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Sorry about the title, but I really wanted to get everyone's attention.

I appreciate the way we're running things here, but I think we're going about this wrong. It seems to me that we are going after a sort of MMO feel here, but I would like to point out that we don't have a great history of keeping even small groups.

Perhaps we should work on this as we were doing a group novel? Each posts for their character, but isn't restricted to one main character. Instead of 30+ people randomly joining in and dropping out, I'd prefer to stick to a small group of proven, dedicated people capable of artistry in literature. I liked the story and feel of the rp I joined, and I feel its a shame to put so much work into this only to have Gaia's history (or legacy perhaps) of flighty rp'ers render it worthless...

Mind you, I think we should still work on what is going on in each area, because having a common understanding of the stage upon which this play is set would make everyone's job a lot easier. As well as sessions where people try to understand the intentions and inspirations of each role player's characters. For instance, Cill as a Knight Exile is to be treated with mistrust.

This leads to a more consistent feel to the mythos and atmosphere of the rp while also keeping people interested. The character stat system is great because it creates a more tangible feel to the strengths and weaknesses to each character, making it easier to play them, and others to interact with them.

As to allowing new people in, I think new comers should be relegated to minor roles until they can, in something other than an uber-convenient plot twist, acquire a role of importance within the story.

I don't mean to be pessimistic, but going about things as we are, we lose people because very little is happening and we have grand dreams that I feel are quite unrealistic for a site like Gaia. I have stayed on Gaia for the last... 2 years(?) because I believe and enjoy this story, the people behind it, and even if I don't ever finish a single of my novels in my life, I would like to see this come to a close. So please, those who are willing to make a commitment, as well as those who have invested a portion of their lives to this monster, I beg you to respond. Share your thoughts, as well as your intentions and desires for this rp so that we may form a plan and take action for the future.

P.S. Regardless of what happens here, it has been an honor to partake in creative storytelling with all of you, and I thank you for that. Through tough times, through good times, through times where it seemed I had nothing, you were there, like the northern star Cill followed, close to my heart regardless of distance of body.

So, thank you, and I await your response.

I say this with great sadness, but ot too much, you are right Xaven. We have all been trying to create this perfect large scale story, but the more we try to perfect it, the more we stray away from the idea that started it all. I think that, wihle a guild wide rp is too large an endevor and a basic rp is too small, making a single sub forum with all the added stuff will give the rp the structure it lacked before, while keeping it small enough to not be too difficult to keep up with. Give me a couple hours, since I plan on taking a small nap soon, and I can have a basic outline of the sub forum created in one of the empty capital subs. If it all works well enough, Ishould be able to have it set up so that the rules, back story, profile skelly, accepted profiles and all the 'need to know before hand' stuff is set up as announcements. The major areas capitals and areas the rpc's will venture to will be set up as stickies, and any small villages, as well as the dragon temples and enemy bases can be normal topics. This is just a basic, verbal outline of what I'l try to get set up. It will hopefully look better than it sounds.

I should have read this before I made my post in the crew area. Now there's half a paragraph of useless crap in there lol I do still want to keep ONE dragon temple though, because I really like the plot twist that I had in mind when making it. That temple is the astral temple, and the two dragons work in a similar way as the two fish in avatar the last air bender. Unless you have both dragons, a new generation of dragoons can't be made in the future. That's my bigest request with those. I don't think it would be wise though to let people start using their dragoon abilities too soon after getting the orbs. I'll use Enzeru as an example as why, though I would never actually do this in the rp. Given her personality and how quick she is to distrust someone, in the hands of another person, she could take advantage of having powers and use them for wrong reasons and god mod a bit. Since there's nothing (right now) saying how much power the dragoons will have right away, it would be easy for her to go ever board. Now, I'm not saying that everyone is going to do that, just that it's a posibility if we give people access to too much power too soon.

Wow, Xaven almost sounds like he'd fit right in with D&D as a DM. Nice poetic language, there, buddy. Anyway, I don't really have an opinion on how things are done around here, right now. I just want to be able to actually RP here, finally. I've been lookin' forward to this one (and Donie's in his subforum) for a while.

That won't be an issue. I've done so many different RP profiles, including stuff for D&D, that it shouldn't be too bad. I appreciate the heads-up.

Sadly, I seem to be the only of the original group here anymore

I am still here, if you need me