We definetely wouldn't use anybody else's characters.

So I've been thinking, and I had some ideas--

What if we timeskipped to maybe ten to fifteen years in the future, so that we'd have space to add in our own charries but if any old kyngdomers wanted to join again their charries could still be conceivably alive?

I'm thinking maybe we would do some kind of continuation of the SSC thingy, where the characters would still be fighting Catastrophe and trying to keep the sword, sheild, and crown away from him. Maybe Catastrophe even gains control of one of them or something, and they have to steal it back, or perhaps in the years that have passed he's overtaken the entire Kyngdom and they try to overthrow him.

Also, perhaps we should consider moving this thread to DtE? If we want to reboot Kyngdom we'll need a lot of people and in my experience, DtE gets a lot more traffic than CaC.

It sounds like you're all really determined to do a reboot! I do remember that, back while I was on Kyngdom, we had actually started a "Beginner thread". This was a roleplay thread in which we devised a simpler plot that would eventually be able to tie into the main plot, functioning as a way to introduce newcomers to the plot of Kyngdom. It's still on page 2 of the roleplay board if you are interested in checking it out.

As Sybill said, it seems like the consensus amongst the older Kyngdomers is that they simply don't wish for their characters to be taken over. I'll also tell you this: there was a great deal of time when I was on Kyngdom when we also had no writer for Catastrophe. This worked out easily: instead of writing as Catastrophe, we would create generals and soldiers under him, who could interact and speak to Catastrophe and serve as a way to further his plans. This allowed us to advance Catastrophe's side of the war without actually writing as Catastrophe himself. The same was done for the Resistance.

I do believe that your idea of a time-skip would work best. Personally, as someone who might drop in to play as some of my old characters from time to time, I am going to request a ten year timeskip. This would place most of my characters in their late twenties and early thirties, which I believe would suit the plot best while still being easy for me to write as. 

Some advice to you all: Kyngdom flowed best when we allowed it to be more spontaneous. My recommendation is to start a new rolepay thread (or threads) with your characters in their environments, and then build from their. Kyngdom is designed to have new contributions. New additions are welcome. However, please read through the Guide. Not all of it, necessarily. Pages 3 and 4 are probably the most necessary as far as plot goes. On page 2 are the rules, which are the most important part. Some of these rules are lax. However, there are some diehard rules that we always followed back on Kyngdom. One of the big ones is no more additional Powers. This prevented the plot from becoming too dense or confusing with the addition of sudden, new Powers. Why? You may have noticed, but every Power is an "arc" of the plot. Kyngdom became inactive during the Power of Howl/Light stage. All that is left for Kyngdom is to finish the Power of Howl and get through the Power of Darkness. (I forget the animal attribute that went with this one. Though I know that this Power is Claaws.)

Alrighty, so we're looking at 10 years in the future. We don't need anyone playing Catastrophe, but we need people playing the Powers. I ended up reading the whole old kyngdom history after all, but I've forgotten most of it.

So! We'll need people playing each of the Powers, plus the Sideaffected Powers and the child of the Power of Hoof. One person could potentially play more than one Power, but I'm thinking one person could play two Powers at most. We'd start by letting anybody who wants to play a Power have one and then if there are more than we have people willing to play then we could talk about seconds.

Powers would be a pretty big commitment, as they're a really big role and they'd have to be played often. We'd also have to make sure that if whoever is playing them leaves CB/Kyngdom they pass the Power on to a new person. It would also be possible to move the Powers around, as in whoever plays them changes every six months or year or whatever.

We should also sketch out a plotline for whatever has happened in the last ten-ish years, even if it's vague. We just all need to be in the same place on whats going on with SSC and Catastrophe and the Powers. I'm thinking if we make a nice storyline together and then write up a majestic-sounding story-thing that covers all of it, we could get the Admins/Editors to post it on the home page of Kyngdom (the same place the Who's Here and KYNGDOM Live Chat thread are).

I've got an idea for the past ten years, although it's rather vague. I'm thinking something along the lines of Catastrophe gains more power, slowly advancing over Kyngdom, while meanwhile the Powers go into hiding and the SSC go missing, and everything looks bleak, and that's where we pick up the story again. This is just a loose idea, and we could totally do something completely different.