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Persistent World

Move it down and create a fantasy one and I'll be happy. Otherwise top, bottom, middle, I don't really care. It doesn't stop me from getting to the Arena or Advanced when need be.

@Rilla

The current storyline is a fantasy storyline.

@Rose There are literally zero actual moderators for the EH's IC and OOC tabs (Harb and Zy lost interest like a month into the project). That needs to be addressed.

Persistent World

@Ruby @Rilla @Holy Soldier @Mattchstick @ArenaSnow etc ...

There are two things I think should be noted.

1. Retention policy. RPGuild staff are NOT in the business of removing content without good reason. There are posts still accessible from over a decade ago. Deleting the work the contributors to Expanding Horizons have put in, even if they have become inactive, lacks precedence on this site and merit in general. As such, deleting Expanding Horizons, as some people have intimated, is almost certainly off the table.

2. Related content. In the last two or so years, Expanding Horizons has accumulated a lot of related content that is designed to have interplay and accessibility to all of the players involved. Above, I've seen suggestions ranging from dumping everything into another subforum to merging everything into a super-thread. While both options are feasible, they likewise have drawbacks that ultimately end in confusion and disorganization relative to what the current Expanding Horizons user experience is (not that it is great, but it is at least fairly accessible). Some of the better options I've seen and support involve maintaining the intactness of Expanding Horizons by moving it to a less conspicuous location, perhaps as a sub-subforum of Casual Roleplay or just lower down on the page.

Please see my posts in the earlier thread as some of my other points remain relevant.

Anyone up for dinosaur planet?

@SIGINT It doesn't look like this is a new group so much as a new setting for people to be active in. As such, group restrictions wouldn't apply.

Lothaire The Crime Lord

@Lothaire Approved.

The legendary spokesman of Ragnarov Fleet, Forever

@Hekazu Not that I need to, but for the sake of formality, approved. Also, noting, as you said in chat, this is mainly a character designed to push storylines.

Dr. Elenwen

@Normie Approved.

Lothaire The Crime Lord

@Lothaire Shouldn't the influence be a 4 to match the weak mind control? To leverage that across a global population, he'd need influential connections in the media and government if he wanted any hope of exerting mind control on a sizable audience.

Also, Shiny stone requires some description if its influence is 5. At first I thought that might've been some sort of typo, but in any case more detail is helpful here.

Sea of Ignominy

Satire out of the way and as bad as this thread started out (and continued to be for a while), there were some aspects of it I enjoyed. Specifically the dialogue and the attempt the characters made to empathize with one another in the last three or four posts. That, in my opinion, elevated the situation from just a stupid fight into something potentially meaningful in terms of the Val'Gara and the direction of the group. Megalodon's mental turmoil and Disciple's acknowledgement that his attempts to reconcile a fairly impossible situation were futile -- both of those inclusions were good.

Sea of Ignominy

Thread summary:

Sassy Mama claws her way out of Colossus’ belly. She’s a big’un; like, “Sassy Mama So Fat She Squashed a Planet” big. No wonder her mama exploded. No wonder she cranky. Her brothers are there, by-the-by. They do not impress. She bitch-smacks shark-bro to a whole ‘nother world and ties squid-bro up in bondage gear.

Disoriented from being flung to Planet Crazy, shark-bro burps up some spittle. A mean bong-hitting man afflicted with Alexandria Genesis tells him to shut up and mind his manners. Damn, he smokes a lot. The whole place is covered in it. Before shark-bro can apologize, the mean man tells his luck dragons Sandy and Rocky to sick ‘em. Shark-bro doesn’t like that and bites Rocky’s tail. They land on the ground and make a big boom. Apparently, they hit the ground too damn hard and wake up Rip Van Winkle. He is hungry and devours a spider with eyelids. Whoever heard of such a thing? Then he starts bitching about kids these days having no respect and magics squid-bro into a bathtub full of putrefied skin because plain ole bondage gear is boring.

Meanwhile, Sassy Mama farted through space to escape her moma’s dead body. Her farts are pretty bad and pretty moist. Anyway, she catches a whiff of her own produce and and either hallucinates or really does run into a giant cross-dresser in space who wants to give her a shiny rock. She isn’t having none of that, though. No shiny rock. The cross-dresser won’t take no for an answer, and tricks her into taking the rock. Damn. It isn’t a rock, after all. It’s fucking urchin-bro, her new baby brother. Where was he hiding? Don’t matter. She bitch-smacks him away too.

Back on Planet Crazy: lots of val-babies being made. Not through normal reproduction. Just random shit getting stuck in the folds of fat-bro’s loose skin. Eventually squid-bro claws his way out of fat-bro’s belly button and damn is he angry. He starts mouthing off about how Satan or Magnus or somebody is their daddy. Some rockstar starts thrashing out some Metal Mayhem. He doesn’t actually know how to play his instrument, though. This drives the luck dragons crazy and so they start barking at flesh-bro. The bad music also attracts the attention of a bigger, hornier, metal dragon who bursts upon the scene. He isn’t friends with anyone! And he has a gun! Shark-bro’s pet fish is screaming, but he has a tummy ache. Whoops, ate too much! He vomits and a bunch of jelly fish come rushing out.

Holy fuck, these guys have mommy issues.

The metal dragon fires his pistol.

Shark-bro flushes his pet fish down the toilet because he is sad and confused. Then he jumps into the toilet too and swims down the drain.