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* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!" | * Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!" | ||
* Scene from Blood Rain: | |||
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon. | |||
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. | |||
nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest. | |||
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, | |||
how much would the landowner recieve?" | |||
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge. | |||
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?" | |||
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted" | |||
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Revision as of 05:26, 18 February 2007
Dragons of the Yellow Sea
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits.
General thoughts on game flavor - episodes, how characters become pivotal - Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance
- Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.
- Madeline - Japanese spy
- Bill - Okinawan pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag. Think Jack Sparow.
- Bill - Shaman
- Cyn -
- Cyn -
- Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.
- Lee - Catholic priest
- Liz -
- Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword
- Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection
- Bob -
- Bob -
Timeline of events
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. Donghak rebellion Tonghak, religious movement, equality
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent. Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. (Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion. Investigator sent to the scene.
Background
Government & official reading is in Chinese. Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. Jeju
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the Outlaws of the Marsh/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.
Dragon ecology
- Transport - buses! cargo!
- Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains
- Agriculture - flatlands
- Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal
- Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits
- Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)
Quotes:
- Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."
- Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"
- Scene from Blood Rain:
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon. A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest. If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?" Old guy: "That's quite a challenge. Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?" Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"
Sources:
- Wikipedia (list pages)
- Korea: Its History and Culture
- Art Treasures of Seoul
- Korea: An Introduction
- A Handbook of Korea
- Sensational Knitted Socks
- movie - Blood Rain
- movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior
Images
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg] [Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg] [Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]
