[OOC] Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

[HereComesTheSnow]

muffled motioning for Team TBLC

I kid, but I am finna ask for a roll call for @Sho Minazuki@KabenSaal

We're a team too guys

[harinezumikouken]

Bah, I'm such a bad CoGM. I feel I'm too blase' about most everything.

Either way, it's my job to stand by the GM's decision. So, I shall.

[Write]

@Prince of Seraphs

I don't believe so. There's no reason we need to have an automated response to anyone who leaves and returns, you can make a judgement on a case-by-case basis instead of leaving it up to they left now they want back in. In a player vs player arrangement I think it's fairly obvious that one member would sit out. Just as any team who advances in the tournament in the RWBY canon sits out all but one fighter. The example you relay about teams ten to fifteen strong are ridiculous and honestly it's pointless to even talk about it.

It's fairly simple, I approached the GM of this RP, apologized that I left without a word and we worked out an agreement. My grandmother passed away and I wasn't putting RPG at the top of my priorities.

He then decided that he would let me back onto my team, if every single member of my team was alright with it, if not he would've transferred Bianca and that would've been that. But they were alright with it, forgave me for my absence and it ended. If you disagree with Lug and you think that a five man team threatens the fabric of the RWBY universe and the RP, then you will have to appeal to him.

He's the GM he makes the rules and what have you. But I do want to be clear that as I stated to Lug before, I've already told him that I will be flexible with making it work. If that means I have to sit out of Vytal, so be it. I asked Lug if he could see it working and he said he could. So that's where I'm at with this right now.

This'll probably have to be my last post on this topic, I don't want to add fuel to an unnecessary argument and I appear to be speaking to four or five people who share an opinion which means I'm not going to do anything to sway you.

[HereComesTheSnow]

It's only an argument when things get heated.

As it stands, it's still a discussion, or a debate.

[Write]

I'm sorry, I must've been unclear. I just meant that I don't want to continue speaking about it because I don't want it to become and unnecessary argument.

[Lady Seraphina]

Bah, I'm such a bad CoGM. I feel I'm too blase' about most everything.

Either way, it's my job to stand by the GM's decision. So, I shall.

@harinezumikouken

I was under the impression that the CoGM's job was to offer an opposing viewpoint and help the GM to make decisions or in the GMs absence to arbitrate disputes.

I don't believe so. There's no reason we need to have an automated response to anyone who leaves and returns, you can make a judgement on a case-by-case basis instead of leaving it up to they left now they want back in. In a player vs player arrangement I think it's fairly obvious that one member would sit out. Just as any team who advances in the tournament in the RWBY canon sits out all but one fighter. The example you relay about teams ten to fifteen strong are ridiculous and honestly it's pointless to even talk about it.

It's fairly simple, I approached the GM of this RP, apologized that I left without a word and we worked out an agreement. My grandmother passed away and I wasn't putting RPG at the top of my priorities.

He then decided that he would let me back onto my team, if every single member of my team was alright with it, if not he would've transferred Bianca and that would've been that. But they were alright with it, forgave me for my absence and it ended. If you disagree with Lug and you think that a five man team threatens the fabric of the RWBY universe and the RP, then you will have to appeal to him.

He's the GM he makes the rules and what have you. But I do want to be clear that as I stated to Lug before, I've already told him that I will be flexible with making it work. If that means I have to sit out of Vytal, so be it. I asked Lug if he could see it working and he said he could. So that's where I'm at with this right now.

This'll probably have to be my last post on this topic, I don't want to add fuel to an unnecessary argument and I appear to be speaking to four or five people who share an opinion which means I'm not going to do anything to sway you.

@Write

I'm sorry about your Grandmother, I hope your family is doing alright.

The ten to fifteen strong was an over exaggeration to make a point. The real problem with this is that there is no such thing as an exception. If Bianca is allowed to return to her old team then what grounds would we have to deny Trad the same right. Not to mention the IC reasons for the exception. I realize that in IC Bianca had a family emergency which I think would be grounds to let her return to Beacon once the crisis was past but as far as Ozpin's decision making skills go I don't think there is a valid reason for him to let Bianca return to her old team. The entire training course of the Academy is designed around four man teams. Having a person with five people disrupts that.

And I'm not calling you a liar or anything but we haven't actually heard a final ruling from Lugubrious. We have only your word that he did approve of this. I'm not trying to start anything and you don't need to defend your integrity but that conversation also took place before a plethora of objections from the rest of the cast which may alter the ruling somewhat. My point is that until Lug actually says something in the OOC Bianca returning to VGNB is not set in stone.

[Abillioncats]

Well after seeing how Blake reacts to fish, I don't feel bad about Emmy's obsession with them at all.

[HereComesTheSnow]

"faunus aren't animals"

[KabenSaal]

muffled motioning for Team TBLC

I kid, but I am finna ask for a roll call for @Sho Minazuki@KabenSaal

We're a team too guys

@HereComesTheSnow

Ehh, what'cha want?

[HereComesTheSnow]

i want my team fam

[KabenSaal]

I am in a team? I thought this thread was just me and my Faunus Booty-Call, with some other people doing background stuff.

[HereComesTheSnow]

I wish that was a joke

[harinezumikouken]

[KabenSaal]

@harinezumikouken

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

"faunus aren't animals"

@HereComesTheSnow

Yes they are. As are humans. Ya know, "Animal Kingdom" and all that?

I'll leave now....

[Abillioncats]

.____________________________.

[harinezumikouken]

I think Billioncats has malfunctioned. -Pokes/boops-

[Lugubrious]

Whoa whoa whoa. First, I haven't approved anything. Last I checked, this was still pending. Here, take a look at what Write and I said in PM:

Lugubrious: She couldn't do that (have been a freshman) and then suddenly become a senior. I'm afraid the only option is to have a freshman Bianca transfer or to have a retcon to make her a senior all along.
Write: Hm, that's completely fair. If I have her transfer on another team, I suppose she can still interact and what have you with VGNB, correct? ...and a five man team is completely unreasonable I assume.
Luboobrius: Not completely, but it'd be a pretty big break in the mold.
Wright: Well what could I do to help it along, at this rate I'm ready to be pretty damn flexible.
Lubeboobprius: Not me though. Ask the other four if they'd be okay with it.

And the other four were okay with it, but I hadn't confirmed it, just given my approval for a new mission the bunch conceptualized that the team could do if approved. I knew looking at the idea that there would be nothing, in RWBY canon or HOB canon, to support such a thing. I enjoy being generous and forgiving, particularly if family tragedy has taken place (as it has in different respects for both Write and Awsomoman), so I would have liked it if both guys could get back in. That does not, however, mean that I would have, as @Plank Sinatra implied, been picky and choosy about who I let back in. Any character belonging to someone who's dropped out but now wants to return, as long as it wasn't in poor circumstances, can do so. This are actually not the first cases; both Kaithas and Krayzikk were semi-officially booted for a span of months before they said 'hey, I'm here' and I welcomed them back.

One of the reasons I considered the possibility of a five-man team is that there is exactly one freshman spot available: Stein's. I've been swayed by the majority opinion and various arguments to lean against the possibility of a five-man team, but then one person doesn't get their character back. The other open position, Pannette's, is a senior. This RP is, to put it simply, full up. As roleplays go we're a bit of a bloated mess, kinda always have been since the start, carrying on the tradition begun by Irish Tree.

Therefore, my decision is this. No team exceeds four. Out of Awsomoman and Write, one of you will get the freshman slot on team R_GD, and the other the senior slot on JSS_. You can decide among yourselves if you like, but otherwise I would be more inclined to give the freshman slot to Awsomoman's Trad on grounds of seniority, greater time served, and more content made before leaving. That would leave Write to retcon Bianca into a senior or (much more preferably) say that Bianca was waylaid in Mistral and create a senior character. We could still interact with Bianca in the mission, but she would not be joining a team back at Beacon due to trauma or something in that vein.

Being a GM of a huge RP is like walking across a room filled with people with big feet: I have to navigate to the end, but sooner or later I can't help stepping on a few toes. The only thing left is to decide how many, and if I screw up the universe in the process. My apologies. I hope I've made the write decision.

[Plank Sinatra]

That does not, however, mean that I would have, as @Plank Sinatra implied, been picky and choosy about who I let back in.

this wasn't actually what i implied, and if it came across like that, mea culpa

[harinezumikouken]

I've read all of this and I can only focus on one thing.

Lubeboobprius.

LMAO