Riisiing Moon

You guys better not steal this. I probably know someone who has contact with a lawyer or a lawyer's friend. So, the RPG would be set at sea. Instead of submitting character profiles, you'd submit a profile for your ship--ship type, weaponry, allegiance (which, of course, depends on what the plot is), etc. You'd be able to upgrade all that junk based on your success throughout the game in the areas of battle and civilization-building. How, you inquire, does one battle and build civilization? Well, you'd have control of the entire crew of your ship, and based on your efforts in the realms of battling and building civilization you'd receive upgrades! But wait, RM, how do you have any kinda personal interaction with your buddies when you control entire crews? But wait, RM, how can you keep track of the entire crew's whereabouts? Well, in addition to your ship's profile, you'd submit a relatively short profile for your captain, who's the main focus of the RPG. The crewmen would be something between PCs and NPCs--controllable for the sake of battles and civilization-building and such, but one-dimensional, 'flat' characters who can't play as much of an RPing role (lol role-playing role) as the captain. If you wanna flesh out a crew member or twelve, all you gotta do is submit a profile for 'em and get going. This is an extremely rough draft of an idea, so there'll be lots of holes. Please point them out so I can figure out solutions, or if you think it's entirely bogus scrap it all together. Thoughts?

1/5. Never heard of you, which is funky considering how long you've been on here.

There should totally be a member-run greeting club--like, non-staff, since they already got the whole NMQ&A thing going on, which is totally effective but rather impersonal.

Despair--HAHA yes, with Dracula and the Count from Sesame Street. CG--I guess. I feel like I have to compensate by having a spree of activity to make my name known.

Ah. Makes sense now. Yeah, Bonesiii said it, but FT's equally genius. Still, this doesn't change the fact that I don't know any of you guys. It's freakin' weird.

That comment confizzled me miserably, I'm not gonna lie.

IC--Beast [Final Problem]Beast growled. His noises gradually took influence from larger and larger animals. "Gentlemen. If you don't sit down and play a harmless game of poker in this casino I will personally pummel both of you directly into the ground." He rose, standing a broad ten feet tall, arms crossed in confident poise.

Hey, to quote a sage, it's not the post count, it's the posts that count. ... Props though.

It's done when you're done. At least that's how I work--every author's different, obviously. The way I see it, if you try to establish a set number of words or pages or whatever for every piece you write, you lose the whole asset of length to begin with. Brevity gets across great points, and length gets across great points. If a chapter's describing the interaction between the main char and a stranger, you can describe his every thought and guide the chapter with flowery description of the stranger's appearance and personality, the wordier and more graphic approach; or you can get rid of all but dialogue and focus more on what's said, how it's said, and the response to it, letting the words imply a whole lot more than you need to explicitly say.

IC--Beast [Final Problem]Now he was getting annoyed. His entire frame leaned toward Kinika, the table tilting with it. His expression was one of primal menace. "It's your turn."

BZP's glory days are over because PEOPLE LIKE YOU WON'T MAKE NEW ONES :spank:But in all seriousness, I think a lot of the loss of faith in BZP is due to boredom. Everyone on here is just so used to BZP, and it's the same routine posting and blogging and RPing and interaction, all that junk. Before the reboot--and even more so before Bionicle's end--we had both updates in the Bionicle storyline, and activity by relatively newer members to give us the energy and vitality we needed to keep BZP monstrously interesting. Now that both of those things are gone, we have to pick up the torch ourselves and do something different. I get how cheesy that sounds, but I really feel like if you want to have some great memories on BZP like the ones you have about the old one, you gotta make 'em.On a more general note, BZP is really an incredible place, to put it simply. Gata put it best--It's really the site I've ever actually loved, ever felt a personal connection to, and was genuinely sad about leaving. It's like when there's a lull in activity there's a lull in that part of me that's tied to it. There's just so much to do on here, and in every facet of BZP there's an immense sense of community--the writing community, where everyone offers advice to everyone who needs it and offers reviews to everyone who asks for it (and pretty dang often doesn't ask for it); the RPing community, where everyone brings life to a world through interaction with each other, which in turn creates this awesome sense of unity; the blogging community, where everyone just lets all their thoughts on the world and on the thoughts of others loose, in a manner far more respectful and precocious than I've literally seen anywhere else on the Internet. You just don't see respect anywhere else like you do on here, and in pretty much every other website disrespect is accepted and unsurprising. For friends, strangers, and staff. And in every facet of BZP there're these amazingly talented individuals who voluntarily act as role models to everyone else in their community--it mows my blind.That's my rant. Hope you enjoyed it.

It looks like while I was gone a whole new league of active members formed--the guys who blog everyday and dominate GD are total strangers to me. Makes me feel kind of old and outdated, like I belong in the past and I'm rejected by the present. Rather than get to know them, I've decided to infiltrate their ranks and destroy them from within. League of Noobs, I have located your base and booby trapped your headquarters. My vengeance will not be satisfied until you beg at my feet for my mercy or offer me hot dogs because I'm hungry. The only way to avoid this terrible fate is to already know me. If my name's unfamiliar, you better watch your back. And your sides.

IC--Beast [Final Problem]Beast lowered his head in anticipation, glaring at Xylak. "No one's trying to start anything here. Calm down, boy." He turned sweetly to the waitress. "I'll have a Tarakava Lava."

IC--Beast [Final Problem]Beast snarled. No one was even drunk...this fight was pointless. He figured if there was going to be blood, it might as well be the result of some alcohol. "Drinks, gentlemen?" His voice was one of aggravation."Toa, it's your move." He sneered Kinika-ward.

Oh, hey Burnmad. ... Long time no see.

Oh Tom, how boss you are.Michicant--Bon Iver. Been getting so into folk rock.

But I edited ;_;Granted, but the family inside never left. And they smell and have swine flu.Now, I wish I had a guitar signed by Abraham Lincoln.

Granted, but I was too lazy to look at what your original wish was, so in my head I constructed an alternate reality in which your wish was for a pet crocodile. Alternate Riisiing Moon, who's actually a 43-year-old ex-convict for crimes he doesn't feel comfortable repeating on a children's forum, replies, 'Granted, but it eats all your pants.'I wish for a guitar signed by Abraham Lincoln.

*Wikipedia away*Huh. That was a good one. I guess I am to a certain extent--I don't find physical reality important enough to actually decide whether it exists, since all success roots from the mind anyhow. How's that for a cop-out?TBPM likes Jack White more than Jack Black.

What's with all these pointless blog posts no one can really respond to?

I mean, I think the point of a renaissance is revolution and evolution--as much as I miss that junk, I'd rather create new junk and be nostalgic about that in the future. Right now, it kind of feels like BZP is just missing something. There's no fascinatingly shocking RPG, no great writer with a massive following in any forum in Library or COT, no fads, no real legendary stuff going on. I guess a renaissance would renew the daily thrill BZP used to have in those categories.

So, the past week's been my first bout of any real activity on here since January, and even then I didn't really consider myself particularly active; I've been half out the door since the reboot, really. When I got back on here, I found that some of my thoughts and aspirations on BZP had been pretty radically changed--getting a post high count doesn't hold the same thrill it used to, and participation everywhere for the sake of participation everywhere is somehow less fulfilling.Over your time here, regardless of how long, how have your goals and opinions on BZP changed? Why do you think it went like that, and d'you think the change is permanent?

1/5. I see you joined recently...I haven't been on at all recently.