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@Emma I'm gonna send you a link to our discord server and I can help you out with all of that.

(I helped design the lore in the first reboot)

Short answer: I've been told that those things will be specified in the OOC, and I am happy to answer any questions, as are our lovely GMs.
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Hello! I'm only bringing Nadia this time, I just really want her to make it past the banquet for once... Glad to see this is back!
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@Vesuvius00 Yay!



Fourth time's the charm!
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The dedication and lore here is nice- Color me interested... how much is a ticket, oh conductor?
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@Zahrale

I'm not the conductor but I will say that there's a lot more lore where that came from!
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*slams down fist*

Interest ye have it

.....wanna know more about bug people though
Can't help it

Because bug people
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I am most definitely joining this again! Can't wait to bring back my girl Amalia and maybe a new face as well!
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So are all brides to be 18 years old?
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@Emma 18 is the minimum age for gem girls to be Reaped, they can be older but it's uncommon to see them much older than 21 seeing as Drakken want young, pretty things in their child-bearing prime.

I think there's a note on that in the first post.
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WHAT THE FUCK HI IM HERE ((Aria on an old new account btw)) @darkwolf687 get yo butt in here boi (jk ilu)
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@Amethyst ARRY OH MY GOD

I tried to get ahold of you on discord! I tried to get ahold of you here but your old account was dormant!

Also I PMed darkwolf, don't even trip
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I have returned from exile xD
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@Emma They don't have to be 18. Though I'm guessing that's the minimum. I'd say the age range of being desirable is something of 18 - 27? Just as long as you're young and beautiful really. But I'm no GM or co-GM.
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Ok because I was just wondering how the reaping worked.

I had assumed the Gem elders/leaders chose the girls through a semi calculated way, and then gave the chosen to the Drakken once a year as demanded. Like they would choose the orphan girls, spare daughters, and volunteers if any. They would try their best not to reap more then one daughter per family. Families with more then one child have a higher chance of reaping then those with only a single daughter...etc?

Or do the Drakken personally come once a year, and all the Gem girls within age range gather, and the Drakken just take whoever they fancy?

Then I also thought it could be more random like the hungers games reaping, where names are just drawn from a hat, and its up to fate.

Just wondering about the age range, because if it was set for Gem girls 18 to 20 then there would be a three year time span where woman know not to make plans, fall in love, marry, or idk take priestess vows? Similar to the hunger games where there is a set age range, and once you age out you are safe? Like what if there was a 20 something girl who is already married to a Gem dude, would she still be in the running for being reaped?
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@Emma the way it's worked before has been that a party of drakkans will go to the Gem towns and grab the pretty girls, bringing them to the Fortress on the border of Gemminia and Drakka so that the lords and whoever could just go there and pick the ones they wanted without having to go through the "dragging screaming girls away from home" bit themselves. as for the Age range, they need the Gems to be able to have kids for them, so younger ones are preferred. I suppose they might grab an older 20's woman if she were pretty enough, but It's unlikely.

The Gems don't really gather for the reaping, they actually try to hide their kids away from the Drakkans when they show up. I remember there being something about Gems even killing beautiful girls on purpose so they wouldn't be taken.
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@WeepingLiberty @Ellion Correct me if I get any of this wrong. It's your RP, after all.

Going backwards:

A 20 year old Gem who's married would definitely still be eligible for Reaping.

We never ironed out exactly how Reaping works, but I always pictured a situation where at a certain time of year, all Gem girls of 18 or over (with probably an upper age limit of like 30 or something even though being chosen after like, 24 would be a serious anomaly) are required to gather and be picked over by the Drakkan Reapers. They wouldn't give two fucks about which family they came from or whatever, and would probably just take whoever they thought would please the Lords the most (probably limited to a certain number of gems from each village, maybe dependent on population, but still have a certain number they need to bring back in total).

For example, my character Lienna was the only Gem reaped from her village because of the small population, and the fact that girls with the potential to be beautiful were drowned as babies (a fate thought kinder than the potential of Reaping).

I can't imagine the Drakken letting the Gem leaders choose who gets Reaped. They'd probably be suspicious that the gems were offering less-than-ideal girls and would want to choose them by hand.

That said, I don't see the Reapers refusing a volunteer or a girl who was handed over by the other gems, assuming she wasn't ugly or known to be barren or really old or something.

The Reaped gems are then escorted back to Shadow Worth (are we still using Shadow Worth?)/Drakka in carriages, fed, kept safe and roughed up as little as possible on the way. Can't be bringing damaged goods to the choosing ceremony, after all.
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My first thought for this as I was reading it, was playing a male Gem who is essentially an Assassin. He would look for any possible opportunity to kill(silently, if possible) any Drakkan, in a position of power, who seeks to continue in the ways of enslaving his people. Assassinating leaders, chancellors, strategists, etc. all while hiding it from the Drakkans, as well as his own race.

Then I read the part where apparently we can only play as a bride or a Drakkan </3
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My first thought for this as I was reading it, was playing a male Gem who is essentially an Assassin. He would look for any possible opportunity to kill(silently, if possible) any Drakkan, in a position of power, who seeks to continue in the ways of enslaving his people. Assassinating leaders, chancellors, strategists, etc. all while hiding it from the Drakkans, as well as his own race.

Then I read the part where apparently we can only play as a bride or a Drakkan </3
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Lol and the Gem people are natural pacifist. Raised in a culture that promotes amity and forgiveness, rather then violence and fighting.
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Ye, I realized that too. But there are generally individuals who stand out in every culture.

EDIT: I don't believe i'll be joining this, but I must say, nice concept. I like it :D
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