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Announcements and Suggestions for : November, 2007

Alright, folks. Here’s the idea. Over the last couple of months, Gunjin has had an undeniable decline. Activity was, for the most part, limited to the NLBFT for a good, long time. But then, afterward , there was a general burnout. Several of my projects failed, which is a good reason as to why I am hesitant to put together another set of events.

Nonetheless, here are some ideas I have come up with.

1) An RP based on Element Tradition, which was a story I had planned to bring here for help expanding. I think this would be quite interesting, but I feel as if the interest would be choked. If you are interested in this, inquire, and I’ll gladly explain what Element Tradition is.

2) This one is iffy: I wanted to do an RP that is like a torture parlor. Of course, no, this is not based on Saw alone: I just wanted a brutal, grotesque thing about a man who owns a butcher shop, and, of course, has victims running everywhere. Some end up a part of his ‘meat-cutting’ plant, and the others end up fighting amongst themselves to escape his horrible basement. The failed Saw OG proves that this needs structure and such, so I plan to do this much more creatively than the lameass OG in question.

Two suggestions by MC:

A War Games/War Room RP: This was meant to be a sort of combination of an RP and a tournament: a group of hapless fighters are brought in, forced to fight, and then, in the end, ultimately die or move on. Several “generals” and royalty are above, betting on the matches and jeering at each other. This could possibly lead into a large, structured story, or perhaps even the generals and warrior kings may end up fighting each other after their quarrels go unsolved.

A bar crawl: Warriors get drunk, to the best of my understanding, then likely try to either fight or accomplish a goal. Mostly for laughs, as he put it. I don’t like this idea myself, but I decided to put it here.

Suggestions otherwise:

It has been suggested to try another Armageddon. This is not a very thrilling prospect to me; I would have loved to see the first one go as I had planned, but things don’t always work out exactly as they were originally planned to. Although the initial Armageddon was extremely disappointing, we could try again, this time more structured and definitely better planned. Better battlefield, better backstory, better team interaction, et cetera.

As well, the Training Island, in which fights were only to be mock fought, seems more and more appealing. It would allow an experimental, practice-like approach, allowing you to toy around with ideas without having to possibly **** up a perfectly good battle. Also, the Virtual Hotel needs participation by the veterans that once made it huge. Please take this into consideration.

I also had ideas for a FFA and, perhaps, that RP I set up and never posted that I may tweak a bit and then use. Otherwise, I have a few plans that feel like they may work. Only time will tell whether or not they do.

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Edit:

Upon further thought, I will certainly be using the RP I never posted, just to see if it gets off the ground. I actually also have a document with some old ideas for topics, so I may polish those brainturds and see if they turn into something interesting. It gives us something to do, and seems like it would be epic.

I also considered Repster's idea for the next Tournament. I will go ahead and respond to that in a new post. Just know this: I'm probably going with a revamped NLBFT, but a third Tournament of Red Lions seems interesting as well. Perhaps the 11th NLBFT should be our last... And we should do a totally different tournament.