https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/ 2026-04-11T16:02:33+00:00 https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/ https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/_media/logo.png text/html 2025-03-11T15:15:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:ancient_tales?rev=1741706141&do=diff Ancient Tales; Second Edition, Volume 1 Preface " It's always difficult to know where to start when compiling a document like this. I am certainly not the first, and I will hopefully not be the last. Several ancient stories from “The Myths and Legends Project text/html 2025-03-11T15:11:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:ashlis_mecan?rev=1741705860&do=diff The Legacy of Ashlis Mecan The Myth of the Refuge for the Lost Many times on our path, we will stumble. We will lose those who walk beside us. We may get swallowed up by the hazards at the sides, from where our destination seems an impossible goal. And yet, there is a place for us who have suffered. A haven that protects and shelters from the agony we can face on the path. text/html 2025-03-11T15:12:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:cartographers_guild?rev=1741705932&do=diff The Cartographers' Guild Search input [Hradeon First Contact] received. 65 results generated. View [Minutes of the [redacted] Quarterly meeting of the Cartographers’ Guild, [redacted], Concerning First Contact with sapient species, termed the ‘Hradeons’ in Carto-speak, planet IX from system YHGOR-K-982]. text/html 2025-03-11T15:13:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:conglomerate?rev=1741705981&do=diff The Conglomerate I have a old man's tale for thee -- of ashes and rebirth. The ongoing cycle of life, death, and rebirth. The system. It never favoured the low-worker like me. I'm simply an old man now -- one among many. Previous miner and refiner for the Prismari Industrial Association. Oh text/html 2025-03-11T15:11:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:donnell?rev=1741705876&do=diff The Legacy of Donnell Veeris A Life’s Work Would you like to begin Upload? (Y/N) > Y Upload in progress… 0% complete Donnell leans back from the computer, rubbing his eyes as he does so. It’s taken a long time for him to get to this moment, but the work finally feels complete. For now, at least. It’s taken him the past few cycles, updating the project whenever he could find the time between his duties as a Wing Commander, and now he’s ready for it to be shared. text/html 2025-03-11T15:11:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:do_loris?rev=1741705893&do=diff The Legacy of Do-Loris Sunrise, Sunset Across the horizon, an ember glow ignites the landscape, engulfing the alien treeline as daylight's end silhouettes them against the crimson sky. Two beings sit and watch, their metal sinking slightly into the rich soil they sit on. It's silent. There's no need for either to speak, to ruin the moment. text/html 2025-03-11T15:12:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:do_loris_colony?rev=1741705974&do=diff Status Report TRANSMISSION RECEIVED DECRYPTING Dear Wing Commander Donnell Veeris, Whilst I am sure you are looking forward to your well-deserved rest, it saddens me to hear of your upcoming retirement. In the five cycles since its establishment, the Do-Loris colony has thrived, and as its commander, I must say it has been a pleasure to watch it do so. As I'm sure you are aware from my recent reports to the Guild, the colony is now self-sufficient, able to produce the required resources nec… text/html 2025-03-11T15:11:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:fathomless_depths?rev=1741705907&do=diff The Legacy of Fathomless Depths “Okay class, settle down.” The teacher hushes his students and begins her lesson. “Today, we'll be learning about the political state of the Thousand Colours Moon before the coup on the Eternal Sky was restructured. text/html 2025-03-11T15:12:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:fern_greenskeeper?rev=1741705922&do=diff The Legacy of Fern Greenskeeper Gone, Not Forgotten Blearily, the last Hyla trudges across the surface of the planet. The blazing stars of SCN-2X-1-14 bearing down on him as he makes his way across the barren landscape. In his hands, a pressurised crate with its fragile cargo. The sound of their own breathing on the inside of their respirator deafening. text/html 2025-03-11T15:12:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:hark?rev=1741705936&do=diff The Legacy of HARK A Worthwhile Enterprise The armchair in the corner of the CEO's office at Inoloc Enterprises is of the kind which engulfs the person sitting in it, cradling them in its mass as they sit; think; perhaps read a book. Its current occupant, HARK Inoloc, is indeed doing this. A rather fascinating read on Balra folk music, and their cultural origins. They spend a lot of time doing this, nowadays. Sat in an armchair, thinking. Or perhaps reading a book. Just taking the time to rel… text/html 2025-03-11T15:12:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:kankro_dira?rev=1741705950&do=diff The Legacy of Kankro Dira Until the Workers of the Galaxy are Free Talon-Cadet Kankro Dira had no difficulty applying for and receiving a position at the Dira Institute for Biotechnics. It was a part of every Kallimari citizen's life, but the letter of acceptance from the university text/html 2025-03-11T15:12:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:lightning_meets_the_sea?rev=1741705968&do=diff The Legacy of Lightning Meets the Sea It’s on her way home that Lightning hears him -- the heavy footfalls of his shambling suit marching ever closer in the corridor behind her. She’s gotten complacent, hasn’t spared him a thought in years. Assumed she was safe, here, on this station that was always more his domain than hers. text/html 2025-03-11T15:13:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:lina?rev=1741705981&do=diff The Legacy of Lina Things Left Behind She’s back, again. Back in the place they existed before zie learnt the meaning of the word “to live,” back in the place she swore again and again they’d never return to, a promise she’s broken countless times but hopes never to have to again. text/html 2025-03-11T15:13:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:lusiyelzuno_lathena_alathemanay?rev=1741705995&do=diff The Legacy of Lusiyelzuno Lathena-Alathemanay The Myth of The Merchant Engineer Let me tell you this: some of the largest movements ever made were begun by those who, at first glance, may have seemed insignificant. Such as it was for the Merchant Engineer. text/html 2025-03-11T15:13:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:lyton_amiable?rev=1741706009&do=diff The Legacy of Lyton Amiable Time Waits For No One Lyton Amiable steps for the final time out of the detention satellite and into a shuttle. He moves carefully, for the last fifteen years have not been kind on his muscles. He sits properly, presentably, into the seat text/html 2025-03-11T15:16:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:newfound_stories?rev=1741706162&do=diff Third Exploration Fleet Doran, Encounter Report -- Galeika system 26-BB-07 Report from the home offices of the Thiran Republic Galactic Exploration Fleets. The following is an extract of the ground party's field report. Mission Objectives: Investigate repeating signal, originating from the third planet in the Geleika System. Report back to Fleet Central upon contact with sapience. text/html 2025-03-11T15:13:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:oasis?rev=1741705986&do=diff The Aftermath Rava Thorn pulls down the brim of her hat to shield her eyes as the sixth wall of dust in as many hours blows past the ruins of what used to be her home. Even calling it ruins seems inappropriate, really. There's no remembrance here of the lovingly-built house, no scraps or splinters left of the table around which her family once enjoyed her Aunt's cooking and her Grandma's dessert. The old laser-scarred tin cans her aunt's wife used to teach her to shoot at are gone, too, presum… text/html 2025-03-11T15:13:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:omnipotent_light?rev=1741706026&do=diff The Legacy of Omnipotent Light Lessons, cosmic tutelage, arrive packaged in flashing neon, the universe’s directionals. Guides that fade like setting suns, yanked beyond the blanket of the horizon by stalwart hands, the Un-Makers, hypnagogic gremlins that quarter the mind as a steak. text/html 2025-03-11T15:32:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:peepy?rev=1741707120&do=diff The Legacy of Periphery 07734 Dear Prof. Vortex of Ever-Shimmering Starlight, Peepy has received your mail! Firstly, thank you for the samples provided. They are certainly new and exciting! They’re pretty rocks*! W u W Minerals of this kind are only found in the Purple Mountains of RANAR-M-003 VI. Peepy imagines it must have been quite the mission; RANAR-M-003 is certainly much further out in the galaxy than previous missions the Guild has conducted! How did it go? If Peepy hadn’t been so … text/html 2025-03-11T15:14:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:perlite_51213?rev=1741706057&do=diff The Legacy of PERlite-51213 Justice PERvails Begin transcript. Order, order. The National Court of Justice of the Nation of the Eternal Sky is trialling Android PERlite-51213, individual 51213 of the Phytological Exploration and Research Androids, lite model. PERlite-51213, the Elders of the Nation of the Eternal Sky convict you of the following: text/html 2025-03-11T15:14:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:reva_nu?rev=1741706075&do=diff The Legacy of Tegan Cleverhands, or Reva Nu A Reunion Numb. The grief that Tegan feels is strange. It looms over them, a known absence present within their mind. 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Seeking to look after those who are displaced for smaller conflicts as well as large-scale war. Saul-Tii wants all these things, and with their new team, their collaboration with Osmos, and their gr… text/html 2025-03-11T15:15:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:second_scale_pack?rev=1741706124&do=diff The Legacy of the Second Scale Pack The Wandering Adventurer He can just pick them out through the slats in the gutter. Scuttling legs clinking against darkened walls. Click, click-click, click. Are they alive? No, nothing on this planet is alive. The air is disturbingly clean, sterile, but not breathable. The planet’s surface has been rendered faceless, any facets of civilisation inhaled by rock. Being an adventuring soul, he was disappointed at the prospect of exploring another glorified sto… text/html 2025-03-11T15:12:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:selethyan?rev=1741705942&do=diff The Legacy of the Selethyan A young Sailor couple being given a guided tour through the museum on ARCOL-B-218 C. A hundred thousand worker-forms cleaning up a newly-uncovered source of radiation on Kallimar. Undersea construction facilitating the start of a new Sailor colony deep in the depths of an ammonia ocean. Terraforming projects supported by ten million forms churning the earth and sowing the nutrients a planet needs to bear life. text/html 2025-03-11T15:15:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:seraleera_karvi?rev=1741706142&do=diff The Legacy of Seraleera Karvi “Sir, we have a problem. Well, two.” There’s a whir, almost silent yet loud as a ship’s thrusters in the sudden quiet of the room, as Scalding Geyser turns the torso of his suit. The jewels encrusted in the ivory surface glint as they catch the soft lights of the trading floor. text/html 2025-03-11T15:16:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:shiny_skies?rev=1741706160&do=diff The Legacy of Shiny Skies The Struggle Continues The old sailor surveys the walls of their room for a final time. Over the cycles it’s become a patchwork tapestry of images and letters and newspaper pages in the rubbery organic material which acts for paper beneath the surface of the Thousand-Colours Moon. Images and messages and stories text/html 2025-03-11T15:16:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:sketh?rev=1741706178&do=diff The Legacy of sKeth What May Yet Be sKeth was never seen by the members of the Cartographers' Guild again. Removing her from her hive on Oasis was a monumental labour for the Swarm -- a hundred thousand tiny bodies carving their fangs through sKeth's very being, resecting the biological core from the embodied hive. text/html 2025-03-11T15:12:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:sntnl?rev=1741705952&do=diff The Legacy of the SNTNL Protectorate System ...st##... stan###... stand by ... Protectorate Protocol Functions suspended … re-calculating directive … contacting last sole rogue node under designation of SNTNL_ Submodule 176 … … con## establishing contact … stand by … text/html 2025-03-11T15:16:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:sweeping_tides?rev=1741706197&do=diff The Legacy of Sweeping Tides For once, the lounge in that grand old dwelling is quiet. It’s been reclaimed, recently. Sweep has tucked himself into that little corner of the room far away from all the expensive ornaments where a child used to hide away and doodle sketches on the walls in places his parents would never find, set up his paints and desks, and made camp. It would do for now. He's never had a proper studio in this place, and he won't be staying long enough to set one up, and so her… text/html 2025-03-11T15:16:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:taseerrin_veeris?rev=1741706213&do=diff The Legacy of Taseerrin Veeris HOSTEL OWNER FINALLY GETS BACK AT SCAMMERS! The unlucky co-owner of Gardeners’ Delights, a cosy waypoint hostel in rural Veeris, Taseerrin Veeris, has fallen to 43 scams in the last seven cycles -- surely this is a national record? However, this time, she got back at them. text/html 2025-03-11T15:17:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:thealynara_veeris?rev=1741706230&do=diff The Legacy of Thealynara Veeris Promotion They say the first interview is always the worst, but as Thea steps into Humfree’s office for the final interview, her heart wouldn’t stop pounding inside her chest. “Ah, Thea, dear friend! Welcome, welcome, please come in.” His voice is as upbeat and energetic as always. As Thea walks into his office, she takes a deep breath to calm herself down. “Settle in, settle in. You must be a whiz at these interviews after going through all of the others. I’m … text/html 2025-03-11T15:15:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:the_founders?rev=1741706158&do=diff The Founders The Founders are used to waiting. Long aeons spend in solitude -- or near solitude -- until once again they may prove useful to the galaxy. They have watched innumerable civilisations fall to ash. Each knows full well that one day they will suffer the same fate. After all, that is the fate of all who have ever breathed the air of this galaxy. text/html 2025-03-11T15:17:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:unpleasant_spiciness?rev=1741706250&do=diff The Legacy of Unpleasant Spiciness Quite A Fun Guy <Sense of smug satisfaction> The way clears through the corridor of the Guild Station, as Unpleasant Spiciness, the first Vourac Cartographer in the history of the station, trundles their way merrily through the crowds. Freshly returned from their very first expedition, they're making a flighted-insect-line towards the bio-engineering lab of Kaila Syvour. Any passers-by equipped with a Vourac translation device would receive an air of satisfa… text/html 2025-03-11T15:17:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:valdeen_veeris?rev=1741706266&do=diff The Legacy of Valdeen Veeris New Choices Valdeen Veeris, now released from the clutches of SNTNL for good, gazed upon the mound of dirt on the ground. The funeral was over and everyone else had left. The body that had once been his wife’s lay 6ft beneath his feet. text/html 2025-03-11T15:18:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:veiled_brightness?rev=1741706294&do=diff The Legacy of Veiled Brightness Brightness Unveiled A strange and warped landscape. Great dream-like pinnacles of rock rise like soaring spires or turrets and shimmer in the harsh light in a delicate array of colours -- sea green, maroon red, deep and mysterious purple. They cast sinuously twisting shadows over a rock-strewn wasteland of dust-carved valleys and jagged chasms opening into sightless darkness. Above, the unfamiliar white light of a nearby star ripples into faint patterns, slight … text/html 2025-03-11T15:18:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:veldis_tangasa?rev=1741706313&do=diff The Legacy of Veldis Tangasa To say that Eameeris Atyneen is nervous about her first day is an understatement. She's been away from her home city-state before, sure, but it's one thing to be visiting the city and touring the campus and another to be on the transport headed for the Fealealeuthre-Lathena University of the Sapient Arts text/html 2025-03-11T15:18:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:velraisil_selet_alathemanay?rev=1741706333&do=diff The Legacy of Velraisil Selet-Alathemanay Dear Comrade Comrade, This will likely be my last and most candid message to you. Our forces are alive and well -- indeed, we have never been more powerful. Setbacks we have suffered, certainly. But the attack on the Guild Station, ill-fated as it was, lost us little in material terms. text/html 2025-03-11T15:19:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:vrani_hunter?rev=1741706347&do=diff The Legacy of Vrani Hunter Vrani zips her bag shut, and looks at the empty room around her. This place, the Guild, it's been her home for their entire life. She laughs to herself, thinking about the irony of what they're about to do. Most Balra are born on a planet, then leave to join the Guild later in life. Vrani was born on the Guild, and leaves for a planet later in life. It's a new start, and she's excited. text/html 2025-03-11T18:12:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:xhoa_sannevanas?rev=1741716739&do=diff The Legacy of Xhoa Sannevanas “There is one final clause to discuss, little ones.” The Priest’s voice echoes in that familiar, omnipresent way as Xhoa stands upon the barren wastes of SCN-2X-1-14, hiding from the bright intensity of the twin suns in the Weapon’s awesome shadow. Representatives from the Swarm, SNTNL and the Guild have all gathered here, after quarters of discussion, to finally sign the treaty that will end the war. text/html 2025-03-11T15:18:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ventures.oxfordrpg.com/legacy:yael?rev=1741706297&do=diff The Legacy of Alatharyael Nirees-Singreen After Arcus So you left the first city and you’re wandering, as the sun dies in the sky, purpling like a bruise over the distant jungle. You’re walking towards it, a new labyrinth to replace the one you lost, along the uneven roads, which have only slowly been repaired after the conflagration. Still, the world is warped by history’s horrors. Shifting strangeness as the sun dies, in the corner of your eye.