The holiday season at the end of the year is always a particularly busy time for people, so it shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone that things have slowed down. It may be sad to see things grind to a halt, but that's what late December is like.

@Dawnscroll - Maybe people would be more inclined to keep you in the loop if you didn't sound like such a self-entitled asshat when you make update posts. Raven is obviously stretched thin at the moment, and the end of the year is calling, so slow responses are going to be the norm. I appreciate that it is difficult for you to have written such a large post and to have gotten nothing back, but Raven /physically cannot/ match what you're doing and still keep pace with everyone else.

Chill dafuq out.

He will get to you with what he can, when he can. It may not be pleasant to have to wait when some people have already gotten posts and you haven't, but coming across as you have will not make things go any more quickly or compel anyone to write any more quickly for you.

So, I'm alive, but as Tuuj has said, it's the holiday season and I've had finals and whatnot. I've yet to post my intro, and I'll hopefully have that sorted once everything calms down, I'm sorry for the delay. @ravenDivinity

The holiday season at the end of the year is always a particularly busy time for people, so it shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone that things have slowed down. It may be sad to see things grind to a halt, but that's what late December is like.

@Dawnscroll - Maybe people would be more inclined to keep you in the loop if you didn't sound like such a self-entitled asshat when you make update posts. Raven is obviously stretched thin at the moment, and the end of the year is calling, so slow responses are going to be the norm. I appreciate that it is difficult for you to have written such a large post and to have gotten nothing back, but Raven /physically cannot/ match what you're doing and still keep pace with everyone else.

Chill dafuq out.

He will get to you with what he can, when he can. It may not be pleasant to have to wait when some people have already gotten posts and you haven't, but coming across as you have will not make things go any more quickly or compel anyone to write any more quickly for you.

Actually, no. It's not right.

You know what? What I wanted was the same thing that Jacaerys and Zhan got. A note that said 'nothing we can do at the moment, ball is back in your court'. SOMETHING . hell, the rest of you guys got at least a paragraph, at least a few sentences to work with.

I got diddly.

That note would required zero effort. I haven't been on is case daily. I waited five days since his last response before pressing the issue, and I waited another few days before making my second comment. LONG before the holiday season. Is that unreasonable? Am I not a player like the rest of you, deserving of the same courtesy?

It would take one minute of work for a note telling me to keep working working. Five minutes for the mediocre paragraph many of you got. Less time to ask me to leave this RP, since as you put it, I'm such an asshat for wanting the same level of respect as the other player.

All of which, I'm okay with. Because it shows some level of freakin' respect, that I wasn't ignored, and that allows me to move forward with this RP, one way or another. Holiday season is no excuse from what asking: which frankly, isn't anything much. The rest of you got it immedietly, I'm just asking for mine now after having waited for almost two weeks. And that's a mention of SOMETHING.

Yeah, Dawnscroll does have a point here, even if he is getting a hell of a lot angrier than a game warrants.
I got a note to go ahead and move my own plotline along, and that was cool. I think Dawnscroll just wants some acknowledgement that he's also a player, just like much everybody else has gotten.

EDIT: Screw it I redact everything. I'm going sweedish on this.

Alright. Let's put it down to brass tacks then. @dawnscroll. Your post was bigger than all of ours COMBINED. Not only that, you required, as I remember, a minimum word count or the like from our last GM, Transience. And honestly? My guess as to why Raven really skipped over you is because you're such an incorrigible asshole about everything.

Hate to break it to you pal, but when you act like that, EVERYONE tends to want to ignore you. You realize this is a site where people come to RP FOR FUN, right? The way you're acting makes me feel like you're an angry boss that demands certain levels of expertise that many simply can't live up to.

If you honestly feel like we're all as beneath you as you act like, then maybe you should stop being a dick to all of us and go do something more professional with you're apparently god given writing abilities.

Edit: also forgot to mention, you realize there are still people who HAVENT GOTTEN RESPONSES YET. That means other people, besides you. So as much as we think you need to take a serious chill pill, you're not special in this regard. What makes you different is how you're handling the situation. Go follow another rp while you wait or something. Just don't expect this one to give you everything you require on the creative front. These things take time.

Writing up more myths for Mark to help define him more. Anyone have something they want to know?

I don't think that everybody throwing around insults is going to help anything, guys.

How about this then. If you have a problem with Raven/Anyone else in this RP/The RP in general. Leave. Simple as that, really.

I haven't gotten a response since my first post, but I am fine with waiting for it.

Guys im struggling here. As i said I'm working on more myths and I'm stil shakey on how much magic i can use. The myth in working on atm is a king who has found a spring that will turn him into an ice revenant kind of thing (big spiky ice construct creature) and I'm not sure if that's too much or fine. I can tweak it some but i want a ice monster basically classic exterier matches whats on the inside idea. He was a cold heartless king now he's literally cold and heartless.

If anyone can help me out here that'd be great.

Also still looking at animals. I think ive got something kinda of cool, but with no art skills well I'll try to explain.

So start with a slightly smaller than normal bull. Make it wooly like a goat with silver gray hair and trade the horns for tusks maybe a foot long. Finally give it a pig snout. That's a male Ruck.

Females have tiny tusks and teets of course. They give rather terrible milk, but the cheese isn't bad.

Head and body of cow, tusks, pig nose, goat wool.

I just feel like animals add something to a fantasy world even if they are just didferent loooking livestock.

@jasonwolf I can give you a hand, send me a PM and we'll work something out. Sometimes it's really helpful to have somebody to bounce ideas off of.

@ravenDivinity

You're clearly swamped under this workload, so I'm going to do you a favor and withdraw so the stress doesn't outright kill you. (Also, considering my inactivity up to this point, I think it's for the best.)

Best of luck surviving this, friend.

@Corvidaebut but your character is the useless lesbian! What will we do without them!

@Dextkiller are we talking animals or myths?

@jasonwolf whatever you need bro! I recently created several new species of animals for a project im working on. So if we're talking animals that's my flow at the moment. I know a lot about mythology and how it's structured to, so if you need help with that i can do that too.

Merry christmas everyone! hope you're all having a good one (for those of you who celebrate it :3)

Ah christmas.

Just a day to entirely unwind and rethink everything. I don't have any nice formatting on it, but with my spare time from today I wrote a very uhm... messy lore bible for the Wilds. It's literally just 15 pages of run on sentences and single words to go through and get what makes the wilds the wilds. IDK what december 25th means to you guys, but for me this is what it is all about.

It means a day off of work where I don't have to slave over making other people happy by pretending to care. I can just relax, eat lots of food, open gifts, and not worry. Was a nice little break. Now we should hopefully be winding down some and back to regular hours at work as opposed to the shift to shift hours they've been giving us.

So, After a discussion with @RavenDivinity, I'm now going to be helping out with posts and help get Starless in order so we can start moving a bit faster. A few things that need to be clarified first:

The Wilds. @jasonwolf, I haven't been paying too much attention to this whole situation with the conflicting ideas about the wildlife there and the specific location of The Wilds. From what Raven and I have briefly discussed, you need a spot for The Wilds. Well, I'm going to be cross referencing lore from all the character sheets (which I'll also be using to tidy up the official lore document) to try and find a place for this area to exist. As far as I'm aware at the moment, the best location for this area seems like it would probably nestle in quite nicely BEHIND the far eastern mountain range. There's a spot about 2/3 the way down the map where the eastern mountain jut outwards a bit. Well, unless I missed somebody (which is entirely possible) that area is currently unoccupied by lore from any other characters, so it seems like a pretty good place. Sure there's snow there on the map, but since most the cartography of Ansus ENDS at the mountains, it could be safe to assume most cartogrophers have simply never been past the eastern range.

As far as wildlife goes, seriously, send me a PM and we'll figure out some creatures that are more interesting and fit better into the lore of Starless than prehistorical creatures. I understand that you want to maintain a more daunting aspect for your fauna, and that's entirely possible while still tweaking them more toward the fantasy realm. It's more a matter of getting a feel for the world and the creatures that inhabit it, yknow?

Also, I'll be whipping up a gridded map of Ansus fairly soon. We'll be using this to note important locations and current locations of characters. What I'll probably end up doing is making another shared document and posting the link here so people can go in and list off important locations and where exactly on the grid they fall so I can begin filling in the map.