Hey, I was thinking about starting up a fun RP that is also a training thread. Basically Rurak needs to advance his archery skills, so there would be a day set aside in the band where a few of the archers would act as snipers for the day. There would also be a certain number of people that would be 'targets' though the person targeted wouldn't know, though they would know anybody could be targeted that day.

(That way everyone doesn't freak out when band archers start shooting at other members of the band)

 

The job for the archers will be to hit their targets without getting caught/seen by any of the band members though the other archers will just kind of be NPC'd by any of the players that need them. I need a few characters to be live targets to make things interesting. What do you guys think, you game?

You forgot to mention that the tips of the arrows are NOT gonna pierce, they are blunted!

 

Shaylor will be there, but she is gonna try and catch the Snipers!  YAY FOR HUNTING!

erm wouldnt the targets need to know so they could put on like protection to not have them arrows make nifty lil holes in them, or break their joints?

 

because even blunted paded arrowheads, with the speed they come at could cause quite some damage at a non protected person, seeing as the human body aint made of metal

 

otherwise i'll see how bussy my schedule turn out and i migth have A.D. turn up

LOL He didn't explain that properly!  The people that are "targets" would know that they are targets.  The people that are not targets would think that ANYONE could be a target, and know that it was going to happen.  If EVERYONE knew who the targets were, they would be looking around all the time around these people for the snipers.

yeah, thanks for that, the targets will know but no one else will. Not sure how the whole arrows are gonna work, I thought there was a tip you can put on it that is just kind of a powdered tip that is similar to the kind that you use to hunt birds but wouldn't hurt a human. Not sure on that though. For all intents and purposes we'll assume the archers worked something out with the arrows so that they're non-lethal if that requires armor, so be it.

wouldnt it majorly ic logical stall the daily rutine if everyone had to walk around in heavy mail and paddings for an entire day?...seeing as you move slower in such gear as well with the potential damage to windows and the like, i'd imagine a training like this would be set outside the main citadel, to somewhere stray arrows wouldnt damage anything + to which purpose does it serve to fool everyone for the sake of practise of the archers?  seeing as only the targets are relevant to them, and the rest not?

 

basicaly i do not see the purpose for making everyone think they can be a target, because logical this would be staged in a way where nothing could be wrecked and where the targets where safety protected, and everyone else not a target knew to keep out of said designated area for the day to not get harmed (this beeing an army and all, and armies generaly aiming for max efficiency)

yeah, but to make it an urban RP you have to throw in the idea of other civilians gettting in the way, factor in probability of getting hit, it has to be realistic, and for it to be realistic, a city has to be involved with regular people having to get in the way, or possibly spot them. Only the few people who are targets are gonna need anything such as padding. I know it is possible for the arrows to be changed to allow for no damage to be done, but if you feel that they require padding so be it, but broken bones? I've never heard of an arrow breaking bones. Even today you can modify arrows to just hit someone without hurting them using common household items. Besides, an archer a crappy enough shot to hit a window shouldn't be participating in the contest.

 

Picture the princess and the swan if you want for the archery idea, in that I know it's a disney cartoon but they just had powder balls on the ends of the arrows so that the target gets 'tagged' with the powder so you know they've been hit. I'm an archer in real life as well as here, so I know how this needs to work out.

i am just envisioning the old type weapons with stoneheads on the arrows, and imagine that with some speed behind them the stones could if they hit rigth do some nice damage (akin to a club being hit into your leg or arm)

 

dont know the actual weapons of today and whatnot they do about them, dont recognise the title of the cartoon either...and i may be entirely wrong, i just envisioned that a stone in high speed could cause damage ..i tend to think of such things as i aint having to much pading on my own body and could just imagine being hit by a rock at high speed...based on the bruises i got from trying fencing once, and those didnt hit from very far away so didnt gain all that much speed...i was just imagining what a stonehead arrow would do at a higher speed even if blunt

 

and with the damages paintballs can cause, and the security gear they have for that ...i'd just asumed it would take some planing in a midleage setting to minimize chanses of damage

 

but yeah as said thats just my imagination as an uneducated person on the area, based on experiences or stories of others experiences with things i figured were relatable ...pain and damage wise to some extent

 

Oh, I see where the misunderstanding is coming from. They won't be 'blunt' tips in the sense that they'll be stone or metal. They'll be padded tips Made from cloth or something like that. As for what it takes modern days to make an arrow that's non-lethal. All it takes is one of the those foam tubes you use for the pool and a nerf ball and material that served the same purpose could certainly be found to make the arrows non-lethal. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Another thing you might do is use bows with a lower draw weight.  It'll cause issues with range, true, but it would be less likely to cause any lasting damage.

yeah, i was thinking about that too. Actually that's what you do in Real life too, you set draw limits along with padding the arrows. So...am I cool to go forward with this RP?

heh i aint staff (in here anyway) i just ask questions when things seems mystical to me...anyway i get to go hide out in the stables with the other stablehands aparently so no broken limbs for moi anyhow ...migth pop in and observe the crazyness from stableroof or something though :D

Actually I was looking for the approval from Quibby since there seems to be some question on this

 

Have at it.

As a suggestion, and hopefully it is not to late now, why not build a mock up of a village, or a town street and use that for the archers to practice in? It can be populated with PC's,NSW's etc. That way it will not upset the normal running of the Citadel, and could allow more scope for rping?

 

Owen

The way i saw the Citadel was more like a village than an actual citadel, actually. One with a moat, a palisade and several other fortifications in the works, but at it's core still a village.

 

Considering there's buildings for barracks, guildsmen, a headquarters, a mess hall, an armory, a jail etc., it would pretty much look like one, only inhabited by soldiers ^^;

No it's not too late, I've scrapped the idea. Too much negative feedback, plus no one seems to want to be a part of the actual roleplay other than observers so no point in doing it.

 

the official map

still the option of npc and nsw...i'd try to get involved if i could have, but i am to young...my char is per date more of a civilialist...and a child of sort as a young teen who grown up in the citadel since she was 9 or 10...i'm working on making her part but yeah...dunno which nsw they got or anything...i am a slow poster though

yeah, i'll probably use it again sometime in the future for some type of training, right now though I'm just a little tired of the idea, I'll resurrect it later if I feel like it.

*nods* Well, in the end it got a map posted, didn't know one existed beforehand so that's good.

 

Maybe if you start smaller next time though, say, an interDiv RP and slowly building it up rather that going for all or nothing and trying to organise a worldwide event?

 

My two cents...