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Firstly, to the crew:

Thank you for giving some of your time to the discussions in this topic. I appreciate your time sincerely, and I look forward to the discussion that will be hosted. I respect each of you greatly, and hope that this will be a dialogue between peers, not a discourse between a member and officers.

Secondly, to the members:

Again, thank you for your time as well. For anyone who would be involved in this thread, regardless of whether or not you support or oppose my integration into the GML's crew, I respect and admire your willingness to speak out in this thread. Your opinions have great merit, and if we are to create a guild that is truly democratic, open and transparent to its members, each of you needs to have a voice. I hope that you will use it, regardless of your opinions of me.

Now, in regards to this matter of my crew request.

I understand many of the reservations that the crew has regarding my appointment. The GML has been through a great deal, both before and after my first membership, and certainly before my return. We have suffered a good deal, and a number of members have defected from the guild in the conflicts that came about. Damage was done that can only be fixed with time, and thus I empathize with the mistrust and suspicion that has bred because of it.

Crew and Officers, you can rest assured that I have absolutely no disilussions or ill intent/ will against the GML. I do not seek to make it my own. I do not wish to destroy it. I think you can see that through my work here. I have no desire to rule, to revolt, or rebel. Those of you that do not believe this claim, state your concerns now, and I will address them individually. I care for all of your opinions, and desire nothing more than to show each and every one of you that, despite the misfortune that has befallen our guild in the past, you can trust me. I have been here for a time, both before and after our most recent disasters. Look at my work in the guild, and how I interact with all of you members. I am not aggressive, I am controlling but only to the point of a benefactor, and I do not have the time nor will to subjugate anyone. I love this guild, I wish to see it shine, and I will do everything in my power to insure its success.

Please talk to me honestly. Absolutely honestly. Every fear, reservation and suspicion you have of me I wish to see in this forum. I want this to be a correspondence of the heart, and I would be ashamed of anything less. Let me prove to you that I am what I seem, and that I have nothing to hide. I don't know how to do it, but I swear on my lover and the joys in my life that I will do anything I can to make it so.

Hmmm... where to begin without being to "Me" about it....

I support Ferregar's possible promotion into the status of Crew without a single doubt on the matter. Personally, I believe he could run a successful guild of his own on the off chance he ever decides its something he wanted to do. The man lives creativity, on a level none of us could understand or claim for ourselves, both physically, mentally, and I admit to assume spiritually. If I saw a novel with his name on it, I would buy it. If he directed or starred in a movie, I would see it. And I have no doubts that they would be amazing.

That's what I have to say for now.

Jesse: Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you see what I have to offer :]

Ratchet: I understand this. In fact, I don't think I can state any clearer how much such a position makes sense to me. After insurrection and the amount of damage that was done to the guild, xenophobia and suspicion is warranted. However, I am not a stranger. I've been a member of this guild twice, once after suicide soldier, the other after our most recent incidents. I've in no way contribute to or empathized with those people. I think they're damned foolish, and they've made it a pain in my a** to get more involved in GML!

The aggressive action of the select few shouldn't be so hindersome to the guild now. At least, that is my opinion. Having so much suspicion and lack of trust can only be harmful to the guild as a whole. We've been through alot, and I believe that now the only real way to bring the guild back to greatness is to start by looking at the members we have now, and accepting the fact that the few who remain are here to help. That makes sense, doesn't it? Any rabble rouser that lingers in the state GML is currently in is simply wasting their time.

But that can't be the only reason I was denied prior to this discussion. What other concerns do you, the officers, and you, the members, have? Do you have specific questions you would like to ask me? I'm here to answer them all, and be as open and helpful as I can.

Wielder had been the one to suggest it to us. My statement originally was in response to Wielder considering giving him temporary power. My response was that if Wielder was willing to be online at the same time as he was during crew tenure and watch/rapidly refresh the crew log like a hawk with a fetish for the F5 button, then he could be granted temporary power.

However, my personal opinion is starting to soften a bit, largely because the guild is in a state that its not going anywhere. I feel Ferregar has proven himself to be a loyal member, and I had promoted people to crew who had demonstrated and done less. Only two (Suicide and Typo) betrayed my trust, but sometimes that overshadowed the efforts of Wielder, Aiusagi, K', Kaneharo, and even some of the older crew members like Disaster and Super_Chihuahua.

Honestly, now that I'm back to enjoying my time on Gaia again, and I'm feeling slightly less irritated by the events that took place, I think I personally will recommend Ferregar be promoted to crew. There's my official opinion.

Here's my position Ferregar. In all that I've read about your promotion to crew, I have heard a lot about what you wouldn't do wrong.

-You wouldn't be a suicide clone
-You won't betray us

I want to know what you /would/ do, I respectfully request to know the following.

-What you have done so far. Explain to me what your doing currently for the guild and why it is beneficial. Also other members are welcome to answer this question on your behalf.

-What will you do and why the crew status would be beneficial to you. Crew status does not give you that many special powers. You can delete threads, you can make topics into announcements, it's not very exciting. Why is crew status something you need to be an active and productive member of the guild?

One of the main reasons that we decided to not accept new applications, besides for the suicide incident, is we decided that we didn't need any more crew members, we currently have enough for the population we have in our guild. We can't really have every active member be a crew member because then we'll have no active regular members. I want to know why you deserve to be crew. And I hope you understand that I mean my questions with no disrespect, just curiosity.

I'm glad you asked Aiusagi. Let me break it down.

Currently, what I AM Doing:
- Operating as The RP Haven's Moderator
- Revising The Haven's Method of RP Testing (You can see for yourself.)
- Developing uniform lore for the Guild
- Revising and brainstorming with Jesse's Class System to see how we could implement it, if we choose to, or edit it to a point in which it is manageable by the Guild's standards.
- Operating on the GML Towns Committee
- Developing Events and Contests for both in-Guild use and Towns/ zOMG

While I can understand your perspective on Crew promotion not being necessary, and I agree that it's true, please consider the following:

Without Crew, I have to wait on others to update/ post my work. This is a drawback for you, and an extreme drawback for me.
Without Crew, I am unable to directly contribute in the Crew Vault
Without Crew, because I must wait on others, development proceeds slowly.

If you have read any of the suggestions that I've made in the past, and followed along with anything that I've been currently in the works for, you can see why this is an issue. I work thoroughly, but not particularly quickly. Having to operate on my schedule and another's is highly inconvenient.

Back on topic.

What I WOULD do with crew:
-Have RP Haven completely revised and overhauled in a handful of days
-Follow closely with the other members of crew in all regards
-Work outside of my capacity as RP Haven Mod, when needed
-Continue to do all the things that I'm doing now, except more quickly and effectively.
-Develop new banners for the Guild
-Revise our sitemap (with help and feedback from the other crew members)
-Develop epic RP shells for future contracts and Guild events (In process)
-Be amazing

I'd do all that and much more. I am a hard worker, I put my heart, mind and soul into the work that I do for the RP community, and for this guild because I love it and want to see it grow, and I know I can prove it if given the chance.

Did I miss anything, Aiusagi? Is there anything I didn't mention that you would like to see me do?
Anything ANY of you would like to see me do, for that matter? (Outside of youtube fetish videos. SHAME!)

Since the option was thrown out there I shall answer for myself. I have done nothing. I attempted a plan I had once. It didn't work. All I have done is be active, which is essentially does almost nothing. Now you may say, "Oh but you're one of very few active members in the guild!" That just means we have a lot of people not willing to do the most basic thing when you're part of some sort of group. Participate. If all I've done is participate, but none of the actual work in the group project, I shouldn't deserve the grade of A, just because there are others who are doing nothing.



I must disagree with this. There are people that are active right now that I wouldn't even consider for a crew position. Myself included. Why? They haven't produced any results in helping the guild, due to one circumstance or another. I for one don't even have the creativity to think of a plan or idea that could help. Ferregar at least has an outline, which I couldn't even begin to form.