Role play update

[Louanne Learning]

Just an update on our new roleplay - The Jade Empire

We've got three entries into our official story - which you can read here:

Thread 'The Jade Empire - Official story'

May 19, 2025

Please first read the Out-of-Character (OOC) thread found here:



This thread is for posting official entries into our collaborative story. Please post all comments to the OOC thread.

This roleplay has spaces for 7 players. The list below shows the order of posting.


1. @Louanne Learning

2. @ellekaldwin

3. @buttercream

4. @Whiskii

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• Louanne Learning
• Replies: 13
• Forum: Official Roleplay

And you can read more about the roleplay in the Out-of-Character (OOC) thread here:

Thread 'The Jade Empire - OOC Thread'

May 19, 2025

Hello, this is your invitation to join us in an exciting new roleplay!

Roleplay Title: The Jade Empire

Roleplay Genre: Steampunk/Alternate Universe

Roleplay GM: Louanne Learning

Setting: 1858, in an alternate universe, in Shanghai, China, situated at the mouth of the Yangtze River. The Huangpu River, a tributary of the Yangtze, flows through the city.

The original walled city is Chinese-controlled, under the administration of the Qing dynasty. It retains its traditional character, with narrow lanes, low-rise wooden houses, teahouses, temples, and a dense...

• Louanne Learning
• Replies: 133
• Forum: Roleplay Discussions

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If you're interested in joining, you can reply to the OOC thread, or send me a PM.

Thank you!

 

[Louanne Learning]

New entry made in the official story.

Post in thread 'The Jade Empire - Official story'

Jun 8, 2025

Daiyu strode through the courtyard of their Nanshi home and entered the sparsely-furnished main chamber, dimly lit by gaslight. She stopped short at the scene that greeted her. Her grandparents and parents sat stoically on stools, on either side of the room. Between them stood the matchmaker, an old woman named Tíng, and a stout man dressed in crisp linens whom she had never seen before. She glanced from one face to another. “What’s this?”

Her father, Hao, dropped his eyes. Her mother, Mei, came towards her and guided her to sit on the stool she’d vacated. “My dear daughter,” she began...

• Louanne Learning

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All are welcome to read and offer their reaction in the OOC thread (but not critique, please).

Even better, please join us in this awesome adventure! We've got spaces open for new players.

 

[Louanne Learning]

We could really use a cowboy. Who wants to be a cowboy in 1858 steampunk Shanghai?

 

[Luxuria]

We could really use a cowboy. Who wants to be a cowboy in 1858 steampunk Shanghai?

Messaged a friend who might be interested. Maybe.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Three new entries posted into the Jade Empire official story! We hope you enjoy reading along as this intriguing story unfolds!

We're still accepting new players and if you are interested, you can send me a PM, or reply to the OOC thread.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I am so pleased with how our Jade Empire story is coming along. I'm blessed to be collaborating with two gifted writers.

We haven't created any real antagonists yet. We need antagonists! We have some ideas, but I thought I would put a call-out here.

How would you like to be our bad guy? Bring your imagination and dark side to our story?

Reply in the OOC or drop me a line in a PM if you are interested or have any questions.

 

[Luxuria]

I am so pleased with how our Jade Empire story is coming along. I'm blessed to be collaborating with two gifted writers.

We haven't created any real antagonists yet. We need antagonists! We have some ideas, but I thought I would put a call-out here.

How would you like to be our bad guy? Bring your imagination and dark side to our story?

Reply in the OOC or drop me a line in a PM if you are interested or have any questions.

I love writing bad guys. What do you need?

 

[Louanne Learning]

I love writing bad guys. What do you need?

I'm looking for a new player. Interested in joining?

 

[Luxuria]

I'm looking for a new player. Interested in joining?

Yep! I am prepared to be the villain you need. If you have an idea, let me know. I will review the RP info in the next few days.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Yep! I am prepared to be the villain you need. If you have an idea, let me know. I will review the RP info in the next few days.

Wonderful! I would suggest you get familiar with what has been written into the official story so far, then we can toss around ideas.

Also, you'll find a lot of important information in the first couple of posts of the OOC thread, as well as the Settings and Lore thread.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Thrilled to welcome @Whiskii and their character Min to our Jade Empire role play!

 

[Louanne Learning]

Latest entry to The Jade Empire posted by @ellekaldwin. Please treat yourself to some exquisite writing!

Post in thread 'The Jade Empire - Official story'

Jul 3, 2025

Shanghai Outskirts — two days since the battle under the teahouse.

The trees thinned as they climbed. The path — if it could be called that — was little more than a tread of dry earth and moss between brambles. Old roots curled from the ground like sleeping serpents, and the air smelled like iron and pine sap.

Jiàn moved with her usual precision, her mist blade at her hip in its vapor-slick sheath. Tala trailed a few steps behind, Cedarheart hovering just above her shoulder. Neither spoke for a while. The forest had a way of listening, and both had learned not to speak too soon in...

• ellekaldwin

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I am sooooo excited to see where this story is leading.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Thrilled to welcome @Luxuria and their character Alexis Tristian to the role play!

 

[Whiskii]

Hi, all!

I've started up an interesting Cyberpunk-Fantasy roleplay set in a walled dystopian megacity. We haven't started yet as of now. If you're interested, you can come over to the OOC thread and join in!

Thread 'Chronicles of Elidel (OOC Thread)'

Jul 9, 2025

This is the OOC Thread for the Chronicles of Elidel, a Cyberpunk-Fantasy text roleplay.

Roleplay Genre: Cyberpunk-Fantasy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Slice-of-Life

Roleplay GM: Whiskii

Setting:
Elidel, a walled megacity on the fictional planet of Akyros, a once Earth-like planet ravaged by both arcane and chemical pollution.

The city of Elidel has hundreds of levels, ascending high into Akyros's murky skies and extending deep into the depths of the planet's crust. With a landscape encompassing a messy amalgamation of various Human and Non-Human architectural...

• Whiskii
• Replies: 40
• Forum: Roleplay Discussions

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[Louanne Learning]

If you're interested

I am in, and am looking forward to it! I am so intrigued by the combination of sci-fi and fantasy.

 

[Luxuria]

Weekly Update: The Chronicles of Elidel
Game Master: @Whiskii ​

"You are invited to join the Chronicles of Elidel! A new Cyberpunk-Fantasy roleplay on Writingforum.org currently seeking players!" - Whiskii

I hope you all check out this new roleplay. Go to the OOC Thread below and create a character today! This roleplay has humans, elves, dwarves, and plenty of mysteries to unravel. Not to mention cybernetic limbs, a massive tower with hundreds of levels and yes, all the rich live above the clouds.

(Meme from Skyrim Memes Facebook)

Anyway, go join this story! It's an awesome setting and is going a lot of fun.
Also, there is limited space, so sign up today!​

Thread 'Chronicles of Elidel (OOC Thread)'

Jul 9, 2025

This is the OOC Thread for the Chronicles of Elidel, a Cyberpunk-Fantasy text roleplay.

Roleplay Genre: Cyberpunk-Fantasy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Slice-of-Life

Roleplay GM: Whiskii

Setting:
Elidel, a walled megacity on the fictional planet of Akyros, a once Earth-like planet ravaged by both arcane and chemical pollution.

The city of Elidel has hundreds of levels, ascending high into Akyros's murky skies and extending deep into the depths of the planet's crust. With a landscape encompassing a messy amalgamation of various Human and Non-Human architectural...

• Whiskii
• Replies: 40
• Forum: Roleplay Discussions

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[Louanne Learning]

The Chronicles of Elidel is now up to four characters! Will you create our next characters? We'd love for you to join!

Thread 'Chronicles of Elidel (Character Index)'

Jul 11, 2025

This is the Character Index for the Chronicles of Elidel, a Cyberpunk-Fantasy roleplay.

Current Characters:

1. Kieran and Khelrik Yorezhan (by @Whiskii)
2. Miranda Montague and Lioriana Crowley (by @Louanne Learning)
3. Alasdair Brontez (by @Dark_Indigenous_Prince)

• Whiskii
• Replies: 3
• Forum: Roleplay Encyclopedias

GM @Whiskii will be writing the opening post to the official story soon!

 

[Louanne Learning]

We are sad to see @Luxuria have to bow out of the "It Began In a Tavern" roleplay.

We've been diligently working on this story for quite some time, and I am really proud of it. Not to mention, I really want to see how it ends! We've come up with Olive as our main character, and she is hurtling towards a destiny that will change the world!

I am making this appeal to any interested - will you please join us to help us complete this story? You don't have to read all the entries in the official story, just the last few, (but feel free to read the entries from the old site!) and a look at the out-of-character (OOC) thread will provide a lot of information, too.

@ps102 and myself will help you in any way we can to get you into the story. We'll answer all your questions.

Will you please join us?

You can reply here, or drop me a line in a PM.

Thank you!

 

[Louanne Learning]

In the last few days, we've had new entries posted to the official stories of our three current roleplays.

The post to the Chronicles of Elidel is the opening post. The story has begun!!

We're always taking new players, if you are interested.