The Alphaville Herald

Missing Mile to Rise from the Ashes of Virtue

by lavinia on 17/12/08 at 10:46 pm

by Lavinia Carver

Serious roleplayers may know of Virtue City, a roleplaying sim based on a futuristic world with body modifications which have caused the creation of villians and heroes. Alas, Virtue City is no more. That's right, the Virtue City storyline and sim have closed permanently.

In its place a new sim has been constructed, a dark rural roleplaying community with few restrictions and a storyline made up by the players and the players alone. I conducted an interview with sim owner Loch Newchurch on the destruction of Virtue City and the creation of Missing Mile.

Lavinia Carver: First of all, what was the Virtue City  story all about, for those readers who don't know?

Loch Newchurch: It started as a role-play inspired by the City of Heroes game. it was set in the year 2033. The basic theme was that in the future body modification was the rage a lot went wrong and heroes where born from it to battle the evil in the city.

Lavinia Carver: What prompted the destruction of Virtue City?

Loch Newchurch: Running a role-play sim takes a lot of time and effort and reliable people to help are very hard to come by. I kind of missed having time to myself and do other things freely. It became a job I didn't want anymore so that’s the main reason. Missed the carefree days do just be goofy with my friends; sometimes RP gets too serious and too much drama.

Lavinia Carver: And how did the story end?

Loch Newchurch: some of the more known villains got together and formed a plan to destroy the city. The Gates of Hell were open in the middle of the city where heroes had to battle with demons and such at the end when the portal closed it sucked the city in thus destroying it.

Lavinia Carver: I see

Lavinia Carver: How were the players' reactions to the news of destroying Virtue City?

Loch Newchurch: there was a lot of disappointment because many considered it their home. It was a hard decision for me because I like to please people but I told them the new sim will still have some RP just more layback and less rules. So they eventually accepted the idea.

Loch Newchurch: the regulars anyway.

Lavinia Carver: So, what are your plans for the next sim, and what will the storyline be like?

Loch Newchurch: the sim is lightly based on a vampire book called "lost souls" from Poppy z Brite but the sim won’t be just that. The background is very simple and basically the players will make most of the story. It is set on a dark rural town the year is current 2008. There aren’t many limits of what stories they can play in this background.

Lavinia Carver: Do you have any regrets or things you wish you did differently?

Loch Newchurch: Not really all though Virtue was mostly created more to please others than to please myself I enjoyed it a lot and met great people. Now I’m kind of following my heart. Doing things I like more and hopefully others will like it too.

    Now that Virtue City is now closed and Missing Mile is soon to open, many players have abandoned Virtue City are now lined up to start at Missing Mile. I am going to give Missing Mile good hard look, and then decide, but the choice is yours. From the ashes of destruction will birth the phoenix of creation.