So Imagine if you would, A city... a rather large city, However there is one weird difference in this city well make that several? Most of the buildings and Streets are named after Gemstones, Stars and Constellations... Yet the major thing about this city. Is that EVERYONE is a martial artist of some kind, from the lowly trash man up to mayor. Everyone knows how to fight and throw down, Ki-blast's are hurled, bully's piledrive kids into toilets.... Teachers beat the everliving hell out of students who challenge them to change their grade on that test!O h and let's not forget the onslew of fighting tournaments. How does one live/ survive in such a place??
... by being really good at Martial Arts?
So let me get this straight? A city where errbody is a martial artist of some kind? There better be Gun-Kata up in this bitch.
>>20190823Well, Yeah obviously, but still, make alliances, use your reputation as a badass motherfucker to get buy if you're not in the mood for fighting? Well then again How would life be like when you're living in a city that's pretty much one big ass tournament scene.
>>20190833Besides the fact that Ammunition is heavily controlled/horded by the police... Yeah there's gunkata... Hell there's martial arts based on things like basketball, volleyball, tennis even homework!
bump for the bump gods?
Politics is much cooler, while they still debate their policies they also fight for them literally, the winner is seen as the one with more merit to their side but they can still be wrong.Haggling is done with Jackie chan style everything-fu and cups, pots, ladders etc gets thrown everywhere but care is taken to not break the objects being haggled over.Leaving the building is done with varying degrees of style and jumping from above ground floor to utilize poles, walls and hand holds to descend
>>20190879Sheeit Man... Have you seen the brawls that happen during the subway rides? Shit's better than pay per view!
By studying up on The Book of Weeaboo Fightan Magic and using some of the better homebrew out there.
Here are some Important Places/Buildings.Aquarius Water Park: A fuck huge 8 Story building Indoor Waterpark/Artificial Beach... Rumor has it that on the top floor is a nude beach only area. Also, you get in free if you're an Aquarius.Cetus Aquarium: A massive Aquarium Built in the shape of a fish.Nova Arcade: A massive Arcade complete with VR Gaming ChambersLibra Courthouses.: A literal Legal Arena where Politicians and The accused fight.There are 4 mountains and Rivers that Run through said River, which are named after the 4 sacred beasts. However the Eastern Mountain of Seiryu is also part of the world famous beachside view.
>>20190879>Leaving the building is done with varying degrees of style and jumping from above ground floor to utilize poles, walls and hand holds to descendSome buildings don't even have doors.
Not gonna lie...Combine this with Legend of Wulin and you pretty much have sold me on this idea.
>>20191108I'm going to steal this
>>20191145Go right ahead. Enjoy.
I only heard of legends of Wulin, never played. We could flesh this city out for legends of Wulin?!
OP has obviously studied this film, right?
Dude you've got a lot of work on your hands.You're going to have to come up with countless fighting styles.
>>20192236>MFW I own that DVDI fucking love Kung Fu Hustle
>>20192236>dat filmmah digga>>20192278I hope the sequel lives up to it.
>>20192310Stephen Chow's making a sequel?Oh... yesssss.... It can only be magical....
Welcome to Fabul! Here is your mandatory ponytail if you're a male, or a qipao if you're female.
>>20192338Wait, I found better reaction image>oryili whichYes, captcha, I found a better one, and I'm posting it right now.
This sounds interesting to me, but I thought it would be darker. There are no debates in politics for people to fight over because the city is ruled by the strongest school, whose students bully the weak and steal mercilessly because of heir reputation. Doctors are worked to the point of exhaustion fixing injuries from these constant fights, everything from dislocated joints to broken bones to crippling or life-ending injuries.The elder statesmen of each school are tired men with bodies broken and aching from years of defending territory and honor. The most powerful martial artists - heirs to the school - have been tasked with keeping peace, but often put that behind defending their school or their students. The students, the youngest and most hot-headed, try to make a name for themselves by fighting anyone and everyone from an opposing dojo they meet. Seeing someone with a piece of clothing from one of these powerful schools means trouble for anyone who isn't a strong fighter themselves, because a brawl is almost inevitable and collateral damage is high.The city's under pressure and about to explode. Word on the street is that the head of the Chen family style is ill - maybe poisoned, maybe actually sick. The Yang family head recently stepped down and promoted his son to running their day to day affairs. He's monstrously strong but has no management skills, preferring to beat his underlings into submission instead of heeding their concerns. The Yangs are overexerting themselves now to escape the wrath of their boss, and now these two sides are preparing for a civil war that will tear this city apart.
>>20192544The weaker schools - not necessarily worse martial artists, but without the prestige and numbers of the Chen or Yang style - are terrified. If they choose a side in the coming war the victors will crush the losers into oblivion. Even if they choose the winning faction the best they can hope for is to become a branch style, their martial art slowly disappearing as the stronger school imposes its style.More is happening to the city as well. Tired of the government being a mere puppet to the Chen style a radical faction has been established to restore the imperial family to prominence. The Imperials take all martial artists without question so long as you will fight for the Emperor, and have attracted many of the strongest from the smaller schools and dissatisfied Yang and Chen fighters. They're strong but disorganized, often appearing at the scene of a brawl to 'suppress violence' by beating the exhausted winners half to death. Their numbers are growing, though no one knows who's actually pulling the strings.There are more factions hiding in the shadows as well. Men in black who strike from the darkness and fade back into it, gangsters who masquerade as a member of the strong schools to extort money from terrified citizens, the overextended police force trying to keep the peace as best they can. A mysterious man has been traveling the city to teach a new martial art unconstrained by convention or school, an unbeatable fighter who refuses to take pupils, advocating every fighter to be his own master.
>>20192236>>20192257Kung Fu Hustle... Mah Niggahs, But I was thinking... Mashing something like that, Throwing in some Rival Schools, Street Fighter, Tekken. And other things Hell One of the first inspirations was Hajime no Ippo and this is in before Go back to /A/
>>20192614>>20192544If you wanted to take it a more grimdark angle sure,I was thinking it was just a stupid stereotypical hong kong action movie across the whole city
They say that there are schools hidden within the top of each of the 4 mountains, Those who try to enter these fabled Dojo's are never seen again, however I believe with my heart and soul that these school's exist... For I saw one of the school members! She was beautiful, graceful... and deadly. With one swipe of her hand I saw a man's body falling apart like butchered meat! Not one drop landed on her quipao, then she looked at me... With those green eyes, like that of a tiger looking at it's prey.
Unarmed Swordsage all up in this bitch.
Lee had only heard rumors about this city... Many things, a real life hong kong action flick, The place where fighting games get their inspiration, yet nothing prepared him for the sight he saw... A withered old lady on a walker beating the ever living hell out of some punk ass who had the advantage in health and height. The sight of that old decrepit woman using her walker like a very extension of her being, smashing his knees, breaking his arms and even sitting on top of him before delivering the final humiliation by making him assume the fetal position by flicking his nuts.And he just got a job here...
rolled 29 = 29>>20192860bow to grannie young man, you show no respect!
>>20192913Least he didn't bump into one of those drunken hobo's.
rolled 90 = 90>>20192943none-sense the hobos all know to stay the fuck away from the ancient grannie on 4th street...the one on 5th is nice enough to give you one warning.and the one on 3rd will break you if you think of stumbling drunkenly through her shop...that IV-stand of hers is not the standard issue model...on a thread related note perhaps the "revered elder society"? no Idea what they do just that there should be one...
>>20192984In some districts of the city, there is a Respect yo eldah! thing going on!And you mean the Grannie on 3rd street by both Orion and Heracles Stadiums?! Mannnn Stay da fuck away from her! She baddd
rolled 50 = 50>>20192943oops I misread that...also true
rolled 32 = 32>>20192999I have no knowledge of that grannie I was talking about grannie Li who runs the tea shop on the corner of 3rd and dragon alley...
>>20193000Lawls...Also, bumps for the bumpgods... Anyone got ideas, suggestions, writefaggotry... Key locations??? Anything??
Like other suggested: Watch Kung-Fu Hustle or Shaolin Soccer. Stephen Chow does awesome movies.Also, Ladder cops.Jackie Chan style, they rush into criminal incidents wielding ladders and nothing else. When they shout on the bullhorn they say, "Come out with your hands up. We don't want no trabble."
That's the police in the 4th District! Crime is way crazy there. Yet Here's is some more information I dug up from my old files. Some Districts, as well as the actual school's of said martial arts city.Industrial DistrictSuburb DivisonEducation DistrictUptownDowntownWaterfrontEntertainment DistrictAgricultrual DistrictUniversity DistrictRed Light and Jade Light DistrictsThe Kenka School DistrictMugen GakuenSeihana Girl's High SchoolWarriors Boy's High SchoolGinga Polytechnical High SchoolAnryuu Reformatory High SchoolTitan Militay AcademySora High School of the Preforming ArtsKoten Private High SchoolGouriki KoukenOda Finacial Private AcademySunset Bay Exchange HighOlympus Private AcademyOrochi Elite AcademyPandora AcademyKenka GakuenGosei AcademySeven Sisters High SchoolSaid Schools are inspired by the vidya rival schools.
>>20193094>The Kenka School DistrictAs in Kenka Bancho?>mah nigga
>>20193094Whoa shit... 2 Red light districts?! Red and Jade... Holy shit...Whore Wars?!
>>20193128Social Kung Fu? Companion Beatdown? Nigga, I'm hard.
>>20193124Oh yes there is some Kekna Banchou up in this city for sure
>>20193128They're more likely to either fuck ya or Fuck ya up! Pick your poison and protect ya neck son!
A city full of martial artist? Are they really strong? Cause if they are strong, I want to go!
>>20193191Your kind isn't welcome here! You'll eat up all the damned food!
>>20193094Hope you don't mind me putting down some info on one of your schools.Seihana Girl's High school.School Colors: Rose Pink, Creme, Light GreenSchool Symbol: A grouping of Sakura Pedals in the shape of a star.School Motto: Excellence through Superior GraceSeihana Girl's high school, located in the rather wealthier parts of the Eastern Countryside is a Elite Girl's only boarding academy which focuses on turning the daughters of wealthy individuals into powerful women, through philosophy, the arts...and martial knowledge. For few ever hear of the spartan like training these young girls go through. An unusual blending of Victorian, Classical Japanese and Modern cultures. Yet the results pay for themselves in dividends, in the Annual Kenka-District interscholastic tournament Seihana is always a top competitor for the elusive Diamond fist trophy.
Has this been archived yet
>>20193094How fucking big is this city that it needs 17 different highschools? And all in the same district too, that's fucking terrible urban planning.
>>20193214Why not? And you aren't very nice!
They now have kung-fu exalted.That is all you need
rolled 88 = 88>>20193335suppose it's the "schools district" with a few specific extra laws to protect stupider children from eachother?and a mass transit system for the kids from all other districts...but if you miss the buss then god help you...
Just imagine what finals look like.> Teacher jumps in through the window> -multi-coloured explosion-> YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST! > BUT IT ENDS HERE!> PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR *JUDGMENT*!!> -punches the corrected tests into a furious storm of paper aimed at the students-
Watch Shaolin Soccer, there's a moral about how the world would be great if everyone know karate.Plus it's funny as hell
Yo man, did you hear about the brawl between those two brothels? Rising Phoenix and Heavenly Gates?! Man those girls were going at it like cats and dogs!
>>20192544>>20192614This right here! I wanna run this so hard!
rolled 88 = 88>>20193429did you hear about my profits selling hotdogs to the spectators?best since that debacle at the zoo between the keepers and the PETA members...
>>20193335It's waayyy big man. Like Imagine NYC, LA, Las-Vegas, London and Tokyo Put together. The worlds First Giga-class MegaopolisAnd the schools themselves are under different district's officially, but all 17 schools combined make up the "Kenka School District" as titled by the students. >>20193373It's usually that or The students have to fight the teachers themselves to get a better grade. And That's not easy, it's pretty much mandated that all teachers in order to be considered for employment must have won at least 3 Major Competitions or participated in one of the Fucking huge major tournaments like the King of fighters or King of the Iron Fist tournament, then there's the whole impressing the principal during their combat interview.>>20193363 Yes indeed god help you if you miss the bus to school...
>>20193509I heard mah niggah, rollin in the dosh.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/20190814/
So what does everyone just punch one another? That sounds kind of boring. You can only punch so many ways before it get's boring.
>>20193550Naw naw, This city makes martial art's out of EVERYTHING! Sports, Homework, Books, even using medical equipment!And it is a regular city too... there are movie theaters, clubs and what not... Just don't piss off the lawyers at Libra Courthouses...
>>20193550My dude, have you considered using your feet?
>>20193550
rolled 47 = 47>>20193533aww yeah...I even got some throwing practice in with some of the courtesans...the ones I know were up for paying later anyway...I did mightily sling some sausage on a bun to many hungry hungry hoes midway betwixt opponents......god I love a good entertaining brawl...
>>20193550No imagination Daniel-san.
>>20193512One of the Big 13 landmarks of the City, Virgo Hospital is nothing less than state of the art if not ahead of the curve when it comes to medical technology's. On top of the Hospital is a giant golden stature of a young maiden with wings, representing the constellation of the Virgin
Isn't this the ending to shaolin soccer?
rolled 35 = 35>>20193614and whatever you do don't make fun of the nurses hats...needles and scalpels are not nice.....
>>20193629I would bitchslap the motherfucker who wanted to brawl in Virgo of all places, It's an unwritten law of the streets you don't fight in hospitals in general ESPECIALLY Virgo! Despite their cute uniforms, the nurses are cold blooded motherfuckers who will shank and castrate someone, letting them feel it but without any pain.
>>20190879I take it people Faith from Mirror's Edge would make up the entirety of the mailman and delivery boy occupations
>>20193655... Mah Niggah
>>20193335There are a least 10 schools within a couple miles of my neighborhood. Grade, Middle, and High schools, but still.If anything, this is too few schools.
You guys. This is just Japan. In a world where everyone knows martial arts everyone is going to be very quiet and respectful to avoid getting their asses handed to them.
rolled 29 = 29>>20193668quiet and calm till THAT GUY strikes up some shit then all hell breaks loose...
>>20193668Have you seen, Enter the Dragon, Fearless, The Karate kid and Sidekicks?!
>>20193667Oh Dear god Recess time...
All the buildings and furniture better be really cheaply made, so that they break apart and collapse evertime somebdoy gets thrown into one
>>20190814Everybody starts in the Wheel.We're all orphans in the streets of Star City. After Mayor Sun came to power and the fighting started.. Too many families dying, not ready to fight back. So we all disappeared into the Wheel. We used to call them the projects, the ghetto, but now they're the only safe spots. When they saw the Old City people come they smirked; sometimes there were fights, and plenty of people got held up. But those doughy cityfolk were pretty quick to learn.The Wheel and its twelve housing projects became known as the Rainbow Wheel. I used to live in Mercy, but now they call us Cancer Project. My crew are all Crabs, and we fight to break our opponents.The Old City folk who made it out at the purge live in their own Project. They built it up themselves, scratched up out of all their belongings. A lot of the guys who survived the move were doctors and medics from the Last War, and so they took that fucked up snake staff as their symbol. If you wanna get patched up Ophiuchus Project will do it for you, but you gotta pay them back with training and your time.I could tell ya about the other Projects, and how it all goes down when we raid the Hub, but nobody listens to Wheel trash.
>>20193655> people Faithlike Faith even>>20193661>rival pizza companies have interceptors that try to steal and destroy your pizza so that theirs are delivered first. You also have defenders, so everytime a call goes out for a medium pepperoni, you are asking at least two entire bands of parkour pizza ninjas to duel for your satisfaction
>>20193715MMnnn Parkour Pizza
>>20193712> Doctors and EMTs fight with caduceus staffs.> Hoodrat warriors segregated out> Rough outskirtsI like it so far. Go on.
>>20193733Their elegant grace and acrobatics makes the pizza. The heat of battle cooks it.
I just had a Idea for another landmark, Saggitarius Observatory and >>20193614 I like the whole idea of all the Buildings based on the zodiac in the epileptic having golden statues while other Zodiac buildings at least have some mention of their sign, like Cetus Aquarium being built like a fucking whale. And well another location. Cygnus Ice Arena
>>20193712I like this more than what's going on in the rest of the thread. Feels more like a setting you could actually play in.
In this city of stats, zodiac's and jewels, there's a darker side... A side people don't want to see... The Projects, the hood. We make Metro City look like pushovers... My crew is the Leo crew, reppin the lion projects. They know who we are after we rip out their ribs with our hands. We're at war with the Diamonds and those faggot gemini motherfuckers.
I actually intend for this world to have Multiple facets.. Kenka bancho motherfuckers brawling in school's while there's underground wars going on in the ghetto's.
>>20193667Jesus christ I hate to be in that playground when those kids are mad, then again who in the fuck teaches their kids how to throw fireball's before 5th grade.
>>20193712Instead of rainbow wheel, use Wheel of a Thousand Spectrums or something sufficiently Asian. Like Mayor Sun should instead be Mayor Sun-Bai the Radiant Strategist.
Guys, guys, guys... What if, we used variable dice system as a standard conflict resolution roll, but with image related, breaking the auto-wins into a still formidable next higher die based on rank?I.e. Lightning Master (Say a D8) vs. an Axe style Grand sage (D10) turns into a D12 vs. a D10 due to weakness shown on the chart?
>>20194251Forgot image, sorry.
Ok, lets focus here... so far we got.A massive Mash up of Fighting Manga/Vidya mainly focused on high school's.A Grimdark Hong Kong Action movieA potential Final Fight Type Ghetto War fought with martial arts ala Urban Reign.God damn we need to get shit done.
>>20194127Gemini Project, home of the Gentlemen Gem crew. The Sun regime will go down someday, but while we wait let us make some bucks and get some fucks.The Gemini crew runs in packs, practicing a form of trained team tactical beatings. The rulers of the faction, the original Gemini Gents (Emilio and Enzo) are twins born to the leader of the Scorpio Project. Thrown out by their father due to their dishonorable battle tactics (this from a guy who poisons his whip tips?), the Gents hit the old leaders of the complex.Gemini Project is made of two towering complexes crisscrossed with six man abreast skybridges. Since the institution of Mayor Sun's policies against Old City construction crews the Gemini Gents have overseen protection and construction of their own.Currently at war with the "pompadoured fagolas" of the Leo Crew, Gentlemen Gems take a tooth of each of their victims to wear polished as an accent to their own clothing. Enzo want the Little Lion's sharpened steel teeth to wear as knuckledusters.
>>20194127The elite vanguard of Diamond District is known as the Diamond Dozen. The strength of their hits and inhuman endurance has gotten them the title of "hardest thing known to man"
>>20194127The Pisces Crew are masters of improvised weaponry, mainly their preference for a meteor flail type chain with a form of serrated hook, no doubt in part due to the Pisces Project's proximity to the Loading Dock's.
>>20194212Fucking weeaboos. The whole point of the setting is to make something that fits in. The Inner City can use a traditional Chinese Zodiac as Mayor Sun runs it like a sort of corrupted Capitalist Paradise, dragging lone Project members into fighting for his group.There's a lot of martial arts outside of lolasians4ever. The Gemini crew fights like a group of Italian tag team hoods with knives, fists, and team tactics. Scorpio is led by a guy who wields a whip, the Leos look to be a great braggadocio Lion crew (I just went with the idea of the Little Lion Man because I like the idea of a short Napoleon complex gangbanger who fights Tiger Style).Let it grow. Yes And, not Buts.
>>20194251Interesting idea, though we'd have to customize the flavour of it pretty heavily... I also wonder if, for balance issues, it might be simpler to have all styles start as a basic d10, but then maybe certain styles or I guess martial arts schools can teach branches of each one. Example: Twin Fang students can branch out into using 2d8 for their rolls, but if they are at a disadvantage they roll 2d6, advantage gives 2d10; another branch of the school would leave their normal rolls at 2d8, but a disadvantage causes them to roll 1d8, and an advantage gives them 3d8.That said, we'd have to figure out if the whole system runs on a highest-roll basis, or if additional dice stack, or if only SOME styles are capable of stacking...ugh too many ideas
>>20193484Thanks! It seemed to be kinda overlooked for the more cartoony-wacky stuff (except for the zodiac wheel ghetto thing, I like that one a lot) in the rest of the thread so I dropped it until I can flesh it out for a game.
>>20193094I'll work on one of the School's on the list.Olympus Private Academy, is home to future Olympians of every sport, be it basketball, handball, Equestrian. The main focus of this school is to use the best training and technology to create Olympian Athletes of the 21'st century. However there are hushed rumors that some of the teachers and students are creating new powerful and traceless doping agent's to get them ahead.And before I forgetSchool Colors: White and GoldSchool Symbol: A Blazing Torch with the 5 Olympic rings surrounding it. School Motto: "Though Sport we forge man anew"
>>20194350>>20194350>Fucking weeaboos. ...I thought we were going for a parody of old martial arts movies. You kinda have to be pretty weaboo for that. Yes, you can and should have different fight styles (I want to see the ghetto Capoeira breakdancers, personally), but I thought the whole thing would be wrapped in some nice Chinese/Japanese corny martial arts movie cheese.
>>20194340Boy, you found your way down into the Floating Markets and didn't pay your tax? Pisces Crew runs this shop. We run the Docks, the Palisades Funhouse, and the Floating Markets.We're proud of our heritage. My dad came over off the Islands with a gaff in one hand and an axehandle in the other and made his way. We've got a mix of every type here: from the Drunken Laos in his big fancy suit down at Palisades to the Steelhead Chinese. Used to work the rails that brought things into Taurustown, but once those shantguys busted their heads they came here.Kung fu, Sumo, plain old brawling. We adapt, and got our own style. See this chain in my hand? Used to be my dads. Got Koi the Blind Welder to make this shit up for me. They call it a meteor hammer... I call it Lucy. Break your skull in half and drag you down to float in the bay.Got my money? Else get the fuck out.
>>20194428Well OP Did say this place will have multiple facet's... so... I guess we can all expand on that? As well as potentially make our own??
>>20194441I'm all for fun and expansion, which is exactly what I was trying to do. I liked the idea of the Rainbow Wheel, but I was trying to expand on it a bit and give the place a little more flavor.
>>20194435>surly sumo wrestlers and viking rough n' tumblers form a gang in the wharf district
The Sagittarius Project is one of the more feared project's due to how heavily armed and accurate everyone from that area is. It's rumored that the people from Sagittarius project are given slings on their 4th birthday.Whenever Anyone from the other crews goes into Saggitarius controlled territory, they always have to form up in groups to keep a look out. The Last leader of the Ares Project found this out the hard-way when he was killed by a shot to his testicles by now, leader Patrica Artemis who at the time was 7 years old.
>>20194488Aries. Derp... my mistake
Even the mayor knows martial arts? Sounds familiar...
>>20194488It is rumored that the Aries team that went in, was sent back missing several pieces.To this day Pat Artemis uses a bag of tanned hide to store her sling stones.The origin of that bag makes the male slingers wince.
>>20194280>>20194488Wait, which zodiac are we going with? Maybe both? Every warriors draws from his "aspect" from the Chinese zodiac, thus you might have a Pisces Brawler of the Ox or Leo Gangbanger of the Tiger or Gemini Hitman of the Monkey.
>>20194533For the Ghetto Wars, those who are in the Inner City aka Mayor Sun are going to be exclusivity Eastern... while the projects are Western. Or so it seems to be.
>>20194533I would figure the Projects are all Sidereal/Tropical Zodiac for their Crews, then the Old City/Inner City uses the traditional Chinese Zodiac for their Schools. See, children born in the Year of the X are sent off to train under Mayor Sun's Glorious Program, in a sort of Martial Arts Battle School. Once he gets enough kids through training he plans to wipe out the Zodiac Ghettos and bring his Master Plan to the rest of the City.
Well, Yeah... Milky Way City, was inspired a bit by metro City.
>>20194547>>20194562Aww, too bad. While I love that idea, now we will no longer have obnoxiously long titles for our ghetto brawlers. I do like the way this is shaping up, though. Are parkour pizza ninjas still a thing or are we making this more "grounded">>20194564Cosmic Metro, maybe?
>>20194589Hell Yeah They are. From what it seems It's now going to have 3 Variants, The Kenka Bancho/Massive Videogame/Anime crossover mashupThe grimdark Martial arts movieAnd the Zodiac Hood Wars.
>>20194589Well, you can still have ridiculous titles for individuals. Perhaps the two signs are influences whose traits are expressed based on your birthplace/training location?So, a Gemini Project baby gets snatched up during the Year of the Rat, may have aspects of both sides. Sort of the Metis form of the Old City and the Ghettos blending together?Don't know about Parkour Pizza. Pizza Warriors seem to be of their own thing... Though in the Ghetto I could see the various factions fight it out over fast food supremacy as sort of a module on top of the chaos?
On the subject of the Zodiac Wars I have a character.She was no longer Rie Sun of the Glorious Mayor Sun, Divine General of the Dragons... Not after seeing the shit he pulled. She gathered her best and loyal subjects, stole as much gear as they could and headed out to the ghetto's. It was a good plan but her forces were slaughtered down to a man and now Rie...or Venom as she now called herself were taken in by the Scorpio project. For now that is what she was, the backstabber, the poison who will kill Mayor Sun.
>>20194646Regardless of which version of the city you go with, everything is still kung fu, so yes, I can see competing fast food joints hiring gangbangers to assault their competition and wreck their resturaunts, but then the employees (and more loyal customers) go all BATTLESTATIONS! on them, leading to a burger seige.
>>20190814>>how does one live in such a placeYou mean nerima?It ain't easy pal.
If the Pisces clan are the rough and tumble gangsters, then the Aquarius clan are more akin to Militant Marines, The Aquarius Housing complex were built over the remains of a condemned naval base that was razed to the ground after the Mayor started his nefarious plans. Yet even Mayor sun made a mistake... he didn't fully check if there were any survivors.Now the Aquarius clan enact blitzkrieg like sieges... overwhelming their opponents. They are in conflict with Pisces, Libra and oddly enough the Sapphire's
>>20194646I was born a Rat. I will die a Rat. I fight with my class, and we train.In the evening I wake to the sound of a thousand bells. It is the Time of the Rat. I get dressed in my uniform, simple black cloth, fur hat, rat claw gloves, and head out to the streets.We're forming up with the Piggies for a raid on Aries. We put on our masks, and we blend together, two Years, four thousand boys, about to Graduate.The Razorback and Rat King stand in the center. They are the best of us, the ones who fall into Mayor Sun's plan. Thirty years of fighting. Three Years of training.Aries never shut up. We move in quiet, but we hear the bleaters as we breach our target. Loud, blasting in your ears. The house is surprised. Mostly old men and women. One pulls one of those wicked ram's horn blades and hacks up a Piggy, digging into his belly. The smell of shit fills my nose, and I start in on my work.There's a cradle in the back, two babies. Aries kids who will be raised as part of the next Rat Year. One of the Piggies grabs the younger boy as he begins to kick and punch. When he hits the Pig in his balls he gets a clout across the head.We lose around five hundred guys. Mayor Sun gives us a nod as we helped to grab six hundred kids. I look into their eyes as they lay in the Nursery, patched up from the boot blade I took to the leg, and the hammer that cracked my teeth and broke my mask.The hammer wielder looked shocked when she saw my face. She looked to pictures, pictures of me on her walls, me as some sort Ramshead gangbanger."Baby? Baby Charlie? Mijo... Why you gotta come and hurt us?"I slit the woman's throat, and pulled out my prize. Looking down, the baby looks like me. Little Carlito, by the name on our Snitch List.I'm not Carlos anymore.I'm a Rat.
>>20194720If yhou think thas bahd shtay away from take out*gulpthat stuff gets lethal. I've had about all the bikes I can handle.
-Uses Special spell Summon Mapfag Rank 9-
Everyone working on this should give themselves a pat on the fuckin back. This shit is amazing. thank you for makin my day /tg/.
>>20194778>>20194789I like it, the base is a cool complex, works with the Water theme of Aquarius, and also if they ever figure out how to get into that vault underneath that powers the whole Ring their mystic leader will enact a New Age.What I think would be the best breakdown would be:Sidereal Zodiac: The Ghettos. Their Crews are based around various aspects, may even be several different versions. Chinese Zodiac: The Battle Schools. They come into the Ring, take the kids along with their own to raise and care for them.Gems: They float between the two worlds, as sort of a noble family structure or elite. They're above a lot of it because Sun can't piss them off.Mayor Sun has an elite squad based around Moons of the solar system. They are sort of his battle cabinet, and have masteries above and beyond most. Fighting a Moon is like trying to stop a tank with an atlatl.
We Scorpios don't have much going for us. We got no territory or numbers like the Leos or massive industry backing us like the Pisces. Shit, we don't even got the organization of those stuffy Gemini bastards. But there's one thing we do have: stealth. You can't kill what you can't find and brother, you couldn't find me even if I wanted you to. Whether creeping the sewers or jumping the catwalks, we own the fucking night, you hear? Boss Stinger always wants more snakes or rats like myself, cause the stars bless us with shadows, maybe even a few monkeys to bolster our roofrunners if I can help it, so we try and get to the Wheel before any of the other gangs each year and take our pick. Those snakers seem to have a way with the poisons we use, too. Must be something about their aspect. So the next time you come stepping in Scorpio territory, you best be watching your feet and your head, 'cause we fuckin everywhere. You ain't see us till ya dead, brother!
>>20194878Saggitarius Bikers, then? Or Taurus Bikers? I don't know whether centaur archer or ox would fit that bill better.
rolled 3 = 3>>20194894here's the real kicker...how would you stat every possible combination?I imagine stacking templates would work to a degree...
>>20194947You are now picturing a stampede of Ox Shaped Harley's Kitbashed for Ramming and fucking everything up.
>>20194965Taurus it is. Or maybe Taurus would have ox-headed cars whereas that Saggies stick to the mobility of bikes. >you are now imaging an 18 wheeler kitbashed into a battering ram with longhorns for goring on the front, carrying a trailer full of gunman
>>20194947Taurustown is already known to be a shanty town that used to have railroads going into it... Could have a sort of Mad Max biker feel in Taurustown. I could see them all living in containers, making their own arms and armor from the leftover steel and motors. Taurus is a sign of material pleasure, so they love making their big, shiny wheels to fuck with their other groups.Seems like somebody brilliantly took the Sagittarius as some crazy sling users, will need to expand on that to fit within their type, but I like the idea so far with Taurus.
>>20194990My god.... -brofist-
All these will need some pretty drastic cultural shift in order for this to work. Some deeply ingrained cultural aspect that naturally resulted in this kind of unique sociology.What I suggest is this, in this kung fu nation and this nation only, mental and physical prowess are seen as one and the same, since ages ago they had taken the innocent teaching of "healthy mind comes from a healthy body" to a ridiculous degree. All forms of education are coupled with associate physical training, to ensure mental and physical balance, a fundamental aspect of Tai Chi philosophy. The society prefers not brawl or brain but a balance between both. A pure brawler would be look down as a brute and a pure scholar, a weakling. Most of the discrimination comes from an imbalance of either side.This removes the social imbalance of having mindless fighting machine on the top of the food chain, instead the most learned man are most often the deadliest one, as some advance form of martial artist simply incomprehensible for an unlearned mind. You need a Ph.d for those.See that doctor behind the desk? Don't fuck with him. He got a master's degree. You obviously don't know what he can do to you with a scalper. That and we got Quantum Fu.
>>20194990>>20195001>You are now imagining a giant Longhorned double trailer opening filled with about 100 raiders riding the fiery deathmachine motorcyclesRemember, Guns exist but are rare.
>>20195001Not just slings Anything that can be thrown is a weapon to them, Sagittarius are trained to be accurate... They're patient and wise, just like the centaur of the myth of Sagittarius. And if you think the slingers are bad, The archers... Oh god the archers.All the other crews petitioned for a 2 mile Neutral Zone around Sagittarius's turf... It dosen't help that the centaurs have the high ground advantage, further befitting their sniper nature.
>>20195001I'm liking it. Maybe they and the Saggies are rival gangs. Give the Taurs a more Westernized Mad Max feel with rowdy bastards, kitbashed cars, and harley david escort bikers whereas the Saggies are more disciplined Yakuza types with a heavy reliance on hit and run on their Japanese motorcycles and are heavily regimented unlike the more biker gangy Taurs>>20195037You're right, should've said chains and pipes at most. Maybe what makes the Saggies such a threat is they have a larger number of ranged weapons, seeing as Saggitarius is an archer
>>20195061>Motorcycles with sidecar archers, dubbed Centaurs
Was thinking Saggitarius to be A mixture of Yakuza, along with something akin to a hybrid of Polish Snipers from WW2 And SAS.
If somebody hasn't brought up a group of raping Wu-Tang monks I will be upset.
>>20195105Well yeah, they'd definitely draw east and west marksmen, just like the Pisces had sumos as well as vikings
>>20195119Are you kidding me... For the Zodiac Hood's Wu-tang Clan = THE ONLY SOUNDTRACK
>>20195061We petitioned the Libra for the Safe Zone, but the Libra just don't care. The fucking Libra don't give two shits about the other crews.Ever run into a Libra? Those freaks cover their skins in tats from head to toe. Not tough shit like us Pisces, who wear ours to show our set, and who we battle.The Libra carry the Laws on their skin. The big Lawbringers wear those clouts... Wonder if they keep the most secret Laws on their cock?And then there's the women. That big ass Library they keep on the top of the old Justice Hall in Libra Project. Two people are allowed to enter it every year during the time their rules say we can go. I've always wanted in... Said they got all kinds of cool shit in there.But seriously man. Watch the Lawbringers. They'll crack your head with that big set of scales.
>>20195138Excellent, I hope this thread gets archived I really want to play in this setting.
>>20195146>Giant tattooed dudes who bring the Law.So the Libra have living Golems?
The Gemini are masters of tag team dueling. Always working in pairs, their most feared technique is the Wombo Combohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD_imYhNoQ4
I'm scared to go near any open surface of water... No not those fucking sumo fish, I mean those other guy's... the Aquarius... They move like that one guy from those old video games.. Ya know the guy with the bandana who smoke's a lot... Just, stay away from the old base man!"
Virgo Mean's Virgin... HAHA Yeah right, man, you can't tell a virgo by their clothes or tat's but mann you know you fucked a virgo, My homie just got whacked for snitching to a virgo during sex... But man it was worth it.
This setting is starting to remind me of this movie.
>>20195146Libras onlyl care about fuckin balance, man, it's fuckin shit. They don't care if an orphanage is torched or someone rolls a convoy header for the Sun Man himself, so long as the districts are ''in balance''. Fucking bullshit.And their leader is the worst. Blind Justice? Where the fuck does she get off calling herself Justice? Just cause she got her eyes ripped out she thinks she's neutral? Fuck her. I heard she used to have a son, man. Used to. Know what happened to him? Sentenced to death. By his own goddamn mother for "promoting disharmonious acts", whatever the fuck that even means out here. And he was fucking 10, too. I know we train em young out here. I took my first mark when I was 12, myself, but what can a fuckin 10 year old do to deserve being judged at the fucking Court of Scales?
>>20195146"Dude... I think I'm gonna go fag." One Leo said to another while they were smoking some weed out in the streets."Da fuck man... whoa long as it ain't me... sides what the fuck made you scared of some pussy!?!" The other leo growled out before the first man sighed."I saw a female Libra breaking a mothafucka's head open with her boobs. She wasn't wearin a bra or nothin man... Split his wig wide open!"
MOAR! This is the best example of TG Getting shit done.
>>20195218Virgo Project is a whole mess of confusion. You see, the Virgo Project used to be the home to the Madame Louise's House of Sighs. They took up the whole floor of the place now know as the Convent of the Blessed Spring Warrior. She came in Spring, and brought with her her hundred chaste lovers. They sought to stop the filth, and only drove it into the underground.Now there are two leaders among the Virgo. Mama Louise is old but she fights fierce with her straight razor and anything that happens to be handy. She carves the faces of the Ladies who decide to come try to roust her out of the Rat's Nest, that den of iniquity where you can buy anything for a price.The Ladies and their loyal Lords traipse above it all in the airy heights of their new Convent. Some say that the Lords are missing their balls, and that at least some of the Ladies look a bit too, big for their britches.But take it all with a grain of salt. The Springtime Warrior may rule the heights but the best gossip comes out of the Nests.
>>20195232My nigga, I thought I was the only one to see this amazing movie.
>>20195381I fuckin love that movie.
>>20195342Nobody goes into Capricorn without needing something.The Burnt District. The Devil's Den. Place never been the same since the Purge.The Old Goat tried to challenge Mayor Sun. They were tough, the Cabra were all about tough. They trained in their twirling dervish style, dancers who had blades in their fingers, their hair, their teeth. You always knew when a Cabra had fought cause the other guy was a jigsaw puzzle.Then the Old Goat stole Mayor Sun's mistress. He was slow but fierce, hands like fucking vices and a head like a steel-toed boot. The Cabras snuck over the Bright Wall, got into the Old City, and took her right out of the top floor of the Mayor Sun's Tower.Old Goat killed Ganymede. 8 feet of solid man, prettiest brawler because nobody ever got a chance to hit that face. The Goat did a leap and sent his nose into his brain.Mayor Sun sent out Twelve Years worth of guys. Rats, Dragons, Piggies, all of them. Ten Moons. They scorched the earth from Sag to Aquarius. Lucky they kept the fire from burning over into the old Base. Probably would have blown us all sky high.The last of the Cabra wander around in that wasteland, but the Old Goat had some major shit. Plans, maps to clear the Wall, old battle books from the Schools. If anybody finds that shit...
Can somebody write up the summary? Because I started to get confused...
Mayor Sun was not amused at this predicament, he just saw a rank and file solider walking in and dying in front of him only to mutter one word. "Centaurs." Those damned Sagittarius hit another one of his patrol teams.But their methods... they slowly nicked this poor soul with their arrows, stones, can tops and so on, slowly cutting open vital arteries so that he could make it all the way here...just to die.
>>20195445>Mayor Sun.He does not look kindly on your shenanigans.
>>20195419Sure thing. The Zodiac Ghetto Wars started when Mayor Sun, decided to fuck shit up and pretty much take the entire city and mold it to his own needs... Setting up a drastic new Status quo, 13 projects each one based on one of the elliptical constellations, fight against the mayor and each other for survival. The Mayor himself has his own inner guard of the planets and stars... While the brunt of his forces are lead by the 12 Heavenly generals.The 12 Birthstone Royal Company's are like mercenaries of sorts...neither enemy or friend to either side. So long story short... Martial Arts + Gritty Hood action = Zodiac hood wars... Protect ya neck kid.
After reading all of this, Originally I was expecting some worldbuilding and possibly some writefaggory, however... this thread has supernova'd into something of epic proportions! Three Potential settings, one of them being developed as we speak.TG... Pat yourselves on the back, and let the world know... we get shit done, and continue to do so!
"How do you even work this fuckin thing? I swear, I can mod a truck with my eyes closed, but I can't even put on a godsdamn microphone"[Mr. Grayson, a burly tattooed giant of a man wearing grease stained overalls and a shaggy beard, struggles with his microphone]"Yeah, so anyways, I'm Mr. Smith and I used to be a bullhead, through and through. By that I mean I was a Taur - Taurus, rather - and I was born under the Ox. Boss Longhorn really liked grabbin those Oxs from the wheel, and was even willing to pay those slippery Scorpio fucks to do it."[Smith sighs, looking into the distance]"I remember one time he refused to pay them in full after their job, stiffin them half the agreed price. Next day, we found half the kids, blue in the face and dead as can be and not a scratch on em. 200 fuckin kids, poisoned and gone overnight, just like that. Fucking psychos, man. Ever since I've never crossed a Scorpio if I could help it. So anyways, about me. I used to be one of the mechanics back in the Rodeo. It was my job to make sure all of our armor was good to go and ready for war. I know my way inside and out of more vehicles than you can even imagine. Taurs aren't picky, we nab first and fnd a use for it later. If it can't be suped up and made battle ready, then it can be torn down for scrap. Anything fucking goes. I was so good at what I did they made me a field mech. Can't tell you how many times I've beaten a man to death with the same wrench I used to fix a truck not but 10 seconds later. I saved my money instead of spending it on whores or booze, so I had enough to make buddy with some shitty little car shop in Topaz, and from there I retired on the sly."1/2
>>20195494I like the idea of the Heavenly Generals (Chinese Zodiac) groups, but the question is what are the names after that? I mean we have the Rat King and Razorback, but we need some good names for the others.
>>20195544[Grayson looks down at his tattooed hands, still bearing the longhorn skull that is customary marking of the Taurus Gang]"I ain't ashamed of what I did. I had to do it or else I'd be dead. You jewel district people don't know how nice you fucking have it. So go ahead, learn my name, judge me, and come fucking find me if you really fucking want to, because it's that same heritage you look down upon that makes me so fuckin good at my job. That shitty little car shop? Now its the best damn shop in all the Jewel districts. Shit, if it weren't for your mayor's Diamondbacks keeping you guys nice and fat, the Taurs would fuckin own this city by now. We're done here"[Mr. Grayson unceremoniously rips off his microphone and goes back to work]2/2
>>20195548All good things come in time... And for the rat general I was thinking of Rat Trap... but that's just my Inner /M/ Guy coming out
>>20195548King Cobras or Black Mambas would be good elite snakes. Or even Diamondbacks, though >>20195557 seemed to have used them for the Diamond Guard people. Oxs could get Longhorns, Horses get Mustangs, Dogs get either Wolves or just call themselves Rabid, Goats get Satyrs maybe?Now I have no clue what to do with monkeys, tigers, rabbits, dragons, or roosters>>20195580Rat Trap could be a specific Rat King excellent at goading people into ambush points for the Scorpios or something.
>>20195542GrimFight will probably see some work, but I don't want to cross the streams while the Zodiac thing is being so awesome.
>>20195580No, Rat Trap is the name of the most famous Fishhead to ever keel up and represent the docks.He came from the Islands, as a lot of the Sharks do. Marked himself for every Rat he killed. It was during the Famine that he started making his name, at that point he was just the Ratter. See, the damn Rats were swarming and Trap had five kids who were of age to be snatched. He knew where to hide them, and he had a plan.See, him and his brother Blue Whale (rest in peace) decided to hatch the plan. Run the Rats, keep them busy, through the Floating Markets with the kids. They cleared that little Market out by Saltsand Point, and then were running along that set of cargo flats. The Rats followed him into the biggest one, hearing him talking to his crying kids.The three dozen following him got in, heard the front of the can slam shut, lock up... And saw their predicament.About five hundred gallons of fuel, a smiley face stopwatch, and a set of Islander legs coming out the top.The thing didn't stop burning for six hours. You could see that column of flame for miles around.And now Rat Trap has been on the run for eleven years. Figure he's just waiting for the next Class to come find him.
It was hard being a emerald. Rita and her small company of 13 other Green clad warriors were keeping watch over the Cancer's base, watching how the crabs were having fun with their prisoners. To be honest Rita didn't like this job one bit but the information she had gained from the virgo's made this mission much more imperative... If the cancers did have access to military ordiance from before the purge. The war could change in a moment.But there was one random variable. A girl, no younger than 15 laying flat, sitff as a board with a slingshot and a tanned sac full of stones, gears, ribbits and what not. The very leader of the Sagittarius Zodiac grounds came with them.The cancers had kidnapped a beaten one of Patrica's closets lieutenant's half to death... sadly it caused her to miscarry her child.The crabs were going to be taught a lesson today, a lesson Aries learned the hard way. Don't fuck with the centaurs.
>protect ya neckBOOK V: WU-TANG VERSUS THE GOLDEN PHOENIX- In the fourth month of the first year of the reign of the Hongguang Emperor came the barbarian invaders to Hubei. Their army swarmed like ants over the surface of the land, and they inflicted ten thousand injuries and indignities upon the common people. They were filled with desire, and with longing for things that were not and could never be, and they knew not the joy of emptiness and the unconscious. So they caused things to be done that should not have been done. The Wu-Tang Clan resolved to destroy the barbarian general, and remove the scourge from the land. But the barbarian general was guarded by a warrior of fierce and unnatural power, named the Golden Phoenix. So the Nine Masters of the Wu-Tang Clan trekked to the Citadel of Thunder and Lightning, where the Golden Phoenix dwelled with ten thousand soldiers, and began the ferocious attack. They fell upon the barbarians with perfected martiality, destroying the foes without mercy.Ri Za said, “Let us bring the raucous noise of war to the enemy!” Inspector of the Deck said, “The Wu-Tang Clan is not a thing to be trifled with!”The Nine Masters fought on. Ghost-Face Killer saw that Rui Kong was about to be attacked from behind by a host of the foe.Then Ghost-Face Killer said, “Rui Kong! On guard! You had better protect your neck!”So Rui Kong turned and slew the enemy with contemptuous ease. Then he said, “Shame on a barbarian for this cowardly action!”During the battle the Wu-Tang Clan displayed no effort and took no conscious actions, in accordance with the Dao. Thus nothing was left undone. The Nine Masters vanquished the legion of foes, and arrived in a vast circular room, with ten thousand doors and ten thousand windows. You-God said, “This room is the Seventh Chamber. Inside we will find the Golden Phoenix.” So the Nine Masters entered.
>>20195751Inside they found the Golden Phoenix. He stroked his mustache, and preened and strutted. Then he said, “There are nine of you, and I am but one. Which of you shall fight me honorably in chess-fighting?”Then the Old Dirty Bastard gave a shout, for his skill in the mysteries of chess-fighting was renowned. “My style is unbreakable! Prepare to be defeated most ignominiously,” he said.So the warriors sat above the chessboard, and moved the pieces to and fro. After the sand had left the glass, they engaged in honorable combat, before returning to the chess match. But the Golden Phoenix was sly and treacherous. During the clash of minds, he furtively removed a knife, and attempted a quick strike. The Old Dirty Bastard blocked the blow. Then he laughed. “Ha! I am the Old Dirty Bastard, alive and uncut!” Then he dealt the Golden Phoenix a mighty blow, stunning him, and the Nine Masters bound the foe and stood around him to render a final verdict.Master Killer said, “It is not the Wu-Tang Clan who sits in judgment of you, Golden Phoenix. We have gone forth, to the towns and villages, and have done a survey of the common people, who have decided how you shall answer for your crimes.”The Golden Phoenix sneered, again. “What do I care for the Han people?” So said he with contempt in his serpent’s voice.Then Method Man gave a shout. “And the survey says - you are dead!” So he chopped off the Golden Phoenix’s head. Thus ended the battle.
>>20195757Excerpted from “The Story of the Glorious Sword of the Wu-Tang Clan,” by Gao Feiyang.- The Old Dirty Bastard said, “The Jurchen barbarians have not yet been driven from all-under-Heaven. Thus it is our duty to make them feel endless pain.” So the Old Dirty Bastard and his acolytes set forth. They included the Young Dirty Bastard, the Fat Dirty Bastard, the Tall Dirty Bastard, the Lame Dirty Bastard, the Unlucky Dirty Bastard, the Laughing Dirty Bastard, and the Lecherous Dirty Bastard. They marched for a thousand li, until they came upon a vast barbarian encampment, in which there were not less than ten thousand men. Shouting a fearsome war-cry, the Old Dirty Bastard led his acolytes into the midst of the barbarian foe.The glorious battle commenced. The barbarian invaders were weak, and cowardly, and did not possess the spirit of martial valor, so they shrieked and fled before the mighty onslaught of the Wu-Tang Clan and their Shaolin style. The Old Dirty Bastard strode up to the barbarian commander and said, “I challenge you to honorable combat! May the Glorious Sword of the Wu-Tang strike a blow to your entrails!” The foul fiend hissed menacingly and attacked. The Old Dirty Bastard drove him back with consummate skill and valor. Yet just as he was preparing to deliver the killing blow, he was stabbed in the back by a cowardly barbarian wielding a poisoned blade. Even in his agony, the Old Dirty Bastard defeated the foe.
>>20195764After the battle, the Old Dirty Bastard’s acolytes gathered round him on the field, soaked with the blood of the vanquished enemy. The Lame Dirty Bastard said, “Glorious Sage Old Dirty Bastard, grant us some words of wisdom to live by.” The Old Dirty Bastard sat up weakly and coughed out a mouthful of blood. He said, “Protect your neck.” Then he died. Upon hearing the ill news, Great Sage Ri Za was greatly distraught. He summoned twelve beat-boxers to his chambers and began a free-style spoken poem-song in the memory of his fallen comrade:"I picked him up, then I held him by his head His eyes shut, that is when I knew he was - Aiya! How do I say goodbye? It is always the good ones that have to die Memories in the corner of my mind Flashbacks, I was laughing all the time I taught him all about the Dao and the world But I wish I had a chance to say these few words After laughter, comes tears"So perished the Old Dirty Bastard.
>>20190814>How does one live/ survive in such a place??guns?
>>20195764>>20195757>>20195751Stop threadshitting. More about Cancer? Leo? Which Birthstones?
>>20195776Guns are heavily rationed/restricted... then again everyone knows how to fight very well. Guns are used as a last resort... that is if it gets to that point!
>>20195796i mean kunkg-fu means jack shit if i have guns.
Never get a crabman mad. They may seem docile, but you ever see one of their Raging Spitters in action? I don't know how someone so big can move so fast wearing that much armor, but move he fucking did. Jago was dumb enough to try and engage the fucker just cause he had a sword on em. He even got the fucker right in the thigh with it, but the didn't stop the Spitter. No, man, he just picked that dumbass Jago up and tore the fucker apart with those pincers of his - you know, their weird sword claw gauntlet things they wear. Seriously, man, just leave the Cancers to the Pisces, let those two burly fucks go at it. We aint got fuckall to do with the wharf anyways
>>20195781>threadshittingWow, fuck you forever.
>>20195807With a gun or without a gun, whoever has the strongest kung-fu wins.
>>20195807True, but even a gunman has to be trained. But anyway's lets get back on topic. And for these posts. >>20195751>>20195757>>20195764>>20195768They actually fit with the whole Hong Kong Shaw-Brothers grimdark version of this world we're building.
>>20195781Fuck you, the Wu-Tang stuff was golden.Argh, I can't deal with this, I'm gonna report to the pit, the gravel pit.
>>20195852I could see them being lyrics to an in-universe rap song, though. The writing was jolly good fun, at least.
>>20195852Seriously, fuck guns. If you're taking on the idea of a city of kung fu, aping kung fu genres, then guns are just another weapon.And I highly support putting in the Wu Tang clan as some kind of NPC group.
This setting should be strictly non-guns, or guns should be a secret weapon that most people will never hear of, let alone interact with, held only by the richest of the rich. This sort of hand to hand combat simply makes no sense if guns are in the setting, so it's easier to just excise them altogether.
>>20195884Guns would belong to the Jewel District police and be one of the main reasons the Zodiac Gangs haven't taken over the entire city. When gangers and police do go at it, the police use gun-kata from that movie Equilibrium.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2KJHysK6k8
>>20195907>This sort of hand to hand combat simply makes no sense if guns are in the settingBut it's all about improbably effective kung fu. Guns are seriously just another weapon.
>>20195781Cancers? Somebody finally asking about us?Well, what more can I say. Crabs hang together and we got tough shells. We paid off the Bulls and stole what we could from the Waterheads with their military piles. We crack shells with hammers, hands, and choppers we make from steel we scrounge up.The Whores call us moonchildren because we run during the night, but we're better than any Rats, Pigs, or Crocs who wanna be called Dragons. When we going softshelled we're quiet as any Rat and tough as any fucking Fish. Yeah, we take some back, and maybe we hide out when the heat is on us. But Crabs gotta party, and a sweet little piece of hoof does a body good!Some say the Saggies are trying to come in, but have fun trying to drive those sidecars through a Crab shack! We keep everything tight, and move when we need to with all we need on our back.
>>20195939>but we're better than any Rats, Pigs, or Crocs who wanna be called DragonsI'm pretty sure all gangs use the Chinese zodiac, it's the other zodiac that they're at war with. Like, you can have a Cancer Dragon just the same as you can Cancer Rat. Their aspect would typically affect their role in the gang, because different Zodiacs give different statboosts.
This would make a solid Legends of the Wulin setting. Fits in fine, too - come up with Internal Styles for the Chinese zodiac, External ones for the Western one.
>>20195970It's a boast because they use the tactics of the Rats and Pigs, but I can definitely see it being an issue. Though they also seem to steal captives (as in someone else's story). Think we'll have to do a whole thread to work on canon.Will have to figure that one out, hrmm.
>>20195923Guns are incredibly tightly regulated - only the best of the best are ever given the chance to train with one after displaying mastery of all other forms of combat, and then only taken out in special circumstances.The rare cases where a policeman with a weapon is overwhelmed and the weapon is stolen is catastrophic. The local gangs will hunt down the weapon as frantically as the police in order to hand it back to prevent a full-scale police invasion. The chaos is bad for business, bad for the people caught up in it and bad for their own plans.
>>20196037Once a convoy of ammo headed through Taur territory. Ammo, not even guns. Fuckers from miles around came to get in on that action. They said the sewers are still stained red on 8th street.
The Cancer's Project... It's named after some fortress in a old video game before the purge... The Big Shell.
>>20196075Well, the Bulls would definitely be interested. All of that metalworking could make for some fun stuff...
>>20196135Shit got very fucking real on the 8th ST. Bridge, just halfway to the destination point... Pisces, Aquarius, Aries and Sagittarius came up out of nowhere!
>>20196135Scorps didn't care about using it. Ammo equals money, money equals power. Lawbringers wanted to stockpile that shit to keep balance. No doubt Virgo wanted to keep their pretty little Maidens nice and armed. Rumor has it Lady Purity smuggled guns out of Diamond District before she set up shop in Whoretown.It was a fucking bloodbath all over, man. I don't even know who ended getting the bullets, if anyone. I hear the Diamondbacks will actually detonate their cargo if they can help it before letting any Zodiacs touch it.
>>20196192It's rumored that The Amethyst Family was able to recover 11% of the Ammo from that convoy.
>>20196075>>20196135>>20196160>>20196192>>20196226Regardless of who got the ammo or not, That day was one of the more bloodier battles of the Zodiac Wars to date. It's been said that Mayor Sun personally executed those under his command who had failed their objectives or to meet expectations.
I heard people say the folks in the Aries Project are dumb... too disorganized, too straightforward, living off of wasteland.Fact is, you can't survive as an Aries without using your head.
>>20196160They all claim to know what happened on that Bridge. Io still recalls the heat on her face, the screams of Taurus and Sagittarius riders, the Lawbringer who she had been forced to behead with Thunder when Lightning had jammed....They had been in one of the last of the Furies. Mayor Sun had promised her as they lay abed that the kidnapped tinkers from their last raid could make the fleet rise again. Until then they would use the black craft, Atropos, to follow. Its engines were whisper quiet, its blades barely moving the winds as it floated over the fires.She stared into the faces of her cohort. The Twins, Castor and Pollux, who had run from Gemini and served as Sun's elite assassins. They were masters of disguise, and treated it all as a game.Callisto. Poor Callisto. Lover of Ganymede, she was still seven feet of springs and hate, ready to avenge against any Wheel inhabitant. Her left hand, burned from crushing a firebomb beneath her hand during the Purge, was wrapped in a brutally bladed glove."If we drop in low we can take it on. Bunch of lowlifes, a full Rammers, and a crew of Centaurs."Castor smiled, touching all of his hidden little tricks within his vest."Yes. But keeping the ammunition out of their hands... That is the thing." Io touched Lightning, a gift from Mayor Sun on her ascension, taking the name of the lover of a living god. With a short prayer to whatever was above, and a final thought for her fellows, the Fury came down behind the convoy and allowed them off.
>>20196465After that it was just another battle. The rush of fighting, Thunder at hand, its rattling guard loud over the fray. Then Lightning, firing into the pack of Centaurs and sending shrapnel. The chamber breached but failed to clear. Dropping the weapon to the ground Io charged in. Pollux was busy fighting off several of the Aries, their squad tactics a crude form of the training of Mayor Sun's own armies. Castor sent a blade into the chest of their bleater, who dropped his horn to the ground.Callisto danced. She was born a Cabra, but ran off into the Inner City after her beloved Ganymede. Tried and saved from a swift death she had risen in the ranks to become her lover's right hand. Together they had been unstoppable, but even now Callisto's fury carried her through the battle."Io. I was not expecting such... Illustrious company." the voice was familiar, but all she saw was the flash of a blade in the air....She looked into the mirror. The gash was deep, and unhealable. Mayor Sun had had a mask cast for her, a face idealized and perfect, to be worn during functions. He never looked at her in the light these days, but she had done her work.As she lay waiting for the medics from the surviving Dragons who had lead the convoy, she saw her attackers feet. Purple shoes, dyed to match his uniform. The Purpl Man... A delusion.74% recovery. Unacceptable. Nightly raids were being conducted, Years from each of the major schools sent out, some as young as 13. Tonight Io would sleep alone, and plot her vengeance upon the Man in Purple.
It's said that each Zodiacal Project has some sort of test each of their children must undergo in order to be a full blown member.For the Sagittarius it's making that one shot to free yourself from bindings or else you're dropped to your death from the highest point of their project.For the Leo's they must climb back up in nothing but rags after being kicked off the steepest cliff's For the Pisces, they must fashion their own weapons and go out into the sea alone, only to return when they have bounty and plunder to prove their worthiness.For the Scorpio's they must assassinate a high priority target with nothing but a small finger knife, and leave no blemish on their target.
>>20196472Mayor Sun looked at the reports. A large amount of ammunition lost. The raids had uncovered a further 12%, but still there was a large stockpile missing. Thousands of rounds, several crates of explosives, and weapons... Too much in the wrong hands.He had kept the information from the masses within the Inner City, but that would last only so long. Squad leaders had been quarantined, members cycled into duty where they could be watched over.He called for Io to speak about the event."Sir... I.""No, do not speak. Io... Sweet, skilled Io. The battle's marks have been left upon you. Such a wound to such a beautiful specimen." Mayor Sun bent down to kiss his companion on the cheek. She turned into the kiss and embraced him. Sun relented, knowing what was to come, and allowed himself to be pulled in. Long ago, when he had led the armies by his own hand, he had had this feeling. The need to be reminded of life surviving failure, dishonor being forgiven.Io's eyes opened as she felt the blade slip in. Sun held her as she fell to the floor.She saw the girl. Younger, but of the same body type. The mask had been a smart move. To be worn in public, he had said. No one would be the wiser."Sleep, my love. I forgive you."
>>20196553Well then. Fuck Mayor Sun.
>>20196553...Well fuck you guy... FUCK YOU!
>>20193712So anybody gonna to actually stat this all up? FANTASTIC work everyone!
It was a rare occasion to see Mayor Sun doing anything that wasn't related to his grand scheme... It was rarer to see him dine let alone with his children and some of his chosen consorts. Yet even behind his glasses, Mayor Sun was gauging the situation at hand... studying the reactions of those who swore loyalty to him, and to pay the ultimate price for failure. A lone eyebrow was arched as he saw one of his youngest daughters handing a general of his a cookie. An amusing gesture. He would have to lecture her about showing weakness before going silent as he finished eating a bite of steak as he saw the very same general sweating profusley... Poison perhaps?Yet the little girl who was probaly six or seven stood behind the man and whispered into his ear. "You failed..." Before a loud resounding crack shook everyone into attention. Tiny daintly little hands gently clutching the neck she had so violently snapped."This is the price of wreckless ambition..." the little girl muttered before turning towards and then cutesy her father before leaving the table. Mayor Sun's opinion changed."Someone's getting a birthday present." He muttered before resuming eating his steak
>>20196788This is only the beginning son!>>20196824DAFUQ?!
>>20196885I have to say, I sort of got shocked by the Io story, and then heartily chuckled at the cookie story.Of course the Illustrious Progeny of the Glorious Mayor Sun will be able to break your neck.
I feel like Sublime should be required listening for this thread, particularlyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh5ogOH82AwThat song is pretty much exactly how I imagine the 8th Street Riot going down.
>>20196553>weapons and explosivesI thought the idea behind 8th street was that guns are so rare, even the vague rumor of mere ammo being moved was enough to bring out the entire Zodiac to come and play.
>>20197178It did, hell some of the Gem Family's got in on this... Only a rare few know what REALLY happened.
>>20197178You think anyone knows what was on those trucks besides Sun and perhaps an extremely expendable trustworthy individual?Also, a couple of crates of explosive can cause some trouble. Sort of like hitting a bank and finding that someone just decided to lay out a pallet of gold bars.Thus the reason why you would have a squad of Moons in for surveillance.
Hey Guy's New Thread is up >>20197301
>>20197369But we've still got 100 posts in this thread before it bump limits.
Go to rpg.net and look up Nihao Honey and Nihao Honey 2.Yes, I know. But it's basically what you're looking for.
>>20197369>Looks in new thread>Completely ignores the actual work being done.Yeah... Your ideas didn't seem to go. Zodiac ghettofaggotry seems to have carried the motion for the best setting.
>>20197396Just setting the groundwork, and for people to go Where's op?capacha the Ezoing. (Oh you)
Did we need a new thread? I thought /tg/ doesn't start saging until 300.
I don't like it. I don't like it one bit.We Pisces have owned the wharf for generations. I'm the dirty, bastard son of a fisherman, just like my father and his father before him. I may not be a Wheel Child, but let me tell you, you own this heritage of dirt and grime and fishguts as any other fishman dragged out of the water, so you should all be just as pissed as me at those goddamn cowardly crabfucks trying to muscle in on our turf. They used to just be a minor inconvenience, noting a good ol sledge couldn't crack, but ever since they pal'd up with those fucking cows they've been getting better loot, thicker armor, and nicer weapons!You've been hauling nets and skiffin dregs with for as long as I've known. You're my brothers deeper than any blood can say, thus my fathers are your fathers! My heritage your heritage! My home your home! Are we gonna let these fucking clawheads overtake our home like the cancer that they are or are we gonna fight back like the raging sea that we are?!Good, now Skjold, I want you and the other Pikes to put pressure on the Taurs. Cut down any cow you find enjoyin the boardwalk. Teach em that cows ain't got no place in the waterwars and make DAMN sure they never forget that the wharf belongs to Boss Bloodwake!
>>20197258So...So now we need to figure out the Moons and some other Heroes. So far:Ganymede (deceased): Towering Moon, apparently gigantic sexy Hercules sort. Lover of Callisto.Callisto: Towering Amazon. Looks like she fights with Capoeira with a large bladed glove as part of her kit.Castor/Pollux: The Twin assassins of Mayor Sun. Castor apparently has a vest full of tricks. Some sort of stealthy art?Io - replaced: The Beautiful Moon, carries what seems to be a grenade launcher and a sword. Fighting Style unknown.Then the Ghettos:Old Goat - deceased: Leader of the now-defunct Cabras and Purged Capricorn District. Fights with his head and hands, some sort of Hard style, possibly just hooliganism.Rat Trap: Wily Samaon type, no known fighting style. Uses a firebomb to wipe out a squad of Rats during a raid.Blue Whale - Deceased: Relation of Rat Trap.Patricia Artemis: Leader of the Sags, uses a slingshot to nut shattering effect.Man in Purple: Mysterious Leader of the Amethyst Clan (group?). Uses some sort of sword.Emilio and Enzo, Gemini Gents: Twins, fight as a pair, leader of the Gentlemen Gems.Probably missing somebody in there, but needs more beatings.
>>20197544There's also the retired Taurus mechanic Mr. Grayson, but he seemed more like a vehicle to deliver more fluff than a proper character.
>>20197516I like the idea of Pisces leaders having pirate style names and their subordinates having names based on ships. Skjold, Junk, Dao, Galley, Trireme, Galeas... Could be a cool way to go about it, taking in the Pisces dockworking ability.Also the idea of a giant Fishhead warparty leader known as Old Ironsides for his thick, riveted plate. Lots of ship appropriate weapons combined with a mix of Japanese, Chinese, and various Island weaponry could work. Some guy wielding a sharktooth club battling against a group of heavy armored Crabs just rules my cools.
>>20197395Yeah, LotW is the only system for this. Shit, the fish-like pirate nobility are a built-in feature.
>>20197645I like it. I was just going off the basis that they're a mix of every seafaring culture, so you'll a bunch of big burly samoans, sumos, and norsemen tossing shit around.I figure one Dragon aspected Norseman calls himself Jormungandr and is possibly the right hand of Bloodwake.
On the outskirts of town lies Polaris St. It's a quiet little ghetto, with almost no crime, for reasons no one can quite explain....
>>20197716Well, they all know boats so they use boats for their names. Perhaps the different cultures use different types of names for their individuals, but definitely feeling the wharfrat sorts do the whole shipnaming thing.
>>20197923Definitely. I can see what Rat aspect calling himself Skiff because he's so fast. Or Catamaran the Tiger.
Just to check, which set of birthstones are we using for the birthstone groups? Because for the same date, sites like this - http://www.astroica.com/western-astrology/birthstone.php - list a boatload of birthstones. If there's an alternate chart you use, I'd appreciate.Also, Birthstone groups - internal, external, or some of each?
>>20197923I hope they don't carry the breaking a bottle of champagne on the hull tradition over to people, that could get ugly real quick...
>>20198145>implying a bunch of burly fuckers drinking and smashing bottles over each others' heads isn't the most awesome coming of age ceremony ever
>>20198135I think it breaks down like thisBirthstones - nobility types. Have inner districts named after them with Mayor Sun's personal district being Diamond.Chinese Zodiac - Both inner and outer districts use them, but inner aspects use -only- them, being puristsWestern (Sidereal?) Zodiac - Outer districts are sectioned into them. Names of gangs, with Taurus being Mad Max styled bikers and truckers, Sagittarius being yakuza biker archers, Pisces owning the wharf as burly brawlers, Scorpio being assassins, shit like that.tl;dr: Everyone has a Chinese Zodiac "aspect" they live by, but inner citizens live in gem districts whereas outer districts are a The Warriors styled mishmash of gang territory named after the Western Zodiac.
Hey do we have stuff on aries district yet? was scrolling through and i didn't see much. I'm working on getting all the information for this setting into a google doc. Also more Leo info would be appreciated as well.
>>20198145The Kid had been running with the Captain's crew for seven months. Catamaran trusted him to be able to keep himself in the fight, especially after the rumble with those Aquarians over the crates that were found by divers off Saltsands. The Kid had fought two men in the water, tying one up with chain to a sinking crate and the other he just opened up with his gaff. All the Kid had suffered was two broken fingers from the chain, but he shook it off until one of the snakestaves fitted him up. The Kid even slipped a blade into the splints."Think it's time Cat?" The Captain said. Toothless Pete had been a Captain for twenty years, a feat for Captains, but his cudgel work and kicks made him the talk of the docks."Oh, he's ready. Seems like a good morning for it."They snuck up to his hammock like cats, and he fought a good fight. A knee to the balls and Kid was down."Well, we got a tradition Kid... What do you want your name to be?""Sc... Schooner.""SCHOONER!" the Crew laughed."Mary thinks it fits!""Anything'll fit in Mary!"The Kid was starting to unfuzz. The Captain filled the Cup to the brim."Well, don't waste. I christen ye SCHOONER!" Toothless Pete brought the bottle hard across the top of the Kid's head. He was out for about five minutes, and when he woke up Mary and the new dockside girl Moll were there, and the Cup filled with bubbly."No hard feelings? Old habits die hard." The Captain shook hands.Schooner gripped it twice as hard as he ever dared before, and brought him in for the hug."We... We pill...""We pillage! And plunder! We rifle and loot!"Schooner led the song tonight, and Toothless Pete kicked back his feet.Aye, a pirate's life for me.
>>20198236Smashing a bottle on a human skull shatters the skull and kills the human.
>>20198325Well done. Well fucking done.
>>20198335>implying everyone isn't hard as steel in Kung Fu Land
>>20190814OP, may I interest you in a series called Ranma 1/2? Or Real Bout High School?
>>20198335Really? Because I have had a champagne bottle broken over my head. Know what happened to me?I got a minor concussion, and finished the fight. Stop being omega.>>20198345I've posted 90% of the writefagging in this thread and most of this setup. So if you like it my job's getting done.
>>20194428>Weeaboo>Chinese and Hong Kong moviesanta full bakaIf you make it painfully Asian, you're just being annoying at best and racist at worse.
They said it was for peace. They said it would make life safe. It was all a lie.The Tranquility Act was only for control. Take the guns away, smash all the bombs, dismantle the tanks. By removing the tools of war, we shall remove the need for it.Get fucking real. So long as man exists, so shall war. The weapons weren't destroyed, they stockpiled, hidden away by those in charge. At first, people tried to make more, but after a few arrests, some key executions, and good old Father Time, there was no one left who had even seen a gun before, much less knew how to make one. But taking weapons away from man is folly. He always finds new ones. Or resorts to old ones. Fists replaced guns, molotov cocktails replaced grenades, and trucks replaced tanks. War still raged, they just forgot about the guns. Maybe forget is the wrong word. People started whispering about them behind closed doors. Said they were tools of the gods. Said they could KILL the gods, even. Whether or not you believe that bullshit, rest assured when nice ol' Mayor Sun showed up sittin pretty on enough guns to arm that elite guard of monks of his, he took power damn fast. Forced anyone he didn't quite like, anyone whose martial arts he deemed "impure", to the ghettos beyond that Glittering Wall he built. He exiled a lot of old friends and foes alike in the Purge, trying to get rid of anyone who would dare upset his reign.Big. Fucking. Mistake.Gangs arose. Some spontaneously from so many bruisers being stuck in the same hole together, others based around Sunny Boy's old nemeses. The Wheel, a plaza where unwanted children would go to seek adoption, a place of pure generosity, became a heated blood pit of potential recruits for the gang wars that eventually erupted. It's Year 262 After Tranquility, and once more, man marches to war.
>>20198416I've posted a lot of the rest. Most of the ones done from the perspective of some gang banger in the Zodiacs.
>>20198504Don't you know? Anything vaguely Asian is weaboo these days. >If you make it painfully Asian, you're just being annoying at best and racist at worse.Or you're paying an homage to the old kung fu movies you grew up on, like Jade Empire did.
>>20198577Cool to know there are still some anons about OC that doesn't suck.Well, I am taking an hour or so off, keep posting content as I'd love to see some of it. I trust anon to make Leo into something awesome, and go with the Aries as paramilitants style (I was thinking ROSS/SAMBO styling here).And we need the gems. A thick Prime steak and some grilled deliciousness awaits.
>>20195781Die one thousand deaths, kool-aid ass nigga.
>>20195924Exactly. Get within 7-21 feet as a normal person and you can stop a guy with a gun if he hasn't drawn. Add crazy bullshit kung-fu to the mix and they're nothing to be feared.Unless of course, you're a Sag or know gun-kata.
This thing should be stickied. As proof of /tg/ getting shit done on a God Tier scale of awesome
What if the town was somehow cursed, so that the Law of Inverse Conservation of Kung-fu applies? So that when surrounded by enemies, whichever team is outnumbered gains a bonus for each extra person they are outnumbered by.
So people are generally "normal" until a clash of the physical bodies is inevitable and then they break out the years of discipline and/or innate talent. So basically it's "Real Life, But With Bigger and Better Fights."
>>20198762Yes. This was done very nicely in Dr. McNinja. Pretty sure it'll work here too.
>>20198762Nah, dudes should just be hard enough to take out gangs of lesser trained gangers. >>20198589But the old kung-fu movies don't have the white people reverse engineered pseudo-Asian names. That's the realm of awkward homage and parody. Also>implying Jade Empire's Asian names weren't dumb.
>>20198762I think it would be more like the only people ballsy enough to travel alone in an area where they would get jumped are the ones who can handle an uneven fight. There's no need to go full retard "Aha! I brought less people than you! I am the victor!" with it.>>20198784Maybe, but I know the Zodiac gang bangers are kinda like gang bangers of today, just with cuhrayzee kung fu instead of guns.
>>20198845>Not liking Sun Li the Glorious StrategistGo home. Now.[tgisalreadyspoiled]It' okay, I understand. I just wanted a name that was better than The Rainbow Wheel.[/tgisalreadyspoiled]
>>20198849Why not both? They have a gunkata style raised on the streets designed to be more flexible but unwieldy while the police have a gunkata style that's more about surrounding and subduing the enemy but requires intense training and takes longer to execute. AKA real life, but with martial arts.
>>20198953>They have a gunkata style raised on the streets designed to be more flexible but unwieldy while the police have a gunkata style that's more about surrounding and subduing the enemy but requires intense training and takes longer to executesee >>20198556While I don't know if we're gonna roll with that, the idea is that guns are more rare than they were in Mad Max, thus facilitating the need to learn Martial Arts in the first place
>>20198953Oh god this is just, so so so suitable for LotW. The police style could fear being outnumbered/outmaneuvered, the street style could fear being constricted. Shit, the police style basically sounds like one of the styles in the book already.
>>20199014Personally, I do not get that at all. I get guns being restricted, but this is a setting where we are accepting where basically everyone is, compared to reality, a kung fu genius and the exceptional in this society are capable of absurd feats of martial arts. The society is literally built around martial arts.We're building it up from tropes of kung-fu fiction and a big mashup of vidya, movies, etc. yet people can't make a leap where there can just... be guns, and martial arts are still an effective way to operate.It's exactly like this dude said: >>20198713
>>20198762Don't like it. "Iron Palm Kung Fu is real" is something building on old kung fu movies and badass, "Conservation of Ninjitsu" is a meta concept that turned into a meme. If you're a bad dude you can just demolish motherfuckers nonstop and tend to not need to roll with a large crew.
>>20199050Basically the setting just works more smoothly if guns are a highly restricted commodity. Think of it like in Yojimbo - there's only one gun, and its presence marks the man holding it as a terrifying motherfucker.
>>20199050>We're building it up from tropes of kung-fu fiction and a big mashup of vidya, movies, etc. yet people can't make a leap where there can just... be guns, and martial arts are still an effective way to operate.It's not that people can't make the leap, it's that it's more fun to not make it. Restricting guns limits power and limitation breeds creativity.
>>20199072That's pretty fucking lame IMO. We have an awesome segregated martial arts society but damn, guy's got a gun, guess we have to bitch out now.I'd rather take from the new Zatoichi film, where the guy with the gun gets his fucking hand cut off because shit, it's fucking Zatoichi.
>>20199086>Restricting guns limits powerElaborate, please.
>>20199103Also, to explain, I totally support restricting guns largely so that when we see firearm-type weaponry it's stuff like shotgun shell-tipped lances or clubs or machine shop-made gatling guns or rocket cannisters, and so that the cops/filth/pigs or whatever have a unifying element in that they actually use serious proper guns.I don't support it from the perspective of guns being a lethal counter to martial arts in our setting all about martial arts. I think that's pretty dumb.
>>20199026So, the gangsters that manage to get a hold of a gun probably train with it their entire lives. Breeds high individual skill and talent, but also an ego. Gangsters won't be able to decide on a leader to compete with the level of coordination the police have. Meanwhile the police are all about coordination, which requires lots of training. But since they're trained with simulations as opposed to real life-or-death situations, they don't have the same talent or skill as the gangsters.>>20199014The idea of guns being rare is silly. Maybe not everywhere, but at a level where well-to-do store owners and up would have one, after lots of training and licenses. Guns aren't invincible, especially against people who have martial arts bred into their very bodies. Alleyways, tight corners, constant trash and debris for cover, guns don't warrant being as rare as you propose it to be. What would be invincible is perhaps a martial artist powered by nuclear fission...
>>20199094>That's pretty fucking lame IMO. We have an awesome segregated martial arts society but damn, guy's got a gun, guess we have to bitch out now.No, it's that only the elite monks trained in the most pristine temples have a gun, so while you know kung fu, THEY know gun kata. Shit, just the rumor of fucking ammo brought all the gangs out into a massacre because shits scarce>>20199103See: Colonial Britain's expansion into Africa. British Soldiers had guns. Zulu warriors did not.
>>20199166That's not an adequate explanation for me, I am afraid. I'm asking exactly what you mean by that, and an analogy I can't apply to the topic of this thread doesn't help me at all.
>>20199164Then it's a setting about gun kata. This is a setting about hand to hand fighting. I like your idea - especially the ramshackle-homemade-guns thing - but it just doesn't fit the fluff that's been established.
>>20199210Yo that is not the guy who suggested the ramshackle guns. But I don't see how 'guns are not totally unobtainable and martial arts are a valid counter to guns' makes it a setting about gun kata at all.
>>20199166Yea, there'll be gun kata. In that case, it'll be the same thing as "average man meets guy with gun". So I suppose gangs will always have a few people trained in gun kata.
>>20199136>I don't support it from the perspective of guns being a lethal counter to martial arts in our setting all about martial arts. I think that's pretty dumb.But they fucking aren't. Have you read the thread at all? The guns keep the gangbangers out of the gem district but any gun patrol rolling through the Zodiacs is gonna get fucking rolled.
>>20196353An ox is only good when led. Give me a dozen Rats any day. Sure, they might rob you blind, but if you're that careless with gutter trash, you're too much of a fool to deserve sympathy.
>>20199237Right, so there are guns in the Zodiacs, albeit very rarely. And martial arts can counter guns. So we don't have to place crazy prime importance on a dude with a gun at all.
>>20199136That steak, was amazing. If I can suggest... Just go out, spend the money at a good butcher, get a couple nice thick steaks, and grill up. Buddy setup a Pittsburgh Black and Blue steak, delightful.Anyways...Pretty much you're in that spot where the setting is a survivalist chop-socky ghetto culture surrounding a police state like source that comes in and steals the childrens to make new Citizens.Back before WW1 most gangs in the cities in the States were low on heavy firepower. Revolvers weren't horribly uncommon. Rural individuals definitely enjoyed their longarms, but small firearms were the way to go. Brickbats, cudgels, knives, machetes, and the occasional exotic were the norm until the surplus firearms came back from the Front and you could buy a Thompson gun from the old Sears Roebuck catalog.Guns aren't a necessity. I don't really feel bang sticks or similar, but there are some historical analogues for them. Mostly what we're trying to do is a game where you have lots of mooks available to battle, along with some crazy warfare between various gangs and the Inner City. It can be modulated to include more guns if you want, but just assume that you concentrate on the melee.
>>20199266>Mostly what we're trying to do is a game where you have lots of mooks available to battle, along with some crazy warfare between various gangs and the Inner City. It can be modulated to include more guns if you want, but just assume that you concentrate on the melee.That's all I'm arguing for man.
>>20199237So, the police have a shitload of guns, but give the gangs each maybe 2-10 guns. Gang leaders won't like to risk sending out their gun kata users, in case they lose the gun and someone else gets it.
>>20199252Except for the fact that Mayor Sun's has control over most of them and doles them out to his best martial artists, so it's not so much that guns cancel out martial artists, but rather that martial artists with professional training + gun kung fu are on average superior to martial artists trained in the streets
Jesus fucking Christ why is throwing guns into the setting so important to you, even when the answer is "it's supposed to be focused on martial arts?" Fine, everyone has guns for hands and guns for dicks. They piss more guns. Guns are fucking piling up, garbagemen made of guns have to come sweep them into the bullet sea.
>>20199286Basically, if someone's toting a firearm, you know shit's about to get real
>>20198615Ah, do we have to make Aries paramilitary? I get the whole 'god of war' thing but if we're taking the tropes of the zodiac they'd fit better as individualistic and overly headstrong (literally as well as figuratively, there should be an Aries technique that's a barrage of unstoppable headbutts).
>>20199298>garbagemen made of guns have to come sweep them into the bullet sea.I love you for the post. Who the fuck let /k/ in anyways
>>20199298It's more that if we want this to be realistic, why wouldn't they have access to guns? At least make up something in the lore that explains why there aren't any guns. Even the police aren't allowed to have guns. If they do, then why wouldn't a gun or two show up on the black market?
>>20199312We have to, they've got guns and we've got foam LARP swords.
>>20199310Hooligans who fight in paramilitary styles?Aries is the IRA.Done.
>>20199310>Aries>Techniques utilizing unstoppable headbuttsYes please.
>>20199166The Zulu warriors didn't have kung-fu, either. You could make high class mooks just use guns, but their kung-fu is weak while the real gun-kata monks are merely a match for the Sags and their Bullseye-esque skill with projectiles.It's not hard to balance guns with other projectiles when reality-bending abilities are in play. Kung-fu of this caliber basically makes luminaries into street-level superheroes. Do you even street-level superhero?
>>20199340Sure, that works. They want to lead everything and they ape military styles or fashion but they're actually pretty disorganized and more focused around individuals than any kind of hierarchy.I'd also like to put them in a district that's kind of ruined or wasteland-ish and maybe high up? Just to play on goat traits.
>>20199355Kung-fu versus guns didn't work out so well for the Boxer Rebellion.They believed in kung-fu magic in what turned out to be a high-realism campaign setting, ie Earth, though.
>>20199298you are incredibly mad
>>20199303Indeed. But in my mind all it does is set up a greater challenge for the Dragon Warrior.
>>20199355Basically I agree with this dude. I don't really care how many guns there are in the setting, I just think it's dumb to have guns as some kind of instant trump card. I'd like guns to be another kind of martial arts weapon in this setting, one primarily associated with the government and with its own advantages and disadvantages.>>20199380Sure, but I think we're quite a bit further from realism than the Boxer Rebellion.
>>20199362I could see that. Go with it. Write something up.Personally I don't mind the idea. >>20193712Sorry about the Rainbow Wheel. It was the best Zodiac chart, provided for something festive and colorful and light related for the Mayor Sun concept, and I've been stuck on favelas... I'm working on a game where a Brazilian-like city of favelas are taken over by necromancers and Luchadores representing saints serve as paladin-like superheroes.I had posted about it but no one wanted to assist and it got no traction.
>>20199395>I just think it's dumb to have guns as some kind of instant trump card.But it's not. Holy fuck, the whole idea about guns was STATUS, NOT EFFECTIVENESS. To get your hands on a gun you either had to one of Mayor Sun's personal assassins or one hardass motherfucker. Either way, you're still all about the martial arts.God fucking damn, people, this isn't that hard.
Guns aren't rare. Gun artists are rare.You point your fancy sixshot revolver at some hobo, your gun and hand's going to be in six different pieces. Not worth it. Better to learn enough of a style to hold your own long enough to run.I hear good things about martial arts postal delivery techniques.
>>20199380see>Kung-fu of this caliber basically makes luminaries into street-level superheroes.I understand the worry about guns, but since this setting is evocative of modern gang culture and the levels of Kung-Fu being used are above and beyond human norms, a little bit of fist beats gun is not going to break suspension of disbelief. Look at Feng Shui and Wushu; guns compete with Fu there perfectly fine.The systems and stories we will inevitably draw from has ameliorated these complaints.
Mayor Sun's Tip of the Day: a collapsible staff is a good tool for any aspiring martial artist.Be it for hopping rooftops, setting off a stray booby trap, or just keeping a gang of Rats at arms-length, never cross your home's doorway without one on hand!
Lets talk about how the different kinds of Zodiac signs will work.Im thinking that Rats have poor fundamentals due to being scrawny little street urchins, but really powerful underhanded special moves to balance it out. Rats also stick together like glue so its easy for a Rat PC to call up help.
>>20199520We need to get ready for new thread time... But this is where I would like to go with it next.And I'm not dealing with that highschool kungfu drama shite. We'll do it on our own.
>>20199382>implying I wasn't raised by a gun-golem at the edge of the Bullet Sea>Gun-Dad taking me by the hand to the wharf, the stares of onlookers making me feel self-conscious and ashamed for my father>I look into his face and he smiles - as near as a man can smile when his face is made of guns - at me. >"Son, you must learn to look beyond the people who will stare and point. They do you a favor by showing you their base hearts, so that you can spend time with the truly kind and virtuous.">he buys me cotton candy and lets me ride on his shoulders back home. I looked back and watch the sun set over the bullet sea, thankful to be the son of such a great Gun-manDo you even learn spiritual beauty and the deeper truths of the universe at the knee of a magical man?
>>20199535>>20199520Well are we doing a scratch-built system or not? I couldn't advise using LotW enough for this, /tg/ is crap at scratch-building complex systems and LotW can be customized to cater to anything brought up so far. It's pretty much the best martial arts RPG ever made.
>>20199553>highschool kungfu drama shiteAlso please tell me this wasn't a reference to Wulin, holy christ.
>>20199562No, it was a reference to OP's attempted 'new thread' that started when we were 150 posts into this but HE WANTS TO STAT HIS SHITTY ZODIAC HIGHSCHOOL KUNGFU ROMANCE GAME!!!Don't have a copy of lotw, so I would be about useless for anything but what I have been doing here. Which is creating a lot of this shit.
>>20199609Oh, right. Someone in this thread linked to Nihao Honey, which is a LotW playthrough with the setting changed to the trope of martial arts high school. So I thought maybe you had followed that and reacted badly.Here's a list of the external styles in Wulin. Some of them could just be reskinned - I think Ravenous Wings would be suitable for Rat, and Bone-Fed Wolf Fang as a government police style.And yeah we need a new thread.
>>20199664>>20199700New thread. Jump ship those with tumescen/tg/enitals over this setting.
>>20199544Is this you?
Yah, I'm Capra, what's it to ya? The other Zodiacs like to pretend we ALL caught it when the Old Goat brought the Sun down on him, but they know damn well nothing stays dead for long in the Cosmos. Those that could get away, did. They went deep underground. Damn near killed those goats. Y'see, Capras like to be on high, look down at things. We hid, we rebuilt, in the shit and muck.We pop out everyone once in awhile, to get what we can't get from below, and to fuck with the Inner circle bastards.The other Zodiacs, they don't know what Hell is. Doesn't make me any less happy to take their money and be messenger. Any Capra worth his salt longs to be up, running along the top of buildings. We're always the surest feet and around, and whatever you want delivered, I know a few goats what can get it there with some sure feet....
