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I was thinking of a small rp with a tribal background. You each create a tribe, and pick a territory(an islan, a group of islands) on this map. (http://4vacations.com/maps/images/fiji-map.gif) Each tribe has their own culture and religion. Technology is simple, but can progress. At first you have simple canoes, simple weapons, and bows. After you rp how your progressing you can begin to have better technology(perhaps building pyramids and the like)
For threads dealing with this just title them:
Name of thread(Tribal)



MAP (http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/5729/untitled25zj.png)

CLAIMS
Psyker Bearzerkers: Area 4: Fanatical fervour(Tribesmen are highly religious and very militiaristic), huge number of squids and octopus

The Trolls of The Smoke Blade Tribe

Led by fanatical witch doctors, who provide both religous and military motivation, they believe in omens and visions to lead them. They have yet to meet any real rivals, as they easily subjugated all the islands now under the rule of Kanja The Rengenerator.

Before battle is was told that Kanja ate a irukanji jelly fish, blue ring octipus and then dived to kill a giant squid which he also ate in one sitting, before the eve of his greatest battle. His limbs were chopped from his body were he immediatly grew them back, to rend his enemy and take his finely crafted blade.

Voodoo like practices are common, hexing the enemy and revering nature as well as the over abundent melevolent spririts of the world.

they are taller then most men, but are usually hunched over, they are lean and swift. Since every tribe must be able to hunt, they have cultivated swift skermishing tactics; a rain of well aimed spears, a tatcital retreat followed by an enraged charge of hed hunters.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...lls_persos.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4.../wow-troll.jpg

Toops: Area 2: Trees in this area are superb for ship building, alot of fruit. Posion fruit

-Toops use Poison both for military and religion, afterall if somthing has the ability to take live it has the ability to give it aswell, a frequent custom is to innoculate the people with a weaker form of the poison in order to build up an immunity, the same is done with certain diseases.

Assassins and Hunters are highly revered amongst the populace, of course both could not function without Brewmasters who make the poisons, occasionaly you will find an assassin brewmaster but it's not very likely, new poisons are found from time to time and are incorperated into the list of offically used poisons.


The Horde Of Doom: Area 7: Better builders, can actually build mud-brick buildings(they have clay). Crabs are plentiful in the shoals

-The Tangata
(It is Maori(their language) for "people.")

The Tangata are a secretive people, whose religion centers around the worship of a giant crab named Päpakaan. They see themselves as espically blessed do to the clay on their island. They are one of the few who have stone buildings. Most live on the main island, although some live on the smaller islands.

They are dressed due to neccesity (http://www.chromatrix.com/assets/images/Archetypen-Moha.gif),but they decorate themselves with crab claws and shells and are ready to defend their home at all costs. Often before doing anything major, they will "commune with the crabs" to see what thier god wants. They practice small scale human sacrifice. They are a tall (6ft average) people with skin like the Hawaiians.

The tribe is ruled by a cheif who is usually the best crabber. Under him are an tribunal of preists who choose the next cheif and act as judges. Under them is everybody else.


Soviet Karelia: Area 3: Largest Island, most animal life(birds, monitor lizards, frogs, no mammals), densest jungle

-Tribe Usku is living in middle of dense jungle, and they live in underground pits, or kribetzka, as we call them.

Main god of our tribe Usku is Zoltan, god of war, and society is ruled by magnificent priest castes. Priests are securing their ultimate power with warriors, using monitor skins as uniform and feather-uniformed officers. Uskuan army are master users of very rude axe and mace-hybrid, zczhrza (killing device), and early bow, ka-zczhrza (ranged killing device).

http://img331.imageshack.us/img331/4...ndeagle1ag.jpg

Uskuan officer and warrior

Deltara: Area 6: Obsidieon washes up on shore, useful for much deadlier weapons(arrowheads, blades) Large numbers of clams.

-The people are heavily tattooed and largely naked warriors, with only a small piece of cloth covering their lower half, a bit like a belt, but thicker just to cover enough. Obviously they are a people of about 500 strong, quickly growing by about 10% each year (just refferring to RP rules here). They have relatively low technology but are quickly advancing on a social level, lacking on a military front. They are keen for adventure and are ever exploring the area around them. As they will eventually outgrow their small island, they will seek further land outside of their space.

A special characteristic would be their religion, focusing on magic (never RPd it and would like to try it out). They lack military strength and attempt to rectify this with their powers. However, only Shamans, or in this culture "Katawiki" (just created uniqueness), are akin to the use of it.

As for a name, this tribe will be called the Wakishi tribe.

Rothnia: Area 5: Large Number of fish, during the summer even a few whales.

Rolinda Tribe is a tribe of fisherman in the western islands. There is approximately 500 people in the tribe with a growth of 10 percent annually.

The people of the Rolinda tribe stand at about 5’ 10”. The most common hair color is black or brown. While there skin is tan it is not dark.

There main food source is fish, which is supplemented with various wild grains and vegetables found in the interior of the various Islands.

Tools are used by the tribe are often made of whale bone or flint. In addition they have small dugout canoes that they use for fishing. They live in nine villages of palm frond huts.

The tribe is ruled by a king that is elected from representatives of the nine villages.

They worship a sea god named Okreday

Ham-fisted thugs: 1: High Number of Sharks(Useful for food and defence)

-Need Description

deffinitly and already interested... this going to be human realistic or is there going to be some more characterful elements added? i can deffinitly do without magic it was just a question but i like using a island full of hed hunting trolls....

anyways i'll be signing up..

Taledonia did an RP like this back in April last year, it was so much fun I'll definantly be signing up.

EDIT: Can I take a chunk of Viti Levu?

I guess a little fantasy could be added. As long as the trolls are not super human, but more like the trolls in Warcraft, that would be fine.

I also divided the map up. The people who claim chains of little islands will also gain empty areas of ocean, which will be useful for fishing. The people who claim bigger islands however, will rely more on fruit on their island and animals.

Any area you want?

Any other takers?

Heres the new map! (http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/397/untitled25lb.png)

Added Section numbers here. (http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/5729/untitled25zj.png)

Area 1: High Number of Sharks(Useful for food and defence)
Area 2: Trees in this area are superb for ship building, alot of fruit.
Area 3: Largest Island, most animal life(birds, monitor lizards, frogs, no mammals), densest jungle
Area 4: Fanatical fervour(Tribesmen are highly religious and very militiaristic), huge number of squids and octopus
Area 5: Large Number of fish, during the summer even a few whales.
Area 6: Obsidieon washes up on shore, useful for much deadlier weapons(arrowheads, blades) Large numbers of clams.
Area 7: Better builders, can actually build mud-brick buildings(they have clay). Crabs are plentiful in the shoals

I figure these resources will make the islands dependent on each other, and help level the play. Any ideas?

those are exactly the ones i had in mind, not terribly tough, but can regenerate and stuff. that being the case i'd prefer being in area 4. Here come Da Witch Docta's!

My nation is that of assassins, using poisons and suchlike, should I make up my own Poisons or are there poisons on the island for me to use.

Depends on the area. I'll say there is a fruit in area 2 that is posionous that you could use.

Depends on the area. I'll say there is a fruit in area 2 that is posionous that you could use.

Area 2 it is, though if I did some research and found some names of poisons would you allow me to use them cos one poisons does sound a bit weak.

Sure, go right ahead!

haha! octipi saliva is very poisinous... A happy day to have poison tipped spears and shrunken heds... looks like this one is going to be active.

Do we all start off with the smae population or a population relitive the the size of our islands?

I'll take Area 7. Now that you have your area, just make a little factbook naming your tribe, describing their culture and religion. Perhaps even a little military information. Lets say each area has a population of 500, and it grows by 50 every one RL day. Sound good?

We are willing to take Area 3

I would love to join in. Any more details on how this will work? Will it be completely up to the player on how th tribe progresses?

I will join in area 3, could be intersting having a tribe split over such a large area or having so much expansion space!

Sure, go right ahead!

straight to business, Tetrodotoxin (found in Fugu Fish) a poison which in the right qauntities gives off the impression of death for a period of days before the victim rouses, of course in the wrong dosage it'll just kill, Hemotoxin(found in Vipers) a poison which clots the blood, increddibly painful, old wounds will gush with blood and will eventually cause organ degeneration, Batrachotoxin (found in Black Mambas and selected Frog Genuses) causes paralysis depolarizes the nerves and muscles, Curare (found in selected Plants) causes paralysis and eventual death by asphyxiation.

6 instead please.

Sorry Deltara, Area 3 is taken. However there is plenty of more room! And yes, it's up to the player to decide how their tribe progresses.

Great choices Toops, perhaps your culture could reflect this association with posion, perhaps tattoos that are drawn in with the posion, making them immune?

I'll bite, and take five

Great choices Toops, perhaps your culture could reflect this association with posion, perhaps tattoos that are drawn in with the posion, making them immune?

oooh, me likey, also setsup an ability to discover innoculations early, nice.

All we need is 1 and 2! Cmon 2 is great, and people are less liekly to go into waters where sharks are abundant!

Since I have area 6, here goes my brief description.

The people are heavily tattooed and largely naked warriors, with only a small piece of cloth covering their lower half, a bit like a belt, but thicker just to cover enough. Obviously they are a people of about 500 strong, quickly growing by about 10% each year (just refferring to RP rules here). They have relatively low technology but are quickly advancing on a social level, lacking on a military front. They are keen for adventure and are ever exploring the area around them. As they will eventually outgrow their small island, they will seek further land outside of their space.

A special characteristic would be their religion, focusing on magic (never RPd it and would like to try it out). They lack military strength and attempt to rectify this with their powers. However, only Shamans, or in this culture "Katawiki" (just created uniqueness), are akin to the use of it.

As for a name, this tribe will be called the Wakishi tribe.

All we need is 1 and 2! Cmon 2 is great, and people are less liekly to go into waters where sharks are abundant!

you gave me area 2

hay are we going to modifiy the scale ,because agriuclture on a few of the groups will be impossible if we keep the same size as fiji.

Whoops! sorry bout that toops.
And yes the islands are bigger then they really are. Lets say the biggest island is about the size of Cuba(if it was rolled up)

Hmm...we do have trolls....what about magic? I've never done an rp with it. What kid of things would this magic do? Not anything too grand I hope. I think a kind of "voodoo" magic would be ok, curses and such.

If the other players approve magic, then I'll ok it.

My tribe:
The Tangata
(It is Maori(their language) for "people.")

The Tangata are a secretive people, whose religion centers around the worship of a giant crab named Päpakaan. They see themselves as espically blessed do to the clay on their island. They are one of the few who have stone buildings. Most live on the main island, although some live on the smaller islands.

They are dressed are dressed due to neccesity (http://ewancient.lysator.liu.se/pic/art/m/d/mdenlar/indian_warrior.jpg) They decorate themselves with crab claws and shells and are ready to defend their home at all costs. Often before doing anything major, they will "commune with the crabs" to see what thier god wants. They practice small scale human sacrifice. They are a tall (6ft average) people with skin like the Hawaiians.

okay well that makes my life a bit easier, before I was working with about 200miles now I have about 2000 square miles

What do you think about the magic question?

me I don't care

Alright, make sure to write a little factbook about you tribe and post it here!

Tribe Usku is living in middle of dense jungle, and they live in underground pits, or kribetzka, as we call them.

Main god of our tribe Usku is Zoltan, god of war, and society is ruled by magnificent priest castes. Priests are securing their ultimate power with warriors, using jaguar furs as uniform and feather-uniformed officers. Uskuan army are master users of very rude axe and mace-hybrid, zczhrza (killing device), and early bow, ka-zczhrza (ranged killing device).

http://img331.imageshack.us/img331/4131/jaguarandeagle1ag.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Uskuan officer and warrior

More to come

Uno problemo: No mammals. These islands have not been found as of yet, so no mammals are on them. Instead of Jaguars why not Monitor skins?

This sounds like it would be a blast. Is there room from one more or am I a day late and a dollar short?

Uno problemo: No mammals. These islands have not been found as of yet, so no mammals are on them. Instead of Jaguars why not Monitor skins?

ÄÄÄäää.. Ok, monitor skins are good.

EDIT: OOC: Btw, is this just any island area using Fiji map, or is this actually RL Fiji with different population and civilization?

This sounds like it would be a blast. Is there room from one more or am I a day late and a dollar short?
Still room. I know Area 1 is open.

Toops use Poison both for military and religion, afterall if somthing has the ability to take live it has the ability to give it aswell, a frequent custom is to innoculate the people with a weaker form of the poison in order to build up an immunity, the same is done with certain diseases.

Assassins and Hunters are highly revered amongst the populace, of course both could not function without Brewmasters who make the poisons, occasionaly you will find an assassin brewmaster but it's not very likely, new poisons are found from time to time and are incorperated into the list of offically used poisons.

The magic wouldnt be overly grand, Voodoo was the general idea. It would link in with other stuff like the crab worship, something along the lines of a dead crab to cause harm to you or something. You get the general idea. During a battle or something this isnt available as a resource, so then teh focus would be instead of weapons, fireballs or other things, nothing like a nuclear bomb effect spell. Perhaps, if everyone is ok, summoning of a deity at the cost of the life of the caster, and then only for a limited time.

I have never done it before, and plan not to change PT, so I was just going to try and fiddle about with it here. Any objections or further ideas are welcome.

OK. I'll take area 1 if it is still open. Thanks for the opportunity. More details on my tribe to follow.

The magic wouldnt be overly grand, Voodoo was the general idea. It would link in with other stuff like the crab worship, something along the lines of a dead crab to cause harm to you or something. You get the general idea. During a battle or something this isnt available as a resource, so then teh focus would be instead of weapons, fireballs or other things, nothing like a nuclear bomb effect spell. Perhaps, if everyone is ok, summoning of a deity at the cost of the life of the caster, and then only for a limited time.

I have never done it before, and plan not to change PT, so I was just going to try and fiddle about with it here. Any objections or further ideas are welcome.

I'm okay with the Voodoo cos some of it actually relies on real life principles, for example zombies are made using the poison of the Fugu fish, which is also used by my nation, I smell an alliance.

Toops use Poison both for military and religion, afterall if somthing has the ability to take live it has the ability to give it aswell, a frequent custom is to innoculate the people with a weaker form of the poison in order to build up an immunity, the same is done with certain diseases.

Assassins and Hunters are highly revered amongst the populace, of course both could not function without Brewmasters who make the poisons, occasionaly you will find an assassin brewmaster but it's not very likely, new poisons are found from time to time and are incorperated into the list of offically used poisons.

Is this your tribe description?

Aha, the plan is unveiled. I was planning to open up an alliance due to common ground on a subject. You are clearly military, and me not so much and more working on society and building a civilisation, so together we would work great, potentially.

The stench of an alliance grows stronger, but what smells bad for some will smell good for others. Im in a poetic mood, sorry...

Perhaps we might see you as an ally Deltara, after all Clams have shells as do crabs...

Im getting excited and the RP hasnt started yet!

Maybe there will be one grand alliance, and the others will have no choice but to band together or face destruction? This has the potential to be a great RP.

Is this your tribe description?

oh yeah

Perhaps. We will start the RP on saturday, which should give everybody enough time to do their descriptions. I've already got a thread planned out...."Monument To A God" (http://www.delafe.com/cardenas/img/mocangr.jpg)

That'll be one hell of an icon!

Im subscribed here, so if you just post (as Im sure you were going to) the link ill hop right in. Dont ask why Ill hop but I feel like it. :p

What did the huge crab have to do with it? Was it a personal image of you religion, or a storyline (taster)? If the second, id rather not know details and wait for the RP if you dont mind.

Lets just say my people really, reeeeally like crabs. Think Easter Island. :)

You do tease me so!!

Rolinda Tribe is a tribe of fisherman in the western islands. There is approximately 500 people in the tribe with a growth of 10 percent annually.

The people of the Rolinda tribe stand at about 5’ 10”. The most common hair color is black or brown. While there skin is tan it is not dark.

There main food source is fish, which is supplemented with various wild grains and vegetables found in the interior of the various Islands.

Tools are used by the tribe are often made of whale bone or flint. In addition they have small dugout canoes that they use for fishing. They live in nine villages of palm frond huts.

The tribe is ruled by a king that is elected from representatives of the nine villages.

They worship a sea god named Okreday

Lets just say my people really, reeeeally like crabs. Think Easter Island. :)


So building a giant stone crab?

Just a note, although Im not sure it matters so much or not, but horde of doom set out that each civilisation would have 500 men with 50 more each RL day, which of course would be slightly depleted by war or natural death im assuming, unless he meant overall growth (please clarify Horde of Doom).

Why not make one big IC thread and then split it off when we need to?

What do you mean by that?

1. The 50 a RL day is the growth of the tribe. Yes during a war it would be depleted, however for rp purposes we will gloss over people dying of old age. If a rp comes along though, where disease hits, then we will subtract.

2.Why not make one big IC thread and then split it off when we need to?
I like the idea, tell me more about how it might work.

3. Anyone do any posts yet?

1. The 50 a RL day is the growth of the tribe. Yes during a war it would be depleted, however for rp purposes we will gloss over people dying of old age. If a rp comes along though, where disease hits, then we will subtract.

2.
I like the idea, tell me more about how it might work.

3. Anyone do any posts yet?

Because nations are separated on islands, and most tribes don't know each other, I suggest everyone would make their own thread. It would be much easier, where people will store all major events in tribe history, and only intertribal incidents have their own threads.

Only problem is that it will require everyone looking at every thread each day to see updates to each tribe. It would also require then, when intertribal events occur, getting in contact with the other tribe, and then telling everyone else uninvolved of the incident (as surely to RP well you need to know everything going on?).

I think this will turn into a nightmare, and would vote for the one thread for all route. The confusion just isnt worth it.

If you really want, placing a link in the main thread to any events you wish to be seperate to the main one, so posts arent mingled up with others and hard to find, but so EVERYONE knows where to look if they want to find it.

Yeah I'm a tad lazy so I like on thread Idea

The Trolls of The Smoke Blade Tribe

Led by fanatical witch doctors, who provide both religous and military motivation, they believe in omens and visions to lead them. They have yet to meet any real rivals, as they easily subjugated all the islands now under the rule of Kanja The Rengenerator.

Before battle is was told that Kanja ate a irukanji jelly fish, blue ring octipus and then dived to kill a giant squid which he also ate in one sitting, before the eve of his greatest battle. His limbs were chopped from his body were he immediatly grew them back, to rend his enemy and take his finely crafted blade.

Voodoo like practices are common, hexing the enemy and revering nature as well as the over abundent melevolent spririts of the world.

they are taller then most men, but are usually hunched over, they are lean and swift. Since every tribe must be able to hunt, they have cultivated swift skermishing tactics; a rain of well aimed spears, a tatcital retreat followed by an enraged charge of hed hunters.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e45/Emo_Hed_Hunter/trolls_persos.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e45/Emo_Hed_Hunter/wow-troll.jpg

Here's my two cents: The islands are not isolated, but rather connected and dependent on each other. So one thread where we can see what every one is doing would be helpful.

After all, if you light a bonfire, I guarantee your neighbor will see it.

Perhaps however there is another way: An off-site forum.

All we need is ham-fisted thugs's description and we are ready to go!

Here's my two cents: The islands are not isolated, but rather connected and dependent on each other. So one thread where we can see what every one is doing would be helpful.

After all, if you light a bonfire, I guarantee your neighbor will see it.

Perhaps however there is another way: An off-site forum.

All we need is ham-fisted thugs's description and we are ready to go!
Oh, I didn't know islands were so near each other.

Yeah, I support off-site. Jolt is anyway so trafficed, so you can better keep
track from happenings.

Well these islands are basically their whole world.

Anywho, anyone else up for an offsite forum?

Sections for updates, or even just one thread. Sections also for war and other potential events. Then we can keep track of all happenings without worrying about subscriptions and countless e-mails.

Ive been thinking, perhaps we could have a whole forum for this type of game, and when this is over we could set-up stuff like the help stickies and make a new NS type game out of it. Just an idea. Id be well up for setting up the forum and/or helping run it and get it working. Any views on this?

you know off site is good

http://s9.invisionfree.com/tribal/

It will obviously help if you put boards up, but good. I was going to do this today. If you want, or dont hav ethe time, make me an admin and I can change it, I know how the conttrol panel works.