SHADOWS OF KREMLIN
Roleplay on The Red Court
Out of the ashes of old, sick Imperium a new Union was born. Its creators had a vision of glorious future society, the one where inequality and exploitation will be forever abolished and men will live as brothers. It was to be first socialist society ever conceived, whose Proletariat, free from the shackles of history will work to build a new communist world. The Communist party that had abolished the tyranny of Tsars and emerged victorious from a bloody Civil War stepped up to take role of a vanguard which will lead the people of Soviet Union into the brighter future.
It was not all perfect, however. World War One and the Civil War were bloody affairs that left the country in ruins. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, celebrated comrade Lenin had died on 21 of January of 1924 after the assassination attempt and series of strokes had forced him to spend last three years administrating the divided huge country from his sickbed. His closest associates had started squabbling for power as soon as he was interred in a newly built mausoleum on Red Square.
Party is divided over the future course of the country. The new socialist state seems to be mistrusted by every one of its neighbors and its leadership is still unsure of its international position. New Economic Policy that was adopted by Lenin is slowly encouraging economic growth, but is being widely denounced by left wingers and proponents of planned economy. Meanwhile, understaffed and ill-equipped Red-Army is fighting the revolt of Basmachi militias in Central Asia.
You play as member of Politburo, delegate to Congress of Soviets, Representative elected to Central Executive Committee or any office holder in the Soviet Union. You'll be proposing laws, scheming to climb in the ranks of Nomenklatura, fight for your ideals, try to rebuild your country or work to satisfy your own ambition.
Halls of Kremlin are dark and danger lurks from every corner. People say they are capitalist spies and saboteurs everywhere, mixed in with ambitious bureaucrats, party fanatics and professional revolutionaries who had now donned the mantle of politicians. But from inside this darkness, unparalleled optimism and faith in humanity and progress still shines from time to time .
This is Shadows of Kremlin RP, where you will play as small man thrown into whirlwind of history and burdened with responsibility to built society unlike any other world had ever seen.
RULES
1. OP and CO-OP are your General Secretaries of the Party. Heed their words or go to Gulag.
2. No RL characters: just assume everyone nor dead by 10th of February 1924 had different name, picture and bio. However, characters inspired by Trotsky or Stalin would be plausible to simulate that turbulent era of Russian history better.
3. Give notice if you're gonna be absent for longer period of time
4. Try to keep one-liners to a minimum outside conversations.
5. Be nice to your comrades. No drama
6. Characters have their flaws and inner conflicts. Soviet Supermen is something that may await us in our glorious, communist future, but characters here have flaws.
7. If rule isn't clear ask for clarification.
8. If you wish to kill or send to Gulag someone's character make sure this is arranged with that person and OP.
9.-No metagaming. This takes two forms:using OOC knowledge that you have but your character could not in the IC, and attempting to "engineer" a character specifically to do something in relation to specific aspects of another character or a situation.
10. OOC goes in OOC, IC goes in IC. Simple.
11. No one sided caricatures: people of the period were man with their ethics, their flaws, their ambitions...Some were good, some were horrible, some were in for the power, some honestly believed in communism. Avoid demonizing as well as uncritical glorification.
12.Player is allowed to have up to five characters. If you decide to run more than one character, try to diversify between them and keep interaction between characters you own at bare minimum.
13. Respect rules of the NS forum.
14. HAVE FUN
OP: Free Territory of Makhnovia
CO-OP: Dentali
IC Date Range : February the 10th -February the 17th 1924
