Just an FYI for those of you who are curious and wondering about the new Bailey folder. It's probably pretty obvious (or maybe it is to me), but I play both Bailey and Locke. As you can probably also guess from recent storylines and hints within, Bailey's days of working with Locke are numbered. (sorry if that's a spoiler! :P) What's so great about RP, and what keeps me coming back to it, and what brought me back last year after taking nearly a year and a half off from playing, is the way characters can grow and change and create stories you never imagined when you brought them forth. Bailey has grown beyond my original purpose for creating him, and that fact is reflected in the stories he has participated in and the characters he interacts with. Many thanks to all of you who have played with him since I started out playing him.
I tend to silo off my characters from each other, just as a way of keeping things sane and interesting, so it's been weird playing two characters who (theoretically) interact on a regular basis, work in the same field, and even in the same company. It's not something I really aimed for, so consider Bailey's new folder and the pending Locke/Bailey split (again, sorry for spoilers!) a correction and move in a direction that I prefer. My hope going forward is that by giving Bailey and Locke space to breathe, away from each other, they will grow in new and interesting ways and remain fun to play.
Thanks for indulging me in this super-long OOC post, and hopefully I made sense and got my point across clearly. :)
