THE
ROLE-PLAYING THREAD
PRESERVATION SOCIETY
@ Crystal Plains.net
BETA
Welcome!
The Crystal Plains Role-Playing Preservation Society is a place where collaborative stories made on message boards and instant messenger can be archived (theoretically permanently, though nothing is really permanent on the Internet) to protect them from the common losses of forum database crashes or errant deletions. It will be freely available to everyone to submit their threads for archiving, available for viewing by everyone.
At the moment it is in a 'beta' form, while features are still being developed and the pages are formatted (for a list of potential and hopeful features, click here). There are only a handful of threads, which have been reformatted from their previous message-board format for ease of reading. The list is below.
If you would like to participate in the beta for the RPTPS,
please take a look at the upload form. At the moment,
all submissions are being processed manually, so it may take 1-3 days for
your upload to appear. Still creating/finding upload script.
Thread Archive
All information in the archive is copyright of their respective posters, but may or may not have been posted with the authors' permissions.
| Name | Source | Date Uploaded |
| Bad Blood 1: A New Threat | SonicVerse Team | 18 September 2006 |
| Bad Blood 2: Nocturne | SonicVerse Team | 27 March 2007 |
| Bad Blood 3: Face of the Devil | SonicVerse Team | 28 March 2007 |
| Bad Blood 4: Savott City Charity Event | SonicVerse Team | 01 April 2007 |
| Bad Blood 5: Evangel Estate Open House | SonicVerse Team | 28 March 2007 |
| Bad Blood 6: Search for the Chaos Emeralds | SonicVerse Team | 03 April 2007 |
| Bad Blood 7: Rebirth | SonicVerse Team | 08 April 2007 |
| Bad Blood 8: Heist | SonicVerse Team | 08 April 2007 |
| Bad Blood 9: Inevitable | SonicVerse Team | 08 April 2007 |
| Café in Pale Blue | SonicVerse Team | 15 May 2007 |
| Ryan is Teh Kidnapped! | SonicVerse Team | 8 July 2006 |
| Sky Pillar 2 (incomplete) | SonicVerse Team | 17 May 2006 |
| Slywhin Biotech Labs | SonicVerse Team | 14 July 2007 |
| Voodoo | SonicVerse Team | 17 April 2007 |
| Voodoo 2: Dreams | SonicVerse Team | 18 April 2007 |
If you have the ability to help with any of these, please contact Antipode[at]CrystalPlains.net.
>Central database: Archived threads indexed
in a database that can be referenced in a sortable table.
>Automated submission and processing: A tricky one, and
probably not possible due to the number of different HTML formatting types
used by message boards. Standardising the formatting of pages on the RPTPS
would help readability and conformity, if it's possible.
>A prettier front page: I obviously slapped this page
together in five minutes to release the project. Before the subdomain can
be officially unveiled and moved out of beta, this page is going to need some
CSS or something.
>One-button backup download: Instead of waiting for periodic
site backups, anyone (any registered user?, if a registration system is installed)
can press a button to download an up-to-the-minute backup of the entire RPTPS
system. Perhaps this could be minimized to just a few threads, or selected
threads.