Should they be stolen...then it would still be an SSM sword, only in the hands of an antagonist that an SSM member would be duty bound to engage in rp for the purpose of retrieval and possible slaying. WHOOOT!
omg....there is a storyline for you.
Let me start by drawing attention here. When has this ever happened? When has this
ever happened?
The only time I can think of a Kiri nin making any effort to retrieve a sword IC was when I went to Kusa as Rakudo to retrieve Kiba and extradite Kaito after he did his best to start a war over I don't even remember any more.
Remember when I killed Isaribi and stole Samehada? (Which I was only able to do because he challenged me for the 6 tails and the fight was IC) Remember how I had it for like 2 years? And do you remember the 0 Kiri nin that attempted to retrieve it even though they all knew IC I had it because Ranketsu sold it to me over Isaribi's still warm fishy corpse? They always said they were totally about to come get it back but that never materialized. I remember all those things.
I'll save someones time and give the obvious response to that which is,"Yeah because no one wants to rp with you Bocch." To which I say, fair. So what if, hypothetically speaking the swords were stolen by someone Kiri did not summarily hate? What if they were stolen by a Kiri nin, who was a SSM member, and who also stole every sword Kiri had from her husband (who was 1st seat at the time) and made off with them? They definitely wouldn't just completely void the whole thing and continue claiming their swords? Right? Surely you can't be serious...
Yeah.
You know as well as I do Kay that you're a friend of Kiri right up until you're not, and at that point you're as good as voided.
The thing is nothing you're saying is wrong, but it is assuming Kiri uses the swords to promote rp and not to just hoard as the dragon hoards it's gold. I don't ever see that occurring.
You say just rp it but the thing is Kiri has no accountability, from any avenue of rp, to give you a shot. If you make a Kiri nin and attempt to join the swordsmen they can deny you for any reason. One person I was talking to attempted to join and was denied because his characters face claim was Vergil from Devil May Cry and he had some abilities based on that, so he was denied for not being original enough.
You wanna attack the village or sneak in and try to steal a sword? Good luck. The second you begin your approach to Kiri you will start with people taking issue with your entrance post for one reason or another and it will get worse from there.
When I was Rakudo Kiri loved me because I was kicking ass and taking names (and bijuu) for the village. I was a member (3rd or 4th seat I think, which ever is the lowest one that allows you a "command" position) of the SSM. I had two blades! I wanna say Kubikiribocho or Samehada and then later Kiba.
But once it we revealed I was Bocchiere they all flipped on a dime. (Well all the ones who are wont to do that anyway) When I was challenging Jolt for the 5 tails I asked Kotetsu, who was still 1st seat at this time to loan me the Kiba blades, the swords with complete power over lightning, so I could trivialize a man whose entire fighting style was based around lightning. He said, "No I'm leader all the swords belong to me you can't have it." I was an SSM member at the time and as you'll recall from the recent debacle Kiri claims that all the swords belong to all of the SSM members. Which I'm sure is true. Right up until they decide they don't want that anymore.
Isaribi actually wanted to arrest Rakudo, IC, for the fact that I was Bocchiere. There was not even a semblance of an IC reason so I just said go ahead and try.
The point of this is that Kiri has shown time and again that they will completely shut you down for any little reason. Time and again they show that they'd rather void people and ignore than do any sort of rp. So no one has any reason to believe an rp to take a sword would ever be a success, not because it is hard to steal a blade from a legendary swordsmen, but because there is no reason to think you would not just be voided as soon as your intentions are made clear.
That is why I honestly like Bec's idea the best. If the user goes inactive throw the item (whatever item that may be) into an rp and let someone grab it. If it is a Kiri blade than Kiri should certainly have reason to join that rp and make an attempt to retrieve it, if they care about their blades as much as they say they do then that should not be an issue for them.
That is a good idea to me. Having massive lists of inheritance the item goes down for friends and acquaintances and your local butcher to make sure it never really gets out of the inactive person's hands is not.
Let's actually make this about rp like we all say we want to. As a show of good faith from everyone in the community I think a great start would be to have such an item rp about the up in the air Kiri items, don't you?