Welcome to Gaia! ::

I always comeback to the guild after the annoucements, but often things are quiet and I driiiifffttt away. As for gaia i am on practically everyday. (I have it as a pinned tab on firefox) I keep up with my rps but it is harder to make rps (easier to have a set storyline than write an open world) So i am hoping someone will start a new rp, when i browse the forums.

And for not being around as often, I do really apologize. T.T

I admit I'm one of the few who are guilty of inactivity due to several personal reasons, one of which is a time-consuming job-hunting that started shortly after I joined the guild. For that, I apologize.

I'll be happy to assist in any way I can... although I'm currently still hunting for a job so I'm not sure I can be much help.

Then let´s get started!

I'm glad to see all of you popping out of the woodwork!

It makes me warm inside knowing the difference one good announcement can make, so hopefully you are all following the thread, and if you aren't I quoted you so you'll get a notice for that and come back anyway heheh.

Anywho.

I feel I need to give you guys something to talk about/do. So here it goes.

Current Stance on Crew Recruitment

This is subject to change, so don't be disheartened.

Due to my past experience with the guild it'll be a bit hard for me to recruit just anyone into the "lofty" position of being crew, which comes with the responsibility of...being crew!

To sum it up; I became active in a time when the crew was a ruling "elite" of a buncha guys who only roleplayed amongst each other and just kinda let the guild fall by the wayside. Then they were all very impressed by a woman and her certain roleplay so she got upped to crew, and immediately set out on a plan on getting everything active, and meanwhile the other guys did little.

So I came in on her behest to tip the scales in her favour and long story-short, the guild underwent a coup and several drastic changes were made.

This is were the idea of the Academy came from.

But due to crew inactivity at the time, the first attempt flopped, the Summer Event Fiasco came to be, and the remaining crew members burned out and fell out. Leaving us with a bit of a wreck.

This wreck was prematurely salvaged and a new Academy session was started using undependable resources (no offense to the parties involved) and the wreck caught fire.

We're currently standing on the ashes.

I tell you this because this is the sort of thing I want to avoid in the recruitment of a new crew...I can't have a ruling "elite" full of people who are exclusionist to the point of detriment, and I can't have a meandering crew who simply don't want/know what to do...

And finally, I can't have a crew that simply doesn't have the time to perform their duties.

As a result, the best way to become crew is to become social, be active in the guild; tutor, run a roleplay, join roleplays, talk, enjoy yourself and enjoy others. The far more amicable and and active you are, the more you'll be noticed.

Now, at the time, I'm a bit desperate for help, so no hurt feelings or pointing fingers if suddenly someone becomes crew without there being much time for someone to prove themselves. This is the situation I'm in, I'm trying to handle it for you guys, cause in the end, it's for you, if I was doing this for me I'd probably just start a dance party thread, carry it to page limit, then start another one. endlessly, until the guild was nothing but these dance party threads, making this guild the equivalent to a madman's scribblings on the wall of an asylum....

That was dark.

Current Focus

I want tutors and roleplays out of you guys.

The main forum is open to whatever roleplays you guys want to make, and shamelessy, shamlessly, recruit for them. I am going to make a GUILD RECRUITMENT THREAD for us and I'll be more than happy to tell them you guys are making roleplays that need to be filled with their sweet little souls.

I'll also be happy to tell the world that you're looking for a tutor, or are a tutor looking for a...tutoree?

But feel free to advertise that as well, just not in the main forum, we have a subforum for that, and do note that it is outdated, so no one there is really there.

Watervoir being the exception, in fact, she's the guild VIP. She was with me through most of the incidents and is only not a VC or Crew through her own volition, and I don't begrudge her at all for that. But she is an incredibly friendly person and as such, approachable.

So to sum it up;

Want an active guild? Get active!

I'll do what I can to facilitate that, and when we have a good enough groove going, i'll join/make a roleplay or two eh?

as always, I'm taking suggestions and ideas, anything you want to voice, know works, have tried in the past, know doesn't work. Anything, just talk to me, it's lonely at the top.

Last time I checked, (appx a year or so ago) I had the third highest amount of posts in this whole guild...Yeah, I was very active and I posted A LOT!

I'm shy about my ideas as well...But I suppose we could just put them out and see how it goes. I mean, someone's bound to at least look.