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Some expectation of lorewise consistency.

The faction lorewise has been inconsistent with interaction, because rarely is every encounter the same. When we shot the order, BD| got pissed, and then my radical character "Katsuki Hanako" did damage control and went peaceful diplomat with her allies.

Recently an interaction popped up where the Coalition built a base in Kyushu or is building one, and the response was immediately go to war with BD| if they refused to remove the abomination, my character fell into silence, unwilling to kill her ally and fall back on pacifism to search for answers in Matsuda's text.

The faction's own lore remains consistent, but interactions change on a case by case basis, as any faction would very well know. A faction that never brings anything new to the table and remains predictable in every circumstance is a faction nobody will be interested in, just like characters without any dynamic quirks or depth of character will not be interesting to anyone.

That's not the faction being inconsistent, that is a senior member of the group attempting to clean up a mess that absolutely nobody on either side wants to deal with. Said senior member had made personal friendships with the Dragon members in question, all easily found in existing roleplay. You did a good job with her, any faction would do well with a character like her in its roster.

Compare to: "I am a former KSP officer who won't fight other KSP if I can help it." as a backstory. It's passable, and gives the character some depth, but KSP has for literal decades had a "we kill every GC who falls into our power out of hand" policy in infocards, and GC routinely has to screen out female infiltrators from the Kusari authorities in news articles. To flat-out admit to being police personnel should invite far more scrutiny than what we are seeing. Again, I am not telling people "how to RP", I am merely pointing out that with the lore given, such a character would appear sketchy to the actual literal cult that is GC. It is ultimately Meg's faction, but I fear that the newbies are in for a rude surprise down the road when they apply their flawed understanding of the canon lore (some of which Meg is actually rewriting) unless Meg puts together some sort of "GC introductory booklet" or something for them to read before they roll up their characters.

(I would have done it myself, but Meg definitely isn't sharing those new infocards she wrote with me now >.<)

EDIT: Okay, to give the tl;dr to end all tl;drs

I want the players to do well, they are newbies and do need some gentle guidance. Every official faction I partook in ever had me at the very least read a lore doc before I could even apply (Core|'s was pretty entertaining back in the day, ngl), and the faction itself is having developments in its lore that make it appear more moderate outwardly, which I believe should be reflected in its information. I admit that my expectations of "read the lore even the old infocards and news articles" seem a bit outlandish, but at the same time, MEG IS REWRITING SAID INFOCARDS, so of course members and people wanting to join should have some knowledge of what the lore is beyond "all female group of terrorists who want a matriarchy".

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