BZPRPG News and Discussion

24 minutes ago, Silvan Haven said:

Two down, four left.

Four more islands/locations?

FOUR MORE ARCS

FOUR MORE ARCS

TWENTY MORE YEARS

TWENTY MORE YEARS

FOUR MORE ARCS

FOUR MORE ARCS!

yay! 

*Casually checks the topic after two+ years of inactivity*

Huh... this arc has ended. Neato. Looking forward to the next one and hopefully getting some of my characters back up and running.

Will there be a summary for the finale of the arc posted at somepoint?

Portal between Kentoku and Mata Nui was opened. Makuta came out of both ends.

I didn't even know this game had arcs! I'm so excited for what's next. It's been a wild ride catching up.

1 hour ago, Unreliable Narrator said:

I didn't even know this game had arcs! I'm so excited for what's next. It's been a wild ride catching up.

looking forward to the next one too! welcome to the game!

wack

based and wackpilled

1 hour ago, Unreliable Narrator said:

I didn't even know this game had arcs! I'm so excited for what's next. It's been a wild ride catching up.

and real shoutouts to this dude right here, helping me find my footing getting back into this game after, what, my fourth hiatus from it or something?

you've been great, man, can't wait to see you really hit your stride

Pretty wack to see you back into the BZPRPGroove, my dude.

it ain't over until the fat lady sings, brother

kinda wack that they do that to her

14 hours ago, Eyru said:

Wow, Tyler and Ghost (and Nuju, I see you there) have really taken it to the next level with these plot posts. Some fantastic writing happening! Great job guys.

And I always wondered what happened to Grokk. After his mad spree through the topics, I remember his last post ending with him being needed for one last thing before he could truly die, but the "one last thing" never happened. At the time, I just thought Nuju forgot about it. I've never been happier to see that I was wrong.

Speaking for Grokk and myself, he's touched to be remembered.

I remember Grokk.

It's hard to forget the first character you ever interact with. 

Skyra will never forget Grokk either.

8 hours ago, Razgriz said:

and real shoutouts to this dude right here, helping me find my footing getting back into this game after, what, my fourth hiatus from it or something?

you've been great, man, can't wait to see you really hit your stride

Wow, thanks! You've really helped me get in the swing of posting recently too. Been learning a lot about this game from you all. 

I think I speak for all the staff when I say I still can't quite believe we did it, after all this time.

Now, I'd just like to say a huge thank you to Tyler and Nuju for helping me give Echelon such a send-off. He won't be missed, but I like to think he'll be remembered.

Echelon was one of my longest-running characters, and perhaps the one I've been best known for. He originated in the NBZP, not long after I arrived in the RPG forum, as a Xa-Kuta black mage. For the BZIII, I reinvented him somewhat by merging his character concept with that of a Toa of Magnetism I'd also had running around, and slapping on a Tryna for good measure, resulting in the Echelon we've known for the last eight (!) years.

Having played him for so long, and poured most of my villainous ideas into him, I was pretty attached to him as a character. But in more recent years, his flaws became more evident to me (thanks in part to a fair amount of teasing from Ty and Krayz) — he was an amalgam of quite a lot of villain tropes, many of them on the melodramatic side; and he'd also managed to amass a rather extreme powerset. Even before Dark Magnetism and Mind Control, he was notorious as my vehicle for pushing (and some might say crossing) the limits of what was fair use of elemental Magnetism in PvP.

Over the years, I thought a lot about what should motivate him beyond a simple lust for power, and eventually I developed the motivation you saw laid bare in recent posts: a deep-seated fear of death, and a resulting desire to escape mortality and flesh-and-blood form. I'd like to think that made him a bit more interesting than the moustache-twirler he started out as. And as I developed this motivation I began to accept what Tyler had been telling me for years: Echelon had to die. At first I accepted this half-heartedly, with the caveat that he could return later in some spectral form — I enjoyed writing him too much to let him go forever. But talking to Ty and Nuju about the end-of-arc plans helped me to realise that actually, this could be the perfect ending to his character arc: to fail and to die, not just at the very climax of his mad search for immortality, but as a direct consequence of it. This was exactly the poetic justice he deserved.

So thank you for that, you two, and also for giving me so much creative freedom as we wrote up this monster slew of posts: for letting me tweak dialogue and description until Echelon's voice sounded just right to me. Jamming up the confrontation and fight in the Vault with Ty is one of the most satisfying things I've done in this game, and Nuju's final post in Kini tied it all up beautifully. I'm really honoured to have had this character of mine feature so heavily in this arc's main plot, and to have been able to use it to end his journey in such a spectacular fashion.

Echelon was a villain I dreamed up when I was 16. Now I'm free to write new villains that I find compelling at 24. So I guess I'm also saying...watch out.

Oh, and keep your eyes peeled on the wrap-up topic. Kini-Nui has a little more to tell.

Xa-Kuta was fun ngl. 

A bit tonally mismatched, but fun. 

56 minutes ago, Ghosthands said:

with the caveat that he could return later in some spectral form

@Pteronura Brasiliensis lmao look at this uncreative trend-chaser

1 hour ago, Let's Henshin! said:

Xa-Kuta was fun ngl. 

 

A bit tonally mismatched, but fun. 

Welcome back.

1 hour ago, Silvan Haven said:

Welcome back.

He's not back. I've been burned before.

A man can hope.

there is a reason i am heading his idea now silvan

Look how they massacred my boy...

I'm so glad we made it. Reading these banger staff posts, I realized how much I loved writing alongside you all, you beautiful s you are. Gabe, Ty, Krayz, Aaron, all of you, thank you for all your hard work. And to the rest of you, it's been a long journey, but here we are. Let's do everything we dreamed of in what comes.

Wait, the arc actually ended?

Well, I said I'd wait for the next arc before rejoining the game, and I suppose that's actually happening now.

Can't wait to see what the third arc is like!

>want to get back into rp

>the arc ends as soon as i reintroduce my characters

>not allowed to have extended rp in wrap up topic, have to end as soon as possible

i want to die

Wrap up topic is only going to be around for a couple weeks, then we get a timeskip. It's really not the place to be doing something that can easily take a month to finish.

22 hours ago, Silvan Haven said:

A man can hope.

do not trust onarax to finish things on time

6 minutes ago, Silvan Haven said:

Wrap up topic is only going to be around for a couple weeks, then we get a timeskip. It's really not the place to be doing something that can easily take a month to finish.

I know right

life is suffering

You could always just talk. There a are a million other things to do than try and break out.

1 minute ago, Silvan Haven said:

You could always just talk. There a are a million other things to do than try and break out.

It mayyy be a bit late for that. 0.0

Turn around and go back in the cell?

Just now, Silvan Haven said:

Turn around and go back in the cell?

LOL. Wait I just realized, the problem would be if we drag the interactions for along period of time. What if we could make many posts in a short period of time?

That’s assuming you know everything about the jails and either have the ability to play your own opposition or that the opposition will be played by someone with the time and ability to write quickly with you. The issue is that neither of these are true. 

1 minute ago, The Forge of Artakha said:

LOL. Wait I just realized, the problem would be if we drag the interactions for along period of time. What if we could make many posts in a short period of time?

14 minutes ago, Daniel the Finlander said:

I know right

life is suffering

That's not what is primarily at issue. That is part of it, the wrapup topic is not intended for ongoing play as indicated in the first post. What is more at issue is that what you have been doing doesn't actually work. I was working up a PM to address the issue, but you've managed to get out before I could finish it.

I can still finish it to explain in greater depth, if you would like, but presently your options boil down to retconning the departure from the cell, orrrrr I'll actually play out the Ta-Koro Guard end of things. Which won't go particularly well.

I'm not trying to be unreasonable, but you've blazed through faster than I could address it. And I believe that one of your fellow players was already trying to warn you against this, as well.

Just now, EmperorWhenua said:

That’s assuming you know everything about the jails and either have the ability to play your own opposition or that the opposition will be played by someone with the time and ability to write quickly with you. The issue is that neither of these are true. 

Fair point. Guess we bit off more than we could chew. Although to be fair, prison breaks generally go unnoticed until they are gone, successful ones that is others get a beating and get thrown back in their cell.

9 minutes ago, Krayzikk said:

That's not what is primarily at issue. That is part of it, the wrapup topic is not intended for ongoing play as indicated in the first post. What is more at issue is that what you have been doing doesn't actually work. I was working up a PM to address the issue, but you've managed to get out before I could finish it.

I can still finish it to explain in greater depth, if you would like, but presently your options boil down to retconning the departure from the cell, orrrrr I'll actually play out the Ta-Koro Guard end of things. Which won't go particularly well.

I'm not trying to be unreasonable, but you've blazed through faster than I could address it. And I believe that one of your fellow players was already trying to warn you against this, as well.

 

 

Nah, you're not being unreasonable I get it, I just didn't understand the whole picture, it's cool. But, ah... what now? I personally am fine with staying but @Daniel the Finlander kinda wanted to get his character out before the next arc is there way to get his out? Wouldn't have wanted to cause trouble for him with the crazy escape.  

Ah yes, if you're in prison you can't get out no matter what you do. I now remember how my first character spent several irl months there before i abandoned him because apparently prisons are meant to be inescapable.

No one has warned me against the prison break thing. I've only been told about having extended roleplay in the topic.

"I was working up a PM to address the issue"

It's been like a day, how long does it take to write a PM? the only ones i've received were from Forge and Gear. Apparently Forge did receive a PM from staff, which is weird because he didn't even start the whole thing.

Whatever, speaking of PMs I will now take the roleplay to PMs.

So not only did I break the wrapup topic rule but that one as well, wow I shot myself in the foot. I should really refresh my memory with the rules. 

I'm not privy to exactly what was discussed already, only what I am explaining now. An imprisoned character is difficult to get out. That's by design, because village forces are under the direction of players as much as the PCs that lead them. It's not supposed to be easy to get out. A jailbreak isn't against the rules, but the manner in which you have gone about it does run contrary both to courtesy in dealing with village forces, and directly goes against the Common Sense Guide's section on NPCs. 

Neither of which do I think either of you intended to violate, you didn't know. Which is why I'm offering the choice to retcon it. 

As for Forge, he wasn't PMed by staff; he was PMed by a more experienced player who wanted to nudge things before I had to do something. It has been a day, the day after I finished my part in the sprint to finish this six year old arc. I was taking a frankly well deserved breather.

You can retcon, or I can assume control of the Ta-Koro Guards.

it's a good mistake to get out of the way early in the middle of a wrapup