@SouffleGirl123 both are accepted, throw them over :)

@jakeb1993 Even the Tim Tams? Lol, JK

A surprise for you all had been posted.

Y'all may want to update your memory on the characters on the characters in the RP. xD

Okay, so after many days of thinking and talking to Haley, we have come to the conclusion that Drakken and Shego perfectly describe Al & Lana xD Look:

@jakeb1993 omg I am dying xDDD hahahaha

Okay quick update for everyone.

The auction Collab is going great, and the main story will begin proper shortly. The meetings were merely to bring people together and such. In terms of posts, I think everyone knows what they are doing, and I know roughly what is going on.

I also know we have had a few new editions to the group since the meetings, so we need to sort out Intro posts :)

So I have listed below what I think everyone is supposed to be doing for their next post (Please correct me if I have made a mistake):

Dark Shadow
Aloysius - Auction
Lana - Auction
Ty - Auction
Circe - Death Spree (Completed)
Rufus - Destruction
Luka - Intro Post
Poet - Intro Post (Completed)
Emily - Intro Post

The Guild
Salem - Auction
Aliira - Auction
Lizzie - Training Collab
Zeke - City Patrol
Augie - City Patrol
David - Training Collab
Nicola - Intro Post

Over the course of the next few days i am hoping to break the back of the Auction collab, however I really want to post this last in this cycle. I am not trying to hit people with cattleprods, but if we could have everything wrapped up in this cycle by Next Friday I would appreciate it.

If you are getting stuck with what to write, or want to bounce off ideas, my PMs are always open. Also, if you anticipate any issues posting, please do let us know, I am more than accommodating.

I want to finish this with a huge thank you to everyone who has been messaging positive things over the past few days. For those who don't know, my Uni exams are in less than two weeks time and I have ended up stressing to the point it has made me ill. This weekend has been about me de-stressing, and sadly it has had mixed results as I am still feeling tense and ill, but your messages are really sweet, so thank you.

Note: Poet and Luka will be getting a Collab post that we can probably hammer out by Wednesday that will serve either as Luka's intro--in a capacity where he can play off of Poet for a deeper intro than he might've otherwise had the opportunity to do--or as a flare post between the two of them to orient everyone around their respective power sets, that will then lead into Luka's intro post. We're playing it by ear and you'll hear from one of us before posts hit what it becomes.

Good luck on the collab spree. I'm hyped as all get out for this to come to the fore. Thanks again to @jakeb1993 for keeping this dream alive so we can have another go of it. Thanks to everyone for getting involved (what an embarrassment of good good twenty-somethings) and thanks to @HaleyTheRandom for sharing the weight of GMing this big ol' steamboat.

News: I'm about 90% committed to a very hectic move where internet is going to be weird for at least a month. I'm fairly certain I can swing continuing the arpee since this is the only one om my plate, but I want everyone to know well in advance that after next week Collabs might be somewhat more difficult for me to nail down time for. With the fortnightly schedule things should be good though.

@FrankenDaughter Thanks for the update! Really do appreciate it. ^-^

Me waiting to here how everyone else's posts are going:

With GM approval... some inspiration for thinking more about how characters relate to the unfolding story.

Alignments in Magical Insurrection:

I hesitate to assign anything as strenuous as a traditional D&D alignment table to this RP as it's grounded in real world understandings of things like behavior and culture and ethics. However, I do think that there's an alignment table that has pretty significant implications and is narratively relevant.

1) The Means Of A Mage - The Ethical Scale
Lawful - Indifferent - Reformer

To any mage alive today, magical society is quite old, united by traditions, taboos, and tales that supersede ideologies risen from things like nationhood, religion, and ethnicity. In reality such ethical concerns have shaped what it has meant to be a mage just as readily as mages have from their peripheries shaped how such concepts view them. Mages alive today that are indifferent to this table either don't feel strongly enough to oppose or faithfully serve the Guild, or have decided that the status quo is unimportant to their goals in life (perhaps even beneficial, but ultimately without worth).

This is effectively a gauge for whether a character is:

Lawful - Satisfied with the status quo--that the Guild and its sister establishments in other regions are not only necessary, but beneficial to magic users, non-magi, or both. Lawful mage characters are not only happy to uphold the majority of Guild policies and mandates, but expect that behavior from other mages. They aren't sycophants, LAwful characters can certainly disagree with The Guild heirarchy, its methods, and even desire for it to change, but they'd rather be a voice from within the Guild's ethos than without.

or

Reformer - Reformer mages are actively opposed to the way things are in magical culture, whether it's where they live or where they see injustice. They may be opposed to the Magical Anonymity Mandate, the punishments they face for violating magical crimes, Traditional Magical Society at large (compare the generational dismay of newer generations with Western society), or any combination therein. Whatever their reasons, Reformers desire radical change in the magical community from without, may want to take active roles in shaping the future of that community, and might just want to watch the world burn.

2) The Merit Of A Man - The Sovereignty Scale
Humanist - Cooperator - Magocrat

Is nagic helpful? Is magic being held back by The Anonymity Mandate? Should magic's curators, covetors and practicioners be in charge of the direction life on Earth is headed given its dwindling resources and ecological instability? These are difficult questions, but ask a nage and they'll probably have something of an answer.

Humanist - Humanists, at their heart, believe that something is wrong with humanity. A humanist mage, at their heart, believes that something is wrong with themselves. Mage or mortal, a humanist believes that that something is magic. Magic is useful, certainly learning to use and control one's own magical affinity is necessary to a mage's survival, but it is dangerous or the life of a mage wouldn't be so perilous for themselves and others. Magic is powerful, but if power corrupts absolutely isn't magic just as hugely pernicious as money? Whether it results in adopting isolationist policies, thaumanthropy (like the Salem witch trials, etc), or just raw guilt, humanists have a hard time accepting magic as a part of life, let alone their personal lives. If push comes to shove, humanists believe that the world would be better off without magic. If the tension between non-magi and mages is any indication... the humanists might be right.

Cooperator - Magic is mysterious. Human affinities for it come in all sorts of flavors; rarely for instance do any two pyromancers see or shape flame in the same way. Magic also seems to respond to every new human invention, every new lifestyle. They interlace, and in any Cooperator's mind, you can't really have one without the other. Mages need to be able to work reality in the ways man kind otherwise can not, and humans have more time for the realities not even magic can change. Coexistence is at the heart of what cooperators believe about magic. Magic will always come back to surprise the world as it grows and changes, and magic will always fall short of solving the world's greatest problems.

Magocrat - Whatever you care to say about a mage, they have one thing non-mages don't: magic. Magic is power. Magic is influence. It's one of the most crucial forces in human life. It shaped our prehistory, pervades all of our most ancient cultures, and most importantly, dominated them. Ask a perfectly rational person how the Mongol Empire conquered most of Eurasia within the span of less than a half-century, and they'll be able to point to a number of socioeconomic factors, the state of warfare in many of the countries that fell, and use many of those examples to explain why what was known as the Mongol Empire seemed to evaporate just as quickly. A Magocrat will be quick to remind you of how readily accepted mages were in Mongol society, how enlightenment era ideals had a profoundly positive effect on how mages were viewed elsewhere, and how really the disappearance of the Mongol Empire was just mages staking the claims they'd always ibntended to make in the first place. And there'll be grains of truth in each of their points. Whether anonymous or apparent, Magocrats believe that mages should rule men and that magic should rule mankind--and many of them are just as likely to believe that it always has.

@FrankenDaughter I dig how that beautiful brain works

@FrankenDaughter I dig how that beautiful brain works

Same.

Really interesting read, Frank.

Writing up a post now, but tiredness is kinda slowing that down at the moment. Post will be soonish!

@Strange Rodent Don't write yourself to sleep! You still have time.

Ok Everyone, Given how long the collabs are, and the amount of formatting I am going to have to do on at least one of them; I am willing to push the Collab Deadline to Sunday.

Single posters will still have the Friday deadline.

Also, thank you to the people who have given me a status update :)

This is coming together really nicely

"...previous course covered magical history at large. But there are just as many impotents that have had an influence on how we think about and use magic... and if you've been paying attention you can already guess some of the historic events I'll be covering in detail today. Advances in photography and videography and how they've shaped the way illusionists more quickly and accurately develop their abilities, microscope technology and how it facilitates development of magics dealing in biology and diminutive telekinesis... but think about this.

Aetheric studies from a technological perspective have always been extremely limited. Mages with the ability to see and manipulate aether can't lend their affinity to others, western and eastern magical doctrines still haven't resolved why aether and chi behave the same but are manipulated in drastically different ways after hundreds of years of being aware of their near sameness, and worst of all there aren't computers capable of performing the mathematical functions that aether works with... or, there weren't. Quantum computation does, though. And even in its infancy, VR has already proven that with the right tools new magical affinities can be taught. We may finally be reaching a breakthrough in the study of Aether of a magnitude equaling Euclidean Arcana or the Old Dynasty texts.

But by the end of this semester, you'll understand how all of this came to be.

Technomagical Synthesis is one of the only practical magical theories that has stood the test of time, and it was a theory posited separately by civilizations in ancient South America, Eurasia and Africa within less than two centuries of one another. Chronologically, ancient Central Ame..."

-Magical History And Culture 102: Technomagical Studies; Lecturer Danielle Rajaan

Thanks to everyone for posting so far. I think most things seem to be wrapping up. I am going to extend the single post deadline to Sunday. This is what I have so far:

Dark Shadow
Aloysius - Auction
Lana - Auction
Ty - Auction
Circe - Death Spree (Completed)
Rufus - Destruction (Completed)
Luka - Intro Post (Completed)
Poet - Intro Post (Completed)
Emily - Intro Post (Exempt)

The Guild
Salem - Auction
Aliira - Auction
Lizzie - Around the Guild (Exempt)
Zeke - City Patrol
Augie - City Patrol
David - Around the Guild
Nicola - Intro Post (Exempt)

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@HaleyTheRandom @PureHeroine @Cerces22 @Grape @Strange Rodent @FrankenDaughter @SouffleGirl123 @Zakattacks @The Grey Dust

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A big thank you for all of your writings for the second cycle. I know some posts have been hard, but we still getting into the swing of things here. Everything will start to pick up from here. Alot of these posts are going to be reactions the morning after i imagine to what went on at the auction.

So there are a few things that we need to cover in this cycle, i encourage you to talk to your fellow RPers and see if we can get a few things set up. Please Note, that we don't need to do all of these in this cycle. Some can be only done this cycle, others can wait :)

So things to do:

Guild
- Someone needs to find Lizs body and Circe's message (Preferably this cycle. If you are stuck on ideas do let me know)
- We need to introduce Nicola (I am thinking perhaps we can reboot the training collab for David and possibly Augie)
- Salem and Aliira need to reflect on what happened last night.
- Investigate the mass murders and Lizzie's death

Dark Shadow
- Aloysius needs to go find a corner to cry in
- Lana can if she so wishes explore the time cubes given to her by Salem
- Lana can also do some training with Aloysius (We could use this as the intro for Emily)
- Emily needs to be introduced.
- Poet needs to be introduced to the DS proper (I can imagine this being a brief collab between Poet Luka and one other character. Rufus is my current choice)
- Aloysius needs to shout at Circe for killing too many people.

So with that in mind I have created a prototype schedule of what I think we should have happen. This is not final, and you are not obliged to do this. If you want to do something else just say, this is just merely a guideline:

Dark Shadow
Aloysius - Dual Post - Sulk about Ty, Training (Both/Or Lana & Emily)
Lana - Training or TimeCubes
Ty - DEAD :'( (WHY!!!!!)
Circe - Being shouted at for killing too many people
Rufus - Welcoming Poet to DS
Luka - Welcoming Poet to DS
Poet - DS Intro
Emily - Training Collab

The Guild
Salem - Talking with Aliira about last night / plotting plan
Aliira - Talking with Salem about last night / plotting plan
Zeke - Finding Liz's body, doing a brief investigation of the scene
Augie - Training with Nicola
David - Training with Nicola
Nicola - Training Guild Members

Artemis
I am tempted to sit this cycle out and have them go underground again. If i do think of something it will be in your PMs

If you need anything, then do please message me, or Haley (Though please PM Haley on guild, not discord. Also don't expect a response right away)

I also hope you all enjoyed the Auction post :)

EDIT: I forgot to say that the deadline for these posts is not next Friday, but the Friday after

Alright then. Shall we use meetingwords for a training collab? It's piratepad but more stable

Use whatever you are comfortable with. Gdocs tends to be preferred, unless you are collabing with Haley xD