Thunder roars in the night sky and storm-driven waves crash against the shores of Treasure Island. Deep in a dark, damp seaside cave, a mad pirate labors over his terrible creation. “Just a few more calculations, and then everything will be prepared…” he mutters as he scribbles furiously on a tattered notepad and performs his final checks on the great machine filling most of the cavern. Suddenly, he stops. “It is ready.”
The pirate slowly walks to the large electrical switch mounted on one of the cavern walls, suddenly turning for just a moment to look at the dial for the capacitors one last time before the moment of truth. Finally overcoming his hesitation, he lowers his goggles and throws the switch.
In an instant, the room is consumed by the blinding blue flash and crashing sound of electrical arcing as enormous power flows through the machine. Five, then ten, then twenty seconds pass as the test subject is energized until finally, suddenly and without warning, the room falls silent. The pirate stands at the cavern’s wall, waiting, unable to bear the anticipation of success and yet slowly beginning to wonder whether his terrible experiment went awry. Yet, just as the realization of his failure creeps into the mad pirate, the creature on the table — a monstrous grafting of skeletal limbs onto an old, waterlogged treasure chest — begins to stir. Nary a moment later, the cavern booms with a sound even more monstrous than that of the great machine.
Welcome to the redux re-redux of Treasure Island Report! The last attempt to revive this monthly chronicle of roleplay events in TSPRP may have went decidedly poorly due to turmoil in the executive government of the time, but it’s well past time to dig this treasure chest out of the beach sand and get it going yet again.
To follow the format set by the previous entry, a quick introduction from the new editor. Hello; I’m RobbyTheSeal, AKA Grill-Chan or List Queen Xana. I’m not Minister of Roleplay or anything like that as the previous editor was since the office has been abolished for some time now, but I am an active participant in Pacifica and Aurora as well as one of Aurora’s map managers. I specialize primarily in writing content on TSPedia, but I also do forum posts every now and then.
Since the prior submissions for roleplay events to cover are outdated and/or retconned (see the section on A1-0 for more on that), I will be replicating the 2024 revival edition by focusing mainly on broad-strokes IC and OOC events in each of the 3 main roleplay canons. This time around, there will also be a fourth section covering work on OOC infrastructure such as guides, wiki templates, and other such roleplay-supporting material.
Pacifica has been somewhat quiet for the last year or so, especially relative to how things were back in late 2022 when I started, but there are many events that have occurred in this canon since last TIR in 2024. Kobegr01 has been running a very long-running series of events such as insurgencies and the Gulf War in the Krauanagaz Federation, former Mitallduk Confederacy, and Holy Dominion of Zuhlgan that has driven much of the canon’s regular activity, with the latest development being an IC-controversial intervention in the former Mitalldukish state by the United Kingdoms of Emerald and Denver. Outside of Cordilia, a civil war between rival governments of the United States of Izaakia is also ongoing and has come to involve foreign states such as Keanu and Hurley and Sedunn. Last, yet not least, a new economy-focused regional union titled the Bailtemmic Cooperation Organization is beginning to get off the ground in Bailtem after being set up OOC about a year ago.
In addition to the significant growth in wiki content for Pacifica, which has proceeded apace since the last TIR in March 2024, the Pacivision Song Contest roleplay is also being restarted after a two year hiatus. The overall canon outlook of Pacifica is positive and likely to improve in the future, at least in terms of TSPedia content, due to some new additions which will be discussed later.
Who knew that a simple rework of the canon map’s coordinate system could cause so many problems?
Anybody who was involved in A1-0 back in 2024 will almost certainly remember that, just under a month after TIR issue number 37 published these words, the Great A1-0 Crispening of 2024TM happened. One or two dozen forum roleplays, about 300 or so TSPedia pages, and all of the established non-player nations ended up being pulled from canon due to disagreements between some of the most senior roleplayers involved with A1-0; overall, speaking as somebody who was watching yet not really involved in A1-0, it was a probably the largest disaster to strike any part of TSPRP since I’ve been in it.
Thankfully, however, the canon is very much back up and running a year and a half later: the rules for the canon were heavily reworked, safeguards were put in place to prevent more unilateral retcons of such scale, and things are more or less back to a state where productive, enjoyable roleplay can be done and a repeat of the Great CrispeningTM is substantially less possible. The major roleplay going on right now is The Inflection Point, which is establishing new non-player nations and resolving severe problems with the calendar dating system that were baked into the pre-Crispening arrangement.
Overall, A1-0 is working fine and has largely rebuilt itself after the cataclysmic retcons of 2024. It’s a great canon to try out for sci-fi now.
This section will be somewhat more first-person than the others, for the unavoidable reason that, as mentioned in TIR issue 37 above, I am one of the main active participants in Aurora. Overall, as a map manager and participant in the canon, I can say that Aurora is as Aurora has always been: it’s significantly less active than Pacifica or A1-0, and retaining new sign-ups to the map is challenging. Forum roleplays are also notably slow (that’s partially my fault), and few new ones get started. However, on the TSPedia side of things, the canon does a bit better: it has received its first page about a system of magic, its first page about a magical artifact, and several new wiki templates since March 2024, and it is my hope that these new pages will eventually inspire similar content by other participants in the canon. I am also working on hammering out more new pages involving Belsegallia’s history and possibly some environmental topics such as creatures.
While Aurora has much less activity than I or probably most other people would prefer, it is still very much functional and is making slow, yet steady, progress towards matching up with Pacifica and A1-0.
This is a new section for TIR, dedicated to detailing developments on TSPRP’s corner of TSPedia, posted canon guides on the forums, and other matters that support the conduct of roleplaying in TSPRP.
To start, TSPedia has seen a great variety of innovations and page growth since March 2024. The mainspace page count is back up to around 1300 at the time of publishing, marking a full recovery from the removal of A1-0 pages lost in the Great Crispening. Page types that have been added or popularized include several “Economy of X” pages for Pacifica, an agriculture page, and new infobox templates for agriculture, magic systems, and fantasy creatures. An effort from August 2024 to bring portals into TSPedia has also brought forth several prototypes and functional pages.
In terms of guides, relatively little has been developed. A1-0 has redone some of its onboarding material to account for the significant canon-wide changes that have been implemented there, while the Pacifica guide has unfortunately stalled and remained in an unfinished state since executive problems KO’d the Ministry of Roleplay shortly after issue 37 of TIR.
In aggregate, the establishment of supporting infrastructure for TSPRP is proceeding at substantial pace. In additiin to supporting roleplay activities on the forums, the availability of templates and suitability for conveying detailed information & lore have also allowed TSPedia to slowly become established as a roleplaying avenue in its own right.
That concludes issue 38 of Treasure Island Report. I will be reopening the voting box for roleplayer-submitted sections to be added in the December issue in order to finally return TIR to IC content. Thank you for viewing.
Treasure Island Report, ending issue 38.
CoI note
As a roleplayer, I have two active roleplay nations named Pelinai and Belsegallia. I have limited mentions of any forum roleplays or TSPedia pages substantially involving them to situations where, as in the Aurora and TSPedia sections, there are no viable alternative subjects for the topic being discussed. Any inclusions of them are meant to be informational, and not promotional, in nature.