BleachITP Reborn: Discussion & Setup Thread 8

[tgva8889]

Well, I have to jump out too, so it works perfectly, horngeek. Guess we'll meet later?

By the way, can someone tell me if these are actually what winter sakura look like? I personally have never seen them.

[Edge]

And now for how Aléjandro rules his sector:

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A Platonic Realm
Aléjandro's sector has been separated into four quarters: Cuprum, Argentum, Aurum and Mercurius. Any Arrancar is free to dwell in the sector, but must follow the laws outlined here:

• Law the First: Denizens and visitors may move freely throughout the sector, but denizens may only dwell in the quarter allocated per these laws.
• Law the Second: Those Arrancar who choose to dwell within the realm of the Cuarta whose focus is in arts and industry of great use that require skill and/or forethought, such as woodworking, smithing, weaving or warfare, are required to dwell within the Cuprum Quarter, and must acquiesce to reasonable requests given to them by denizens of the Argentum, Aurum or Mercurius Quarters.
• Law the Third: Those Arrancar who choose to dwell within the realm of the Cuarta whose focus is in purely intellectual matters, such as law, the sciences, strategy or mathematics, are required to dwell within the Argentum Quarter, and must acquiesce to reasonable requests given to them by denizens of the Aurum or Mercurius Quarters.
• Law the Fourth: Those Arrancar who choose to dwell within the realm of the Cuarta whose focus is in matters both intellectual and spiritual, such as philosophy, theology or the sciences and metaphysics of the afterlife, are required to dwell within the Aurum Quarter, and must acquiesce to reasonable requests given to them by denizens of the Mercurius Quarter.
• Law the Fifth: Only the Cuarta, his Fraccion and their personal guests may dwell within the Mercurius Quarter.
• Law he Sixth: A 'reasonable request' is determined as a request that does not threaten the well being of the one so requested, with some form of recompense provided for performing the request.
• Law the Seventh: The edicts of the Cuarta's Fraccion as pertaining to the sector are overruled only by the Cuarta himself and the Ghost King and his Queen. The edicts of the Cuarta as pertaining to the sector are overruled only by the edicts of the Ghost King and his Queen.
• Law the Eighth: All edicts and laws of the Ghost King and his Queen are in effect in the Cuarta's Sector. If any edict by the Cuarta or his Fraccion unknowingly clashes with an edict or law of the Ghost King or his Queen, then the word of the Ghost King and his Queen takes prevalence.
• Law the Ninth: Duels may only be conducted within the sector in the Cuprum Quarter's arena. The nature and terms of the duel must be agreed upon by both participants beforehand, and the duel must be observed by a neutral third party. Failure to adhere to the established rules of the duel is punishable by imprisonment, within the Primera's sector if currently feasible. Killing an opponent in a pre-agreed duel to the death without a neutral observer is treated as murder of a fellow Arrancar and punished as such.
• Law the Tenth: A denizen of the Cuarta's sector must always be working on a project of some description, with a week's leniency given upon the completion of a project. Denizens must be able to supply evidence of their progress to the Cuarta and/or his Fraccion on a bi-monthly basis.

Geography of the Cuarta's Sector

The Cuprum Quarter
The Cuprum Quarter is situated around the entrance to the sector, and is the largest of the four quarters. The quarter is filled with large numbers of one and two storey buildings, mostly housing, but also contains forges, workshops, loom mills and other industrial buildings, as well as a large varieties of restaurants, bars and public houses. At the centre of the quarter lies the arena, which is more often utilised as an amphitheatre than it is as a battleground. The arena is the only building the quarter than breaks three storeys.

The Argentum Quarter
With a considerably small area than the Cuprum Quarter, the architecture in the Argentum Quarter is more vertical. Buildings are usually at least three or four storeys, and can often reach six or seven storeys. Again, most buildings are devoted to housing, but the quarter also contains a large number of fora, labs, lecture halls and workshops.

The Aurum Quarter
Smaller again than the preceding quarter, the Aurum Quarter takes verticality as a standard of its architecture and runs with it. Buildings in the Aurum Quarter are typically ten storeys at minimum. With a considerably smaller population than the Cuprum or Argentum Quarters, a far less extreme percentage of building space is given to housing in the Aurum Quarter. There are many fora, lecture halls within in the Aurum Quarter, but most of the building space other than the housing is in fact currently undeveloped.

The Mercurius Quarter - the Palacio Cuarta
With a vastly smaller plot of land to work with than any of the preceding Quarters, the Mercurius Quarter consists solely of the Palacio Cuarta. An elegant building with little in the way of ostentatious external decoration, the Palacio Cuarta uses mainly shape, verticality and contrast to make its impression. The interiors are tastefully decorated, with ostentation kept to a minimum. The higher levels of the towers of the Palacio are given over to living quarters for the Cuarta, his Fraccion, and guests, including personalised kitchens, each with their own head chef and team of cooks. Lower levels of the towers and the main body of the Palacio are given over to other things: the great hall functions as amphitheatre, lecture hall, debating room and mental workplace. Most of the Palacio, however, is given over to the Grand Library of Las Noches. Taking up an exactly calculated 89.45% of the Palacio's space, the library consists of hundreds of floors, each with a dedicated subject, check-out desks (both manned and automated), a unique computerised catalogue (including a floor-by-floor map of the library with the dedicated subjects thereof listed) and, of course, millions, if not billions of books. Some seem to be impossible acquisitions (papyri and others documents whose catalogue files claim to originate or be copies of documents from the Great Library of Alexandria and similarly ancient centres of knowledge), but they seem to be authentic enough - most of these not having been translated.

The library staff are all technically Aléjandro's Fraccion within the grand scheme of Las Noches, but they are not granted the benefits of that status within the sector, other than being allowed to dwell within the Mercurius Quarter, and all lack the strength one would expect of a true Fraccion.

Phew. Should be everything. Tell me if I missed something.

[Hadrian_Emrys]

Call me biased, tgva8889, but I think a captain sporting a weaker (ie, minor buff) version of the ability (sans the two special traits) seems reasonable enough.

[KnightDisciple]

And now for how Aléjandro rules his sector:

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A Socratic Realm
Aléjandro's sector has been separated into four quarters: Cuprum, Argentum, Aurum and Mercurius. Any Arrancar is free to dwell in the sector, but must follow the laws outlined here:

• Law the First: Denizens and visitors may move freely throughout the sector, but denizens may only dwell in the quarter allocated per these laws.
• Law the Second: Those Arrancar who choose to dwell within the realm of the Cuarta whose focus is in arts and industry of great use that require skill and/or forethought, such as woodworking, smithing, weaving or warfare, are required to dwell within the Cuprum Quarter, and must acquiesce to reasonable requests given to them by denizens of the Argentum, Aurum or Mercurius Quarters.
• Law the Third: Those Arrancar who choose to dwell within the realm of the Cuarta whose focus is in purely intellectual matters, such as law, the sciences, strategy or mathematics, are required to dwell within the Argentum Quarter, and must acquiesce to reasonable requests given to them by denizens of the Aurum or Mercurius Quarters.
• Law the Fourth: Those Arrancar who choose to dwell within the realm of the Cuarta whose focus is in matters both intellectual and spiritual, such as philosophy, theology or the sciences and metaphysics of the afterlife, are required to dwell within the Aurum Quarter, and must acquiesce to reasonable requests given to them by denizens of the Mercurius Quarter.
• Law the Fifth: Only the Cuarta, his Fraccion and their personal guests may dwell within the Mercurius Quarter.
• Law he Sixth: A 'reasonable request' is determined as a request that does not threaten the well being of the one so requested, with some form of recompense provided for performing the request.
• Law the Seventh: The edicts of the Cuarta's Fraccion as pertaining to the sector are overruled only by the Cuarta himself and the Ghost King and his Queen. The edicts of the Cuarta as pertaining to the sector are overruled only by the edicts of the Ghost King and his Queen.
• Law the Eighth: All edicts and laws of the Ghost King and his Queen are in effect in the Cuarta's Sector. If any edict by the Cuarta or his Fraccion unknowingly clashes with an edict or law of the Ghost King or his Queen, then the word of the Ghost King and his Queen takes prevalence.
• Law the Ninth: Duels may only be conducted within the sector in the Cuprum Quarter's arena. The nature and terms of the duel must be agreed upon by both participants beforehand, and the duel must be observed by a neutral third party. Failure to adhere to the established rules of the duel is punishable by imprisonment, within the Primera's sector if currently feasible. Killing an opponent in a pre-agreed duel to the death without a neutral observer is treated as murder of a fellow Arrancar and punished as such.
• Law the Tenth: A denizen of the Cuarta's sector must always be working on a project of some description, with a week's leniency given upon the completion of a project. Denizens must be able to supply evidence of their progress to the Cuarta and/or his Fraccion on a bi-monthly basis.

Geography of the Cuarta's Sector

The Cuprum Quarter
The Cuprum Quarter is situated around the entrance to the sector, and is the largest of the four quarters. The quarter is filled with large numbers of one and two storey buildings, mostly housing, but also contains forges, workshops, loom mills and other industrial buildings, as well as a large varieties of restaurants, bars and public houses. At the centre of the quarter lies the arena, which is more often utilised as an amphitheatre than it is as a battleground. The arena is the only building the quarter than breaks three storeys.

The Argentum Quarter
With a considerably small area than the Cuprum Quarter, the architecture in the Argentum Quarter is more vertical. Buildings are usually at least three or four storeys, and can often reach six or seven storeys. Again, most buildings are devoted to housing, but the quarter also contains a large number of fora, labs, lecture halls and workshops.

The Aurum Quarter
Smaller again than the preceding quarter, the Aurum Quarter takes verticality as a standard of its architecture and runs with it. Buildings in the Aurum Quarter are typically ten storeys at minimum. With a considerably smaller population than the Cuprum or Argentum Quarters, a far less extreme percentage of building space is given to housing in the Aurum Quarter. There are many fora, lecture halls within in the Aurum Quarter, but most of the building space other than the housing is in fact currently undeveloped.

The Mercurius Quarter - the Palacio Cuarta
With a vastly smaller plot of land to work with than any of the preceding Quarters, the Mercurius Quarter consists solely of the Palacio Cuarta. An elegant building with little in the way of ostentatious external decoration, the Palacio Cuarta uses mainly shape, verticality and contrast to make its impression. The interiors are tastefully decorated, with ostentation kept to a minimum. The higher levels of the towers of the Palacio are given over to living quarters for the Cuarta, his Fraccion, and guests, including personalised kitchens, each with their own head chef and team of cooks. Lower levels of the towers and the main body of the Palacio are given over to other things: the great hall functions as amphitheatre, lecture hall, debating room and mental workplace. Most of the Palacio, however, is given over to the Grand Library of Las Noches. Taking up an exactly calculated 89.45% of the Palacio's space, the library consists of hundreds of floors, each with a dedicated subject, check-out desks (both manned and automated), a unique computerised catalogue (including a floor-by-floor map of the library with the dedicated subjects thereof listed) and, of course, millions, if not billions of books. Some seem to be impossible acquisitions (papyri and others documents whose catalogue files claim to originate or be copies of documents from the Great Library of Alexandria and similarly ancient centres of knowledge), but they seem to be authentic enough - most of these not having been translated.

The library staff are all technically Aléjandro's Fraccion within the grand scheme of Las Noches, but they are not granted the benefits of that status within the sector, other than being allowed to dwell within the Mercurius Quarter, and all lack the strength one would expect of a true Fraccion.

Phew. Should be everything. Tell me if I missed something.

Seems very solid.

Vicente probably has claims over a scattering of locations throughout the sector. His main living quarters are, of course, in the Palacio Cuarta.

But he likely makes use of some of the "empty" spaces in the Aurum Sector for his "lair". You know, his main workshop, storage area...torture chambers.

He probably has a secondary lab in the Argentum Quarter for less secure research, which he often recruits residents to assist in.

And his secondary workshop in the Cuprum Quarter would be similar in that sense.

Question: Are there/can there be secret tunnels?

[riccaru]

Knight, have you looked at Nao's most recent write-up?

[KnightDisciple]

Knight, have you looked at Nao's most recent write-up?

*Shrugs* Seems fine now.

[Draken]

And now for how Aléjandro rules his sector:

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A Socratic Realm
Aléjandro's sector has been separated into four quarters: Cuprum, Argentum, Aurum and Mercurius. Any Arrancar is free to dwell in the sector, but must follow the laws outlined here:

• Law the First: Denizens and visitors may move freely throughout the sector, but denizens may only dwell in the quarter allocated per these laws.
• Law the Second: Those Arrancar who choose to dwell within the realm of the Cuarta whose focus is in arts and industry of great use that require skill and/or forethought, such as woodworking, smithing, weaving or warfare, are required to dwell within the Cuprum Quarter, and must acquiesce to reasonable requests given to them by denizens of the Argentum, Aurum or Mercurius Quarters.
• Law the Third: Those Arrancar who choose to dwell within the realm of the Cuarta whose focus is in purely intellectual matters, such as law, the sciences, strategy or mathematics, are required to dwell within the Argentum Quarter, and must acquiesce to reasonable requests given to them by denizens of the Aurum or Mercurius Quarters.
• Law the Fourth: Those Arrancar who choose to dwell within the realm of the Cuarta whose focus is in matters both intellectual and spiritual, such as philosophy, theology or the sciences and metaphysics of the afterlife, are required to dwell within the Aurum Quarter, and must acquiesce to reasonable requests given to them by denizens of the Mercurius Quarter.
• Law the Fifth: Only the Cuarta, his Fraccion and their personal guests may dwell within the Mercurius Quarter.
• Law he Sixth: A 'reasonable request' is determined as a request that does not threaten the well being of the one so requested, with some form of recompense provided for performing the request.
• Law the Seventh: The edicts of the Cuarta's Fraccion as pertaining to the sector are overruled only by the Cuarta himself and the Ghost King and his Queen. The edicts of the Cuarta as pertaining to the sector are overruled only by the edicts of the Ghost King and his Queen.
• Law the Eighth: All edicts and laws of the Ghost King and his Queen are in effect in the Cuarta's Sector. If any edict by the Cuarta or his Fraccion unknowingly clashes with an edict or law of the Ghost King or his Queen, then the word of the Ghost King and his Queen takes prevalence.
• Law the Ninth: Duels may only be conducted within the sector in the Cuprum Quarter's arena. The nature and terms of the duel must be agreed upon by both participants beforehand, and the duel must be observed by a neutral third party. Failure to adhere to the established rules of the duel is punishable by imprisonment, within the Primera's sector if currently feasible. Killing an opponent in a pre-agreed duel to the death without a neutral observer is treated as murder of a fellow Arrancar and punished as such.
• Law the Tenth: A denizen of the Cuarta's sector must always be working on a project of some description, with a week's leniency given upon the completion of a project. Denizens must be able to supply evidence of their progress to the Cuarta and/or his Fraccion on a bi-monthly basis.

Geography of the Cuarta's Sector

The Cuprum Quarter
The Cuprum Quarter is situated around the entrance to the sector, and is the largest of the four quarters. The quarter is filled with large numbers of one and two storey buildings, mostly housing, but also contains forges, workshops, loom mills and other industrial buildings, as well as a large varieties of restaurants, bars and public houses. At the centre of the quarter lies the arena, which is more often utilised as an amphitheatre than it is as a battleground. The arena is the only building the quarter than breaks three storeys.

The Argentum Quarter
With a considerably small area than the Cuprum Quarter, the architecture in the Argentum Quarter is more vertical. Buildings are usually at least three or four storeys, and can often reach six or seven storeys. Again, most buildings are devoted to housing, but the quarter also contains a large number of fora, labs, lecture halls and workshops.

The Aurum Quarter
Smaller again than the preceding quarter, the Aurum Quarter takes verticality as a standard of its architecture and runs with it. Buildings in the Aurum Quarter are typically ten storeys at minimum. With a considerably smaller population than the Cuprum or Argentum Quarters, a far less extreme percentage of building space is given to housing in the Aurum Quarter. There are many fora, lecture halls within in the Aurum Quarter, but most of the building space other than the housing is in fact currently undeveloped.

The Mercurius Quarter - the Palacio Cuarta
With a vastly smaller plot of land to work with than any of the preceding Quarters, the Mercurius Quarter consists solely of the Palacio Cuarta. An elegant building with little in the way of ostentatious external decoration, the Palacio Cuarta uses mainly shape, verticality and contrast to make its impression. The interiors are tastefully decorated, with ostentation kept to a minimum. The higher levels of the towers of the Palacio are given over to living quarters for the Cuarta, his Fraccion, and guests, including personalised kitchens, each with their own head chef and team of cooks. Lower levels of the towers and the main body of the Palacio are given over to other things: the great hall functions as amphitheatre, lecture hall, debating room and mental workplace. Most of the Palacio, however, is given over to the Grand Library of Las Noches. Taking up an exactly calculated 89.45% of the Palacio's space, the library consists of hundreds of floors, each with a dedicated subject, check-out desks (both manned and automated), a unique computerised catalogue (including a floor-by-floor map of the library with the dedicated subjects thereof listed) and, of course, millions, if not billions of books. Some seem to be impossible acquisitions (papyri and others documents whose catalogue files claim to originate or be copies of documents from the Great Library of Alexandria and similarly ancient centres of knowledge), but they seem to be authentic enough - most of these not having been translated.

The library staff are all technically Aléjandro's Fraccion within the grand scheme of Las Noches, but they are not granted the benefits of that status within the sector, other than being allowed to dwell within the Mercurius Quarter, and all lack the strength one would expect of a true Fraccion.

Phew. Should be everything. Tell me if I missed something.

It brings me memories of when I had to read The Republic...

Frankly speaking, I like Aristotle better than Plato. Other than that, looks good.

[Frozen_Feet]

@Terry, Riccaru, Inyuthebeatis: Psst. As nice it is for the game to have started, don't forget about the episode thread.

[Edge]

It brings me memories of when I had to read The Republic...

Frankly speaking, I like Aristotle better than Plato. Other than that, looks good.

Why did I think the Republic was Socrates? He never wrote anything. I know this thanks to my Religious Studies college (British college, that is) course.

That slight change, and it'll be added to the character registry and the wiki.

@KD: I guess there could be secret tunnels, but... are they really necessary?

[nothingclever]

Well, I have to jump out too, so it works perfectly, horngeek. Guess we'll meet later?

By the way, can someone tell me if these are actually what winter sakura look like? I personally have never seen them.

Hehe, I was about to reference sakura blossoms when you asked what the season was but I decided not to. My hunch was correct. If Taiki's a really cool dude he'd mention something about them getting their colour by draining the blood from the corpses buried beneath them.

[KnightDisciple]

Why did I think the Republic was Socrates? He never wrote anything. I know this thanks to my Religious Studies college (British college, that is) course.

That slight change, and it'll be added to the character registry and the wiki.

@KD: I guess there could be secret tunnels, but... are they really necessary?

I suppose I'll just make it a tunnel/passage that goes from his quarters to his lair.

That lets him roof-hop more anyways.

[Frozen_Feet]

Did I tell you that ever after Zarah revealed Kujo was Jack the Ripper, I've associated the appropriate song from Judas Priest with our beloved main villain?

Well, now I have.

Also, it never seizes to amaze me how the guy has attracted a bunch of utterly loyal henchmen, despite being such a colossal prick. Clearly, it's the Naughty Boy image.

"Huh? Then why dun-"

Oh, hush.

Maybe he wears leather pants.

[Viera Champion]

I take it Nao doesn't like Kyasarin?

[riccaru]

I take it Nao doesn't like Kyasarin?

I changed that because I thought Kyasarin was still inside with the captain, but no there isn't bad blood. He just wasn't there to talk to her.

[Frozen_Feet]

... just when I though I was done with tuning the registry for today. Edge, why?

[Draken]

Why did I think the Republic was Socrates? He never wrote anything. I know this thanks to my Religious Studies college (British college, that is) course.

Probably because Socrates is the main character and narrator of The Republic.

[Edge]

Because I was 300+ words over the limit for my first one. My old post now contains characters most likely to be active in spiritual realms, and the new one has the characters most likely to be seen in the Mortal World.

Yours is a thankless task, Frozen, but you do it admirably.

Sorry for making it that much harder.

@Draken: Possibly, but until you mentioned it just now, I had completely forgotten that.

[Frozen_Feet]

I dread the day when the Registry's first post becomes too long. Fortunately, I have the post immediatly after it, but all the stuff that'd need to be moved makes me wince.

[Prime32]

I dread the day when the Registry's first post becomes too long. Fortunately, I have the post immediatly after it, but all the stuff that'd need to be moved makes me wince.

Shame there's nowhere else to put that stuff, eh?

[riccaru]

I dread the day when the Registry's first post becomes too long. Fortunately, I have the post immediatly after it, but all the stuff that'd need to be moved makes me wince.

Ha. Did you get Nao in there?

[KnightDisciple]

Because I was 300+ words over the limit for my first one. My old post now contains characters most likely to be active in spiritual realms, and the new one has the characters most likely to be seen in the Mortal World.

Yours is a thankless task, Frozen, but you do it admirably.

Sorry for making it that much harder.

@Draken: Possibly, but until you mentioned it just now, I had completely forgotten that.

FYI, I'll let you do the "setup" post for Alejandro, then I'll plug in Vicente. Feel free to even have Alejandro request Vicente's presence.

[Frozen_Feet]

Shame there's nowhere else to put that stuff, eh?

Hey, I'm doing my best to learn how to use that stupid wiki of yours! I even moved a large collection of characters there early on. I gave up after my fragile mind couldn't take the endless copy-pasting anymore.

[Edge]

FYI, I'll let you do the "setup" post for Alejandro, then I'll plug in Vicente. Feel free to even have Alejandro request Vicente's presence.

I have an even better idea.

[KnightDisciple]

I have an even better idea.

Oh?

[nothingclever]

A chat program that her father had introduced her to in order to keep a discussion private, something she had introduced closest 'friends' to in order to keep secrecy paramount between them.

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betterdenyou has entered the chat.
DefiantPotato has entered the chat.

betterdenyou: Hey, sorry about disconnect the other day
betterdenyou: No privacy in this house
DefiantPotato: hehe its cool
DefiantPotato: so wuts new?
betterdenyou: Schools starting soon. little worried this time
DefiantPotato: oh? how come?
betterdenyou: Found other 1 like me the other day
betterdenyou: No probs though
DefiantPotato: another student?
betterdenyou: Don't know. haven't seen him in school though
DefiantPotato: huh weird
DefiantPotato: small world i guess
DefiantPotato: anythin new on da streets? lol
betterdenyou: No probs with own streets
betterdenyou: Others tryin' muscle in though
betterdenyou: SOBs
betterdenyou: Any advice?
DefiantPotato: teach em a lesson lol
DefiantPotato: show em who their messin with
betterdenyou: won't that draw lots of attention
DefiantPotato: depends on who sees ya
betterdenyou: suppose
betterdenyou: we definitely have tricks they won't see coming after all
DefiantPotato: hehehe good
betterdenyou: yeah, they've been getting restless lately anyway
betterdenyou: Good way to work off steam
DefiantPotato: u bet
betterdenyou: nuff business though. Get enough of that from 2ic you find a girl yet? <3 =P
DefiantPotato: nah
DefiantPotato: havent found ne1 for my charms
betterdenyou: good =P
betterdenyou: mags say your type are good friends only
betterdenyou: I agree
DefiantPotato: hehehe maybe
DefiantPotato: but trust me
DefiantPotato: mags dont have a category for me
betterdenyou: dont doubt it
betterdenyou: still friends though bai-bai
DefiantPotato: cya

betterdenyou has left the chat.
DefiantPotato has left the chat.

I feel the reference must be made.

[Edge]

Oh?

Feel free to have what I've set up end as quickly as you like. Not only does it make Aléjandro look good, it lets you get on with whatever you want Vincente to be doing.

[KnightDisciple]

Feel free to have what I've set up end as quickly as you like. Not only does it make Aléjandro look good, it lets you get on with whatever you want Vincente to be doing.

I'll do a couple of posts; I think the interaction of these two is important. I didn't have anything specific planned at the moment for Vicente. I'll see where things take me.

[Callos_DeTerran]

Yeah, they do... I mean, Mei isn't a sadist, even.

"You're scared of Mei?" *voice drops several octaves* "Be scared of me!"

[Frozen_Feet]

"You whelps couldn't scare a cat if you wanted to. I honestly don't understand why the king of the sandbox puts up wtih you."

[Moon Wolf]

...

I give up. Women Espada. Are. Insane.