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... Are we going to end up with another Red?

... So we essentially have 0 great guilds.

Wait, you seriously want Mac back in after what he did the first time?

How did we go from a thread casting alleyverse members as weird family members to a thread about Voidus threatening children and parents using cookies?

I'm from the DA, so that doesn't matter for me.

I'll do it. I still need an Allomantic zinc spike.

For the proposals I created I want to note a couple of things first, based on the feedback. If we're going with the points system, even for analysis, the power plausibility rule should be scrapped. This one was mainly intended as a balancing system, and the points system would fulfill this role better, in a way that is better for dealing with unusual but interesting combinations. The main issue I found people had with them was the amount of restrictions that they placed, especially the power increase rule. I'd say that this one would have to be given more detail before being implemented, creating better limits for what would be allowed without community consent and what wouldn't be. I think that when putting the rules in there, we should have 3 options: Agree, needs adjustment and disagree. For the points system question I agree with what Mac has said, and that we'll need an option both for using it as an analysis tool and as an actual character creation system.

Should one of the mods put up the poll, or should I do that? Also, which options should be in the poll?

You should try and kill them all to get back at them... wait, never mind.

Wait, you're saying they kicked out the only assassin who could actually properly kill people?

What's the morality of the person who has the aspects? Are they a good or evil themselves? Because if they're good, it could lead to some ... interesting mental conversations.

Wouldn't posting who's supporting who cause issues for people spying?

There's also the fact that a lot of people might be doing festive stuff during the holidays, which might mean a lot less people being able to participate. Moving everything up to after this would give enough time to plan out the plot and reforms, and allow everybody to participate.

I'd say we delay the actual endgame until after the Metamorphosis plot line, but already get started with the other necessary parts, so everything is ready to go as soon as the wedding hits.

Hmm, the gender neutral thing isn't an issue. It's more that the character is described as transgender while using non-binary pronouns. It was mainly talked about because it was a bit confusing. That was my reason, at least.

Not really, it makes sense if you think about it. Investure healing works by realigning your body with your mental self-image, so if your image has a different gender than your actual body it would correct it.

Feruchemical gold or stormlight could do full sex changes for trans people, we got a WoB about that recently. But it was a bit confusing, giving that you're using non-gendered pronounces, which would indicate the character being genderfluid, non-gendered or hermaphrodite.

I meant moving away from the main homeless PM, not the guild PMs. On the other hand, most of the stuff there is just general stuff that isn't that important for the rp, but it'll still be good if we have a way for new people to be aware of it.

By the way, for making it easier for new people to join, maybe we should start moving away from the pm, or at least make it clear to people that we have one, and how you can be added to it?

No objections, lets do this. Edit: Let's just do a mass wedding, with a whole bunch of pairs.

Unless we're doing a repeat of how we did it with Mraize and Yazbett, but that one was a bit more of a comedy thing, and I'd like for this one to have a bit more gravitas.

True, also, perhaps instead of only the great guilds getting a rep, we could have each guild get reps based on status? So great guilds would have a larger number of votes, but the smaller guilds still have a say. This would be a bit like places like the British house of commons, where you have two large parties (Conservatives and Labour), but also a number of smaller parties that do actually play some sort of role in the decision making process (e.g. The current British government only has a majority because of the support of the smaller DUP party).

There's also the fact that if one of the guilds drops in members count you'll still have a stable political presence. As for independent folks being underrepresented in the republic system, this could either be an incentive to join a guild, or we could have a non-aligned guild, basically a guild that internally uses democracy to decide on what their representative should vote, and that doesn't have a greater goal, aside from giving independent folks a vote.

KoTiel is around 35, though I'm planning to bring them up to 55 if we're going to get a big battle to finish off era 2. My era 3 character, KanMien is currently planned to have between 5 and 25 points (depending on changes in points cost, as well as what being specific species (kandra) is going to cost).