Rant on Call to Action

[Fang.]

That. Thread. Was. Disgusting.

From the get go, it had its problems, it started off with just the blame game being played, and while part of me wanted to ignore it, I knew that ICly my character wouldnt, so I had him show up. Yet it seemed that nobody was really reading anyone elses responses and so we were getting nowhere with it. At that point I said, "Hey, this isnt fun for me anymore, time to find an IC reason to leave" But then, things started to calm down and I lost any IC reason leave that I'd formerly had.

I was actually happy with the thread at this point, and when leadership canidates started stepping forward, I decided that I would put my character forward as well since its something he would do and something Ive wanted for a while. Thats when everything went to shit. Nakoma, while perfectly valid in what she did, brought up something that I had thought our characters had moved past. However this sucked for me, cause at this point all I had was my phone and was not able to make a response to defend myself, and as such I started to feel stressed. Then things got worse, Von came up to attack me and I was like "Sorry actual friends Im hanging out with, I need to do this or Im going to lose two years of my life that I sunk into this site and character". Before I could even get to a computer I was God Modded into having my characters *****ing head explode! Which Im still a bit pissed about, despite the fact that it was knocked down, it was further infurating that this mistake was made by an ADMIN! I know that Admins arent perfect but seriously, that pissed me off.

Everyone knows the shit that went down from there at this point, what pisses me off further though is that people are saying that my character attacked people! MY CHARACTER WAS ATTACKED AND WAS TRYING TO DEFEND HIMSELF AND OTHERS AFTER VON EXPLODED THE FOREST! If you read the post it says "Kill or subdue", so death was not my aim in my response to Von's attack.

RP is supposed to be fun and a stress relief, and you should be able to at any time put it down and go, "Im going to leave this for now and nothing serious will happen to my character while Im gone". Last night, that was stolen from me, I was supposed to be celebrating the fact that we had no more finals with friends, but I was yanked from that because I had to deal with the stress that people were attacking my character and I was going to lose him simply because I was playing my character!

RP should always be fun, and not stressfull and should NEVER cause you to have to abandon real life because of it. Nothing can be fixed about that thread now (especially considering the number of voices saying that we should keep it, surprisingly, mine included) and you cant recover lost time, But I ask you all to please keep this in mind in the future, no one should ever have to go through what I went through last night and because of it now, I am considering just dropping this site all together depending on how things play out. Call me a whiner or sore loser or whatever if you wish but those are my feelings on this. I dont want to drop the site, but if I lose all reason to play my one active character I probably will.


Anyway, thats it, Im done, go eat you milk and biscuits now, Im going to go do something to relieve this stress that isnt banging my head into a wall.

-Fang.

 

[Eccles]

go eat you milk and biscuits now,

I'm allergic to milk and all out of biscuits. :(

On a more serious note, I'm very new to this site, but I did see RP'd council meetings flare up in OOC to such an extent that it destroyed entire forums. I understand your feeling of carefully spending a lot of time creating a persona and the sudden shock that not everyone sees it the same way and put you in a situation where you've lost control.

Only thing left to is relax a little and hang out with Cavalas Onn, who desperately needs your guidance.

 

[Fang.]

Only thing left to is relax a little and hang out with Cavalas Onn, who desperately needs your guidance.

trying to relax.

Nice to know Im needed still, we can do a thread once all this crap blows over or I have more time

 

[Eccles]

Never take anything personal on the internet anyway, especially when's it roleplay. Learn to set it aside and get back to writing. Best thing sometimes is just to start a new storyline for your character, create a new thread and write it off. Once you character has moved on, so will you.

You can't do without it anyway, whether you quit now or not. You'll always come back..it's addictive.

 

[Gaja]

It's not like we've ever spoken before, I think, but a word of advise. Your perception on the notion of RPing isn't entirely accurate. Writing on forums will most certainly inspire emotions, in all of those that put time and effort in to it. Be they positive or negative, at times. Just like sometimes you're overjoyed by RPing with a certain someone, the thread is so much fun and everything is so smooth, there will be times when OOC or IC heads clash.

You can't always have it turn out perfect. Instead there will be highs, and there will also be certain lows. I tentatively call this a low, because from reading the thread I can honestly say that this was not a low from a story perspective. It may feel like one to you, but trust me sometimes that's just the way it goes. I most certainly went through it myself but that is a reality when you RP with people.

I mean let's take how Gaba felt during it? It couldn't have been nice reading some of those posts. I know, there's a separation between OOC and IC but still. When you put in as much time and effort [or little? TROLOLOLOL] as she has in to a faction and in literally a few days people disregard it IC, I'm pretty sure she didn't feel great reading it. And I can tell by her posts, as I'm sure others can too.

Don't worry though, that's what makes this thread good. It'll make all of us learn and hopefully better.

One final thing to keep in mind. No one likes to lose, but in this scenario [role play] sometimes that is a result. Accept it, see how your character would react and move forward. Would he learn something from this experience, would his actions be something he'd feel bad about? I'm not saying you should change your opinion about the thread. It's ok for you to dislike it, and for me to like it. I'm just saying, among other things since I'm ranting a bit, that it's part of writing a collaborative and organic story with others.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

There doesn't need to be a separate thread on this. You've made your point.

Lock.