I feel we need to figure out what to do with the site as a whole.  I know that we are now a mix, which is good.  I say do a reboot with this new turn of events.  Sotra.  We let those who have set characters stay where they are.  We need to figure out what stat system we are going with as I am currently confused on where we stand with that.  I say we also allow Vizards back in.  I'm tired of dumming down Hikaru due to last site wide restriction.  we need to allow them to come back and fast.  We lost many due to cutting that.  We also need to bring back the Espada.  I say we pick a spot in the Bleach timeline where we let the site begin and go from there.  This is just one suggestion of mine.  I'm leaving it open to any other suggestions so we can get this site back going, and fast.  Please lemme know what you guys think and then we can let everyone else know what we plan to do and get feed back.  I'll work to get what I can do with the time I have between school and work.  Tuesdays and Thursdays will be my worst days due to how long I'm in school those days and work.  I'll do my best to be as active as possible however to get the site back up.

well, my plan is to remove the stat system and go back to statless, but revamp it with a better explaination of how AR works as well as some additional information with AR that I thought up with FAR (Focus Advantage Rating), in which we specifically state that a perticularly technique only increases a certain aspect of your character instead of a whole.

Example:

Take my bankai, Zetsubo shedo hasai, it grants AR+1 to speed and strength, but what I'm suggesting is that, since bankai grants its user a AR+2 while active, that when the bankai is being made, the weilder can either have a general AR+2 or have the AR more heavily focused into the aspects of the bankai with FAR, this would mean that my bankai would be heavily focused on speed and strength, while only giving the basic power level of a bankai or with another example with Okami's zanpakuto that grants addition AR boosts while lowering defense, with this idea, this would be that it increases his attack FAR while lowering his defensive FAR.

and yes, I'm so done with the whole Vizard ban thing, I'll still be doing a Vizard based plot, so they may still need to be hiding, but none of this "hidden hollow" BS, we can have it that inner hollows can be active and have it when someone tier trains enough times as a Vizard (maybe three times) have the inner hollow start being more active, talking to the host more and even appearing to him, similar to how hollow ichigo came to ichigo when A. his powers had increased and B. when hichigo was himself getting stronger and closer to eating his soul, especially when using zanpakuto powers as inner hollows are a core part of a Vizard's power and are a part of the zanpakuto along with the zanpakuto spirit itself. just if people want to make referances or if they loose control of their hollow and it eats them, then so be it. But no hollow based powers till they have done Vizard training for their masks, once they have defeated their inner hollow and gained their masks, then they can train their hollow abilities.

Yes, we'll be bringing back the espada, we'll be having them plus the alternate version of them, I'll be working on doing the cannon and alternate main site plots as well as updates regarding banned powers, creation of a kido list, possible template edits, etc as well as updates to the bonus AR of different races and so on

Good Luke.  Don't overdo yourself.  I'll look though some of the templates to see what can be tweeked.  I say we use the current  character templates for the cannon as well, but we grade on a different scale so to say.  One would have to be very familiar with the character to play them of course.  As such, one would be graded differently.  Get your system of FAR up as a post in the staff section so I can see how it looks.  Once done I can advise on how to fix anything if I feel it needs it.  In the mean time I'll look over the character templates and see what fixing I can do to make it easier for the players to fill out.  Once we have a few things going we can make the announcement on the revival of the Espada and Vizard.  I say we make it a site plot that, maybe, the vizard form a group and, maybe, plot to overthrow the Shinigami because they don't want them there.  That could be something.  Also, we will have the Espada and a separate group fight each other for control of Hueco Mundo.  I've not figured out the details yet but Hikaru or someone who is in power can be in charge of the Vizard group.  IDK.  Just throwing things out there.  Lemme know what you think.

yeah, we can use the current NPC templates, using details from the various templates we have to do so, making them NPC only so there isn't a power struggle on who gets to have his/her fav character but yes, I was thinking maybe allowing to play NPC cannon characters who is equal or below there tier or making it based on their rping abilities and overall activity to make sure the person taking the role can keep it up.

I'll get the FAR system up today and make it simple yet clear to understand.

ok, let me know what changes you make so I can take a look

well, with regards to the espada, my idea was to have them fight against Dante and the army of blood, his personal army, the general plotline for this (within the alt universe) is that Dante starts a assault on the kingdom of the south and its ruler, he's already taken the northern lands and its castle, formerly in the control of Graven Fet, Dante becomes successful and kills the king of the south, claiming control of the southern lands. the espada, noticing that the lands around Las noches is slowly being claimed, leaving only the lands to the east not under Dante's or espada control. to stop Dante, they attack and eventually defeat him, but with his great power, they spare his life to make him the second/third espada (second would be funny since Dante would be a fallen king at that point and cannon second espada was also a fallen king of hueco mundo, but I wouldn't mind him being the third espada either)

with the Vizard plot, I'm against PCs taking a vial role for the plot as in, they are a key point of the plot, I don't mind him being like one of the people who started the vizard group but we shouldn't make PCs main characters of the plot as it normally comes under strict resistance and if they left or got bored, the plot would stop and this mess would happen all over again.

But the general plot of the alt Vizard plot can be that this Vizards are undercover within their own squads, but then, a high ranking officer is found to be suffering from hollowfication as this officer is really a Vizard in the process of being eaten alive by his inner hollow. having seen this, the head captain orders the extermination of anyone possessing Vizard spiritual pressure. seeing the death of their fellow Vizards, they flee the seireitei for the outskirts, some Vizards stay behind to make sure the shinigami don't kill their friends and are captured by the various lieutenant and captain level personal and taken to squad 12 to be sealed up and experimented on by the captain to find out more about how this occured. Eventually, the vizards, once they had escaped and done their training to control their hollows, invade the seireitei and break the Vizards out of squad 12s expermental lab and free them before getting them out of the seireitei.

I've been rethinking the Vizard plot a little and I think this is good:

The espada, after defeating Dante and his forces and forcing him to submit and become the second/third espada, reclaim their lands and Dante's castle as their own. but in their way to sucuring the castle, they find a locked door that is Dante's personal vault. Once the door is broken, they find the heart of Darkness; a seemingly living heart, pulled from a very old and powerful hollow that was Dante's brother, Shadow. One of the espada touches it, dispite Dante telling them that only he can touch and interact with the heart and so, when he touches it, it sends out a blast of black spiritual pressure before releasing a large scale pule of unknown spiritual energy out through the castle and across the cross dimensional rift, causing it to hit in the world of the living and the soul society, which causes anyone with inner hollows that suddenly become more aggressive and active as well as causing some to suddenly hollowfy into their hollow forms. This happens first to a high ranking officer, who suddenly hollowfied and got eaten by his inner hollow before swiftly being killed and brought to the head captain. Seeing how dangerous hollowfication was to both the host and anyone around them, the head captain issues a level one order to terminate on sight all who possess the spiritual pressure of shinigami and hollows combined.

All Vizards within the seireitei are forced to free to the outskirts, a select few Vizards stay behind to make sure the others ain't captured (Max of 3 PCs) which instead of being killed as ordered, is captured by squad 12 captain, Oleg Atanasi, who locks them within Reiatsu.Intergration.Gear (or RIGs) which converts all reiatsu possessed within a shinigami's body into the suit and a defensive shield, the health monitor is displayed on a metal spine on the back of each suit and kept within them, hooked up to monitoring equipment while squad 12 experiments and analizes how this came about along with the surge wave of unknown spiritual pressure.

Afterwords, in the second part of this, the Vizards train to control their inner hollows to become strong enough to assault the squad 12 barracks and rescue their locked up brothers and sisters. Once braking out of squad 12 barracks if successful, then the vizards will return them to their new base within the deepest parts of the outskirts, far from the seireitei and even the rukongai districts, where the vizards offer to help train the locked up ones to control their hollows.

Quicy plot~coming soon

Crossover plot: The zanpakuto rebellion arc

this is a side plot that allows both cannon and alternate universes clash together as Muramasa unleashes the zanpakuto spirits from their masters and mistresses, in the alternate universe, there is a group of zanpakuto spirits that have been left unclaimed and are bitter at the shinigami for abandoning them to their fate and they agree to take down the soul society in both universes using Muramasa and the machine created between Mayuri and Oleg to speak to one another via a cross dimensional portal, both kept with squad 12 captain's laboratory. This can imply that as maybe some or all the cannon zanpakuto spirits come into the alternate universe, the zanpakuto of shinigami from the alternate universe come into the cannon universe, both causing massive destruction and havoc, leaving the cannon and alternate universes no choice but to work together so they can defeat their own zanpakutos and return things to as they were.

Thor has control over the earth underneath his feet and up to 100 feet in all directions. He can use earth manipulation to form walls, barriers, pillars or other shapes, or launch earth like a ball, ranging from the strength of a cero to the strength of a bala. The speed depends on the size as the larger to slower, and the smaller the faster, fastest being a bala.

Another layer of armor generates over his existing armor. The armor is able to withstand damage up to a Gran Rey Cero. Anything stronger than that would directly hit him. Coming into contact with him would directly result in the enemy getting burned.

Lasts for 3 posts with 3 post CD.

Thor creates a javelin-like weapon made out of magma, with the only difference being the energy flowing off each end in a fashion similar to flames, making it look more arrow-shaped. Angmar can use this weapon as a projectile. When thrown, the lance splits into hundred of lances, all flying towards the enemy in a massive wave of sorts. If he so wishes, he can make all the lances splatter in all directions to cover much more area. The lances travel in a speed equivalent to a Bala.

When a lance/lava splatter gains contact with an opponent gives them 2nd degree burns. 2 post CD.

Thor lets out a large and powerful blast of energy from his body in an expanding orb of magma. The blast expands outwards 50-ft in all directions.

Gives the opponent a damage equivalency of 2 Ceros, while also causing 2nd degree burns. 3 post CD.

Thor can manipulate chains up to 100-ft in all directions. He seemingly has 10 large chains that if one is destroyed would be instantly replaced by another. The chains are connected to his central nervous systems in which he can control them in anyway he pleases. He is able to to use the chains to strangle an opponent, pull and so forth. Coming into contact with the chains will get the opponent burned.

The gauntlet in his arm completely forms around his right hand making the appearance similar to a cannon ballistic of sort's. He has variety of things he can shoot out of it;

Thor is able to fire off 100 beams of concentrated magma. He can aim the beams as he fires them allowing him to continue firing at his target as they move. A beam is strong as a Cero. ? post CD.