"Five years ago, a piece of legislation was passed in this city banning music. Composing music, playing music, recording music and even listening to music was prohibited. Radio stations and music and instrumental stores were shut down; records, cds, music dvds and books were removed from shelves." --Plot Summary

[Around the entire city it is pretty easy to notice that there are fliers bearing very blasphemous anti-government, anti-ban slogans. The fliers have popped up everywhere, gaining the widespread attention of not only those rebellious few who feel like something should be done about this ridiculous law, but the attention of several government officials and the media worldwide have latched on to the story of the war between the government and those who fight for their right to sing when and where they please.]

At this point in time, several protests, several marches, and a masquerade have already taken place. You may still find those logs in rizumikaru_logs.

There are, of course, many things that will be happening that anybody can participate in without having to be a part of the rebellion. Those simply looking to break the law can get in on it... assuming they abide by the group's rules.

Updated 01/19/09!( RY: The Musical! )

So you've seen all the information and some of the ideas we've pulled together so far. Surely you're either interested in joining or you have a ton of questions.

To join, all you need to do is comment to this post with the information that it asks for.

If you have questions about any of this, or just a great idea you'd like to see, please email us at ryrebellion@gmail.com or leave a comment here!

If your character is affiliated with the government or the police through employment, we ask that you fill out this form with the character's information and comment with it below.

*IMPORTANT EDIT* You guys, please don't write me novels about your character(s)' information. Just list it all. Having to shorten it down is wasted time on my part.

Name: Journal: Job: (something as vague as "toward the top" is fine, but specific is better.) Ban affiliation:

( Government Officials and Employees )

( Police Officers and Employees )

Please comment to all appropriate posts.

If your character is affiliated with any mafia family through employment, birth, or willing association, or is associated with a mercenary group such as Bregan D'aerthe, we ask that you fill out this form with the character's information and comment with it below.

Please make sure you have spoken to the head of the mafia families before simply joining into their groups. Doing otherwise would be sort of like god-modding and saying that you were accepted by the character in charge even though you weren't.

*IMPORTANT EDIT* You guys, please don't write me novels about your character(s)' information. Just list it all. Having to shorten it down is wasted time on my part.

Name: Journal: Mafia Family/Organization: (Shinra, Fon Fabre, something else) Rank or job: (hitman, assistant to the family head, information gatherer, etc.)

( Mafia )

( Other Organizations )

Please comment to all appropriate posts.

If your character is an active member of the rebellion, we ask that you fill out this form with the character's information and comment with it below.

*IMPORTANT EDIT* You guys, please don't write me novels about your character(s)' skills. Just list them. Having to shorten it down is wasted time on my part.

Name: Journal: Rebel activities: What has your character done so far?(protests, masquerade, blowing shit up...) Special Skills: Skills that could help the rebellion (can make bombs, fight, possess a radio station, hacker, etc.)

( Members of the Rebellion )

Please comment to all appropriate posts.

If your character is in a band or plays an instrument and is willing to be in a band, but is not on the list, please fill out the correct form and comment with it below.

For bands, please fill out this form:
<b>Band name:</b> Your band's name. <b>Style:</b> The style of music the band plays. <b>Members:</b> Members of the band and the instruments they play. <b>Looking?:</b> Whether your band is looking for new players or not, and if so what instrument?

For musicians, please fill out this form:
<b>Name:</b> Your character's name. <b>Journal:</b> Your character's journal. <b>Instruments:</b> The instruments they play. <b>Style:</b> The style of music they play.

( BANDS )

( MUSICIANS )

Please comment to all appropriate posts.

The rebellion needs secretive places (preferably with a large back room for rent) to hold rallies and other events. We'd like to obtain a list of places willing to act as venues for the rebellion. If you are interested, please copy the text in the box below into your comment.

<small><b>Club/Bar Name:</b></small> The name of your place <small><b>Club or Bar:</b></small> Is it a club or a bar? <small><b>Amenities:</b></small> Tell us what features your place has that makes it good for this sort of secret meeting. <small><b>Owner:</b></small> What character owns this? <small><b>Owner's LJ:</b></small> Their LJ <small><b>Best Way to Contact You:</small> We'll want to discuss this with you. Tell us how and when. (IM, email, etc.)

If you have any questions you may comment here, email us at ryrebellion@gmail.com.

All new posts are under this one.

[This is a post on one of many forums run by the rebellion. Users of the forum may remain anonymous and it is guaranteed that your IP address will not be tracable. This post is viewable to all and anyone may reply to it.]

Poster-ourtimeisnow
Time-11.52 am

The way citizens of this city are being treated is disgusting! Whether they knew of the music below them or not, why should it matter? Music is not a sin, nor a crime which we should be punished for!

For too long have we remained silent! The rebellion must act once more! We must stand up and fight for our rights!

On March 14th, gather at Central Park. Bring music, speakers, food and drink for a sit-down peaceful protest! We shall not be moved by the law!

If you have not yet commented for your characters to the appropriate list, we encourage you to do so. This will, according to the hypothesis we have developed, make it easier to find and plot with characters/muns of the appropriate side of the conflict.

All you have to do is fill out a very short form and comment with it to the right post. Please comment to all of the posts appropriate for your character.

*IMPORTANT EDIT* I do not need short-story length responses to the forms. Please list your responses as BRIEFLY as you can. It is a pain to me when I have to go through and shorten your responses.

+Government or police, CLICK HERE.

+Mafia, freelance assassins/mercenaries, and mercenary groups, CLICK HERE.

+Rebellion members, CLICK HERE.

+Bands and Musicians, CLICK HERE.

Edit: PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WE ARE NOT OPEN UNTIL YOU SEE A POST STATING OTHERWISE. DO NOT POST LOGS OR IN YOUR CHARACTER JOURNALS UNTIL THAT TIME, BUT DO COMMENT TO THE MOD AND REBELLION JOURNALS WITH THE INFORMATION WE HAVE ASKED YOU FOR.


In the rebellion journal, we'll now be keeping lists of who is on which side of the rebellion. It's pretty important that you reply to all of the appropriate posts I'm about to link to with your character(s)' information!

If your character(s) is a police or government official, go here.

Edit: If your character is in or works for a mafia family OR another organization such as a mercenary group (like Bregan D'aerthe), or an intelligence-gathering group (non-gov't or rebellion), go here.

If your character is a member of the rebellion, go here.

In doing this, it should be easier for players to find other characters in the same organizations and to plot to your hearts' content. Feel free to use the comment threads in any of those entries to plot

Also, please READ THE MODS LATEST ENTRY. It's vital that you let us know if you're staying or not, or you'll get the boot.

I'm going to be going and deleting and rearranging and changing a LOT of the content in this journal over the weekend, so if anybody wanted to save the links to their masks for some reason, or their codename for whatever reason, you might want to do it before tomorrow when I sit down and start working on the content portion of this journal.


Also. If you are in a mafia family, or the head of a mafia family, I need the family/group name, the members, and their ranks as best you have them figured out.

If you are in the gov't, I need to know the rank and ban stance.

I need journal names as well for all characters. Mun journals are not necessary. Thank you.

Edit: Okay. I've got a good starting count of what I need to work on the next section of the journal, so I'm going to freeze comments now while I work out a form and the format for the posts for the musicians, the government, the mafia, and those rebel scum. =D Be patient, and I hope to have this all up by Monday.

ooc: I will open the log up about a week prior to Christmas. Drop your questions in a comment, or feel free to IM.

Steph's brought it my attention that some people think things are going really slow. I want to apologize for that, and give a bit of an explanation and what future plans will be.

The reason things haven't been going on is because a lot of things have happened in the last month. First Dayton got hit with winds from Hurricane Ike and we had No. Power. After that, the laptop died. Now I've got a ton of reports to do for school and we're moving this weekend, so here's what's happening.

The next thing we'll do will be the masquerade. As of now, it is undecided whether or not it will be an AIM event or a LJ event. What do need to decide though, is when it will take place:

Poll #1289926
This poll is closed.
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: Friends, participants: 17

When shall we have the masquerade?

One vote per player please, not per character. Voting is set to "Friends Only." Please put in your two cents, and a further decision will be made in a couple weeks, once finals are done with here.

REMINDER

Today is the day of the protest. It has already happened. If your character was supposed to be arrested, then right now, they are in jail. If you've already posted for them today, it will have to have taken place before the protest because the holding cells? They don't have internet access.

Just FYI.

Tomorrow we'll RP it, with the same times mentioned before.

We'll do it over AIM on Sunday. Chat opens at 3pm EST, we plan to start by 4pm. If you're in Scotland, this is between 8-9pm for you. In California, it's 12-1pm. That covers most of our major timezones, but if you're not sure when that is for your location, try The Time Zone Converter.

If you need a codename, please see this entry. If you have sent an email and have not heard back, it will be taken care of tonight or tomorrow.

Any questions, comment here. I'm a bit too busy right now to be mobbed via AIM.

We want to thank everybody who made it to the rally and remind you that it's okay to say your character was there even if you were not. I called a halt at 2am. I'm sure the party kept going on after we all stopped playing.

If you didn't make it to the rally, no worries. There's a protest coming up in a couple of weeks. We have not yet decided how we're going to do it yet. Further updates will be forthcoming.

Sorry we couldn't get everybody in--it's impossible to find a night everybody is available with this many people involved. If you're upset about it there's nothing we can say except the following:

1.) Read ALL the information before jumping to conclusions about a date.

2.) When we ask what dates/times people are available to work on a log, give us your input.

Didn't do those two things? We're not listening to you complain.

We look forward to doing the protest with you guys! Once again, thank you for your participation. Rufus and Naoji are thrilled!