The Virtue RP Revival Project

For a while now, much of the roleplay on Virtue has been harder to find, and perhaps, harder to get involved with. Some of the better known RPSG's have been less active, and much of the roleplay of others is more in semi-private events, their own internal storylines, and is conducted inside instance missions and SG bases than in the past. None of this is bad, but the need for open server roleplay that builds the community and lends it cohesiveness is still present.

A few players from one of the roleplay global channels have decided to work to build up that part of the roleplay environment again. This is the Virtue RP Revival Project.

This project is not a Super-group or Villain-group, it's an opportunity to build and participate in server-wide open RP storylines and events suitable for roleplayers of all alignments and levels. Events will include forum posts and stories, in-game discussion meetups, AE missions, canon story-arcs, TFs, Trials, and large-scale zone events. This effort is "open server" in the sense that any and all in-game walk-up RP'ers will be worked into stories and events as they occur. Stories will be general, and leverage both in-game lore and new game additions -- it's to provide a common backdrop as a framework to help promote open RP on the entire server.

This isn't meant and won't replace the existing roleplay that individuals and groups currently have; but we would hope it might help those various groups find common themes and events to help interact in roleplay in wider venues than inside bases, instanced missions, and other private gatherings.

The project will work to initiate and press broad-based storylines and associated events and materials to foster that wider community.

We will make use of some existing in-game roleplay oriented global channels, forums posts (such as The Special Council's Special Project, in-game in-character broadcasts on roleplay channels and select zones, AE missions, and even zone-events tied together with. We'll also use this thread here in the forums to discuss non-spoiler parts of our plans and efforts and to solicit feedback on them. Finally, we've created a public global channel for the express purpose of gathering those interested in this project to ease reviving, organizing, and coordinating RP and RP events -- that channel is Virtue RP Revival and any Virtue roleplayer is welcome to join; just type "/chan_join Virtue RP Revival" in at your chat prompt in-game.

Our first Theme:

We are slowly starting up a storyline related to the official zone makeover coming in Issue 22 (on Beta right now) for Dark Astoria. What we're hoping to promote are players discussing some of the early clues regarding the upcoming events in Dark Astoria, in-zone in-character teams exploring and investigating the unusual activity of the Banished, Tsoo, and Circle of Thorns. These groups are active in many zones and on both Red and Blue sides. Some material on that is available in the "Special Project" thread already mentioned.

What you can do to help:

• Pick up on our themes and use them to add to your own roleplay.
• Use your creativity to build on our themes in open roleplay
• Write stories and posts about your own characters and supergroups and their activities that relate to the Revival Project themes in open forums, here on the Virtue board or on the Roleplay board
• Join our global OOC channel to help plan, schedule, or run related open events
• Have your SG, VG, or circle of friends organize and run related open events
• Gather, meet and discuss in-game events and issues or any kind in-character in public, and bring new people into those discussions.

I think this is a great idea and would like to help this project grow. I can be reached at Global @kidkruz.

I am along time player that took about a year break and came back a few months ago. I have been trying to rebuild my SG, Paragon City's School for Paranormal Studies and would like to include them in this project.

The following is a sumary of of the SG...

Thank you for your interest in Paragon City's School for Paranormal Studies. "Shedding the Light of Knowledge upon the Darkness of Ignorance". The School is back in this temporal time frame, reopening for classes, enrolling new students, and looking for new Faculty to prepare the next generation of heroes. Baron Von Bloom Dean of Students ((Website up but still under construction at www.guildportal .com search Paragon City's School for Paranormal Studies, you can register there and view the "School Policies" in the Information section, Application in the forum under Open Enrollment)) General Guidelines- 1.) Promo through active RP, to earn salvage rights. 2.) Play IC, surround OOC comments with (( )). 3.) Have FUN!!)) ----

--- @kidkruz Wrote: ((A long running RP event, that puts game issues, such as LAG, DCing, MapServer issues, having to log out for RL issues, etc. into a playable RP storyline.. Mission Architect will be heavily involved.. ))Paragon City's School for Paranormal Studies was founded in 1991 with the express purpose of training young and inexperienced persons endowed with exceptional skills, powers and abilities. The School offered training and research in all things "paranormal", from arcane spellcraft, cutting edge alien/extradimensional technology, bio-genetic modification/mutation, to the unlocking of human maximum potential...All things that could be considered meta-human. The School has had an extraordinary two decades, producing some of Paragon's most noteworthy heroes of today. ----
---- Several years ago the boundaries between our dimension & that of Ouroboros were breached & many protectors of Paragon City used the amazing portals to step back and forth in time. PCSfPS led many expeditions through the temporal waypoints. During one of these "field trips", most of the teachers & students simply vanished, all records & even most memories of the school were erased from the time line & the school was suddenly nothing more than an abandoned warehouse. All of this information comes from Kid Kruz, a time-traveling mutant & student at the academy at the time of the school's "disappearance" from the timeline. He has returned to this time frame and is trying reopen the school and rescue those still lost in the time stream. ----

I would so be up for this.

@trilbyhero if you wana contact me.

I'd join this in less than a heart beat. Count me in!

Count me in! I already have a couple characters involved in the DA stuff.

I'm in.

-- I'm holding something actually that relates to DA >.>

Links in my sig.

Anyone looking for a channel invite, please post your Global Names, or get ahold of me online at @Two Across.

Additionally, to help people too lazy to search for it, simply type "/chan_join Virtue RP Revival" into your chat prompt to join the channel without seeking me out for an invite.

Check the IC thread for info on a MA job I designed for this storyline.. hope to see you all at the meeting tonight

Quick facts:
RP Event tonight!
Vanguard Base briefing area
Begins- 7:00pm EST


Lengthier version:

Attention RPers! The Revival Project will be holding an IC meeting/general interest event in the Vanguard Base briefing room at 7:00pm EST this evening to discuss mission statements from the Special Projects committee and begin operations towards Dark Astoria.

All are welcome, RP is encouraged. No commitments necessary!

Replayable mission architect job: Virtye RP Revival: "Fire in the Hills".. can be found at MA, type fire in the hills in the search box to find it. Any feed back would be appreciated. thanks.

I'm all for it.
@Bullet Barrage

There will be an In-Character Roleplay Lambda Trial tonight (Friday, February 10th) at 8pm Eastern time (5pm Pacific, 1am Saturday GMT, and 2am CET). The gathering place will be announced in-game on several roleplayers global channels including "Virtue RP Revival" (Roleplayers are welcome to join by typing "/chan_join Virtue RP Revival" in on their chat bars).

If enough people show, we may have more than one league formed. There will be roleplay before, during and after the trial itself. No guarantees we'll succeed, but it'll be fun. To participate, roleplayers must be VIP players (required for the incarnate trials) and bring a level 50. We cannot bring anyone under level 50 along. Characters do not need level shifts or any other incarnate abilities, and running this trial can start unlocking the Alpha slot for those who haven't yet.

Wednesday night in Astoria, 7pmEST, Xeden will be laying out the history of Dark Astoria's past for those unfamiliar with the backstory, and what is at risk should the Sleeper of Pantheon prophecy awaken and what it means for Paragon City and the rest of the world should they succeed.

This will be story-based, accompanying a badge hunt for locations and enemies/bosses, and Adamastor, should we be so lucky.

I'll be working :\

Very cool.

I've been running in-character Weekly Strike Forces and other weekend events with the Hero League International, and have often called on the local heroes of Paragon to make up the numbers.

I'm out of regular play action for a few weeks, but I'll make sure I join your channel and incorporate its members into these events as a first port of call.

I'd also be interested in helping to build up a decent channnel membership during off-peak hours, so I'll spread the word amongst my global firends who also play during the Aussie/Asia-Pacific evenings.

For those people who're interested in a Magic-themed RPSG, I am the leader of The Guardians of Magic. I'm always looking for roleplayer intersted in helping us grow and creating new adventures with us. You can find more info about us here.

http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.asp...&TabID=3729275

I'd like to extend my appreciation and thanks to the legions of people who showed up to last nights Dark Astoria event. With only about a day of preplanning and advertising time, we still had five full teams badge-hunting, defeating Banished Pantheon bosses, scouring for Adamastor, and RPing a last ditch effort to save Astoria from falling to Mot. Of those 5 teams, 4 would stay the entire 3+hours that the event lasted, far exceeding my expectations in both duration and popularity!

I'm all over this! My global is @Model Nine. Hook me up. I'm a writer by trade so anything along the lines of plot or backstory I can help with.

Invite sent! Welcome board!