[OOC] Essence of the World: The New Age [CLOSED]

[Wind Wild]

Hahaha well, girl's been around (on and off) for a few hundred years, you can't expect consistency much, can you. Although by that logic, it's Hazumi you have to worry about more.

[Fallenreaper]

Wind Wild said
Hahaha well, girl's been around (on and off) for a few hundred years, you can't expect consistency much, can you. Although by that logic, it's Hazumi you have to worry about more.

Luckily that's Timehawk's worry :p, Emmet only needs to worry about Zi and she's not been along quite that long! :p Though Zi might enjoy Emmet's first thoughts of Hazumi when I read that Collab between the two and Solus after Luciana was brought back. However it might be a bit before he's able to walk upright.

[Wind Wild]

Haha I'm looking forward to completing that scene and reading about Emmet again. As much as I love Juan and Darius (which isn't much). :p

[Fallenreaper]

Wind Wild said
Haha I'm looking forward to completing that scene and reading about Emmet again. As much as I love Juan and Darius (which isn't much). :p

Every PC and Npc has their POV, Darius and Juan aren't any different. :p Luckily Darius has little idea Zi exists in Emmet's life or his foxy eyes would drift her direction soon enough. Namely if her and Emmet's relationship was beneficial in the long run or might hinder Emmet's focuses. In addition, if she holds any threat to his created balance. Juan on the hand you should be very, very worried about. =P

[Wind Wild]

Fallenreaper said Juan on the hand you should be very, very worried about. =P

I am. Me and Zi both. Please be gentle with her. *puppy eyes*

And yeah, if you remember how she reacted to Mairyell... Zi's not very good at not fearing stuff lol. And for good reason. I doubt it'll be in her advantage if many people knew her nature OR her weakness. (Emmet (and all the other men). :p)

[Fallenreaper]

Wind Wild said
I am. Me and Zi both. Please be gentle with her. *puppy eyes*

Oh really? You realize I'm rather sadistic to my own PCs, so why have any mercy on another who also enjoys it? :P I wouldn't want any for mine. :P

Wind Wild said And yeah, if you remember how she reacted to Mairyell... Zi's not very good at not fearing stuff lol. And for good reason. I doubt it'll be in her advantage if many people knew her nature OR her weakness. (Emmet (and all the other men). :p)

Juan's slightly more...subtle in his plans. She won't know about it until it happens, or she's watching him all the time. Rather hard when Emmet's going to be a distraction. ;P

[Fallenreaper]

Wind Wild said
I am. Me and Zi both. Please be gentle with her. *puppy eyes*

Oh really? You realize I'm rather sadistic to my own PCs, so why have any mercy on another who also enjoys it? :P I wouldn't want any for mine. :P

Wind Wild said And yeah, if you remember how she reacted to Mairyell... Zi's not very good at not fearing stuff lol. And for good reason. I doubt it'll be in her advantage if many people knew her nature OR her weakness. (Emmet (and all the other men). :p)

Juan's slightly more...subtle in his plans. She won't know about it until it happens, or she's watching him all the time. Rather hard when Emmet's going to be a distraction. ;P

[Wind Wild]

GM Tune-in.

Ok, folks, due to the recent stagnation in activity I've noticed I'm adopting a new rule for collabs. From now on all collabs that are taking place within the current time-line (aka evening, morning, whatever) that prevents other players from posting, have to be completed and posted within a week's time. For this to happen, please tell us when you start working on such a collabs so we know to wait for you without moving the timeline along.

The long story

There are two reasons why I think this is necessary.

1. It's really confusing when we all post within different times of the day IC time, hence why I'll try to prevent that from happening by posting the time of day on the OOC and changing them when necessary. I'll always ask you if you're ready to move on and will again, give you a week to complete your post if you think it needs to happen right at that moment. I'll ask the other players to please be patient as we're all busy with real life problems but that shouldn't compromise the story. You'll be able to find the current timeline on the OOC at any time. Depending on the need for that I might even create another thread purely for the purpose of keeping track of the timeline and reserving spots within given days.

2. We have many players with many ambitious plans and even more characters, each working towards their own goals. As such it's very hard to keep the story consistent and running without either excluding anyone or blocking them. In the past 2 weeks some people were working on collabs that need to happen within the current timeline but most of the characters are already done with the day and hence we have one part of the players extremely busy and another – extremely bored. I don't want to lose any players because of them being unhappy, either because of the status-quo or because of any stricter measures. I can't control anyone's schedule but I can mediate between players' interests.

Thus, I'll ask everyone doing a collab that's to take place in the current timeline, to not make other players wait for over a week. I think there are a few ways to avoid doing that. You could start the collab early, cut it off mid-way and post the rest as a flashback, post the entire thing as a flashback, or just don't collab but post individually (that way interactions can last for longer than just a few hours in the evening and stretch out until dawn, for example.) I think there are a few solutions that would allow everyone to be happy.

For everyone who is currently collabing and wants to post the collab before we move on, please try to complete the collabs within 5 days. That's 11th of December midnight, GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). If you can't get it done by then, please figure out a way to postpone the part of it that you didn't manage to complete and post what you have so the rest of us can move on too.

[Celaira]

Wind Wild said
GM Tune-in. Ok, folks, due to the recent stagnation in activity I've noticed I'm adopting a new rule for collabs. From now on all collabs that are taking place within the current time-line (aka evening, morning, whatever) that prevents other players from posting, have to be completed and posted within a week's time. For this to happen, please tell us when you start working on such a collabs so we know to wait for you without moving the timeline along. For everyone who is currently collabing and wants to post the collab before we move on, please try to complete the collabs within 5 days. That's 11th of December midnight, GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). If you can't get it done by then, please figure out a way to postpone the part of it that you didn't manage to complete and post what you have so the rest of us can move on too.

Wind: We have 9 players in total. Out of those 9, we know that: Rtron doesn't have a computer. Synthorian has gotten a job, and has been able to post less because of it. You, despite wanting the RP to go faster have made no attempt to post, although if you pushed the time forward it would have conflicted with something. You're also in collabs, if I remember correctly. Echo, Lucius (who is busy with school), and Fallen: Majority of their characters are in collabs, or waiting for another player. My character is waiting for another character. Yosh's characters are all in collabs, helping to integrate characters and give them a reason to meet. Slade is busy with school. Mikael dropped.

All of those things are based on my knowledge. Any of these could be mistaken, and thus the person would only have to be like "Yo, this."

Not only the above, but its the holiday season.

[Lucius Cypher]

Though I agree with Celaira that I am a bit pressed for time due to school activity and such, I am sorry for my lack of activity here Wind. I promise you, though I don't have a lot of time to spare, I do what I can to ensure that I can do my part of the collaborations we're in. But I will say that a time limit on when collaborations can be finished might be a bit much. I understand that they can cause confusion for other players (Indeed, a reason I didn't post before was because of all the collaborations that I had little clue how to piece together), but as you have seen before, our collaborations tend to be massive. That takes some time to put together, not helped by extenuating circumstances we all have.

That being said, I do think there's a serious lack of communication and presence here. It's rather unnerving to see the OOC to quiet for nearly a whole week, though I'm at fault for not at least dropping by to chat. Either way, I can understand the desire to want to see some activity going on, but I'm afraid to say that these things simply take up a lot of time to do. But if there is anyone waiting on another player, we should do our part to get them as involved as we can, one way or another. That much I agree with you with.

[Wind Wild]

Unimportant.

[Wind Wild]

So quick update.

The rule is cancelled.

I'm resigning as a GM.

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[Wind Wild]

Omg... well that takes the cake of double-posting. I feel like I've met an army of clones. XD; Sorry about that.

Also, fixed the link.

[Rtron]

I HATH RETURNED. Lucien needs to kill something, Luciana needs to wake up, and Mary needs to do something! LET'S DO THIS.

[Themerlinhawk]

The prodigal son returns.

Hope y'all like the dark side of Lazarus. I think I got it right in that post. lemme know what you think

[Wind Wild]

Yay, welcome back Rtron! Happy to have you back. ^ ^

Merlin, you know I love it, gives you a totally different perspective on Lazarus.

P.S. We've got a new logo on the first OOC page and Zi has a new picture.