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

[IceHeart]

So how in the world was that not an ambush? A giant freaking tree crashed and burned in order to separate Fanilly from the rest of her troop, sure it wasn't an ambush designed to take out the Iron Rose Knights, just one to cut of its newest head. She was baited away from her troops, to try and take out the enemy crossbowmen and then was cornered by the Bandit King. Maybe trap would have been a better word but for all intents and purposes an ambush though designed with a much smaller target in mind.

[chukklehed]

Guys, guys. Find your chill my guys. Don't let IC drama leak into the OOC

[Raineh Daze]

So how in the world was that not an ambush? A giant freaking tree crashed and burned in order to separate Fanilly from the rest of her troop, sure it wasn't an ambush designed to take out the Iron Rose Knights, just one to cut of its newest head. She was baited away from her troops, to try and take out the enemy crossbowmen and then was cornered by the Bandit King. Maybe trap would have been a better word but for all intents and purposes an ambush though designed with a much smaller target in mind.

@IceHeart

Because an ambush implies intentionally baiting (or knowing the enemies' actions) and not just someone shooting at the knights. It's more of a flanking manoeuvre. Remember, the bandits had no idea this was coming and were taken completely by surprise.

[chukklehed]

R, you're not finding your chill

[IceHeart]

Well there was certainly some implied baiting involved since Jeremiah pretty much instantly recognized Fanilly as the Captain. So I still think Julianna's point stands somewhat as being an ambush, even if it might have been unintentional that Fanilly was one of the few separated from the army. Well the joys of ambiguity make everything more complicated and while Jeremiah may have been caught by surprise he still had the presence of mind to order a very well thought out strategy to catch some knights off guard. Certainly one of those things which can be seen from a few different points of view, which after all is the main point I suppose.

[Raineh Daze]

R, you're not finding your chill

@chukklehed

Um... I am perfectly calm.

It's just that this is a fantasy guy who killed 300 men singlehandedly. I think cutting down a tree is within his area of competence without concluding that something unexpected is an ambush. O_o

[Themerlinhawk]

@harinezumikoukenhey sorry I couldn't grab an @mention for you because I'm on my phone. :/

[ghastlyInc]

No yeah, lets keep the feelings in the IC guys.
I actually really like the challenge, to be honest.

Both are in the wrong here. Silvern is clearly doing a power play and others are going to fall for it(see Gillian). Its a hard sell to put your faith in someone many would see as a kid, and any minor mistake is going to get blown out of proportion.

That said, Tyaethe is the voice of the super conservative members. So, even if outside the order this would seem like a bad idea, She's unlikely to change her opinion over night (if ever). Fanlily will always be the exception for her, and thats great! That she can trust someone that much speaks a lot to her character, and fighting for it doubly so.

So lets just take a step back and pet the hundi.

[IceHeart]

And then the Civilized Barbarian walked in to be the voice of reason...@Themerlinhawk XD

You know now that I think about it, there are quite a few stories where there is an outsider who has a much more balanced view on goings ons. Just a thought that popped into my head.

[harinezumikouken]

Marianne is about to lose her shit though, ladies and gents.

[Themerlinhawk]

Marianne is about to lose her shit though, ladies and gents.

@harinezumikouken

Oh god XD

[Raineh Daze]

No yeah, lets keep the feelings in the IC guys.
I actually really like the challenge, to be honest.

Both are in the wrong here. Silvern is clearly doing a power play and others are going to fall for it(see Gillian). Its a hard sell to put your faith in someone many would see as a kid, and any minor mistake is going to get blown out of proportion.

That said, Tyaethe is the voice of the super conservative members. So, even if outside the order this would seem like a bad idea, She's unlikely to change her opinion over night (if ever). Fanlily will always be the exception for her, and thats great! That she can trust someone that much speaks a lot to her character, and fighting for it doubly so.

So lets just take a step back and pet the hundi.

@ghastlyInc

Uh, there's at least... well, two things in that post that are probably bad ideas (one because it's notably false, the other because... uh...)

The first one is that... Tyaethe does do stuff. A lot. That is, guarding the captain with completely suicidal behaviour. That part's just confusing (slightly more than Gillian's glorious ability to misunderstand what she says every time) O_o

But the other thing is, uh...

Not because some dusty corpse tells me I should because she was born under a good moon.”

... In terms of bad things to say, insulting the saint that founded the order (or the high priestess that chose the succession, if it wasn't Elionne) so blatantly in front of a member of the church isn't something that I think can be roleplayed around without taking things in a... far more convoluted and conflict-filled direction than is wanted.

I mean, even Julianna's close to the church. That just seems a horrific thing to say.

[harinezumikouken]

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Oh god XD

@Themerlinhawk

Yeah, you done f**ked up by leaving her alone too. xD

[ghastlyInc]

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The first one is that... Tyaethe does do stuff. A lot. That is, guarding the captain with completely suicidal behaviour. That part's just confusing (slightly more than Gillian's glorious ability to misunderstand what she says every time) O_o

@Raineh Daze

Oh no yeah, Thats true. But from Gillian's perspective, that doesnt really help the people of Thaln. And I'm sure she does a ton of other things, but he's either dismissing them or outright ignoring them, in part because he's angry. He's a very boots on the ground kind of guy, so the things Tyaethe does as a (probably) high ranking officer doesnt have much visual impact to him.

As for the corpse thing, Tyaethe IS the corpse he's insulting, not the saint.

Edit: like, I recognize Gillian's being a jerk here. But thats part of the character right now. He doesn't like a few things in the order, so he conflicts /hard/ with Tyaethe and might ignore the good she does do.

[Rin]

...Hum, and here I was thinking taking a rest would make it easier to post...

[Themerlinhawk]

@harinezumikoukenhey wait he was super nice! And I wasn't like he was running off forever.... Oh god...

[Raineh Daze]

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Oh no yeah, Thats true. But from Gillian's perspective, that doesnt really help the people of Thaln. And I'm sure she does a ton of other things, but he's either dismissing them or outright ignoring them, in part because he's angry. He's a very boots on the ground kind of guy, so the things Tyaethe does as a (probably) high ranking officer doesnt have much visual impact to him.

As for the corpse thing, Tyaethe IS the corpse he's insulting, not the saint.

Edit: like, I recognize Gillian's being a jerk here. But thats part of the character right now. He doesn't like a few things in the order, so he conflicts /hard/ with Tyaethe and might ignore the good she does do.

@ghastlyInc

Uh... apart from Tyaethe being so alive and mobile she wouldn't think of it that way... especially since the key note of corpses is their lack of mobility...

The princess likes Elionne. The princess has no idea about Tyaethe. The princess is standing right there.

[Themerlinhawk]

@Raineh Dazeokay seriously? Tyaetha is undead. Frankly that is the defining feature of the character. I feel like you are stretching that a little since everyone knows she's undead and she's made it clear she is and goes on about her age too. So I'd say it's a stretch for her not to get that the reference to a corpse is her

[ghastlyInc]

Was using corpse as a derogatory term there. Tyaethe being undead.
Sorry, I guess that wasnt too clear? I've no idea what kind of slurs would exist for sentient undead in setting. >.<

EDIT:

...Hum, and here I was thinking taking a rest would make it easier to post...

@Rin

Sorry >.<
This exchange was probably meant to be a little minor confrontation and I think we got a little carried away. Any idea on what you'd like Rin to do?

[VitaVitaAR]

As per the bio I accepted, it's not at all common knowledge outside of the Iron Rose Knights.

The Princess has no idea she's undead for example. She could easily not understand.

Also, um, I think my big problem here is... this makes it VERY hard for me to post with the Princess at the moment.