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(07-27-2013, 02:45 AM)Kaln Wrote: Or if you just need someone to tell you to stoppit, cause that's dumb and you need to do it this way, I can do that too. ^.~
That's pretty much the point of this thread, to discuss ideas I have and see if they're doable, dumb, or great ideas. I'm trying to be ambitious with this group without biting off more than I can chew, and so far I've had a lot of support from interested parties and current members hammering out all the ideas and what not.
Also, let me reiterate something. No one will ever KNOWINGLY deal directly with the Blades. You may end up talking to Ashren himself out on the street while trying to enlist their help or find out more information about the order, but the point is that you'll never actually know the guy you just spoke to a moment ago was a member of the order. Even once they decide to take a job and show up in person, I think they'd be very careful never to reveal their identities to their clients. Ashen is a man of many hats and many masks, you might spend a day asking around the market ward about the Blades only to happen upon a stall run by a friendly merchant who turns out to be very helpful and has exactly what you're looking for, even if he might be a tad cryptic and what not. Then later on you might return to said stall trying to get a little more information or something only to find the stall isn't there any longer and no one recalls there ever being a stall there to begin with.
Little things like that, I feel, will make for very fun RP. So in short, when I say you'll never directly deal with the Blades I don't mean members of the FC, but that you'll never know whether someone you talked to was a member, or just someone who knew a thing or two about a thing or two.
I also think it'd be much cooler than having their existence be some kind of rumor that people whisper about, instead perhaps they pay off the local merchants and stuff the perpetrate the belief that they're just an urban legend or bandit superstition. For example if someone goes looking around for them they met get told something like the Blades are just some Syndicate story made up to keep merchants paying their taxes, or something similar to that. If their existence was just uttered in whispers, that could eventually get out and their existence could become widely known. If instead people acknowledge the rumors but foster the idea that they're false, mislead people into thinking it's nothing but stories then no matter how much someone talks about them their existence is still something of a secret.