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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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Name:Kari Leon
Age: 25
Race: Human
Appearance:


Weapons:Katana, and pressure points
Personality:Sarcastic and flirty at times but is very serious when on a mission
Occupation: assassin
Assassins guild: Arcane Killers (arcane means known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure just incase you wanted to know)
History: Kari grew up in the Merchant district and was adopted by a master of the Sword. She never knew his real name cause ever one called him master. Master trained many people including members of the Arcane Killer Guild. Kari was a natural with the blade and was made a member.

Guild name: Arcane Killers Guild
Guild Leader: Keith Harrison (feel free to be him if you like otherwise we'll just move him around plus if you want I can change his name or he could be a she just PM me)
Guild emblem: Green sheild with Snow owl perched on Battle axe
General personality: mixture of cold blood killers and loyal assassins (leaving it kinda vague so as not to restrict the personality of others and leave more creavity ^_^)

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Look it's a baby ... a baby that can eat you ^^

Name:Nienna Seregon
Age: 150
Race: Elf
Appearance:
Weapons: A sword with a silver and black grip. The emblem of her guild is engraved at the base of the blade. Also slight power over lightning, similar to static electricity.
Personality: Cold, intent on her mission but when she is close to someone (like family or a good friend) she would do anything for them.
Occupation: Assassin
Assassins guild: Ice Knights
History: Nienna's family formed the guild years before her birth. She was trained since childhood to be a killer. She knows no other way to be. She is loyal to her kind and no one else. She recently inherited the guild from her father just before the guild wars. Unlike most in her race, she is quite religious and spends a great deal of time in the religious sector fo the city.


Guild name: Ice Knights
Guild Leader: Nienna Seregon
Guild emblem: Black shield with a Silver Cresent moon and a silver dagger pointing toward the bottom of the shield
General personality: Entirely elven assassins. About 50% familial relationship to Nienna the rest migrated to the city. All natural killers, very small amount of playfulness, great deal of loyalty.

Name: Rofoldo Demogra
Age: 31
Race: (Human, Elf, Dwarf, Orc other races like goblins and halflings walk around the city but you can't play them) Half human, half elf
Appearance: Wears a black cloak that covers his full body and face, You'll only see black gloves that hand you instructions. about 6'5
Weapons: Anything, but favors a curved serrated 8" blade with poison on the tip
Personality: shady and devious, he will do anything for power even take part in a war among assassins.
Occupation: (assassin, city guard or citizen who's caught in the middle) Rouge cityguard who turned assassin
Assassins guild (only if you are a assassin): Blood Rouges
History: Once a cityguard, Rolfaldo turned assassin when he saw that it was hugely more profitable. Started his own guild and launched a low profile assault.

Guild name: Silent Assailants
Guild leader:Me (Rolfaldo but anyone who is in any way in contact knows me as Silent anyone else knows me as various different names used to trick those fools)
Guild Emblem: No one really knows it's seen rarely but for general info it looks like a grey wolf's face staring out from a black background.
General personality:Only the best of the best are allowed to 'join' anyone else is just a manipulated fool who does the dirty work and takes the blame. Very low profile mostly because only a select few really know about us as I said the rest are just manipulated fool that are given false information and instructed to kill.

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other word would smell as sweet. -Juliet Act II Scene 2, Romero and Juliet By William Shakesphere
I AM THE BLUE RANGER!

((Plenty of assassins lurking about, I suppose I'll take a guard. XD))

Name: Kenrik Tannerson
Age: mid 20s
Race: Human
Appearance: 6' with a swath of red hair barely regulation and deep green eyes.
Weapons: Horseman's spear, shortsword and buckler, heavy crossbow. Ornery bay mare.
Personality: A cheery and exuberant sort of fellow, still too young for the world to have taken its toll, but well-grounded in the reality of the world. Fly, his horse, is a stubborn, ornery beast that likes to use her teeth, but she's stubborn as a mule and regards her rider as her two-legged foal; seeking to keep him out of the trouble he's intent on getting himself into.
Occupation: Guardsman
History: Born of common merchant stock, Kenrik grew strong hauling the hides and chemicals used in his fathers trade, and grew hearing the Guardsmen's stories of defending the streets at night. When he was of age, he took to the Guards' training like a fish to water, and was quickly passed up the ranks to become a horseman. He has yet to disappoint; well-skilled in the use of his spear. Fly is another set of ears; making it difficult to sneak up on the man, and he trusts her with his life.

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Ok ill join in too. Seems that there are a healthy stock of assassins ready to pounce here, so ill go with "Civilian caught in the middle".

Name: Garrick
Age: 22
Occupation: Hunter/Ranger
Abillities: He can track in many different kinds of enviroments, not only forests. Good when comes to archery, but not very fond of close combat.
Items: He has a pouch on his back wich contains healing herbs, some food, and hunting equipment like a skinning dagger etc.
Personality: Cheerful and kind when amongs his family and friends, but silent and observant when he's among people he dont trust.
Weapons: A masterfully crafted bow made out of the very rare silveroak tree. This bow has been given from father to son in Garricks family for countless generations. It almost has the range of a longbow, and are close to the stopping power of a crossbow. Garrick also carries a skinning dagger he uses as a last defense weapon if he finds himself in close combat.

Appearance:


Background:
Garrick grew up in the wilderness in a remote village about a week's travel from
Bagdenburch. His childhood were spent with his father and brother hunting for game in the wild forests. He became very good at tracking and archery during these years.
But his peaceful life came to an abrupt end when he came back from a hunting trip one day and found the village in almost utter ruin. A gang of bandits had attacked. Several people had been killed, among them Garricks father. Garricks brother had been wounded. Garrick swore revenge, and tracked the bandits, and during the night slew their leader and sat fire to their camp.
But Garrick wasnt content. Right before he died, the Bandit leader said that he was only taking orders from his master. And that he resided in the down of Bagdenburch...
So now Garrick is in Bagdenburch on a revenge mission, gathering information on the mysterious bandit leader. But its not easy for a country boy to survive in the city, much less when theres a violent guild war going on in the shadows...

Those 3 assassins guilds and characters look definatly interesting for this RP anyway I'm going to wait for 2 maybe 3 more people to join and then we're going to start

But 007shadow2 what is your character's age, cause all I see is that he's a half-elf

Wait a sec what did I forgot... ah... guess I'm going to make my own character as well soon

I should also add this

The 3 assassin guilds:

Guild name: Arcane Killers Guild
Guild Leader: Keith Harrison
Guild emblem: Green shield with Snow owl perched on Battle axe
General personality: mixture of cold blood killers and loyal assassins

Made by Ariana

Guild name: Ice Knights
Guild Leader: Nienna Seregon
Guild emblem: Black shield with a Silver Cresent moon and a silver dagger pointing toward the bottom of the shield
General personality: Entirely elven assassins. About 50% familial relationship to Nienna the rest migrated to the city. All natural killers, very small amount of playfulness, great deal of loyalty

Made by Kalanienna08

Guild name: Silent Assailants
Guild leader:Rofoldo Demogra
Guild Emblem:It's seen rarely but rumors say it looks like a grey wolf's face staring from a black background
General personality:Only the best of the best are allowed to 'join' anyone else is just a manipulated fool who does the dirty work and takes the blame. Very low profile mostly because only a select few really know about us as I said the rest are just manipulated fool that are given false information and instructed to kill

Made by 007Shadow2

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Oppps! sry bout that i fix.

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other word would smell as sweet. -Juliet Act II Scene 2, Romero and Juliet By William Shakesphere
I AM THE BLUE RANGER!

Usualy this is just about the number that show up for an RP. I mean, by all means accept new folks, but for starters I figure we can at least go around kicking things off.

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yea you're right, ah well I just let the sign up open then.

I'm a bit busy right now with 12 different things all at once at the moment so I'm going to write my bio now and a start of the rp soon

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