[ORGANIZATION] O.L.P. : A Secret Society

[Phinehas]

You obviously have no idea who I am or what I'm like. I don't level, I don't place a lot of emphasis on the game mechanics at all, and probably won't until they're at least somewhat completed. I AM talking RP. Power could be many different things. In my opinion, right now the only true RP power in-game is influence, whether this means being a guild leader, or simply well-known and respected, etc. etc.

[zanzibar]

Hmm. That seems to me OOC knowledge leaking into Phinehas. What "real power" is, I mean.

Is it money? Is it skills? Is it the ability of earning PPs fast? Just game mechanisms.

I think Phinehas meant powerful as in "having influence".  The ability to move people into a certain line of action.

[themule]

You obviously have no idea who I am or what I'm like.

That explains nothing. And it's rude, at least. I don't know you but I know your words. And I judge them, without judging you. It happens when you write in public.

Btw, you don't know me either.
 

I don't level, I don't place a lot of emphasis on the game mechanics at all, and probably won't until they're at least somewhat completed. I AM talking RP. Power could be many different things. In my opinion, right now the only true RP power in-game is influence, whether this means being a guild leader, or simply well-known and respected, etc. etc.

That's exactly the same of what I wrote. I must have misunderstood your previous post, if you meant that. Still you leave me with no ideas on how Phinehas would judge the "power" of that secret society, since he knows nothing about its existance.

A secret society by definition has obscure influence and no one exactly knows the limits of its power. Not even the members maybe.

[bilbous]

Secrets cannot be ultimately kept. No matter how hard you try someone finds out. Perhaps they overhear you talking do to peculiarity of acoustics when someone accidentally speaks in main when they think you are alone. Also things do not happen on their own so if something significant happens that has no obvious cause people will tend to speculate and/or investigate. One thing about societies is that people can see who associates with whom and characters get matched. If you think you can get away from this by never being together and doing all your plotting/conversing in a guild channel then you are taking OOC advantage of the game system. The men from U.N.C.L.E., CONTROL, CHAOS, all had secret clubhouses and all had ways to identify their members which could be discovered by a careful observer.

[themule]

Secrets cannot be ultimately kept.

Sure thing. But looks like it would take quite some time before someone gains enough IG knowledge to name an organization "a secret society full of crafters and random useless individuals."  That's why I thought some OOC knowledge was leaking in.

I still wonder how good RPers (a requirement for members) can run characters who are "random useless individuals" IG. I still wonder why "random useless individuals" seem to go in the same group with "crafters". That's why I assumed that "useless == not powerlevelled".

I've been proven wrong, enogh for me.

[zanzibar]

My main character is known by most people as a random useless individual and I'm having fun just fine.

[Datruth]

My main character is known by most people as a random useless individual and I'm having fun just fine.

Who is your main character? We've gotta RP sometime 

~~Datruth

p.s Mines Restound by the way, incase you didn't know.