RP Blitz: Keepers of Vediatha

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𖢻 Blitzia Lore Compendium 𖢻 Roleplay Blitz Info 𖢻

DM: @winterwolf0100
Adventurers: @Leya, @WeepingWisteria
Party Name: Keepers of Vediatha
Likely RP Type: Storybook

Despite its proximity to the quarreling cities of Onyx and Ebony, Vediatha is very much its own little world, a haven for young sorcerers to refine their specialties in a sprawling magical academy hugging the foothills.

Some say Vediatha is protected by some mystical shield, or perhaps marauders simply keep a wide birth from the dragons roosting in the peaks. For those who have been brought to Vediatha against their will, the walls of the academy feel more like a prison, their professors more like wardens. Of late, all students are enrolled in a class that enforces Loyalist beliefs.


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PREMISE IDEAS

To prepare you for your journey, we've created three ideas that would suit your region and genre preferences. You are more than welcome to tweak them to your taste or go for something else entirely. Remember that you'll need to complete this roleplay in a month, so the scope of your story should be small.

𖢻 DRAGON RIDERS 𖢻
An ancient order of dragon riders opens up for recruitment. It's your group's turn to tame and bond with your very own dragon before you become food instead.

𖢻 RELIC 𖢻
An age-old legend tells of a powerful relic hidden in the mountains of Vediatha although no one knew the exact location of it until now. Many want to get their hands on the relic to claim it as their own, including you and your party. Will you brave the perilous journey and find it, or will conflicting insterests within your group get in the way?

𖢻 CAGED BIRDS 𖢻
A kindly professor agrees to help you escape Vediatha, as long as you take another troubled student with you, a young water sorcerer keen on The Izhali who you don't get along with.

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DM CHECKLIST

A handy guide to help the DM prepare the party for July's adventure!

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1. Coordinate introductions and set expectations with your party. What kind of roleplay will you be writing? How will the party brainstorm, plan, and collaborate - OOC only, WFP, Riseup? What does everyone's weekly availability look like? What is everyone's time zones?

2. As a team, decide on a premise that everyone is on board with. This premise can be one of the three provided, a derivitive of it, or something else entirely, as long as it takes place in your region of Blitzia and adheres to the general Blitzia lore provided here.

3. Create a character profile template and share it with your party. We suggest all characters are created before outlining the story gets too underway.

4. Decide on a name for the story. At this point, you may create the official RP thread (under Storybook Sanctuary, Roleplay Realm, etc.), but posting the actual story can't begin until July 1st! When creating the official RP thread, please add "[RP Blitz]" to the front of the topic title, so that it looks like: [RP Blitz] Dragon's Maw

5. Brainstorm the story and begin working on an outline together. As a reminder, please keep the scope of this story SMALL. The outline should hit all the main story beats but doesn't need to get into too much detail. Here's an example outline:

The Grocery Store: Your characters are preparing to make the perfect soup--but then, they realize they don't have the special ingredient! Can they make their way to the grocery store during rush hour and back home in time to eat their perfect soup before leaving for a birthday party?

  • Our characters meet together at the house and have a good talk about how their days have been! In the middle of the talk, one realizes-- OH NO! We don't have the special ingredient for our perfect soup!
  • Characters get dressed in their very fancy jetpacks to go to the grocery store, but the sky highways are SO busy at this time of day. They try to use the sky highways.
  • When they come across a huge road block, they decide they should find a different way to the grocery store. Our characters land on the ground and try to walk over the apocalyptic ground and avoid zombies.
  • Attack!! Run from the vampires!! Our characters have a huge fight and chase scene, and barely escape with their lives. Secretly, one of them has gotten bitten... DUH DUH DUHHHHH!
  • Looking a bit worse for wear, our characters finally reach the correct neighborhood of the grocery store--but now, since they don't have their jetpacks, they can't pass the security fence meant to keep dragons out! Oh gosh, whatever will we do?
  • One character goes, "Hey!! I have a brilliant idea! Let's use our earth magic to tunnel our way INTO the jetpack parking lot. That way, we avoid any vampires, we don't have to try to climb and avoid dragons, AND we get to find the secret ingredient! Also, confession time, I got bitten by the vampire :[." GASP! The other characters go, "Oh no! We will magically solve that problem later. But first, your idea sounds great. Can't wait to eat soup!"
  • After a lot of hard work, our characters are in the parking lot and enter the store. But-- GASP!! It is OUT OF THE SECRET INGREDIENT!! This is a tragedy. Sad and soupless, our characters taxi-jetpack home, using the money they would have used for the secret ingredient.
  • Our characters finally get back home, depressed and with no soup. Then, LIGHTBULB MOMENT. One character goes, "WAIT! The secret ingredient is LOVE!!! WE CAN MAKE OUR SOUP! And ALSO, that is how we cure vampirism so now we are all safe. Yippee!"
  • TRIUMPH! Our heroes victoriously sit down to bowls of perfect soup. Then, one of our characters, Charles, says, "hey wait... did we ever get a birthday present for the party tonight?"
  • Facepalm moment. Oh, Charles, you silly man!! The SOUP is the present! And the past. And the future. Everything is soup.
End of roleplay. :]


6. When you've finalized the outline, post it here in the OOC and tag @DungeonMaster. We need to receive the finalized outline from you by June 30th in order for everyone in the party to earn the Blitz Bard Badge!

7. Beginning July 1st, the roleplay may begin. Above all, have fun!

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Good luck, adventurers! First thing's first - what premise tickles your fancy, and what kind of story are you itching to tell?

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Last edited by DungeonMaster on Fri Jun 19, 2026 2:42 am, edited 1 time in total.




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Hi, y'all!! So excited to spearhead this!

Three Questions:
>Firstly, is there any mode of communication that works best for people? I've got discord which can be pretty handy, but if people are uncomfortable with that, I'm also okay with sticking to the OOC to chat! :]

>In terms of the writing itself, I think a pad or riseup always works pretty well. What are people's general availability in July gonna be? (Time of day, particular days, any times you definitely CAN'T write?)

>FINALLY, what premise are people drawn to!? All three of them sound super exciting to me, so I'm down for whatever!

So excited to do this, again. Also, since we have the rest of this month for planning, we can even work in some collaboration between other groups, if anyone is interested! I know that @Spearmint in the Heirs of Onyx group mentioned that since we are geographically so close, it's possible there could be some sort of overlap at some point.

Again, super excited to get into this. Let me know your thoughts, and we can get started planning! As soon as we settle on a premise, I'll draft up a Character Template for us to create our characters and start plotting. Go team!
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hiiii yes i would love to do a collab at some point :3 you all got this!!
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Hey team! So excited to RP!!!

To answer your 3 questions, @winterwolf0100 :

1. I would prefer to just work out of the OOC.

2. What's a pad/riseup? Also, I'm generally available evenings, NOT Saturdays (too busy), and will be out last three days in July

3. I'm more drawn to the Dragon Riders, but I'm fine if we settle on a different one.
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@Leya and @LayLay2013, would love to hear your thoughts on the questions I asked above! I think a good goal would be having a character profile template and a chosen premise by the end of the weekend.

What do we think about that? People won't have to have created their characters by then, it's purely something for my list of things to do.
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Hi ya’ll! My name is Ley and I’m so excited to be writing with you all <3

I don’t mind communicating through OOC, though I am more reachable on discord. Either one is fine!

I will be in NYC July 17th-25th. I’m not bringing my laptop, but I can attempt to use my phone! Will definitely be busy though, so I won’t be able to commit to any write in times that week unfortunately. I will try to pop in as much as I can! Otherwise, I prefer to write on weekends when I don’t work. I can do weekdays as long as it’s after 8PM EST and before 10pmEST.

(I may be biased >.>) but I also love the dragon rider premise. My 2nd fav is the Relic premise!

So excited!!
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@LayLay2013, @Aspawn, Leya and I are going to hop into a WFP in just a couple of minutes, if either of you want to join. The pad link is here:

https://winterwolf0100.writerfeedpad.com/45
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@Aspawn, firstly, I'm sorry I didn't respond to your initial message! I thought I did, and that is my bad!

WFP is WriterFeedPad, the YWS website that allows multiple people to collaborate and work in one "document."

If you could, when you have a moment, please look at the link I listed in the last post. That is our WFP for this roleplay. You are free to read through anything in there you would like to! However, I ask that you definitely read Lines 34-41. These are the two premises that Leya and I have brainstormed based off of the Dragon Riders concept.

If you have a preference, please let us know (in the "document"/pad, or in here)!! Since both of us have a lot of experience roleplaying on YWS, we want to make this as fun and engaging of an experience for you and Laylay2013 as possible.
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@winterwolf0100 umm...the links not working :'(
I don't know why, I tried a lot. I have this old laptop, so it might be the issue, but I can't get on. Would you be able to post it here or something?

Also, where should I post my character profile?
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Hmm. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be working for you, Aspawn. Have you tried using it in a different browser?

If you cannot access WFP at all, that may be a problem. We'll need to look for an alternative so that when we collaboratively write together, we have a place to meet!

Also, for the character profile, you'll be able to post it once we decide on the premise and collaborate a bit on the story we want to tell. That way, we can design characters that match that story. When that time comes, I'll create the correct thread for it and help you navigate to it.
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Hello, all!

News:

Here are the two options I've put together for the Dragon Riders premise. Please let me know here or in the WriterFeedPad which you prefer. In the pad, they start on Line 35.

My goal is for us to have our characters by the end of this upcoming Sunday. We can only plot in-depth after we have created our characters. When you make your character, please use the WFP, so that everyone can see what you are working on, and no one accidentally copies someone else.

Options:
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Option 1

    Established Dragon Riders

  • Our established Dragon Riders are known to be some of the best of the best. They've traditionally been assigned to protecting Vediatha and surrounding regions, but now, they've been called by King Rhys to serve as royal envoys.
    --A couple of our riders likely think this is beneath them-- "We're trained to protect people, and you want us to deliver your mail for you?"
    --A couple of our riders likely think this is a great honor-- "We're being called to serve our kingdom!"
  • After receiving the assignment, they make their preparations to leave. This is where we establish their motivations and what they care about most.
    --Some of our riders may have families. For others, their motivation may be glory, or protecting the poor. Maybe they genuinely think they can make the world a better place.
  • We get to see them travel through the heart of Vediatha. Maybe one of them goes, "We've got to wrap this thing up first," or maybe they just need supplies.
  • When they finally make it out of the city, it might be a difficult adjustment for some from cushy life to sleeping in a bag on the dirt ground in the woods.
  • Gradually throughout the story, we see characters pushed to their limit. Those who are loyal to the king are tested in that loyalty. Maybe they see horrible poverty; people who are sick and cannot access medicine. Abandoned bodies.
  • We can all plot together to flesh out the rest, but the ENDING of the storybook would be when they reach Ebony and discover that the King has just been assassinated [by Exiles of Ebony's group.]
    --Some riders may choose to abandon the monarchy entirely and turn to vigilantism.
    --Some may still be Loyalists and decide to go forth anyway [only to be killed by the Prince, potentially.]
    --Others still may choose some other path, like simply going home. We can figure this out later.


Option 2

    New Dragon Riders

  • Our characters have just completed rigorous training in the Academy to become dragon riders.
    --Some are at the Academy willingly.
    --One character was likely kidnapped and brought to the academy [Probably no more than one though to keep things balanced.]
  • When the kidnapped character exposes the corruption, there are multiple responses:
    --Outrage. The king can't do that! We have to go talk to him and expose him!
    --Horror. This must have been going on without the king's knowledge, he never would have done that. We need to go tell him.
  • Our characters try to go to one of the authorities of the Academy, but realize that they are not safe. Since they have pointed out the problem, they are now the newest targets of the Academy's administration. They flee to hide in some of the shadier parts of Vediatha.
  • We see the underground side of Vediatha. They meet some people, possibly from a revolution? There's some time spent here. One of our characters may somehow end up in danger.
  • We flee again, this time leaving the city entirely, setting out towards Ebony with the intent of:
    --Confronting the king.
    --Letting the king know about the injustice!
    --Running away from the trouble they've caused. Each character can have a different motivation. Some may overlap.
  • We end the storybook with them reaching Ebony and learning the latest news that the King is dead. He has been killed.
    --Each character decides where to go from there. They likely split up, but maybe they feel connected enough to band together. We can choose this when outlining.


Tagging our roleplayers, @Leya, @LayLay2013, @Aspawn !!!
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Hi guys...Really sorry to do this...but I can't RP.

This doesn't have anything to do with the link issue; I got that resolved (I love the New Dragon Riders premise, btw) it's just that something came up in my life that will affect my free time and availablility, so I know I won't be able to keep up with the goals, slow us down, and will lose motivation anyways for the RP.

I'm really not trying to be annoying by doing this. If I could do the RP, I would. It's just that I can't.

Have fun without me I guess!

P.S. want me to send you my character stuff anyways for plot ideas?
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Hey, @Aspawn, thanks for letting us know! I totally get it, life comes first. Sure, feel free to send any of your ideas you were cooking up. Also feel free to save them for a future project. Hope everything is okay!
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Greetings, Keepers of Vediatha!

@Aspawn - sending well wishes your way! Hopefully you can join another RP adventure on YWS when life allows.

@WeepingWisteria has officially joined this party. Please give Wist a warm welcome!

@LayLay2013, are you still interested in participating in RP Blitz? If so, please remember to subscribe to this thread and communicate with your DM. It looks like it's time to start creating characters!

Your premise is shaping up nicely, Keepers! Keep up the great work ;)




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Welcome Wist! Hehe <333
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