[Animayhem]

The mysterious allies have been mentioned quite frequently, however what about characters whom the friends who have lost interest in, the ones who end up in the fugue plane?

Granted the ones who can mark people are limited, however is their no risk associated in doing so?

Perhaps the marking PC receives much more severe assassination attempts(tougher baddies and more frequent attacks, including while with other PCs too, perhaps?), as those with an interest in the marked player's survival seek to ruin the influence of those who would see the marked player dead.

This is quite reasonable and fair as the marked player would more than likely be not in a positon soically or financially to find out who has marked them.

[Sundraoi]

it requires three simultaneous marks to properly mark a PC and that we can trust players not to abuse it,

The marks are cumulative... they do not have to be given simultaneously, Gith.

I disagree with the temporary mark or more assassination attempts on the marking PC. I may be totally off the mark, but I see marking a person more along the lines of reporting them to higher authorities since you have to give valid reasons for marking the PC in the first place. If someone makes a report about a PC (marks them) how, exactly, is the marked PC going to know who reported them? It just seems to be counterproductive in my mind since the marking system is in place to "help enforce a bit of restraint on new(er) PCs (or players) that expect they can ignore the established order/Red Wizards/PCs" to punish the PC placing the mark on another.

[Animayhem]

I disagree with the temporary mark or more assassination attempts on the marking PC. I may be totally off the mark, but I see marking a person more along the lines of reporting them to higher authorities since you have to give valid reasons for marking the PC in the first place. If someone makes a report about a PC (marks them) how, exactly, is the marked PC going to know who reported them? It just seems to be counterproductive in my mind since the marking system is in place to "help enforce a bit of restraint on new(er) PCs (or players) that expect they can ignore the established order/Red Wizards/PCs" to punish the PC placing the mark on another.

If I read correctly, if you are of the approriate ranks you can do it yourself without reporting to any authority. Maybe a clarification of what ranks outside of the red wizards can do this.

Legion- what ranks
Temple- what ranks

If a non-ranking person has a good rp reason for marking another, whom would they go to or can they?

[Sundraoi]

The server logs get a message and I will be posting each entry every time it is used to the staff forums.

As Thayan already mentioned, it is reported to the DM and staff. That is what I was referring to when I said "higher authorities". You have to have a valid RP reason to mark a person... and "I just don't like them" won't cut it.

[Balanor]

If I read correctly, if you are of the approriate ranks you can do it yourself without reporting to any authority. Maybe a clarification of what ranks outside of the red wizards can do this.

Legion- what ranks
Temple- what ranks

If a non-ranking person has a good rp reason for marking another, whom would they go to or can they?

The answer is "Only PCs with enough notoriety to have attained the top two faction ranks or higher will have the ability to mark other PCs for death".
To use this ability you can be a member of ANY faction or NO faction. However, you need notoriety the equivilent of that needed to attain the 2 highest ranks of any faction. I simply choose to use faction ranks in the statement above as a unit of measure to give everyone the idea of how much notoriety is needed to use the ability.

If you try typing !death in a Tell to someone, you will immediately get told if you don't have the notoriety required and the process ends there. But if you do have enough notoriety, at that point you will then receive a message that asks you to type in DEATH, following by the IC reason your PC is placing a death mark on another PC. If you do not start out the next sentence with the word DEATH, the process is aborted and no death mark is placed (and you receive a message telling you this). Otherwise, if you do type DEATH followed by the reason for the death mark, DMs online, as well as the server log, both receive notification of the event that has the exact text typed in as the reason for the death mark being placed.

So regardless of whether you are in a faction or not, when you type DEATH and the reason, you are always reporting the act of placing a death mark on a PC to the 'authorities'. I.E. - it is 'reported' ICly to the mysterious allies and OOCly to the server staff who review it to ensure the ability is not being abused.

[Animayhem]

If I read correctly, if you are of the approriate ranks you can do it yourself without reporting to any authority. Maybe a clarification of what ranks outside of the red wizards can do this.

Legion- what ranks
Temple- what ranks

If a non-ranking person has a good rp reason for marking another, whom would they go to or can they?

The answer is "Only PCs with enough notoriety to have attained the top two faction ranks or higher will have the ability to mark other PCs for death".
To use this ability you can be a member of ANY faction or NO faction. However, you need notoriety the equivilent of that needed to attain the 2 highest ranks of any faction. I simply choose to use faction ranks in the statement above as a unit of measure to give everyone the idea of how much notoriety is needed to use the ability.

If you try typing !death in a Tell to someone, you will immediately get told if you don't have the notoriety required and the process ends there. But if you do have enough notoriety, at that point you will then receive a message that asks you to type in DEATH, following by the IC reason your PC is placing a death mark on another PC. If you do not start out the next sentence with the word DEATH, the process is aborted and no death mark is placed (and you receive a message telling you this). Otherwise, if you do type DEATH followed by the reason for the death mark, DMs online, as well as the server log, both receive notification of the event that has the exact text typed in as the reason for the death mark being placed.

So regardless of whether you are in a faction or not, when you type DEATH and the reason, you are always reporting the act of placing a death mark on a PC to the 'authorities'. I.E. - it is 'reported' ICly to the mysterious allies and OOCly to the server staff who review it to ensure the ability is not being abused.

Ok Thanx for the clarification!