Welcome to the New Year! Thank you all for staying with us throughout the years and building the world and community of Gladius into what it is today. Our most recent Event, The War in Heaven was a smashing success and we owe it all to you. As a thank you for both participating in the Event and as a special Holiday treat we would like to offer everyone a one time gift of 250 Total EXP. This may be claimed on every character via that character’s updates and is claimable until January 31st 2022 @ 11:59PM EST.
Immediately following the cutoff for claiming your holiday gift will be the First Activity Check of 2022 on February 1st. The check will run for 2 weeks as normal, though the template has changed. You can find the original announcement here.
After a dazzling display of might and unity by the Shinobi of the known world, the Kujira Indaina has been defeated.
This victory is bittersweet however. Although the plan for the Enlightened Society of Rebirth and Reordering has been stymied and the Indaina Kujira rendered inert as a threat, there were many casualties of the War in Heaven, including the mysterious disappearance of the city’s creator - Okane Tomi. The many attacks that were centred on the Heavenly Emporium caused the marvellous city to come crashing down in the middle of the Kaizoku Sea. The small amount of power left within it keeps it afloat and in a static location, however it is a pale shadow of what it once was.
There is a new sub forum for the Heavenly Emporium. It is now a single location, is no longer tied to Event Rules and requires travel. It is in the center of the Kaizoku Sea (Half the Kaizoku Sea is 36 hours as per the travel rules, which have been updated to remove all mention of the Heavenly Emporium.) Presently, due to the destruction, no NPC goods or services may be purchased or used at the Heavenly Emporium (this means no marketplace, no enchanting, no hospitals etc.).
We are allowing everyone a single exit post per thread they are currently in, this exit will place the character back at their previous location (their homebase) without the need for OOC travel time. Any new posts that are not exits (either in an ongoing RT thread or starting a new thread that is not a flashback) will mean that your character is now physically present on the Wreckage of the Heavenly Emporium and will be required to follow the travel rules as normal. This will of course mean that every thread that character is in that is outside of the Wreckage of the Heavenly Emporium will be forced to become a flashback if they choose to stay at the HE (which will halve experience, void mission completion and disallow the trading of goods, services or ryo as normal).
In addition we will be locking the original Heavenly Emporium subforum found here on January 31st, 2022 @ 11:59PM EST. We advise that you exit any ongoing threads (Real Time or Flash Back) by that time as they will be inaccessible after that.
We promised great rewards for participation in the most recent Theatre of War and fear not, they will be announced shortly!
With this Event officially over this brings the Shinobi World War Arc to a formal close. Once again, thank you for continuing to write with us. We appreciate you and are truly grateful to have such a wonderful community of writers.
Immediately following the cutoff for claiming your holiday gift will be the First Activity Check of 2022 on February 1st. The check will run for 2 weeks as normal, though the template has changed. You can find the original announcement here.
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After a dazzling display of might and unity by the Shinobi of the known world, the Kujira Indaina has been defeated.
This victory is bittersweet however. Although the plan for the Enlightened Society of Rebirth and Reordering has been stymied and the Indaina Kujira rendered inert as a threat, there were many casualties of the War in Heaven, including the mysterious disappearance of the city’s creator - Okane Tomi. The many attacks that were centred on the Heavenly Emporium caused the marvellous city to come crashing down in the middle of the Kaizoku Sea. The small amount of power left within it keeps it afloat and in a static location, however it is a pale shadow of what it once was.
There is a new sub forum for the Heavenly Emporium. It is now a single location, is no longer tied to Event Rules and requires travel. It is in the center of the Kaizoku Sea (Half the Kaizoku Sea is 36 hours as per the travel rules, which have been updated to remove all mention of the Heavenly Emporium.) Presently, due to the destruction, no NPC goods or services may be purchased or used at the Heavenly Emporium (this means no marketplace, no enchanting, no hospitals etc.).
We are allowing everyone a single exit post per thread they are currently in, this exit will place the character back at their previous location (their homebase) without the need for OOC travel time. Any new posts that are not exits (either in an ongoing RT thread or starting a new thread that is not a flashback) will mean that your character is now physically present on the Wreckage of the Heavenly Emporium and will be required to follow the travel rules as normal. This will of course mean that every thread that character is in that is outside of the Wreckage of the Heavenly Emporium will be forced to become a flashback if they choose to stay at the HE (which will halve experience, void mission completion and disallow the trading of goods, services or ryo as normal).
In addition we will be locking the original Heavenly Emporium subforum found here on January 31st, 2022 @ 11:59PM EST. We advise that you exit any ongoing threads (Real Time or Flash Back) by that time as they will be inaccessible after that.
We promised great rewards for participation in the most recent Theatre of War and fear not, they will be announced shortly!
With this Event officially over this brings the Shinobi World War Arc to a formal close. Once again, thank you for continuing to write with us. We appreciate you and are truly grateful to have such a wonderful community of writers.