary anyway. But soon they would have wished they hand't reduced the cityguard. Officially the city has only guilds consisting of craftsmen in a particular trade like merchants, alchemists and armourers... but unofficialy there are also guilds of beggars, thieves, smugglers and assassins. And trouble was brewing among the assassins guilds.

Lately the different assassin guilds have gotten in eachother's way and tensions were reaching a boiling point. Things escalated between the assassin guilds when a minor guild was attacked, it's members slaughtered and their headquarters burned down and after that things only got worse. When night fell, the killing would start in the city streets, people clothed in black moving around the city killing eachother, throats being slitt and silent screams coming out of mouths of those who are about to die. The assassins themselves had a name for this guildwar, The Shadow War.

At first the city officials had no idea of this 'Shadow War' in the streets but when more and more corpses appeared in the streets and more buildings were burned down they started to get suspicions. Afraid for their possessions and their lives the leaders of the city-state demanded that the cityguard should solve the problems with the assassin guilds. But due to the recent cutbacks to the cityguard they simply didn't got the manpower to patrol the city like in the old days and the assassins have been starting killing interfering cityguards as well.

Now chaos reigned in the streets, assassins fighting assassins untill only 1 guild would remain, cityguards desperadly trying to regain control over the streets and caught in the middle of all that are the innocent people of the city.

RP Plot: You are either an assassin who's part of 1 of the different assassin guilds in the city trying to gain supremacy over the other guilds, by murdering it's members in cold blood, striking deals and scheming plans.

Or you might be a cityguard, forced by the city officials to put an stop to this war in the streets with reduced manpower becouse of government cutbacks. Using whatever means nescesary to make the city peaceful at night again.

You migh also by a simple citizen caight in the middle of this streetwar and be swept away with one of the sides or just trying to escape it's horrors.


To give a idea of how the city looks like I will divide the city-state into several districts:

The White district (north): Home of the elite, the rich and the wealthy (think large villa's and manors)
The Temple district (West): The place to be for the various religions of the multiculteral society of the city with many different churches, temples, shrines and also the graveyards.
The Merchant district (middle of the city): Most of the trade in the city happens here, also the homes of most of the normal craftsmen and the headquarters of the official guilds are located here, including the cityguard headquarters (large marketplaces filled with merchant stalls and shops)
The Living district (east): Location of most homes (well crafted homes from each race) and some gardens
The Slums district (south): Filthy and not so much hyhiene, homes of the poor and largest focus of the criminal society.

CHARACTER CREATION:

Name:
Age:
Race: (Human, Elf, Dwarf, Orc other races like goblins and halflings walk around the city but you can't play them)
Appearance:
Weapons:
Personality:
Occupation: (assassin, cityguard or citizen who's caught in the middle)
Assassins guild (only if you are a assassin):
History:

Assassin guild Creation:
And as an extra I will allow the first 3 players who want to join this rp create the different assassin guilds that will wage the bloody streetwar with eachother.

Name Guild:
Name guild leader: (I've no problem with it being your own character)
Guild Emblem: (for example a white shield with a butterfly or something)
General personality: (how its guildmembers act, brutal, sneaky, bloodthirsty, not wanting to draw attention, etc)


RULES:
1, No godmodding
2, Please wait for profile approval before posting
3, If you have to leave for some reason please let us know so we can act accordingly in the rp
4, Romance is allowed
5, You can make up NPC's, but don't overwhelm the roleplay with too many of them
6, feel free to give me ideas about the RP or furthering the plot either in this OOC thread or by sending me a PM
7, no 1 sentence posts
8, minor magic allowed small stuff not heavy spells of destruction

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