History Roleplay / OpenBlue

A [[PlayByPostGames Forum Roleplay]] set in a LowFantasy world similar to Earth, during a period roughly mirroring the [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen Golden Age of Piracy]]. The RP is centred on a [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon Caribbean-ish]] [[FantasyCounterpartCulture locale]] known as Arckenia, specifically a small if important region known as the "Allison Sector". In case you were wondering, it's about {{pirates}}. ''Open Blue'' underwent a lot of [[ContinuityReboot resets]] during its extensive history.

%%* SpotOfTea - Quite a few characters enjoy it, actually. %%Who enjoys it?

* MythologyGag - The "An-Kuram" Tribe, who worship the "Mad God Eh'lyy" refer to two names used by a now-inactive member of the RP who liked thinking of CrazyAwesome ideas.

* AllThereInTheManual - The Worldbook
* BlingOfWar - Everybody who can afford/is assigned to wear it, justified by the [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen time period]].
* {{Blog}} - The PowersThatBe started one [[http://barnacle.open-blue.net/ here]].
* TheCaptain - Any character who commands a ship.
* CaptainErsatz - At present, the worst offender would have to be [[JerkassGods Jerkass Sea God]] "[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Kukulu]]".
* ChildSoldiers - Sirenians enrol at military academies or sign up for boot camp at the age of 12.
* TheChurch - The Avelian Universal Church. Comes complete with a protestant reform, along with its own...
* ChurchMilitant - In the form of the three Inquisitional Orders of [[CloakAndDagger Saint]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition Lennox]], [[NunsAreMikos Saint Clara]], and [[HollywoodExorcism Saint Micaela]].
* CoDragons - The Nine Pirate Lords to King Roberto. Although one can argue bumping them straight up to BigBadEnsemble, given how Roberto has been missing for the past century and a half.
* ContinuityReboot - Five in total, with two spin-offs(in the loosest interpretation of the word). You could say Open Blue has had some activity problems.
* CoolShip - If your character doesn't have one, you're doing something wrong.
* CrossoverCosmology - An in-universe example. All the deities in the verse's religions exist... and they don't really pay attention, instead of acting like a bunch of frat boys.

* DramaticWind - The PowersThatBe seem to oblige to this whenever the timing is right for any character wearing something that can billow.
* EldritchAbomination - Parodied by Kukulu, a SuperDeformed Cthulhu who loves drinking parties and armwrestling... using his tentacles.
* EliteMooks - Sirenen ''Sturmtruppen''. Though officially a PraetorianGuard, the Avelian Black Guard are used as special forces on occasion.
* TheEmpire - Avelia, which is slowly becoming a VestigialEmpire. Sirene also counts, but it has a [[ThoseWackyNazis more prominent theme]].
* EyePatchOfPower - With the number of pirates around, it would make sense that this shows up occasionally.
* TheFederation - The Axifloan Coalition in its glory days.
* {{Flynning}} - Naturally. This IS a pirate RP after all...
* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire - Averted. Avelia and Sirene have committed some of their own serious atrocities, regardless of their form of government. Though in Sirene's case, it's only been a republic for three months.
* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Dutch]] - Dutch Remillians. Particularly gratuitous with the "Engelmacht".
* GratuitousFrench - Remillian characters from the French side.
* GratuitousGerman - Sirenian characters are prone to this, for obvious reasons.
* GratuitousLatin - The Coalition and Iormunean Empire.
* GratuitousSpanish - Avelian characters are equally guilty.
* HegemonicEmpire - The Backstory pins the Big Three as having become hegemonic empires during the era of the Coalition, during which they converted many of the smaller member countries into vassal, satellite, and puppet states.

* LostTechnology - Similar to the real life example, a fictional version of Wootz Steel was manufactured for Avelia by the "Manusian Raj" until ore supplies ran out. A more fictional variation is the score of techniques used in forging Jormunicum, which suffered the same fate as Wootz Steel forging.
* LovableRogue - Quite a few pirates tend to fall in this category, though opinions may differ.
* MegaCorp - Remillia is divided into two of these, the Dutch-ish Machtgeld Corporation and the French-ish La Connaissance Trinite. The Coalition has the West Arckenia Trading Company, which continues to exist in the Coalition Remnant.

* PintSizedPowerhouse - Sirene, relatively speaking, compared to Avelia. A more objective example would be Axiflos.
* {{Pirates}} Uh... duh?
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything - King Roberto is more or less OrcusOnHisThrone.
* PowersThatBe
** Zod, Kukulu, Iormuna, etc. They're all a silly bunch who love to drink and arm-wrestle and fart hurricanes (ok, that one's Zod).
** The administration refers to itself as this.
* PraetorianGuard - The Avelian Guardia Nero Real, and the Sirenian Regiment der Gardes du Corps.

* ShoutOut - Many a reference to ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' (which the whole RP was originally based off of), ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', and others.
** The [[http://www.open-blue.net/content.php/155-Port-Allison Port Allison Fact Page]] refers to a nearby island allegedly haunted by a devil that leaves "[[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos blood found drawn on the nearest wall in a ⊗ shape above a bowl of animal organs arranged in a similar pattern]]".
* SpotOfTea - Quite a few characters enjoy it, actually.
* StateSec: Sirene's ''[[PuttingOnTheReich Reichsnachrichten]]'' is somewhere between this and CloakAndDagger. It still primarily deals with intelligence, but also includes a special forces detachment and SecretPolice modeled after the Gestapo.
* [[ThoseWackyNazis Those Wacky Sirenians]] - Sirene is basically UsefulNotes/NaziGermany [[AC: [[RecycledInSpace WITH]]]] [[AC:{{WOODEN SHIPS AND IRON MEN}}]], using British uniforms and technology.
* {{Unobtainium}} - Jormunicum, weapons made of which are capable of piercing the best plate armour even at the thickest points. It's also so corrosion proof that it's possible to smelt down Jormunicum weapons over 12 centuries old and forge them into new ones. Also, almost none of it is left. Wootz Steel, of course.
* VestigialEmpire - Yaman, the Coalition
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen - Uh, yeah? Pirate RP?
* WorldBuilding - is heavily encouraged.
* WretchedHive - Cofressa.

* PowersThatBe - Zod, Kukulu, Iormuna, etc. They're all a silly bunch who love to drink and arm-wrestle and fart hurricanes (ok, that one's Zod).

* ''[[ProudWarriorRace Das Reich Sireners]]'' - Based on UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany. [[ACommanderIsYou Elitist/Research Faction]]. Normally has a smaller chunk of Arckenia in its grasp. Avelia's hated rival. Contrasts with Avelia's much larger numbers with [[ConservationOfNinjutsu fewer soldiers]] armed with AnachronismStew weapons that are up to fifty years ahead of their real world equivalents. The Disaster of Nations triggered a [[VivaLaRevolution revolution]] that ousted the monarchy and installed a Directory ala the [[TheRepublic French First Republic]]. Their ships tend to be Mario Frigates and Ships of the Line.

* ''[[ProudWarriorRace Das Reich Sireners]]'' - Based on UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany. [[ACommanderIsYou Elitist/Research Faction]]. Normally has a smaller chunk of Arckenia in its grasp. Avelia's hated rival. Contrasts with Avelia's much larger numbers with [[ConservationOfNinjutsu fewer soldiers]] armed with AnachronismStew weapons that are up to fifty years ahead of their real world equivalents. The Disaster of Nations triggered a [[VivaLaRevolution revolution]] that ousted the monarchy and installed a Directory ala the [[TheRepublic French First Republic]]. Their ships tend to be [[TheMario Mario]] Frigates and Ships of the Line.

* ''{{Pirates}}'' - Administrivia/SelfExplanatory. Rape, pillage, plunder, and... [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything stuff]]. Divided amongst various Pirate Lords (and Ladies), who act in the interests of Captain Roberto, the Pirate King. After the Disaster of Nations, the pirates, once always on the run from the Coalition, have made a big comeback and are bringing in a new reign of terror on the waterways of Arckenia. Since [[CaptainObvious pirates have no uniform]], they wear whatever the heck they want, and use whatever ships they can get their dirty hands on.

An adaptation of the previous continuities into a novel is in the works and can be found in the DarthWiki section, along with old characters and the tropes associated with them.

* CaptainErsatz - At present, the worst offender would have to be [[JerkassGods Jerkass Sea God]] "[[CthulhuMythos Kukulu]]".

* ''{{Pirates}}'' - SelfExplanatory. Rape, pillage, plunder, and... [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything stuff]]. Divided amongst various Pirate Lords (and Ladies), who act in the interests of Captain Roberto, the Pirate King. After the Disaster of Nations, the pirates, once always on the run from the Coalition, have made a big comeback and are bringing in a new reign of terror on the waterways of Arckenia. Since [[CaptainObvious pirates have no uniform]], they wear whatever the heck they want, and use whatever ships they can get their dirty hands on.

* TheKingdom - Avelia is a Kingdom InNameOnly. A straighter (though not quite) example is Axiflos, the small but powerful neutral city-state that runs the Coalition.

* ProudWarriorRace - Sirene. Everybody (save the people who become scientists) undergoes military training and is required to serve a minimum of four years. [[WarriorPrince Princes]] and [[BadassPrincess Princesses]] are required to be able to effectively lead armies and/or fleets into battle by the age of [[ImprobableAge twenty]]. Ironically, many of them also have a penchant for learning. The ones who like that better are sent to become part of the [[ProudScholarRace Proud Scholar Caste]] instead. Needless to say, whatever research they come up with ends up being used for war.

** The [[http://www.open-blue.net/content.php/155-Port-Allison Port Allison Fact Page]] refers to a nearby island allegedly haunted by a devil that leaves "[[TheSlenderManMythos blood found drawn on the nearest wall in a ⊗ shape above a bowl of animal organs arranged in a similar pattern]]".