"Chipz Season 5 RP", or "Ascension Academy RP" is a roleplaying series run and organized by StealthRG aka Chipz. This article is meant to list and link to members, their characters and participants. For events see separate related articles.

Synopsis

Ascension Academy is a roleplay set in a large fantasy world. The series is largely focused on the titular Ascension Academy, a Magical Officers Academy that teaches it's cadets how to use magic and weaponry, and to utilize military tactics and their own innate abilities in battle. Follow one of over forty characters' perspectives across their tenure at the institute as they come to better understand themselves and their classmates, face off against deadly threats, and protect the world from an ancient evil sealed beneath their very feet- The Darkness.

Please remember that events described in this article are roleplay and acting. Actions done in-character do not reflect on the actual person portraying the character!

Ascension Academy - The location of the school.
Chipz (Ascension Academy) - Chipz character article following Season 5 events.
Ascension Academy RP - Documenting the RP and all participants including present and past.
Ascension Academy Characters - Gallery containing all school actors.
Ascension RP Locations - Other locations visited during roleplay.
Ascension Academy Classes - A catalog of the various books and lessons shown in Ascension.
Ascension Lore - Article going into detail about Ascension related lore.
Cari Town - A town founded by Ascension Academy, the setting of a spin-off Roleplay.
GMA Academy - A sister school to Ascension Academy, participant of the Cross Core Competition tournament arc.

Schedule

Ascension Academy runs Monday, Thursday and Saturday with stream start at 8:30 PM PST / 9:30 PM CST / 10:30 PM EST.

Hard RP Start time is 8:30 PM PST / 9:30 PM CST / 10:30 PM EST. This is called by Kareeda who makes everyone aware they are allowed to enter the map to get into position.
Soft RP Stop time is 12:30 AM PST / 1:30 AM CST / 2:30 AM EST. This is signaled by the Lighthouse turning on and it's horn sounding.
Hard RP Stop time is 2 AM PST / 3 AM CTS / 4 AM EST. This is signaled by the Barrier's recharge, a magical blue fog effect on the map.

The participants of the RP livestream and collect their episodes on the website Twitch.

Twitch Stream Team: https://www.twitch.tv/team/ascensionrp

Actors and participants

Not all players and characters are part of the same present and past story arc.

Students

Participants who play a role as a student. Students are organized into the squads they were assigned in no particular order.

Ignis

StealthRG - Portraying himself and a younger Chipz.
Howlcifer - Portraying Victor Heinrich, a messenger for The Vampire Council.
PookieChan - Portraying Esmae, a pink haired Nekomata.
Miss Universe - Portraying Vevina Ciseris, a pink haired venomous Spider Girl.
Yurily - Portraying Arashi Crystal, an Air Genasi.
Ariyana - Portraying Risei Evo, a sentient Slime.

Ardent Veil

Oblivious - Portraying herself and Arbor Solei, a pink spinel gemstone Construct.
Pierson - Portraying Jay Kali, a red haired Half Elf.
SilentOne - Portraying Hannah Hart, a glasses wearing Human.
Dagur - Portraying Gavin Lattimere, a red haired Human.
Renegade Jay - Portraying Mason Morris, a black haired Human.
Nekobot - Portraying Aida, a teal haired Human.

Vanguard

KuriGames - Portraying and Ryder the Half Demon.
Shanrock - Portraying Augusta Anders, a purple haired Human.
MerreSmalls - Portraying Jixie Posui, an orange haired Human.
Kazuki-K - Portraying Zackary Fang, a black-furred Lycan and brother to Lila.
Ranger_Savage - Portraying Lnik, a brown scaled Eerie Drake.
Imaginemod - Portraying Jamie Mulberry, a nervous Human.

Crystal Thorn

BandAid91 - Portraying Lila Fang, a white furred Lycan, and sister to Zachery.
Blacknightte - Portraying Stark Zephyr, a brown haired Human.
Momo - Portraying Shizuko Nanteko, a blue furred Kitsune.
RibbonHeart - Portraying Flora Lumi, a Plantskin.
Spltoon - Portraying Ellie Esca, a Merfolk.
Kiaske - Portraying Morgan Foxglove, a brown haired Eladrin.

Gallant Squad

Kareeda - Portraying Reximus Evershine, a teal haired Human.
UzuriMia - Portraying Narali Lagomora, a purple haired Wererabbit .
Morpheus - PortrayingLiang Gray Raven, a Frost Giant
StAtIc KiLLer - Portraying Misty Flame, a grey haired Hell Hound.
Skullamancer - Portraying Bile Valistar, a Tiefling.

General

HatKid - Portraying Joseph Asmodeus Joko, a black haired Human.
Nanoade - Portraying Irinarya "Lianda" Sungrove, a white-haired High Elf from Aldoria.

Teachers

Participants who play a role as a teacher.

NobodyQueen - Portraying Headmistress Quinn, the Headmistress of the Academy starting in Year Three.
Veinhelm - Portraying Professor Atticus Sky, a human in a humanoid avian body due to an alchemy accident and the alchemy teacher.
Haven_Kendrick - Portraying Pierce Carver, a Lieutenant-Commander in the military and benefactor to the academy, now Professor leading Vanguard Squad alongside Professor Steele.
MhaiWind - Portraying Luna Silver, a strict professor and head of Crystal Thorn Squad.
Miss Minerva DH - Portraying herself and a younger Madame Minerva, assistant to the headmaster and gatekeeper to Ascension Academy.
RibbonHeart - Portraying Chantara Crescent, the school librarian and divination teacher who is also a Witch.
TheEmoHealer - Portraying Professor Berion, a High Elf professor.
Kareeda - Portraying Bargus Stoutcannon, a bald Dwarf and visiting craftsman of Ascension.
Roache - Portraying Professor Aima Prof Essor, weapons instructor and member of the extensive Aima family.
Spellboy - Portraying Professor Brink Chub, an abjuration and geomancy teacher.
Mr. Brunswick - Portraying Professor Albrecht Xel Brunswick, the school history and illusion teacher.
Kelli Siren - Portraying Professor Lorelei Bliss, a Tiefling who is school's the defense against the darkness teacher and charms teacher.
ZoranTheBear - Portraying Lorn Barnes, a magician that teaches evocation and how to fight against the various enemies of the dark.

Other

Participants who play a role as neither a student nor a teacher.

Cor Vous - Portraying herself and Hoshi.
Lanfear - Returning as Chipz' potential love interest and one of the owners of Neko Nights Night Club.
Kimple - Returning to guide Chipz with knowledge of the Cycles.
NobodyQueen - Portraying Genevieve, an old friend of Chipz and Victor.
Bream - Portraying Katherine, A long time friend of Arbor.
Howlcifer - Portraying the Centurian guarding Chipz' Scar in Episode 1.

Guests

Participants who've made appearances but may not consistently appear or be integral to the main story line.

Oathmeal - Portraying herself as one of the owners of Neko Nights Night Club.
Aegis - Members of the organization have made appearances to assist in rescuing Chipz.
The Purple Lotus - Members of the organization have made appearances as Satchi's backup.

Deceased (IC)

Shimonzu - Portraying Naitya, a white haired High Elf and member of the Kings' Guard and new member of General squad.
RibbonHeart - Portraying Cari Cuddlefish, a pink haired Merfolk.
Folkona - Portraying herself and Melanie McDaniels, a Drow and twin to Barthall.
Satchi - Portraying himself and Rook, an Arcane Golem.

Formerly

Former players and/or characters who were in the story previously but are no longer portraying an active role in the series.

Mimika - Portrayed Izanami Mikoto, a friend and romance interest.
SciFri - Right-hand man of Chipz when they ran Club Rogue together.
VII - A vampire lord and member of The Vampire Council, loyal to Chipz.
Babe - Portraying Lily Matix, a Half Dragon.
Domo - Portraying Xana Fluffytail, a Rabbit.
Tess - Portraying her Vampire persona and Heather Frost.
Frisky - Portraying Professor Conor.
GreatKhanHD - Portraying Alekai Northstar, co-librarian with his twin Alex.
GreatKhanHD (also) - Portraying Alex Northstar, co-librarian with his twin Alekai.
Burning_Sea - Portraying Kuroi Kage, a short Human with markings on his hands.
N0D - Portraying Eldrin, a High Elf.
WolfyGV - Portraying Picwik, assumed an Onion Sprite.
Speca - Portraying Speca, a purple haired jumpy Witch. Speca defected from the Academy in the Return to Duat mission, becoming a traitor to the Cross-Allied Forces.
Veinhelm - Portraying Nikolash, a brown haired Yuan-ti.
CDMan - Portraying Barthall McDaniels, a Drow and twin to Melanie.
Veinhelm - Portraying Professor Vondanen, a Demon professor of alchemy and head of Ignis Squad.
Shimonzu - Portraying Professor Willow, a Dryad professor and head of Ardent Veil Squad.
Arcadum - Portraying Professor Silas Ulysses Steele, head of Vanguard Squad, as well as Wolfgang, The Darkness and Methusala Honeysuckle.
Kareeda - Portraying Headmaster Kareeda Akiyama, the Fey-Touched Human Headmaster of Ascension Academy.

History

Teaser and reveals

Official_Chipz_Season_5_Trailer — Official Chipz Season 5 Trailer

Season 5 Trailer

On Feb 15th, 2019 a teaser trailer was shared via Dropbox by StealthRG on Discord. The teaser covers what appears to be a younger Chipz and 3 other people donning similar matching uniforms as him. The uniforms appear to be of a military, student type nature, or both. As a powerful magical spell is released Chipz together with his fellows take cover behind a magical shield as the spell detonates like a bomb before them.

In Discord on Mar 4th, 2019 a teaser screenshot was shared by StealthRG and Howlcifer confirmed it was him portraying Victor, standing next to Arbor in the picture.

On May 5th, 2019 the Official Chipz Season 5 Trailer was released announcing the release date of Season 5 to be on May 15th 10pm CST.

Schedule

Ascension Academy as of year 3 has 2 weekly episodes:

Monday - 7:30PM Pacific Time / 9:30PM Central Time / 10:30PM Eastern Time

Satruday - 7:30PM Pacific Time / 9:30 Central Time / 10:30PM Eastern Time

"Pink Squad" Arbor, Vevina, Esmae and Cari.

Trivia

"Pink Squad" is not an actual squad but the nickname for all the pink-haired students at the academy. Namely Vevina, Cari, Arbor and Esmae.
The teaser trailer was first revealed and shared on StealthRG's Discord.
The uniforms with a crest (coat-of-arms) were released early which looked very similar to the one of Hogwarts, hinting at a magical school type theme in the roleplay. This turned out to be true.
There is a sizable group of behind the scenes actors referred to as The Army of Darkness, or AoD, who portray various NPC characters and monsters to help flesh out the world and make the roleplay possible.
Season 5 was delayed for many months that it's eventual release date announcement was met with mixed feelings of both joy in anticipation and skepticism.
- The series name "Season 5" is often joked and "memed" about by members in the VRChat community for being delayed for so long, sometimes even by Stealth himself.