Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Guide/Things to Know

Phantasy World Online

What happens when a game controls itself? Will the players fight to keep things right or fall under the power of the tyrant that controls it?(Open/Under Construction)

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1. Posting General

You're going to be using this format throughout the whole RP. Basically it will keep track of how much EXP/Gold per post as well a a proof that you are leveling without cheating. So remember every post you make must have this

Character Name
Class(Type):
EXP: 0/5
Gold:

Remember EXP amount per post is 1
Gold amount is 2

Your first post must show your character logging in for the first time. Soooo

Ex.

Post -------- of course with all your info at the top then
<character name logs into Phantasy Star>

If your character logs out do the same thing - say what your character does and what not and then log out. This log out function may be nice just incase someone needs to go on halt for the RP or so.

Seeing that we don't want to seem as though we never get off lolz there will be times where I will say time changed from Day to Night or so. This allows you to possibly show more of how our character's life is outside and possibly how the game affects them. You do not have to log out or log in immediately when i say the time change. Its basically to keep track and make sure we're all on the same page..

2. Battles

Normal fights between player vs environment. Basically do as you would in a normal rp, get creative do what you must. The only type of PVE battles that your stats will come in and that will serve more of a challenge and reward and bosses. This may also come in for the Tyrant's army and such for plots to give a little difficulty.

When it comes to PVP against each other. The one with the highest speed goes first. Like PVE - Stats will matter

For example.

If player A has higher ATK then Player B's DEF then thats the damage Player B takes.

This also falls in with M.ATK and M.DEF. Remember take people's skills and attributes in account some people may have augmented skill damage or unresistable M.ATKs or such so there may be more calculations to make then just subtracting the two.

Now remember this is a real-time/ normal rp so make your fight creative, Do not god mod and think just because its a freestyle rp you can dodge every move if you have more speed. Maybe if you're 10-20 levels above sure but yeah.

Although we have control of the battles we fight - It wouldn't hurt to lose a few PvE fights or so just to have the feel of a game.

Also use the stats if fighting Player(NPCs) that you may have attack you.

3. Creativity

Remember we're all apart of this rp - so we construct together what monsters live in this RP/Areas of this land. If you want to add a monster - you can do it through your post saying the monster's name and level/type or so then when i see it. I'll add it to the NPC list.

This also goes for areas and root towns. I can start the first few areas but over all you know lets do this together.

Remember the plot revolves on what we do so talk about in in the OOC and what not - help each other out.

4. Leveling up
When your character levels up - I trust that you can add your stats accordingly

Basically when your level one - It shows your base stats yes? So this takes a big role in how much you gain. Know your weapon addition is not part of your progress - Although i could make it because it'll add even more diversity.

Anyways with your characters base stats divide it by 2.

The results basically equal the amount your character gets per level.

So if EX. someone was the class "Tester" (Made up)

Testers start out with 70 HP as a base. So Each level they get 35 HP added to there base.

5. Treasure Chest.

In areas depending on the area level and such, are allowed to find one chest per group. Every member gets a roll for a chance to get a item.

As this counts for loot too.

I will be the one to say what everyone gets and what they have won. Do not think of taking liberty of doing this yourself.

There will be no special loot for killing mobs UNLESS its a boss or Tyrant mob due to how i made the PvE battle system.

Will be updated over time - especially if important questions as asked,..

Stay tuned for "NPC list/Area list" in characters

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Monday, July 2, 2012

Palfrey ends her Cuba-Florida swim

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Arctic drilling creeps forward now, and in 5 years

In this photo taken Monday June 25, 2012 near Bellingham, Wash., and released by Shell Alaska, members of Shell?s well delivery group, along with representatives from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement witnessed the deployment of the capping stack that will join Shell?s Alaska drilling fleet. The device looks like a giant spark plug. It's designed to kill a blowout by providing a metal-to-metal seal on a busted blowout preventer. Its successful deployment 200 feet below the water meant Shell passed another requirement for drilling exploratory wells in Arctic waters for the first time in more than two decades. (AP Photo/Shell Alaska)

In this photo taken Monday June 25, 2012 near Bellingham, Wash., and released by Shell Alaska, members of Shell?s well delivery group, along with representatives from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement witnessed the deployment of the capping stack that will join Shell?s Alaska drilling fleet. The device looks like a giant spark plug. It's designed to kill a blowout by providing a metal-to-metal seal on a busted blowout preventer. Its successful deployment 200 feet below the water meant Shell passed another requirement for drilling exploratory wells in Arctic waters for the first time in more than two decades. (AP Photo/Shell Alaska)

FILE - In this June 27, 2012 file photo, ships bringing oil drilling equipment to Alaska, left, pass through Seattle's Elliott Bay as a Washington State Ferry passes on its way into Seattle. A capping stack, a containment dome and a flotilla of vessels carrying cleanup gear are accompanying two drill ships to Alaska and are part of a response plan that has won the blessing of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. (AP Photo/Donna Gordon Blankinship, File)

(AP) ? In choppy water under blue sky off Bellingham, Wash., a Shell Oil crew on Monday lowered a "capping stack" 200 feet in the water and put it through maneuvers with underwater robots connected by cable to operators on the surface, a test that fulfilled one of the final steps required for permission to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters.

The capping stack looks like a giant spark plug and is designed to kill an undersea oil well blowout by providing a metal-to-metal seal on a malfunctioning blowout preventer.

Shell is sending the capping stack, skimmers, boom and a containment dome on board a flotilla accompanying drill ships to Alaska's northern shores as part of a spill response plan that has the blessing of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Shell expects final approvals within weeks and drilling by late this month.

But environmental groups contend the government has it wrong. Despite reforms put in place after the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, their basic objections remain. Shell has vastly overstated its ability to respond to a worst-case scenario spill in open water, said attorney Holly Harris of Earthjustice, and no oil company has demonstrated it can clean up a spill that lingers into the Arctic's eight months of sea ice.

A spill will threaten whales, polar bears, ice seals and walrus plus the Alaska Native subsistence communities that depend on the ocean's bounty, according to environmental groups.

The federal government requires a spill response plan to show how the drilling company will clean up a worst-case discharge in adverse weather. Shell's worst case for drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas is a spill of 25,000 barrels per day. Environmental groups have seized on the phrase that for planning the onshore response, "the worst case discharge scenario assumes that 10 percent of the 25,000 barrels per day discharge escapes the primary offshore recovery effort at the blowout."

Said Harris, "If you base a spill plan on the assumption that 90 percent of it is going to be recovered in the open water, and only, quote, 10 percent of the daily discharge is going to escape those cleanup efforts, then you don't have to have as many spill response assets near shore protecting things like coastlines, lagoons and the near-shore environment."

She said "there is no evidence before this agency or anywhere else" that the oil company has come close to having enough boats, enough oil-containing boom or enough people to control 90 per cent of the damage.

Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith said opposition groups are purposely mischaracterizing Shell's oil spill response plan. The plan does not claim Shell can clean up 90 percent of an oil spill, he said.

"We say in our plan we expect to 'encounter' 90 percent of any discharge on site ? very close to the drilling rig," he said. "We expect to encounter 5 percent near-shore between the drilling rig and the coast. And we expect to encounter another 5 percent on shore. We never make claims about the percent we could actually recover, because conditions vary, of course."

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement signed off on Shell's response plan in February. At a news teleconference Tuesday, when asked about the 90 percent claim included in Shell's response plan, Salazar did not answer directly but put his faith in federal on-site inspectors.

"I believe, first of all, that there is not going to be an oil spill, because frankly, the scrutiny that is going to be involved, including the prevention effort that we have, and the oversight effort that we have ? the inspectors we have on 24/7, and all of the rest of the measures that have been taken, and the high risk, frankly, that Shell and the entire industry would have is something were to go wrong ? I don't expect that there is going to be a problem," Salazar said.

"Now if there would be a problem, which one always has to anticipate, I believe that the response capabilities are there to be able to arrest the problem in a very quick fashion and avoid environmental damage," he said. "If we were not confident that that were to happen, I would not let the permits go forward."

Salazar commented as he announced more Alaska offshore real estate will be included in the 2012-2017 five-year oil and gas lease program ? the Chukchi Sea in 2016 and the Beaufort in 2017. The Shell experience, he said, will develop critical science and information to guide future development.

Shell hopes to drill in both seas during the 2012 open water season. The Kulluk, a 266-foot ship with a hull reinforced for ice, and the Noble Discoverer left Seattle on Wednesday for Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, where they will wait for open water this month for the last leg to the Beaufort and the Chukchi.

Shell estimates it has spent more than $4 billion on Arctic offshore development. The target is the 26.6 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 130 trillion cubic feet of natural gas estimated by federal managers.

Throughout the permitting process, Shell has stressed the extreme measures it will take to make sure no oil ever hits the water.

Environmental groups say the lack of infrastructure on sparsely populated Arctic coast would make cleanup a nightmare.

"Where are we going to house all these people?" Harris said. "How are we going to feed all these people? How are we going to provide basic services ? the sanitation and spill response infrastructure?

There's also the problem of dealing with a spill when ice moves in, she said. The last spill exercise in U.S. waters with ice was conducted in 2000 and showed boom intended to corral oil was no match for broken, floating ice.

The rate of recovery for the Exxon Valdez was just 8 percent, Harris said, and likely would be less in the Arctic.

"The lack of attention paid to this decision was discouraging," Harris said.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2012-07-01-Shell-Arctic%20Offshore%20Drilling/id-51f84af095fb473b9aa7e11183509cd7

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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Avatar:Bending War

80 years after the events of Legend of Korra. The world has been turned inside out by the Bender versus Non-Bender conflict, its been so tumultuous that many of the major continents and the newly formed Republic Nation has been split into two sectors for each type of people. In this struggle we have the Pro-Benders, who are pretty much all benders in existence or those who are willing to go against the Neo Equalists, and Non-Benders who support them. The Neo-Equalists who rose from the charred remains of Amon's legacy to become the number one driving force against all Benders. The Airbenders who are struggling to survive and are fighting against Republic Nation's expansion for the safety of nature. The Avatar, who has yet to appear. And the Bloods who are just in it for the money, and is being sought after by both sides of the revolution. A war in the future seems completely inevitable, as each side fights valiantly. You could be the very person to dispel this, or engage in an all out war, or maybe you just want to ignore it all? Which side will you choose?I'm always open to accepting new characters

*Particularly people who wish to be leaders of any of the revolution groups*

Here's what's open as far as leaders go.

of course that doesn't mean I don't accept any other role(s) you would like to play.

Neo-Equalists:


The Neo-Equalists are led by Amon's grandchildren, and is soon to be headed by his grandchildren, Amon barely survived the explosion his brother Tarlock had trapped them both in, and was quickly taken in by a cruise ship traveling back to Republic City, he rebuild his resistance underground slowly and careful all the while evading Avatar Korra's watch as the tensions between Benders and Non-Benders increased, Finally after nearly 30 years the Neo-Equalists were officially formed with some of the wealthiest corporations in Republic City, after the Bending Revolution was introduced, the Neo-Equalists were reinstated into Republic City society as the official police force rather than the Metalbenders which were once led by Lin Bei Phong. None of the members of the Neo-Equalists are actually benders excluding the two leaders and their sons, who know how to blood bend and take away bending permenately. They are prone to holding executions of several Pro-benders, the only promise keeping the leaders of the Neo-Equalists alive is the fact that they will be forever faithful to those who cannot bend, and if they are caught in traitorous activities they will be executed by officials.

Amon has died from old age, and his injuries, the Neo Equalists are looking from any Trespassers from the Pro-Bending side, and our therefore involved in undercover Activites. The Neo Equalists are on every major continent (Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation) with the Water Tribes being restricted to them. The Neo-Equalists replace the Metalbending Police Force in Republic Nation these days.

Leaders
!~Please PM me if you want to take these positions~!
    Neo-Equalists Leader #1:Open (Male)
    Neo-Equalists Leader #2:Open (Female)

Pro-Benders

The Pro-Benders are named in tribute to the Pro-Bending Championship which was terminated due to the No Benidng conflict, the arena was destroyed and riots continued for days on end, ending in a split of Republic City between the Benders and Non-Benders. The Pro benders live in a perpetual state of porverty and crime, with very few living in Middle class, if you could even call it that. In order to enter the other half of Republic City, a bender would need to have their bending taken away in a public demonstration, to remind the others living in the other half of the Neo-Equalists dominion. In general, The Pro Benders side of Republic City is a haven for other Benders who have been persecuted by other continents for their bending, despite being so close to the main enemy.

Most of the Nations are split between the two sides causing many refugees to join the Pro Benders in the Slums.[/CENTER]

Leaders
!~I am still constructing the leaders for this group, but you may PM me if you want to take any specific position~!

Airbenders

A very small group of Airbenders, most of them related to Avatar Aang himself have build a small temple on the Slums side of Republic City to protect them from the current tension. There are an estimated 40 members of the Temple, who are not all Airbenders.

Leaders
!~Please PM me if you want to take these positions~!

    Airbenders Leader #1:Open (Any gender)
    Airbenders Leader #2:Open (Any gender)

Non-Benders

Non-Benders mostly consist of your average everyday people who choose not to bend, or can't bend at all, many of them are against the Pro-Benders, but not all of them of course, some of them have actually joined the Pro-Bending cause, although memebers of the Neo-Equalists use specialized Chi Blocking, and other Non-Benders use martial arts.

The Bloods

The Bloods is an organization created after one of the leader's sons separated from the Equalists, finding that the conflict of Benders versus Non-Benders should be exploited for wealth, and that instead whichever side they choose to be on, should make the other side pay in Yuang in order to considered a citizen. The entire organization consist of Blood bender and they are affiliated with neither of the sides. Instead they are responsible for many of the murders, and crime that influence both sides of Republic City and certain parts of the World. They are currently being sought after by both sides as a solution to the problem before a full out war occurs.

Leaders
!~Please PM me if you want to take these positions~!
    Bloods Leader #1:~Reserved~
    Bloods Leader #2: Aisell

Avatar: Bending War

Here's the roleplay in case you want more information.
~Stark

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