#Empyrean Next Gen

[kathrynalicemc]

Hey hi hello. I have yet another inquiry to the general public of mutuals. If I were to start a modern hpma Empyrean crew,,, would anyone wanna join? I have no idea who would captain it nearly 100 years after Jules Aquila. Maybe an ancestor. OR maybe it’s been grounded and abandoned somewhere. Could be someone who has grown up reading about the stories and rumors about a flying pirate ship of the 20s who eventually finds it in a cave or sm Goonies style. I don’t think I will make a new oc for it (unless it’s decided it will be an Aquila ancestor) but I have someone already who will join the crew!! Mikael Arcano Thorne is perfecttt. He is a translator and that would work well for adventures. I just really want an excuse for my modern Arcano kids to hang on the Empyrean 🤡

[cursed-herbalist]

MOODBOARD MEME | EULA AND MIKAEL + empyrean

Cursebreaker and Linguist gone rogue. They legit stole this ship and now they’re out travelling the world, looking for adventure.

requested by @kathrynalicemc

moodboard ask game

[kathrynalicemc]

It’s so them coded 🥺♥️ we totally should do more Empyrean stuff (I��ve been planning to dip into ww2 era a bit) or even Empyrean Next Gen or Next Next Gen with Mikael 😂

THE MUMMY 1999 — dir. Stephen Sommers

[vanillacoolatta]

pls explain the lore of the smp to me bc I’m lost abt it and I wanna learn more 😪 - Moomoo (also I feel like I never send you asks, so hi!! Take care of yourself. I hope you had a good day. Love you~)

bb there is. So Much. i guess i should start from the beginning?

long post ahead eek (not tagging bc keep reading added)

in the beginning there were three players: me, @/oasisofgalaxies (nebula), and @/its-ethan-bro (who we will refer to as “e” for sake of continuity lol). we were messing around in a small discord server in which i basically begged ppl to play mc with me for weeks with no response except from neb to play pixelmon ojihfydtr

eventually in october this happened

and we elected to call it hallmark smp because of the server name

...after a heated debate...

and we just kinda. played survival for a few days.

^^^ the end of the first day

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after e and neb logged off the first day, i....didn’t. when we started we spawned on an island seemingly in the middle of nowhere. the only mobs to be found were a single pink sheep and a pig. we all declared the pink sheep “god” until i jokingly called the pig my “god” and decided to secede from hallmark. when they logged off, i stayed on and built the island which would later become monument island.

over the course of the evening, after declaring the pig my god, i found more than five ravines in a row and got a potato from a zombie drop. this is when i decided to take the joke further and announced that the pig i had honored must have “the spirit of technoblade” and that he had “blessed me with a potato” -- and so I named my new island/not-nation the “territories of blade” [e later decided that the god of hallmark was dream but i think these jokes died quick other than a few quips on signs]. aka i was joking but after everyone logged off i stayed on for 11.5 hours and farmed potatoes all night and morning :| /srs

after that it was seemingly slow going; i built the monument on Hallmark Island but decided my home island was too small and moved to the one that now has a bridge from Monument. i then moved the monument from Hallmark Island to its new resting place. i then built the old, giant cobble mob spawner and farmed xp and mined for a while to become Quickly OP lol

I then moved to Spruce Island (the taiga one) where i carved out a “bunker” and built a tree covering the entrance. This was never found (to my knowledge) until I revealed it publicly by leaving it open, but it doesn’t rly matter anyway bc I never did anything except dig a giant hole lol. it is important to note that up until now i still had never built a house.

during this time, e built the lighthouse on Hallmark and Neb their house.

 the next people to join were @/i-maybe-exist (v) and @/ayyitsmelody. at this point we had 6 islands: Hallmark Island, Spruce Island to the northeast, Monument Island, the one with the mob farm (lol), CB Island (the one connected to monument via bridge), and Oak Island to the south. V and Melody moved to Oak Island. then somethin abt llamas idk /lh

it was around this time that I built the first draft of Empyrean City. It was comprised of multiple flat platforms of dark oak, spruce, and birch. It had a full farm/tree farm and I attempted to make an automated cobble gen but never finished it lol. I was the only one to live there for a while, since we had barely any players yet, but it took me a while to build a house. I never even did - I ended up making a watchtower from wood and stone instead. 

then Nebula was exiled from Hallmark.

LONG long story short but I built a courthouse, we elected V as judge because they seemed most impartial, and we went to trial. Neb was accused of killing the OG pink sheep, E’s god, and was found guilty - and exiled.

I’m sure we all knew ooc what was happening because at this point my character had been made out to be a pretty bad guy, but in-character -- I was basically playing all sides so I would come out on top lol

c!e and c!void had all but declared war on each other at this point and neb still was part of the nation of hallmark. this was a problem for void, as even though they still had better equipment than anyone, they didn’t believe they could win in a 1v1. 

so void rigged the trial.

i will be telling the rest from their perspective bc i have no idea how it seemed to everyone else lol

they convinced v that neb’s life was in danger if neb stayed in hallmark but that neb was too afraid to leave. they tried to convince e that neb was going to betray them, at which they succeeded at first by getting e to think xey wanted neb exiled, but eventually failed. not that it mattered. finally, they convinced neb that, as the jury, they would do their hardest to convince v to declare them not guilty. LOL

neb was exiled from their home and, in an attempt to stay on their good side, void offered them residence in [Old] Empyrean. neb accepted, but temporarily.

next was @/im-still-a-robot (many names but i usually call them ro or floam; whose characters are ro and mars). they moved to spruce island where they would later build Fox Village (the one with the giant flag outside).

after that was @/chaos-creature1 (whom i call crea) and @/fishhberries. crea made a base that just happens to be on the island we would later discover is at coords 0,0 which is convenient for her i suppose lol. fish moved to spruce island between Fox Village and Empyrean.

somewhere in here neb and void fought over something i dont remember. and then neb went to form the Starlands. void apologized and asked to join the starlands, of which they were allowed, and i built the giant tree in the dark oak forest behind fox village. neb did most of the interior design tho bc at that point i had like 0 practice and was failing horribly ijohgyct

i will rb with more bc this is getting vv long and i must collect my thoughtshs

[kathrynalicemc]

Fankidsaw23 Bonus: Co-Parent Fankid

I have sooo many co-parent fankids and OCs so instead of doing every single one I decided to do one of my newest that’s still a WIP. She doesn’t even have a name yet. Anyways I introduce to you: the Mikula fankid! (Mikael X Eula) @cursed-herbalist. She’s going to have the Gift and she will grow up on the Empyrean and probably take it over when ready. She’s also a Next Next Gen 😂 she isn’t born yet in real time oof.

[kathrynalicemc]

Vaulties Day 2 - Era that has given me the most brainrot

Hosted by @hphmmatthewluther. Special shout out to @endlessly-cursed who owns Lennox

You know it’s gotta be HPMA/Next Gen because of how many Arcano kids I have 😂 Second place shout out goes to Fantastic Beasts with the Empyrean because I love that era sm and I have so many OCs.

[kathrynalicemc]

Would love if people had any OCs who would wanna join the Empyrean! Either permanently or just for a single quest the OC has. Either gen is open!

The OG crew runs from around 1926 to maybe 1950 or 1960s? They have a dark period during WW2 where they help escort refugees out of Europe and take them to New York. But before and after is all fun and games exploring the world. Sometime after WW2 Jules retires and his daughter takes over as captain until the ship gets taken (how or when is still tbh)

The Next Gen crew starts maybe 2023? Mikael reads the children’s adventure books Jules wrote and sets out to find the ship. He then gathers a crew and they jailbreak the ship out of a museum (Jules did that originally so full circle).

• The Empyrean •

1926+ Crew: Captain Julio Aquila, Desiree Lestrange @carewyncromwell, Prince Darian Zain, Kathleen Alton @oneirataxia-girl, Lugh Hopper @thatravenpuffwitch, Felix Witt @sirfluffig, and Iolanthe Arcano

2020+ Crew: Captain Mikael Arcano, Eula Durand @cursed-herbalist, Caspian Aquila (possibly?), and more members hopefully! They are recruiting!