Welcome to Halcyon Academy

[TheDart]

...and we're live! More or less, anyway. Please forgive our dust as we continue getting settled into our new home.

Welcome, folks, to Halcyon Academy, a roleplaying supergroup for Cryptic Studios' Champions Online. We're all a bunch of nerds here, as evidenced by the fact that we are a spinoff guild of the Halcyon Epsilon Fleet, a heavy roleplaying fleet dedicated to Cryptic's other upcoming MMORPG, Star Trek Online.

Inspired by the X-Men, Young Justice, and Champions' own Ravenwood, Halcyon Academy is a roleplaying supergroup built around the theme of a school set in a world of superheroes. Aliens, mutants, prodigies, and just plain old good guys - all are viable characters for the Academy, be they prospective students, teachers, or experienced heroes looking to serve as mentors for the heroes of tomorrow.

While we do have some rules of conduct here which can best be boiled down to "Be excellent to each other," we try not to take ourselves too seriously, remembering that this is a game and we are all here, above all else, to have fun. As such, we have a very low tolerance for OOC drama, and try to promote a friendly and supportive community for our members and those we interact with.

Come on in and say hello, whether you're a member or a guest to our neck of the woods. Whether you decide to join our supergroup or not, we look forward to chatting with you, roleplaying with you, and running around blasting baddies with you.

-The Management

[Zizi]

While we're at this, I've thought of something important to know:

A Word About Tone

There is a large spectrum of "superhero school RP". So it's important that we mention where we choose to lay in the spectrum up front.

Halcyon Academy is intended to be lighthearted, laid back and fun. You will not see grim, serious professors teachings students to always use their powers wisely(though the school only hires "role models"). You will see little "the world fears us, you must be careful" and very little of that sort of moralistic focus. This is, almost literally, normal High School/College with superpowers. We expect a certain amount of amusing but harmless hijinks, we expect fun, we expect that angsty gritty realist drama be kept in moderation.

To wit: this is not intended to be Xavier's School for the Gifted, this is Sky High. We're not Blood the last Vampire; we're Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We're not Space: Above and Beyond; we're Firefly. We're not Bladerunner; we're The Fifth Element.

the reason we've chosen to go this way is because this isn't MUO or DCU or CoH. Champions, as an IP, is not exactly a parody by any means-- but it IS a self-aware wild romp through superhero tropes that treats itself and the genre with a sort of cheeky irreverence and tongue-in-cheek humour, and this seems to be a facet that Cryptic is aware of and a tone they themselves are taking (See: Foxbat, Snake Gulch, the end of the new Melee Video, Tunneling Travel Power, etc). This is likely to be a game about Fun more than about Serious. And that is how we're choosing to Roleplay in it.

So there you go, that's what to expect. Game on.