Back from work, and done catching up on OOC-schtuffs.

Time to write a long-winded and obnoxious reply.

Which I will prefix by saying:
I am not pointing any fingers or trying to feel like anyone is or should shoulder the burden or responsability for this situation. The things I say in this response are purely my own, 100% selfish opinion and I fully accept that nobody else may share it. I'm writing this disclaimer because in the past I've had people I roleplayed with who were, shall we say, less than cordial when I expressed my opinion. This is just a safety-measure for myself.

With that out of the way.

[b]Xalt's Thoughts on Timelines:[/b]

I have always been a supporter of the chronologic post-order. If player A posts before Player B, then Player A's actions and events occur before anything else. I've always found that when people try to interject or interfere with posted events, such as in this example:

[quote=Fictional Roleplayer #1001]
Julius stood at the edge of the skyscarper's roof. He looked around. Nobody there but him and the pigeons, as usual. He sighed and looked out over the city skyline. He took a deep breath, crouched, closed his eyes and then... Jumped.[/quote]
And then let's have our next person do this:
[quote=Timeline-Screwer 69]
But [b]before[/b] Julius could jump, Sammy burst through the elevator doors that just slid open. He made a mad dash for the man, seeing his intent and ran with all he had, catching the man by throwing himself and latching onto his waist before the fool could do something stupid![/quote]
This, in my opinion, is bad form. The first player had already described and set up a scene and taken an action. However, the second player didn't want that to happen, or wanted to be a part of the event/scene, or just thought they'd be a protagonist, and forcefully altered things that had already happened by changing events to suit their post.

Therefore, as [b][i]I[/i][/b] see it, this is the chain of events that occured in this particular instance:

1. Yumeiko and Miyuki found a collapsed Velvet.
2. Yumeiko fled to the front desk.
3. Miyuki helped Velvet up.
4. Velvet nom'd Miyuki.
5. Iris came upon the scene of noms.
6. Iris went full Alpha, let out a big roar and lunged.
7a. Miyuki extracted herself from the scene.
7b.  Max heard the beastial roar and hurried to investigate.
8. Miyuki arrives at front desk and delivers her whole spiel - all the lines.
9. Ghost-chan hurries to the scene.
9a. Gorgon hurries to the scene.
9b. Max arrives AT the scene, becuase he wasn't as close as the front desk and had to [i]run[/i] there.
10. Velvet is being pummeled by laughing, snarling psycho-woof. Max throws steak.
11. Ghost arrives and tries to pull Velvet out of the grasp of Iris, who gets baned in the head with a slab of meat.
12. Iris goes to Max and eats her food. Gorgon arrives.

This is the flow of events in my mind. In [i][b]my[/b][/i] opinion, there's no way Max could've gotten from Achi's room to the stairwell [i]after[/i] hearing Iris' roar but [i]before[/i] she lunged and jumped on Velvet. The same goes for Suzy. By the time Miyuki left, iris was already half-way through her lunge, and taking into account Miyuki didn't run, but rather just walked, there's likewise no real way that Suzy and Glasses-Gorgon could get to Velvet and iris [i]before[/i] the latter had already leapt onto and started beaing velvet up.

Mind you, this is not somehting I say just because I want Velvet to ger her come-uppins. This is just how I choose to view the event in a way that's logical and rational to me.

However, I'm fine with doing whatever ya'll wanna go with. If you need me to edit or change something in my post, that's totally cool with me. Just let me know. :)

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[@Lemons]
Aww, I'm sorry to hear stuff ain't great for ya. :(
BUt thanks, I enjoy your company as well. ^-^