Players are feudal noble rulers in Shanri, a world rebuilt over the one left twisted and broken in ancient times by the now dead sorcerer-kings. They will contend for power, wealth and land, but they will not play by the rules. Secret knowledge and artifacts left behind the sorcerer-kings are ripe for the taking, as well as their infamous puzzle houses. Good old-fashioned deception and treachery are equaly sharp blades, and also at hand.
The players are not human, either, though they are close. They are Ven. They look like us, and on the surface, at least, act like us. The thing that defines the Ven more than anything else is their tendency to take things to extremes. The existence of Blood Oaths, the ritualisation of both Romance and Revenge, the Laws that exist almost entirely to be broken. How they capitalise things just to show their importance, and ignore grammatical rules purely for effect.

To speak in less... poetic terms for a moment, Blood and Gold is roleplay that uses the roleplaying game Houses of the Blooded for the setting and tone. It will also use its rules. Wait! Don't go just yet. The reason the "tabletop" tag wasn't used is because of how similar Houses is to a non-tabletop roleplay. It has rules, but these are very loose, well-designed and generally focused on storytelling over algebra. I'll explain properly in the OOC, if we get that far.

There is much more that can be understood about Shanri, the Ven, and Blood and Gold, but that is enough for a decision to be made. If you choose to join, never forget that knives come from all directions. Your ancestors will be watching. Don't dissapoint them.

Interested.'^'

Interested.

Interested as well

Well I suppose I might add my voice as well... though, I'm more the honourable type than cloaks and daggers

@Majoras End @Polybius @Conscripts
Awesome, it'll be good to have you guys.

@CollectorOfMyst
Honour? I think the Ven have a word for that, "dead", or something like it. (Feel free to be honest and honourable if you choose, though. The reason the Ven don't consider either to be a Virtue (something I'll explain in the OOC) is because they don't help you get what you want.)

I'm interested but I a not familiar with any of these things you speak of "Houses of the Blooded for the setting and tone. It will also use its rules." So I may have questions along the way.

@Wick Don't worry, I won't expect you to. Houses is quite obscure, so once the OOC is up, I'll explain everything properly. I should say now though, because of the large amount of material involved, it's likely most of it will be copy/pasted from the book, though the creator probably explained it better than I ever could anyway.

Interested

@FallenTrinity Awesome, it'll be good to have you onboard.

Just posting to say that this has not been abandoned, I plan to have an OOC up sometime on Friday.

@JaceBeleren Hmm. I don't know what to say about this roleplay. It piqued my interest and in the same time it didn't.

I'll give it a chance, I hope you'll receive me :)

@Ashevelendar Strange, but not much that's simple is worthwhile. It'll be good to have you, assuming you plan to have us as well.

@JaceBeleren I'm about to go on vacation on Saturday. With the preparation involved I won't be likely to join until I get back on the 14th or the 15th. I'll try to get a CS up tonight if you get me a link to post it to.

@Wick PM it to me, if that's good with you.

@JaceBeleren

Okay no problem. I'll get it done today. :)

@Wick Hello. We meet again xD

@Ashevelendar

Hey Ash where have you been? Long time no see.

@Wick Just came back a week or two ago. Haven't seen you around, thought you quit to be honest.
Between having exams (it was my last year), the bachelor degree project and life, my RPing mood went off the grid but I'm back ^_^

@JaceBeleren I'll sure be in this RP, no matter what ^_^

@Ashevelendar

Lol, me quit the guild? Never! I have too much need to be creative to quit writing. I'm normally on every day. I must admit lately I've been doing more 1x1's because I got tired of putting everything into a group RP and people just walking out after a couple of months. I am glad to be joining another group rp though. It's been a while so I'm ready again. I'm just not going to GM one just yet.