GACK!

[Emma]

That, my friends, is the sound of the site croaking. Not like a frog, but DYING croaking.

Okay, so, the site's not ACTUALLY dying, if boxy traffic is anything to judge by, it's moving along slow, but fairly well. HOWEVER, I cannot help but notice the very severe lack of posts. Several members have quit because everyone talks on boxy, but nobody posts in threads. THIS IS A PROBLEM. One that is largely my fault, I know, what with my constant absences. I have what, fifteen characters? and I'm the slowest poster, and the one that's generally most difficult to reply to. XD

So, the purpose of this thread is... posts. We can't ALL be museless, so what's the hold-up? Is it because there's no more notable plot, not enough people for your character to interact with, because nobody is replying to your threads... tell me! I personally volunteer to jump into any waiting threads you guys might have. I'm particularly dying to write with Nemo and Ikehr, Anastasio, Cyprus, Anck and Tox, andddddd the rest either have too many threads or I'm kinda on the fence about them. Plus I'm bringing a couple new characters in, MUAHAHAHAHA. -cough- So, yeah. I'm open!

Um... yeah, I haven't slept in 48 hours so if this post is rambling and nonsensical, that's why. Basically, say why you have no posts going on and set up posts with other people. -nod-

[Kite]

Welp, there are a couple of problems on my end that I think are equally at fault for my not posting really, although some would probably say that its more my fault for seeing my problems and then not acting on it.

On my end, its that I am finding that I can't think of a plot that might entice people to come roleplay with me, as shown by my open thread, and that I don't even really have characters people seem to really want to roleplay with when mixed in with my extremely slow posting. All of these things are completely my fault and I should act on them, but haven't yet.

On the other end, I seem to observe something of a cliquishness among our active members. Thats completely normal, and I don't blame anyone for doing that. That being said, between the groups going off to do their little thing and become increasingly insular and my lack of speed/plots/characters that are enticing means I get no action. I've also noticed that because of the cliquishness the new players don't really ever get any roleplaying done and quit. Now, I hear people saying "Well, you don't have any RPs, go do it with them!" and I admit that I'm at fault here, but I don't think I'm alone in that.

Anyway, before my mouth gets me in trouble again, that is what is going down on my end.

[Elloria]

It's not largely your fault, Emmz. We all have our bad times with posting. Lately, I've been a pretty big offender myself.

For me, at least, it's a combination of muselessness and lack of energy. When I have the muse, I'm too tired from work (and now classes) to write. When I have the time, I DON'T have the muse. I'm working through it to try and get back on top of the ones I've got, for whatever it's worth. Some of them I can't do anything about because some of the members have just vanished - for what reasons, I don't know. But they have.

I'm willing to try and brainstorm with people for thread ideas or, if the mood strikes, start an open thread or two of my own. Otherwise, I'm gonna try to balance this with my RL responsibilities. So if it takes me a while to post, I now have legit reasons - it's my senior year in college and I'm working a lot.

I apologize for any inconveniences I've caused and will probably cause in the future. :/

[Angmor]

I think it's a combination of factors. For me personally, I don't have any muse for starting new plots, and the ones I have going are moving slowly. And they're moving slowly because the other members have their issues, and the ones that aren't are in the same boat as me, just below deck.

[Akilinia]

The problem for me right now is lack of time. I'm in my Senior year of high school and I swallowed a bit more than I can chew comfortably. I'm taking four AP classes, I'm working weekends, I have sports practice everyday after school and games twice a week, I ride my horse everyday I don't have games, and I have various other things, not to mention college applications. It's just that time of year. I'm trying to find a way to balance my schedule so that I can still have time to do fun things like posting and watching TV and sleeping (Merr.... >_>), but it's tough right now. My sport is over in November, and I send out most of my college stuff then, so it should lighten up then. Realistically, I probably won't even be able to post overly quick then. Of course, I am a slow poster at the best of times, so I don't know what that even means. xD Which is why I limit myself to two posts so that not too many people are dependent on me (I'm sorry you happen to be one of those two right now, Emma). In any case, I think it's a similar for others as well. Trying to juggle a new school year or the decrease in daylight, jobs. Lots of things. However, if they're anything like me, they'll all come running right back when they have the time to start posting again. In any case, I would love to brainstorm ideas with you for raising activity at some point. I've had to deal with this a few times before and I could probably come up with some things when I'm not so tired.

[phrostphyre]

Yeah. I'm not gonna go there.

I've just been really, really, really, busy. Lack of time, for the most part, but when time is available, I can't get myself into enough of a museful state to post. The weekends are starting to clear, though, so I'm going to try and reserve a few hours to post on Saturday and Sunday.

It's just been really hard for me to try and write when in the state of bum not being a bum anymore. I don't know how Hemingway managed it, but then he was also a weirdy. Weird, weird Hemingway.

(I just woke younger brother up. 'Twas a hard fought battle, but I triumphed. Time for school. Must go now. Up up and away!)

[Emma]

Alright, well, first I'd like to thank everyone for replying. =) It's great that so many members are interested and concerned about this site's welfare.

Secondly, I admit that my muse is... well, I don't know where it went. This hasn't happened to me before. o.O It's not dead, it just... disappeared. Maybe it's the shock of a new school year, like so many people's problems seem to be, maybe it's because I haven't written a single word in well over a month, but... I just have no desire to write. But this is probably just a phase, I suspect. Another problem of mine is whenever I RP with a new person, they don't like me and/or quit soon afterward. =| So I worry I'll just chase them off or be annoying. I've been thinking of jumping into several open threads but don't want to because um... I don't know, people don't seem to enjoy roleplaying with me. =/ That's my main issue.

But it looks like the only thing to do is to wait until everyone adjusts, and try to force myself to regain an interest in writing. Don't worry about advertising- Angmor discovered long ago that advertising is pointless unless the site is clearly active, which ours ATM is not.

As for ideas, well, we know the MP wasn't successful. We even stuck dragons in DW and that didn't help anything, and like Angmor said in another discussion thread, people are more concerned with their characters than big site-wide events, which I agree with. The obvious plan would be to merge characters and site-wide events, but I have a problem with that because, frankly, there's no way of telling if someone is going to stick around or not. If we make one character the... I dunno, the next ruler of Broddring, and then that person goes inactive two weeks later as people usually do, what would we do then? So, I'm open to thoughts and ideas in that respect. =)

[[-Kay-]]

i'm a bit late here but anyhow~


I've just not had time. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm only home for for 15 minutes at most after school if I even go home so I don't exactly have time until I get home at 10-10:30, at which point in time I'm exhausted. Weekends I build set and have stuff with FFA. During the week I'm busy working on homework for my art class at school. Doing a life-sized pixel of Picasso with black, grey and white paint is alot of work I tell you. I just don't have muse during the week when I do have time. I'm making an attempt though! My afterschool production runs the week of October 16th-22nd, so I should be able to get on some evening after that. But all through October my Friday and Saturday nights are booked. I have haunted trail work to do. (Screaming and being covered in fake blood, oh my!) But seeing as how auditions with my theater group are down, I'll probably be recruited for more theater and/or directing, so I can't make any promises. Not to mention I'm on the yearbook staff, so I have to keep up with all that lovely business. I'll keep trying to pump out posts though. My only issue is that either I get frustrated with the new people I RP with because their posts frustrate me, or that people don't reply. *cough*phrostandnayeli*cough* Anywho, I'm still alive and trying to rise from the dead. -Grawrzh-

[tazcalbat]

I was wondering if anyone had a thread that I could jump into? Rhys needs to get some IC time, but I don't really have a muse to start a new thread with him yet. I'm working on comming up with some ideas, but havent found any yet.

[Emma]

-crickets chirping-

Clearly, everyone is preoccupied with IRL even moreso than usual. DX The call for a thread has not been answered?!

WELL, I am not generally the ideal person to RP with due to my slowness. =P But if the site's going through another inactive bump, I would love to get into a new thread! It'll just take me a little bit to think of what character to use and whatnot. BUT I WILL RP WITH YOU.

Anyone want to RP with me and Rhys, just to get some activity going? D=

[Amur]

Well, if people want an open thread where something big could potentially happen, I suppose I could try and force myself to write Morona's introduction, but that particular post has been making me want to go out and find things to burn. But if it could potentially get something moving then, I'll try to bash my way through it.

(Given the way he's going to be arriving trying to get that post together has been making me rage harder than Dark souls currently is)

[Emma]

-pokes Amu- You shouldn't force yourself to write something you're not ready for. Give Morona a break for a little while and write with Solomon, and then if your muse is ready, you can bring him into a thread you're already doing. =D

I'm still thinking about what characters to use, ee-hurr. >.>

[tazcalbat]

I've thought about making another character, to help with the activity, but I'm not sure who or what to make it yet.

Also I wanted to know, don't have to make a new account for each character? And what is the character limit, and limitations?

I might also post here: www.thewarofriders.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=hadaracdesert&action=display&thread=2455 But I'm not sure how to bring Rhys in, and I would need someone to RP with when I did.

[Emma]

Sounds good, I could jump into that thread, too, if you want and if Amu's willing to have a three-person thread. As for how to join, well... -pokes Amu-

And same thing that I said to Amu, Rhys- you don't have to make a new character if you don't have the muse for it. But if you really do, we don't have a character limit (I have fifteen and I'm not done =D). You can have a secondary character for every two tertiaries, so if you wanted to make a count or someone else high-ranking you could do that too. And you don't have to make a new account; all your characters are kept on just the one. =)

[Amur]

Hey, I'm up for joining a thread XD I haven't written anything as Solomon for far too long. And I do remind you that Morona has already been accepted as a character >.> I just can't for the life of me get this intro post for Morona written.

So yas, I'm up for a thread of some kind, I always am!

[tazcalbat]

I want to, it's just that I'm working on the details. And thanks, I just wanted to make sure. Should I start, or does someone else have an idea on how they should meet. And Amur is it OK with you if we reply to your post with Solomon, or do you want to be somewhere else or do something else for now? Either way is fine with me.

[Amur]

Well getting details together, especially for a character like Solomon is pretty difficult without first planning it with other thread participants. Since Solomon most definitely isn't the kind of character that you'd normally see walking around places and meeting people in general >.>;

[tazcalbat]

Well we can just use the one you already wrote then, it that's fine with you. And like you said, hopefully we will be able to make it into something bigger. Also I finished my new character, Zahara.

[Amur]

You can post in Unwritten Rule if you want, it'd be nice to finally get some posting done in that thread XD

Only issue is that Solomon ran from the scene of the destruction he left behind to be found later on. He's making a note of really taunting The Riders with that stunt, but by all means, if that thread can move in any direction feel free to post there.

[tazcalbat]

OK I will work on a reply post, and see what we can do with it. I might bring Zahara in later, but I'll just stick with Rhys for now.