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Initiating a reboot wouldn't be hard to do.. ICly, it would take some justifiable work... could be accomplished by many methods - such as having an approved super power not "played" but just wrote about performing an action. Or the repair of rifts and lesions, fixing the 'temporal' tears as it were, could itself potentially act as a catalyst to reboot many aspects. There's a million ways you could accomplish that.

Still, not everybody would acknowledge it, that goes without saying. You would still have role players acting out their own parallel version of the universe, their own alternate reality, or perhaps an overlapped planar world - etc.; but it's a fun idea.
 
I know mine went with fantasy/medieval with additions of steampunk and alternate magitech stylings. I remember the chaos of the old ayenee days though in chat where a sports car could role up to my castle. Meanwhile everyone looks at that asshole as they ride on horseback. I remember getting in arguments with people trying to destroy the castle with spaceships and we would use magic to stop them. Then the chat would devolve into a magic vs tech battle. There are some things I enjoy about keeping some of it separate. Though the Ayenee time breaches have lessened on that affront. Once the forums came along things started to segregate into time periods.

Ulyssiask I like that idea, honestly the time rifts are most likely a danger to not only all Ayenee, but every Ayenee past, present, future, and alternative. Maybe some of the turmoil and strife spilling out into the land is a result of those? What if suddenly millions of drows appeared attacking the capital a spill over from some alternate timelines attack. Even entire countries disappeared in temporal shifts.
 
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It's all very possible and a perfect explanation..

I've never liked mixing the two - tech and magic, unless I was doing so in an intended environment. My main character, Uly, is generally always exclusive to medieval/ancient settings.. and I try to make that obvious, and like Raven, sometimes provide disclaimers that I will not acknowledge anything but...

I do acknowledge magick, powers, all kinds of stuff... just not modern or future tech. Not with him, at least.

But I'm certainly willing to contribute in any way I can, should any of the possibilities be pursued.
 
A plot for now would be good, something in the air that people and begin to weave into their stories. Unless we are all just going to get drunk in a tavern, or kill faceless npcs. I lack the resources for shouldering some sort of large scale plot, mainly because all the Darkthorne players have vanished over the years with the shifting of rp bases. I've noticed the numbers slowly trickle away with every move. Now after a five year hiatus they are non-existent. I am the last of many clans though, chyvotil, candlebane, blackblood, stormriders, pendragon, blackthorne, ravenheart, blackrose, grastari, and yeogilrymmin. I have no delusions that things will ever be the same or that it will be easy to rebuild a player base.
 
I'm the last from those I originally played with...

I met Raven far in, during the Aoyn days, long after either of us had already exhausted many of our better days.. but I certainly am not giving up rp altogether, and neither is she I believe..

She has more in her ranks. I'm a lone wanderer at this point, who just jumps in where I fit in.
 
Ayenee is good without a story. There doesn't always have to be a plot to each day of a person's life.
 
No, there doesn't.. but direction helps.

I've noticed a trend.. the realms of old didn't have an overall connected theme or canon - they had several on going plots by individuals and/or groups, and it was more or less a free for all, with and sometimes without a set of limitations and statutes..

The realms of old have also faded, quite drastically.

All of the successors - the now popular and successful - forums/realms/communities.. seem to have the recurring theme of a canon, a world connected by certain events or type of commonality.

It's food for thought. Sometimes, if one refuses to shed the weight of antiquities, one perishes with their past.
 
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My forums usually had an over all arcing plot. Anyone could dish out sub plots, but at the end of the day there was a looming big bad. That sometimes tied together enemies and forced them to fight a common foe. Usually these overall arcs would take as much as two years to see completed. The longest one I had running was the Dark Effigy which went from 2000 to 2005 after which I started the Nightmare lord which ended in 2012. I think every good story needs some sort of background bad guy, be it an actual bad guy or just some sort of event.
 
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Also in agreement. Having information to explain actions that ties into an overplot that players can interact with, even if the overplot is meaningless and does not otherwise progress, makes the world feel more real and can help people not have to come up with explanations.
 
Right? I mean...

I'm very unconcerned with political movements in general. I'm perfectly content with living my happy little southern life, secluded and sound, without all the fuss of the world.

BUT... I'd be lying if I said, much like most, I haven't ocassionally made decisions based on world events. Hurricane coming? I'll buy some water and supplies in advance. Riots and civil unrest? Let me add some home security measures. Work looking slow because of economic conditions? Let me adjust my budget..

We're a product of our environment... and so, too, should put characters be.
 
For example purposes, here's one of the calendars I use in my RP: Yamataian Calendar

Some thoughts:
  • The Ayenee calendar doesn't necessarily have to be 365 days (the example only has 350).
  • We can make up our own names for months and days if we want.
  • We should have some way that IRL and IC years line up so we can have a general idea of where to place "loose" events on the Ayenee timeline.
  • The actual years are arbitrary, the important part is the order things happened in.
  • Once we have a timeline it's just a matter of "attaching" past events to the appropriate place on the timeline so they're in a sensible order.
  • In the example of Yamatai's calendar, originally there was not a solid relationship between IC and OOC time. As the RP stabilized, we settled on matching up the years (although RP is flexible and some plots are happening at different points in time).
A key question is how much time do we want to say has passed since Ayenee's "golden age?" Obviously there hasn't been a lot of RP in the meantime, but that doesn't mean time hasn't passed. And in a way, the passage of time helps explain why Ayenee is so different and perhaps lonelier now.
 
It's been a long time since I've been here, but I was roleplaying in Ayenee and Eden for a very long time. I have some input here, but I don't know if it's welcome. I didn't post much in this forum, to be honest.
 
I took the liberty of making an event The crash of the Comet Yahell, named after a pagan deity of creation and destruction as a marker for changing terrain and political factions. It is basically the moment that Yahoo took down the user chat rooms. After that most rp landscapes were set in stone on some forum or another, there was very little rise of new kingdoms and lands. I would assume then that the comet took out a huge chunk of the Ayenee ever birthing landscape and left it some huddled mass of livable space. It is also a good explanation for the decline in population and the die off of species. I rather like the explanation.

It would also be a good reason behind temporal rifts and planar fragility.
 
So basically there would be some sort of nuclear winter type thing still happening or recently ended in "present day" Ayenee? Basically covering the "dark ages" between the golden era and now?
 
Recently ended sounds good because as people slowly return it is much like survivors emerging from the rubble and trying to find a place in the new landscape, trying to rebuild some ideal. Metaphors and imagery in Ayenee go hand in hand. The golden age, where immigration and population boom happened were 98 to 2005, then boom. The few kingdoms that remained after 2005 went to forums and if you counted them compared to the long list of fictional kingdoms on yahoo profiles or backstories, the list was small. Now count them and its over half. We live in the era of rebuilding both literally and storywise. Its most likely chaos on the surface a struggle for survival and what few bastions of civilization that remain are lighthouses in a dark stormy sea of fear, doubt, hunger, and just basic comfort and safety.

I would imagine though some places are very much a nuclear winter, where little life can survive, but the outer lying lands away from the central point of disaster, would be considered livable. I know of a few kingdoms that were allies of my rps that no longer exist and haven't existed since 2005.
 
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I would agree as well. ' Recently ended ' does make for a better or renewed start for those, like myself, who have rediscovered that Ayenee still exists and slowly returning home.
 
All sounds awesome... although I'm highly unlikely to role play my character in 'present' settings. I don't even acknowledge the existence of tech with my character.. and I've given up on trying to play other character roles for some time now... might give it a try sooner or later, as my present role play is seemingly... dead.
 
Maybe do some sort of gradual introduction between the two. Have tech users rely on their Tech and magic users rely on magic. There is no present setting in Ayenee though, it was a huge spectrum of times once, even structuralized the idea of "present" is questionably defined. I don't expect to see anyone driving around in a new car, maybe expect to see some rust covered shell of a car from a time period my character skipped over. I don't expect to see people using smart phones.

I don't even think Ayenee would have ever had smart phones, what with magical means of communicating and enchantments. I doubt that technology was ever researched in Ayenee. Cars I can see, but smart phones and computers I don't. I could enchant a rock to be a tome of knowledge that imparts its wisdom on anyone who touches it, why would I need a box that constantly wants me to update windows and buy new graphics cards?

I do however think computers might have been something future tech based since it would be required for space travel in a place where magic portals and teleportation and planar grafting don't exist, or a place where people that can use magic don't exist, not that magic doesn't exist parse. I have rped few modern or future settings, mainly because if I can choose magic or swords I usually do.
 
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