Voidus

Hello everyone! Voidus here again for this months segment on the RPs and social groups! We've got some progress on some newer RPs involving Wizards, Jedi, and the Wheel of Time. There's also some wonderful roleplaying in Oregon, and we also talk about the Awkward Knights, the featured social guild this month. Roleplaying Games The Hogwarts Roleplay ‘Owls and wands’ is making some steady progress, with a war now being waged between House-elves and doxies as the students begin to make their way off the train and towards the castle. And a certain roleplayer who always creates too many characters has begun to write for some of Hogwarts’ many portraits. It’s never too late to join so if you want to be a house elf, a portrait, a student or an enchanted stair drop on by the Hogwarts RP discussion thread! The Star Wars RP is the place to be for all fans of sci-fi, with a fractured galaxy, the eternal conflict between sith and Jedi still brewing and of course, freaking Lightsabers! The third age RPG looks like it may be getting underway as well, a wheel of time RPG set towards the end of the breaking, a time when Saidin and the male chanellers have almost been contained but are still destroying the world. The beginning of an era has had some activity too, with the game now shifting to the elusive Nightingales and an elaborate heist planned to be underway. Reckoners stuff Now on to the RP of Ages: The Reckoners RP, six threads, hundreds of posts, a non-canon thread stuffed to the brim with nonsense, thousands of pages of Questions threads filled with insanity and somehow still no dead Nighthound. Well hopefully someone figures out his weakness this month. What Happened in the last month: The Wastelands has continued its progress, a bomb has gone off in Adelaide, a flying city hosted a party including the country’s resident transporter and informant Seastrider and Sydney has become active again as well! But it is an entire country and there’s always room for more roleplayers! In the Dalles the insanity in Doctor Games’ clinic continues as a bewildered Epic named Scribbler is now being assaulted with friendliness not only from the pathologically flirtatious Shiny Sparkles but also the Dalles’ resident Epic fangirl, Lyla! Some fantastic writing from Quiver has shown us that non-superpowered characters can be just as interesting as Epics. And the long awaited arrival of Scribbler’s squid has shown us that… er, squids are cool? Salem has received some TLC from Mckeedee who has provided some much needed worldbuilding to the city and established some new potential plots, would you like to participate in a murder mystery? How about becoming a member of a gang? Or would you just like to participate in the kill or be killed but no one actually dies ( also known as KobKbNOAD) environment of the arena? Salem has it all! Well except for a safe environment for raising children. That's rather hard to come by in the Reckonerverse. Portland has received some resurrections of long abandoned characters as Candyflame becomes active in the museum again, and a long awaited visitor waits for Doctor Funtimes to return. Meanwhile back at the museum it seems that Adelmo has discovered the secret to manipulating Backtrack: to make any sort of vaguely threatening remark. Featured Character: Doctor Funtimes Doctor Funtimes is perhaps the most visible character in Portland, although she is a new arrival compared to some of the cities other Epics she has made a lot of impact on the city in her short time there. From turning a bank and headquarters of one of the cities factions into a bouncy castle to making a giant flying museum there’s not a person in the city who has failed to see the effects of her genius and/or insanity. A matter manipulator, teleporter and an engineering prodigy she has created some truly astonishing devices in her time at Portland. And while her insanity and flamboyance were so challenging that she didn’t even get a viewpoint for a significant length of time she is certainly one of the RPs most beloved Epics and we all hope that she can get over some of her darker issues and become Empress Funtimes and shower the city with pancakes. Featured Event: The Attack of the Pandas Well I may have said this last month as well but this is one of the most Reckoners-RP like events to ever occur in the RP. What would happen if a forest spontaneously grew around one of the last non-Epic run cities in the country? This event aimed to answer that question and also throw in an army of sentient pandas for good measure. Whether the Epic known as the Radiant Panda intended simply to confuse the Dalles into submission or actually defeat them in battle is an unknown but his tactics were as interesting and insane as you would expect from an Epic that turned themself into a flying panda. From secret ninja panda corps to literal flying pigs dropping off payloads of rabid squirrels, this was one of the more creative attempts to take over a city that the Reckoknerverse has seen. The Dalles managed to successfully fight off the invasion though not without a cost. The city guard and its Epics were joined by some newcomers in fighting off the animal hordes, and while some of those Epics were content to leave the city, others have instead stuck around and caused mischief. Indeed, one Epic's use of her powers during this battle resulted in her becoming corrupted and she is now an enemy of the Dalles. But still this attack did ultimately lead to Reader getting punched in the face, Arsenal having his socks turned pink and a lot of fun writing ways to defeat pandas in combat. Social Groups The social groups have all seen some activity this month as well, with some resurgence in the saving Guildonia Roleplay, and some new posts in a lot of the different guilds it’s never too late to join a guild, for example… Featured Guild: The Knights Awkward The knights awkward is almost a year old now, which is both exciting and also reminds me how old I am since I consider this one of the newer guilds. But being old is no bar to being awkward! And whatever brand of awkward you might be, the Knights Awkward has an order for you! That’s right, you can speak again the awkward oaths, bond an awkwardspren and join an order of the Knights Awkward, whether you’re a Referencecaller, a Theoryweaver or even one of the dreaded Alleywatchers there are oaths for you to take, books for you to read and people for you to be awkward around! Well unless you’re a Spambringer, we’ve been through the last Spamolation already so now they get banned on sight. So drop by Awkward Keep and say hello to Mistrunner and the other Knights Awkward. (Don’t be scared if everyone runs away when you drop in, that’s perfectly normal) Well that’s it for this time, big thanks to the GMs of the various RPs, the heads of the multitude of social guilds and of course the other writers who have made them all into such amazing places. And also the admins for putting up with us all! See you next month! Thanks again everyone! -Voidus