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Changes: Sim Layout, City-States, RPCSS Factions, and Storyline. Read More
News and Rumors
From The Citadel
Event Calender
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March 2021
Sexwick, Raa'Edan 1121 (3/1/21)
Opening day news ...
The city-state of Valgard has no current allies nor enemies. They are awaiting their winter wheat to bring to market. Alfarian armies have been seen on the southern border of Valgard and Telrae’dor as the fortification there is reinforced.
Tenysia remains, as ever, on unsteady footing with its surrounding city-states. Generally reviled but still, a provider of necessary resources, no clear lines of allyship have been drawn. With a treaty regarding shared trade routes with Bheka set to expire in the near future, tensions between the two city-states are at an all-time high.
Rusavik has begun its slow and deliberate expansion, bringing it dangerously close to conflict with Halberg. Relations with Valgard remain cordial, while those with Khonzhou are chilled but silent for now.
Khonzhou is enjoying a period of relative peace with its neighbors, its only current goal being to patrol and secure their part of the Ulikh Steppes, continuing to honor the Khonzhou/Halberg treaty of 1044. The current noble politics of Khonzhou can be divided into two groups: Those who support the warlord and his expansionist views, and those who support the unity and stability of east Essealas, with centralized power in the Emperor. Travelers bring rumors of an upcoming martial arts tournament being held in Arcovia.
Arcovia and the guild have expanded the wealth and grandeur leaps and bounds from years past. Prosperity reigns and new lawful measures have been expedited as a means of producing and maintaining peace in the city streets! Arcovias soldiers have gone out and expanded the hold of the city so as to maintain and keep strong its “neutral” borders. New officials from across the continent to oversee the handling of all communications. We are excited for the change away from the old guard.
The city-state of Tiberia is in active negotiations with both Arjat and Bheka to establish fair trading routes and commitment to not place forces on their borders. The talks are strained due to previous declarations of a 40 year trading ban on Tiberia. For now, they are peaceful discussions, but that may change should anything upset this delicate balance.
Aside from the previous comments about communication, Arjat has been keeping to itself and quietly expanding its borders. There is a sense of resentment or bitterness toward Tiberia and a feeling of friendship toward Bheka.
Bheka has begun establishing a solid friendship with Arjat. Although, there might be some debate about the line splitting the Flood Plains. There is some progress with Tiberia in developing a tradelines through Arjat and a possible connection with Halberg. No clear negotiation with Tenysia yet but things are strained a bit since there’s been bad history for a long time.
The Northern menace that is Jarnfell, continues to focus its raid efforts on Telrae’dor in response to their taxation. With the wolves otherwise tolerating the other neighboring city-states, their interactions with Albion has increased from necessity over want. In the meantime, with their armies on the move, it is rumored that they are looking to expand their reach.
No other news is available from Albion, Telrae'dor and Halberg.
Rusavik and Khonzhou
News quickly spreads of a formal land agreement between Rusavik and Khonzhou. In a show of mutual cooperation, Khonzhou has ceded land containing a derelict stronghold (shown in red) in its north-western territory over to Rusavik. In exchange, Rusavik formally recognizes Khonzhou's borders and vows to keep its troop movements outside of Jurchen land.
Khonzhou's proponents of war and expansion would likely interpret this gesture to be a move of cowardice, surrendering land to one of their oldest enemies. However, those who favor unity and progress would likely see this as a wise and strategic decision diplomatically, further legitimizing and strengthening Khonzhou's position in the east with recognized borders.
Announcement of the Ball
Come one, come all to the Arcovia Citadel Raa’Edan, first sign of green jubilee
In celebration for the cold break in the Central lands and the waters fall in the South signaling the coming planting the Citadel will be hosting a ball for natives and guests of Arcovia who wish to mark another blessed turning season with merriment. The festivities are funded by a council of local business’ and patrons, hosted by Eckard Asher von Wahle with the blessing of the Arcovian Guild.
The gathering will be on First Septwick of Raa’Edan at the fourth bell of the evening. All are encouraged to dress in the traditional garb of their home to celebrate what their State provides for the wider community.
February, 2021
Opening Weekend (2/23/21)
I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for their interest in Arcovia and joining us both here, on sim and in the SL group. Given the current progression of joins I am expecting this coming weekend to be very hectic.
To be frank I did not staff enough people to handle the potential influx. Consequently, I am going to ask everyone to help make this process as smooth as possible for new players. If you are able and willing greet new players, talk to them about faction ideas, encourage them, offer tours and try and help them connect with others. Many of you have experience as staff and admins on other RP sims and know what to do, I hope you'll reach out and assist here.
As we settled, and there is enough oxygen to go around I will look to hire more staff.
Thank you everyone for understanding. Branwyn, Bane and Torolf and the rest of the Arcovia Staff.
- Regarding Faction Leads
- I just want to take a moment to again address the topic of Faction Leads. We do not have pre-assigned faction leads. There are a handful of players who helped me establish the opening storyline. Some of these players intend to take leadership positions in their city state -- some do not. They get a 24 hour early access to choose their preferred role. ALL OTHER ROLES are first come first serve at noon SLT March 1st. More then 36 position will be available. You don't need to do anything to get one of these roles, other then to be the first person to request it via the hud at noon SLT. There is also a number of ways to get the position someone else has: How to Join
- In a nut shell, no one know who's going to be ICLY "in charge" prior to opening day, even me. If you need OOC help, you can speak to any of my staff, myself or use the Q&A channel.
Status Update (2/20/21)
I know that many of us are waiting until opening day to know what our RPCSS role will be, and for some that stalls any early role-play. However, its perfectly acceptable to keep your role "secret" until such time as we have actual roles assigned.
Consequently, I both give permission and encourage you to set up role-play encounters with others on sim before we open. Most visitors in non-medieval clothing run through quickly and are easy enough to ignore.
Call it an unofficial soft open as of today if you like.
Hud Testing
- There is a new TESTING Hud
- Please delete all previous copies of the hud that you have.
- The new Hud is available from the same box at the landing that you got the prior one.
- Touch the box, not buy contents!
- What has changed
- Your Display name and HP's show over your head.
- The dice use the account name not the display name so it no longer errors out on weird characters.
- Using /4 you can type with your character name as a chat overide.
- /4 afk will toggle on and off afk so you can not be attacked if afk.
This Hud attaches on click, and will deattach when you leave the sim, so you will need to re-click the box on entry again if you wish to continue testing.
- HP regeneration and attack delays are still set for testing durations.
Duwick, Raa’Edan (2/11/21)
House Triarius welcomes nobles and citizens alike to the opening of their newly cleaned bathhouse
House Triarius understands that many nobles and citizens have unfortunately been affected by the temporary closing of the bathhouse in the Al'Shardar district. To apologize for this inconvenience, House Triarius has graciously opened the doors to the baths with flourish.
Please join us for a night of exotic food, the very best wine the Arcovia District has and the newly cleaned and sanitary baths.
As a special treat, Fade's Fabulous Pharmaceuticals has offered free oil sampling and perfume to the first 30 citizens. Friday 6PM (SLT) Al'Shardar district.
- Menu
- Dormice stuffed with honey, walnuts and poppy seeds (limit 4 per customer)
- Goat milk cheese with an assortment of nuts, pork and bread
- Garum sauce (fish gut sauce) with tender new apples and honey
- Plum wine and House wine (dark and oaky)
Priwick, Raa’Edan (2/7/21)
We are on schedule. The sim build is 98% complete, the lore is complete, character bios are being submitted, and even some role-play is happening on sim. Right now we are just waiting on the Hud for testing, which we expect to have this week. We are go for March 1st! The sim will be opening on Noon SLT March 1st which is when the factions will be formed and faction roles are chosen.
The pre-opening faction leads will get 24 hour advanced opportunity to pick which of the four roles in their faction that they wish. All other roles will be on a first come first serve basis at Noon SLT on March 1st. If you are looking to have a lead role as head agent to the diplomat, warlord, spymaster or coinmaster, you will want to be on sim to pick up the hud and set up your profile.
January, 2021
Octwick, Al-Sargas (1/26/21)
Just a quick status update for everyone. Of the five districts, all of them have been started and layed out, of those three still need to be finalized with deco; Suttenborg, Chayuan and the Crossroads. Suttenborg has had a recent revamp as we didn't like the back end of the district and have rebuilt it. So the building is totally on schedule for March 1st. Thank you Torolf, Raven and Panda for all their help and support.
We have all but one faction lead, and the others have been doing an amazing job of knocking out the recent Timeline. Thank you guys and gals and gxxs! Bane has implemented the new Essealas map into RPCSS and has moved onto the account and promotion system. The timing on having RPCSS and the Hud totally ready for March 1st is tight, but we are hopeful.
I have some more work to do on the NPCS for each city state, as well as some wiki work on the RPCSS manual, but I am on schedule. I will probably send out another newsletter on Friday and hope to catch a few more past Comraich Players.
Faction Starters
I am looking for a handful of players to participate as early RPCSS faction leaders for the city-states. The job is much like a normal faction lead, but I'm looking for players with experience in RPCSS to do play testing before we open. This play testing will be used to establish "a current politics" debrief at the time of go life. The role will involve communicating with other faction starters, establishing RP reactions and submitting actions via RPCSS. If you are interested, please contact Branwyn.Emerald for more details.
Quadwick, Al-Sargas (1/8/21)
We have set up the landing zone on the production sim, as well as having two of the builds; Thanhold (Nordic) and Carthage (Roman/Arabic) finished and usable for casual role-play. We are hosting an Ur Tournament and the occasional tavern night between now and opening. Please stop by, grab a group invite and consider your new character.
December, 2020
Development begins
- December 19
- A few of the city-states have been written, and the layout of both the northern and citadel districts of the city have been tossed around.
