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[Guild] DarkReign
« on: June 07, 2007, 03:38:40 am »
This thread is entirely for those interested only. I want no negative responses at all. Constructive criticism is always nice. Also, I'd really enjoy advice on the story.
If you're interested my ingame name is Kanishi, my email is SpamBombs@hotmail.com, or you can post here. I'm on from around 11AM-2AM EST every day.
This is a simple story to describe our ideas and theme better.
============GuildBackground============
=Chapter 1=

A peaceful village lay quiet under a heavy storm. Its people settling down for the night after a hard days work. The black void of the sky was broken only by the streaks of lightning breaking through every few moments. Suddenly, from a distance screams could be heard. Women were soon seen running in terror, carrying their crying children as an unseen evil approached. The men of the village, armed only with axes and pitchforks, fell quickly before the evil they soon found out to be what they thought were once their fellow villagers. The darkness of the night began to fade as the houses began to burn...

=Chapter 2=

From just outside the village, Five warriors watched the chaos unfold before them. The chaos they created, as they turned villager against villager. Quickly and quietly, they decended into the village. Moving through the chaos they knew so well with ease, they picked up the crying children and carried them into captivity. The remaining men of the village tried to stop them, but they were simply weak farmers and were slaughtered easily before the five warriors. When the battle was finally over, every man and woman lay dead, every house razed to the ground, and every child taken away. The warriors took the bones of the fallen and adorned themselves and the halls of their lair with them. The woman's skulls were used to hold torches, by means of a hole crudely bashed into the top. The father's bones were used as decorative armor for the warriors, with whom which wore them with honor and a sickening content.

=Chapter 3=

The children were tought in the ways of these warriors, and learned to efficiently create havok and chaos in the midst of the night. Each day, a new child looks upon the bones lining the halls...and the warriors bodies...and then asks us "Whose bones are these? Where did they come from?'...the only reply they ever seem to get is one the other children already have memorized.

"These are the bones of our foolish enemies, who stood against us and fell to our blades."

=Chapter 4=

You are one of those children, and now it is time for you to make your place in the world. It is your time now to bring forth the chaos, havok, and destruction. You are a member of a society know only as the Dark Reign. What will you do to prove yourself?

==============Guild Ranks==============

Vassal - You are a mere child, recently taken captive.
Scout - You are now a the equivalent "teenager", you learn our ways.
Minion - You are now one of what will in the future be many minions.
Burner - You are in charge of the destruction of whole towns.
Enforcer - You are the one who makes sure members do their part.
Executioner - You will be called on to do our all of our bidding.
Silencer - You are the one who keeps escaped children quiet.
Chaos Elder - You are one of what will in the future be six others.
Chaos Lord - This is me, the guild master.

==============Guild Rules==============

You are not to duel anyone within the guild unless approved, in an event, or when ranking up.

In any public meetings of any kind, you are to roleplay your character. Any OOC talk goes in brackets. Guild talk is usually just OOC.

You are not to swear heavily, especially when a respective figure or higher rank is in your prescence.

If anyone exposes the guild, you will be kicked out with no exceptions, and added to a blacklist.

Anyone who breaks a major rule will be fined. 5K for first offense, 10K for second, 20K for third, 10K and a deranking for the fourth.

===========Guild Goals/Motto============
-Goals=

Our plans are to make this guild a successful, active, and self-sufficient one. Possible territorial domination, a serious community that isn't afraid to RP. Just about anything evil that can be thought of, and for now, get stronger and have fun.

=Moto=

Sometimes death is more comforting...

=Who we want!=

We are looking for players that can hold a somewhat intelligent conversation, and have an evil preferance. Good aligned is accepted but not preferred by any means at all. In fact, it'd be better to say neutral rather than good. We want players that aren't afraid to have fun and aren't joining the guild simply to beg for ranks.

Nobody will be forced to take part in any evil acts they wish to stay out of. Such as for example getting revenge on one of your friends for crossing us. And oh yes, don't doubt that we would. All races, religions, etc, allowed.
« Last Edit: June 07, 2007, 08:02:51 am by Mhyrage »

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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2007, 07:29:38 am »
I think the guild rules with fines as punishment is something that simply will not be adequately enforced.  The only real enforcement you can do as a guild leader is to remove someone from your guild, and I think rather than pay 20k people will just leave anyways.  It will also seem a bit harsh to newer players who can't levy the funds. 

In my experience such things sound good as guild rules but simply don't pan out.  I'd recommend a punishment based solely on threat of being kicked from the guild.  Even this isn't much punishment unless there is a good reason to want to be part of the guild so you have to weigh that challenge into what you do so that enforcement of rules is something that isn't as necessary because people don't wish to test their luck and be removed.

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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2007, 07:40:02 am »
I appreciate the advice, and I will have to see how it works out. I do agree that 20K is a very hefty fine but, by the time you manage to break a major rule 4 times, you'll probably have well over 20K. I can get nearly any member to give my 5K simply out of the little bit of goodness out of their hearts. And 10K can be gotten from an hour at the mine easy. I've never said I'll be strict about this, especially with newcomers, nor have I said that I won't give them warnings or get them adjusted to what I do and don't like. Also, not all the rules on there are major. Major would be like severely harassing another guild member or exposing a very big secret. The 20K and derank thing is more or less just a way of saying, don't do anything extremely dumb 4 times or you will regret it or as you said, maybe even end up leaving the guild for it.

I do agree the threat of kicking would work well, but that's also a nice way to discourage people from joining as well, they'll simply think they'll get kicked as soon as they make a big enough mistake. I don't want members that don't want to be a part of the guild enough to pay a small fine anyway. Also, I've never said they can't have somebody else pay it for them, or anything like that. Keep in mind it is an evil guild. Thanks for the post by the way, I need any attention I can get right now.
« Last Edit: June 07, 2007, 07:42:24 am by Mhyrage »

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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2007, 03:47:35 am »
I hope this goes well.  If you find ppl who can RP well your ideas can work.  good luck.
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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2007, 01:46:47 pm »
Finally someone who actually thought about his guild before walking to Harnquist and shouting "New evil guild founded!  No n00bs! You should join cuz we're gozu". I hope this goes well.

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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2007, 03:29:33 pm »
Honestly, PS could use a guild that actually goes and causes trouble and actually goes up to random ppl on the streets and tries to rob them.  We need good RP'ing criminals!
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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2007, 03:41:47 pm »
Oh no! competition when I get back! Or maybe someone who could be a good ally ???

I do agree the threat of kicking would work well, but that's also a nice way to discourage people from joining as well, they'll simply think they'll get kicked as soon as they make a big enough mistake.

This is true but at the same time by kicking people out you show that you are a serious guild master. There are a lot of evil players who would break your rules a lot and so by kicking them out you discourage any of them from joining. At the same time there's a lot of evil players who are more respected and by seeing that your not tolerating the rule breakers they will be more intrigued to join your guild.

My other suggestion about your guild is to create a greater rp reason for why your guild exist. Your goal is good but kinda OOC. Going around causing chaos for the fun of it is fun but coming up with some goal or greater reason makes it sound better. Possibly for example these original 5 warriors had something they were searching for and were tearing down villages searching for it. Members of the guild would be taking this quest as their own also searching for this thing the first 5 were. You don't have to do something like that (I suggest you don't because if you find whatever this thing is then the guild could get boring and most make special items "super god weapons") but making a stronger Rp goal for your guild will make it all the more fun to be a part of.

Besides that good luck. I look forward to seeing you oneday  ;)
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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2007, 05:36:36 pm »
Finally someone who actually thought about his guild before walking to Harnquist and shouting "New evil guild founded!  No n00bs! You should join cuz we're gozu". I hope this goes well.

Actually, that's exactly what happened.
I was standing around harns at the time of this guilds formation before it had even chosen a final name.


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"...We're recruiting evil people after the next one."

"...And after we find out what's going on with the guild."

"...Afterwords maybe participate in some evil deeds. And along the way organize the structure of ranks and such. At the moment, I have none in mind."
« Last Edit: June 29, 2007, 05:39:42 pm by Pyros_Wildfire »

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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2007, 06:18:15 pm »
Well now that the recruitment method has been brought to our attention, sham shame shame.
Other than that, the name is lacking, and once I read "A peacefull village" I pretty much stopped with the story. The whole in a peacefull village thing isn't all too original.
The ranks seem to be going in a "noob warrior" "warrior" "good warrior" pattern, which isn't all too great.
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=25003.0 - That might help. 

Other than that, good luck, and geez, if this demand for the evil keeps up, I may have to come out of retirement and see what the DeT guildies are doin.



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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2007, 08:40:31 pm »
Finally someone who actually thought about his guild before walking to Harnquist and shouting "New evil guild founded!  No n00bs! You should join cuz we're gozu". I hope this goes well.

Actually, that's exactly what happened.
I was standing around harns at the time of this guilds formation before it had even chosen a final name.


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"...We're recruiting evil people after the next one."

"...And after we find out what's going on with the guild."

"...Afterwords maybe participate in some evil deeds. And along the way organize the structure of ranks and such. At the moment, I have none in mind."


Thats a shame. A guild should not be started by just asking random people if they want to start a guild. However if thats how it started there's no helping it. Its how they move foward from there that should be looked at. Who knows what could happen if the "randoms" selected actually come up with intresting rps.

Other than that, good luck, and geez, if this demand for the evil keeps up, I may have to come out of retirement and see what the DeT guildies are doin.

Always wondered about DeT. They sounded like fun people  :devil: Sadly they were before my time so I only know as much as rumors and the fourms have told me.
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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2007, 09:12:10 pm »
Hmm... Not bad.
Actually, I dare say this appears more interesting than most of the guilds around here lately.
Just don't turn into yet another conspiracy-loving freak force... We have enough of that CIA and FBI crap around Planeshift already.

Robinmagus, what's wrong with the name exactly?
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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2007, 09:23:42 pm »
There's nothing wrong with it, but it isn't the most original or incredible sounding name ever. I mean, "Dark Lords" "Lords of Dark" "Lords of Lords of Dark" "Darkthis" "DarkThat" "Lightwho" "LightWHere." The names just get repetative. It could be more original.


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Always wondered about DeT. They sounded like fun people   Sadly they were before my time so I only know as much as rumors and the fourms have told me.
Not much to wonder about really. We were the overlords of everything (especially draklar) and were led by the brilliant (and sometimes just plain weird) Am-Heh. But it seems we can't stay active for more than a week or two in any of the guilds many reincarnations. Oh well.
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Re: [Guild] DarkReign
« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2007, 09:33:56 pm »
"Dark" is how people of Yliakum name things they perceive as evil/chaotic. Dark Way, Dark Crystal, Dark Circle, and there's more of that stuff in game.
The name is rational and descriptive as to its purpose. Works fine.
I would be picky about "reign", as "material" nouns usually work better in guild naming than "state-descriptive" ones, but it's up to one's tastes.
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« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2007, 09:35:41 pm »
People of Yliakum aren't exactly creative, are they?
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« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2007, 09:42:43 pm »
They probably leave creativity to art and functionality to things that are meant to be functional (unless they're silly Xacha).


Hmm... Considering the children part, I would call the guild "Dark Scions", I think.
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