The Academy (for the tutelage and training of fledglings)
Posted: 08 Sep 2015, 01:27
Due to the recent discussion on fledglings, I wanted to take a couple moments to post about a project Blake has had in the works that will benefit the community. Although it has been a brainchild of mine for the last year or so, with contributions from many different players, I think instead of waiting to have this happen when I 'have the time' I should launch this little project now and commit the time to making sure this succeeds.
Now, as for Blake and this little plan of his... His vision is to open a school, called The Academy, which will be open to all new fledglings. It is his desire that this school will help train future generations to be successful members of society while being independently resourceful.
The school will have two interactive bases – online and physical. The majority of classes will be online to allow fledglings to work at own pace within the set deadlines. The physical base, located in Bullwood, will allow for hands-on training in areas not suited to online study – such as combat and item creation.
The physical base will house many of the necessary tools for training the multitude of skills within the city. It is currently three floors and will eventually be expanded to include others so there is plenty of room to run various exercises at once and/or without changing layouts too often. Facilities are set to include:
This is all of course just a rough outline and is subject to change as needs are evaluated. At this point in time, the school preparations are nearly complete. However, I am looking for some thoughtful feedback community.
For those who might have characters interested in being involved either by mentoring or by donating resources, that information will be in the IC post I plan to post shortly.
Now, as for Blake and this little plan of his... His vision is to open a school, called The Academy, which will be open to all new fledglings. It is his desire that this school will help train future generations to be successful members of society while being independently resourceful.
The school will have two interactive bases – online and physical. The majority of classes will be online to allow fledglings to work at own pace within the set deadlines. The physical base, located in Bullwood, will allow for hands-on training in areas not suited to online study – such as combat and item creation.
The physical base will house many of the necessary tools for training the multitude of skills within the city. It is currently three floors and will eventually be expanded to include others so there is plenty of room to run various exercises at once and/or without changing layouts too often. Facilities are set to include:
- Three current floors with expansion plans to add two very large floors and a smaller floor
- Shop, Magic Shop and ATM
- Low quality traps will be collected to be used in live fire training exercises in the future
- Fadeportal access to vital areas of the city
- Old Code (Teaching this to the fledglings will hopefully instill an understanding of where we came from)
- The Masquerade (For obvious reasons)
- New Code (which will take some figuring out, unless someone has a copy on hand?)
- Ethics of The Community (Things that are and are not acceptable within Harper Rock)
- History of Harper Rock (And all that has occurred since the elders escape from the Shadow Realm)
- Hacking
- B&E
- Tracking (of monsters)
- Fighting of Monsters
- Tracking (of Vampires)
- Fighting other Vampires
- Rituals
- Business
- Commodity Manufacture (Gunsmithing, Swordmaking and Trap Making)
This is all of course just a rough outline and is subject to change as needs are evaluated. At this point in time, the school preparations are nearly complete. However, I am looking for some thoughtful feedback community.
For those who might have characters interested in being involved either by mentoring or by donating resources, that information will be in the IC post I plan to post shortly.