Two quick questions..

[Oahun]

First off, are the Namekian dragon balls still active? Is the information that only two have been claimed up-to-date?

Secondly... Where would I find the posts in which the balls were claimed in order to get an idea of how I should go about finding them in the not-so-near future? I couldn't find anything on the Namek board.

Also! Hello everyone. I'm really glad to be here! Thanks for having me.

[Orion]

Hi Oahun, always a pleasure to have a new member.

1) The list is active; only two dragonballs have been retrieved. They are the only set active, as only one set are active at a time. Vad is the current possessor of the two.

2) This is the storyline that Vad gained the dragonballs, and a good idea of the requirements.

If you wish to pursue them yourself, you'll need to purchase a Dragon Radar from the Shop.

[Oahun]

I should have searched more thoroughly for Vad's post.

Thanks for the help.

[Oahun]

Just one more question... back to the dragonballs.

If you wish to pursue them yourself, you'll need to purchase a Dragon Radar from the Shop.

Just read

Dragon Radar – 1,000 zeni - Other - An important work of electronics that is required to find dragon balls if you don’t have Ki Sense.

So I don't need the radar technically to find them since I have Ki Sense?

[Celena]

Yeah, if you have Ki sense, you don't need a radar.

[Oahun]

Awesome, thanks!

[Oahun]

One LAST question for this thread. Promise.

While RP'ing a personal story, is it alright to pre-define a location for a singular Dragonball if you have no intention of acquiring that dragonball in the current arc that you're writing.

I say this because I would like to include its presence as a story element. (I.E someone who wants to trust Oahun in protecting it.)

IF I were to search for the same Dragonball at a future time, I would use the location as a starting position for finding it (or perhaps stumble upon it due to tragic circumstances), but I would write it out the normal way through an actual quest to truly acquire it within the RPG. I would probably develop that storyline as my constant struggle to keep it from the hands of those who wish to acquire it (NPCs)

Is this sort of approach acceptable?

Thanks again.

[Ashe]

One LAST question for this thread. Promise.

While RP'ing a personal story, is it alright to pre-define a location for a singular Dragonball if you have no intention of acquiring that dragonball in the current arc that you're writing.

I say this because I would like to include its presence as a story element. (I.E someone who wants to trust Oahun in protecting it.)

IF I were to search for the same Dragonball at a future time, I would use the location as a starting position for finding it (or perhaps stumble upon it due to tragic circumstances), but I would write it out the normal way through an actual quest to truly acquire it within the RPG. I would probably develop that storyline as my constant struggle to keep it from the hands of those who wish to acquire it (NPCs)

Is this sort of approach acceptable?

Thanks again.

From a personal level, I think the idea is fine. From a gameplay perspective, I see possible complications. To go on a hypothetical here, there's always the chance that you "establish" that "John Locke" has dragonball number six sitting inside of his toilet. Then you go inactive, die, get around to getting the ball slower than someone else, or even just change your entire plan to not bother with it, among other things. Then someone else hunts them all and number six is the final ball he needs. Rather than be able to use his creativity and ideas to create an interesting piece of work for us to read that might fight a storyline he was already working on, he instead has to do one of three things - ignore that ball six is in a toilet and instead claim it has been in a bird's next since activation, accept that ball six is in a toilet but figure out some way to change his story to explain why he or his team go to a random village and start a plumbing business (scrapping his original plan), or change his story to explain that this ball sitting in this birds next smells like doo doo water from a toilet.

There's no hard fast rule here and people "can" just ignore that when finding it, but some people might find the inconsistency to be a real frustration to essentially have another member decide an aspect of where their own storyline should take them.

That said, I don't think there is any actual ruling preventing it - however, another staff can feel free to inform me if I'm simply overlooking something.

[Oahun]

Thanks Ashe,

I thought this might be the issue we'd run into. I don't have a problem with whatever the ruling may be, I just thought it'd be a neat thing to throw into my current RP and figured it'd be touchy to play around.

If the idea messes with some of the freedom for the rest of the community, I wouldn't want to do it anyways.

[Waffuru]

I think it would be fine.

[Oahun]

I think it would be fine.

I already went and tried something different though. >_<

For future reference then!