Event #1: Bionicle (mostly) ends.
Event #2: Bionicle news of the kinds we covered before lessens, naturally.
Event #3: BZPower news service branches out to cover fan creations (yay!), other Bionicle-like LEGO lines like Hero Factory, and even other LEGO news in general.
Event #4: In talkback after talkback, a certain group of members choruses "this is BZPower, not (insert specific acronym per story)ZPower, you guys are desperate for news, blah blah blah whine whine whine."
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Hey, I just wanted to quickly apologize for not being very active lately, keeping up with things, etc. Unfortunately, you can expect this to continue for the next few weeks, so if I seem to be ignoring questions, etc. please bear with me.
*man, that was a boring blog entry...*
In other news, sorry I've been neglecting Unseen and The Dynasty; have been writing the next Cipher Chronicles episode. Got three and a half chapters so far. And yes, Tyrants results are coming soon, please bear with us as we're very busy. Not much else to report at this time. Enjoy the contest!
1) Major Expanded Multiverse announcement. Takuta-Nui -- author of the third Cipher Chronicles episode, Library staff member, active in the Library etc. has joined Swert and myself as the folks in charge of the Multiverse. Thanks for joining the team, TN. We look forward to working with him on the Cipher Chronicles' story development, choices of guest authors, and more.
2) Hero Factory site villain creator is fun. I made four.
Piston Troll
Tankclops
Squidbot
Helicreepter
Artwork topic for Twisted Island, with a lot of new pics, just posted. Enjoy!
Some of the art, just to give you a taste (this is NOT the best art in there, so view the topic ):
A topic for many new BP masks (greats of nobles and vice versa) is coming soon, maybe next week.
Today the Bones Blog continues with the final few chapters of Unseen, the Bionicle Paracosmos short epic slow-reveal of the winner of the Monster Mystery Art contest. Chapter 9 reveals for the first time the top three winners. Note that the order they're presented here has been randomized three times, so you can't know which was top winner yet.
Previous Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Chapter 9
In Ta-Metru…
Hujo awoke to a prodding in his shoulder. Blinked his eyes open.
The two lost in the Dataclysm are back (well, the second, as a short epic, is not fully posted yet). Both have been improved from the original.
AC#3 is coming soon.
Today the Bones Blog continues with the final few chapters of Unseen, the Bionicle Paracosmos short epic slow-reveal of the winner of the Monster Mystery Art contest. Chapter 8 is 8 pages long, rather than the 6 average of the previous chapters. There will most likely be three more chapters plus an epilogue.
Previous Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Chapter 8
Taureko and Mohrook have just been blasted out of a Coliseum window by the Trickster villain, after trying to send a citywide
It took a long time, but we finally have the results of the Blue MOCs contest ready. This contest asked the members to post old or new MOCs that used the color scheme blue mostly.
Winning MOCs would either get featured in the upcoming Bionicle Paracosmos epic Endless Blue, about a sea quest by Bhukasa to solve the mystery of a ship-based enemy on Mata Nui that seems to know deep mysteries about the Paracosmos Matoran Universe. Many may also get used in a later story, since blue characters ar
Alright, so if you haven't looked at S&T lately, check out the new announcement about a system Greg is starting -- the Bionicle Story Squad. I am a member, and look forward to working with the fans.
A big reason this is being done is because lately there have been a lot of (many valid) criticisms of the tendency to officialize fan ideas lately. This team will primarily poll ideas before anything is decided, to hopefully address this criticism. There have been a lot of myths and misconcep
Welcome to the next Bones Blog MOC contest!
One of the most frequent set-related complaints I have seen posted on our forums is that certain Bionicle parts are supposedly "unMOCable" -- impossible to use in a Bionicle building creation in any way other than the original way the part was intended. Victims of this accusation range from Rhotuka spinners to Piraka spines.
I challenge that anti-imagination claim, and you should too.
Here's your big chance to prove the naysayers wrong -- e
Today the Bones Blog brings you Chapter Seven of this Bionicle Paracosmos blog-exclusive "Adventure Mystery" short epic, which serves as a slow-reveal of the winner of the Monster Mystery Art contest.
Previous Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Chapter 7
In a tunnel near the apparent lair of the Unseen monster, I was barely conscious in a strange state similar to shock and moments away from certain defeat…
Hujo lapsed in and out of consciousness as the blue energy bubble of the Songsphe
The following top winners of the Multiverse Guide Art contest (see the Results entry for the full array of winning images) are invited to create more art in specific remaining art slots. Congratulations to:
Chrome -- photorealistic style
A-Janus -- good at logos and other simple things
Veq -- good at sketches and stylized computer art
lewathetoa -- incredibly detailed paper art
MechaFizz -- very good at computer art
Shadow Velocity -- stunning computer art
Kayru -- high quality paper ar
Today the Bones Blog brings you Chapter Six of this Bionicle Paracosmos blog-exclusive "Adventure Mystery" short epic, which serves as a slow-reveal of the winner of the Monster Mystery Art contest.
Previous Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Chapter 6
In a dark tunnel under Le-Wahi, I was running for my life from the Unseen Monster…
Hujo managed only one thought as he ran in terror, as sounds of stomping on broken glass shards echoed throughout the chamber… as an unimaginably deep-pitched
Today the Bones Blog brings you Chapter Five of this Bionicle Paracosmos blog-exclusive "Adventure Mystery" short epic, which serves as a slow-reveal of the winner of the Monster Mystery Art contest.
Previous Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Chapter 5
In and around the apparent cavern lair of the Unseen Monster, I was busy triangulating the source of a wide-range power nulling field that blinded my Soulsong sense…
Two borders found, one to go.
Hujo had carefully snuck along one of the brok
A while back, I posted an entry entitled "Friends Can Disagree." Inspired by something Dokuma said (with whom I have disagreed often ), it challenges the foolish and all too common feeling many people have that a friend is someone who agrees totally (or even mostly) with you (and so they turn cold... or worse... towards anyone who dares express a disagreement).
Today I wanna take it a step farther.
It has occured to me recently that only with a friend can you truly disagree.
"But bon
Today the Bones Blog brings you Chapter Four of this Bionicle Paracosmos blog-exclusive "Adventure Mystery" short epic, which serves as a slow-reveal of the winner of the Monster Mystery Art contest.
Previous Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3
Chapter 4
In Le-Metru, I had just entered the cave that the Unseen Monster used to leave the scene of its kidnapping…
Hujo ran down the cave, holding his Blue Fire Staff up for light, and staying partly in his trance state so he could sense the Monster’s path
Entry List is up to date.
There are a number of comments with problem entries under Powers. Anyone who wrote a Powers entry should look through.
All MOCs except one qualified.
I won't have time today to send out the PMs, so the final week for the edit period has NOT started yet. I'll probably try to send the PMs out tomorrow, after rechecking the list against all entries to make sure none were missed (with one sole exception hopefully/apparently, that will be looked into), then
Two major Multiverse updates today.
(1)
Swert's episode has begun. Go there. Read it. Review it. Enjoy.
(2)
RESULTS
Myself, Ojhilom, and Swert all went through all the entries, and we have made our decision. The following works of art have won the contest and are now in the draft of the next version of the Multiverse Guide PDF (which I hope to get online for download tomorrow).
There are three twists we must announce to this.
First, in a tiny number of the art sl
Okay, so a lot of people wanna talk about my posting style, and VB polls and Hero Factory topics are not the place to do it. I already have a blog entry where yall could post comments like that, but then that's a blog entry that dwarfs most of the posts in question, so yeah. XD Whine here.
(I mean... comment here. No whining. )
In my defense, usually all I'm doing in terms of length compared to others is responding with about the same amount of content that others use. But they tend to sp
Hey, Multiverse fans, got some goodies for you today. First, Swert is making good progess on the next Cipher Chronicles episode, and he wanted me to tease the prologue today. Here you go!
For the moment, this story is untitled. Swert wants your opinions for a title. Add comments.
This episode is set on the volcanic Tyrant planet of Tanuuk, focusing on Khiri and Bajnok's attempts to escape that planet and join Team Cipher. Swert also says: "(and for fun, mention the fact this is the firs
Okay, a lot of people have been volunteering to help with EM reference stuff, and until now that's not been possible. Until now. Until now. Whee.
Keep in mind, all I've created is a skeleton with no content yet.
With that in mind, here's the big reveal.
In Other News: I also made spiffy new banners for the Discussion Topic and Story Submission Topic. Also, Swert and I have picked the winners for the Multiverse Guide Art blog contest; I'll try to announce them shortly,
