So I seem to have the ok to proceed with this.
First of all, let me make this utterly clear. At no point will anyone participating be accepting the price OOCly. I will be in full contact with those running Grindstone during and after the event to make sure.
Now then, to the heart of it all. The prizes of the Grindstone have been getting heftier and heftier. 300k! Perhaps getting close to 1mil?! Kage himself plans on adding to the pot himself when he decides he might help instead. What happens? Greedy people... those down on their luck... the poor of Pearl lane... they might think they have really good shots at getting a good chunk of it.
How?
By colluding with large groups of others to throw the fights, bribe others, coerce others, to steer the matches in a direction that would allow them to 'win'. Thus the prizes are then split and depending on their successes they continue.
Who?
Well obviously this wouldn't work by my highlander alt all by himself. He needs buddies! He needs people in on it. You may be willing to offer your main(gasp!) and thereby placing them in a good spot of developing some character but if/when Sindl/other Grindstone runner finds out... Your main probably won't be able to participate or actually earn the prizes. I don't know how the Grindstone would react so that consequence is just as in the air as character development! You may make an alt that will help develop others' RP, those who just started to fight... those who have been fighting... etc. They will in turn be reacting to this plot possibly.
This will be a work in progress as I want to help develop something for everyone who presently or in the future want to participate in the Grindstone. I think it would give people something interesting to react to. As such, the group will be sloppy somehow. If they win a few times, clues or hints will be dropped that these aren't legit winnings around people who have fought with them or have attended the grindstone.
If you are interested, please help me brainstorm how to implement it. Any character names should not be dropped as I know people won't metagame but I do want some element of surprise as to when it starts to be attempted / continued.
Again, no one who agrees to this will be receiving any of the prize. The winning is -strictly- IC and if you receive anything I will know. Sindl will be informed at the end if the fighter in the end is part of the plot. I assume that Sindl and Otto or other benefactors will a lot it to the next fighter(s) not in on the prize or pool it for when they do not win for the next Grindstone.
Thoughts? Concerns? I want to make this a good event for everyone involved.
First of all, let me make this utterly clear. At no point will anyone participating be accepting the price OOCly. I will be in full contact with those running Grindstone during and after the event to make sure.
Now then, to the heart of it all. The prizes of the Grindstone have been getting heftier and heftier. 300k! Perhaps getting close to 1mil?! Kage himself plans on adding to the pot himself when he decides he might help instead. What happens? Greedy people... those down on their luck... the poor of Pearl lane... they might think they have really good shots at getting a good chunk of it.
How?
By colluding with large groups of others to throw the fights, bribe others, coerce others, to steer the matches in a direction that would allow them to 'win'. Thus the prizes are then split and depending on their successes they continue.
Who?
Well obviously this wouldn't work by my highlander alt all by himself. He needs buddies! He needs people in on it. You may be willing to offer your main(gasp!) and thereby placing them in a good spot of developing some character but if/when Sindl/other Grindstone runner finds out... Your main probably won't be able to participate or actually earn the prizes. I don't know how the Grindstone would react so that consequence is just as in the air as character development! You may make an alt that will help develop others' RP, those who just started to fight... those who have been fighting... etc. They will in turn be reacting to this plot possibly.
This will be a work in progress as I want to help develop something for everyone who presently or in the future want to participate in the Grindstone. I think it would give people something interesting to react to. As such, the group will be sloppy somehow. If they win a few times, clues or hints will be dropped that these aren't legit winnings around people who have fought with them or have attended the grindstone.
If you are interested, please help me brainstorm how to implement it. Any character names should not be dropped as I know people won't metagame but I do want some element of surprise as to when it starts to be attempted / continued.
Again, no one who agrees to this will be receiving any of the prize. The winning is -strictly- IC and if you receive anything I will know. Sindl will be informed at the end if the fighter in the end is part of the plot. I assume that Sindl and Otto or other benefactors will a lot it to the next fighter(s) not in on the prize or pool it for when they do not win for the next Grindstone.
Thoughts? Concerns? I want to make this a good event for everyone involved.
