Dr. Oobleck's Office

Indie, Semi-Selective RP blog for Dr. Bartholomew Oobleck from RWBY. Follows back from teamoliv

[teamoliv-archive]

UPDATE: Not Dead and Getting Ready for New Things!

So after a several month hiatus I’m thankful to announce that in the coming weeks I’ll be returning to RPing here. Here’s some background on what happened and what I plan to do moving forward:

I finished my master’s degree! That was the big thing that put up most of my time, causing me to hang up both this and streaming for a while. Now that that’s out of the way, I’ll have free time again. That said, I’m now searching for full time work so my actual availability may be a bit sporadic. However, once I have my new plans ready, I can start things up again.

Now for the big announcement. @echoesofblck​ and I have both felt a bit stifled keeping exclusively to RWBY for setting RP (as well as working around its plotline) so we’re going in a slightly different direction. Once we have it all finished up, we will be debuting a setting blog for a new fandomless sandbox we’ve written called Apricus City. This is a massive megalopolis with hints of magic and cyberpunk that I’ve been describing as a cross between RWBY and Final Fantasy VII with a little bit of Deus Ex thrown in. We wanted to keep all the fundamentals of RWBY’s setting for the sake of not having to completely redo most of our characters (transforming weapons, monsters to fight, supernatural abilities, futuristic tech, etc.) while adding our own flourishes and letting us keep our story focus more about how we wanted our characters to interact. This should also allow people who have concepts that wouldn’t completely fit in Remnant to play on their ideas with us in a more forgiving canon.

We’ll both still be keeping RWBY AUs among others but the bottom line is, we got tired of basing our stories in the Remnant setting and really wanted to expand on its ideas, but we wanted it to be easily accessible to all our friends in the RWBY RPC if they wanted to see our characters on their new home turf. We’ll both answer any questions people have about it, but our concepts are all fleshed out for the most part and we’re now moving into the writing stage and I’m (trying to) work on a rough city map. 

I’ll also get the big stuff out of the way now: 

I will be changing this blog name once I’m ready to debut the new stuff.

Team OLIV as it stands currently will be no more, but the team will remain as the main characters of the blog. Their personal dynamic will be slightly different but our party of four won’t be separated.

I won’t be dropping any current threads I have. I’ll be continuing those and tagging them with the RWBY AU tag I haven’t decided on yet. It’ll probably just be Verse: RWBY or something.

There will be a new storyline when the blog debuts, but we’ll be spending some time doing a “sandbox” mode to start just to hammer out small details and get people who want to interact with the new canon time to get used to it.

Lastly, I should put out a disclaimer, I still don’t dislike RWBY. This latest season has been better than I thought it was going to be, but I’ve been significantly less interested in roleplaying in the setting as a default. However, if anyone doesn’t want to follow this blog anymore because of that, I understand.

Again, thanks everyone for your patience with me and feel free to ask anything you want about what I’m doing with this new setup.

[brilliantoobleck]

As an addendum to the above, this only applies to my primary OC blog. This blog and @havenstraitor​ will still be around, though I’ll be less active with them. 

[brilliantoobleck]

“For the last time, you are not allowed to challenge the school’s faculty to duels. Please choose an opponent from your class.”

[teamoliv-archive]

PSA: Drafts and Queue on the New Dash

Okay so… If you have a draft saved that you want to edit and then add to your post queue, you now have to save it first, then to back to reedit it and add it to queue. If you just make changes and swap it to queue, it’ll dump everything you did before you saved it again and post the old version instead. I have a feeling this will happen for post as well but I haven’t tested it.

I just learned this the hard way after losing three hours of work because I assumed that the draft to queue change would work the way it always has. Apparently not.

[teamoliv-archive]

OOC: Virus Alert

Okay, so I just had to spend my day cleaning out a virus from my computer that caused Windows Defender/Firewall to block my internet access while everything tried to reconnect at once. Apparently the source was a file that snuck into the cache of the Chrome profile I use for this site.

This means that someone’s blog I follow or interact with might be a carrier for that same virus. It could also be a side site or extension I use a lot, so I’ll be checking periodically but the chances of that are low. However, I’ve had experiences with some tumblr profiles, particularly ones gotten from free sites or creating templates to contain viruses so that’s the most likely option in my opinion. I have no way of knowing where it came from but…

Run your scans just in case.

[brilliantoobleck]

👤+ your coworkers?

Send me 👤+ a character name for my muse’s opinion on that character

“I like them all well enough. Though Peter is the only one I would genuinely consider a friend. If you catch us speaking casually you’ll probably catch wind of the numerous longstanding bets we have with one another. Nothing obscene on the line or anything- commonly no more than pocket change or bragging rights. The others can be fairly distant at times. Ozpin never seems to truly connect with anyone and Glynda takes her job far too seriously. I don’t have many contemporaries in my field aside from one at an Atlas prep school so many of my associates lie outside the academy.”

[bunny-rp-memes]

Send me 👤+ a character name for my muse’s opinion on that character

[brilliantoobleck]

OOC: Short Hiatus

I hate to do this, but I’ve been finding getting motivation to do stuff this last week basically nonexistent. I’m going to try and take a break and see if that helps.

[brilliantoobleck]

So I’ve returned and I’ve made a major announcement on my OC blog here. Replies/starters will be a bit slow but I’ll be getting there.

[brilliantoobleck]

OOC: Short Hiatus

I hate to do this, but I’ve been finding getting motivation to do stuff this last week basically nonexistent. I’m going to try and take a break and see if that helps.

[teamoliv-archive]

Munday Asks

So it’s time for some Munday questions if anyone has any. Anything from questions about me to how I write, etc.

[oldmemesandhelpandthings-gone]

↖ is now accepting curious anons.

ask anything you want to know about the muse(s)!

[brilliantoobleck]

disgracedengineer‌:

“That is fascinating. I would love to chart and study your vitals and sleep patterns with that amount of caffeine intake,”

“You’ll find it’s quite normal, actually. Well, relatively speaking. My semblance is related to my metabolism so it really balances out.”

[brilliantoobleck]

disgracedengineer‌:

“You truly are a man of excellent taste,”

“I may have a reputation at the academy for my appetite. There’s usually four pots of coffee in the break room in the morning. One of those is for the rest of the staff.”

[deviousdoctor]

“A coffee pot is one cup of coffee if your not a wimp,”

[brilliantoobleck]

“I agree wholeheartedly.”

[brilliantoobleck]

🎵

For every 🎵 I get I'll post a song I associate with my muse!

I can’t tell you why I associate Oobleck with high-octane funky techno so much. I legit can’t explain it.

So just have the music. This is my “Dr. Bartholomew Oobeck is done with your shit, good sir.” song.

[ask--nihon]

For every 🎵 I get I'll post a song I associate with my muse!

[brilliantoobleck]

disgracedengineer‌:

“Would I? So then do dogs make the best pets?”

“Of course they are! We would not have spent generations breeding and training them to be trackers, hunters, companions, and guides otherwise! No other pet can match their versatility!”

[brilliantoobleck]

“You may be surprised with what that ‘small dog’ can do.”