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Post by Crystal on Jun 25, 2009 17:44:45 GMT -5
The ninja-pirate feud was canon waaaay back when it first started xD If I remember right, Kiddo founded the Ninjas (who weren't even a guild then), and we all got together and started kunaing people. Then Rider said "NO WAI!" and founded the Pirates... and thus the Ninja-Pirate feud. For a very long time there were only Ninjas or Pirates, so the only thing to do was burn down the other guild, really. It was a lot of fun. It was only later on that it got seperated from the Splatterboard into the Guild board. =D *NTWF historian!* ... *OLD* T__T I propose an entirely NEW section of boards to be called "Planning Stuff we Intend to Someday Do/Organize.... maybe." We do have one. :3 It's called 'Mod Squad'. Because seriously, that's what it is. 971 |
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Post by Cyborg on Jun 25, 2009 18:53:38 GMT -5
The ninja-pirate feud was canon waaaay back when it first started xD If I remember right, Kiddo founded the Ninjas (who weren't even a guild then), and we all got together and started kunaing people. Then Rider said "NO WAI!" and founded the Pirates... and thus the Ninja-Pirate feud. For a very long time there were only Ninjas or Pirates, so the only thing to do was burn down the other guild, really. It was a lot of fun. It was only later on that it got seperated from the Splatterboard into the Guild board. =D *NTWF historian!* ... *OLD* T__T XD Love you Crystal!! You aren't old, you're just old...er. But good point, I guess the Ninja/Pirate thing died a while ago. Though I'm not quite sure why I cared if we ended it or not, since I'm not in the pirates. *coughSpacefleetrulescough* |
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Post by Huntress on Jun 25, 2009 19:17:23 GMT -5
Well, the original ninja-pirate thing is bigger than the NTWF. I've yet to figure out where or how or why it started but I've heard stories about it being a general metaphor of the East vs West phenomenon and suchlike. In either case, it never seems to have an actual reason. And because the guilds have generally built their own canon and chronology and are fairly logic-centric at this point, said reason is pretty much impossible to create even in retrospect. The Knights and Fleet are at least do-gooders cramping our style, but sneaky assassins in zen dojos don't even make for good raiding targets.
Plus we can't really burn down each other's HQs anyway. With the ninjas, it doesn't much make sense (what would we raid the next time?) whereas with my ship... well, you'd be better off trying to juggle rabid grizzly bears. On a rope bridge. Pulled across Mount Doom. While standing on one leg. With Frodo and Gollum fighting on the same bridge.
Yeah, the only thing the olden-day pirate-ninja battles (which I still vaguely remember, mostly from reading back) and the current Pirate and Ninja guild lores have in common are the actual guild names, really. Inter-guild general chat threads would actually be fun, but I remember general chat threads in the guilds in the past, and they didn't last long because there wasn't much to talk about >> I mean, I can imagine they'd be pretty cool if they worked sorta like in-guild bloids, with all of us acting like our guild personae... hm. Hey. I like this plan. Except they still might die pretty fast.
And Cy, you're actually still in the pirate guild x'3 You got kicked out of the canon, but you'd retain the right to be in the actual guild and its activities. Although I might easily change that and just write you off. Haven't been giving it much thought, frankly.
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Post by Cyborg on Jun 25, 2009 19:26:02 GMT -5
xD Aww Hunty that's sweet, though at first, I wasn`t paying much attention, and thought that said You got fired out of the cannon. Obviously I need to pay more attention, or else I get fired out of cannons.
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Post by Ikkin on Jun 25, 2009 20:17:03 GMT -5
Popping in really late here, and I see the dust has already settled on the whole removing sub-boards thing, but...
What if we kept one sub-board, and kept all of the guild stickies there?
It'd serve two purposes - first, to avoid the cramming up of the main guild board with stickies, and second, to provide a repository for guild lore.
Because, think about it - there's a lot of guild lore, and it would be really hard for new people to catch up. It'd be really convenient for each guild to have a nice convenient place to keep the important parts of their history so people who want to join into RPs won't be doing so blind.
Having a thread filled with all of a guild's lore - especially the locations associated with that guild - would help keep the "clubhouses" feel as well, without making too much of a mess.
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Post by Stal on Jun 25, 2009 21:45:49 GMT -5
Ikkin, not sure I follow at all...
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Post by Ikkin on Jun 25, 2009 22:24:49 GMT -5
Ikkin, not sure I follow at all... Sorry, I'll try to explain better. ^^; We make a "Guild Headquarters" sub-board, which will hold one single thread for each guild. This thread will be used mostly for reference purposes. It'll hold a roster for the guild, as well as information about the guild lore - all important landmarks belonging to that guild will be described, as well as the guild's current relations with other guilds. The main purpose would be to make an easy reference guide for people who want to join the guild roleplays, but are overwhelmed by the massive amount of history they'd have to sift through to find out what the White Weewoo looks like, or who they should be fighting. By being separated out, they'd look less like little tents in the main Guild board, and there wouldn't be quite so many stickies to sift through. |
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Post by Amneiger on Jun 25, 2009 22:26:18 GMT -5
The ninja-pirate feud was canon waaaay back when it first started xD If I remember right, Kiddo founded the Ninjas (who weren't even a guild then), and we all got together and started kunaing people. Then Rider said "NO WAI!" and founded the Pirates... and thus the Ninja-Pirate feud. For a very long time there were only Ninjas or Pirates, so the only thing to do was burn down the other guild, really. It was a lot of fun. It was only later on that it got seperated from the Splatterboard into the Guild board. =D *NTWF historian!* ... *OLD* T__T XD Love you Crystal!! You aren't old, you're just old...er. The proper phrases are "wiser" and "more mature." |
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Post by Cyborg on Jun 26, 2009 8:18:33 GMT -5
I like the idea Ikkin! Amni, good point. Crytal, you are wiser, and slightly more mature.  |
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Post by Huntress on Jun 26, 2009 9:55:48 GMT -5
S'a pretty good idea, yep. Granted, it might somewhat defeat the point of stickies in the first place (stickied threads are kept on top of the boards for quick and easy reference, after all) and the guild lore is literally all over the place so in order to collect it, we'd have to do some serious historian-work... which we should do anyway... and I still have very little idea about the other guilds' past and lore and important plot points, which are especially important because our canons always overlap in inter-guild activities and it'd be nice to know what the people are talking about when they bring in RP charas and act like everyone should know them... Long story short, sounds like a plan :3 So basically that subboard would only hold six threads? And maaaybe all sorts of upcoming summary threads a la the GW Summary? Like one big shiny library?
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Post by Cyborg on Jun 26, 2009 10:18:22 GMT -5
Well, Elcy and I could figure out all the stuff for the Mercs, if she wants to.
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Post by Stal on Jun 26, 2009 11:24:03 GMT -5
I don't know. It sounds nice and all, like a little cabinet drawer, but the stickies are doing exactly the same thing. If the subboard is for lore and member list and etc, then that board isn't going to see any activity. We may as well just keep stickies in the main board and lock 'em. o.o Six threads doesn't justify a subboard...
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Post by Elcie on Jun 26, 2009 16:00:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd be fine with figuring out Merc lore. (lul, Lore. *cough*) We don't have that much, actually... just summarizing our two RPs, and Cyborg and PFA could help fill me in on their roles in GW, since I wasn't in either of them. (...either GW, that is. I wasn't in Cyborg or PFA either. Ew. XD)
I don't think we need a whole sub-board for it, though... If we "reserved" the first, say, five posts of the guild HQ, that would be enough to put a "Welcome" message, a roster, and background info... plus whatever else we deemed necessary.
I don't know if other guilds think that's good, but for mine I'll probably do that if everyone else is fine with it. Makes things a bit more organized.
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Post by Stal on Jun 26, 2009 16:12:00 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd be fine with figuring out Merc lore. (lul, Lore. *cough*) We don't have that much, actually... just summarizing our two RPs, and Cyborg and PFA could help fill me in on their roles in GW, since I wasn't in either of them. (...either GW, that is. I wasn't in Cyborg or PFA either. Ew. XD) I don't think we need a whole sub-board for it, though... If we "reserved" the first, say, five posts of the guild HQ, that would be enough to put a "Welcome" message, a roster, and background info... plus whatever else we deemed necessary. I don't know if other guilds think that's good, but for mine I'll probably do that if everyone else is fine with it. Makes things a bit more organized. Or even a whole thread of "Guild Lore" 1st Post: History, purpose and rules of guild 2nd Post: Guild Rosters and admission req's (if applicable) 3rd-Xth Post: Specific Guild Histories Xth+1 post: Major Interguild happenings (Guild Wars, etc) Houses all the guild lore, serves as a history, and the rules thread... |
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Post by Ikkin on Jun 26, 2009 20:08:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd be fine with figuring out Merc lore. (lul, Lore. *cough*) We don't have that much, actually... just summarizing our two RPs, and Cyborg and PFA could help fill me in on their roles in GW, since I wasn't in either of them. (...either GW, that is. I wasn't in Cyborg or PFA either. Ew. XD) I don't think we need a whole sub-board for it, though... If we "reserved" the first, say, five posts of the guild HQ, that would be enough to put a "Welcome" message, a roster, and background info... plus whatever else we deemed necessary. I don't know if other guilds think that's good, but for mine I'll probably do that if everyone else is fine with it. Makes things a bit more organized. Or even a whole thread of "Guild Lore" 1st Post: History, purpose and rules of guild 2nd Post: Guild Rosters and admission req's (if applicable) 3rd-Xth Post: Specific Guild Histories Xth+1 post: Major Interguild happenings (Guild Wars, etc) Houses all the guild lore, serves as a history, and the rules thread... But half of the point is to keep the feeling that there's something unique to each guild, and having a position in the Guild Library (or whatever) would help add to that, while a Guild Lore thread wouldn't. The other advantage is that if there was a sub-board for guild HQ threads, we wouldn't have to worry about stickying/unstickying unused guilds and short-lived parts of canon (say, if an Assassins Guild was created, and lived for a month, but had some interesting guild-related property on the sea that the Pirates decided to plunder after they were gone or something) could be nicely preserved in case people wanted to put them to different uses later. |
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I propose an entirely NEW section of boards to be called "Planning Stuff we Intend to Someday Do/Organize.... maybe."
