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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 20:09:14 GMT -5
I'm looking to make a new riding academy role-play so I'll be needing a few helpers. The most crucial part of the planning process will be figuring out a good plot that will keep things moving and dynamic - if you have any ideas, please let me know! I'll be working on digging up the layout and info I had for the old role-play I had, but let's get started on the things we'll need. Culmination of what we have: - plot: Someone is sabotaging horses and/or riders and they need to figure out who it. It could be a student/group of students that want to be the best riders at the school or they could be from somewhere else and mainly sabotage at shows but the first would probably work better
- location: Danton, Utah; town description on page 3
- disciplines: barrel racing, western pleasure, reining, cutting, team roping, show-jumping, dressage, eventing, polo, cross country
- property: modern buildings, woodland with river running through it
- name: Helen Browning Riding Academy(HBRA)
- introduction: page 2
- rules: page 2
- academy rules: page 2
- characters: pages 2 and 3
- school colors: blue and silver
- traditions: page 3
- joining forms, joining guide, joining blurb: page 4
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 20:10:38 GMT -5
link to old academy rpWe can edit any of the info to what we need.
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 20:12:29 GMT -5
I'd love to help out!
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 20:13:16 GMT -5
Wonderful! We should probably start with deciding if we want to use anything from the old academy, and then start figuring out a plot.
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 20:33:51 GMT -5
What were you thinking? Like did you want to use most/all of the stuff from the old one or start new?
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 20:35:34 GMT -5
I think I'd like to do a new academy
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 20:40:13 GMT -5
Then where do you want to start? Name? History? Descriptions? Stuff like that? Just let me know what you want me to do/want help with and I can throw some ideas out
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 20:43:12 GMT -5
I really want to start off with a plot since that's what made the academy fail all three times before(yikes). The academy will be relatively the same concept - a private academy mainly for the wealthy that provides some scholarships to worthy students.
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 20:55:35 GMT -5
Plot sounds good. Without actually taking time to think about it, two things came to mind: (1) the school is being shut down and the students have to save it - that one might not be the best for a rich private school unless it's a different reason other than money (2) Someone is sabotaging horses and/or riders and they need to figure out who it. It could be a student/group of students that want to be the best riders at the school or they could be from somewhere else and mainly sabotage at shows but the first would probably work better
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 20:59:08 GMT -5
Plot two sounds really interesting. To make things even better, we could have, like, something along the lines of Greek life on campus.
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 21:07:05 GMT -5
That sounds good. I mean with this kinda plot we can have lots of rising tension, pointing fingers, broken friendships, etc
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 21:09:11 GMT -5
That's perfect. Okay, so let's move on to location. Previously I had suggested Arizona, Colorado, northern California, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 21:15:04 GMT -5
Somewhere in the north east is pretty big with this kinda stuff right? Or maybe the Midwest? I don't think location is a huge deal, but maybe somewhere that gets snow and cold winters just to add a little extra to it? Really wherever you want to put it sounds good
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 21:19:53 GMT -5
It's pretty big throughout the country. I think Utah would be a good area to place it. We can make up the town and stuff, makes it a bit easier.
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 21:21:43 GMT -5
Utah works. What next?
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 21:28:18 GMT -5
Well, let's decide what we want to carry over from the original RP. I think I could polish up the introduction and rules, but I'd like to make new academy rules. We should also look over what disciplines the academy offers, as the list was pretty extensive and I don't think there would be many rpers for things such as sidesaddle and racing. I definitely want to do a complete overhaul of the actual academy and town, though.
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 21:38:48 GMT -5
I haven't had a chance to completely read through the last page, but the stuff I saw looked good so just let me know if you need me to do anything with rewriting stuff I could find some disciplines though? Like take your list and see what I think we should delete/combine and then you could make any last changes?
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 21:41:54 GMT -5
The disciplines I have for western are barrel racing, competitive trail riding, cutting, western pleasure, calf roping, team roping, reining, and team penning. The disciplines I have for English are dressage, eventing, show jumping, cross country, equitation, sidesaddle, polo, and racing.
Q: What would your ideal academy look like? For example, if I were to go to a horseback riding academy I would love for it to have some deserts or dry mountains on the property for great trail riding.
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 21:48:37 GMT -5
I don't know much about western or what's popular but for English I think getting rid of sidesaddle and racing would be good. Maybe polo too? What about saddleseat?
Hmmm... I think woods would be cool with maybe a river running through them? That'd be nice trail riding during the summer when it's hot out I'm not sure what you were thinking town/city wise but I like the idea of a smaller town with cute little shops and diners and maybe a movie theater and mini golf type thing for the students to go to on the weekend
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 22:00:03 GMT -5
I think I'm going to take calf roping, competitive trail riding, and team penning out. They're popular but not that popular.
That sounds really nice, for the academy and the town. How old/established do we want the academy to be?
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 22:05:26 GMT -5
That sounds like a good list of disciplines
Hmm... Something new and modern would be fun but I like the idea of it being older and established because we could come up with a bunch of cool old traditions they have? Like the last day of classes before breaks or before exams there could be a midnight ride Or a Halloween midnight ride through the woods Some traditions for students and some for horses and students?
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 22:09:27 GMT -5
How about it's an old, established academy but underwent renovations for a year and is just reopening? That way it's nice, modern buildings and stuff but with good roots and traditions.
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 22:10:15 GMT -5
Also, do we want there to be a horse rp part to it or not?
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 22:14:42 GMT -5
That sounds good. The best of both worlds. Plus we don't have to have a million traditions but I think a few might be fun to throw in
What do you mean? Like where people could have their horses out in the pastures interacting and stuff? If that's what you mean personally I wouldn't be into that but the final call is yours
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 22:17:36 GMT -5
Yeah, it'd definitely add a nice element to the RP.
I agree. I originally had it where rpers could do that but I just think it's a waste of time and uninteresting since there's not really any true herd dynamics.
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Post by Forgotten on Feb 10, 2018 22:18:06 GMT -5
First post since August '16... yikes I'm here What can I do to help mah dude
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 22:22:42 GMT -5
anything mah dude. like. anything at all. give opinions, input, etc.
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 22:23:40 GMT -5
Those will be fun to come up with
Agreed. I can see where it'd be interesting to an extent but I feel like it'd get repetitive and old pretty quickly.
Hi Forgotten!
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Post by β πππ πππππ-πππππ on Feb 10, 2018 22:25:33 GMT -5
Okay, so! Name ideas for the academy? Keeping in mind it's an old, well-established academy that has dense woodlands and a river on the property and is open to international students. Forgotten is one of my best friends. She was a part of the original academy back on the old forums and we've continued RPing off forums since then. I love her to death and she has one of the best minds I know!
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Post by . on Feb 10, 2018 22:29:27 GMT -5
Maybe named after the school's founder? Or it could be named after the town of its an older town
Forgotten, you look familiar. Do either of you remember me from the old forums? I was bigpelt. I was around since like 2010 and I feel like this is something I would've joined but I don't remember being part of any riding academies? Either way I'm excited to be working with both of you
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