[INDENT][INDENT][table=bordered][row][/row][row][cell=info][INDENT][SUB][SUP][H3][B][COLOR=white]ANNOUNCEMENT:[/COLOR][/B][/H3][/SUP][/SUB][/INDENT][b][sup]_______________________________[/sup][/b][INDENT][COLOR=BLACK]I owe the vast majority of you an apology. Last week, there was an incident where players had located a draft from my personal workshop thread and brought it to the attention of others in the Team Blackjack specific channel. This led to a dialogue with several players voicing opinions as to how I wrote not only my post but my character. Suffice it to say, I didn't appreciate the violation of privacy or unsolicited input. This was in addition to already having a hard time GMing after adjusting not only to a larger player base but unfortunately I knowingly took on a player that I historically do not get along with. I'm not perfect, far from it. I let emotions get the better of me and thought I could migrate the issues by muting the general chats in the Discord and appearing offline so as to focus on the game solely from a GM perspective. Unfortunately, issues continued to boil up and I thought I would teach these alleged 'troublemakers' a lesson by laying a trap. On May 8th, I posted the following draft to my workshop thread, full well knowing it was public:[/COLOR][/INDENT][/cell][/row][/table][/INDENT][/INDENT][CENTER][hider=The GM Draft][url=https://roleplayerguild.com/newtags/start?tag=left&data=][/url]GM Post: -Send both Blackjack and Firebird to bed for the night -GM excerpt? Campus attacked, and several cast members are killed. Likely reduce players down to a more manageable number, and apologize to the rest. [indent]The thunderstorm masked any sounds of their arrival as Hyperion and Autumn set upon the Southern Plateau like predators at a buffet.[/indent] -The surviving members of Blackjack, Eclipse and Firebird gather for the swap, clearly shaken. [indent]Was it all just a dream? Cass kept hoping he would wake up. His arm was in agony, a bloodied batch of bandages covering the stump where he used to have a hand. Axel's dead eyes haunted him, he hadn't been able to fly away fast enough. Haleigh was the next to fall, her wheelchair proving to be the ultimate liability. Things only got worse after Rory started borrowing powers, and the chaos continued to spiral from there. Between Blackjack and Firebird, there were eight dead students. Who knew how many on Eclipse? Who knew how many more throughout the rest of the school. How were the Collegiate students supposed to defend themselves against Hyperion? How was this Hyperhuman on Hyperhuman violence bringing about Hyperion's goals? None of this made sense to Cassander.[/indent] -Immediately after the swap, the three teams enter the hedge, initially faced with the same scenario. Survivors: - - - - - - - - - - - Deceased: -The rest. [COLOR=GRAY][INDENT][COLOR=lightgray][SUB][SUP][H3][I]Previously...[/I][/H3][/SUP][/SUB][/COLOR] [COLOR=DIMGRAY][Quote][I][COLOR=WHITE]“Hello, Miss Miracle.”[/COLOR] Looking up from between her knees, Autumn looked towards the figure before turning towards her cell camera and smiling widely. And then the feed went dark.[/i][/Quote][/color] [INDENT]The thunderstorm masked any sounds of their arrival as Hyperion and Autumn set upon the Southern Plateau like predators at a buffet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus at mi mi. In imperdiet porta dolor, at fermentum nulla commodo eu. Suspendisse volutpat et ex tempor suscipit. Nullam tincidunt at nunc vel auctor. Donec venenatis, nisl nec fringilla varius, massa quam porttitor turpis, sed bibendum purus sem id risus. Nullam scelerisque lectus eget diam gravida malesuada. Maecenas consectetur est ac sollicitudin congue. Maecenas interdum erat dignissim lectus sodales, nec ultrices neque egestas. Integer convallis lacus at consequat volutpat.[/INDENT][/INDENT][hr][CENTER][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1047910123206627378/1081252638785552494/image.png[/img][/CENTER][indent][sub][COLOR=lightgray][B]Location:[/B][/COLOR] [I]Sub Location,[/I] - [I]Primary Location[/I][/sub][sup][right][COLOR=lightgray][b]The Homecoming Trials #1.0X:[/b][/COLOR] [I]Post Title[/I][/right][/sup][/indent][sub][hr][/sub][INDENT][sub][color=lightgray][B]Interaction(s):[/B][/COLOR] [I]None[/I][/sub][SUP][RIGHT][COLOR=SILVER][b]Previously:[/b][/COLOR] [I]None[/I][/right][/SUP] [INDENT]Cass kept hoping he would wake up. His arm was in agony, a bloodied batch of bandages covering the stump where he used to have a hand. Axel's dead eyes haunted him, he hadn't been able to fly away fast enough. Haleigh was the next to fall, her wheelchair proving to be the ultimate liability. Things only got worse after Rory started borrowing powers, and the chaos continued to spiral from there. Between Blackjack and Firebird, there were eight dead students. Who knew how many on Eclipse? Who knew how many more throughout the rest of the school. How were the Collegiate students supposed to defend themselves against Hyperion? How was this Hyperhuman on Hyperhuman violence bringing about Hyperion's goals? None of this made sense to Cassander. He had tried to help, tried to protect them. Inside his powers had been turned against him, took his own hand off along with half of Trace's face. Or at least he had thought it was Trace. It wasn't until the body hit the ground that it was revealed to be Iñigo. The speedster from the other team had been cleaved clear in half by Autumn using powers taken from the now dead Ryan Clarke. Somehow they were expected to continue with the Homecoming Trials, as though nothing that happened the previous night mattered, as though they hadn't just lost half their classmates. Standing alongside the remaining members of Blackjack, Cassander looked toward Firebird and Eclipse. There should have been thirty-six students including himself here today. Instead, he counted only nineteen left. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus at mi mi. In imperdiet porta dolor, at fermentum nulla commodo eu. Suspendisse volutpat et ex tempor suscipit. Nullam tincidunt at nunc vel auctor. Donec venenatis, nisl nec fringilla varius, massa quam porttitor turpis, sed bibendum purus sem id risus. Nullam scelerisque lectus eget diam gravida malesuada. Maecenas consectetur est ac sollicitudin congue. 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Integer convallis lacus at consequat volutpat.[/INDENT][/INDENT] [color=lightgray][SUP][table][row][/row][row][cell][color=#2c2c2c]- -[/color]|◄ [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5415864][COLOR=GRAY][b]FIRST[/b][/COLOR][/url][/cell][cell][color=2c2c2c]-[/color][/cell][cell][color=2c2c2c]-[/color][/cell][cell][color=2c2c2c]-[/color][/cell][cell][center]◄ [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5415864][COLOR=GRAY][B]PREV[/B][/COLOR][/url] || [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5415864][COLOR=GRAY][B]NEXT[/B][/COLOR][/url] ►[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/center][/cell][cell][color=2c2c2c]-[/color][/cell][cell][INDENT][right][url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5415864][COLOR=GRAY][B]LATEST[/B][/COLOR][/url] ►|[/right][/INDENT][/cell][/row][/table][/SUP][/color][/COLOR][url=https://roleplayerguild.com/newtags/end?tag=left&data=][/url][/hider][/CENTER] [INDENT][INDENT][table=bordered][row][/row][row][cell=info][INDENT][color=black]This post was circulated, as was intended, through the targeted parties, discouraging several players from posting and ultimately leading to a player leaving. While in many ways this was a desired outcome, it was not the way to go about removing a player from the roleplay, nor the way to address when I have issues with players. By going about handling the situation in this manner, I no doubt off-put several players, and while several were in on the joke, many more were not. In particular, I want to extend an apology to [@Kuro], [@Mao Mao], and [@webboysurf] whose characters were named in the 'draft' post.[/COLOR][/INDENT][/cell][/row][/table][/INDENT][/INDENT]