<p>Sure. Feel free to post next if you want; I imagine Auryx would have an important, if not valued part of the Coven. While most of them despise Hollows, they wouldn't be able to ignore his ability to procure rare objects of power for the Coven. Being the master thief that he is, he's likely the reason why they've got such an extensive collection of powerful items. </p>

<p>Playing off of Void's comment on Shonen's blog, I wanted to make a couple suggestions for how we proceed. </p><p>The first thing is, Void's biggest point was that the Coven is frightening and powerful. Unbelievably so. And when it comes down to it, they're a united force. No matter what individuals are out there; Hiroya, Seireitou, Sakaala, et cetera. None of those individuals stand a chance against the united force of the Coven. Less so, the Gotei 13 doesn't stand the slightest chance even when together. So what does the Coven have to fear? Why need they be in hiding? And that's when I started to see a distinct parallel between them and the Saviors from TWD. </p><p>Now, if you know me, you know I like to bring up TWD a lot. And Negan too, since he's my favorite character hands-down. But what is important to see here is that the Saviors and the Coven are extremely similar. For one, they are a frightening force. They outnumber any of the individual communities in TWD, enough to force them to become subservient to their will. The Coven is the same way. They are superior when it comes to matching them up against any individual group or person. Similarly, in the comics, the Saviors and Negan were only bested when the communities came together to oppose his rule. </p><p>Another way they are similar is in their mission statement. Negan put it best. "We survive. We provide security. We bring civilization back to this world. We are the Saviors." In a way, the Coven also sees what they are doing as a holy call. They have tasked themselves with recreating the world in a way that it should be; where magic and those who master the craft of sorcery are at the center of everything. While the Masked Man and Negan are not very similar in terms of characterization, the way they rule and the goal they have is very similar in principle. They both see themselves as doing something right, something that NEEDS to be done. </p><p>Why am I making these parallels? Well, because we can draw inspiration from how the Saviors operate in TWD so decide how to have the Coven act. For instance, in the comics, Rick's group has a couple skirmishes with the Saviors, before his group was ambushed by Negan and hundreds of his men. Those who watch the show version of TWD know exactly how terrifying this scene was. This is usually how Negan does things. He forces communities to do as he wants by throwing his weight around, and even goes as far as to kill one of their group members in order to "make them understand right off the bat". </p><p>The Coven is far too powerful to be making idle threats. Now that the Gotei 13 has intentionally interfered with the Coven, as the result of the last RP, it shows that the Coven needs to make the Gotei 13 understand "right off the bat" how things are and how they will be. That they are no longer the dominant force. And that's what we need to do next. How exactly we do this, well, there's a number of ways, and I'd like to hear what everybody else thinks about this before we discuss it further. And also what ideas you'd have for how the Coven would go about this. An ambush of their own? A full-scale invasion of the Seireitei? Turning the 1st and 2nd Districts from every direction of Rukongai into zombies and perhaps teleporting them inside the Seireitei. Force them to scatter, and then Mages or Sorcerers, perhaps task groups, ambush individual Captains that have scattered about wildly to handle the threat. There's a lot of ways to handle this, and many ways to really establish the Coven as a true threat. </p>

<p>I was chatting with Njalm on facebook and provided some ideas on the overarching goals of the Coven. With any luck he'll have a blog about before the day is up, and that would be a better place to discuss ideas, I think. </p>

<p>Ah excellent, I'll await that blog then </p>

<p>What the hell is TWD.* </p><p>For those options, I think it would be interesting to combine them, actually. They can invade the Soul Society, maybe one mage turns a certain part of a district into zombies, maybe another one sets those pesky Nest of Maggots guys loose (heh heh heh, *cough*), another guy bombs Central 46 or something, etc. That way the captains can be split up. Not sure if we want that or not though, but individual RP battles might go more smoothly than a huge Battle Royale. Plus then it would stress the importance of actually working together for once to the Shinigami. </p> <div>*OH, you mean the WALKING DEAD. THANKS FOR LETTING US KNOW. <p>THE WALKING FREAKING DEAD. </p> ... Guess die-hard fans will be die-hard fans.</div>

<p>That sounds like a plan, I like it. The invasion, that is. </p>

Sooo just to reiterate is it fine if I post on the World Beyond story with my character? This is after all the thoughtful discussion or should I wait on that?

<p>Let Arata speak first, I think, so that Auryx doesn't interrupt the conversation suddenly. </p>

<p>Okay so... My PLAN is to try and work on my mage, and if I get his powers/abilities to a workable level then maybe I can introduce him here as well. Maybe. I'm a bit strapped for time courtesy of finals but, you know. I need a brain-break every now and then so maybe I can get it down in bits and pieces. If that's alright with you guys (namely N). </p>

<p>Alright, operation Kukanten'I has begun in full. I believe this is a good time for the Shinigami RP to be created. </p>