Many of you might have noticed my inactivity/slowness in game, and I thought I’d finally address that. Long term RP partners know by now, for a variety of reasons, I tend to have a RL that ebbs and flows in terms of how busy and demanding it is. Sometimes, it’s manageable enough that I can be fairly active in game and reply fairly frequently. Sometimes, things get to the point I’m pretty much pulled away from the game.
Right now, as seems to often be the case come summer, it’s the latter. I have just too much on my plate to do every character, RP, and plotline the justice it deserves. So if it seems I’ve been slowing down on RP, or cutting back totally, please don’t take offence—it’s not you at all. It’s me, or moreso, life. So to fair to everyone, and to make things a bit more manageable for me, I’m going to do a few things. One, all my characters are closed for new RP. Two, and I’ll be messaging everyone this applies to personally OOC, but I’ll be asking to cut off RP, at least temporarily, with people where RP or storylines haven’t strongly taken off yet. Again, this isn’t something personal, or me not enjoying the RP, just me needing to cut back for a while (and most of you are probably getting such infrequent replies this comes as no surprise). Once things get a bit more organized, settle down a bit in real life and start to flow again, I’ll look into opening things up again. Until then, I’ll focus primarily on the few more established RPs, trying to keep up on clicks, and the odd blog or two. Thank you for reading and understanding, and have a good summer!
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So, first things first: I’ll be off, almost totally, from the 12th-15th. I might be able to log in from time to time to check in, maybe accept some dates, but that’s about it. I hope to resume regular service Sunday or Monday at the latest, but that’s tentative depending on how the weekend goes.
Next, and though it was a hard decision to make, I felt it was time to kill off Aidan. After keeping him in limbo for so long, not knowing exactly what to do with him, I tried to breathe some life into him... and found my muse just wasn’t there. So I had my answer. Now, for the rest: • Tyson: he’s galavanting around the world on a backpacking adventure to “find himself”, which mostly involves partying. He’s meeting a lot of new people, so there’s that. • Elise: she’s mostly focused on school, but she’s finding that’s wearing her down—the whole “all work and no play”—so she’s trying to find ways to let lose and live a little. • Brandon: he just got back from a trip with the family in the Bahamas. And, to totally sound ominous, he’s going through some stuff. • Hunter: Engaged, and maybe another surprise on the way? So that’s it for now. Both Tyson and Elise are up for RP, if anyone reading this is interested. Otherwise, I hope you all have a good weekend (and summer!) It’s about time I’ve updated things around here. I mean, I’ve only talked about doing it for months now. Some people may have noticed a few changes in face claims. Most of my characters have either seriously outgrew theirs, or in the least, were getting to the age I wanted something a bit more mature. And, in the case of Aidan (who I’ll discuss in a minute), I wanted a bit of a fresh face going forward. So everyone, outside of Hunter, has fresh face claims and everything to go with it. Now that things are getting a bit more stable in my life and I’m getting into the swing of things, I’m hoping to throw more characters slowly into the RP ring. However, as I have a few characters and not enough time to balance a lot of different RPs, I’ll keep a limit of one or two RPs per character at a time. So, some ideas I’m throwing around:
All my characters are open for non-RP friends. I’m pretty shitty at clicks, but I’ll try to do better, and I’m hoping to be more of a blog player. What I am looking for is probably more behind the scenes kind of friend relationships. Maybe the gang went to the Big Bang together, or one found out the other is cheating on their significant other and is conflicted? Let’s discuss, let’s make statuses, maybe throw in some blogs here and there, but I probably won’t have time for long term RP on the subject. Just something to flesh out the world a bit without needing a huge amount of dedication from both partners or being as superficial as purely clicks and gifts. If any of this makes sense, and even better, sounds interesting and like something you’d like to try, let me know! Until then, happy spring! First off, Happy New Year! And to all those who celebrate, whatever you may celebrate, I hope you’ve had a happy holidays, as well.
Some of you might’ve noticed I have been logging in a lot more lately, and it’s probably time to make it official—I’m back. Without going to deeply into things, things have stabilized enough health wise that I can read and type and do pretty much everything else without any issues. At first, I trialed getting back into the game with just one or two established characters and RP partners, and I’m still looking to slowly ease into things, as I’m still slowly adjusting back into things IRL over the next couple of months. I’m hoping this month to start up with Ty again, as there is already some direction/potential storylines/RP options there, and after I get him established I hope to start up with Elise. This page probably needs some updating too, as do some faceclaims, and that will come in the next month or so as well too, hopefully. Here’s to a happy, or at least better, 2019. I’m going to have to take a hiatus from the game, or at least, parts of it.
Those I’ve been RPing with lately know I’ve been going through health issues for the good part of the last, well, almost year now. While I won’t get into too much detail here, as those in the know already know all about it, I’m working on getting better. However, getting better is taking it’s toll. Amount other things, I’m finding it harder and harder to focus on things that require attention, such as books, games, and television, and comprehend the details I need to know. Even reading news articles can become a challenge after a paragraph or two. I spend most of my days now with podcasts and audiobooks. Forget trying to write—even writing this out has been a challenge, trying to find the words and how they go together. Forget trying to write a narrative. Meds are a funny thing. I expect this will only get worse in the coming weeks, and seeing as the game is a text based game—not just the role playing part—I expect I’ll find it harder and harder to log in. As such, I’ve decided now is a good time to take a break from it. I’ll log in every once in a while to check in on things, and I hope to be back soon, though I have no idea when that might be. Thank you and my apologies to anyone this might affect. Sorry to all those who have been waiting for replies that I haven’t gotten to yet. Unfortunately, I’ve had a lot going on the last few weeks IRL that really made it hard to dedicate much time to the game.
And, as of tomorrow, I’ll be going on vacation, and won’t be back until late Saturday night. So until Sunday at the earliest, I’m not sure how active I’ll be, if at all. Until then, I wish you all a good summer! I opened Ty up for some RP. He’s been sitting on my account doing nothing for pretty much his whole life, so he deserves some love. I’m not sure exactly what I want for him yet, really, he’s a blank slate and I’m hoping some RP will flesh him out a bit.
So if you’re interested, hit him up with a starter, or an OOC message if you’d prefer to talk details first. Here I am, sitting in a packed urgent care waiting room on a beautiful Sunday evening because my sister may or may not have broken/cracked a bone in her arm playing softball. Yay team! So, I figured, since I’m here for the foreseeable future, I might as well give a little update on this thing.
While work is no where as crazy as it has been some years (yet), that and other things in my life are making it hard to dedicate too much time to the game right now. And honestly, after that long-ass, frigid winter, I’d rather spend my free time on enjoying the little bit of good weather we get here a year. So, for the time being, unless already agreed upon, I’m still not looking for any new RP on any of my characters. It looks like, quite unusually, this somewhat busy time at work is going to extend well into the summer. That plus usual summer activities means I don’t quite know when I’m going to be able to get around to figuring out what I’m going to do with everyone (namely Aidan, Elise, and Ty), and open them up for RP. For the time being, Elise is touring and working on a music career, though I’m not sure this is going to be a permanent career choice for her. Ty is going to university for Law, working an internship, and training in MMA. Aidan is trying to get his shit back together (like he ever had his shit together), namely getting over his drug addiction. Brandon is working through some issues of his own, and Hunter is trying to adjust to a semi-long distance relationship. So that’s what’s new, if you can consider any of it really “news”. I said I’d do it. It only took me way too long, considering how simple this thing is. I’m not even kidding when I say I took me a month to get around to figuring out their birthdates.
But it’s done. As another note, it’s April, and the start of the busy season at work and just in real life in general, so my activity in game may or may not slow down a bit for my current RP partners. Until I get a feel for how busy the next few months might turn out to be, I won’t be taking on any other RP for the time being. Things tend to go back to normal about July, and I hope to start getting serious with Elise and Ty around then, since they always seem to be on the back burner. Aidan is on an indefinite hiatus until I find the time to figure out what to do with him. At this point, I’m not sure if I’m even going to keep him or just kill him off. We’ll see. That’s... really all I can think of, for now. Happy Easter! (Or happy long weekend for those who don’t celebrate.) |
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