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THE COUNCIL

This is just as it sounds.

Before Halloween, problems arose, and complaints against a guardian (Neith-Kia) were launched. This has nothing to do with the vote that the guardians were asked to make: this is a more personal matter. "Attacks" against a fellow guardian, incessant complaining, accusations of said gaurdian and their Fa'e being ignored - purposefully, bringing complaints to AIM and badgering about the ignoring, causing guardians not to want to enter the HQ thread because said guardian was present, etc. Because this is not the first time that complaints have been launched against said guardian, action was asked to be taken.

Hopefully, this will resolve the issue.

Here is how this will work:

This will last for a week, perhaps two. The Fa'e Guardians will be given the password to this account. They will have their say, anonymously, about Neith-Kia and her actions. No one will know who you are, so do not worry about being "hounded." Neith-Kia will be allowed to defend herself and explain her actions through the course of this.

In the end, hopefully something definite will be decided. Feel free to give your suggestions on the course of action that should be taken to insure that something like this never happens again.

::NOTE:: You do not have to take part in this. If you believe this is harsh, or an unjust way of handling the issue, please feel free to not take part in this.

ALSO: NO TAMPERING WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S POST! There is going to be someone that is trusted (the Mysterious Lurker - you know them from the Newsletter thread) to watch the posts, and they are copying and pasting every post made. This is meant to be fair, and tampering with posts is undermining this system.

Let me play Devil's Advocate here for just a moment.

In the case of the instance where Neith had the fit about Kia was "susposed" to find Morion, I want to bring up that I have heard about at least three other people that Smoke told could be the one to find Morion, so in that case I think Neith was justly upset.

I also want to point out that sometimes she gets flustered when she gets "stuck" in an RP. I think several fa'e guardians are bad about starting playdates with others and not finishing them. It gets very frustrating when your character is waiting on someone else, sometimes for weeks, up to months.

However, he constant badgering, complaining, and attempted favoritism needs to be handled.

I think what needs to be done is continue to encourage Neith to calm down and think things through rationally. I think she should be forbidden to use AIM to contact fa'e owners. If Neith legitimately has a concern that needs to be dealt with, she should be required to write out a calm, collected PM that should be sent to FAE HQ account to be reviewed for personal attacks before being delivered to the recipient.

Neith also needs to learn that FAE HQ are the GMs, and the rules and mythos they set down have to be followed by everyone. Just because something "doesn't fit her storyline" doesn't mean the rules should be an exception. The fa'e are a separate race of beings, and have rules that need to be abided by. Playing against the rules should also have actions taken against them.

My turn I suppose.

Personally, I like both Neith and Kia. I haven't been witness to much of what has been going on, but I think the guardians who have been ignoring her are at just as much fault as she is. It's not only rude, but also unkind and hurtful. I'm one who tends to overreact to things, and I know what it is like to have people do that to you, or at least what it feels like when you think they are.

Kia and Neith are both intwined in the RP in many ways. It is my belief that at this stage Kia can never be given a new guardian, because her personality has been formed by one person, and that person is the only one who can truly RP her now.

I think the route Neith took with the GMFC when the majority of fa'e owners reached a decision was decent. If the child is important to her fa'e's plot, then she's finding a new way to have it without needing Anya to break the rules for her. Expecially as this child would be mortal, not fa'e. Or that is how I have come to understand it, anyway.

I think that if owners have problems with Neith they need to work it out. Discuss the problems with her rather than just ignoring her. Ignoring people and shutting yourself off from them will never solve a problem, and trust me, I know from deep experience. It just worsens everything. If you don't want to say things in public, then talk to her in PM, or over AIM. Or something. Dealing with the problem is the quickest way to solve it and keep it from happening again.

Well that's my take. I fear that it is just a load of rambling that makes no sense whatsoever. If it's needed I'll write again, but I don't think it should be.

Personally, I haven't been to the HQ much lately and didn't know about this whole GMFC thing for Kia. I admit I don't know the whole story, but I don't see what the big deal is. Fa'e are about the stories. So if Neith or anyone else asks for an exception, I think it can be made.

I like Neith. When I first came to the Fa'e HQ, she was one of the people there who were nicest to me when I felt like a complete stranger. I don't think I've ever seen her badger anyone about anything besides one time she asked her friends on AIM for help in an auction. She's one of the most devoted Fa'e Guardians I've seen, too.

This anonymous backtalking kind of appalls me, but I had to say something, because I find this really unfair, unfriendly and hurtful. I didn't know the people of the Fa'e HQ could act like this. :/

I suppose I can understand both sides of the issue. I feel that in asking Anya to break the rules, she was unjustified. Breaking the rules would have lead to chaos and more hurt feelings than anyone could forsee. In trying for another GMFC appointment, I can see her doing no wrong. While I do not agree with the concept of trying for another heavily rp-able pet, Kamiki has mentioned no one per person rule in the auction. It seems a bit petty to me, to turn to another media when the entire point of the Fa'e having children was to turn over these children to a new generation. But this is solely my opinion and no regulations have been placed on this. I am rather hurt that Neith feels she cannot change her storyline and it has to be set in stone. My own storyline has changed numerous times because of what I can and cannot do. I feel a little slighted by that action.

But, beyond this, I have seen Neith act childishly in the past. She has god-modded a bit and thrown temper tantrums. She has pestered people and alienated people. HOWEVER. I have seen other Guardians do this as well. Most to a lesser extent than her, but I have still witnessed it. Perhaps some rules need to be drafted... some rules that stipulate that people acting like attention whores will not be tolerated. It does get tiring to walk into the HQ, see an RP you might like to join, but don't because it already seems to be revolving around one person.

Now, leaving my level head behind. I'd like to point out two things that rather upset me..... These are purely opinion. 1) The teen pregnancy. It may have been part of a storyline but following closely on the heels of the Silver/Sati soon to be marriage and Shina's pregnancy, it came across as a play for attention. Or one of those 'I have to be part of the revolutionary crowd'. And I thought Anya mentioned that teen was too early to be pregnant? Perhaps I was mistaken. And 2) The way Kia is, having so many lives, and being so many things and being involved in the past of so many characters... It's hard for me and my character to approach her. These may have been discussed with the other players involved, but as she is, Kia comes across as such a HUGE character with so many powers and stories and lives... it feels like... why bother with my own character?

Finally... what should be done about this situation? Temporary banning seems fair for the next offense. Warnings from the Fa'e account. I'm not sure if anything has been so agregious as to take Kia away or kick Neith out permanently. But something must be done so that she - and the others I've seen - get it through their skulls that they cannot act this way.

I just want to point out to EVERYONE a few things about the GMFC just for clarification.

Anya ALLOWED me to set up Fa'e to have children in the GMFC to GIVE Fa'e an outlet to have children and keep them. It is FULLY endorsed by Anya.

For those who don't know the IC rules about fa'e and magic, here they are...

When the fa'e have a fa'e child, it takes magic away from them to create the child. Thats why they become mortal if they have children.

A gaurdian (Gaian) can only bond to ONE fa'e. Without a gaurdian, a fa'e will die. So thats why when a fa'e has a fa'e child, they must be adopted to another.

If a fa'e does NOT use their magic to create their child, the child is born mortal. This, the way I see it, is not a conscious decision the fa'e can make. The only way they can create a child without using their magic is to do so, for lack of a better word, unnaturally. They can choose to come to the GMFC, and Kamiki is create a child from their cells outside their body via in vitro fertilization. This way, a genetic child is formed, but not through the fae's natural magic.

Therefore this child is completely mortal, with no natural magic abilities. They do not need to bond to a gaurdian to survive. This is why children born through the GMFC are NOT Fa'e, and therefore can be kept by the parents.

I hope this clears a few things up for people.

Okay I'm gonna lay this out for everyone to know....

Neith has already been given more than one chance by us all and told to stop, but she underminding everyone including the new owners that just wrong. Anya has asked her to stop she did but then went right back to her old self in less than 2 weeks.

She has been attacking people since Feburary, all because a few fa'es went on a trip, I do not understand why, she wasn't part of the storyline. She had to b***h about it over aim and in fa'e, she got it to the point where Kia snapped at a fa'e because they went on a trip, she didn't get angry at them all, just one fa'e, then attack that guardian over aim saying that the next time they do a storyline to make sure they check with her first. Why does she feel she has the right to dicated everyone storylines, she has done this to countless guardians.

Also this other thing about the GMFC, its not right, everyone has changed there storyline, why can't she, because she set in a way that she doesn't care at this point, she wanted to make sure she could keep a kid, the kid I understand will be mortal, but she still underminded what the guardians just voted on.

The other thing about her fa'e being special, all the fa'e are special in their own ways. No one wishes to have everyone worship their fa'e. She wants that from everyone when it comes to Kia, Kia has to be part of everything. Clubbing, going on adventures, of moving into new places, when really she doesn't belong in the storyline.

No one has taken into account that she only acts nice, alot of us have proof that she does attack people. She has made guardians cry countless of time, saying people are bitches, and saying they were imature. So if they leave for another thread she'll follow and attack that person in that thread. Again there is proof on this happening. No one wants to deal or should have to deal with this at all.

She said she was gonna change but she hasn't, she has told one of the owners that she wasn't going to listen to them she would only listen to Anya. To me this is wrong, she need to listen to all three owners. Two of them were not given the ownership just to be told no and not listened to.

She has said that we're all talking s**t about her when really none of us are, its just in her own mind. She is the one talking s**t, this is why alot of people don't wish to deal with her, and if they tell her to back off she either tells them to grow up or to stuff it.

If she doesn't get her way she gets pissed and attack that person over aim, and if she can't get to the person, she goes after the next closer friend to them. Saying that she known people longer, when in truth many of us have known other longer then her and become close friends. She doesn't like that, thier either her friends or their no one friend.

People have gotten to the point that when she comes in they leave because no one wants to deal with her bitching, maybe she hasn't done that in other thread or to you yet, but give her time and she will if you piss her off.

She has made fa'e thread a place where people don't want to be, that why alot of us don't go in there unless she is not there. You can say this is wrong but deal with her bitching for 8 months then tell me otherwise.

Another thing is this bugging Anya for special treatment, is wrong. Again Anya is a busy person and need time to do these fa'e, that is why she turned HQ over to the new owners. Neith has been bugging Anya over Kia. Why can't she wait like everyone else? Everyone can be patient yet again she doesn't wish to wait.

So overall, Neith to many may act nice, but deal with her for 8 months, calling you a liar, a b***h, imature, and so on. Try holding your tongue because she has done things to other friends and they have asked you not to say anything. Try dealing with the fact that she not gonna listen no matter what anyone tell her.

Then you tell me whether she is nice or not. Because I have seen it and I have dealt with it for 8 months and I'm not gonna hold my tongue any longer when it comes to her.

Kia need to be taken from her and she need to be banned from fa'e because she has been given countless chances and each time she has screwed up.

I also do not understand why the GMFC thing is a big deal. She's not undermining Anya's authority or our decision at all in my mind.

If anything, it's good that she's respected our decision and is trying to work out another way that doesn't bend or break the rules to make that plotline feasible for her, at great personal sacrifice to herself. I see NO REASON why she should be faulted for that. None.