June Summary 2010

Sunny greetings to you!

Here is the second edition of the Windfury newsletter. In the effort to give a monthly review of the going-ons on Winds of Fury Pern RPG Forum. It is sent to all the OOC accounts registered and will inform you all of what has been happening at Enkala Weyr both In and Out of Character.

~*~ Out of Character (OOC) ~*~

Please join me in welcoming the following new members to our board: Desh and Scarlett. May the RP deities smile upon them and embrace them with plenty of plots, scenes and other miscellanous fun. Welcome!

With the approach of our 1000th post, allow me to officially let you all know that in honour of that great milestone, the character quota will be upped from 2 to 3. Yes, that’s right, folks! We get an extra character to play with(assuming we want one) so get planning! The rules will be updated accordingly.

While on the subject of celebrations, on the 19th of June, we had our official first month anniversary. On the 19th of May, 2010, the first RP scene was started by the ever so awesome SRness whose character T’khor has provided many of us with hours of amusement and happy reading. We did say our „happy birthdays“ already but let me do so again – well done everyone! The first month of In Character activity was fierce and some fantastic and memorable scenes were had. Thank you for making it all possible.

I’d like to draw everyone’s attention to the bottom of the index page of the forum. No, it’s past the chatbox but you’re of course, welcome to use it to your heart’s content. What I wanted you to look at are two topsites buttons – RPGD Fandom Topsites and Pern Universe Topsites. Upon clicking there once every 24 hours, you give your support to our forum and allow it to rise in ranks to be viewed by more and more Dragonriders of Pern enthusiasts. In addition, a rating can be placed on Winds of Fury on RPGD Fandom Topsites that will lift us up(or bring us down, depending on which way you rate us) on that listing as well. As noted, everyone can vote once a day and upon doing so, you earn my eternal gratitude and that of fluffly ninja bunnies.

Before we settled with the current chat software, we briefly used one that included ads with possibly malicious bugs in them. We’ve long since replaced it and deleted the chat from our servers but please do let us know if the forum is giving you any troubles with whatever Anti-Virus you have installed.

Winds of Fury blog page is http://windsoffury.blogspot.com/ and these newsletters will also be posted there as well as any other recent news and announcements.

As a final note to our OOC News, I’d like to remind you all that if there is anything you see that could be fixed, improved or cleared up, there is a Suggestions Box in the General Chatter forum you can leave your thoughts in and we will happily work on things.

Rock on!

~*~ In Character(IC)~*~

The following new characters were created during the month of June: D’jan, R’in, Mir’an, V’lery, K’rura, Setsuna and Razek.

As was to be expected, the roleplay has been going on in a mad pace. From the simple friendly chats to scenes that influenced the whole Weyr, it has been lovely to follow. With the addition of new characters and some NPCs, the main plot of the board has gotten a move on quite nicely.

What is the main plot, you may ask now? It’s quite simple – to last long enough to meet the Thread in the coming Pass, flame it dead and come back as heroes. As the introduction to the forum’s setting says, it is approximately one Turn(year) before the beginning of the 7th Pass on Pern, the Red Star is burning in the sky already but isn’t quite in the Eye Rock yet. In order for Enkala to be ready to fly Thread, it needs to get through the Search, the Hatching, live through the cold winter and train their hearts out until the time comes to do what dragons and subsequently, the riders were destined to do but haven’t done for centuries because of the Interval. Some of the Holders don’t think Thread will come at all, that it’s all an intricate plot of Weyrs to get tithes out of them and refuse to prepare for the occasion. In the area around Enkala, it is especially widespread due to the Weyr’s general bad luck and going-ons of late. How will our dragonriders persuade the people of Pern that they are worthy of their support and that the deadly spores will come no matter how much they wish they wouldn’t?

There is currently a party scene open and still going on with the Weyrwoman’s birthday but more than that, to celebrate the new beginning of the Weyr. It’s being held at the Weyrbowl and anyone can join while it’s going on.

We welcome any plot related suggestions and additions that you may have so if you have a great idea, don’t let it sit! Come to us and we can brainstorm up something brilliant.

Although the Search hasn’t started yet, all folks wanting to play Candidates are welcome to start making their young characters either from Weyrbrats or completely fresh Candidates from outside the Weyr. Our Searchdragons Obileth(rider K’rel – PC) and Eliath(rider M’rman – NPC) are on the lookout for potential and will happily pick up anyone.

With that in mind, there are a number of highly important positions we are actively trying to fill, most of all the Weyrlingmaster(a rider of any kind aged 40+) and the Headwoman. Since we are also opening up another Wing for player characters, we are also looking for people to take over the Wingleader NPCs – L’sio, M’kailo and J’cob. There are other adoptables and for those, please check out the Notable and Adoptable Weyr NPCs/OCs from the Character plot ideas and suggestions forum. The first Wingleader to be adopted will be the leader of the next player filled Wing.

Meet you at Enkala!

~*~ End~*~

May Summary 2010

Greetings, folks!

Although not a full month old, there is still a whole lot of things to report for the first monthly review of Winds of Fury RPG Forum. These newsflashes will be sent at the end of every month(unless there are unforseeable circumstances a la a brick falling on my head or an attack of evil nuclear squirrels) and will be divided into two parts – OOC and IC news. So without further ramble, here goes!

~~~***OOC(Out of Character)***~~~

First, don’t laugh but...

Please welcome the following new members to our board:

Aailski, Kylee, Makato, Evelyn, SRness, Charlie, Aliera and Bexx. Make them feel welcome, warm and fuzzy and include them in your in character activities which are fun and many!

Several of you already have characters set up and are jumping into the Weyr’s life with happy squeals but let me just remind you that whenever you’re in doubt, have a question, concern or comment, please feel free to come to me so we can figure it out one way or another. And if your concern is about me, you can always throw Kamach a PM – he’s pretty good at walking me up and onto the plank.

That said, I’d like to introduce our staff that although small-ish, is enthusiastic at what they do and happy to help whenever!

My admin account name is Nyaare but I also sometimes go by Elorian, Niamee, Raewin... The options are unlimited though Elorian is the one I use mostly for my Out of Character identity. It may happen that I will change the admin name to that so when I do, don’t be alarmed, otherwise I’ll be exactly the same!

I’ve Rped for over ten years and adminned forums about 7 of them, starting with an Anita(Blake)verse forum and Black Jewels Trilogy one and now, my third little baby, the Winds of Fury. I’ve always been crazy about the Dragonriders of Pern series and the character I created(S’ren) had been rummaging around my brain for about a decade or more, ever since reading the books.

Outside the interwebz I’m a desk monkey from Estonia in her late twenties(I can say that about 29, right?), I’m from a large family that at first considered themselves the Addams’s and by now has been demoted to the Simpsons. I have a white fluffy cat and friends in and out of the worldwide web. I’m welcome to new ideas and suggestions, I love to read and write and I’m crazy about Karl Urban(shhh). Don’t be shy when wanting to contact me, I don’t bite, at all.

My fellow admin Kamach(Kammie) is the strong and silent type. He’s around when needed and fixes what I break which unfortunately happens alot. Although not exactly the Pern enthusiast that I am, he’s a fair and considerate boyo and deserves all the respect and love we have! As for any further introductions, I’ll let you ask him yourselves and see what you can find out.

If you haven’t noticed yet, I would like to draw your attention to the art-work of the forum. In my opinion in tune with the simple theme I wanted for the place and very much looking like something actually drawn on Pern, it’s all made by Lee. He’s absolutely brilliant, most helpful even if I do twist his arm and make him change an icon for about eleven times before satisfied. The forum images and all but one rank icons are original art made by him. Thank you!

For the time being, I’m not looking to find another staffer. I find that with my high levels of enthusiasm and with some patience and persistence from you guys, we can manage just fine. If however, you have ideas you think would work for the forum or awesome suggestions on how to bring more activity, better plots and such into the game, please feel free to PM them to me.

~~~***IC(In Character)***~~~

The following characters were created during this month:

Paughlene, S’ren, T’khor, Nyanko, Skylar, K’rel, Kinnek, A’rik, A’reus.

The RP has been furious, scenes have been flying right away with flaring tempers, new acquiantances, changes, newly found friendships and disappointments.

It all began with the arrival of S’ren from Ista Weyr, as the replacement to the aging Weyrwoman and the young one who was killed in a disoriented going Between-accident. Noone is happy with the solution and as the new Weyrwoman finds out, they’re not exactly shy to let her know what they think of things. In turn, S’ren finds herself at loss with how bad the situation at the Weyr really is – lacking Flight training, lazy and rowdy alcohol-abusing dragonriders, fighting wings that have more holes in them than Benden cheese... Not to mention the seriously lacking discipline the woman finds especially off-putting, coming from the well-working Ista Weyr.

The next logical step would be to go through the new Queen’s mating flight, also solving the issue of the Weyrleader. Filled with bums and troublemakers the Weyr sure has it’s share of those who think they not only could but should become the next Weyrleader. Not knowing much about any of them, S’ren has left it all up to her gold, Talmeth, to choose which bronze(or brown?) will catch her. The Weyr needs more dragons desperately so the rider dares not distract the Queen with her opinions about the riders of these males willing and ready to fly her. Rest assure it is nothing positive anyway.

While the big boys(and girl) go about their powerplay, the inner workings of the Weyr go on with the support staff, the weyrbrats and others living their lives almost as if apart from the dragonriders.

The 7th Pass begins in a year. Will Enkala be ready?

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