Letter Bee

The Ghosts of Napoleon

<Snipped quote by Letter Bee>

In the case of a cotton crash: you may not really see it "crash" for a while. Especially in the case like a agricultural commodity where it has to be seeded, crown, and harvested before going to market, and that middle stage takes a long while. It'd be a "crash" that really manifests in a year and the natural response for Egypt would have to be either cut their loses and stop or more naturally go in harder to produce more cotton to make up for the losses and aggravate the cotton crash further. The later is more natural because the government already owns all the arable land, at least in Egypt, and order more cotton grown in place of essential agricultural goods would be very easy to do. And with those revenues probably buy food stuff abroad to compensate for the lack of grain production at home. Of course, the effect of having to spike production to compensate for losses also helps repress cotton prices and maintain the recession and raise costs on the state, that will have to take out loans to compensate for that season of production. By the next, if Muhammad Ali doesn't go on some grand expedition to acquire more land to extract more treasure from he will have to produce more cotton in already depressed economy to also import more food and also pay the interests.

The likely result isn't a revolution at home in Egypt where the peasants have already long lost their land, revolted, and lost, and are kept moving around as army and corvée labor, but a default of the Egyptian economy and the western banks he had to take loans from moving in to at least do some minimal financial administration to extract the funds for the projects similar to the OPDA or The Veiled Protectorate, except if not the British then the French or someone.

And given the state of the RP right now, you're not likely to get there.

@Dinh AaronMk

This is true. We've discussed Muhammad Ali offering Sudanese soldiers to help out the French in their operations in Russia, right?

Edit: Wait, the RP might not survive long enough to get to that, either. Or is already dead.

The Ghosts of Napoleon

@Letter Bee

Verboten

@Dinh AaronMk

Understandable. As for Muhammad Ali's Egypt, I was thinking a sudden crash in cotton prices will lead to a revolution, but I don't know how to write the exact details of that.

The Ghosts of Napoleon

Question, with Yam I Am being on hiatus/vacation, can I have Russia's Decemberists instead? Or would that be verboten?

@Dinh AaronMk

Genshin Impact - Eikons [Current Chapter: Geo]

Edits allowed by Sho:

Fastest Gun in Uvera

Overconfident Brat

Name: Ken Cooper.
Age: 18
Gender: Male.
Race: Human.

Appearance: Unlike the picture he uses, Ken prefers to wear a tough leather vest over his cotton shirt, as well as a dark green long coat made of some reptile's skin and a set of tough brown jeans and darker brown combat boots, as well as a fedora hat, a belt, and a bandana for style and as an improvised mask.

Personality: Ken does not know the meaning of 'True Companions', but he does know the meaning of family. Knowing what it was like to be an outcast, the boy sympathizes with marginalized members of the societies he finds himself in, even as he keeps a hand on one of his guns in case of betrayal. Traumatized by his parents' deaths and his bloody vengeance for them, Ken is paranoid about being caught and shot but paradoxically yields easily to shows of kindness and sympathy towards him.

Backstory: Ken was born in the United Republic of Walton to an Averton settler and his Uveran wife; an odd pairing that was scorned in some places. They lived in a remote homestead in between an Avertonian/Waltonian town and an Uveran tribal village, trading with both whenever needed, and Ken learned both the scorn of folk and the knowledge of both peoples... As well as how to shoot a gun whenever hooligans, rogue tribals, and the occasional monster threatened. Nevertheless, Ken's first love was his books, books from Walton's capital, surrounding towns and traders, and even a few from Averton.

As he grew older, Ken and his family began to receive more hatred from the settlers streaming into Walton, and distrust from the Uveran natives. Several livestock were killed for trespassing into native lands, and tribal fruit trees were cut down in response, the incidents kept on piling up, and Ken's father knew that it was only a matter of time before both sides crossed the line to open murder. So they fled with all they can carry on a wagon; food, drink, tools, medicine, and a few books. Their plan was to set up a new home deeper in the jungles, living closer to the Uveran way of life. And so they did; a house was built of living trees, roofed together with tough leaves. All books and guns were kept in a hollow in the walls, kept dry by sawdust.

This idyllic new life lasted for two years, and Ken learned to forage and survive even better than before, going far afield in search of berries and water or just plant fibers to weave into cloth. It was one such foraging trip that saved his life when his parents' house was found by a gang of Waltonian settlers looking for a Cryptid, but perfectly willing to kill 'savages', and the boy arrived to see his homestead on fire and his parents dying; his mother clung on to life long enough to tell him what had happened.

And when he wept, Ken swore not just revenge, but also to find a way to bring peace between Waltonians and Uverans. And at the moment of his oath, a Vision Crystal descended from the skies in front of him: He had been favored by them.

Ken took the Vision Crystal and it glowed with the power of the Dendro element, able to reshape the world's plants to his command. After burying his parents, he took their guns, his father's jacket, and hat, and wandered off to become a mercenary; somewhere in-between an adventurer and an outlaw but closer to the former. He eventually found and murdered the gang which had killed his parents, earning the name of 'The Six-Shot Kid' for murdering them all with six accurate shots (and a Dendro grenade) and also a bounty in several Waltonian towns; he had already turned sixteen then.

Ken has joined various gangs since then, eventually winding up with a group trying to raise a rebellion in Walton, a group living with the hope that he'd one day find a way to bring peace to his people... Both of them.

Independents:

- Professional - Ken is a Mercenary who lives by his wits and guns, so he can technically apply his advantage to an action that needs the application of physical force, and which also earns money. He can also persuade people that he knows how to shoot straight.
- Bleeding Heart: To some, Ken's naivete may be a source of inspiration, particularly for those who are more downtrodden. It may however bring hostility to him against those who are more jaded.
- Uveran Gunslinger: When using any form of Dendro ability or equipment, be able to hit more difficult, specific targets. Things like buttons, levers, or even just a weakspot from what would normally be an impossible range are things that might be possible targets.

COMBAT

Element: Dendro.
Main Weapon Type: Two six-shooter revolvers.
Secondary Weapon Type: Grenades, Knives, Clubs.

WEAPON

Name: Sean's Vengeance.
Description: Ken's father's six-shooter, this gun has been enhanced with the Dendro element to inflict poisoned wounds in addition to normal bullet damage.
Weapon Enhancements:

Snakebite - Every shot that hits inflicts hindering but not delibitating poison damage.

WEAPON

Name: Mary's Kiss.
Description: Ken's mother's own six-shooter, this gun has been enhanced with the Dendro element so that bullets shot by it have a tranquilizing effect that causes the target to be drowsy...
Weapon Enhancements:

Sleep - Inflicts hindering but not delibitating drowsiness with every wound or even graze.

Fighting Style: Gunslinging Pistoleer - Dual-wielding pistols and hitting multiple targets accurately.

Affinity: (All of them start at 1. Excluding the 1 in each, you have 3 points to spend on them all)
Strength - 1
Skill - 3
Endurance - 1
Elemental Mastery - 2
Elemental Stamina - 1

Elemental Style: Elemental Manipulation and Alteration; Ken can control plants and alter their properties.

Techniques:

Healing Spores - Ken can transform any bit of nearby plant matter into spores that latch onto wounds and slowly regenerate the damage done, allowing him much-needed staying power in a fight.

Exploding Plant Matter - Ken can throw a fruit, a tuber, or a root at a foe and make it explode; this does not usually do lasting or fatal damage, but is a handy distraction; can be used in conjunction with Healing Spores.

Tranquilize - Ken can liquefy bits of plant matter into a sleeping aerosol that causes those who breathe it to grow even drowsier and sleepier; works well with Exploding Plant Matter.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

We need more Co-GMs!

Digimon- [The Uncanny Frontier]

@RBYDark is trying to interest me in this RP; we talked on Discord. Are there any objections to me joining and is the RP still alive?

Digimon: The Parallel Visage

Is this game truly full, as per the Join Status?

If so, is there a waiting list?

Genshin Impact AU RP

<Snipped quote by Letter Bee>

Nothing a little editing magic cannot solve. XD

@Enkryption

Done.

Genshin Impact AU RP

@Letter Bee

That's something that Sho would need to answer, in terms of mechanically how it will function. I pinged you, on the off-chance that you might have thought of a balancing features (such as, they are hindering, but not debilitating a.k.a mild effects) and so you didn't just pop in, and think I was attacking you.

Sadly, we only have two characters to contrast and compare, after all, and it's fair that you get your say on the matter, as well.

@Enkryption

Thank you for that, then; it means a lot. But yeah, I was thinking hindering but not debilitating.

And thanks too; it also means a lot.

Genshin Impact AU RP

@Sho Minazuki

So, this just occurred to me. How exactly is John's [Kirin's Eyes] broken for allowing her ten second clairvoyance that causes immense sensory overload, if she uses it too long, when @Letter Bee has a gun that does unblockable Poison on hit and a gun that does unblockable Sleep on hit?

[Kirin's Eyes], pre-patch, were inherently balanced by the fact that John had to prescription glasses with the INTENT of dealing constant damage to her eyes in order to control her "blessing" of seeing into the future.

Ken just has to shoot a target to poison them and put them to sleep. There is a claim that, "Well, some enemies will be resistant, and some will be just immune," and that's all find and dandy. But, that goes both ways, since John's [Kirin's Eyes] saw into the immediate future, but an opponent that knows that would be able to create simultaneous multiple futures by just doing one thing, but envisioning themself doing elsewise, and furthermore, she needs to be able to SEE the target, they need to be ALIVE, and generating a BIOELECTRIC FIELD as she's reading their brainwaves, more or less.

Robots. Undead. Elementals. A rainy day. A foggy day. A sudden crowd. A bunch of clones. A bag over her head.

[Kirin's Eyes] has so many countermeasures, whereas Poison Gun and Sleep Gun need to be Resisted, which means, eventually, they will take, or Immunized against, for anything to not be trivialized by these weapons, as just basic enchantments.

@Enkryption

Can I change it so that the Poison and Sleep effects are mild, or are mild effects not existent in Genshin (still trying to find time to get past the beginning stages)?