BZPB (RPG)

BZPB is a game in which players address each other in combative situations. It was created by User:Heat and his friend, BZPower member king charvak.

Its plot is extremely complex, with a dozen sub-plots going on at any one time, but the basic premise is that a Makuta named Blackout has hatched a convoluted scheme to take over the universe. Story arcs are separated by major events (see below), which often include many characters uniting to achieve a common goal. Despite this however, all participation in "major events" is completely optional.

Over the years, the game has been hosted on several websites: BZPower, the previous BZPB wiki that was hosted by Wikia, and Bzpb.forumotion.co.uk.

The Setting
The BZPB Multiverse is a composite universe, which was created when many, many fictional universes (most of them copyrighted) were fused together by the Users. However, many elements of the story such as certain alien species and characters are completely original. Alternate universes outside of the BZPB Multiverse, which contain twisted versions of the BZPB characters we know and love, have also been explored but are not central to the plot.

History
BZPB has a long and complicated history. The story began in early 2008, in a flame war known as the BVM war. There, two BZPower members, brutaka555 and king charvak, met. When the topic in which the flame war was taking place was locked, brutaka555 changed his name to Makuta: Master of Shadows, found a game called Endless Feud, and began playing it. Unfortunately, the people there were pricks, and accused him of god-modding whenever he did anything at all. This led him to call his old buddy Charvak, PM him with an idea for a game he had, and then go to bed. When MMoS woke up, he found that Charvak had started the game, called "BZPower Battles", and had gotten many people to play it. This was good, but MMoS quickly noticed that Charvak had twisted his original idea out of recognition, which wasn't so good (MMoS wanted to allow people to play solo or ally themselves into teams if they wanted to, whereas Charvak made being in a team mandatory). Since the end result wasn't actually that bad, MMoS stuck with it, and the game carried on, surviving many god-modders and flame wars, until a server problem caused BZP to lose six months' worth of posts. Even then the game carried on, with a plot explanation (Blackout using the Vahi Cube to rewind time by six months) given for the server wipe. Around this time, MMoS, who had by now become -Blackout-, suggested that a wiki be started for the game. This would prove quite useful in the future. A player by the name of "King of Nynrah" (who now goes by "Kon") created the first BZPB wiki on Wikia.

The game carried on, until, finally, on April 22, 2010, the topic was closed by staff member Friar Tuck. But this would not be the end of the game, oh no. It moved to the Wikia wiki, and there it stayed until a player called ({Insert pun here}) (you may know him better as Shroom) created a forum called bzpb.forumotion.co.uk, where the game continues to this day.

Arcs
The game is divided into bits of story called story arcs, or as they are more commonly known as, sagas.

The Arcs include:

So far, most of the arcs have ended with epic battles, except for Beginning and Tidal Wave, which were never-ending battles, Quest for the Master Sword, which ended with a ceremony which Blackout unceremoniously crashed, and Collapse, which was pretty much the events leading up to the Time Slip, with, ahem... not much fighting being done.