The Sign of the Fox

So, within the next two or three weeks, the official APB Beta announcement should be made. This said, I think it is time that the more rabid APB fans among us do the groundwork to establish our clan. This is actually less complex than it sounds. It involves 1. creating our plans about what we want to do as a group in game and 2. creating a medium by which we can gather up all the members' info.

My thoughts on #1 are that we are basically just trying to cater to our extended network of friends. My purpose for kitsune is just to have a group in which all of our friends can mingle and play and always be able to find an acquaintance who is on to group with. Of course, if we want to mesh some awesome Yakuza styled badassery into this, there is no problem. But the core purpose is for us to be able to play together and turn our set of friends into a casually structured gaming community.

For #2, I think we just need to create some type of private forum/blog/whatever where we can post our in-game and out of game contact info. Nothing big, just name and e-mail address and then whatever gamer tag or title is required in game. Again, the purpose of this is to allow us to contact one another for pre-game planning purposes, and then, once the game is actually going, myself or anyone else who wants to join in the leadership role can get everyone added into the in-game clan.

So is there anything you guys want to add into this?

In terms of the more flashy side of things, I was thinking that the colors for our clan themed items would be bold red (a la Japanese kitsune imagery) and then a mix of the standard black, grey, and white. Our signature item could be a billowing red scarf thing (kitsune statues are adorned with red scarves during festivals although theirs look more like aprons). Also, here are two forms of the word kitsune in kanji:

Sousho Artistic Cursive


Gyousho Semi-Cursive


I personally prefer the rounded swoopiness of the sousho, but there is no reason that we couldn't have multiple different versions of our clan symbols/clothes/etc. Ok, let me know what you are thinking.