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'Yesterday it was blue hippo poop. Now it's naked molerats.' - JD
Sorry, the title is my quote but it was too good an opportunity to miss given Junebug's fabulously random timing for entrances onto the server <3 Hello from me, JD, in the Weekly Broadcast once again! Apologies for my recent absences and my inability to get my butt back in gear when I promised >.<" - I would like to let you all know that I am genuinely feeling better these days and while my getting back up to speed is going to mean I'm not quite as speedy on replies or getting stuff done as some people might be used to, I want to let you know that I am here and I am going to be here at least once a day, if only for a little, from now on. I am getting myself slowly back in gear and am happy to report that I am actually taking enjoyment in Aeipathy again. Not that I ever got to a point of hating the place (you guys know I love you all) but it had become a bit of a job or responsibility that was causing me to put pressure on myself. Now, I've returned rested and eager to get back into stories and threads and am not feeling that pressure. I have refilled my cup, so to speak, and I am happy to enjoy us and our stories and our community once more.
As well as getting up to date on my own threads and stories (and getting my Judean girl into play - jeez this poor woman is taking forever) I will be focusing on trying to finish things off with the Encyclopedia and the elements of the site that mean we are not very newbie-friendly at the moment. This way, I can get back onto advertising and start finding some new blood and enthusiasm from new members. So, you should notice small updates in the #patch-notes channel of the server going up every few days. I'm taking my time doing it and I'm not stressing, but it *will* be getting slowly done <3 So, I hope you guys all like the edits you'll be seeing soon.
Please note that there are a couple of Bunny Slipper moments listed below to help get everyone back up to speed so make sure to read the whole of the broadcast this week! If anyone has any issues at all, or queries and questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch! You can DM me on Discord at any time! Love you guys! <3
New Additions
Below are a list of all of our newest members to the server. Our staff team ask that, when you see them online, give them a shout out and say "hi, how are you?" You can use our #general-chat or our #quiet-room - entirely depending on how busy our main channel is - but we highly recommend touching base and saying hello - they might be interested in making a character you're seeking for your own plots after all...
Briar
We've also had new characters added to our accepted roster! Remember! The first member to start a thread with each of our newly accepted characters from new members get to collect Points! Give these characters a shout out in their relevant kingdom channel to get the plotting chat going! Just remember to give their profiles a read so that you can approach their writer with some fun ideas!
News and Updates
New Member Challenge - 19/08/2019 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Deadline 26/08/19)
Inspired by our "whit" conversation the other day on Discord... this week's challenge (should you choose to accept) is to use a word in a post that you had never heard of before. So, break out the thesaurus or start google hunting for odd words... The claim your challenge point, just post a link to the thread/post in which you use the word plus the word itself and it's definition in the #member-challenge channel on Discord. The idea is to find words that work and are useful to your post (not entirely random medical terms or whatever) and expand everyone's understanding of the English language. Let's have fun wordsmiths! ^_^
New Canons Available - 14/08/19
We have several new canons available on the site! Imma of Leventi, Silas of Kotas and pavlos are all available for claiming! Click to check out their information!
OTM Winners! - 17/08/19
And we have our winners for June 2019! Apologies that my absence has made these wins so very late in the game >.<" Congratulations to our winners of the Members Choice month awards, listed below! In order to get us back up to date, nominations for July's winners are open! Please send them to our staff team!
Please note that the Big Red Button submittance is now closed. The global plots for the near future will be being worked out by myself over the next few weeks and new plottage and curveballs will be being introduced heavily in next week's broadcast. If you submitted a button push over the last few weeks then keep your eyes glued to next week's broadcast to see if some of those Curveballs/events might have something to do with you..... *insert Rumple gif here*.
New Feature: Post Image - 18/08/19
Hey guys! Just to let you know that there is now your current account's image beside your Quick Reply at the bottom of a thread page. Please note that this has been put in place in order to (hopefully) limit the number of accidental postings with the wrong account. Hope this helps!
God Applications Are Open! - 19/08/19
Ladies and gents - as promised! - the Gods applications are now open! If you are interested in applying for one of our GREEK OLYMPIANS (Egyptian Gods will be coming, I promise), please visit our Gods page in the Encyclopedia (I'll link to our old site so that you guys have all the information) and complete the below Code. Simply send the filled in code to our staff team and the results will be posted next Monday! Remember: the successful party will be someone who epitomises the essence of the God, while bringing in a unique perspective. Don't give us the God you think the site needs/wants - give us the God that you want to rp and why you want to!
Side Note: please also remember that by taking on a God you are committing to creating one or two additional characters as their Personas. If you are not someone who can handle adding another two or three characters to your character base, please do not apply! You will obviously not be required to make these Personas right off the bat but we don't want you to love your God and then have nothing to do with them because your can't increase your post count fast enough because you have no time to make or rp their personas. So, please consider this side of rping a God when you apply <3
[b]Favourite Myth:[/b] Give an example of a particular myth or fact about your God that you think epitomises them and your interpretation of them. We recommend reading a few different myths, getting a good idea of the God and then talking about your favourite one - why you think it's a good impression of them as a God/character and why you like it. This is your chance to tell us why you like this particular God as they are laid out in myth and history.
[b]Personality:[/b] This is the section in which you can tell us [i]your[/i] interpretation of how [i]you[/i] would play this God. The above is your favourite myth and how you see the God in their real-world/mythological context. We now want to know how you would then take that idea and grow it in your own way. What is their personality like? How are they as a person rather than just a stereotype or archetype of the God.
[b]Mortal World:[/b] Tell us how your God views the Mortal World and why they like to interact with it. Your God might be more hands on with regards to humans, or deliberately less so - different Gods like different levels of interaction with mortals. Detail how much influence your God likes to expel over the mortals and why that level of interaction. What is their opinion on humans? How do they like to mess with them/help them?
[b]Relationships:[/b] Give three Gods that your own God would have some form of relationship with. This could be Gods that have already been accepted and are a part of our world, or Gods in the open list. Explain the relationship between them, why you think the relationship is that way and how this reflects on your own God. We want to know that you will be able to rp successfully in the immortal realm as well as the mortal.
[b]Mortal Personas:[/b] Suggest two mortal persona ideas. You will not be held to making these - we just want to know your thoughts and ideas on how this God might be able to ingratiate themselves into the mortal world without someone noticing. Mention things like, what the character might be like, how they could influence the mortals, why the God would want to influence them in this manner and how you think they would be able to do it without people noticing them to be a God.
[b]Future Plans:[/b] Tell us how you think this God could help to develop long-term plots and mess with the mortal world on a longer/future term basis.
[b]Face Claim:[/b] Your face claim choice should be someone almost entirely unknown. We recommend models over actors. Our Gods should be able to appear just as the Gods - not recognisable as a character from a form of media. The model already provided in our Gods page can be used if you prefer, or you can choose your own face claim. If you've chosen your own, please list them here.
Bunny Slippers and Big Girl Pants
Off-Screen Interactions
Just a quick note to confirm a few things for anyone who is currently roleplaying a member of the nobility or royal houses. Please remember that social interaction was (especially for woman) just about the only form of entertainment or activity most days in this time period. As such, they would be have very aware of what was going on around them. A few people have commented on how their character "doesn't know X" because no-one had told them about it in-game. While this is definitely something that could happen with some events or plot developments, it is also important to point out that there will be many "off-screen" interactions that will cover a lot of these issues. These women did not sit at home in their bedrooms waiting for information to come to them - they had friendships and obligations that meant they left their homes most days to visit others of their peerage, or to wander the market or attend the baths etc. Yes, you have to be careful not to turn your character omniscient - there will be some elements of other people's lives that they are entirely unaware of, or get entirely the wrong end of the stick regarding. But you do not have to ensure that your character only ever knows just what has been directly said to them in canon. If that makes sense? >.<" - hope this helps!
I'm a Guide, Not a Director
On another note, over the last few months I've had a lot of people DM me saying things like - "can I do this in this Event?" or "I have nothing to do but react in an Event" because they are worried about interrupting or derailing something that I or the staff team have planned for said event. I want to make it very clear that the Events are for you to use. If you want to have your character spill wine all down someone's back - go do it! - if you want to have someone pass out, or start a fight - go do it! - if you want your character to strip naked and start blathering drunkenly - that's fine too! So long as your actions make sense to your character and you are willing to accept realistic consequences to your actions you can do whatever you like in Events, including using my ideas for your own. For example... in The Work of Witches - if someone now wanted to make up that their knew the man dead on the floor, or discover a huge tattoo on his back that indicated why he had been killed or have someone come charging into the event kidnapping the body - you can do that! You do not have to worry about interrupting or misinterpreting or changing the Events that I have planned. Aeipathy is for you to have fun and write stories that you find exciting. Curveballs and Event developments should ONLY be needed when YOU GUYS run out of ideas. I only throw them out there to give the Events and stories a little prompt when it's needed. Yes, I have ideas for the global plot of the site, and yes I have ideas for how each of the Events and Stories could go. But ideas do not have an expiration date and if an Event goes an entirely different direction, I will simply hold off and use my idea at another time. I would rather you guys dictate how things go and throw out your own twists and turns, than I have to use up all my Curveball ideas and run dry in a few months lol. Remember: so long as you aren't god-moding someone else's reactions, you can do what you like on Aeipathy - we are realistic and we have consequences but we are also open to everyone's ideas equally. So go have fun and use the threads to your own liking, rather than constantly hovering for the next stepping stone laid out by me ^_^. You can build your own stepping stones. <3
Awards and Recognition
Member of the Moment: Zed If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Aeipathy isn't exactly like other roleplay sites. There are lots of elements of our lovely little writing home here that are unique and different from other rp forums you'll find on the internet. I like to think and hope that all of these differences are, in the end, for the better and create a wonderfully unique writing experience. But they also come with their downsides - which our staff team are not blind to and do our best to avoid. But the simple fact of the matter is that sometimes those downsides are unavoidable - like when it takes a bit of time for a kingdom to get going and get its energy/momentum moving forward. Zed has been a member on Aeipathy for a while now and while not always the chattiest is quick with their replies and has held staunchly to their character @jawahir despite the slow pace of Bedoa, as it finds its feet as a kingdom. Patience is a virtue for a roleplayer in terms of waiting for posts and threads, as I'm sure we all know, but in this case, it's even more commendable. We would like to take this moment, therefore, to make it clear that we are not blind to that patience Zed and thank you for keeping things moving steadily in Bedoa. You're our Member of the Moment! <3
Another parcel of money has been mysteriously left in the stables of the Haikaddad household. Again, the sum of money is small but significant and will be of great help for ensuring that the Hei does not fall entirely into financial discord over the next few weeks. But who is this hidden benefactor? And can they be trusted? And does @narmer have a choice, given his family's need for the gold?
The Hei of Haikaddad is struck by misfortune as well as luck. Their manor has suddenly developed a rat problem! Perhaps that money will have to be used for rodent-removal? Worse still, one of the little vermin appears to have bitten a member of the household, leaving them ill and feverish. Anyone know a physician?
Phillipa of Chaopia has caught a cold! Not your usual sniffle, healers in the family home in Argyris are concerned the illness has developed into full blown pneumonia! As they attempt to muddle the political minefield that Athenia has become, @aimias and @iris are now stuck with personal stress as well as professional...
Work for physicians and healers seems to be strong of late as the Princess Emilia of Xanthos has developed a light cough that royal caretakers suggest has developed from being kept closeted up for too long. The Lord @elias - who seems to have taken control of running the royal palace - has been instructed that the young princess, despite her grief, must be allowed outside and to interact with the rest of the world if she is to recover, giving the man little choice but to accept such instruction or appear unfeeling...
JD
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'Yesterday it was blue hippo poop. Now it's naked molerats.' - JD
Sorry, the title is my quote but it was too good an opportunity to miss given Junebug's fabulously random timing for entrances onto the server <3 Hello from me, JD, in the Weekly Broadcast once again! Apologies for my recent absences and my inability to get my butt back in gear when I promised >.<" - I would like to let you all know that I am genuinely feeling better these days and while my getting back up to speed is going to mean I'm not quite as speedy on replies or getting stuff done as some people might be used to, I want to let you know that I am here and I am going to be here at least once a day, if only for a little, from now on. I am getting myself slowly back in gear and am happy to report that I am actually taking enjoyment in Aeipathy again. Not that I ever got to a point of hating the place (you guys know I love you all) but it had become a bit of a job or responsibility that was causing me to put pressure on myself. Now, I've returned rested and eager to get back into stories and threads and am not feeling that pressure. I have refilled my cup, so to speak, and I am happy to enjoy us and our stories and our community once more.
As well as getting up to date on my own threads and stories (and getting my Judean girl into play - jeez this poor woman is taking forever) I will be focusing on trying to finish things off with the Encyclopedia and the elements of the site that mean we are not very newbie-friendly at the moment. This way, I can get back onto advertising and start finding some new blood and enthusiasm from new members. So, you should notice small updates in the #patch-notes channel of the server going up every few days. I'm taking my time doing it and I'm not stressing, but it *will* be getting slowly done <3 So, I hope you guys all like the edits you'll be seeing soon.
Please note that there are a couple of Bunny Slipper moments listed below to help get everyone back up to speed so make sure to read the whole of the broadcast this week! If anyone has any issues at all, or queries and questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch! You can DM me on Discord at any time! Love you guys! <3
New Additions
Below are a list of all of our newest members to the server. Our staff team ask that, when you see them online, give them a shout out and say "hi, how are you?" You can use our #general-chat or our #quiet-room - entirely depending on how busy our main channel is - but we highly recommend touching base and saying hello - they might be interested in making a character you're seeking for your own plots after all...
Briar
We've also had new characters added to our accepted roster! Remember! The first member to start a thread with each of our newly accepted characters from new members get to collect Points! Give these characters a shout out in their relevant kingdom channel to get the plotting chat going! Just remember to give their profiles a read so that you can approach their writer with some fun ideas!
News and Updates
New Member Challenge - 19/08/2019 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Deadline 26/08/19)
Inspired by our "whit" conversation the other day on Discord... this week's challenge (should you choose to accept) is to use a word in a post that you had never heard of before. So, break out the thesaurus or start google hunting for odd words... The claim your challenge point, just post a link to the thread/post in which you use the word plus the word itself and it's definition in the #member-challenge channel on Discord. The idea is to find words that work and are useful to your post (not entirely random medical terms or whatever) and expand everyone's understanding of the English language. Let's have fun wordsmiths! ^_^
New Canons Available - 14/08/19
We have several new canons available on the site! Imma of Leventi, Silas of Kotas and pavlos are all available for claiming! Click to check out their information!
OTM Winners! - 17/08/19
And we have our winners for June 2019! Apologies that my absence has made these wins so very late in the game >.<" Congratulations to our winners of the Members Choice month awards, listed below! In order to get us back up to date, nominations for July's winners are open! Please send them to our staff team!
Please note that the Big Red Button submittance is now closed. The global plots for the near future will be being worked out by myself over the next few weeks and new plottage and curveballs will be being introduced heavily in next week's broadcast. If you submitted a button push over the last few weeks then keep your eyes glued to next week's broadcast to see if some of those Curveballs/events might have something to do with you..... *insert Rumple gif here*.
New Feature: Post Image - 18/08/19
Hey guys! Just to let you know that there is now your current account's image beside your Quick Reply at the bottom of a thread page. Please note that this has been put in place in order to (hopefully) limit the number of accidental postings with the wrong account. Hope this helps!
God Applications Are Open! - 19/08/19
Ladies and gents - as promised! - the Gods applications are now open! If you are interested in applying for one of our GREEK OLYMPIANS (Egyptian Gods will be coming, I promise), please visit our Gods page in the Encyclopedia (I'll link to our old site so that you guys have all the information) and complete the below Code. Simply send the filled in code to our staff team and the results will be posted next Monday! Remember: the successful party will be someone who epitomises the essence of the God, while bringing in a unique perspective. Don't give us the God you think the site needs/wants - give us the God that you want to rp and why you want to!
Side Note: please also remember that by taking on a God you are committing to creating one or two additional characters as their Personas. If you are not someone who can handle adding another two or three characters to your character base, please do not apply! You will obviously not be required to make these Personas right off the bat but we don't want you to love your God and then have nothing to do with them because your can't increase your post count fast enough because you have no time to make or rp their personas. So, please consider this side of rping a God when you apply <3
[b]Favourite Myth:[/b] Give an example of a particular myth or fact about your God that you think epitomises them and your interpretation of them. We recommend reading a few different myths, getting a good idea of the God and then talking about your favourite one - why you think it's a good impression of them as a God/character and why you like it. This is your chance to tell us why you like this particular God as they are laid out in myth and history.
[b]Personality:[/b] This is the section in which you can tell us [i]your[/i] interpretation of how [i]you[/i] would play this God. The above is your favourite myth and how you see the God in their real-world/mythological context. We now want to know how you would then take that idea and grow it in your own way. What is their personality like? How are they as a person rather than just a stereotype or archetype of the God.
[b]Mortal World:[/b] Tell us how your God views the Mortal World and why they like to interact with it. Your God might be more hands on with regards to humans, or deliberately less so - different Gods like different levels of interaction with mortals. Detail how much influence your God likes to expel over the mortals and why that level of interaction. What is their opinion on humans? How do they like to mess with them/help them?
[b]Relationships:[/b] Give three Gods that your own God would have some form of relationship with. This could be Gods that have already been accepted and are a part of our world, or Gods in the open list. Explain the relationship between them, why you think the relationship is that way and how this reflects on your own God. We want to know that you will be able to rp successfully in the immortal realm as well as the mortal.
[b]Mortal Personas:[/b] Suggest two mortal persona ideas. You will not be held to making these - we just want to know your thoughts and ideas on how this God might be able to ingratiate themselves into the mortal world without someone noticing. Mention things like, what the character might be like, how they could influence the mortals, why the God would want to influence them in this manner and how you think they would be able to do it without people noticing them to be a God.
[b]Future Plans:[/b] Tell us how you think this God could help to develop long-term plots and mess with the mortal world on a longer/future term basis.
[b]Face Claim:[/b] Your face claim choice should be someone almost entirely unknown. We recommend models over actors. Our Gods should be able to appear just as the Gods - not recognisable as a character from a form of media. The model already provided in our Gods page can be used if you prefer, or you can choose your own face claim. If you've chosen your own, please list them here.
Bunny Slippers and Big Girl Pants
Off-Screen Interactions
Just a quick note to confirm a few things for anyone who is currently roleplaying a member of the nobility or royal houses. Please remember that social interaction was (especially for woman) just about the only form of entertainment or activity most days in this time period. As such, they would be have very aware of what was going on around them. A few people have commented on how their character "doesn't know X" because no-one had told them about it in-game. While this is definitely something that could happen with some events or plot developments, it is also important to point out that there will be many "off-screen" interactions that will cover a lot of these issues. These women did not sit at home in their bedrooms waiting for information to come to them - they had friendships and obligations that meant they left their homes most days to visit others of their peerage, or to wander the market or attend the baths etc. Yes, you have to be careful not to turn your character omniscient - there will be some elements of other people's lives that they are entirely unaware of, or get entirely the wrong end of the stick regarding. But you do not have to ensure that your character only ever knows just what has been directly said to them in canon. If that makes sense? >.<" - hope this helps!
I'm a Guide, Not a Director
On another note, over the last few months I've had a lot of people DM me saying things like - "can I do this in this Event?" or "I have nothing to do but react in an Event" because they are worried about interrupting or derailing something that I or the staff team have planned for said event. I want to make it very clear that the Events are for you to use. If you want to have your character spill wine all down someone's back - go do it! - if you want to have someone pass out, or start a fight - go do it! - if you want your character to strip naked and start blathering drunkenly - that's fine too! So long as your actions make sense to your character and you are willing to accept realistic consequences to your actions you can do whatever you like in Events, including using my ideas for your own. For example... in The Work of Witches - if someone now wanted to make up that their knew the man dead on the floor, or discover a huge tattoo on his back that indicated why he had been killed or have someone come charging into the event kidnapping the body - you can do that! You do not have to worry about interrupting or misinterpreting or changing the Events that I have planned. Aeipathy is for you to have fun and write stories that you find exciting. Curveballs and Event developments should ONLY be needed when YOU GUYS run out of ideas. I only throw them out there to give the Events and stories a little prompt when it's needed. Yes, I have ideas for the global plot of the site, and yes I have ideas for how each of the Events and Stories could go. But ideas do not have an expiration date and if an Event goes an entirely different direction, I will simply hold off and use my idea at another time. I would rather you guys dictate how things go and throw out your own twists and turns, than I have to use up all my Curveball ideas and run dry in a few months lol. Remember: so long as you aren't god-moding someone else's reactions, you can do what you like on Aeipathy - we are realistic and we have consequences but we are also open to everyone's ideas equally. So go have fun and use the threads to your own liking, rather than constantly hovering for the next stepping stone laid out by me ^_^. You can build your own stepping stones. <3
Awards and Recognition
Member of the Moment: Zed If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Aeipathy isn't exactly like other roleplay sites. There are lots of elements of our lovely little writing home here that are unique and different from other rp forums you'll find on the internet. I like to think and hope that all of these differences are, in the end, for the better and create a wonderfully unique writing experience. But they also come with their downsides - which our staff team are not blind to and do our best to avoid. But the simple fact of the matter is that sometimes those downsides are unavoidable - like when it takes a bit of time for a kingdom to get going and get its energy/momentum moving forward. Zed has been a member on Aeipathy for a while now and while not always the chattiest is quick with their replies and has held staunchly to their character @jawahir despite the slow pace of Bedoa, as it finds its feet as a kingdom. Patience is a virtue for a roleplayer in terms of waiting for posts and threads, as I'm sure we all know, but in this case, it's even more commendable. We would like to take this moment, therefore, to make it clear that we are not blind to that patience Zed and thank you for keeping things moving steadily in Bedoa. You're our Member of the Moment! <3
Another parcel of money has been mysteriously left in the stables of the Haikaddad household. Again, the sum of money is small but significant and will be of great help for ensuring that the Hei does not fall entirely into financial discord over the next few weeks. But who is this hidden benefactor? And can they be trusted? And does @narmer have a choice, given his family's need for the gold?
The Hei of Haikaddad is struck by misfortune as well as luck. Their manor has suddenly developed a rat problem! Perhaps that money will have to be used for rodent-removal? Worse still, one of the little vermin appears to have bitten a member of the household, leaving them ill and feverish. Anyone know a physician?
Phillipa of Chaopia has caught a cold! Not your usual sniffle, healers in the family home in Argyris are concerned the illness has developed into full blown pneumonia! As they attempt to muddle the political minefield that Athenia has become, @aimias and @iris are now stuck with personal stress as well as professional...
Work for physicians and healers seems to be strong of late as the Princess Emilia of Xanthos has developed a light cough that royal caretakers suggest has developed from being kept closeted up for too long. The Lord @elias - who seems to have taken control of running the royal palace - has been instructed that the young princess, despite her grief, must be allowed outside and to interact with the rest of the world if she is to recover, giving the man little choice but to accept such instruction or appear unfeeling...
The Weekly Broadcast Monday 19th August 2019
'Yesterday it was blue hippo poop. Now it's naked molerats.' - JD
Sorry, the title is my quote but it was too good an opportunity to miss given Junebug's fabulously random timing for entrances onto the server <3 Hello from me, JD, in the Weekly Broadcast once again! Apologies for my recent absences and my inability to get my butt back in gear when I promised >.<" - I would like to let you all know that I am genuinely feeling better these days and while my getting back up to speed is going to mean I'm not quite as speedy on replies or getting stuff done as some people might be used to, I want to let you know that I am here and I am going to be here at least once a day, if only for a little, from now on. I am getting myself slowly back in gear and am happy to report that I am actually taking enjoyment in Aeipathy again. Not that I ever got to a point of hating the place (you guys know I love you all) but it had become a bit of a job or responsibility that was causing me to put pressure on myself. Now, I've returned rested and eager to get back into stories and threads and am not feeling that pressure. I have refilled my cup, so to speak, and I am happy to enjoy us and our stories and our community once more.
As well as getting up to date on my own threads and stories (and getting my Judean girl into play - jeez this poor woman is taking forever) I will be focusing on trying to finish things off with the Encyclopedia and the elements of the site that mean we are not very newbie-friendly at the moment. This way, I can get back onto advertising and start finding some new blood and enthusiasm from new members. So, you should notice small updates in the #patch-notes channel of the server going up every few days. I'm taking my time doing it and I'm not stressing, but it *will* be getting slowly done <3 So, I hope you guys all like the edits you'll be seeing soon.
Please note that there are a couple of Bunny Slipper moments listed below to help get everyone back up to speed so make sure to read the whole of the broadcast this week! If anyone has any issues at all, or queries and questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch! You can DM me on Discord at any time! Love you guys! <3
New Additions
Below are a list of all of our newest members to the server. Our staff team ask that, when you see them online, give them a shout out and say "hi, how are you?" You can use our #general-chat or our #quiet-room - entirely depending on how busy our main channel is - but we highly recommend touching base and saying hello - they might be interested in making a character you're seeking for your own plots after all...
Briar
We've also had new characters added to our accepted roster! Remember! The first member to start a thread with each of our newly accepted characters from new members get to collect Points! Give these characters a shout out in their relevant kingdom channel to get the plotting chat going! Just remember to give their profiles a read so that you can approach their writer with some fun ideas!
News and Updates
New Member Challenge - 19/08/2019 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Deadline 26/08/19)
Inspired by our "whit" conversation the other day on Discord... this week's challenge (should you choose to accept) is to use a word in a post that you had never heard of before. So, break out the thesaurus or start google hunting for odd words... The claim your challenge point, just post a link to the thread/post in which you use the word plus the word itself and it's definition in the #member-challenge channel on Discord. The idea is to find words that work and are useful to your post (not entirely random medical terms or whatever) and expand everyone's understanding of the English language. Let's have fun wordsmiths! ^_^
New Canons Available - 14/08/19
We have several new canons available on the site! Imma of Leventi, Silas of Kotas and pavlos are all available for claiming! Click to check out their information!
OTM Winners! - 17/08/19
And we have our winners for June 2019! Apologies that my absence has made these wins so very late in the game >.<" Congratulations to our winners of the Members Choice month awards, listed below! In order to get us back up to date, nominations for July's winners are open! Please send them to our staff team!
Please note that the Big Red Button submittance is now closed. The global plots for the near future will be being worked out by myself over the next few weeks and new plottage and curveballs will be being introduced heavily in next week's broadcast. If you submitted a button push over the last few weeks then keep your eyes glued to next week's broadcast to see if some of those Curveballs/events might have something to do with you..... *insert Rumple gif here*.
New Feature: Post Image - 18/08/19
Hey guys! Just to let you know that there is now your current account's image beside your Quick Reply at the bottom of a thread page. Please note that this has been put in place in order to (hopefully) limit the number of accidental postings with the wrong account. Hope this helps!
God Applications Are Open! - 19/08/19
Ladies and gents - as promised! - the Gods applications are now open! If you are interested in applying for one of our GREEK OLYMPIANS (Egyptian Gods will be coming, I promise), please visit our Gods page in the Encyclopedia (I'll link to our old site so that you guys have all the information) and complete the below Code. Simply send the filled in code to our staff team and the results will be posted next Monday! Remember: the successful party will be someone who epitomises the essence of the God, while bringing in a unique perspective. Don't give us the God you think the site needs/wants - give us the God that you want to rp and why you want to!
Side Note: please also remember that by taking on a God you are committing to creating one or two additional characters as their Personas. If you are not someone who can handle adding another two or three characters to your character base, please do not apply! You will obviously not be required to make these Personas right off the bat but we don't want you to love your God and then have nothing to do with them because your can't increase your post count fast enough because you have no time to make or rp their personas. So, please consider this side of rping a God when you apply <3
[b]Favourite Myth:[/b] Give an example of a particular myth or fact about your God that you think epitomises them and your interpretation of them. We recommend reading a few different myths, getting a good idea of the God and then talking about your favourite one - why you think it's a good impression of them as a God/character and why you like it. This is your chance to tell us why you like this particular God as they are laid out in myth and history.
[b]Personality:[/b] This is the section in which you can tell us [i]your[/i] interpretation of how [i]you[/i] would play this God. The above is your favourite myth and how you see the God in their real-world/mythological context. We now want to know how you would then take that idea and grow it in your own way. What is their personality like? How are they as a person rather than just a stereotype or archetype of the God.
[b]Mortal World:[/b] Tell us how your God views the Mortal World and why they like to interact with it. Your God might be more hands on with regards to humans, or deliberately less so - different Gods like different levels of interaction with mortals. Detail how much influence your God likes to expel over the mortals and why that level of interaction. What is their opinion on humans? How do they like to mess with them/help them?
[b]Relationships:[/b] Give three Gods that your own God would have some form of relationship with. This could be Gods that have already been accepted and are a part of our world, or Gods in the open list. Explain the relationship between them, why you think the relationship is that way and how this reflects on your own God. We want to know that you will be able to rp successfully in the immortal realm as well as the mortal.
[b]Mortal Personas:[/b] Suggest two mortal persona ideas. You will not be held to making these - we just want to know your thoughts and ideas on how this God might be able to ingratiate themselves into the mortal world without someone noticing. Mention things like, what the character might be like, how they could influence the mortals, why the God would want to influence them in this manner and how you think they would be able to do it without people noticing them to be a God.
[b]Future Plans:[/b] Tell us how you think this God could help to develop long-term plots and mess with the mortal world on a longer/future term basis.
[b]Face Claim:[/b] Your face claim choice should be someone almost entirely unknown. We recommend models over actors. Our Gods should be able to appear just as the Gods - not recognisable as a character from a form of media. The model already provided in our Gods page can be used if you prefer, or you can choose your own face claim. If you've chosen your own, please list them here.
Bunny Slippers and Big Girl Pants
Off-Screen Interactions
Just a quick note to confirm a few things for anyone who is currently roleplaying a member of the nobility or royal houses. Please remember that social interaction was (especially for woman) just about the only form of entertainment or activity most days in this time period. As such, they would be have very aware of what was going on around them. A few people have commented on how their character "doesn't know X" because no-one had told them about it in-game. While this is definitely something that could happen with some events or plot developments, it is also important to point out that there will be many "off-screen" interactions that will cover a lot of these issues. These women did not sit at home in their bedrooms waiting for information to come to them - they had friendships and obligations that meant they left their homes most days to visit others of their peerage, or to wander the market or attend the baths etc. Yes, you have to be careful not to turn your character omniscient - there will be some elements of other people's lives that they are entirely unaware of, or get entirely the wrong end of the stick regarding. But you do not have to ensure that your character only ever knows just what has been directly said to them in canon. If that makes sense? >.<" - hope this helps!
I'm a Guide, Not a Director
On another note, over the last few months I've had a lot of people DM me saying things like - "can I do this in this Event?" or "I have nothing to do but react in an Event" because they are worried about interrupting or derailing something that I or the staff team have planned for said event. I want to make it very clear that the Events are for you to use. If you want to have your character spill wine all down someone's back - go do it! - if you want to have someone pass out, or start a fight - go do it! - if you want your character to strip naked and start blathering drunkenly - that's fine too! So long as your actions make sense to your character and you are willing to accept realistic consequences to your actions you can do whatever you like in Events, including using my ideas for your own. For example... in The Work of Witches - if someone now wanted to make up that their knew the man dead on the floor, or discover a huge tattoo on his back that indicated why he had been killed or have someone come charging into the event kidnapping the body - you can do that! You do not have to worry about interrupting or misinterpreting or changing the Events that I have planned. Aeipathy is for you to have fun and write stories that you find exciting. Curveballs and Event developments should ONLY be needed when YOU GUYS run out of ideas. I only throw them out there to give the Events and stories a little prompt when it's needed. Yes, I have ideas for the global plot of the site, and yes I have ideas for how each of the Events and Stories could go. But ideas do not have an expiration date and if an Event goes an entirely different direction, I will simply hold off and use my idea at another time. I would rather you guys dictate how things go and throw out your own twists and turns, than I have to use up all my Curveball ideas and run dry in a few months lol. Remember: so long as you aren't god-moding someone else's reactions, you can do what you like on Aeipathy - we are realistic and we have consequences but we are also open to everyone's ideas equally. So go have fun and use the threads to your own liking, rather than constantly hovering for the next stepping stone laid out by me ^_^. You can build your own stepping stones. <3
Awards and Recognition
Member of the Moment: Zed If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Aeipathy isn't exactly like other roleplay sites. There are lots of elements of our lovely little writing home here that are unique and different from other rp forums you'll find on the internet. I like to think and hope that all of these differences are, in the end, for the better and create a wonderfully unique writing experience. But they also come with their downsides - which our staff team are not blind to and do our best to avoid. But the simple fact of the matter is that sometimes those downsides are unavoidable - like when it takes a bit of time for a kingdom to get going and get its energy/momentum moving forward. Zed has been a member on Aeipathy for a while now and while not always the chattiest is quick with their replies and has held staunchly to their character @jawahir despite the slow pace of Bedoa, as it finds its feet as a kingdom. Patience is a virtue for a roleplayer in terms of waiting for posts and threads, as I'm sure we all know, but in this case, it's even more commendable. We would like to take this moment, therefore, to make it clear that we are not blind to that patience Zed and thank you for keeping things moving steadily in Bedoa. You're our Member of the Moment! <3
Another parcel of money has been mysteriously left in the stables of the Haikaddad household. Again, the sum of money is small but significant and will be of great help for ensuring that the Hei does not fall entirely into financial discord over the next few weeks. But who is this hidden benefactor? And can they be trusted? And does @narmer have a choice, given his family's need for the gold?
The Hei of Haikaddad is struck by misfortune as well as luck. Their manor has suddenly developed a rat problem! Perhaps that money will have to be used for rodent-removal? Worse still, one of the little vermin appears to have bitten a member of the household, leaving them ill and feverish. Anyone know a physician?
Phillipa of Chaopia has caught a cold! Not your usual sniffle, healers in the family home in Argyris are concerned the illness has developed into full blown pneumonia! As they attempt to muddle the political minefield that Athenia has become, @aimias and @iris are now stuck with personal stress as well as professional...
Work for physicians and healers seems to be strong of late as the Princess Emilia of Xanthos has developed a light cough that royal caretakers suggest has developed from being kept closeted up for too long. The Lord @elias - who seems to have taken control of running the royal palace - has been instructed that the young princess, despite her grief, must be allowed outside and to interact with the rest of the world if she is to recover, giving the man little choice but to accept such instruction or appear unfeeling...