Everyone, I apologize for my lack of being here the last few days - I was sick over the weekend, came back to work on Tuesday to find nothing but fires all over the place - which of course, everyone demanded that I resolved right then and there. I'm still not completely caught up on everything, but I'm better than I was at the beginning of the week.
I wanted to quickly address an issue that came up while I was out: Nearly all of these stories are independant creatures. They are the creations of you players, all I'm doing is setting up the general scenerios - Like a gamemaster, a story teller. You are the actors and actresses in the story. When dealing with stories of this size (and seems to be growing larger each day) we are going to have different personalities, different play styles. They don't always mesh (I know, big shock, right?) But, we are all good players, and we should all be doing our best to help each other and to help it work - even if you're not involved in Scarred.
We should avoid namecalling, backstabbing, etc. Last I checked, none of us are in 1st grade. :D
I will be the first to admit that I am locked into my method of play to the point where I was ridiculed and black-listed for a while. Nearly caused me to take a permenant vacation. But, I have also learned that colaberation, cooperation and celebration of each other. It is my hope that my camp is fostering a great deal of cooperation and collaberation: Providing solutions and an example rather than becoming the source of the problems.
If you find your character in a situation - or youself in a situation - that no longer has the warm and fuzzy feeling, let me know. Let's talk it out and find out what we can do to get you back on track, or if you want to leave the track all together! As I've said from the beginning, this is an open SL, and continues to be so. I will not force anyone to stay if they aren't having a good time, and will do what I can to keep a positive environment and experience.
Second item: Live events/Play. I know, I've dragged my feet in getting into live play, there's more than a few that I need to get with to get into play. But as you are all aware, life is sometimes not fair and feels that we don't get to have play time. I am working on compensating that. Just no promises right now. There's a lot of stuff going on at work and at home that I have to deal with, and it takes time. I will come in when I can and we do the live events that will continue to put this SL in the history books. I just need some time and some patience. Thank you to those of you who know exactly what I'm talking about.
Enough!
GAME ON!
Right on, Trav! And beautifully said. We all should be understanding of each other and try to overlook slight differences in play if it is doing nothing but blocking the flow or creating ill feelings. There is always... ALways a way around any situation and a way to work things out. Both sides just gotta want it, and gotta want to understand each other.
I still haven't had a chance to find all the connecting stories to this and read over them, but the one's I have are certainly interesting and I think it's pretty cool how things are coming together. Let's keep up the good work, let the little things go and try to celebrate each other in all this. I think we're all doing an awesome job!
