Arklay Trading Company
By Buffy Aura

TYPE: Business

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OVERVIEW: "Be everything you can be. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate." They came in the dead of night, with all of Arklay lost into darkness, the ship slipping through the waters silently like a shark fin. As they pulled up alongside the dock only one sleepy guard was there to see them. His shout to raise the alert cut short with a bullet to his head. The next any of the citizens of Arklay knew about it would be a few other shots ringing out in the night, perhaps a scream, nothing unusual in these dark days and nothing anyone would risk going out of their own areas to investigate.

The Arklay Trading Company would be under new management.... ************************* As a central part of Arklay, I believe the trading company needs a stronger focus. Rather than waiting for business to come to us, we will often go and take our business out to the sim, operating as traders, smugglers, and pirates and giving a more unpredictable, violent edge to the sim. We won't be above stealing from other players or getting into fights with other groups. However there will be guidelines around this to prevent players running amok; 1. Anything outside of the main town area is fair game for theft, robbery, and general mischeif. 2. Anything inside it is a potential business partner or enemy and should be traded with and treated warily. 3. Should a potential friend or business partner be encountered outside the town limits - then they are still fair game! Special events will include "sales" where we may have just gotten hold of some special goods to offload - which could be anything from bananas fresh from some caribbean island, to random things like 20 stuffed teddy bears - all of which we will try and offload for a price onto the good citizens of Arklay. Runs to gain other goods, as has been a staple of the ATC, will be held monthly as an RP event. I hope the more interesting direction will attract more players to the ATC, especially those who have been looking for edgier roleplay as they will be encouraged to play the part of pirate and smuggler and all around cut throat to the full. I also hope as it is "outsiders" taking over the ATC this will create some much needed conflict within the sim, perhaps the existing Arklay citizens taking a dim view of the newcomers, but they still need the trading company.

EXPERIENCE: I've ran groups in Crack Den for six or seven years and been heavily involved in Outbreak since its inception. My aim is to build stories that can get everyone involved and use the tools at my disposal (which will include my character and group) to help do that.