Thread: Traveler's RP Organizer

What is Life ACTIVE With Lingering desire Located Here See more Prince Rowan, 24 The prince after they had been on the island a while Sir Greyson, 68 Squire Kristof Cook Thomas First mate Horace Soldier One Soldier Two See more Traveler said LingeringDesire said Traveler said LingeringDesire said Traveler said LingeringDesire said Traveler said LingeringDesire said Traveler said MC's kingdom Rodahn, across the Western Sea Row-dan King and queen King Leon IV and Queen Regina Crown prince Johannes, age 28 Younger prince Rowan , age 24 Alternate pictures for him If you'd like A B C Some customs of Rodahn It's a real utopia of male fantasy in some ways Women are expected to kneel when meeting someone of 'higher rank' for the first time. In this case, men of equal rank are always elevated above women. In Rodahn men eat first, women and children afterwards. ha ha! That will go over well with YC - not! In the winter there is the Ice Festival where elaborate sculptures are carved and great feasts are given. They usually freeze the worst criminal of the year in a block of ice and display him in the central plaza as a warning to other criminals for the year to come. This sculpture is left to thaw throughout the year and feeds the carrion birds and wolves in the spring. Usually the carcass is gone by the next festival. In spring the Fertility Festival occurs. Virgins vie for the honor of being deflowered by the king's most favored man of the year, and he is usually booked solid for the entire week honoring these girls. Women of lesser rank are never allowed to meet the gaze of men who outrank them, unless invited to do so by him. ....more to come! Click to expand... MC's Kingdom Preete, across the Western Sea Pr-eat King and Queen King Vrale and Queen Marie Crown Prince Fraise , 13 Older Princess Xylona , 24 Alternate Pics of her, if you'd like A B Some Customs of Preete Not so bad, but leans toward male dominance ... prob why the two kingdoms are a good match. Woman only speak when spoken too, if in the company of a man. In a group of woman they may talk freely. Families eat together, but the women cook and serve. Woman are not allowed to go alone anywhere and must always be escorted by a male. Males are the decision makers of the family. In Fall they celebrate the harvest Harvest Festival. Elaborate meals are prepared and women wear clothing woven together from the left over grasses Grass skirts and long strands beaded with rinds of fruit and shells of nuts. AKA Fancy Luau In Spring they celebrate fertility Fertility Festival. Woman line up to be blessed by the king. Then they are stripped and painted upon by their mate or a chosenappointed mate. They feast and drink for days, sometimes weeks, this is when chaos breaks out .. such as random orgies, partner swapping, public sex, etc. Criminals are shackled in the center of the courtyard, naked and able to be whipped, defiled, or mutilated by anyone. After a month, if they are still living ... and depending upon the crime, they could be set free. Revenge is sometimes sweet and harsh ... I can make it more equal if you'd prefer... I just wasn't sure. AND maybe more to come, not sure. Click to expand... I like the look of Xylona - she's definitely exotic and hopefully will be as fiery inside as her hair suggests. What else should we work out before we get started? Also, I tend to write about 80 plot and to have sexual tension and sex encompass about 20 of the story. Is that okay with you? I got burned out on too much explicit sex years ago, and I find that I enjoy the anticipation and the personality interactions so much that sex becomes a flavoring for the story rather than the main course. I also play in threads and like to use PMs to work on plot development and to talk things over. Hopefully that's okay with you too. If you'd like to start the thread out please feel free to do so. We can start with the Princess about to meet her escort and go through the ceremony if you'd like, or earlier... or later... I'm pretty easy going about start points. Click to expand... Maybe, depends on the punishment of her breaking said rules... lol. I'm not certain what else needs attending too. I loop sexual tension in with the plot, it makes for more fun and the fulfillment is in the other part of that. Typically I allow my character to guide me on the perimeter of each story since it is about them. I think my mix is usually about 70 plot and 30 smut... but like I said I play it by ear typically. I don't ever do pure smut... if I get in a naughty mood then I focus on the stories that are at that point in them and don't force it in the ones that aren't there yet. I too like to establish the character and the reason for said naughtiness before leaping in to it. I've been burned by the ones that write with me until the character couples, then they forget all about our story and never post again. Saying they have lost interest. I like to take it slow, build up to the intimate times with my character and deny her the fun for tension and desire make for awesome things within stories. I play in threads and plot in PM as well. Rarely, if ever, do I play in PM. What ceremony is she going through? I thought he was escorting her to his kingdom to be married off to his brother? Also who all survives on the island with them? Click to expand... I've been burned by the ones that write with me until the character couples, then they forget all about our story and never post again. Saying they have lost interest. Click to expand... That sounds like the way a lot of men are... sorry to say. In real life as well. Okay, so I was thinking that in Rodahn the only time that anyone is allowed to be promiscuous outside of their bonds is when they are chosen to couple with the king's favored man, or if the king or a royal member of the family chooses to 'reward' someone, so the Preete custom of an orgy free-for-all is something that they hold in disdain. Of course, they'll never tell King Vrale that! LOL. The ceremony I was thinking of would be some kind of official acceptance of her as the bride, and a lot of contract signing, long, elaborate speeches by important people, and a huge feast. The crown prince cannotwill not leave Rodahn and so his brother is standing in at the ceremony for everything but the consummation, and when he brings the bride home then the younger prince will hand over the bride to his brother. On the island let's allow them each to have 3 characters? So you can pick three that you want to have with YC, maybe a lady-in-waiting best friend, etc.? Then it shouldn't become too much of a burden. What do you think? Click to expand... haha sadly, I agree lol... but some of my partners are or at least told me, they were females. Oh boy... lol ok, so how is our couple to get around that when it comes to it... or will it never get to that point... your poor guy won't let it? So he is standing in as a substitute... um, why wouldn't he come? Are they married by proxy? So it's a wedding ceremony and instead of being with her husband on her wedding night, she is loaded onto a boat and begins to travel to him... then all hell breaks loose. I actually would feel better if we set a number of NPC's as I don't like having so many characters. It could be a set number of others that are there and we can grab at will.... or is that what you were meaning as well? And each have three surviving people from their land? I would say for her a female servant from each land and a guard from her own... I can change their rules to be more open sexually so she can make him feel more uncomfy and that way their island mates could make him feel the same..... then the servant lady from his land can help instruct her in the way of their land... Click to expand... I am thinking that the crown prince is probably only months from being crowned. Maybe the kind is dying, but they don't want others to know, so they fabricate some other reason for him to not travel like saying that he has some unavoidable important meeting to attend, or that he has some religious thing he must do. The reason that I like the idea that the king is secretly dying is that once that happens the crown prince can hope to marry the girl he actually wants, and then his brother will 'conveniently' help him to save face when it turns out that the younger brother is in love with the foreign princess, and hopefully she with him. I was thinking that we could control the NPCs who accompany our characters. I'll probably have the ship's first mate survive, the prince's mentor perhaps an older knight, a servant I'm thinking that he's someone who is the prince's personal manservant, and maybe a cook or some other ship's crew. Click to expand... So I am back in town! WOOHOO... Did I forget to let you know about that, if so I am sorry. I like this idea too, he could even die a few weeks after our group is lost. And since his brother never turns up with his wife he can annul their marriage and marry the girl he wants. Of course our duo will be pining away for one another and trying not to fall into each others arms on the tiny island. She will be head over heels for him and rapidly agree to marrying him... though if we wish to toss in some more drama her family and kingdom can start pitching a fit and waging war for giving her off to the lesser of the two and having it so she is no longer a queen and instead only a princess or maybe a duchess since that is how may second and third prince's were labeled back then. They could want her back but she is in love with the second prince and doesn't want to go, doesn't want to leave and won't, even if he begs her too. Xylona has two female servants, one from her land and one that he brought with him for her. A guard from her own land, maybe one that begins showing her how to use a sword or the bow so she is more useful. This of course could be unheard of as well, not sure. I think I will stick with these three. I forgot if the boat is run aground or if they are caught in a storm and it capsizes and they all just wash ashore? I can start the thread out with her about to meet her escort and go through the ceremony. Or just at the end of it, though maybe with a thick veil or her attention on the paperwork she doesn't really look at him, well that and she knows he isn't who she is marrying anyway, so why bother. Though I can see her being secretly miffed he couldn't even show up to marry her. Maybe women are more equal to men in her land, or at least they are starting to show more independence or something. She could be the secret leader of a rebellion of women and maybe her father found out and that is why she is marrying him. He wishes to tame her? I see her getting into more trouble and frustrating Rowan. He can try to do stuff but she can constantly throw the fact that he isn't her husband up in his face. I sense a lot of sexual tension between them, maybe so thick the others feel it as well. Also, she would outrank him through marriage, in line for being the queen and all when he has no chance at king. I can see her only bowing when meeting him, again, she outranks him haha. I guess I should know what season it is so I can understand what festival comes up next ... lol Click to expand... I love the idea that Xylona's lands are more equal between men and women, but that she is pushing for complete equality, even to the point of inheritance, and that her father has decided to marry her to the less tolerant Rodahn crown prince. Plus... the trade benefits will be astronomical! Let's make the season early spring? Then they can travel on the waters, hoping for calm, get caught in a spring storm that capsize the ship thus leaving bits and pieces to float back to her homeland shores... and the people on board are left with only what washes onto the island shore. I like the idea of them butting heads on the island, and yes, her status as future queen and out-ranking him will really piss him off! ha ha, poor fool. Maybe eventually once the conflict happens between the two countries it will end with Xylona and Rowan returning to Preeta. Rowan's brother won't want the next in line to be too close, fearing that he might cause an 'accidental' regicide, and that allows Xylona's parents to have her back but to also have the trade agreements and a bit of leverage with holding a princeduke of Rodahn in their kingdom as the husband to their queen? OR.... maybe King Vraal insists that the original agreement be upheld... so the new king of Rodahn takes Xylona on as his second wife? Hm... I'll have to give that some thought. A male-ruled country like Rodahn is likely to not frown upon the idea of multiple wives for their powerful and wealthy members. Anyway, you can start the thread whenever you'd like! I'm excited to get started. Click to expand... I may need to tweak the customs a bit or maybe just take out the talking one... that would be a bit more fair and equal, but she wants to tip it even more possibly. Redheads are feisty lol. I like that it will piss him off and she will adore that too. Maybe even try to create some sort of revolt on the island of the male power... I can see the island split, men on one half and women on the other, but close enough so they can keep an eye on the other. I also see some of the women running off with the men on the other side during spring festivities... lol So this would be before the spring festival... each with their own customs. I could see her explaining it to him and asking him to mark her with symbols of fertility ... for his brother lol ... though since he is the only other member of royalty he is the only one able to be a match for her in that respect. I'm sure he will cringe in watching what is left of her people partake in multiple types of pleasure. I'm confused on what you mean with Xylona and Rowan. Xylona isn't a ruler of her own land, her younger brother, because he is a male gains the crown. Something she saw as unfair and something she was rebelling against and possibly the reason he gave her away in marriage to the crown prince of Rodahn. Her becoming a second wife to a commoner would be brutal and especially if she knows she is the unloved one as well. What would happen to her and Rowan though? Would the older brother keep her as wife in name only, allowing her and Rowan to be married, or as king could he grant that? They could always pretend she is the queen for her family and grant her freedom. Of course she would choose to be with Rowan, maybe when they get to his country they are still unsure of how the other feels. I will get started after catching up with my posts this evening. Right now that is only three more! lol I'm not certain of a name for this, but I am excited too. quote We can amend the customs however we like in the RP sometimes these things take on lives of their own. I'm looking forward to the discomfort that Rowan feels when he marks Xylona it will force him to look at her, at he beauty and her eyes and to touch her, which will make him want her more, which then leads to feelings of guilt about wanting his brother's wife which... deep breath ha! All kinds of wonderful angst. She'd be the first wife of the new king, actually. Her contract with Rodahn makes her already married, so the commoner wife is the technical second, and their people are sticklers for rules. They stick to the word, not necessarily the heart of the rules. Another thing to consider is that by Xylona's reckoning she should have been the ruler despite her gender. Perhaps others in her kingdom feel that way too maybe her brother is a nice enough guy but utterly unfit to be a king? But yes... I was thinking that the older brother in Rodahn would have no problem letting his younger brother spend time with Xylona as long as no children came of it inheritance is a big deal in Rodahn. So if they were to stay there then he might insist that they stay apart until she is confirmed pregnant with his child. Hm. We'll have to see which option seems more fun when we get to that part of the story.