I am also not the picture of fast replies

If you guys were fast I'd be more worried. I'd rather you post when you're ready and have taken your time!

If we end up delaying again, I might send some stuff here in OOC to keep us preoccupied.

Gotcha and likewise! I should probably post around OOC more often; I've had a number of character thoughts.

I went to the free clinic today and had myself a checkup, just to make sure nothing was actually majorly wrong. It seemed everything was in order - aside from the symptoms I'm still suffering from.

Got the whole week off though, so hopefully I should recover soon(tm). Once I have, GM post will be a priority.

For now, please bear with the lack of postage as my AWESOME bod' struggles to beat back what amounts to a common cold. It's like watching a Pro Football team struggle against a Junior League team that's being coached by that one dad who takes it way too seriously... >_>;

Hey now, that one Dad is doing his darndest and was a centre-back in High School. He knows his shit.

Edit: Also, I'm British and have no real idea what a centre-back is.

@Xaltwind dude that sounds so awful. Not so sick you're bedridden but just sick enough to not be fit for work -_-. I'd be livid. Stay comfy. We are a determined band and are loving your gming style so far!

@Uiop oh yeah? Like what?

So you all have music you associate with your characters here? I have a Valiant playlist but it isn't my favorite:
open.spotify.com/playlist/35JbwYSFEXE…

I do have a list for Vector! I'm so glad you included NSP in that list for the car thing. Thats incredible. I'll link mine when I'm on my pc/laptop next!

I've always been really terrible at associating music with my characters haha, so I don't have a list for Stella.

Sorry I've been really quiet here btw, I'm very much looking forward to this RP getting going in earnest, just been busy elsewhere lately.

Hey I didn't really start doing it until some of my friends started sharing their playlist with me. I figured I'd join in the fun.

And don't stress it dude. I'm just trying to keep the mojo here haha

I need to stop tempting fate about being less busy, lol.

@Uiop oh yeah? Like what?

Mostly potential dynamic&interaction stuff so far? We've got a number of characters going "Damn, all these other people here are far more the real deal than I am." and a variety of eclectic personalities that will have some fun contrasts. Though, tad hard to say something detailed at the present; since we just got started and all.

Personally, I don't typically assign playlists to my characters. There's a few times I've listened to a song and gone "Yeah this absolutely fits for this scene/character"; though that's not happened yet for Sleet. Still cool and fun to read through other people's lists though!

I think Starshine and Dermont have a decent amount to mesh about. Geeks who are good people but struggle socially. Though they are definitely different kinds of dorks. One's a geek and the other is a nerd! Dynamo might help bring out that bubbly personality she has online into her everyday life, though!

Sleet and Vector have similar upbringings but seem like very different people. I'm excited for Dermont to maybe find out that Vector helped support him and others like him, especially if, up until that point, he just sees Vector as an uptight rich kid with a fancy gun.

Butterfly could be a cool one for everyone, since she's most likely to figure out things about the others. Maybe she figures out Dermont has a sword talking to him? Or how many wealthy and famous people are in this team, hahaha!

Alright, let me start off by apologizing for the long wait.

Whatever the eff this sickness that I caught is, it's been a real pain and just refuses to go away. I'm now almost on 3 consecutive weeks of being sick. Yeah, I'm feeling a bit better, but that doesn't mean much when there're also moments of sporadic relapses into feeling like crap out of nowhere.

In addition to this, I've recently started to notice that my eyes - which are already bad due to my birth-laiden handicap - have gotten worse. Notably worse. Like, to the point that I'ma ctually going "Woah, hold on, it wasn't this bad just a month ago, right?". I don't know if this is related to the illness I'm experiencing, or if it's just a sudden and unfortunate drop in vision for/caused by other reason or nature. I honestly couldn't tell you. What I can tell you is that i's having an effect on my basic daily life - and sadly, in addition, reading and roleplaying as well.

While I do use a text-to-speech program to get through posts and things other people write, I still need to write my own posts. And check them. Even with a TTS reading back to me what just wrote, I still need to manually search my posts for errors or mistakes and fix them. This, as you can probably guess, requires me to use my eyes.

While this isn't an issue (yet) for making posts about a single character that I control, it is becoming a problem when I have to write big posts for multiple individuals and their actions, and the subsequent effects of those actions. I get tired quicker, my head starts to hurt more, my mood suffers and, as a result, the quality and - more importantly - my enjoyment for what I'm doing falls.

So, to make a very long story a little less long; I believe I've finally reached the point in my RP career (and life) where it is no longer physically feasible for me to run RPs anymore. The strain put on me to keep up with and deal with several people and their actions just isn't something I can do hassle-free and without singificant effort. And while I do beleive one should put effort into their posts and write well and good (masterful writing right there), I don't believe you should do so if it becomes a physical pain/challenge for your own body to do so.

This is, of course, extremely sucky - both for you guys and for me. There're plenty more RP ideas and concepts I would've liked to make and run, but, it just isn't a possibility it seems. At least not without great pains and me going to great lengths to make it happen. Heck, even just writing this is taxing - albeit I'm not yet rid off said illness.

So, what can we do about this? Well, i can't really do much myself. There's no cure for my hjandicap and I don't know how to program AI to write for me. So, that leaves the decision up to you guys and hals. Do you want to keep going with this RP? If you do, I give you complete and utter freedom and endorsement to run and do with it as you please, but I won't be able to keep going as the GM.

If ya'll don't wanna keep going, we can just pat each other on the hack and I can give you all thanks for the support and being such good sports about this whole mess. I really wish things were different and that it hadn't come to this, but sometimes life just doesn't turn out or go where you want it.

I want to take the opportunity to say that I appreciate your patience and that I enjoyed all of your writing. Again, I wish I could keep going and have kept leading this RP to where I wanted. But, you all still have the opportunty to forge ahead and keep the story going, if you want.

While I won't be able to GM, I certainly ain't ready to quit RP'ing altogther just yet. So, I'll be around, and if you all decide to keep going with this (or just a few of you), I'll still be here and I'm more than happy to give input or information about things I had planned or whatever else lore-related or mechanics-workings of the RP you might want/need to know. Unless you just wanna go balls-to-the-walls and do whatever you feel like, that works too.

In the end, it's all up to you. I'm very sad about this turn of events and hope you all aren't too disappointed. I wish you luck and fun in whatever and whichever direction you wish to go, and hope you all have far better roleplaying experiences in the future.

Thank you all for your time and engagement. It was fun. :)

I can't blame you at all. I hope you manage to feel better. I run DND for disabled people and we use text to speech or read things aloud to people often. I know how frustrating either option can be so I don't blame you.

I really shouldn't and I really don't want to but I would be willing to gm if people want. I won't be nearly as good as our spectacular and bombastic gm xaltwind but I can do my best.

This is the second time a roleplay I've been super stoked for has collapsed via real world stuff since I hoped back on here. I don't want that to keep happening

@Birdboy
I'm very grateful for your understanding. :)
And you just lemme know if you wanna take the reins for this, I'll set up the Co-GM priveleges and all that for you if so.

Provided errryone else is cool with it.

Also, I am not bombastic! D:

Of course, I would want people's approval. And if anyone else wants to take over I will gladly falter to them instead, haha.

My bad, not bombastic! I didn't realize that was an insult. How about Bodacious instead?

@Xaltwind
That sounds like a hell of a lot to deal with, and I don't blame you at all for stepping away from GMing. I really hope things improve for you on the health front.

I'm interested in continuing the RP (or getting it started, really, we haven't quite got off the ground yet it feels like), but I'm definitely not considering stepping into a GM role myself, so that would have to be someone else. I was still waiting to see how the RP was actually going to work once our characters started getting to their hero activities, since I'm assuming we wouldn't all be going around together in one single big group.

@Xaltwind
I hope I'm not overstepping by wishing you my sincere condolences for what's going on in your life. As Birdboy (Edit: And Shoopuf, I got ninjaed by the post while I was typing) said, I don't blame you at all either. Sometimes shit just happens. And yeah, the RP was very fun. May you carry in non-bombastically to further adventures and the like.

As for the future of the RP, I'm on board with changing to a new GM, or possibly moving to a non-GM-based format. I'd kind of recommend the latter if no-one particularly wants to GM; since that'd make it more fun for everyone than forcing someone who doesn't want to GM into the position. Though, of course, if someone does want to GM, I'm on board with that as well. This is a great group and I am not at all picky about how we proceed. I think we can find a way to keep this going if everyone still wants to; but no pressure to anyone who may want to drop out.

I'm sorry to hear everything that is going on for you, @xaltwind, I've been hoping that you would be feeling better, or at least on the mend.

As for continuing the RP, I'm sure we'll find a way to continue with the RP as, as the others have said, I don't mind if someone wanted to take over as GM or if we continued GM-lessly. Normally I'd put my hand up to take the reins and continue on with GMing but I've got too many RPs on my plate right now to outright run one.

So, I haven’t posted in a while, but I’m up for continuing.