[OOC] Blades of Iron Roses: A fantasy Knight RP

[VitaVitaAR]

You still have room to post even if things have progressed.

[AtomicNut]

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I'm the opposite. I like living with people, I have five roommates right now, but I'm heading back to my parents for a few months to finish off my degree and go full adult. I'm not a fan of that idea

@Zebanamana

Ouch man. Been with my parents for 2 years unemployed, i am just catching some luck with job offers just now.

[Themerlinhawk]

Welp, this thread just went on a rollercoaster.

Fanilly would probably explode with embarrassment the thought of an attractive older girl being into her any of those matters.

Anyway, waiting on @themerlinhawk at the moment before making an update.

For now...

@Zelosse: You've cleared up the issues I had, I think, accepted.

@VitaVitaAR

Gotcha, I was waiting on everyone to finish up since Sir Garrett's last post predated everyones most reccent batch of posts

Edit: Today is a writing day so this is on my list

[Raineh Daze]

I like giving my characters sensitive topics. I wonder if anyone can guess what would set Tyaethe off? xD

Potentially reasonable to know IC, given that it's an order of several hundred and people have been there for years.

[Zebanamana]

I like giving my characters sensitive topics. I wonder if anyone can guess what would set Tyaethe off? xD

Potentially reasonable to know IC, given that it's an order of several hundred and people have been there for years.

@Raineh Daze

Anarcho-communism?

[Raineh Daze]

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Anarcho-communism?

@Zebanamana

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

(though of course not xD)

[Themerlinhawk]

Sorry for the short post. Fight scenes are really much better in collabs in my opinion.

[ghastlyInc]

Posted, finally. I foresee no way this could potentially go horrifically wrong for anyone involved(or horrifically right). Especially not for any of those unnamed knights!

[Raineh Daze]

@ghastlyInc ... you're really overestimating the quality of our opposition as well as which side is going to be routing. O_o

@Themerlinhawk Collabs are too long. And terrible for crowded areas. :T

[Zebanamana]

@ghastlyInc ... you're really overestimating the quality of our opposition as well as which side is going to be routing. O_o

@Themerlinhawk Collabs are too long. And terrible for crowded areas. :T

@Raineh Daze

I think it is fair for an enemy of similar numbers to kill a couple superior soldiers. In a 200 v 200 match up I don't think there would be even losses, but I'd expect 160 dead bandits and probably 10 to 15 dead soldiers/knights or at least a decent number of pretty injured.

I would point out that Aethelmund lost a dude to a billhook then a horseman, two archers, and a pile dude to the falling tree landing on top of them.

Though I'll say I think the battle is basically over

[Raineh Daze]

A 5% loss in an incredibly lopsided battle would mean that you'd probably have all the knights die off every other year. That seems... both unsustainable and going into another genre entirely.

Though I was talking about morale, there. Don't think the Iron Roses are going to have morale problems... almost ever. <_<

[Zebanamana]

A 5% loss in an incredibly lopsided battle would mean that you'd probably have all the knights die off every other year. That seems... both unsustainable and going into another genre entirely.

Though I was talking about morale, there. Don't think the Iron Roses are going to have morale problems... almost ever. <_<

@Raineh Daze

Nah, I don't think so. There would likely be a decent recruitment rate annually, and it would depend on how many campaigns they go on yearly. Non war years they probably lose very little, but during war years they could probably lose tremendous numbers. But as it stands there is a mixed amount of Knights to regular foot soldiers that seem to have been conscripted for the fight or just general followers. I'm not sure, I've been writing as if there are Knights and then there are soldiers under the command of the Knights in the fight. Vita said there was something like 130ish Knights on this expedition, but I gotta wonder if that is all the Knights of the order or if it is something more like the Teutonic Order where there are hundreds or thousands of Knights in the order.

[Snagglepuss89]

@ZebanamanaJudging by the number of green recruits on the current mission, I would say that's a fairly accurate assessment, or at least what matches my perception of their losses/recruitment/makeup. That is, of course, Vita's decision, although I doubt it even matters to the RP.

That said! Yeah, I've been kinda holding off on posting because the bandit side of things seems more or less taken care of, and even more people being involved in the Jeremiah fight is just going to saturate it horribly. Seems like either way it'd just be dragging things out needlessly.

That said, I'll get a reply up to @ZebanamanaSoonish.

[Raineh Daze]

@ZebanamanaJudging by the number of green recruits on the current mission, I would say that's a fairly accurate assessment, or at least what matches my perception of their losses/recruitment/makeup. That is, of course, Vita's decision, although I doubt it even matters to the RP.

That said! Yeah, I've been kinda holding off on posting because the bandit side of things seems more or less taken care of, and even more people being involved in the Jeremiah fight is just going to saturate it horribly. Seems like either way it'd just be dragging things out needlessly.

That said, I'll get a reply up to @ZebanamanaSoonish.

@Snagglepuss89

All the new recruits were PC's and there was getting to be too many.

[Themerlinhawk]

@ghastlyInc ... you're really overestimating the quality of our opposition as well as which side is going to be routing. O_o

@Themerlinhawk Collabs are too long. And terrible for crowded areas. :T

@Raineh Daze

Litterally never had a problem with a collab ever. I would assume your experience is different

[Raineh Daze]

Literally never seen a good one. And I've seen some kill roleplays entirely.

[Raineh Daze]

It amuses me that Julianna thinks the clergy don't know.

[VitaVitaAR]

Going to be honest, I set this up intending the bandits to go down fast and easy. Deaths of knights should be reserved for when things get more serious. ^^;

The idea with the bandits is the only reason they were a serious threat was because of Jeremiah's direction. With him abandoning them to fight his one-man war against the knights for fun(not even trying to lead them in the process), and how they were taken by total surprise... the appropriate casualties at this point in the RP are the people who got crushed by the tree and the man Jeremiah killed in his entrance.

It's not like I mind deaths happening, but since this is high fantasy I think thematic appropriateness is something to keep in mind for the people you kill off. Legendary Knight Order versus bandits will probably wind up very firmly in the knights' favor. ^^;

Also... the total number of knights is 130, to clear up that matter.

Also the clarify, the bandits were just a tool to get the knights' attention, used by Jeremiah because he believed it would get them faster.

[Zebanamana]

@ZebanamanaJudging by the number of green recruits on the current mission, I would say that's a fairly accurate assessment, or at least what matches my perception of their losses/recruitment/makeup. That is, of course, Vita's decision, although I doubt it even matters to the RP.

That said! Yeah, I've been kinda holding off on posting because the bandit side of things seems more or less taken care of, and even more people being involved in the Jeremiah fight is just going to saturate it horribly. Seems like either way it'd just be dragging things out needlessly.

That said, I'll get a reply up to @ZebanamanaSoonish.

@Snagglepuss89

No worries dudemeister. I might make a post for Lame Larry who totally resents the classist argument that he brough this upon himself! The bourgeoisie did

[Zebanamana]

Going to be honest, I set this up intending the bandits to go down fast and easy. Deaths of knights should be reserved for when things get more serious. ^^;

The idea with the bandits is the only reason they were a serious threat was because of Jeremiah's direction. With him abandoning them to fight his one-man war against the knights for fun(not even trying to lead them in the process), and how they were taken by total surprise... the appropriate casualties at this point in the RP are the people who got crushed by the tree and the man Jeremiah killed in his entrance.

It's not like I mind deaths happening, but since this is high fantasy I think thematic appropriateness is something to keep in mind for the people you kill off. Legendary Knight Order versus bandits will probably wind up very firmly in the knights' favor. ^^;

Also... the total number of knights is 130, to clear up that matter.

Also the clarify, the bandits were just a tool to get the knights' attention, used by Jeremiah because he believed it would get them faster.

@VitaVitaAR

Sorry I'm double posting, I'm on mobile. I think only two actual Knights on my side died. One from the tree and one by chance because Old Roger had a billhook (and it was a nod to [@monocromatic rainbow] the rest were just soldier dudes. If we get in a real fight you'll see things far worse from me possibly. Or just more anarcho-communist peasants