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.

Known Universes/Dimensions

 * BZPB Multiverse - Where 95% of BZPB occurs.
 * Shattered Mirror Universe - A parallel universe in which many characters were created differently, have reversed powers, or are generally bad.
 * Dark Universe - A parallel universe which has been ravaged by unending, pointless war since its creation.
 * Eternal Universe - A parallel universe where the main characters hold shared power that they rule the universe with.
 * Unireverse - A bizarre universe where almost everything is reversed. An example of this is VMT.
 * Uterio's World - A universe split off from the main BZPB Multiverse at the end of the Uterio War, which in this one, the rebels lost.
 * Chronospace - An empty dimension that exists outside of time. May or may not be the same thing as the Void.
 * Sixth dimension - A dimension that acts as an extradimensional highway to make teleportation possible. May or may not be the same as Xen from Half-Life.
 * Knowledge Dimension - A dimension filled with vast libraries that contain information on everything that ever happened, is happening, and will happen.
 * The UG - A pocket dimension created by a Dark Universe inhabitant by the name of Monarch. Used to store inactive characters.
 * The Crimson Mirror Universe - A parallel universe that alternate versions of Zev and Namah came from. Little is known about this.
 * Soulverse - The parallel universe that Heat the Soul took place in.
 * Retelling Universe - The parallel universe that the Retelling takes place in.
 * Dark Mirror Universe - A universe that is part of BIONICLE canon where the Toa became a police force. D-Klak and Mazkertis come from here.
 * Warhammer 40kverse - Osseron's home.
 * "Internet Dimension" - The original home of BZPower and by extension The Users. However, the BZP planet has since been merged with the BZPB Multiverse, bringing the Users with it.
 * A universe where Ynot defeated Blackout, and ruled the Matoran Universe. This version of Ynot was killed by an antimatter beam fired by the Icarus satellite weapon's failsafe mechanism. Blackout may have since regained control.
 * A universe where Blackout hunted down and killed Zev and Ynot after Malygos forced Sasuken to act as a spy and lead him to Zev's base.
 * A universe where Blackout was defeated and tried for war crimes. However, he was captured by the primary-universe Blackout, and used to power the Conduit in addition to eight other Blackouts.
 * A universe where Blackout killed Takanuva using the Master Sword when the Toa attempted to fight Blackout in a last-ditch attempt to stop the Makuta's plans.
 * A universe where Blackout invaded Earth, and fought Ynot on top of a large skyscraper. This apparently ended in Ynot's death.
 * A universe where Blackout never used the Vahi Cube. Instead, he used Caiaphus to attack the Matoran Universe and force the Five Kings to go to war.
 * A universe where all BZPB characters are humans living on Earth.

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.