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Revision as of 17:08, 23 February 2007
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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. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's Temeraire alternate history series of novels; His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War.
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
Game system: Maybe Serenity? Maybe something else.
- Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.
- Madeline - Japanese spy
- Bill - A pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag as an older woman to . An Okinawan Jack Sparow.
- Bill - An emissary from the King, working undercover or overtly seeking to negotiate with the rebels? Or a Shaman spoil to Lee's Catholic priest.
- Cyn - A matriarch from Jeju-do.
- Cyn - A Shaman.
- 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 of cool ocean stuff as my dragon bling.
- Bob -
- Bob -
- GM: John Kim
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 of (blood rain)
- Textiles -
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"
- Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"
- "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee
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. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!
- movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior
