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[pbp] [Recruiting/Interest] Legends of the Wulin: Open Palm, Closed Fist
Super Namicchi
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Orange County, CARegistered User regular
The turn of the century is a time of upheaval for Shen Zhou.
Foreigners press at the borders of the country, eager to get at the rich underbelly while the leaders of government jockey for who will succeed the dying Emperor.
The people turn to their folk heroes, the names of legend that navigate the Rivers and Lakes.
The country is waiting for a martial hero.
Are you it?
Foreigners press at the borders of the country, eager to get at the rich underbelly while the leaders of government jockey for who will succeed the dying Emperor.
The people turn to their folk heroes, the names of legend that navigate the Rivers and Lakes.
The country is waiting for a martial hero.
Are you it?
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This is a recruitment thread for Legends of the Wulin, a game about drama, romance and action! I am looking for three Wu Xia to embark on a journey, to cultivate their chi, and become the new heroes of legend that will guide China-that-never-was into the new age.
This game will be, in effect, set in a mythic China that is going through its own turn of the twentieth century, dealing with personal stories revolving around cultural identity and internal politics. The films Fearless and Ip Man (1 and 2) are great starting points for an idea of the themes I want to explore.
I'm going to pick players before we actually make concepts as I would like everyone to collaborate together to generate a group template for maximum cohesion.
So, sign up in Tiger Orange to show your interest and we will see whose gongfu is strongest!
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How crazy do you want the power level on this game? Are we talking blasting holes in walls with chi? Or just leaping up to rooftops in a single bound?
I'm just going to leave that autocorrect there.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
nevertheless I think we have a good group and we can start brainstorming characters.
But I will have some more thoughts, see what other characters I can think of
PbPs and me tend to be unmitigated disasters, as you know all too well.
Your characters will be new arrivals to the city of Guo He (River Crossing), a western city that lies close to the border of Shen Zhou and the lands beyond. As such it is a place where tradition and foreign culture butt heads as people from all over seek to make their fortune.
You have all come to the city over the past three months to study under Sifu Hai-yun the White Tiger. He is a legendary master that had disappeared a decade ago and had been thought deceased. With his return he has brought new styles of Kung fu to Shen Zhou, styles adapted from the barbarians beyond, and he has recently opened up his first school.
You will be his first disciples to start down this path and you will bear secrets to Kung fu jealously coveted.
Your connection to the city will be up to you; you can know or not know each other as you wish, but you will definitely have ties to the city, perhaps relatives and friends. Feel free to make stuff up and collaborate; I love open world collab and that's where we are going with this.
We will worry about the mechanics last and I will likely be introducing some custom Kung fu styles and techniques you can add to your arsenals as you incorporate Hai-yun's style into your own.
Kwong Li: A young son of a moderately wealthy merchant clan. Sent to train with Sifu Hai-yun because his father believes it will being honor to the small clan to have an association to the legendary Hai-yun. So something like a 12-15 year old, wet behind the ears but eager to learn. Obviously has connections among the merchant class of folk, though he's still thought a child by many.
Hao Jun: A young man on the cusp of adulthood (17-20), a member of a family distantly related to some prominent Kung fu clans hailing from Guo He and the surrounding countryside. He's become a student at Hai-yun's school because his father believes Jun can share the new techniquies being taught by Hai-yun and pass on his training to others outside the school. (Unsure on how Jun would feel about this plan.) Connections among other Kung Fu disciplines that are native to Guo He, some connections to ruling nobles. Though the Hao clan itself is thought of as unimportant, if at all.
Oh and another idea just struck me.
Jochi: An older man, something like 30 years old, a wandering barbarian working as a thug for hire. He hails from beyond Shen Zhou and is nothing but a brawler. He's well known (some might say infamous) in the bars of Guo He. Given a rude wakeup call (details fluid), he's pressed to be accepted into the new school as a means to expand his knowledge and learn discipline.
As always, these ideas are just my initial character pitch. I've got ideas where each of the three first ideas could grow in play, but not committing to any one path at this time.
still waiting on concepts from @shinyo
I did think of how each of the three pitches could relate to Las-Son-of-Thunder, so that's not really an accident. And yeah, Jun is the most opposite to Last Thunder.
I would love to play any of the three characters I proposed, in all honesty. So it comes down to which pitch provides the most possibility for fun/good storytelling with the other players and/or the GM's plot.