Welcome to Gaia! ::

Past announcements from previous months will be listed here. This is starting in May, 2007, and moving forward from there.

Initializing a plotline: May 10, 2007
Hey folks. Been kinda slow lately and that's in part due to Dis's shoulder, and in part due to the fact I'm goddamn lazy. But! With Kenk's permission I've begun working on plots, non-hollow antagonists for future encounters and fighting, and a student teacher who will begin mortal world trips for students who've reached the capability to be given such 'field trips'. I know things have been slow, but with the loss of a lot of our previous advanced students and teachers, there's been a lot to deal with. Anyway!

I'm still trying to work out stat/skill caps, and it's frustrating me to no end, so no word on that. I can't actually do much till the system is finished anyway, so that will be at a later time. ja, ne!



Update to School System: May 11, 2007
Classes will now work in the following fashion.

1.) Student attends the classes.
2.) The student finds another student to spar with.
3.) The students spar, and then post in the 'Class Completion' thread.
4.) I review the spar, and will make a single post in the class with the NPC teacher saying 'Pass', or 'Fail'.
5.) Students will be judged primarily on their role-playing, as well as their accurate use of the Battle System.
6.) Questions can be PM'd to me. I will be answering questions once a day, no more, no less.

And this is how the new class system will work. :3

Enjoy, everyone!


Small upgrade in the battle system: May 16, 2007
I been doing some work on the battle system for Quincy and Bounto characters. Quincy's high lvl techniques will take some time to get their damage figured since well...Kumo sensei likes to make things complex...
Bounto system is under development however Vizard and Arrancar battle system is on hold until more information is revealed on them. For now I think I be able to finish the changes on the above mentioned by Friday. "Since I have an exam tomorrow crying . Anyways enjoy and have fun with le system ^_^.



In accordance with spar judging, everyone who attends a class/completes a spar will be getting EXP for their work.

EXP will be posted along with your pass/fail mark.



OMG Guild Overhaul! May 19, 2007

We got tired of how cluttered everything was, and bamf, we changed things around, great, ain't it?

Where the academy was, is now Seireitei (Court of Pure Souls), 'Soul Society' is now Rukongai (Wandering Soul City).

We've also added Jigoku (Hell), and Hueco Mundo (Hollow World), both of which are currently considered as Crew Only forums, until they're later opened for plotline reasons.

We have also added a training threads subforum, titled Rukongai (WSC; Training Areas). From now on, ALL training threads need to be placed in this subforum. Rukongai will be limited to the districts, and manors, and homes of various Shinigami, and other characters who may not live immediately in the dorms, or even are just souls, rather than shinigami.

For those who would prefer, if your family is noble, you may also place your manor in Seireitei, which is where the noble families are housed. Obviously, if inside here, you may lose access to Rukongai during times of emergency, or be locked out of Seireitei, depending on what may or may not happen.

Either way, I hope everyone enjoys the updates we've made to the guild, to make it more organized.



surprised 20,000 Post surprised May 21, 2007

Yep, the guild finally hit 20k post today Mon May 21. Thanks everyone for their efforts and keeping this guild alive. for now let's make the family grow bigger and claim our rightful place as Gaia #1 Bleach guild ^_^.



Journal Issues May 22, 2007

Some journals have been recently removed due to a bug in the character journals page. Instead of making two pages, it made the bottom journals disappear, while still filling up first page with new journals. Journals of nonmembers and members that were banned or left were taken out first, but if your journal was taken in the mix, let us know; all journals were copied first before deletion and now the page is up to speed.


Depending on whether it ******** up again, we might have to make a second Character Journal page and put the deleted profiles there. It all depends on how the stupid page behaves. >[ thanks for the understanding. Also, if you don't have a journal currently, you need to make one! D=

- The Paradox

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Minor Change to Shikai Approval Thread May 29

I'm sure all of us who've been in the guild for awhile know that Kenkaru is a fairly busy man with alot to do. Recently the Shikai Approval thread has built up with shikai's from various members of the guild. But due to Kenkaru's busy schedule and the fact that he also has to take care of his Way Of The Ninja Guild, he has been unable to approve.

There are also many shikai's in the old thread that belonged to members who were inactive in the guild so to make sure that there aren't spammed shikai in the thread, I have made it so that your character has to be AT LEAST level 4 before he/she can post to get their shikai approve unless Kenkaru says otherwise.

Plus, it will give you time to think over your shikai, make it more detailed so you don't have a boring one like Ichigo's stare (IMO)

-Tsai Lin

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A Few Changes May 31, 2007

As everyone knows, we've been undergoing a few changes lately. Most recently, the character sheet thread for Soul Society profiles has been 'reset'. The previous thread was moved to the guild archive forum, and made back into a sticky, so it's easy to reference if necessary, or if needed.

As another note, all players are required to have the following things.

1.) A journal for their character in the character journal subforum.
2.) Their technical statistics in said journal, or you will be restricted from fighting/training for leveling.

More changes may be coming in the future. We hope everyone is enjoying the direction the guild is going in. :3

- Dischord

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Another Minor Change June 13, 2007

I've recreated the Ryoka Profile just so that both profiles have almost the same form to follow. Of course, the ryoka world is currently empty due to the incomplete system but feel free to brainstorm for ideas now for a character now so that you can roleplay later and I'll see your character in the human world as soon as the system for the ryoka and quincy system are done 3nodding

-Tsai Lin

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Hark! Have Some Experience Rewards June 20, 2007

Humbra (Zenmaru): 910 xp

Tsai (Tsai): 1830 xp +2 Str/+1 Agl/+1 Awr/+2 Rei/+1 Int

Raven62 (Haro): 450 xp

Nasi Karaz (Kaosu): 820 xp

Naranll (Rikatsu): 525 xp

Nightzblade (Karite): 295 xp

The Paradox (Megumi): 115 xp

Uchiha~~Shunketsu (Shunketsu): 355 xp

ChaosHuntress (Hikari): 510 xp

Prae-baby (Sulia) 85 xp

AZNchaos15 (Long) 125 xp

Dischord (Ran) 175 xp

Kobayashi_Akira (Akira) 235 xp

Bromisto (Banriyu) 160 xp

Robokittenmix (Haruko) 175 xp

Dimi Deiod (Shin): 150 xp

Shiruken99 (Shiru): 70 xp

Kakigami (Kyst): 60 xp

Congratulations everyone for your hard work. We've got some downtime for you now in the dorms, which will also count for experience for you. Everyone enjoy. :3

-Dischord

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Experience Awards July 08, 2007

We have the most recent EXP awards for people. I want to congratulate everyone on how well they're doing. We should have some more plot advancement soon, but we'd like to get people to get to higher levels first, hence why we're doing all of the heavy duty training and RPing. I want to thank everyone for their hard work to keep the guild going -- we appreciate all of you.

Kaosu (Nasi Karaz): 2010 xp +2 Str/+2 Agl/+2 Rei

Shiru (Shuriken99): 370 xp

Akira (Kobayashi_Akira): 605 xp

Tsai (Tsai Lin): 725 xp

Karite (Karite The Reaper): 785 xp

Rikatsu (Naranll): 445 xp

Banriyu (Bromisto): 20 xp

Hikari (ChaosHuntress): 1470 xp +1 Int/+2 Rei

Shunketsu (Uchiha~~Shunketsu): 1495 xp +1 Int/+1 Rei/+2 Str

Masaru (Tsujimura Nobuo): 420 xp

Ethan (Ds R Us): 390 xp

Long (AZNchaos15): 305 xp

Sulia (Prae-baby): 10 xp

Shin (Dimi Deiod): 480 xp

Taro (Taro326): 500 xp

Haro (Raven62): 1105 xp

Rei (Kross_669): 345 xp

Haruko (RobokittenRemix): 25 xp

Banriyu (Bromisto): 50 xp

Kyou (Kyou-Koto): 15 xp

- Dischord

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Supplemental Update July 19, 2007

We've updated the Battle System supplemental with a new note about kidou. If you already 'know' a technique, you will still know it, however, you will have to go through the posts to 'learn', and 'master' it.

- Dischord

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Supplemental Update & Experience Awards July 21, 2007

Make sure to check the supplemental for the most recent update!

ChaosHuntress (Hikari): 1665 xp

Nasi Karaz (Kaosu): 545 xp

Uchiha~~Shunketsu (Shunketsu): 705 xp

Ds R Us (Ethan): 95 xp

Tsujimura Nobuo (Masaru): 110 xp

Raven62 (Raven): 225 xp

Kobayashi_Akira (Akira): 10 xp

Karite The Reaper (Karite): 765 xp

Shuriken99 (Shiru): 10 xp

RobokittenRemix (Haruko): 960 xp

Kross_669 (Rei): 800 xp

AZNchaos15 (Long): 25 xp

Bromisto (Banriyu): 10 xp

Prae-baby (Sulia): 30 xp

Kyou-Koto (Shaia): 10 xp

KoySuki (Nyx): 40 xp

Kenkaru (Kira): 30 xp

Dimi Deiod (Shin): 50 xp

- Dischord

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