--- In gritpost@yahoogroups.com, David Webb <seikaze@...> wrote:
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>
> Well I think part of it is some are holding on to those golden days, where
chars like Steve, Jo, etc were roaming around and they and their writers were
beacons of encouragment and such, now that they're gone I guess we're kind of
like a platoon without a leader. I would say just a new venue in general would
be a good thing, something with an original setting much like CAPOW had before
it died. Perhaps moving back to the newsgroup for some recruitment?
>
> Though some of that is this writer's own frustration showing, having been
around since 1998 and fighting to get in storylines and not written out, then
finally having that moment show, then Oh sorry Hiatus, then during that span
having a huge chunk of people vanish, move on and when things start up.
>
> It was akin to leaving town for a week for a vacation, and coming back to an
empty neighborhood with for sale signs on the houses of all your friends, and
being left with zero direction and feeling totally alienated
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> --- On Tue, 4/14/09, sam_previs <sam_previs@...> wrote:
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> > From: sam_previs <sam_previs@...>
> > Subject: [gritpost] Re: Hmm so now what
> > To: gritpost@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 3:17 PM
> > --- In gritpost@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Mastriani"
> > <PowerOfQi@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > An interesting point,a ctually... which leads me
> > to actually expand upon option number 3. Perhaps, to explain
> > the dissappearances of so many characters, there has indeed
> > been a lapse in time since the Haitus... say, 3-10 years?
> > This would leave the flexability of things such as character
> > deaths (please limit deaths to your own, dont want to kill
> > off other player's characters), them moving on in life
> > and the world, etc.
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, if we're going to go that far, it'd make
> > more sense to go even farther into the future. Perhaps a
> > century or more, if people are comfortable with a more
> > sci-fi setting. That way just what happened to everyone can
> > be conveniently obscured by the passage of time, leaving us
> > with a world shaped by their deeds without the need to state
> > anyone's explicit fate.
> > >
> > > Personally, though, if people aren't interested
> > now, I still think we'd be better served just doing
> > something completely different. A true change of pace to
> > refresh the creative process.
> > >
> > >
> > Hmm, a whole century does seem like a better idea. I guess
> > what we really need now are people's oppinions.
> >
Hmm, this is a good point. Truthfully, towards the end here when we started to
splutter, I was hoping we would end up with similar beacons. Perhaps we do need
some fresh blood after all. But there must be an easy way to try to get some of
the old members...

Denji and Karasu, chibified, are off int he corner and have placed a cake on a
plate underneath a box with a corner proped on a stick, and denji holds a strong
tied to the stick.

Denji: *Saluting* We got it under control!

Karasu: Their greed will plunge them into darkness.

RL-Sam: *Sweatdropping* Yeah... you two work on that. Anyway, Perhaps we do need
a new idea. Reset everything, go back to the absolute square one... hell, just
as a side note, I want to throw it out there, maybe base this off of a different
manga.... Naw, that would be dumb, and less fun.

So, perhaps we do need to recruit. Anyone got any ideas for friends who might be
interested? Or a place where we can find more people?

-Sam