Since this game is well and truly dead now, I decided it was time for me to speak my peace. So many things get left unsaid on RPGuild, but I’m just far too full of piss and vinegar to forget, let stuff go and move on. Lack of accountability, complete apathy and a general loser attitude are why so many games fail here. Players here expect, and are okay with failure- something I just cannot abide. This game failed when it didn’t have to and what’s even more aggravating, is that it [i]shouldn’t have[/i]. On a site where so many games struggle just to just get off the ground, this game had lightning in a bottle and squandered it. It’s shameful and in over twenty years of PBP games, I have to say this was one that made me really think about this hobby as a whole. 

Now I can hear all the screeching starting and that’s fine. If any of the parties involved in this travesty happen to be reading this: Yeah, I did come here to dance on the grave and say an emphatic, “[i]I told you so.[/i]” Because I did. I didn’t write over four years of successful slice of life on this site to learn nothing about how people function, particularly when it comes to this genre. A certain vocal element entered into this game, pushed out the productive and invested players that joined at the start and then proceeded to move on once the story no longer had direction. Would things have been different if maybe someone had listened to Pilatus? Yep. I can at a minimum guarantee we would have made it past the first day.

So hats off to all of you who ran this into the ground like a jetliner into an Everglades swamp. Well done and also kudos for at least attempting to grab the control column when you saw the terrain rushing up to meet the glass. When you scrambled and made all those temporary NPCs and characters to try and make sense out of a plot that you destroyed- You have to just believe me when I say it warmed a special place in my cold black heart to watch you fail, lose interest and then just dump the game completely. What’s really pitiful is because of the attitudes listed above you probably didn’t learn anything and went on to kill other games in the same way. You all are like “anti-writers” that never make it past the Mary/Gary Sue stage. You’re just noise on the Guild that has to be squelched. 

So internet traveler, if you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading. I can promise you those that committed this crime in writing did not. If they couldn’t be bothered to read the posts of other players, I doubt they made it this far. Let what transpired here be a lesson in what not to do and good luck in your games wherever you may find yourself in the Guild. If you ever have any questions or perhaps if the full story of what happened in Sanctuary tickles your fancy, you know where to find me.

-P