The Spirits of Vengeance (Faction)

[Arthur Morgan]

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.”​

✦ What is this?

The “Spirits of Vengeance” is a Player Character (PC) Faction founded by Arthur Morgan and Ezrihel von Althaus. Otherwise known as the C.I.A. of the Afterlife, Heaven's Black Ops, and The Clenched Fist of God, this faction is designed to facilitate the pursuit and take-down of the Unmade, PC bounties, and monstrous individuals. It is overall meant to provide motivation for player characters and a living network of alliances, which characters can join either for undisclosed motives or out of sheer virtue.​

✦ Alignment:

Lawful/Chaotic Neutral. This faction is comprised of characters focused on punishing evildoers without mercy, but also sparing and protecting the innocent. Most Evil-aligned characters will not be welcome, and particularly loose cannons may find themselves on thin ice.​

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Notice the use of the term “evildoers.” This means that not every character who earns a bounty will register on the faction’s radar. If you are killing and harming innocent civilians, the faction will hunt you. If you’re a thief and steal a loaf of bread to feed your family, you are not an evildoer. If you are being persecuted by the guards of a settlement and kill out of self defense, you are not an evildoer. If you enter a widely-broadcasted battle royale like Dante’s Abyss and are really mean about killing people, you are not necessarily an evildoer.​

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From the IC Rules of Conduct — “Be aware that massacring a settlement or doing big, noticeable antagonistic things will likely give you a bounty, which is the equivalent to you giving consent to participating in the potential PvP that bounty may incur. Understand that if you want to be a big bad guy that ruins things and gets bounties, you might be facing down with other characters.”​

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If your character doesn’t have a bounty listed on the Bounty Board, it is not likely that we will pursue you, simply because our characters will not know about you. Instead, we will focus on other sources of corruption in the Crossroads— chief among them being Darkseid’s forces.​

✦ Planet of Operations:

This faction is littered all across the Crossroads. It has no central location or base and relies on an imprecise network of communication between all members.​

✦ Mission Statement:

The Spirits of Vengeance believe in loyalty above all things. Loyalty to yourself, loyalty to your friends and family, and loyalty to the faction’s main purpose. Consider it a loose conglomeration of bounty hunters and vigilantes committed to the preservation of life and “righteousness” in the Crossroads. If a member of the faction ever compromises that purpose, it is up to the other faction members to neutralize them.​

✦ Faction Management Style:

We will operate as a democracy/group of writing buddies OOC, with a Discord for off-site communications. There will likely be much voting on certain things, if we gain enough members. IC the faction is a guild. Player characters are expected to police themselves and follow a simple code: punish killers and wrongdoers, protect the innocent.​

✦ Faction Roles:

The faction is organized into six roles. These roles follow animal symbolism and represent your character’s primary motivation for joining the faction. Although mostly for flavor, these six roles are divided into two groups— those with Low Honor, and those with High Honor. Your character may belong to only two roles at once.​

✤ High Honor:

• Stag - The Stag symbolizes nobility and loyalty above all other things. Your character is an overall protector with a strong moral code that they will never abandon.
• Wolf - The Wolf prioritizes family above all things and embodies the feral nature of the wilderness. Your character may be violent and vicious toward outsiders, perhaps even a loner, but they covet their friendships and bonds fiercely.
• Eagle - The Eagle prioritizes the preservation of freedom for all living things. Your character values the creativity and strength of the immortal soul, viewing wanton destruction as the ultimate disgrace.

✤ Low Honor:

• Coyote - The Coyote symbolizes selfishness and a degree of luck. Your character is motivated by greed or self-preservation, but their trickster nature does not veer into heinous or overly criminal acts.
• Raven - The Raven symbolizes an obsession with fate and the miseries of war. Your character is consumed by grief or some other personal tragedy, and will stop at nothing to prevent others from suffering the same fate.
• Vulture - The Vulture symbolizes misfortune and death. Your character is particularly vicious about putting down evildoers, enough to be… concerning.

✦ How do I join?

Reply to this thread or PM me via Discord or on the site to indicate your interest. We’ll arrange a meeting IC somehow.

You may also complete the quest below for an online interview, just be sure to initiate it from the Community/World Quests page in Crossroads Discussion.​

FACTION JOIN QUEST

The Interview

Quest Giver: talentrecruitment@vengefulspirits.org ( NPC @Ezrihel )
Quest Length: 1,000-2,500 words
Quest Location: Communications Boards
Quest Prerequisites: Receive Invite to Interview
Quest Reward: Standard + Admission into The Spirits of Vengeance
Repeatability: Not repeatable upon success​

Upon clicking the link you are taken to a webpage in a new window. The interface of the website is sleek and sophisticated, the UI stripped down to an elegant minimalist style in white and blue. In the midst of the blank white page sits a large black box that asks for permission to access your camera and microphone to record audio and video. When your scheduled interview begins you will be greeted by your recruitment officer, a fair skinned woman with neatly tied back black hair, and dark brown eyes. Her nametag reads 'MENG' in full capitals and she is in a burgundy red formal military suit known as a Dress Red uniform, with several ribbons and metals decorating the left breast of her jacket.​

Objectives:
- Answer all of the Recruitment Officer's questions sufficiently

✦ Can I join this faction if I’m already in another?

Yes! So long as your other faction’s mission doesn’t conflict with ours, you’re free to join us.​

BOOKKEEPING
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✦ Influence:
N/A

✦ Affiliated Factions:
N/A

✦ Current Members:
✤ Arthur Morgan (Founder) {All}
✤ Ezrihel von Althaus (Founder) {Eagle | Raven}
✤ Kopaka Mata (Member) {Stag | Vulture}
✤ Dr. McNinja (Member) {Coyote}
✤ Amalia Eckern (Recruit) {Raven}
✤ Laura Kinney (Recruit) {Wolf | Vulture}
✤ Samus Aran (Recruit) {Eagle | Raven}
✤ Isabelle Zulenka (Recruit) {N/A}
✤ Mickey Mouse (Ally) {N/A}
✤ Roy Mustang (Ally) {N/A}
✤ Peter Pellbrook (NPC Member)
✤ Din Djarin (NPC Member)

✦ Useful Links for Members:
✤ Fame & Infamy (the Influence System)
✤ The Bounty Board
✤ Challenges & Death

✦ Notable Threads:
✤ [Unmaking] The Nausicaa Incident - Foundation of the Faction

Please reply to this thread if you have any questions or if you are interested in joining. Don’t hesitate to PM me on the site or via Discord if you’d prefer that, instead.

Faction emblem commissioned from ssyyuu.​

 

[Dr. McNinja]

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

[Arno Timber]

Welllll hell. The skills of a game hunter translate to bounty hunting pretty easily, right?

Right?

 

[Kopaka]

Kopaka is already in this faction.

 

[Roy Mustang]

This certainly aligns with Mustang's goals, though I don't know if I can promise that Markov's goals would always be in agreement with these. How tightly is this faction connected? Are we talking more "secret society" or "public force"?

 

[Arthur Morgan]

This certainly aligns with Mustang's goals, though I don't know if I can promise that Markov's goals would always be in agreement with these. How tightly is this faction connected? Are we talking more "secret society" or "public force"?

I don’t imagine we’re gonna be publicly announcing ourselves by name (except to our targets in person). We’re not super intentionally dipping into politics or trying to rub shoulders with the big names in the Crossroads as a faction, though individual members can do that if they like, if they think it’ll benefit our goals.

Ideally, we will be a pretty loosely connected group of characters willing to put down the Unmade and those like them. Our characters, upon meeting, will establish a point of contact. We will then have each other’s backs and will be similarly motivated by a desire to make the Crossroads safer for the average inhabitant, at great cost to ourselves. We’re not super public, but we won’t make any effort to conceal our goals and mission when engaging the enemy, either.

Basically, if you’re ever in trouble, I’ll be there on the double, just send for me—

 

[Roy Mustang]

Cool cool, Mustang's a bit too public a person to be openly going around with vigilante justice, but he also knows the value of having a team that can be trusted. He'd definitely be interested in joining, even if just to keep tabs on people who can be reliably called in to help when things get out of control.

 

[Amalia Eckern]

Do you have room for a spooky ghost girl? Amalia would probably be more focused on paranormal wrongdoing, but I think the raven role fits her well.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

We now have a spicy faction emblem for signatures and stuff. Rejoice?

 

[Christopher Chaos]

NPC Mando says he would like to be a part of this, please.

 

[Travis Touchdown]

Offering otaku assassin Travis Touchdown. He's more about vengeance than actually protecting people though. He has no idea what the Unmade is yet, but has faced weirder enemies so he probably wouldn't mind doing so. And especially wouldn't mind going after criminals. Perhaps his performance in the recent Death Games is what gets this faction interested in Travis Touchdown. Very hesitant about killing women though. Also willing to hunt down morally corrupt/problematic bounty hunters/assassins since he's especially experienced in killing other killers.