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((I was in a blue car dave lol! Not to mention I had the right-of-way and there was no yeild sign, just a merge sign. Anyway, why would I tel you I was coming through OK? Not like I could have stopped lol. Where do you live in OK exactly?))

((As for the RP rant...I think you should keep it running! It's summer...people have s**t to do! My reasoning for not being in you already know. I will try to be in when I can. Clever's issue for not being in is because she is here in town having her vacation so she won't be in much until July. H^2 just got outta school and enjoying time with family and friends. So yeah we are all busy. Oh well! We'll just pick it up ya know? As for the RP being very sexual, well I agree, but it doesn't bother me. It's still RP and it's making a story so why not? I mean, Nikki can come in and redirect the RP somewhere else. You just gotta have time and are willing. I enjoy RPing sexual stuff and alcohol bc that's what I RP best. And when I RP, I wanna have fun, not stress over trying to make a story. I know this doesn't seem like a problem to a lot, but to me it's torture. So yeah that is my thoughts. I didn't mean to offend if I did I am sorry *Huggles to all*))

(( I fully understand not having enough people to build off of the few people we still have left in our guild. I don't want to end the season if the people still want it but I think something needs to change to get our RP back to being interesting. ))



(( I live in Oklahoma City or rather...just south of it in Moore so you could have stopped by and said "Hi" but that's cool, life goes on. smile

As for RP, it isn't summer yet, that is on June 22! mrgreen Seriously though, I could see summer being important to those that are still working through college but I would think that one could RP MORE when they are not at college and thusly not distracted by college classes and stuff but it seems to have been the opposite, people tend to RP more when they are doing other things like myself doing it while at work.

Moving on to the sex topics, I used to be very strict on how little you could do in the forums and usually didn't do sex much with Aykon for various reasons. However, I decided "what the hell" why should I monitor everything? I was scaring people away because I held on too tight to rules and I hoped this would keep more people here. It seems that although it has opened up more things for ATH to do but has pushed Nikki out. I want everyone to get their characters doing what they want because if you don't...what's the point of RPing here? We just need to let everyone have an active story and keep it agreeable to others.

*huggles back* I doubt you offended anyone, your voice is every bit as important as every one else's! ))



(( That's the answer! We are all screwed because Nikki made a stink in her pissy mood! *LOL* Just kidding. I know I haven't been posting in the BBS as often as I should but I was just demotivated, not by the RP but my own weird brain. A reply has been waiting for you there for about 3 days now so you oughta hop in and take that up.

As for the idea of RP'ing elsewhere, I am beginning to think that is a good idea. Doing it that way recently did attract a few new faces but sadly none of them made much of an appearance in the actual guild, I think it was too much for them. However, I set it up to fail by trying to restart Aykon's story when we moved over there. Had I just kept him running the place then it would have surely attracted more people.

The only issue I see is keeping it staffed. No one wants to RP in a thread where there are only two posts a day nor do they want to post in a place where people spam BUMP all day long. If we wanted to lure more people to RP with us, we would need to keep someone in the place at all times almost because people could show up at all hours of the day and night. But do we have enough staff to do that? I can take care of most things during the day but there are days when I get swamped and can't do anything but work for a few hours so I am not reliable all morning. Nikki has already stated that she could handle running it during the night most of the time but who else could run and when?

That being said, everyone give me your thoughts on perhaps pausing this RP in the guild and moving it to the forums for most general RP (keep sex in the guild so as not to aggro the moderators) until we can really get some people coming up. What are your thoughts? Suggestions? Arguments? ))

((I have to agree with Synge and Fire, that I think we're all just busy and it's summer. I just stared summer class a few weeks ago, and then even when I get home I try to go out and do stuff. I think the reason why we were all more active when we were in school or whatever is because we didn't have time to d much else but be at home on a computer doing work. Now we don't have to be at home, so we don't stay at home...*shrugs*

It bothered me at first as well with everyone pairing up, but finally I said what the ell, if you can't beat'em join'em, and I ended up having a lot of fun.

As far as moving the guild to a thread....It's up to you, I don't really care. But I don't think the RP should be stopped. We had a few good weeks of RP and now we don't...it happens. Eventually everyone will be able to get back to it when they can.))

(( Sorry LNS, everything is being repeated!

Either way, I just wanted you all to be aware that I am about to embark on a 6-day trip with my father driving from OKC to Albuquerque, NM, then to 4 corners and all the way through Colorado. During this time my connection to the internet will be limited at best. Feel free to email me using aykon (at) darkseas (dot) net and I will do my best to reply to you. Take care all!

*Huggles LNS, Hugs to others and wavies* ))

((Death to all who flee!))

As the weeks had gone by, very little had been happening on this end of the world. The tavern had been mostly empty and with very little activity if any and the place stayed mostly vacant. Ben had been walking around for some time and had made sure to check that all rooms were vacated.

Seeing that this was the case, he created a sign to be placed on the front door. It was clearly written in his normal very neat script. The letters were black and stood out well against the brown tapestry...



Feeling that this sign was the best it could be, he placed it across the front doors of the building. He then grabbed his rucksack and carried it over his shoulders. With a slightly heavy heart, Ben made his way out to his boat. He smiled weakly as he thought of how Synge used to climb on his boat with him, she would kick her shoes off and walk right up the boat and sit by him. Perhaps she would do this again someday or perhaps she wouldn't.

Shaking this off, he started his engine and soon sputtered out of the boat house and disappeared over the horizon.

(( THERE! Now it's officially break! ))

Yet another DarkSeas comes to an end. Is this really it or is there more to the story? That really depends on destiny's wanton spirit. The screen goes black and we roll credits.

A fitting closing song:Click ME!