[OOC] Ultimate One Universe: Emergence

[mattmanganon]

@Half Pint Yeah, with both GMs gone and most of the players, I think it'd be best to just call it a day and start again. If anyone else starts one, do let us know.

[Sep]

One thousandth OOC post, what a great milestone. Let's celebrate, surely this is a positive sign- oh. Okay.

Happy 1000!

@Retired

I mean you could keep posting

[Master Bruce]

Even though this is probably one of the incalculable games I've ran that have reached this conclusion, I feel like with this one I should say something in regards to how my participation ended. Or at least elaborate a bit more, since I've already said a little.

My personal experience with the game started off very positively and I felt creative juices flowing for my characters that I hadn't felt in years. In the past few games, I was usually a post or two in before I'd get creatively spent and be forced to either drop or ghost with the faint hope that the drive would return. It used to vex me, but recent experience has illuminated a huge part of why it happened: medication. This past summer, a change in doctor left me without access to a certain medication that I'd been taking for a couple of years for anxiety, to the point that it took about two months to get put on something else. Within that two month period of being cold turkey, the idea for this game came about and I readily dove into it.

What I didn't realize was that anxiety meds = hampered creativity for writing, at least in my case, and the minute that I was back on them was when I couldn't continue. It's like a part of my brain is locked off, and despite my want to do creative writing - any creative writing, even out of the game - I just can't access that while on this. I attempted to get back on the horse with Superman and with Hulk, and even heavily contemplated a new app just to shake the cobwebs off. Nothing came of any of it. A huge disappointment for me, but it's also not really something I can do anything about.

I'm not trying to make an excuse, as this is still something I'm trying to understand about myself. The simple fact is that it sucks and I wish it were different. The game suffered because (at least mostly) the GM is responsible for a general liveliness that I couldn't sustain. Which is where @Sep's contributions were absolutely essential and kept the thing running way longer than it probably could've lasted with me alone. His enthusiasm for the game from day one was palpable, and there were many, many chats between us where he would share ideas and listen to mine. It was really cool to be on that side of it, and I just want to thank him for being with it as long as he was. Without Sep, there'd have been no game.

I never stopped watching the game's progress and reading posts. All of you have been delivering absolute top-tier content in the IC and I salute it as some of the best writing I've had the pleasure of being amongst in awhile. It ended too soon, but not for lack of quality.

[AndyC]

I can sympathize-- even without the same condition, I can't even begin to say how many times I've gone whole-hog into a character, story, or whole RP with so much enthusiasm that it's all I can think about, only to have my focus and motivation dry up. For what it's worth, I'd been completely checked out on the superhero genre for a good long while until I saw this, and getting my first try at playing Wolverine rekindled my love of the classic X-Men comics as I looked for reference material, so if anything I want to thank you for reminding me of why I love these characters and worlds so much, and how much I enjoyed writing stuff with you crazy kids. My own life got a bit too crazy to keep up with posting, but the spark is back, and that's thanks to youse guys.

I'll be there when the next one of these comes, and hopefully I'll have more time and energy to put more of my ideas to screen.

[Sep]

@Master Bruce talking on discord through many ideas is one of my favourite things

[Bounce]

Sadly, the demands of parenthood just keep getting the better of me.

I was hopeful I could carve out just one day a week to write, but maybe by the time the next one rolls around.

[mattmanganon]

I mean, I'd be happy to keep going with the Lanterns, but with everyone else running head first into reality, it's probably best to let this one go quietly.

[Hound55]

Sadly, the demands of parenthood just keep getting the better of me.

I was hopeful I could carve out just one day a week to write, but maybe by the time the next one rolls around.

@Bounce

Moving house (finally been able to buy a place!) next week, give it a couple of weeks and if nothing else has started, I might see if I can get something rolling.

[Sep]

Sadly, the demands of parenthood just keep getting the better of me.

I was hopeful I could carve out just one day a week to write, but maybe by the time the next one rolls around.

@Bounce

Getting married and starting a new job really didn't work for RP time either.

Gross, are we all adults now?

[Hound55]

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Getting married and starting a new job really didn't work for RP time either.

Gross, are we all adults now?

@Sep

I'm old. Chronologically. As in orbits around the sun.

I wouldn't describe myself as "mature" or "adult"...

[Retired]

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Getting married and starting a new job really didn't work for RP time either.

Gross, are we all adults now?

@Sep

You say that like it's a bad thing. I still have the Skype chat logs from a dozen years ago; current versions of the members of this community are an improvement over past models.

[Hound55]

<Snipped quote by Sep>

You say that like it's a bad thing. I still have the Skype chat logs from a dozen years ago; current versions of the members of this community are an improvement over past models.

@Retired

I'm still buggy. They're just different bugs.

Except for the original bugs I couldn't figure out, which I now call "features".

[mattmanganon]

@Hound55 I'd be happy to co-GM something if you need a co-GM.

[Hound55]

@Hound55 I'd be happy to co-GM something if you need a co-GM.

@mattmanganon

I reckon I'll be alright. Just figuring stuff out now.

[Lord Wraith]

Hound55 // mattmanganon 2024 was not the campaign I saw coming this year.

[Retired]

Hound55 // mattmanganon 2024 was not the campaign I saw coming this year.

@Lord Wraith

I've seen worse.

[mattmanganon]

@Lord Wraith It's gonna be 'uge, everyone's talking about it.

[Hound55]

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I've seen worse.

@Retired

Pick myself a VP that galvanises me against assassination...

[Retired]

Is it sad that the most active this thread has been in over a month is after the RP has been declared dead? That probably says something.

[Hound55]

Is it sad that the most active this thread has been in over a month is after the RP has been declared dead? That probably says something.

@Retired

Ehhhhhh... not necessarily.

Bottlenecked in an event situation where people were waiting on advancement. Doesn't necessarily mean a lack of interest, just a lot of standing, watching and waiting. RL gets involved.

Something to learn from, sure. But not necessarily anything as negative as a lack of interest.