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I could've cut out the names of the people who've been in contact with me since I left the site, considering it's at least half of you, but I decided to just copy/paste the group list instead because 'why not'. This post isn't particularly something I want - or expect - a reply to at all, but rather just something I wanted to say now that it's been almost a year.

With my PC transfer soon approaching and subsequently things finally becoming stable, a reboot of this role-play is now in preparation for the people - both in and out of this original group - who were interested in it. I've also gone ahead with what I implied could happen should this first version prove not to be worth my time, and this project's story now has a canon version in development that's a direct part of my main project's setting and has in fact been used quite effectively to fill in some of the unfinished blanks in that project, with the role-play reboot being more something on the side than anything else. I'm not running the role-play until the interested parties have time to commit to it, since I don't have time for a repeat of this thread.

I'm not trying to recruit people back onto the team (those who want to be involved in the reboot know how to find me -- my bio provided the information, so anyone who hasn't yet gotten in on it is more than able to), but rather I just wanted to make a point about what's happening because this place is where it started. Though I had the basic blueprints of this project in the back of my mind ever since I played 'Cluedo' ('Clue' for you Americans) long ago, it was the people in this group who motivated me to actually develop it into something I could actually give my investment, and now I've even enriched my main project through it.

Since I probably won't hear from some of you again, and I'll be leaving this site completely (from the looks of things, and based off the statements of a few of my contacts who're still here, the community has only gotten worse since I left) once I finish collecting my data (there's been plenty of delays due to higher priority work), I've decided to use this opportunity to leave you all a message. I'm writing this largely on a whim, which is ironically how I joined this site and met you all in the first place.

Given the events after I exited the site, I'm confident the role-play would've had to come to an end even if I hadn't left. Not only did a few of our more invested members become busy and have to disappear soon afterwards, but others disappeared from the site with no warning (although I get the feeling a couple left precisely because this thread was what held their investment here). Combine that with some of the issues I mentioned previously in other posts, and this thread was pretty much doomed before it started.

I predicted the thread ending up like this, and predicted who'd cause it. Some people simply didn't have the dedication for a project like this and should've stuck to casual role-plays, and certain IC details completely went over some people's heads too. There were people claiming their lack of activity was due to being busy off the site, but that didn't stop them remaining quite active (IC and OOC) in other threads, so I saw through those claims from the start. I would've had more respect for them if they'd just been honest and admitted they weren't dedicated to it, or come and spoke to me about any perceived 'problems' they were having.

Honestly, when all is said and done it's just further proof that first and foremost you need to make sure you only allow people you can trust into your projects, or at least confirm the maturity and dedication level of someone before you allow them to get involved, and also shows how unreliable and irresponsible this community is. My opinions about the maturity level of this site haven't changed. With that said, I'm not gonna waste my time going into exactly who/what I was happy with during this thread or exactly who/what I wasn't happy with, since that'd be pointless. I certainly share Ailyn's sentiments in her last post, but there's no point dwelling on it, and those who let the project down either know who they are or are too immature to realize who they are.

I really only have one thing I came here to say - everything up until this point was just my writing things as they came to me, with the sole exception being when I informed people about the future of this project's story - and that is 'thank you' to those of you within the group who actually did put effort into making this project what it was both IC and OOC, even if it didn't last too long. You provided me with some of the motivation I needed in order to create this project, and I'm continuing to make those seeds grow into something I'm truly proud of. I also enjoyed the chatting, even if some of those potential friendships ended up being fruitless when push came to shove. To the people who actually invested in and appreciated the project, you have my gratitude.

And with that, I bid you all 'adieu'.