UPDATE: Not Dead and Getting Ready for New Things!
So after a several month hiatus I’m thankful to announce that in the coming weeks I’ll be returning to RPing here. Here’s some background on what happened and what I plan to do moving forward:
I finished my master’s degree! That was the big thing that put up most of my time, causing me to hang up both this and streaming for a while. Now that that’s out of the way, I’ll have free time again. That said, I’m now searching for full time work so my actual availability may be a bit sporadic. However, once I have my new plans ready, I can start things up again.
Now for the big announcement. @echoesofblck and I have both felt a bit stifled keeping exclusively to RWBY for setting RP (as well as working around its plotline) so we’re going in a slightly different direction. Once we have it all finished up, we will be debuting a setting blog for a new fandomless sandbox we’ve written called Apricus City. This is a massive megalopolis with hints of magic and cyberpunk that I’ve been describing as a cross between RWBY and Final Fantasy VII with a little bit of Deus Ex thrown in. We wanted to keep all the fundamentals of RWBY’s setting for the sake of not having to completely redo most of our characters (transforming weapons, monsters to fight, supernatural abilities, futuristic tech, etc.) while adding our own flourishes and letting us keep our story focus more about how we wanted our characters to interact. This should also allow people who have concepts that wouldn’t completely fit in Remnant to play on their ideas with us in a more forgiving canon.
We’ll both still be keeping RWBY AUs among others but the bottom line is, we got tired of basing our stories in the Remnant setting and really wanted to expand on its ideas, but we wanted it to be easily accessible to all our friends in the RWBY RPC if they wanted to see our characters on their new home turf. We’ll both answer any questions people have about it, but our concepts are all fleshed out for the most part and we’re now moving into the writing stage and I’m (trying to) work on a rough city map.
I’ll also get the big stuff out of the way now:
I will be changing this blog name once I’m ready to debut the new stuff.
Team OLIV as it stands currently will be no more, but the team will remain as the main characters of the blog. Their personal dynamic will be slightly different but our party of four won’t be separated.
I won’t be dropping any current threads I have. I’ll be continuing those and tagging them with the RWBY AU tag I haven’t decided on yet. It’ll probably just be Verse: RWBY or something.
There will be a new storyline when the blog debuts, but we’ll be spending some time doing a “sandbox” mode to start just to hammer out small details and get people who want to interact with the new canon time to get used to it.
Lastly, I should put out a disclaimer, I still don’t dislike RWBY. This latest season has been better than I thought it was going to be, but I’ve been significantly less interested in roleplaying in the setting as a default. However, if anyone doesn’t want to follow this blog anymore because of that, I understand.
Again, thanks everyone for your patience with me and feel free to ask anything you want about what I’m doing with this new setup.
As an addendum to the above, this only applies to my primary OC blog. This blog and @havenstraitor will still be around, though I’ll be less active with them.














