I am for location of match being optional.
I am for Host setting the type of match in their preferences list, either IC or OOC, with host and participant working out the details.
I am for hosts making a preference list.
I am for preference lists not being able to negate the main bijuu rules.
TO avoid indefinite loophole hunts: I propose...
The Host shall:
- RP a clues portion of the hunt providing GM services to facilitate the hunter in working to identify them if unknown.
- a second portion of the clues RP shall then be centered around finding the host. This step may be omitted if the identity of host has been previously identified by hunter, or waved by host.
- The host and hunter shall then face off and host shall cease serving as the GM facilitator and enter match mode. Terms of the match mode will have been determined during pre-hunt negotiations.
These are put into place with the understanding that as a host, you will defend your beast from challengers. This is to provide opportunity for RP to the host and to the hunter. Not to be used to avoid defending your beast or serving as the Jinchuuriki were originally intended: That of a challenge-able bijuu holder. where facing off with opponents establishes one as champion or defeated. Character death is to be part of the pre-hunt negotiations and optional, not a demand that one must agree to.
Personally, I feel the whole challenge thing for bijuu is not very canon. I view bijuu as being a village resource and I am not going to just let people challenge for my village weapons of defense. So keeping their identity secret seems like the thing to do. But I do acknowledge that is not how they function here. It is not very possible to keep the identity secret for they hold the position for life. a village could kill off hosts that were 'outted', as it were, and change up for new ones, but then again not a very efficient use of resources.
The way it is here just doesn't make good rp sense. A bijuu is supposed to be a challengable item. So the host is going to have to RP it so that eventually the hunter makes it to the match. Otherwise, choosing the IC hunt just becomes a means to avoid fulfilling your obligations as a host. In a sense, an rp hunt is just providing a bit of busy work through rp until the match phase is reached.
Should the hunt rp have a limit? Within a certain number of weeks the hunt needs to be completed or nearly done so that the match can begin?
Should the RPs be closed so that some third party does not jump in and ruin the match for either the host or the challenger?
Should RP hunter lists be inherited in the event of host defeat? I would say yes, you are challenging for the beast, not the host...
I would prefer it if everyone went through the IC routine to provide RP about the site. But that is just me. Keeping a list of who is engaged in these hunt rps would then make more sense as we would be making dates to rp with each other for a specific purpose.
IT would also demonstrate a bit more of the elite RP status that one assumes that goes along with being a host in more than a 'fight fight I got power' kind of way, but in having to GM and be interesting and hold the attention of your challenger. And then at the match phase, kicking them to the curb and rising victorious!!!!
RAWL!!