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seems I've not been able to clarify certain concepts, I'll try again ^^
@Lolitra, Celorrim Purrty Twins: Thanks for the kind words, but I've to state that unlikely you'll find any of its members in game (at least, not played by me) although it's an idea that anyone can adopt, and play it, I don't think anyone will do it. The existance of the guild, in game, is none. It only existed in my imaginary, and I wanted to share this part of society, so other players, when go online, know that there are guilds around, and, if they want, they can use them for their RP.
@Tharos: The Dark Empire has sunk so low? How can it feel menaced by a bunch of beggars, armed with... dirt? In any case, no blackmailing here, if someone writes a letter in this guild will have hands cleaned enough, and the parchment will have a polite letter, you can call it white-yellowish mailing
Feel free to use the way of getting info, though. It's just an alternative to those players that have always to use a trained fly, that eavesdrops conversations, and then passes the report to their owners. You don't know how much a fly gets bound to his/her owner, specially if the latter hasn't taken a bath in quite some time, so it makes it easier for the fly to return.
@Zhai: I'm not sure if you mean that you did not get it, or if you're reluctant to believe it. The concept is really surrealistic, and, as I mentioned in the first post, I owe it to Terry Pratchett. On a future, if the guild is stablished in Hydlaa city, and the uninvitation concept is accepted as it is accepted the night and day cycles, we might have something like this. A rich couple plans to marry. They then send personalized invitations to their beloved individuals, and even to famous guilds of the city, so they all can assist to the wedding. At the same time, they send a message to the Beggars Guild, but not with an invitation. They send an uninvitation. Consisting in? "Dear Beggars, I hope attached bag would suffice for your non-presence to our marriage" to which the Beggars, after checking the amount of money sent to them for their no-presence, would answer politely as ever "The guild whishes you both the best in your grouped future". Currently, though, the guild isn't as stablished, so, certain people, the ones forming the council (some details on later posts, perhaps) have to somehow, force to be uninvited. That can be indeed an art, and they use the announcement people does for their major events, in order to know who they've to contact, to offer them the entire no-presence of the guild they represent.
@Arka: Indeed, beggars belief. That's the thing. Put in players minds that there's more than what you barely see when you join the game, that the lands are there. That cities do not move, that the new implemented areas aren't new places appeared out of nowhere, it's all there, already. About the handkerchiefs... Oh my, I'm just seeing them selling those handkerchiefs to the queues of karts waiting to enter Akkaio dsar for instance, or offering to clean the animals that carry the goods from one city to another ^^ (Absolute copying here what can be seen in major cities nowadays with cars and such) but, the idea for this beggars is a bit different, although, if someone wants to play that, go ahead!
@Weavers: Unfortunately I don't get the first and third sentences of your reply. Agreed with you that not all the beggars will be following this guild. But, then again, in my imaginary, there was one guild of beggars, that grouped the majority of them, this is mainly required for the uninvitation concept to work as intended, and also because I think that, weak as beggars are, they wouldn't chose to segregate. Then again, the guild doesn't exist in game, so noone's claiming to have all the players that play a beggar under this guild. The intention of this thread is not make an in game guild, but spread a feeling, or an idea.
The guild members aren't wearing a piece of paper stating that they belong to BG, and, while surely there are recognizable by other traits, the one you described seems not to fit my visualization. A too actively searched begging, I'd say. This beggars I picture obey the nature laws, all tends to its lower level of energy in equilibrium. If something this guild has, is members with equilibrium, even if lacking a leg. They form part of the landscape, they're in that spot in the street, laying lazily in there since before the walls were painted. I'll try to picture a bit the "common beggar" so to say, later on, though.
@Siofra: I'm sorry if I sounded as if I was saying there was conflict between both guilds, but, what I tried to say is more or less what you typed. I'm pleased to see that you had also your ideas of a more complete society. I guess I could not expect from you sentences such as "there are no beggars", "everyone's rich" or "noone ever dies in here"
@Syilph: Well, as the first post says, the idea isn't original, but from Terry Pratchett's. I liked the concept, because it was hillarious, and I felt I had to put it into the world, so I roleplayed it for some time in game, and also in the forums a bit.
Good that Benko's a kran and people will refrain from hitting him on the face ^^ yeah Benko could be himself alone one cathegory "begging by extenuation" where you get the money because the one's already fed up of you, and pays to loose you from his/her sight. In any case, as I said, the beggars I pictured were less "evolved" so to say, more mundane, lazy, laying on the street... with lots of free time to think about this and that or nothing at all. Exactly, the Beggars Guild is such a generator of talented poetists. What the Poetist Guild doesn't know, is that is such a generator of beggars.
Background history... well, with time I'll come up with something stupid enough.
