Hey Jester, long time. Send me a PM and let me know what's up.

Jester! It's nice to see you again! How's life been treating you?

Haha you'll get used to it Platanus.

Hey, hey, guys! Yeah, been a while. I've been kinda busy with travel and the like, and then at one point I forgot about this site, haa. But I should stick around the site more now.

I'll sent that PM, yush.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Same to you!

Happy T Day people! =P

I really hate to do this, but I just don't think I can keep going with the Rp right now. Rping has always been a form of escapism that also kept me writing, but I was always at least content with my life when I Rp and I've honestly never been more discontent than right now. I'm not a particularly emotional person, but 2 weeks ago I had something that I could only describe as being some sort of panic attack and had to get my mom to take me to the hospital because I've never felt that way before, so I thought something was seriously wrong. Hospital concluded I was fine and it hasn't happened since, but there's still this lingering anxiety that's making it hard to sleep and do much of anything. Most of the things I do during my free time like my blog and writing fiction have come to a stand still.

I could say nothing more than I am stressed and can't go on with the Rp right now, but I'm partly venting, to be honest. My hospital visit is known to no one except my immediate family because admitting that I felt that level of anxiety to people who generally know me as being calm and level headed is weird and to some degree embarrassing.

But I've also been Rping a while, Gmed a lot and this Rp was supposed to be a return from a 2 year hiatus, where I had grown exhausted with putting so much energy into a plot that would last a week or two before dying. This is easily my craziest Rp idea, but more posts and time has gone into this one than anything I've ever Gmed, so it means a lot and I feel bad having to step away with all these ideas still in my head. You guys are the most dedicated group of Rpers I've ever Rped with, so I would love to join you guys maybe a couple months down the line where somebody else is Gm. I don't think I'd ever have the energy to Gm again, but I've said I won't Rp again more than once and have been wrong everytime, so I won't say that, but I do need a long break.

If anyone wants to keep in touch I'll be more than happy to Pm my Skype. Thanks again and you're welcome to go on without me. I'll be happy to provide some of the ideas I had in mind to whoever wants to Gm.

Wow, take care of yourself okay. Don't feel guilty of having to step down, I understand. If at anytime at all you want to start this up again or something new in the future (maybe we can even Co-GM it so that the pressure is off of you) or even a 1x1, feel free to contact me. I've enjoyed reading your blog so I'll make sure to keep an eye on your blog for what is in store for it in the future! Stay safe and stay healthy. My Skype and my PMs are always open if you ever want to chat or get something rolling.

This has been the longest running roleplay I have been in and have enjoyed roleplaying with all of you. If we want to continue, restart or even do something completely different with each other I am all for it. I am already busy GMing a roleplay but if need be I can step up or seeing that we are all pretty trustworthy and responsible people, we could also make it into more of a team effort instead of a focal GM and come up with the plot and such and progressing things together. Although I personally haven't been in a group that has done it, I've seen it work well with other people. All in all, I am fine going in any direction the rest of you are wanting to do so.

Thank you, I'll definitely keep that in mind when I feel everything is steady again. The team effort approach is something I've always wanted to do and I'd love to see it work out. We'll definitely keep in touch.

Hi Charles, I believe it was pretty brave of you to admit (even to strangers) that you felt embarrassed about your panic attack.
That said, even though I have actually »just joined« I really enjoy this group, finally decent and mature players with entertaining ideas, and at our current pace your taking a few months off matters even less, compared with your health.
We did the team GMing back in school, when none of us had any idea about pbp RPing and we decided we just wanted to make stories together. It became one of the best experiences in my life and got me addicted to what I later found out were roleplaying games. So I can only recommend it, esp. since - like I already said - we have a decent group here where no one seems to enjoy power playing.

Take good care of yourself and keep in touch.

Really cool that you were able to do that with friends. I've tried to get my friends into it in the past, but I think it was a bit too geeky for them, haha. And not many of them were writer types in particular. Writing stories together sounds a lot better than role-playing and I've always wondered why it's called that in the first place.

Well, I went to a »geeky« middle- and highschool... and most of the friends I grew up with (we're kind of like a tribe in that way, and they are my reason for being on facebook) do lots of geeky stuff all around the globe. :D

We even had our own annual literary meeting, where we would read our own writings in the school amphitheater.

Happy winter solstice everyone. :D