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Mahz's Dev Journal

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potentially a glitch with safari, then. does safari support addons or anything? because an addon update might have rendered images invisible.

@Grimhildr

I've not had any trouble with safari and RPG myself.

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Gangjeon Min-soo

빈 수레가 요란하다.

Bin surega yoranhada.

Name - :

> Gangjeon Min-soo.

Age - :

> 25.

Gender - :

> Male.

Nationality - :

> Korean.

Occupation - :

> Officially, Min-soo is a factory worker in a non-existent company that manufactures parts for augmentations and cybernetics. Because of the fact that this includes a lot of manual labor, it was the perfect cover to keep actual operations off the databahn. Any part of the company that does reasonably take place on the databahn is manufactured by an AI that was written by one of the whizkids in the area, which mimics realistic outputs (ergo, shipments to other non-existent companies, reports on quantity of goods made, etc).

_{Kang Shal logo, often tattooed somewhere on the body where it's somewhat visible to identify other members and for other gangs to spot Kang Shal members.}

In reality, Min-soo is at the head of one of the larger gangs in Paradiso, namely the Shang Kal (Twin Knives) that operate from the slums. The gang is primarily Korean, as even in Paradiso the ethnic ties largely control who you interact with socially, however the gang also includes Vietnamese and Laotian gangsters. The gang is 'large' for Paradiso but that does little to say about the actual size of the gang. They control a good portion of the slums and extended into other areas primarily for their drug activities. However, producing and selling drugs are only a small part of what the Kang Shal do. Their drug operations are;

• Producing/selling NEON. _{Neon is cheap to make and highly desired, so they make decent money but nothing that makes them rich.}
• Producing/selling GIGABYTE. _{This operation is only now being started because GB is more expensive to make and requires a more dependent clientele because GB is more dangerous than alternatives.}

As of yet, Kang Shal hasn't been interested in producing either Sturmstaub or Todtraum, because they are expensive designer-drugs for uses that the Kang Shal don't have. (However, Sturmstaub consumption is relatively common-place for Kang Shal members due to its' use in gang wars or violent jobs.)

However, with Min-soo and his brother at the head of the Kang Shal now, it was only a matter of time for the core businesses to expand to more violent jobs. Now, their operations are based primarily on the following;

• Hits/assassination
• Extortion
• Kidnapping
• Blackmailing
• `Strong-arms for hire` _{Companies can hire them to intimidate employees or rivals.}

The shift to violent crime rather than drugs has led to other gangs trying to encroach on their operations - so far, they have done so without repercussions since the Kang Shal maintain their territory quite well. However, if they were to start losing actual territory, it is not unlikely that the Kang Shal will retaliate.

The Kang Shal are based out of Koraebul, a Korean seafood restaurant that is ran by Min-soo's aunt and uncle.

Place of Residence - :

> The Complex. Min-soo lives alone in a small apartment above Koraebul, ran by his aunt and uncle. Some quantities of NEON and GIGABYTE are stored here. He sells from this location from time to time. His apartment, number 33a, is comfortable and nicely decorated - despite this, it is quite evidently run down and the only reason it is 'nicely decorated' is because the decorations fit the environment. There's a lot of DIY furniture, like wooden pallets stacked and painted with a glas panel over the top to make a table, a variety of refurbished leather armchairs, a comfortable couch that was bought by the Kang Shal all together so they could hang out in Min-soo's apartment, etcetera.

Overall, the place is still a dump. But it's livable and affordable.

Cybernetics (?) - :

> None, yet.

Bio - :

> Min-soo was born two years after his brother, into a family that really didn't have the space for a child, let alone two. Money was tight and as a result, Min-soo never quite enjoyed the luxury of an education beyond high school, which he barely enjoyed either since he was skipping class so much. Pressure to perform well was lacking from home, his school didn't care, and honestly, neither did he. So, he more or less enjoyed the education of the streets, hanging out with guys that were at least ten years older than him when he was six, and gradually got involved with more and more illegal things. They taught him the ropes and in return for that, he ran drugs for them. The police would never think that a kid like Min-soo had a schoolbag full of neon, after all.

The Kang Shal, however, were a new invention of his and his brother. Rather than join the existing street gangs, they created a new one and slowly stomped the other gangs, incorporating them into the Kang Shal instead of just killing them off. This way, they gained new members that had the experience they needed. Of course it also meant that sometimes, people were still angry at Min-soo and his brother. That was an issue quietly resolved in the back of a room, and often meant that where two people went in, one came out.

That sums up the mindset both Min-soo and his brother have. They are ruthless, brutal and violent in the chase of the dream. That dream is money, of course. Money, respect, hoes, clothes. So, disrespect Min-soo, and you'll pay a price. Fuck with his money or supplies? Likewise. He's living the gangster dream and the goal is in sight, now he just has to reach it.

As a person, that describes Min-soo quite well. Temperamental, eager to fight, easily angered. He's not exactly phased by violence or murder, and it shows.

...

@Circ People have had plenty of time to jump in, save their content or do something. It seems counterintuitive to jump in a few weeks/months after it has, more or less, died and start yelling about how we need to improve the situation. You can't make it better. PW won't work, has never worked and will never work on RPG. That is not a matter of planning, creation or anything involving the creative or planning process - it is something inherent to the RPG playerbase. There is a reason after all that we have such a high turnover rate for roleplays. It has nothing to do with the quality of the roleplays and everything to do with the people that are on RPG.

Who is going to be upset? The moderators that have given up on EH and who, by large, are responsible for letting it languish? Well, tough luck.

I find that the amount of submissions does little to speak in your favour and actually speaks against it. 125 submissions, that's a lot, and out of those how many actually played? How many of those are still active? Isn't that sort of speaking against the fact that EH will be able to retry and survive? I find it hard that those who played before will suddenly go 'ah revival! Time to retry _{and lose interest again after a week!}'.

Secondarily, I know from first hand source of someone involved in the mod team and the PW (leaves little room as to who it is) that Mahz had no idea what he was creating the subforum for. The only reason it exists was because someone's name was attached to it that was in the mod team. That's all it was.

I say remove it. If you're upsetti spaghetti over your content being gone then you've had ample time to save it somewhere and/or revive it. If anything we can move it to a legacy sub-forum at the bottom so that you can retrieve it. I don't see a reason to maintain it when it's clearly the case that it didn't work and will never work. No amount of broken revival attempts are going to solve that because the reason for failure is not in the hands of the GM's - it's the playerbase.

...

Do we really have to revitalize an entire sub-forum just for the same problems to reoccur. Between the 100-200 people that peruse RPG daily, how many of those are going to be active in EH, how many of those will stick around for longer than a month and how many of those are actually going to use the 300 threads that are available instead of just 'hanging out' in the 'bar thread.'

So in retrospect, what we had in EH was:

• A decently organized, but flawed, persistent world
• A very low starting number of players, comparable to a large RP that takes 1 thread to host..
• Admins and moderators hosting it that didn't care and left
• No thread activity except for 1 thread
• And new plans to restart this project because it went over so well last time
• And all of that is placed at the top of RPG for........ no reason

I honestly wouldn't care about this but it's kind of painful to see that an existing PW that already had 20+ members was interested in making a sub-forum here, and Mahz never replied to that, but some dead PW idea that got pushed out in supposedly a week was given the top space on RPG because uhhhhhhhh, yeah.

Do we really need an inactive forum as the header for RPG as a whole? That's a nice sales pitch.

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So perhaps it's a good idea of thinking how we should tie together our characters. Sandboxes are nice and all but we need driving force here.

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@spencerishere i like your character

@Didgeridont i like yours too

@Silent Observer omega is dope can't wait to go to war with you

Cześć, mam na imię...

Oczywiscie. Sprawdz mój "signature." (Don't know how to say that..) Moze ci sie podoba.

discord.gg/WeYEyQW

Cześć, mam na imię...

@Dziady Czy masz Discord?

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@ArenaSnow ASSASSINS? Wow, boy, you dodged a bullet then. I prefer the 'I'm a genius' thing over 'I'm fucking Ezio Auditore and I can fly through the sky hurling blades at my enemies while doing a perfect fucking somersault after I land.'