Don't worry, our glorious leader is simply leaving us. Probably took it upon himself to renovate the garage by his lonesome.

Yea sorry. Aurora might be delayed for a bit longer. Construction is sapping my soul, and will likely go on for another three or four days. The internet box is unplugged regularly so that we can continue construction, meaning contact with the net for me is often limited to my phone only.

Could I get a roll-call, to see who's still paying mind to the OOC?

Still watching

I only come in to make disparaging jokes.

Still here.

I'm still here. I wish I'd noticed that you had posted in the collab a while ago though. That delay is entirely on me.

Present.

I'm trying to get my roleplaying fix elsewhere, but I just can't. I can't, man. It's ridiculous. :<

We're nearly done. ;_;

I'm so exhausted.

I'm here.

Let it be known that deviantArt is a terrible place to find good roleplayers. Just a good place to find terrible people. Vindictiveness is far too common of a trait in today's youth, I think.

Wait. Why did you go to deviantArt for roleplaying in the first place? .-.

That's where I used to roleplay back in 2006. I thought it was a good idea at the time but apparently it's really not. A lot of people just really fucking suck at roleplaying. The place isn't designed for it and I should proooobably know better by now.

Really I don't know of any other place than here that's good for roleplaying (unless you're going for very specific kinds of roleplaying, like a particular fandom, or original world).

Yeah there are a lot of interesting original worlds out there, but Aurora is the one that has stolen my heart now. I really can't even do roleplays outside of it because it's just. I don't know many. There's something about being able to create such great lore within such a massive universe. It adds an immense amount of diversity to the roleplaying content you can have. That and I just love playing as the characters I've made. I can't really bring them outside of Aurora because they're kind of thoroughly ingrained in its mythos. Like, they wouldn't make sense outside of it.

:U

The most successful I've been in or GM'ed were ones with a near-limitless creative allowance.

Nation and fantasy roleplays (in which the players to were allowed to make up stuff), thus, where the most successful ones. Unfortunately nation roleplays on the newguild are... mediocre, to say the least.

I never really got into Nation roleplays all that much mostly because I see it as too removed from being... personal? I don't know. It's definitely an interesting concept to run a nation and see how they interact, but at the same time I could just play Dwarf Fortress and get the same result by looking through the legends files and learning how the civilizations generated had interacted with each other. In newer versions I could probably even define how they interact myself as I continue playing and making fortresses that interact not only with existing civilizations but even fortresses that I've created myself. Could be really interesting...

I'm pretty sure this is your most successful GM'ing experience to date. Or, at least to me it certainly seems like that. There's just something about Aurora. I imagine it could be very interesting to have as a Nation Roleplay. Just as fun as it is playing the singular characters we've made already. Oh, reminds me... I should be building a sheet for Mathras and send it to you sometime.

It's gotten to the point now where I could feasibly scoot in some collabing time during the days, so here's to tomorrow being finally the day in which this can start again.

Sweet! I'll be there. :D

I'm available. Let me know if you are as well and I'll hop in the collab!