*Royal Grey* EU Timezone supergroup recruiting.

Hi there, I thought it was finally time to branch out and see if there were any other EU players on this server seeking a home.

Royal Grey is a small supergroup seeking to expand its numbers and hopefully grow a community. Currently the supergroup is run by myself and my boyfriend, and while we are not exactly super RPers, we do like to create realistic concepts and genuine characters. We are looking to open our doors and meet other people on this server.

A small bit of info about Royal Grey's concept. It is a corperation, founded by the British Government whose aims are to track down people with dangerous mutant powers, before they can be used against innocents. While Royal Grey does sometimes have questionable goals, it is in essence a "good" and heroic corporation. All members are considered agents, who must hide their company affiliations and keep our work secret by having credible day jobs, which can be used as cover.

Our SG colours are of course, grey and gold. Our company logo is her majesty's crown. All Royal Grey agents are expected to have atleast one costume dedicated to the uniform, which can be your regular costume but coloured a mixture of grey/gold/black.

Anyway if you are interested contact me ingame, I am usually online as Peacemoon in the evenings, GMT timezone.

Afraid at the moment we have no rogue isle branch, only blueside

Okay, so, first off hi!

I'm a GMT-zone player myself, and have some alts without homes but... can I be brutally honest? In my opinion (And JUST my opinion, which you are entirely free to disregard or not to any degree) this sounds a little... stereotypical? In that, anything British outside of Britain somehow has to have some nebulous, tenuous link to the royal family. Why do they have the crown as their symbol? Are they royally appointed? If not, wouldn't it make sense to have some other sort of logo, possibly incorporating British colours without the royal association?

I don't know, maybe I'm grouchy about this kind of thing because to me the old Victorian standard of the "English gentleman" is no longer applicable. To me England now is just full of money-grubbing politicians and people who think that someone wearing a different coloured football shirt is valid reason to slit their face open...

At any rates, my sincerest apologies for derailing your thread. It's late and I'm clearly not in the best of moods. Anyone who has questions or comments should probably direct them to me privately, so as to avoid clogging up Royal Grey's recruitment thread. The best of luck to your SG, Peacemoon, and please forgive my rudeness.

Well, first off, I'm sorry you took offence, and yes, in retrospect my suggestion to change SG colours was rather misguided. Especially seeing as the red white and blue of the British flag can easily be mistaken for the red white and blue of the US flag.

But let me make it clear, I wasn't trying to actively change your SG from the outside. In fact, I was very dismissive of my own opinions within my own post. I said quite clearly "feel free to disregard my opinions to any degree" so when you say "I'm surprised you think I'd even care," then I feel somehow.. perversely let down. I literally said "I have no expectations of your caring or not caring."

It was meant to be purely an outsider perspective and (hopefully) constructive criticism. Admittedly, some of it was ill-conceived. Still, no reason to bite my head off.

I must admit, its largely due to my annoyance of anything outside of Britain that immediately assumes that the crown has any power in... well, anything. Outside sources creating British organisations assume for some reason that the royal family have a hand in the day-to-day running of things like MI6, which is, of course, entirely erroneous. Its a trope I see in the popular media that makes me bristle, and unfortunately your SG had enough of the "warning markers" (for want of a better term) to make me worry.

For all I know, your SG has nothing to do with the royal family in its conception or whatever. I know, nor care, nothing about it. It's just a hollywoodism that makes me cringe and you happened to accidentally fall into the same catchment area.

So my apologies for insulting you.