Hello everyone!

It's been a long time since the Staff Team has posted an announcement, but we are excited to announce that we are pulling Blood & Bone out of private mode and once more putting it back into the public writing space! This means new members are once again welcome to look around, join the Discord to meet the members, and potentially even join!

To keep things easy going until everyone gets their feet back under them again, we are removing the activity requirements until September. That means that you won't be required to meet our activity requirement (1 post per month for regular characters, 4 posts per month for high ranking characters) until the end of September. We hope this will help people feel relaxed about writing once more, as well as encourage new members to join without the stress of immediately catching up.

Along with the site opening once more, we have some fun things in plan for the site. Continue reading below to find out what that all entails!

Timeline Update

As the site has been a bit out of the loop for a while now, this is just a gentle reminder that In Character it is now July of the year 2096!

Challenge #01 Conclusion

Last OOC year, during the Cypher's Invitation challenge, a seemingly new level of Infected was revealed to horrified onlookers. Known only as Project X, it appeared to be a highly mutated form of Infected — one that could not be killed, even with a bullet to the brain. Even the highest known form of Infected, Level V, can be killed with a headshot. The Infected eventually broke free of its prison, and while some stayed to fight, most others fled for safety. Amongst the chaos and bloodshed (any player characters that participated in the thread can be assumed to have been unharmed regardless of their choice), Project X escaped Cypher's highly secured building.

Its whereabouts are currently unknown. Top Military officials are on high alert, and Stronghold has now been put in lockdown to prevent the Infected from escaping the walls. Unfortunately, it seems as though Cypher would rather risk the safety of Stronghold's inhabitants, than lose their lab rat. It looks as though The General and Dr. Nadir might be in this together...

NOTE    Although the Challenge took place last year, the Staff Team has decided to push the conclusion of it to the current IC year to make things simpler. That means, for timeline sake, Stronghold has only recently been put into lockdown. This means it is now harder for characters to get in and out of Stronghold, regardless of their faction.

Forum-Generated Random Events

Over the course of the next few weeks, forum-generated random events are finally coming to Blood & Bone! This is a feature that was planned to be implemented upon the site's launch, but unfortunately has been put to the side... Until now!

These are directly tied in with the 'danger level' that is associated with every IC board, displayed via green, yellow, or red text. These random events specifically are tied to the red areas, described with the text: This location is unsecure and Infected attacks are frequent.

Once implemented, any thread created in an IC forum listed as red, unsecure, will have the potential of having a random forum-generated post created in the thread! As these are forum-generated, the Staff Team has no control over them; they are completely done at random, and will contain a vague description of something — most likely Infected related — that will now be included in the thread. Writers participating in the thread will be required to respond to the random event, but may do so however they wish! More details about this system will be revealed closer to its official unveiling.

The Weekly Question

The Staff Team loves watching people further explore and develop their characters! As a means to aid this, and share with others interesting facets of your characters, we are introducing the Weekly Question, where the Staff Team will introduce a in-character development question or topic for you to answer at your leisure!

FUNCTIONALITY   Participation is completely optional. This is meant to be fun, and help you as your characters progress through their various plots!

A new question will be posted every Sunday at approximately noon. This will take place exclusively on Discord and utilize the Discord threading feature in a new channel specifically created for this event.

There's More!

The Staff Team is working behind the scenes on more features to be implemented down the road, including an Achievement System and — this is a big one — more Infected levels! All of these exciting new features being planned will also most likely coincide with a new skin that's being developed behind the scenes, so there's lots to look forward to in the future!

Thank you for another glorious month here at Blood and Bone! Somehow we managed to make it all the way to our six month anniversary! Considering it just so happens to coincide with October, we decided to set up two special spooky-themed events for the members to have fun with: IC event Blood Moon and OOC game, the Fanfiction Spook Fest.

Thanks again everyone for being so great!

IC EVENT - Blood Moon

Tonight was supposed to be just an ordinary lunar eclipse.

But something was different this time around. The full moon, high in the sky,
reflects not its usual white light, but rather something much more sinister. As though
bathed in blood, its reddish hue gives off a frightening appearance.

It is a blood moon.

And it appears to be affecting the Infected.
The Blood Moon has come and everyone, human and Infected alike, are in great peril. Read more about what this event entails, and sign up for the event here. Prizes will include the chance to gain an IC reward that will be revealed in a future Site Challenge (this is character-related).

OOC Game - FANFICTION SPOOK FEST

Unable to get that muse up for a certain character? Want a chance to show off your creativity? Or give another member a spooky surprise? Check out our OOC game of the month which will, for the first time, utilize our Fanfiction forum. Read the rules and instruction on how to submit your fanfiction entry here. Prizes include the opportunity to satisfy the October activity check for non-ranked characters.

As a fun surprise to start off September, we have our first staff-run random event on site, and it's a doozy! The World is on Fire is an event taking place for Military characters, and will be introducing our first official Staff NPC: The General! Stay tuned for lots of exciting action and drama! You can navigate to the thread to read up on more information pertaining to the random event.

After passing our 4 month anniversary, Blood & Bone also reached some very exciting milestones! We've recently surprised 100 accounts, as well as made the big milestone of 1,000 posts in over 300 threads! Congratulations everyone, those are some big accomplishments! The Staff Team is so happy with everyone that's been with us on our journey, and it's been so exciting to see everyone's characters and threads come alive! We can't wait to see the site continue to grow!

As a massive thank you, from the Staff Team to the members, we've put together two monthly games that will now run from hereon out. One is an IC game called Vocab Extravaganza, and the other is an OOC game called Who's Who. Read more on both below!

Vocab Extravaganza

Our first IC game, Vocab Extravaganza is a monthly game where a list of vocabulary words will be posted, along with their part of speech and definition. The words will have some type of theme and connection. The goal of the challenge is to write as many posts as possible using the offered vocabulary words. On the first day of each month, the winner will be determined by who has utilized the most vocabulary words. Click the link above to view the full description of the game.

Who's Who

Our first OOC game, Who's Who is a monthly game where members will be given a list of different prompts to be filled in with the character that fills that prompt the best. It's meant to be a fun, not-so-serious way to get to know the various characters on site. At the end of the game, all the prompts will be tallied up based on the characters 'voted' in to the spot by the members, and those that have the most votes will win that prompt! Click the link above to view the full description of the game.

The site has been open for 4 months now, and as such, we've decided to make a small rule change to Rule 05 Characters in the guidebook. Originally, players were limited to a max of 3 characters to start, and any sequential character required previous accounts to have a minimum of 15 posts first.

So far everyone's managed their activity & their characters very well, and as such we are removing the character limit. Players can now have as many characters as they can handle, no minimum post count required! Seen below is the new rule:

05 | CHARACTERS
We trust you to manage your activity and the amount of characters you can handle. There is no maximum number of characters you can write as long as they're all kept active (see rule 08 for more information). Along with this, all playable characters must be at least 18+. No underage characters are allowed, unless it's as current characters played in a past thread.

In celebration of Blood & Bone's second month anniversary, sign-ups for Site Challenge #01 are now underway! If you are interested in participating, make sure to check out the linked thread for requirements to join. The sign-ups will run for an entire week, after which point the event will get underway and you'll all get to see what's been planned.

For this first Challenge, only certain characters are allowed to sign-up. But don't worry! All characters/factions will eventually be involved in the site plot at some point or another. For those not eligible for joining the Challenge, or those that simply miss the time-frame to sign up, Random Events will also be posted to allow everyone the chance to have some fun. While these won't contribute to the main site plot, they might start other smaller plots for your characters to get involved in.

For those unsure what this is, Challenges are staff-run threads that are dedicated towards advancing the overall site plot. Even if you do not participate in it personally, it will begin to build on the site lore and help advance everyone's knowledge of the site and the overarching story there is to tell. This is completely optional, and you are in no way required to join.

Hopefully everyone is excited for what's to come!

I'm very excited to announce that the site's Encyclopedia is officially open for business! You can read more about it on the page linked, as well as on the Encyclopedia Entries thread, where you can also find the submission form to add your own lore to the site.

In a nutshell, the Encyclopedia allows members to create and submit ideas that could, if accepted, add on to the site's canon lore. It's a great way to help grow the site, and allow everyone to feel like they're able to contribute directly to its growth! I am very excited to see what fun things everyone comes up with. If you are interested in adding, I do recommend checking out the above links in full, to make sure you understand everything first. But as always, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

As a side note, this is a sort of hurrah to the site's one month anniversary! I've been so thrilled with how far it's come since its initial launch. All the new people have been so awesome, and all the new characters and threads have been so fun to read. Keep up the amazing work guys, Blood & Bone could not be what it is now without you initial troopers!

Welcome to the soft opening of Blood & Bone! The site has been in development for a while now, and it's exciting to finally open its doors to the public. Accounts can be registered and characters created, and threads can also be made at this time. The site isn't fully finished as of this moment, and some features are yet to come, so we thank you for your patience during this time!

If you have any questions or would just like to get to know us better first, feel free to join our Discord. You can find the link in the header, or click here to join. You can read some more information on WIP parts of the site below.

Coding Maintenance

While MyBB is highly customizable, one of the downsides of this feature is that everything needs to be coded. Part of the reason we decided to open the site as a soft opening rather than full is because some parts of the site may still be a bit broken, or unfinished. If you happen to notice a part of the site not yet coded, we would love to hear about it! On our Discord we have a #coding-maintenance channel where you can post anything you may notice.

Future Features

The site's soft opening won't have some of the planned features, such as site-automated events, as well as the ability to add to the site lore through the encyclopedia. For now these features are unavailable, but as both the site and the Staff Team grows, we will be able to expand the site with more features. Stay tuned for what's coming next to the site!


Feel free to explore the site or chat with us on our Discord. We'd love to meet you!