That thing I sentcha - Talkback, STORYLINE INFO IN HERE!

This is what I sent to everyone in light of recent activies.

Hello~ While it has been a while since we've done anything, I've been circulating ideas within my head about a new MAR RPG. Despite my best half saying "No! You've still got a Mecha RPG to finish!" I'm going to ignore it. Anyway, I'm not gonna say anything too much on it... but I'll give you SOME details.

New Host

I'm going to be using Zetaboards for this board, just to tell you. I find it a lot smoother to run, and easier to work on.

New Time

Think Fullmetal Alchemist's technology, minus cars and automail, and some magic-based machinery. Essentially, our MAR RPG is going to be in a setting that's part European Industrial Revolution, part Steampunk, with a good touch of the flare that made the MAR manga good.

New System

I'm going to implement a new battle system that a lot of you will like, hopefully. There will also be some literacy minimums in order to weed out some n00bs, and to make a much better roleplaying experience.

The basis of the system of sign-ups, roleplays, loots, level ups, etc. is that GOOD ROLEPLAYERS SHOULD BE REWARDED. Someone who can make their writing genuinely clever, interesting or funny should deserve the extra points instead of someone who simply does the same thing in a lazier way. I'm doing this not only to reward good roleplayers, but to encourage roleplayers to work harder on their posts. For example;

BAD: Alice sneaked across to try and stab Jack. (Wouldn't be considered good).

GOOD: Alice was quiet, as she scanned her surroundings. There was nothing but her target, as she managed to sigh. Everything was clear, no one would catch her. Her target was a boy named Jack, a bratty, spoiled rich kid and the next in line for the Throne of MAR Heaven. Jack's head would pay a pretty penny, as Alice was quick, running toward Jack, as she quickly drew her blade, aiming to penetrate Jack's skin with her dagger.

...and so on and so forth.

The idea of the battle system is that people shouldn't get levels just like that in one adventure, like some mods and admins were doing, they should be given levels based upon how much they've done. There are a few different types of threads.

Event Threads: Threads that are used in events like Cherry Blossom Festival, Birthdays, etc. They can be counted as a Adventure or Development thread.

Adventure Thread: Essentially, this could be a mission, a raiding, a tournament battle, a treasure hunt, essentially, any time you fight or gain gold, items, ARM, etc.

Development Thread: This could be a character development thread, a buying thread, a selling thread, a shop thread, a simply hopping through the daisies thread.

To gain a level, for example, level 1 you may need at least 1 development thread and 3 threads total to advance to level 2.

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Storyline

All right, let's get down to the storyline I've thought up...

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It's been 200 years since Ginta arrived in MAR Heaven. The Chess have been long forgotten, and MAR Heaven lives in a time of bliss, living their lives normally and peacefully. Over the last 200 years, an industrial revolution has happened, giving the people of MAR Heaven the power of steam for Machines and new ways of life. Of course, there'll always be a need for ARMs, as their new technologies haven't developed new weapons quite yet.

It seems that the peace has been going for quite a long time, however, some people seem to be bored with it. It's at this time, conveniently, that a diary Phantom of the Chess Pieces wrote is uncovered and information gathered about the Chess Pieces and Phantom are published through a book that spreads like wildfire across the country. The people bored of these freedoms seem to form together with the old ideals of Phantom and the Chess Pieces, and form a new Chess Pieces. The organization grows incredibly fast, and soon, they have the manpower to take on the government. However, there seems to be a problem... there isn't a definate leader of the Chess, and thus, arguments and fights begin. It's decided that the person with a Zombie Tattoo could only be their leader, and so they decide that the race is on for the position of King.

However, the Cross Guard seems to be unprepared for the war to come, thankfully, the race to find a leader seems to be going on with the Chess, so will that give the Cross Guard the time to organize?

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that's currently all I have. Anyway, I'll be opening up the new roleplay soon. I may just make War Game a discussion for what's to come.

Why not apply all of that to an entirely new roleplay? That's so far off of what Mar is, and I think everyone here hates mar by now, we might as well just make something entirely new.

It's really just based upon the idea of MAR, I wanted to advance things, and I think this would make things interesting.

And I'm making a NEW Marchen Awakens Romance RPG, not a revival of war game. My idea is too different from War Game to be War Game.

Ever heard of hidden relms? They have a good idea.


Their roleplay is set in a fantasy world, and some things aren't very original, but they have a great community, very excellent way to weed out noobs via the bio making process, a huge archive of info on everything to flesh out the storyline, setting, and other info, and they have a good system with lots of freedom, not based on any one thing.

We need to do something similar if we want to not fall apart. That means we must all contribute to creating our own original roleplay, we take what we like from other series along the way. MAR is not flying anymore no matter how much you warp the storyline. But your work won't go down the drain as we can easily take it and reconfigure it for a new rp.

This.

I guess I'm gonna crack under pressure and say yes. The idea. after looking over it again, is too far off from MAR, so I declare we do an original fantasy RPG.

Well, for one, I think we should put the chat box back into its original position and place the Jukebox adjacent to it. Its a little deceiving when you see a something else other than an announcements column at the header of a site. And no, MAR ain' t dead. Its concept still lives on. Primarily, when we look at a MAR RP site, we do not move towards utilizing pre-fabricated scenarios such as the wargame and excetra. Neither do most of us want to get into the shoes of the many poorly created Cannon Characters in MAR(not to mention the most cliched main character ever created...). What we do loojk for is the theme of heavy, unrestrained, ludicrous fantasy. We also look at the concept of ARMs and Factions! The ARMs system in my opinion is extremely imaginative and easy to play around. So, i suggest we stick to the grounding concepts of MAR but, build a new, more imaginative and flexible story over it.

Glad to have you back though, Blader. But I wonder, what was the reason this RP rolled over and died as many times as it has? The causes of this sites many falls in my opinion was the inactivity of members. I' m really sure that I'm stating the obvious as I myself contributed to this cause. So, like I stated in the latter paragraph, screw a new RP altogether. We already have something big here, we might as well work on it.

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Ginta aside, MÄR is FULL of awesome, original characters. That's what saves it from the trite storyline.

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Lol original?

"Yeah guys, let's rip off fairy tales, that's real damned original! Here we have a monkey-looking kid with a battle shovel, here we have a witch with boobs who is two years older than the main character and has a crush on him, here we have the shy girl who can fight well and also has a crush on the main character, the pretty boy thief, and a ton of other characters!!!"

Personality wise. >: Plus, how many other series have ugly main characters that are actually good guys? If you're reading that Twilight shit, good guys = pretty, bad guys = ugly! LOL OMG ^___^

Plus, the Chess~ DDD:

Ok, but it always ticks me off that Anime-worlds answer to everything IS A BIG ASS SWORD!!!!!! Seriously, when is the last time any Anime Character ever solved their problems using a gun, a tazer, diplomacy, or anything but a giant ass sword.

The general mentality seems to be that if it isn't working, your sword must not be big enough, so go Bankai, pump it up even bigger, get stabbed a few times as bleeding to death=power-up, and tell yourself you will never give up as it will all heal the next day anyways.

But yeah, I agree. In every anime, all the good guys MUST be pretty OR ELSE. MAR took a good step away from that particular cliche.....but then they ruined it by coming up with a bad-guy only Japan could come up with.


"The chess pieces....they have l337 magic, and masks, and they are coming to get you 'n shit...run fr00b".

Just gonna point out that when Ichigo goes Bankai, his sword gets SMALLER.

I introduce you to Soul Eater? Death The Kid uses twin pistols, and the main character uses a scythe. A Big Ass Scythe, but still a scythe.

Or Hetalia... the only time they use swords is when they're covering things that happened in the middle ages. All of the WWII/ American Revolution/ what have you comics use guns.

Not to mention, usually Naruto solves shit with a random Justu, in DBZ they beat the shit out of each other with their fists, in Yu Yu Hakusho, they beat each other up with fists, and with One Piece, they beat the shit out of people with rubber fists!

Good times... good times.

Anyway, may might just use the ARM system for Magic or weapons or magical weapons in general.

I was thinking the setting could be something like Steampunk meets Fullmetal Alchemist meets Soul Eater meets D. Gray-man.

...Please?

Alright then, now that we' ve got the problem of how fictional characters massacare each other solved, shall we get on to actually planning out a story and a resolution to our current period of stagnantation(This is worse than the Soviet Union' s Gerintocracy....)?

And arn' t we already using the ARMs system for a general range of magical equipment? Anyway, the steam punk/e.t.c/e.t.c idea sounds alot like my old forum which was built off a strong MAR foundation stone. It didn' t do so well and lasted only 1 year. I suggest we try not to dilute the mixture too much and just add in a bit of techno geekiness. I mean ARMs and advanded technology don' t go so well together. I mean, why the need for ARMs if we have guns?