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Ah, yes, that is about right. I'm in California, and I just got out this past Friday, while others are getting out today.

Hehe, yup. gonk

Hahaha, well, I'm glad I could be of service. Though, it is probably not appropriate to keep such trivial conversation in a business thread...so if you like, you can join the interesting conversation that involves staples and monocles that I'm currently having with a couple other members in the Comic thread! xp

I read back and someone said we were flaunting Cycon's name.... For the record, without support, Cycon is just another person. Sure, he's a great Flash animator, but without viewers he's nothing but an average animator, and he's even probably said that. The Alliance of Cycon was all about fighting a power... the power of greed in Gaia. We've got to a point in the Alliance where: a) people are wanting to join to smooge with Cycon, or b) people are joining because they feel that the storyline is jagged and too random, and should be based on the population of Gaia, not some crummy NPC storytelling, or c) people are joining to join, then sit on their butts and wait for something to happen and lose interest in the Alliance. (And Cycon isn't the only leader here, the other leaders just have to make themselves stick out a bit... get their names to spread too... That way it just IS the Alliance of Cycon) The greed now rests in our hands, and has to be dealt with. Like a cleansing.

Things have happened, fellow guildmates, that are beyond our control. The new Forum Code itself has been an addition to the sores in our sides. The option "Neither" was lost in the foray of the front page poll due to such new code.
Also, the Casino is open.... another sidetrack away from forums and towards random acts of pleas to return the Personals (hey, if we had personals, we wouldnt have the problems that we have in Multiplayer games with those bad titled rooms). My prediction of the storyline continuation on Father's Day? I got it half right half wrong... no more chopper in Durem from the new forum code.

You see, we're in a weird bind. I am too, I'm practically out of work here (glad I have other endevours). New guild members would be cool, but not many are taking part in anything. As a Splinter Cell, I'm trying my best to keep up with people, but real life gets in the way... which is why Cycon isn't here.

We can do the secret guild page route, but it's still kinda useless. We have to wait for this storyline to pick up before we make any moves. Sometimes, defense is your best offense. But that's just me talking...

We are the people, we will overcome. Oh, how we need to decipher those words now more than ever.

As much as I'd like to think that we can effect the story line, I highly doubt we can, at least not at the moment.

However what Ponza has said has sparked this idea in my brain, an idea I've voiced before but have never really acted upon it...

The guild is here to change gaia; to change it's path away from greed and back to good old fashioned Role Playing like it was mainly used for in the first place. Well, the site has already provided a plotline for an RP. The guild has also included an RPing component into it, that of a war, correct? Well, perhaps one of the reasons why we have had problems with this system is that there is no one RPing the other side of the war, the enemy. The guild is "going down the tubes," so to speak, not because our underlying cause has been lost, but rather the way in which to fight for that underlying cause has.

If we were to cooperate with already existing groups, such as the Gambino and Von Helson Armys (just to name a few), to create a full on War RP, then perhaps we could gain more activity here. We've had problems in the past with members of the guild "attacking" members of those groups because they thought we had done just that, and the members of those groups were thouroughly confused about what was going on. In most cases, these other groups support our underlying cause here in this guild: to rid gaia of all the crazy greed.

If we were to all band together, we could make a very successful War RP, and we would get the message out to a lot of people at the same time. In the RP, new members would be able to choose which side they stand on: Gambino, Von Helson, or Neither. None of these groups would stand for anything more then whom those individual members wish to support as the storyline of gaia progresses.

Wow, this would take a very long time to completely write out, but I think that gives the general idea of what I'm thinking and going with here. We need to seperate out cause from our "side" in the storyline. By promoting such a large RP, we would be contributing to our cause, and we would be gathering a lot of people who we can "educate" about the cause.

Perhaps, rather then worrying about what we are going to do with our "side," we should start cooperating with the other groups, and get a much larger organization running. Perhaps we need a total of four guilds: The Cause (for all members of the RP, here we would educate about the cause, sort of like what we've been doing here in this guild), Gambino (For Gambino supporters within the RP), Von Helson (For Von Helson supporters within the RP), and Neither (For those who support Neither).

I think we definitely have the numbers to make something like this work. Please give me your feedback on the idea. It looks like a very big job, almost overwhelming, but perhaps it is our next step in getting our job done. If there is interest in this idea, then I'll type out whatever other tidbits I can think of to make it work. If anyone has their own ideas, they are welcome too, of course.

That pretty much explains my entire previous post haha. I say we should do it.

@Kommie: yeah I agree

agreed