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I did not reply right away because I was really upset and I thought I had better calm down before I replied. Without naming names, there's been really only one person who has been supportive of me through this whole situation, and a few who have not been, and, well, I said I wasn't going to name names, but I will say one. BL, in a PM, asked me why I was trying to explain myself if I just meant to leave the guild. Now, I have no idea where he got that idea. I was trying to save the guild in the only way I knew how too, because I did not want to lose this rp.

Add on top of that the fact that the only other person to PM me, except for one person whose been very supportive, was very rude and insisted that I had 'stolen' intellectual property and that I was wrong to try and save the rp in the only way I was able too because it wasn't my rp to save. First off, I put a notice on the front page of that guild that I was creating that guild to save it and that not all of the content was mine.

Second, the guild here belongs to BL, but not the rp. Personally, I feel like an rp belongs a little bit to every person who participates in said rp, so in the absence of the crew, there is nothing wrong with the people involved in the rp relocating if the must, in order to continue the rp.

Now, again, this is not to nag, but try to see this from my perspective too: I was pretty much a daily participant in the rp's here until July 9th. I missed an rp on July 10th because the cooling fan on my pc was dying and sounding awful, and on July 11th I came online anyway and told the ooc thread about my pc's status and my inability to spend a lot of time online because of it, and finally on the morning of July 12th, when I logged on, I think to check my email, but it was a long time ago, the fan was completely broken. It would be more then a week before I'd be able to use it again.

The day after my pc fan died, that new rule was announced, but I never heard about it because it was never mentioned once I got my pc up and running again, I just stumbled up the fact that some of my Pokemon were denied yesterday, and I looked to the ooc thread to try and find out when the rule was announced, if it was ever announced. After reading the message from July 19th, it verified that I had not messed up and broken any rules, because the rule hadn't existed. I'm sure you all have heard the expression 'the straw that broke the camels back' before. That was kinda the situation here.

I was upset that BL assumed I planned to leave the guild, and I was upset that someone who shall not be identified was extremely rude to me in a pm, and then this...

Anyway, I get why the rule was implemented, and I am not objecting to that, I just think that that it should have been implemented better.



This is what I would have suggested, approving the Pokemon and Evolution, which were legit at the time I applied for them, but leaving a short note explaining the new rule and why for rp purposes that needed to be treated as shown above.

I believe that would have been the fairest way of handling the enactment of the new rule, and it wouldn't have looked and felt like punishment. I'm not trying to nag anyone, because what's done is done, lets leave it in the past and move forward from here, just trying to say that I had a really bad day yesterday.

I did read Maddy's message last night, but I waited to reply to it until I had a cooler head.

I guess I'll throw in my two cents.



I wasn't a fan of:
- Our Pokemon being whisked away into a pocket dimension
- Having whatever Pokemon were kept de-evolved
- Everyone being demoted to grunts
- Erasing years worth of character development
- Resetting the continuity via 'A Wizard did it' trope (or at least thats what I recall happening)

I understand Team Aqua has a long lore, thus turning newcomers off and making it hard for them to be integrated into the story. But this could have been handled better. A universe reset wasn't needed in my opinion.

As far as the 'older members are pretty op' argument goes, I agree. Most of us had a bunch of Stage 2/3 Pokemon and semi-legendaries at the ready. But this could have been worked around with. Using Legendaries, Elite 4 Members, or even trainers who are just stronger during the Mission RP's would have been an excellent way to humble them, making the newbies not feel so bad by comparison. 'If a god can bleed', ya know?

Mission grading also took 5ever. Too few admins on very scarcely. But hey, whatcha gonna do.

But anyway, hi everyone! Kalos is freaking awesome and I love Goodra.

Waiting around to hear what gets decided today...No one is on skype at the moment, so are you guys chatting in another way? Or are the others not on yet, Maddy?

Okay, but you specified a day, not a time, so I could only find that out if I asked. Really bored, lol. Sick and bored, not a fun combo.

m/(-o-)m/

Uhhhh, what's going on?

Edit: Nevermind.

Here we go here we go here we go.