Shattered Kingdoms

Talons could easily merge with Fist the next time they're led by a white-aura character. There's no fundamental difference in policy between the organizations to keep them apart.

It's been a long time since I played a Peacekeeper. But when I did, they were under royal order to play nice with the Hammer. That's so close to joined you might as well make it official.

Sure, the Guardians and CoN may not combine well with their local cabal. But there's no need to jump from one cabunal to all cabunals. All we need is to reduce the number of organizations so player dilution isn't such a problem.

I like organizational mergers much better than I like split-loyalty characters. None of these organizations are mere social clubs. They demand loyalty, or should.

Easily. LOL.

My character's white-aura-led Talon was at war with the Fist at times, you know.

Cause you're all NEWBLARZ!

Yes. Though I'm being beaten in to the lightie corner by the 'lol lets PK Talons we hate zhenshi' chest-beating of the current darkies, Jor is really more the kind of person who would declare war on the Fist and deport them all from Zhenshi before she let them into the Talon.

If you make this possible, Jor will never accept a Fist into her Talon. If you merge them anyway, I'll quit SK and find a worse mud.

I don't feel like explaining why to the people that hijacked my thread, because I expect you all to be smarter than monkies.

And I've played a Talon leader that would have leapt at the chance to merge with the Fists. It would have solved several of his problems.

Seperate groups are going to have differences because of their different leaders and immediate situations. I just don't see any built-in conflict between the Fists and the Talons. They both lean towards discipline and order. They both are inclined to peaceful solutions when possible. They both have reason to oppose necromancy. Even the Hammer and Peacekeepers have more natural conflict.

(To respond to Jorinthia, I'm certainly not proposing we force a merger when it's not ICly desired or warranted. But in a OOC year's time, things could be quite different.)

meh.

I want to see the Fist joined with the tribunal responsible for bringing law to the Wastes.


That way I can make a character who works [HAND] over [FIST] for his or her goals... and gaols. Yar.

Ah...I had thought you meant any trib member could join any cabal, providing they could fit into both. Okay. My bad. Although, next time, can't you just spell out everything to begin with? It makes things so much easier in the long run.

I will try, I keep forgetting that there are some here that don't follow my pseudo-linear thinking. Though I will also try to not get too verbose. Maybe I should also not use the $5.00 words in some of my posts too. [/sarcasm]

Seriously though, I will try. But if there is ever a question, just ask. I usually don't bite heads off. Though it would be interesting to see another cabunal thrown into the mix, something to offset Midnight. The easiest thing would be to combine Hammer with the Keepers.

And to get this somewhat back to something the original poster mentioned:

Another possible thing to do that could help tribunals is extending the law immunity to those the tribunal is allied with. Meaning, for example, if I lead the Talons and I am allied with Keepers, Hammer and Druids and someone I am at war with comes in to Nerina and attacks, I could have a toggle to allow my allies to have law-immunity rather than spam the pardon command to those helping defend the city. This could be a temporary toggle, or even a permanent feature when in an alliance.