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So, are we dead? Or just on hiatus, maybe until the new year?

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Seems like RPG has been having some problems lately. Eating posts and whatnot. Om nom nom.

I came here to say that I'm still busy with school/work/life. If anyone needs to move the thread on before I can post, just move over Theo and assume he followed suit with the rest. Or, if you want something specific, PM me (if you can) or reach me via email: elianatamerin at gmail dot com.

If RPG keeps having problems, I suggest we move to Iwaku, where others seem to be heading. I'd hate to lose this RP, but quite frankly it's the only thing left for me at the Guild.

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So, I was reading something on the blog that Clay pointed us towards:

Spoilers and commentary

"No." She shook her head. "Not the way you think. I know I have a son. I know his name is Tobias. But that's all I know. They brought a little boy to me after the accident. A baby really. They told me he was mine. I didn't remember him. I wanted to. I tried to. But I didn't. I don't remember anything of my life before the accident."

----Book Forty-Nine, The Diversion

Ifi: Maybe it had to be this way
Ifi: Maybe if Loren hadn't been so badly hurt, she would have raised Tobias and loved him and he'd never have trapped himself in morph, never led the Hork-Bajir to freedom, and never spied out a billion places for the group.
Ifi: I mean without Tobias free to be a full-time spy, the Animorphs probably would never have made it so far.

If you don't want to look at the spoiler, in short, it talks about the need for Tobias to be a full-time hawk/spy for the Animorphs. That without him, they wouldn't have the ability to pull off their many raids and operations due to the lack of intelligence (meaning Tobias just flying around, finding odd things or watching people to be sure that they aren't Yeerks).

So, what I'm getting at here is, the same is going to be true for our group. Someone's bound to get annoyed if one of our characters misses enough school to fill this role. If all our characters start missing school on an equal basis, it'd be suspicious. So, the cold reality is, we need a Tobias.

Just some food for thought. I'm not suggesting anyone (I've considered Theo for the role before, I'm not sure how I'd make it work though), and I'm not suggesting they need to be trapped in morph. Just available and not bound to school hours.

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Midterms week. Also, health issues are plaguing me. Apologies on both fronts, if you have to skip Theo for this round, imagine him running and screaming away. Otherwise, I'll try to get a post up when I can.

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AmazinglyVivid said
Haha, what did you dislike about 47? I didn't like it, but I didn't think that it was particularly terrible, either.

For a science fiction book, it didn't seem to understand a lot about science fiction fans. Note that Trekkies are not automatically delusional, tinfoil hat-wearing, paranoid, tabloid-combing, conspiracy theorists who believe that Star Trek not only real, but is taking place in our timeline. Any serious Trekkie realizes that Star Trek is a future of Earth, not a contemporary, and so it would be impossible to meet an alien species now that is part of a Trek-like Federation.

Also, Jake just randomly decides to expose their morphing powers? So the campers, those who remain after the book, are just set free to wander and tell anyone they like? Jake even reasons himself that a Controller will eventually hear from them, and one will probably be infested, interrogated and the Animorphs discovered. That was the stupidest move in the entire book series thus far.

What's worse, is nothing happens. The campers disappear into thin air and the plot never resurfaces again. That's how you know the story is bad, when Applegate refuses to reference it again. Thankfully, she's back to writing the books full time a couple books later.

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Anyone have a post in the works? I'm trying to work on something for Theo in between classes and work and life.

Also, if anyone is planning to read the Animorph books, skip #47. It's bad. Really bad. Just read a summary somewhere and you'll get the info you need.

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AmazinglyVivid said
There we go! I'm not too happy with my contribution, but the ball is definitely rolling again!

I know how you feel about that, I, too, am a perfectionist. I've got a post in a 1x1 that I can't quite bring myself to post.

Whatever, it works. The main point is that we can send our characters running for the hills now.

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I rather agree with Dedonus about the former, but I do wonder if we're losing our GM as well. DotCom, any chance you can use your Co-GM powers and finish off our collab?

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Dedonus said
Wait, after just reading the first one (and looking at the Animorph's wiki), the Andalite who gave the Animorphs is Tobias' dad? Please don't tell me that War-Prince Nierefiem-Istriff-Shaylik is secretly one of our character's dads. >.< If that is true, I would put my money on Max. She's the only character who's currently without a father (isnt' she living with her mom and her two brothers).

Elfangor is, yes. It's...complicated. He is Tobias' dad from another timeline, when Elfangor came to Earth to hide the time-traveling device (after the events of the Andalite Chronicles), took the form of a human (Al Fangor) and married Loren. Several years later, the Ellimist interfered and gave Elfangor the choice to return to his people (well, as much of a 'choice' as the Ellimist ever gives), and fixes everything. Everything except the paternal nature of Loren's unborn son, who would be Tobias.

In the books, this brings Ax and Tobias closer together. They were friends before, but now they realize that they are family. It also helps Tobias explain why his family never seemed to care for him, and why he felt so out of place in life. It's a turning point in the character of Tobias, who is kind of reckless and heedless about his own wellfare before that point.