[quote=grandsword]
i had four. three now.

as for post length, excuse me for missing where an RP turned into writing a paper each post.

pardon me for making the attempt to balance this, with college, two jobs, a part in a play, and a household to run. but certainly. let me lessen my characters. let me remove another reason for me to stay. we're still around lava right? i'll just have two of them take a dip. then kill the other one later, and then..oh, right, then be done. come to think of it, why not not leave now? obviously, I suck too much for you people's standards, and the rp would be better off if i wasn't here, so why not just leave?

I give. a. damn. about this thing. you all can second guess me, my posting, my ability in rping..but you know what, at the end of the day i give more of a Damn about this RP than you know.

so if you lot want to drive me off, guess what. i've been loyal to this for four years. i ain't leaving or removing my cast because people want one character per person or paragraphs every post, or a ratio of posting every day. 

take offence if you will. but i stand  firm.
and that's my final piece on the matter.
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Three or four characters is a fair amount when you can't keep all of them straight and active. It's why I continue to suggest you do just the one, so you are better immersed in a single experience and write more for a single person. A paragraph of 4 or 5 lines per character isn't a paper, even if you had 4 of them, don't exagerate. Having more characters shouldn't in any way be a particular reason to hang around in any roleplay, you can do things with just the one and several players are doing so, in fact.

If your life is currently too hectic to keep up with things, then perhaps it would be best to just have the one character to keep track of, yes? Also you get fairly contradictory, you threaten to leave yet go on to speak about how much you care for this roleplay and how you're gonna stick to it. No one's ever told you to leave. In fact, I have encouraged you to stay. Doesn't change the fact that, in my opinion, it would help your writing to learn how to focus and write for a single character instead of having 3 or 4.

I'm not forcing anyone to do anything, I don't particularly have the power to, but what I can do is discuss and present arguments that I feel support my point of view, something you're not particularly managing at the moment. I've yet to see a single shred of evidence that you really need to have all these characters when you can barely keep track of them all and write for them all, nevermind giving each of them an engaging situation even if it's something as simple as, say, Jack wandering off to loot with no challenge.

Others agree with me, and please, don't even try to call this being teamed up on or a conspiracy, shit's embarrasing, people can naturally agree over points without it turning into a direct attack on your person. Believe it or not, I'm actually trying to help you here. Forum roleplaying is all about creative writing, fully portraying a character and giving people a look at their mindset, their situations, how they see the world and interact with it. Learning to get the handle of setting a scene and delving into character mentality for every post, even if it's something simple and inconsequential to the overall plot, will make your narrative that much more engaging. And you can get a better grasp of this if you, you guessed it, stick to the one character and try to write at least 4 or 5 lines per post.