Honestly, my ability to post has been steadily decreasing ever since the semester started. I'm entirely willing to keep going, but realistically, I know that I'm a slow asshole, and if nothing else, I'm dragging down the pace here.

Psyker Landshark said
Honestly, my ability to post has been steadily decreasing ever since the semester started. I'm entirely willing to keep going, but realistically, I know that I'm a slow asshole, and if nothing else, I'm dragging down the pace here.

Oh god, taking the words out of my mouth. I've got about half a post festering in a Word document. ;;

You know what, actually? I'm gonna get a damn post up if it kills me. Stand back, everyone.

EDIT: Okay, going well so far. By tomorrow night it should be finished and up. Sorry about taking so long, we gotta get on it folks! Maybe I can steal from Cairo and write some ironic fanfiction. Who's up for a preschool AU?

Leidenschaft said
Alright, Ladies and Gentleman, here's where we are as of today,As it stands, Dervish and I are deeply disheartened by the lack of posts in the IC as well as the lack of activity and banter in the OOC. All those that are willing to carry on the RP are encouraged to voice their willingness below, but, realistically, if your only part in doing so is saying that "you're here!" and nothing else, then mine and Dervish's hope in the RP will continue to wane. The state of the RP tells us that if there is not some kind of explosion in posts and activity in the OOC then it will continue to stagnate and simply die with a whimper, perhaps, at the most, it will go out like VotS, the first installment of this RP some of you briefly participated in that died after a period eerily similar to the one we are in now.Again, feel free to voice your willingness below, and anything we should know about if things are going downhill or you are busy in real life. We already know Jenno, Nyx and Fallout have their reasons to be on hiatus, and we respect that. Help us in assessing the situation the RP and its players/cast are in so we may a)keep it alive or b) pull the plug on the operation and focus on different RPs or aspects of all of our lives.

Leidenschaft said
Alright, Ladies and Gentleman, here's where we are as of today,As it stands, Dervish and I are deeply disheartened by the lack of posts in the IC as well as the lack of activity and banter in the OOC. All those that are willing to carry on the RP are encouraged to voice their willingness below, but, realistically, if your only part in doing so is saying that "you're here!" and nothing else, then mine and Dervish's hope in the RP will continue to wane. The state of the RP tells us that if there is not some kind of explosion in posts and activity in the OOC then it will continue to stagnate and simply die with a whimper, perhaps, at the most, it will go out like VotS, the first installment of this RP some of you briefly participated in that died after a period eerily similar to the one we are in now.Again, feel free to voice your willingness below, and anything we should know about if things are going downhill or you are busy in real life. We already know Jenno, Nyx and Fallout have their reasons to be on hiatus, and we respect that. Help us in assessing the situation the RP and its players/cast are in so we may a)keep it alive or b) pull the plug on the operation and focus on different RPs or aspects of all of our lives.

I'm still definitely interested in this RP. I think I was the last person to post for the scorpion group (unless I was reading wrong), which explains my lack of activity for the IC. I'll start making it a point to join into the OOC though!

Duly noted, everyone.

Psyker, as a fellow student, I understand your predicament and I believe you should put class in front of RPing like you've been doing. People who have unfinished posts, please finish them and post them. Feel free to clarify that for those in the scorpion group, 101.

Sorry guys. between my lack of confidence that I'm not good enough for the RP, the fact that my boss got fired (And I was shunted his hours as well as my own...), and some issues related to Warcraft, I've been unable to do anything this week. I'll get right on a solo post.

I have to apologize as well. Remember when I said shit was going to hit the fan awhile back?

It hit a large turbine instead. Past few days have been incredibly difficult. I'll get a post up as soon as i can.

Alright, time to knuckle down; here's what's up.

My life outside the guild is picking up faster than I've ever had to deal with in my sheltered existence (girls, work, meeting my dad etc.) and I don't know how to manage my time. I try to check into the OOC every once in a while with some anecdote or piece of writing I think might stir something up (it never does) but as for actual posts they don't cross my mind until it's too late at which point I cringe at even checking the Guild because I know what a shit player I'm being which makes me cringe more the next time and it continues. It's why Cub disappeared so often last time around.

My two cents on the situation is a final push, sink or swim before Winter. I say round up who's willing to keep going, merge the groups with a timeskip and set it at a place in Hammerfell with a single clear directive. I know it's a bit extreme but it seems like every time we branch off into groups (Palace of Kings in the first one as well as the bandit cavess and the Goblins and Scorpions now) something goes awry. I say one cohesive group and if the characters son't approve, good! Let them complain, plot to leave, rebel, whatever. More people, more interaction, more story.

That's what I think.

WittyReference said
Alright, time to knuckle down; here's what's up.My life outside the guild is picking up faster than I've ever had to deal with in my sheltered existence (girls, work, meeting my dad etc.) and I don't know how to manage my time. I try to check into the OOC every once in a while with some anecdote or piece of writing I think might stir something up (it never does) but as for actual posts they don't cross my mind until it's too late at which point I cringe at even checking the Guild because I know what a shit player I'm being which makes me cringe more the next time and it continues. It's why Cub disappeared so often last time around.My two cents on the situation is a final push, sink or swim before Winter. I say round up who's willing to keep going, merge the groups with a timeskip and set it at a place in Hammerfell with a single clear directive. I know it's a bit extreme but it seems like every time we branch off into groups (Palace of Kings in the first one as well as the bandit cavess and the Goblins and Scorpions now) something goes awry. I say one cohesive group and if the characters son't approve, good! Let them complain, plot to leave, rebel, whatever. More people, more interaction, more story.That's what I think.

I wouldn't mind something along those lines, but the work it may require to fill in the blanks could prove to be very tough to compress into a post or two. It's up to everyone! I'm still very new to the dynamics of this specific RP and to many of the faces here, so I'm open to whatever would be best for everyone as far as both catching up and coming together.

Filling in the blanks won't be much of an issue, and if we do this, I need you guys to at least try to be more active. I don't want to bust my ass off trying to keep this game alive and come up with stuff for you guys to do to be met with a resounding "Meh", and I'm sure Soul feels the same way. We've been running this for nearly 3 years now, trying our damnedest to make up new events, characters, and encounters for everyone while also fielding questions from all of you guys. Hell, the last several IC posts have been collabs with GMs. Our intention with this game was to gradually back off and let you guys start making your own choices and paths with the characters where we, as the GMs, would start reacting to what you guys did. But the more it seems we back off instead of keeping this thing on rails, the less you guys seem to want to post. It's kind of discouraging, to say the least.

I understand you guys are all busy with personal life shit, but don't think that Soul and I aren't either; we MAKE the time so we can do this for YOU guys. When this game is active and flowing, I absolutely love doing it and don't mind taking time out of other stuff I could be doing or SHOULD be doing because it's a lot of fun, but when I work my ass off, taking hours to write something up so you guys have something to do and absolutely nobody replies, it doesn't exactly make me feel like doing this anymore. Trust me, it isn't that hard to take 10-15 minutes a day to write up a paragraph or two and then come back to do another paragraph or two the next day; you can get a post up pretty fast that way with absolutely minimal time commitment. I don't know how many times we have to keep saying this: The expectations are 2 paragraphs, we're not looking for 10+ every single time you post. The reason the GM posts are that long is because we're juggling a shitload of NPCs and events for the player characters as well as taking the time to do collabs with you guys whenever you ask us to. Once again, we're making the time to do this for you guys so you can enjoy the game. We don't do this because we have no lives and this is our only creative outlet.

A big problem, I think, is that instead of interacting with each other's characters, a lot of you seem to have decided to turn a bunch of NPCs into pseudo player characters that your character almost solely interacts with. As for the absenteeism, I would like to point out that if we followed our posting guidelines, this game would have died a long time ago because pretty much nobody is meeting them.

What I'm getting at is that the last thing I want to do is a large time skip that would take us to Skyrim, write up a summary of all the stuff the happened (or would have happened) in a summary, and then set you guys up to keep posting and then nothing. It's pretty much where we stand right now, and honestly, I have very little expectation of this game surviving in its current state. I would like to stress this; this game is very close to being shut down because we're running out of steam and seeing absolutely no reciprocation of our efforts. We aren't demanding much, and even that apparently is too much, especially with the latest chorus of check in.

Dervish said
A big problem, I think, is that instead of interacting with each other's characters, a lot of you seem to have decided to turn a bunch of NPCs into pseudo player characters that your character almost solely interacts with.

Eek, yeah, guilty. I figured I could use them as a good train to keep me from just having Urzoth monologue for half of the post while she wanders around Hammerfell looking for her friends. There's a good chance that with the timeskip though I could definitely say that Urzoth sent them down to Orsinium on the way over to check in on the army, report back to the king or possibly even request aid if the situation happens to be so dire in Urzoth's eyes. It all depends! My post should be up in a few.

Leidenschaft said
Duly noted, everyone.Psyker, as a fellow student, I understand your predicament and I believe you should put class in front of RPing like you've been doing. People who have unfinished posts, please finish them and post them. Feel free to clarify that for those in the scorpion group, 101.

You mean give them a rough idea of what's going on in the scorpion group?

Alrighty. I'm going to have to say, I actually might have to put my posts on hiatus until this sunday or upcoming coming monday. Too much has been starting to happen and I personally don't want to write something up under irl stress and anxiety or it will end up being half-assed or barely anything at all. The past week I've literally been waking up to arguments and what not following after every single damn day that has even resulted in me sleeping on a train and a park bench. I'm really sorry guys. Wanted to get my special halloween fanfic post for you all too but i'm not sure if i can even really do that.

Alright, Dervs, I'm roughkly halfway done with my post - WOuld have had it done already but I got called in to work. Someone called out. Ah well.

Working on itr as we speak.

Alright. After everyone gets their posts finished, I'll work on the timeskip as per suggestions. It'll be a big chunk of time, so head's up for that.

Dervish said
Alright. After everyone gets their posts finished, I'll work on the timeskip as per suggestions. It'll be a big chunk of time, so head's up for that.

Wait, we're doing the Timeskip? I didn't see the posts saying for that. Is it too late to disagree and say that a timeskip isn't necessary, hopefully?

Also, ever make a post in Word that looks nice and long, but when you post it, it isn't as long as you thought?

I'm really sorry, I feel terrible. I know you guys have better things to do than take us by the hand all the time. I don't know if such a big skip is for good or ill but I can only say I'll do my damnedest to make it worth the trouble.

A selection of things you can expect me to push for:
Reunification with Zhaveed (Obviously a major plot point for Cub we'll be skipping so I'll work out how grateful he is after all this time)
Rivalry with 'Scion (Cairo and I have been in talks for some time now so that should prove ample fodder)
Strife with Zainait (Dipper mentioned he held close ties to the stronghold orcs, all of whom despise Cub)
[Newly Added]Mutual Growth with Valsore (Both he and Cub have become little more than instruments of death)
Blood-Brothers with Blade (Obviously this depends on when and if Voltaire returns)
Dwemer Discovery with Regenleif (Cub's armour would be a natural point of discussion and they could make a formidable duo of brains and brawn; based on Sunny's return)

Obviously these are subject to a multitude of things and if anyone else would like to add more or plan a bit I'm more than happy; I just wanted to reassure everyone I've given plenty of thought to the RP just not been able to do any of it yet with the groups split.

WittyReference said
Strife with Zainait (Dipper mentioned he held close ties to the stronghold orcs, all of whom despise Cub)

lol, no no, lemme quote from the sheet. :P

He is, however, able to be comfortable around Stronghold Orcs and the Bosmer, but that does not mean he trusts them.

As in, he respects them.xP

But I'd accept some stife, if it came to it. :)

Oh, I see. Because of their mutual "Outlander" lifestyle, I dig. Alright, thank you. Maybe the strife comes from the simple fact Cub's basically a city orc then? I don't know how much you know since my CS was lost to the ravages of time but he's essentially Kill On Sight to "True" orcs if he removes his helmet meaning he sticks to cities and traveling in groups, a notion the Ashland Loner might disagree with?

rpg101 said
You mean give them a rough idea of what's going on in the scorpion group?

I kind of just meant, "GUYS, I'M WAITING, SHIT" But a little more polite.

Yo yo! Yeah I'm here, been lurkin, waiting for the opportune moment to spring an epic, blood soaked post on you guys. But I guess that's not gonna work out lol. Sorry for my coyness, but I was going through a weird semi depressed state that was really killing my enthusiasm for... Well everything really. Doin better now though, so you can expect to see more hacky, slashy, growly, goodness from me.

This METAL will have to substitute for an epic, blood soaked return post.