Pardon me for bringing this here rather than just approaching you over Plurk about it, but I think that this is deserving this venue.
My problem is, you might have guessed it, your lack of reliability as a player. You are a fun person to be around, fantastic at the characters you play, active, fast, full of fun and creative ideas for tags and plots alike and to top it all off you are also a joy to interact with ooc! IF you are actually around. :(
I know that RL and circumstances happen and I don’t mean to blame you for it, but in your case it has gotten to the extend where your sudden disappearances and dropping of things without any warning has become the rule rather than its exception. We have been playing for almost a year together and within all this time and all of the CR between our characters (not only with Chrono but also Shader and Sasame) I can still count the number of threads and/or logs that were finished by the fingers of one hand – while still having some of them left.
I’m sorry if this comes off as harsh, but, and I am being honest here, while plotting with you is a real joy it isn’t when I can be sure that the plots will be played half out at best before you vanish again for weeks without a word of advance warning or a chance to figure out a way of what happened in them so that the people who play with you could move on in a fitting way without having to wait for you whenever you might end up coming back. You also said that you wanted to backtag what you dropped before but from what I have seen (and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) you never do.
What you do this way isn’t giving others a small (or huge) delay, you make the plot crash and burn because nobody has an idea what happened to you, if it’s okay to move on IC and how to do it, what can and can’t be assumed – and no way to contact you about anything of it!
You leave others hanging with nothing to work with and seem to expect things to be okay and resolved when you come back, but that’s sadly not how it works and as both a castmate and somebody who enjoys playing with you I find it very disheartening, especially when I have to tell others that the plot we all looked forward to won’t happen anytime soon – which I only know because I have the drop & hiatus page of the game tracked and you on my Plurk. Same when somebody contacts me about you and your disappearance/the planned plot/the thread you were having with them because I’m a castmember and they can’t reach you no matter what they try.
I didn’t say anything about this for a long time because I thought that, welp, shit happens but by now it just happened a bit too often as that I could still remain silent without beginning to slowly but surely resent you for it. Which I really, really don’t want to! I want to look forward to plotting to you the same way I look forward to reading your tags. I like you and I have had heaps of fun playing with you so far because you make it a mindblowingly fun experience (I especially love our threads with Chrono and Aion!) and I also have no right to tell you not to take a hiatus or an off time from the game when your life is busy or when you just don’t feel like playing or for any other reason that might come up. Those things are fine!
However, I want to sincerely ask you to give others a chance when you need to vanish for a while. Give us an advance warning, post to the OOC community and not just the mod journal about your hiatus, send a quick PM to at least one of the other players telling them what’s up and suggesting what to do without you if it’s a plot so that they can hash things out with the others while you’re off… All those things would help a lot!!
I apologize if this concrit has ended up as being awkwardly written or accusatory, I don’t mean it like that. It’s just that I’m frustrated and know for a fact that I’m not the only one feeling that way (though I’m willing to bet that I’m the one feeling it the strongest) and I needed to let those things out and just tell you about it before something explodes. I want to be able to enjoy playing with you and be proud of my castmates as I was before, not to think ‘well, that’s the next plot that we’ll have to handwave an end to’.
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My problem is, you might have guessed it, your lack of reliability as a player. You are a fun person to be around, fantastic at the characters you play, active, fast, full of fun and creative ideas for tags and plots alike and to top it all off you are also a joy to interact with ooc! IF you are actually around. :(
I know that RL and circumstances happen and I don’t mean to blame you for it, but in your case it has gotten to the extend where your sudden disappearances and dropping of things without any warning has become the rule rather than its exception. We have been playing for almost a year together and within all this time and all of the CR between our characters (not only with Chrono but also Shader and Sasame) I can still count the number of threads and/or logs that were finished by the fingers of one hand – while still having some of them left.
I’m sorry if this comes off as harsh, but, and I am being honest here, while plotting with you is a real joy it isn’t when I can be sure that the plots will be played half out at best before you vanish again for weeks without a word of advance warning or a chance to figure out a way of what happened in them so that the people who play with you could move on in a fitting way without having to wait for you whenever you might end up coming back. You also said that you wanted to backtag what you dropped before but from what I have seen (and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) you never do.
What you do this way isn’t giving others a small (or huge) delay, you make the plot crash and burn because nobody has an idea what happened to you, if it’s okay to move on IC and how to do it, what can and can’t be assumed – and no way to contact you about anything of it!
You leave others hanging with nothing to work with and seem to expect things to be okay and resolved when you come back, but that’s sadly not how it works and as both a castmate and somebody who enjoys playing with you I find it very disheartening, especially when I have to tell others that the plot we all looked forward to won’t happen anytime soon – which I only know because I have the drop & hiatus page of the game tracked and you on my Plurk. Same when somebody contacts me about you and your disappearance/the planned plot/the thread you were having with them because I’m a castmember and they can’t reach you no matter what they try.
I didn’t say anything about this for a long time because I thought that, welp, shit happens but by now it just happened a bit too often as that I could still remain silent without beginning to slowly but surely resent you for it. Which I really, really don’t want to! I want to look forward to plotting to you the same way I look forward to reading your tags. I like you and I have had heaps of fun playing with you so far because you make it a mindblowingly fun experience (I especially love our threads with Chrono and Aion!) and I also have no right to tell you not to take a hiatus or an off time from the game when your life is busy or when you just don’t feel like playing or for any other reason that might come up. Those things are fine!
However, I want to sincerely ask you to give others a chance when you need to vanish for a while. Give us an advance warning, post to the OOC community and not just the mod journal about your hiatus, send a quick PM to at least one of the other players telling them what’s up and suggesting what to do without you if it’s a plot so that they can hash things out with the others while you’re off… All those things would help a lot!!
I apologize if this concrit has ended up as being awkwardly written or accusatory, I don’t mean it like that. It’s just that I’m frustrated and know for a fact that I’m not the only one feeling that way (though I’m willing to bet that I’m the one feeling it the strongest) and I needed to let those things out and just tell you about it before something explodes. I want to be able to enjoy playing with you and be proud of my castmates as I was before, not to think ‘well, that’s the next plot that we’ll have to handwave an end to’.
Sorry for all the Tl;Dr and much love!