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Red Flower Society
Secret societies have long existed for a number of social and political reasons. The Red Flower Society dates back to the time around the burning of the Great Temples of the South when the Churians invades the Great Civilized Land from the North. The organization teaches the finest martial arts and skills of subterfuge to its members
The Red Flower Society is a secret society that dates back to the time around the burning of the Great Temples of the South when the Churians invades the Great Civilized Land from the North, conquering the ruling dynasty and setting up their own. The Rebels consisting of ex-military and warrior monks of the Great Temples were forced to take refuse in local monasteries. There they formed the Red Flower Society. It is a secret society where members could identify themselves by wearing a red flower or by quoting random poetry that includes a red flower in it.
Secret societies have long existed for a number of social and political reasons. The Red Flower Society members pooled their wealth of knowledge and years of experience in hand to hand combat for the purpose of creating and teaching their revolutionary troops. Their goals was to be undetected by their enemies, moving as common folk. They would then strike and melt away into the crowd.
The Rebels created the first fighting system with a true understanding of tactics and timing. The Society members had two objectives 1) to create a system that could be learned quickly; secondly, it had to be extremely effective against the fighting systems known to the Churians.
The Red Flower Society specializes in Strategy and Tactic skills, analyzing styles, a variety of poses designed to take on specific options, and skills options that increase striking speed. It is all about the timing of the gates opening and closing, a feel for time/ space/ energy. To those not prepared to deal with this style, it is lethal in the extreme.
The society has been somewhat successful in opposing the Chorion dynasty and its huge military for the last hundred years. They will someday throw down the oppressors.
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Too many Martial Arts movies for you. Isn't this the origin story from Wing Chung Style (and a few other Chinese Martial Arts?). Still is is kind of cool.
My Kung-Fu is more powerful then your Kung-fu!
No one makes me bleed my own blood!
What he said! Not much by today's standards, but it is an okay summary. (Also added the Martial Arts freetext.)
Cool.
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Brings nothing new to the table. As everyone said, it has been done and has been done better.
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I am new to the site. While I agree with all the comments regarding this post's lack of originality and the lack of effort that went into the development of the idea I just want to point out how much this guy posts. He can't post as much as he does and have everything be a game tested labor of love. So I would suggest cutting the guys some slack. Not every idea can be a home run and since the web is endless what better place to toss out all your little throw away ideas.
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An interesting idea, a start of something.