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[@Saltwater Thief]My problem with your post is: 1) You assume in your post that the situation happened right in front of the Pokemon Club table to "conveniently" allow your character to see it happen. Vix had moved over to the van area in secret and was hiding before she was snatched up. I don't think she would had hid right next to the Pokemon Club table where any of the staff could have easily seen her; 2) You really, really need to start collaborating with other writers because you are wasting time and energy writing assumptions that you already know after you write them that I'm going to reject the idea. So why do it? Why waste your time? All you got to do is PM people or even run your idea by me. You can do it here in the OOC or PMs, and I can help you tweak the idea until it is possible rather than you send me BS.

Having said this, get with [@Feisty-Pants][@Raijinslayer] and see what they propose so that you don't have to assume anymore. If you did get with them beforehand, then I'm disapointed because they have been in this game for 3 months, which is long enough to figure out how I roll. I want to believe that they would have advised you not to post it up. You are getting frustrated with wanting your character to do something about a situation but you aren't collaborating with anyone; not even the damn GM.
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Fine. Post snipped again, I'll try a 3rd time later. To answer things in some semblance of order;

I was under the impression based on an OOC conversation between us from earlier that Raijin was going to have Jaden be mostly unaware of the Vixnapping and follow the truck for different reasons, and from how I read the GMP Vix wouldn't have freedom to act until well after any of my actions would have resolved. As such, I did not think I'd necessarily require their collaboration for this particular action, and so I did not seek it (also because I knew they were both busy with school and family matters and I didn't want to tie them up further). My lone wolf tendencies certainly didn't help. 

That she had moved away from the table was an oversight on my part, Feisty hadn't posted since Vix's rant on the table so I presumed she hadn't moved and absentmindedly neglected the part of the post where you moved her. I take full responsibility for that.

I knew the idea probably wouldn't work but I did it anyway because what happened was I had the thought to try it if the van hadn't left when it might have been more feasible, but after re-realizing the contrary I decided to stick with it despite knowing it wouldn't work because I thought it was an interesting ploy nonetheless and on additional thought I determined that it is something Seth would try In-Character. In life, people don't always go for the most foolproof move possible, and in the past I've had GMs reward following that with surprising degrees of success. If nothing else, I figured it would cause the Club to partially bear its actual fangs in verbal retaliation and lead to development that way as Seth comes around to think that maybe there's a criminal element after all. Adding to this is the idea that realistically speaking, I don't expect [i]anything[/i] I try to work because I am still lacking the most basic tool for the RP in a Pokemon Partner, and even though I have one lined up amending that at present would require what I consider to be an unacceptable amount of breaking character. I figure if I can't make an effective choice, I may as well make an interesting one.

I am not in the habit of consulting the GM with every idea or even most ideas I have, primarily because in my experience when I say "Here is my plan in detail, would this work?" the first thing they do is come up with reasons it absolutely wouldn't. Not because they're out to get me, but because it's part of their job as a GM to create conflict and opposition for the players, so that's a natural reaction when a Player presents a plan in any form. By contrast, if I keep my cards near my vest until I put them on the table, so to speak, there's an element of surprise and unexpectedness to it- and I've had multiple instances where that surprise has helped me weight the pending reaction more in my favor (usually resulting in only partial failure rather than total shutdown), so it's become a rather ingrained habit that, admittedly, has run me into snags in the past. 

Moving forward then, it seems to me that the principle issue lies in the fact that how I have handled myself up until now has clashed horribly with what you expect from your players as a whole. Given our positions, it is on me to remedy my side of it as opposed to vice versa, and I will endeavor to do so as best I can.


In the meantime, [@Raijinslayer] & [@Feisty-Pants], I'll let you two take the lead for the rest of this bit. We'll say Seth has not reacted to anything yet, and if you have a particular use for him in your plan you need only say the word. And if the general consensus is that I ought to butt out of the whole thing, I can probably figure out a way to make that work given some time.