well I guess now is as good as a time as any to say something. @propro, dang it had I been able to open hiders i'd know a lot sooner we'd have two pirate themed zanpakuto. albeit yours is much cooler honestly, but now i'm questioning my kraken themed zanpakuto.
...lol and as I'm typing this I get an awesome idea. how's our characters being brothers sound?
I'm sorry to do this but I am going to be leaving. It might seem like an overreaction but it's just knocked the stuffing out of me. It was both an experiment and a passion project which I started because there was nothing else on the site I wanted to join, but now I just have a sour taste in my mouth and my passion for the RP has basically just gone. I apologize to any and all that dislike this but If I were to force myself to continue I wouldn't be happy, and I'd prefer to be happy than be in a Bleach RP.
I give open permission to any and all people whom have expressed interest to use any and all of what I have posted for the RP, if you View the raw versions you can use the OOC etc that I made. If anyone is interested here is the basic plot lines we were going to follow. It is in a hider for spoiler reasons.
Me and Co-GM play as the force of Arrancar/hollow. All the players play as the Gotei 13 members.
Story - The Arrancar make themselves known to the Gotei, they attack in Karakura town and harrass the Shinigami. At one point they actually break into the Seireitei and attack the Gotei directly, nobody knows how. At this point all the prominent captains all join to fight off this attack. Using the attack as a distraction one of the Arrancar sneaks in and steals some artifacts from Central 46. Artifacts pertaining to Hell and dimension gateways.
The Arrancars plan is to open the gate to hell to go in and to attain power. They will eventually succeed. When they do, they are each granted the power of a deadly sin, 1 of 7. Then as more powerful beings they attack the Shinigami with intent to destroy them and all they stand for, making hollow the prominent race.
Trying to release an Ex Captain that was trapped in Central 46?
Squad 2 Captain to infiltrate Hueco Mundo to find out what the Arrancar stole. Multiple fights in Karakura Town.
Stage 1 - Harrasment in Karakura Town Stage 2 - The attack on the Seireitei, taking artifacts from Central 46 Stage 3 - The Shinigami attempt to hit back, taking the fight to the Arrancar Stage 4 - The fighting makes the arrancar retreat to hueco Mundo where the Shinigami follow them to big fights happen Stage 5 - The leader of the Arrancar is revealed and moves the battle to the real world, once there the Espada have to protect their leader whilst he completes a ritual Stage 6 - The Ritual is complete and the gate to hell opens, he along with his Espada all walk in and the doors shut behind them, non of the Shinigami dare to follow Stage 7 - Back in the Seireitei the Shinigami grasp for answers as to what happend when it is revealed waht they took from Cetnral 46 some kind of object that could allow them to take power from Hell Stage 8 - Not soon after, the Esapda return, but they are different. An all out attack takes place in which the newly powered Esapda take on the Captains all at once, Some Espada are defeated. Stage 9 - The leader of the Espada fights and takes out multiple captains. Just before he is about to destroy the entire Seireitei the gates to hell open up behind him, he does not know why. A great arm reaches out and grabs hold of him and pulls him inside screaming. Afterwards a man walks out, he talks to the Shinigami and tells them that to be the king of hell, you are consigned to live their forever. As such the big bad is locked in hell forever.
The big bad wants to destroy all Shinigami, to do this he needed the help of the Arrancar, however he knew that they would never be powerful enough to defeat the Gotei 13 that's why he used Hell, he need to make a new army, a better race to defeat the Shinigami and he tried by using the powers in hell. The big bad is now locked in hell for all of eternity. End of Arc.
RP starts with a random low rank shinigami being killed in Karakura town. It creates a rumble in the Seireitei but they think he just came up against a Hollow and was too inexperienced. Until it happens again, at which point someone is sent. They find an Arrancar finishing off another Shinigami, they attack and after throwing a few blows the Arrancar backs off. He warns the Shinigami that they are coming, that a war is looming. When asked who the Arrancar responds 'The Espada' opens a Gargantua and leaves.
8 Arrancar controlled by me and a Co-gm. 1 Leader and 7 Arrancar whom are very powerful, akin to Espada.
Hopefully 12 players, each being a Captain of the Gotei, players can have an extra character, but not another Captain, they can be a lieutenant or 3rd/4th seat but not of the squad that their Captain controls. Any extra players will have to be lower ranks.
Lust - Similar to Amor? Intense and excessive desire. These souls are blown back and forth by the terrible winds of a violent storm, without rest. This symbolizes the power of lust to blow one about needlessly and aimlessly.
Gluttony - Eats Reiatsu? Overconsuption to the point of waste. The "great worm" Cerberus guards the gluttons, who are forced to lie in a vile slush produced by ceaseless, foul, icy rain. The gluttons lie here sightless and heedless of their neighbors, symbolizing the cold, selfish, and empty sensuality of their lives.
Greed - Avarice, sin of desire similar to gluttony and lust. The two groups joust, using as weapons great weights that they push with their chests:
Wrath - Kenpachi 2.0 Rage. In the swampy waters of the river Styx, the wrathful fight each other on the surface. All reside in a desert of flaming sand with fiery flakes raining from the sky,
Limbo - Eh? Lust - Similar to Amor? Intense and excessive desire. Gluttony - Eats Reiatsu? Overconsuption to the point of waste Greed - Avarice, sin of desire similar to gluttony and lust. Anger - Kenpachi 2.0 Rage Heresy - Violence - Kenpachi 2.0 Rage Fraud - Mirrors ability. Taking opponents abilities? jealousy Trechery -
I hope you understand my position, I'm just disinterested now.
P.S - The pictures in the OOC are links to Bleach OST songs.
@Crimson Raven I think he just got bummed out because whoever he was GMing with was steeling characters from other places and it bothered him so much he saw the whole rp as tainted.
@Crimson RavenI'm not going to push for details, and I kind of don't think you should either, but I understand how something like that can kill your enthusiasm for a project.
Hmm... I'm disappointed :( How about we make this a group collab thing? As in we can all plan a list of things and suggest things, add on to ideas from the ideas which users had, etc. As long as we throw in something and in the end we have a big list of ideas to which we begin to dig deeper into each idea plot as explained by the user who suggested it to which other users can either add on or criticize about how it won't work. Afterwards we can all eliminate or keep ideas and then rearrange them in order perhaps. Eliminate simply by striking through the ideas we won't need, etc.?
@Blackbeard and all users ? c: though it's understandable if you still wish to leave. I've never co-GMed but I don't mind helping and trying it out as a replacement of the previous one? I'll need guidance at first before eventually understanding maybe but ehh. :)
Edit: I mean it won't be as fun where everything was helped planned but i can always take in private messages of ideas, make a big list, and voila!?~ no one knows who suggested what? Hmmn... I don't know. Trying to keep interest up, especially GM's ^^;
Hmm... I'm disappointed :( How about we make this a group collab thing? As in we can all plan a list of things and suggest things, add on to ideas from the ideas which users had, etc. As long as we throw in something and in the end we have a big list of ideas to which we begin to dig deeper into each idea plot as explained by the user who suggested it to which other users can either add on or criticize about how it won't work. Afterwards we can all eliminate or keep ideas and then rearrange them in order perhaps. Eliminate simply by striking through the ideas we won't need, etc.?
@Blackbeard and all users ? c: though it's understandable if you still wish to leave. I've never co-GMed but I don't mind helping and trying it out as a replacement of the previous one? I'll need guidance at first before eventually understanding maybe but ehh. :)
Edit: I mean it won't be as fun where everything was helped planned but i can always take in private messages of ideas, make a big list, and voila!?~ no one knows who suggested what? Hmmn... I don't know. Trying to keep interest up, especially GM's ^^;
Sure, I'm up for helping out with the planning and what not, but I might not be able to start today as I'm on my way to work :(
As others have stated, I'd be more than happy to try to keep this going. I didn't put in the effort of making Unagi for nothing, after all. I wouldn't be able to participate in determining how it's run though.
@Blackbeard I understand your position. All the investment and effort put in suddenly being pulled out from under you... Really sucks. But I hope that you can be inspired again and create more. As evidenced here, plenty of us are more than willing to help you out on that.
@Bigg Slamm If we can keep this going then I see no reason why not. It'd certainly create a lot of interesting potential interactions.
I'm going to assume that it seems as though everyone is still interested but because there's no guidance or foundation for us we're all confused on what to do, where to start, etc which is weighing us down ; Interest vs Initiation a bit... :s I mean it's safe to say we all don't mind waiting and plotting together but how and where should we start, etc.. I feel as though @Blackbeard really is set on leaving since planning so much which added onto his interest only turned out to be plagiarized work. ;-;
I hope it's a temporary feeling though (maybe he'll come back hopefully and have a new idea or just in general come back later?) so he can come back and at least respond to us clearly.. But blackbeard I joined your Roleplay the same as you too, there was nothing which piqued my interest and I often wasnt as interested in roleplays here until I saw this bleach one which seemed to be nicely done in my opinion and keep my interest for this long surprisingly :o
@Yvain Well I would be interested in a continuation of this rp as the idea seems pretty cool. Though how we should do it is the big question: does someone want to step in as lead GM, or should we do it all in the spirit of pure democracy? I find it that the latter tends to break down too quickly... Secondly should we perhaps create another topic if we are continuing this rp? Would help clear everything up and start from a blank page, while filtering out those that do not want to take part anymore.
Just some quick thoughts on all of this. I myself am a rubbish GM, so I will gladly let anyone else do it.
I would also like for this RP to continue. This RP showed promise, as there are active participants. I myself have been craving a Bleach RP for quite a while now since it was the first RP I have ever joined a while back.
In terms of the questions of GM-ing. I have done some, but I'm not that good at it nor do I currently have the time that it would take to take up the role of a proper GM. What I can offer is this. I can be a Co-GM of sorts. I can chime in with ideas and opinions in certain matters, especially power design/balancing. It's what I've done the best in, and what I am most interested in as well.
In terms of the question of how we should continue this RP, I believe that one of us should step in as the GM and we simply move this to a new thread as that would make things simpler, in general.
