Arbas OOC

All right, everyone. I really don't know how to paint this in rainbows, so I'll just say it.

I'm stepping down as mod of Arbas al Uat, and I do so assuming that means the game will end.

I can't apologize enough for this. In creating this RP I made a promise to give everyone a fun and dynamic place to play, but I did so without realizing the dedication required, or acknowledging my own flightiness.

I think you are all wonderful, and it's been both fun and an honor to have you here. I'm touched so many people came to something of my design. But while I love creating things, I am terrible at the follow up, which I am sure you have all noticed by now. I could cite various other responsibilities, but it boils down to a lack of will. And for that I'm honestly sorry, because I haven't provided what I've promised, and I do not believe I would continue to do so in the future. I just don't have the stones to be a mod-mod, and after RPing for so many years I've learned exactly why I'm better off staying as just a player.

If anyone wants to take over the game and try your hand at it, and if everyone wants to continue playing here under their modship, I will happily give the hat to you. I'll also happily tell you everything I had planned, plot and world design wise. But understand I'm not saying I need someone to help me run the game, it would have to be someone (or someones) who would be willing to run it themselves.

But assuming the above does not take place, and assuming we are ending things here, I hope you all can forgive me for failing to deliver. Most of you I know from Sabra and will continue to play with, but for those of you who don't, you may want to consider apping there. It has similar mechanics, most of the people you know in this game, and is much more active and better run.

Anyway, regardless of what anyone does from here, I hope you go forth and have fun. And once again, I'm sorry for this.

So I think it is time to have our first official GAME DISCUSSION!

I think right now we all know we have a pretty excellent cast, and I am happy with how well teams have bonded to each other. But obviously Arbas is lacking something needed to motivate players and characters alike, so I'd like to talk about that.

This is pretty much just an open table for discussion on ways to improve the game, or your thoughts in general. I have been kicking around ideas myself, but obviously it's more helpful to know more of what the players think.

Some things I've had suggested/come up with:

-Introduce memories earlier than planned
-Introduce large monsters that can't be defeated by only one team (and thus require teams to work together
-Introduce a plot event

Your thoughts on these, or anything else, are entirely welcome. I think we all came here for similar things, but like most RPs this one needs to be smacked in a few spots to get it working properly. What do you think would promote more activity and interest without drastically changing it from the gang war we came here to play?

SOB. CAUSE I AM A TERRIFIC PLANNER.

Game is postponed to around 7pm PST. Short mingle time, hope everyone can make it.

SAME DAY, SATURDAY.


WOULD THERE BE ANY NO SHOWS IF I MAKE IT THS FRIDAY NIGHT?

Apologies for the scheduling mess.

See THIS POST for information on how to apply team layouts to your journal.


IMBER LAYOUT

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ELUVIES LAYOUT

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FULMEN V. 2

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I eventually intend to do better versions of these but right now, yay for simple /o/

☉ Espio the Chameleon will be on Tonitrum

☉ Theres is accepted waiting for an opening


Other news!

Cinis you will receive new unit assignments the evening of the 5th day, and begin on the morning of the 6th.

I will begin only changing unit ranks (if necessary) toward the end of one day and the beginning of the next.

Alright, Next game is set tentatively for Saturday June 5th, probably around.. 4 pm pst. Mingling starts then, actual game about an hour later to give people time to get in.

Can I just get a quick head count about how many people will be around that time? Thanks!

ETA: It looks like Saturday night stateside is good for everyone if Shin can make it. Tentative heads up for possible raid then if I can contact her.

...can I do this here? I hope I can do this here. If doing this here is no go, kick me and I'll delete. ^^;

So Fulmen! We are out of food as of day four afternoon. We need to raid someone.

Tonitrum, judging by IC talks so far, it is looking like it's gonna be you guys.

If we're gonna get this together, we probably should before we start starving. ^^ Soooo, what time is good for everyone? :oa

Son Goku has been dropped, leaving an open space on Tonitrum.

In the case of drops that are done with no notice, due to activity or otherwise, the IC way this played out is that Omen requested that the Cinis of that team bring in the character. Neither Cinis nor Colored Blanks know what happens to them after that. However, Omen sends her assurances that they are not harmed, and are very much still alive.

Additionally, if a team wins the Round, ALL members of the team, even ones Omen has re-collected, will be returned their memories and freed. Cinis may inform their teams of this information.

Welcome two new teams!


Imber - #0090ff
Sonohara Anri
Guy Cecil
Kirisaki Kyoko
Selene

Eluvies - #ad07a3
Rena Lanford
Jacuzzi Splot
Fakir
Niche

with Data and Akazukin acting as their respective Cinis!

The introduction of two new teams means there are also two new territories, and new instilled memories for both new and existing teams. Fulmen, Aura, and Tonitrum, the way this works is upon being aware that Imber and Eluvies are around, you suddenly remember what you thought about them. Akin to how you can forget something entirely until someone jogs your memory.

Anyway, everyone please familiarize yourself with the updates.

Eluvies, the Flora section will get a more thorough update TOMORROW. It is a LOT OF INFO so I just put up a short and sweet version for now.

Once teams have read the updated info, they are allowed to intro at any time!

☉ Instilled Memories
☉ Unit Inventories
☉ Maps, Territories and World Description
☉ Flora and Fauna

CINIS we will be having our first Cinis post sometime soonish. Possibly tomorrow if I have the time and energy to run both Izaya and Omen. If you can't make it or are late, that's fine. I know my schedule is bouncy so I'll try to pick things up later if need be.

Okay kids!

You may now app a second character!

I was hoping to put this off until we had five full teams, but getting the last few necessary to intro the next two teams is proving a bit slow, and I would really like to be able to get them started before I disappear on MOVING ROAD TRIP WEEK so everyone has. more people to interact and have fun with!

As a reminder. Arbas does really need some Cinis players, so if you were at all interested on being on black team, and getting rotate teams periodically, now would be a good time! But of course colored blanks are both needed and welcome, too. The faster I can get more teams out, the better balanced and more interesting the game should be.

However, I am 99% sure that the two characters only rule is permanent. So if you app Cinis, you won't be able to be on a second colored team. Which be a pro or a con, depending on if you most want to avoid playercesting your teams fighting or playercesting teaching your own team how to do stuff.

Also, of course people apping their first characters get placement priority.

If there are any questions, feel free to ask!

So it has been pointed out to me that I have not provided any code of the Arbas ad for if people wanted to advertise the game! Thus

<table width="550" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5" border="0" align="center" bgcolor="#150f19" bordercolor="white"><tr><td><img src="http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad43/avidheidha/Arbas/Title-1.png?t=1271207152" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td> <font color="white">Wars are often fought, and often forgotten, and on Arbas al Uat this is not simply a fact of life, but life itself. Pulled away from worlds, families, and missions they do not remember, twenty teams of Blanks fought against each other. They made alliances and enemies, killed and died, and in the end one team stood victorious over the rest. They were returned their memories. They were returned to their homes. That was eleven rounds ago. At the start of the twelfth round of the War, only nine teams yet remain. Once again they have forgotten everything but the fleeting sense of camaraderie with their own team, and the instilled distrust of all others. This is War, after all, and even without recollection of the previous eleven rounds, they tire of the endless loop. Fight, steal, deal, survive, and always always try to get ahead. To be better means to escape. The best teams won early, and escaped long ago, but now to be the best of the worst still means a chance at freedom. At home. </td></tr><tr valign="top" align="center"><td><table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" width="95%" border="0" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"><tr valign="top" align="center"><td colspan="2"><font color="black"> <big><b>☉ <a href="http://arbas_al_uat.insanejournal.com">Arbas al Uat</a> - A Multi-fandom Amnesiac Gang-War RP ☉</b> <a href="http://arbasnetwork.insanejournal.com/friends">The Network</a> ☉ <a href="http://asylums.insanejournal.com/arbas_ooc/">Arbas OOC</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/4181.html">Applications</a> are <b>OPEN</b></big> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="50%"><font color="black">☉ Player Information <small> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/4043.html">Introduction</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/3689.html">Rules and Conduct</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/4181.html">Applications</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/1246.html">Cinis Apps</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/444.html">Taken Characters</a> <A HREF="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/5969.html">Dropped Characters</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/6284.html#comments">Team Needs</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/3387.html">Unit Directory</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/3174.html">Unit Ranks</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/5338.html">Mission Request Page</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/1735.html">Memory Registry</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/1518.html">Stats and Power Retention</a></td> </small> <td><font color="black">☉ World Information <small> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/5598.html">Gameplay</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/2761.html">Instilled Memories</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/2338.html">Unit Inventories</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/2049.html">Maps, Territories and World Description</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/1981.html">Flora and Fauna</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/4442.html">Memory Game Info</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/2999.html">Q&A</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/858.html">Cinis Info Page</a> <a href="http://arbas-al-mods.insanejournal.com/649.html">Cinis Private</a></small> </table> </td></tr></table>

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I spent much of today working on a general information cleaning. The Introduction page was out of date, because I had messed it up a while ago and had to put up an old version. There were also still some references floating around to things that are no longer a part of this game. All world building information should now be properly organized.

Cinis, the locked Cinis page has been pretty much revamped, please browse it when you have the time.

If you have been linking anyone to game info the last couple of weeks, you may want to have them revisit the Introduction section and just skim what changes have been made.

Sorry I was so disorganized for so long.

WHAT DO I HAVE FOR YOU TODAY.

I have!!



Ropponmatsu is our first in game death! However, despite what I said (and still say) about perma-death, she is reappable due to being a robot. Special exception, and yes it should apply to all androids in the future.

Sister Monica Argento will be replacing her on Fulmen. She shouldn't appear BEFORE the body is cleared away but any time after that is gold.


Our FIRST MINI GAME will be held Tuesday evening, May 04th, with mingle starting at 8PM EST. I believe that would be at 10 AM Wednesday for our moontimers, so hopefully something most people can make.

I don't actually know what the game is yet, but given that there are only 3 teams I don't expect it to take more than two or three hours. And I will cut into the mingle to start things earlier if everyone is around.

Okay guys, some GENERAL STUFFS

I believe Fulmen is planning to raid Aura sometime saturday. I don't have a time more specific than that.

I also understand that it is golden week in the moonkingdom, so this allows for a good time to do a short game this week that hopefully most people can get to.

As such, our first MINIGAME will be after this weekend. I am thinking Monday or Tuesday evening, please chime in to let me know when would be best for most people. Since there are only three teams, I don't expect the game to be very long. And if you can't make it, it does make perfect sense for teams to leave a member or two behind to guard their base.

Also a word on memories, because I think there has been some confusion on this front (to be fair, I changed my mind a few times so. yes):

MINIGAMES will not award memories, ever. The rewards for mini games are items/supplies and rank increase. While memories WILL eventually be a regular part of the game, at the moment teams don't know they will ever remember anything (before actually winning the game), much less have any idea on how to make that happen. Because I want characters to have a chance to get very established in their current life and personalities in Arbas, memories won't be a part of the game for a while. Not a LONG while, but I'm guestimating about 3 months OOC activity before any memories are doled out. THAT IS ENTIRELY SUBJECT TO CHANGE but should give you an estimate of how I'm not thinking about it for anytime immediate.

FINALLY. Bother your friends to app =|b I would really like to get eight more apps so I can build two more teams, which I think would vastly increase the dynamics of Arbas. Three teams can only be sustained so long. But if I can get enough to build just one good team I will throw in a number 4 ASAP.

I would also like to remind everyone of the beauty of the Q&A page for all of your world detail needs.

Two things!

Adiane was totally never there.

Haine will be the Cinis for Fulmen, just as soon as she's ready to go.

Adiane will perhaps REAPPEAR in time but for now since Lady doesn't have time to play her, Fulmen plz consider that retconned =|b I have not yet decided what to do about characters that leave but don't die, so it's easiest to just pretend she was never there.

ALSO! Please check out the new map located here.

I realized the last map was much smaller than I meant for it to be. This one is far more accurate. even though it looks smaller, the scale is for a larger area, so everyone's areas are large. Aura, your field is a quarter square mile, which is waaaaaaaay bigger than an acre. Tonitrum's area is several miles, etc. The only thing that isn't to scale is buildings, because otherwise they probably wouldn't have shown up.

Anyway, this map is ten miles across and ten high. It's certainly a distance that people CAN travel on foot, but the chocobo will be considerably faster. Which is why you have them =|b

Okay! I have team journals! While you are by no means required to use these, they are fairly simple layouts in the colors of your team =|b

Note that since I chose neon colors for teams, the header images are kiiiiiinda bright. I am far too lazy to take screencaps of all of them, but if you want to try one it really only takes about half a minute to set it up in your journal.


Now, if you want to use these journals, here is what you do!

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☉ Game Start ☉

Okay, I beliiieve I have filled in everything the general masses needs. If you see any mistakes, contradictions, or just stuff that is missing, please let me know here and I will make the appropriate alterations.

As it is! You should all have everything you need to get started. Most obvious changes have been made in Instilled Memories, Unit Inventories, Maps, Territories and World Description, and Flora and Fauna.

Here are the team announcements! These are final.

Cinis
Orihara Izaya
Leroy Schwartzer

Fulmen
Hasegawa Mai
Roppanmatsu
Soren
Heiwajima Shizuo

Aura
Ryuugamine Mikado
Pisces Albafica
Dean Winchester
Gilbert Nightray

Tonitrum
Shin Seijuurou
Son Goku
Kida Masaomi
Bobby Singer

Aaaand. That should be it for now. Note that I ACCIDENTALLY BROKE the Introduction page the process of doing a million things, so the version there is a little outdated. I will fix it tomorrow, along with adding some other stuff. There will also be team Journals tomorrow, when I feel like posting them. For now! Go read about your teams and get started! Cinis will COME TO YOU.

I have only one Colored Blank spot, and one Cinis spot open for the first three teams!

This does not mean more aren't welcome to intro, but after the first three teams go up, I will wait until I have enough for another two teams before putting any more in, to give me some room with team building.

The game will hopefully start today. Which is to say, once I fill that last colored Blank slot I will announce teams, at which point teams are allowed to create their opening posts and play at their leisure.

At that time, I will also update all of the world pages that have team specific info.

I will not wait for a third Cinis member, Izaya will just pull double duty or a bit (Triple, possibly, since the other Cinis member is buried under a pile of homework). It's okay, he's very excited to meet everyone.

As of right now, all of the world info pages are done except for Flora and Fauna, which will be done shortly, and the pages with the team-relevant info. I've made a lot of edits so I encourage people to at least skim back and make sure nothing has changed. Also, take note of the new Gameplay page, which contains stuff concerning posting and the every day situations for your blanks.