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Elise, Roxy, and Ruana:

After deliberating on it today, I decided that the multi-player rpg, while epic and amazing and everything I would hope for, is too much for me to juggle right now with my exams coming up next week. I have also noticed that I am not the only one in this rpg feeling a little stressed out by the time and effort that currently go into it.

So here is what I am going to do: I am going to officially request that the rpg PAUSE until December 1, at which point my exams will be completed.

On December 1, I will gladly resume the rpg as Xelloss, Rezo, and Zelgadiss.

BEtween now and then, I want everyone to SERIOUSLY consider whether you are enjoying this rpg, or if the format, volume of posts, and methods are causing you more stress than happiness. Everyone, please. Consider it, seriously, over the next week and a half.

If the latter is the case, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE: tell the rest of us in this journal that you would like to bow out. NOBODY will be angry at you or feel let down. I PROMISE. It would be much worse to make you do what you really, deep down, find too hassling. Everyone here is nice and mature and won't be upset. It will be easy to find a way to write any of the characters out. We can find a way. No one is locked into this. It's just for fun. So here is the opportunity to bow out with NO penalties whatsoever <3333.

Thanks for being understanding, all!

I am so remarkably pissed off and discouraged today. High bloodsugar, missing out on too much and feeling stressed about not the social end to the point where I'd just rather not spend time with anyone, meds with emotional side effects, and way the fuck too much to do in only two and a half weeks. Also my fucked up PCOS multi-month periods. In the throes of that as we speak. I hate my body. I wish I could just be a spirit, a brain, and a set of emotions, without the inconvenience of physical functions and malfunctions.

My mind is sluggish today because that's not possible, and I'm just saturated with too much factoid, and I can't seem to take in or dialogue about anything with study buddies.

I hate that.

Oh well. What's to be will be. At least it's only another month. I've had much worse for far longer than a month. I can take it.

Last night I spoke to a member of this rpg who had considerable frustration with the current tapering-comment journal post layout. She said making a LJ community for our rpg, which apparently you can set for a single-line thread, with newest posts first, would be less confusing for her. I then spoke to another member of this rpg who has no difficulty with the current layout. I decided the fairest thing would be to put this up to a democratic vote among the four of us.


Poll #1482581 RPG Format
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

What is the rpg format that you would prefer we use for the Slayers: A New Life rpg, beginning December 2009?

I am also opening the floor for discussion of why you voted the way you did, IF you wish.

Let's please resolve this quickly. I personally was having no trouble with the layout, aside the volume of emails I received per night with replies, but I don't want to disregard problems anyone is having. I just don't have time for fixing things, so if things need to be fixed, I'd like to know if that's the majority vote in a timely manner. We're a small friendly group so this really shouldn't take too long.

....since I keep coming back to it.

Except please please please, do not comment on my journal in order to be argumentative or critical. Everyone has the right to be these things, and normally I love a good feisty debate, but right now I really can't take it. I just don't have time, or energy, for it. So please just ignore my entries if they annoy you or seem glaringly unjust or flawed or whatever it is that compels anyone to be so dissatisfied with me. ^_^; Thank you.

I'm insanely depressed. That's why I am typing this. I feel isolated. I've imposed it on myself because of exams crunch time. But I really miss talking to all my best friends nightly. I've gone from nightly to complete abstinence from AIM and most of the internet. It's a difficult transition even if it is only for a little over a month. Because I live with my mom (the rest of my actual nuclear AND extended family except my dad, divorced from my mom and living in Cincinnati, are all dead, or are cousins living in California that I don't know). My mom is getting older and it's hard to watch.

I am having nightly dreams of my grandma having died, but somehow being alive again, and very angry at me for believing she was dead. Very angry. And my mom too. And everyone acting like her raised from the dead is normal, and furious at me for insisting that she's dead and that it hurts me to see her back when she isn't really. The dreams are often graphic and very very disturbing. And literally, ritualistically nightly. Someone tell me this is going to stop soon. I wonder what it is I need to let go of.

 Synopsis: Fibrizo is reborn for good as a human child, the adopted son of Rezo. Rezo lives at Seyruun Palace with Zelgadiss and Amelia, who are now married. Zelgadiss is partially cured but not fully, still fused with a rock golem.  Lina Inverse still holds a shard of Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo in her soul, and has been closer to Gourry to combat the resurrection of her shard. The trouble is, Lina is now pregnant with Gourry's child--the most unstable of all possible emotional situations.  In seven months' time, Shabranigdo is expected to be reborn from Lina, when she gives birth to her child, if she cannot somehow be separated from Shabranigdo.  The remaining retainers of the monster race, excepting Dynast Grausherra, no longer want their maker reborn and their world destroyed: the battle, to them, has become futile.  So Zelas and Dolphin have sent Xelloss to take Lina and Gourry to Seyruun and start work on repressing Shabranigdo inside her.  Surprise, surprise: the dragon race has the same goal, of saving the world from Lina's shard.  A neophyte priestess of the Water Dragon King, a young golden dragon named Razia, has been sent to plead with Rezo to help Lina.  Rezo agrees when Razia promises to help him cure Zelgadiss completely.  Xelloss goes to his forbidden golden dragon lover, Filia Ul Copt, for help keeping the inexperienced Razia from going haywire.  But what will be the result of all these conflicting forces trying to work together against a common enemy? 

Players:
Hellmastersama (Fibrizo, Lina, Razia)
mazoku_mystery (Xelloss)
justice_pixie (Amelia)
the-grey_knyght (Zelgadiss)
visionincrimson (Rezo)
gaavnomayuge (Gourry)
dragon_valkyrie (Filia)

This is my terrible crappy work in progress of a cute scene in an rpg with Ruana! I want her to see it and smile since she has pneumonia! *weep* Poor biddums!!!! <33333 I hope you like it, my dearie!

And HERE IS MAH OTP:




Back to hiatus-studying nows D^X>

 Roxy, Elise, and Ruana, now that our rpg encompasses four people each handling at least two characters (three in mine and four in Ruana's), I think it's time we established some basic rules of turn-taking, format, and etiquette, to diminish the incidents of accidentally missed posts and inboxes flooded with 16 messages per login (XD;;;; that's my sitch atm with this rpg lol, my school emails are being BURIED and that's not good).

Here are the rules I've come up with. This is a democracy so let me know if you want anything altered, or if you have any questions.

Guidelines:
1)  As often as possible, try to respond to MULTIPLE posts in ONE LARGE POST, instead of several shorter posts that can be more easily lost, overlooked, or that can inundate the email inboxes of other players.  

2) When you hit reply, do so after reading EVERYONE'S newest post, to avoid having to delete a post you wrote before knowing the whole context of action.

3) Reply TO THE LAST REPLY MADE IN YOUR THREAD, NOT JUST TO THE CHARACTER INTERACTING WITH YOURS. Reply to ALL posts pertaining to your character AT THE SAME TIME by replying TO THE VERY LAST/MOST RECENT POST IN THE THREAD, REGARDLESS OF WHAT CHARACTER MADE THAT POST. This enables us all to have just one long smooth thread to track. It also reduces the maximum number of posts that everyone has to deal with. ((For instance, say I post as Xelloss to Amelia higher up, then post as Xelloss to Fibrizo lower down, then as Xelloss to Gourry still lower down. Right there I've created the problem of three forking-off threads from the main thread, which unnecessarily complicates things, especially since all the action is in the same scene.))

4)The only exception to this rule is if two sub-threads are deliberately created by a player BECAUSE THERE IS MORE THAN ONE SCENE IN THE SAME ENTRY ((like how Ruana has posted as Fibrizo in Seyruun in one scenario and as Lina in the woods in another, in "A New Life Part 1")).  In that case you DO have to create separate posts because there is more than one SCENE. 

4) MOST importantly: Everyone PLEASE TAKE ONLY ONE TURN PER ROUND.  You post ONCE and then you let ALL of the other players post once before posting again. In other words, you post ONE POST for EACH cast member you control, then let everyone else have ONE turn with each of THEIR cast members, before posting again. This is why rules 1-3 are so important. The current order appears to be Ruana, me, Roxy, repeat in the Seyruun scenario, and Ruana, Elise, repeat in the woods scenario. For now, please let's stick with that. It's impossible for anyone to post something of reasonable length and quality when they are getting literally six or seven more replies WHILE they are composing their new post. YOU CAN OF COURSE, WHEN YOUR TURN COMES, BACKTRACK IN TIME AND INSERT YOUR CHARACTER'S ACTION INTO THE PREVIOUS POSTS. Let's say Fibrizo strikes Zelgadiss with a spell. Zelgadiss and Rezo still get to post before Amelia, Lina, Gourry, Fibrizo, etc can. But once Zel and Rezo have posted, Amelia can retcon a little bit--she can have been "making this facial expression when Xelloss struck," or "reaching out to block the blow from Zelgadiss when Xelloss struck," etc, as long as she takes into account and reacts to the action that has already taken place. That way nobody misses out on any action they might have taken were the order of turns different. 

THANKS!!!!!