Got a post out, I may be a little rusty.
Sven the Silent Banned
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My name, as you may have noticed, is Sven. The last part of my username is a historical reference to an important person in Dutch history, William the Silent to be specific, an important leader during the Dutch revolt. If this didn't tell you already, I love history. I eat, breath and sleep history. Anything involving a historically correct setting will most likely draw my interest, whether it is during the first or perhaps the second World War, the colonial age, or even the the ancient times during the Roman Empire.
Now to sum this up to an easy and bite sized piece of information, I will most likely be down for the following scenarios or genres in terms of roleplay:
- Apocalyptic settings, whether that be Zombie or natural disasters. (Both post-apocalyptic and during the apocalypse itself.)
- Roleplays during the first or the second World War are things I enjoy immensly and that is something i'm very knowledgeable on as well.
- Ancient Rome, love it. If you have anything to do with that or possibly with things like that such as the Greek city states, I will most likely be interested.
- Videogames, roleplays based on video games such as the Metro or the Fallout series are things I can also enjoy.
Now to sum this up to an easy and bite sized piece of information, I will most likely be down for the following scenarios or genres in terms of roleplay:
- Apocalyptic settings, whether that be Zombie or natural disasters. (Both post-apocalyptic and during the apocalypse itself.)
- Roleplays during the first or the second World War are things I enjoy immensly and that is something i'm very knowledgeable on as well.
- Ancient Rome, love it. If you have anything to do with that or possibly with things like that such as the Greek city states, I will most likely be interested.
- Videogames, roleplays based on video games such as the Metro or the Fallout series are things I can also enjoy.
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02/04/1910
Helan Mountains, Xingqing district
Ningxia, China
With the rise of the Warlords and the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Opium trade had returned from the brink of destruction, flourishing once more throughout China. The newly formed Republic had tried to counter and ban the Opium trade like its predecessor, but its rule only extended as far as its territory, rendering the ban ineffective in all but their own province, with little to no exception. However, with Ningxia enforcing the ban days after it had been formally reinstated, more so out of personal distaste rather then unity with The Republic, smuggling became an issue on a day to day basis for both provinces.
It was a satisfying sight, a group of nine men being led down the mountain path, right to prison. Amongst the onlookers was a veteran in the regiment, engaged in dialogue with his commander. ''Looks like they found another group, this is the third time i've seen the product stuffed into berries. They're getting clever, but not clever enough.'' With only one river running into the province, and most of the travelable paths going over flat terrain, there wasn't anything besides the mountain chain, that the smugglers could use to have a chance at getting their foul product into Ningxia. Yet this only simplified the task of the provincial government, especially now army regiments were involved. The commander in charge of today's drug bust was, Captain Lee Chan. ''Indeed, they are. But it doesn't matter if they have the best disguise on this earth, if we catch them in the mountains, they're going to get searched regardless.'' A less known government policy was to ban the use of paths through the mountain, for local trade caravans and civilians alike, this resulted in all the Opium carvans, cleverly disguised as they might be, standing out like a rose amongst thorns. ''Load the product off the carts and place them into our crates, the ones not carrying army insignias, then escort the caravan to Yinchuan. The crew there is preparing another shipment two days from now.''
The soldier obliged, ordering the rest of the soldiers to start loading the cargo. Amongst the soldiers a sole peasant, hand selected from the group being led down the path, the tenth man. ''Stage an accident near the town, arrange a public spectacle. Allow our friend here to get caught with a crate of Opium, then execute him in the town square.'' The peasant, visibly shaken by the events unfolding, opted to step forward. ''You can't do this! Your law has a prison sentence as the capital punishment, i'll tell the people what you're doing, and once General Hsi-shan finds out, you'll be executed!'' The soldiers around him erupted in laughter, the captain offering him a pleasant smile while taking an execution hood from one of the soldiers, proving that this was a common event to take place whenever people needed to be reminded about the active ban against Opium, to keep its price high, so that those who cannot resist fall for the trap layed out for them. ''Who do you think gave me the order? General Yan Shikhai Hsi-shan himself. You are the necessary evil, one that the public can point its fingers too and blame, the evil that people can rally against, the evil we use to keep order and to ensure we enjoy populair support. But mostly, you are the necessary evil that distributes drugs so that the major governments can deny involvement.'' With that the captain pulled the hood over the man's face, binding the man's hands together shortly after. ''The ones who know don't care, and the ones who care don't know. Something has to keep the money flowing into our province, you're just a victim of circumstance.'' The peasant had little choice other then to play his part, he was going to die either way. And if he had to choose, a painless death was better then agony.
Helan Mountains, Xingqing district
Ningxia, China
With the rise of the Warlords and the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Opium trade had returned from the brink of destruction, flourishing once more throughout China. The newly formed Republic had tried to counter and ban the Opium trade like its predecessor, but its rule only extended as far as its territory, rendering the ban ineffective in all but their own province, with little to no exception. However, with Ningxia enforcing the ban days after it had been formally reinstated, more so out of personal distaste rather then unity with The Republic, smuggling became an issue on a day to day basis for both provinces.
It was a satisfying sight, a group of nine men being led down the mountain path, right to prison. Amongst the onlookers was a veteran in the regiment, engaged in dialogue with his commander. ''Looks like they found another group, this is the third time i've seen the product stuffed into berries. They're getting clever, but not clever enough.'' With only one river running into the province, and most of the travelable paths going over flat terrain, there wasn't anything besides the mountain chain, that the smugglers could use to have a chance at getting their foul product into Ningxia. Yet this only simplified the task of the provincial government, especially now army regiments were involved. The commander in charge of today's drug bust was, Captain Lee Chan. ''Indeed, they are. But it doesn't matter if they have the best disguise on this earth, if we catch them in the mountains, they're going to get searched regardless.'' A less known government policy was to ban the use of paths through the mountain, for local trade caravans and civilians alike, this resulted in all the Opium carvans, cleverly disguised as they might be, standing out like a rose amongst thorns. ''Load the product off the carts and place them into our crates, the ones not carrying army insignias, then escort the caravan to Yinchuan. The crew there is preparing another shipment two days from now.''
The soldier obliged, ordering the rest of the soldiers to start loading the cargo. Amongst the soldiers a sole peasant, hand selected from the group being led down the path, the tenth man. ''Stage an accident near the town, arrange a public spectacle. Allow our friend here to get caught with a crate of Opium, then execute him in the town square.'' The peasant, visibly shaken by the events unfolding, opted to step forward. ''You can't do this! Your law has a prison sentence as the capital punishment, i'll tell the people what you're doing, and once General Hsi-shan finds out, you'll be executed!'' The soldiers around him erupted in laughter, the captain offering him a pleasant smile while taking an execution hood from one of the soldiers, proving that this was a common event to take place whenever people needed to be reminded about the active ban against Opium, to keep its price high, so that those who cannot resist fall for the trap layed out for them. ''Who do you think gave me the order? General Yan Shikhai Hsi-shan himself. You are the necessary evil, one that the public can point its fingers too and blame, the evil that people can rally against, the evil we use to keep order and to ensure we enjoy populair support. But mostly, you are the necessary evil that distributes drugs so that the major governments can deny involvement.'' With that the captain pulled the hood over the man's face, binding the man's hands together shortly after. ''The ones who know don't care, and the ones who care don't know. Something has to keep the money flowing into our province, you're just a victim of circumstance.'' The peasant had little choice other then to play his part, he was going to die either way. And if he had to choose, a painless death was better then agony.
I don't see my post coming up any sooner then Saturday, working long days and when I get home I have no motivation to actually write. But Saturday I have time.
Is this RP still open?
By all means, yes. Come on in.
And we are go, my warlording brethren.
I'm pretty busy the upcoming days, but I should be able to put something out none the less.
Edit: How long have we been in control of our territory exactly? Because the way you've set up your post it appears as though you've been in control for a while. Hence i'm curious.
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Since that's what Hui has been pouring most of his own wealth into it and does get good deals due to his connections.
Please do correct me if I miss understood your message though.
I just assumed that if your province was less wealthy then you would be as well. I mean, equipping a million man force with expensive machine guns seemed a bit much to me. Hence I figured you had forgotten to change it.
Alright, mucked around with the NS a bit. I made it so that while the province makes a good deal of money, most of it goes straight to Hui instead of back to the province.
Your army is still set on the ''massive wealth'' standard though, incase you didn't notice. :)
Edited my NS a bit, redid the army and added a province desc.
I don't think what you did is very accurate, did you look at any history of your province at all? I don't mean to offend but, ''After the communist revolution and until the start of the Deng Xiaoping reforms in 1978, Guangdong was an economic backwater, although a large underground, service-based economy has always existed. Economic development policies encouraged industrial development in the interior provinces which were weakly joined to Guangdong via transportation links. The government policy of economic autarky made Guangdong's access to the ocean irrelevant.'' Basically saying, that in 1911 the state and wealth of this province was much, much lower. Comparable to that of the backwards Western provinces like mine. I'm aware you can turn things around as a Warlord but you having massive wealth with the snap of your fingers feels like meta-gaming. It looks like you just saw that today it's doing very, very well and is quite rich and decided you would just use that for the 1911 era as well. That being said, i'm not the game master and I can't make you change anything. I'm just making an observation and i'm providing some information (Like the population data's) to help make things more accurate.
Edit: Maybe you can describe what policies you have for the region instead? I'm aware that I myself have a lot of ideas for my province but in most cases they're still going on the way. Like they're not set in stone as of yet, and I left mine open for problems to be exploited by the game master.
For example, i've banned the trade in Opium, which in the long run will increase the price of Opium and drugs in general in my province quite high, which should entice smugglers from all over China to get their goods here and sell them for the high prices.
Well, while we wait for Rare maybe we should start a recruitment campaign some how, we need some fresh blood.
So when are we getting this party started?
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