Thinslayer

The Legend of Zelda: Bloom of Civilization

@RyuHll
Yes! She is an amateur scientist, and in fact she argued with her father briefly because she was focusing too much on science and not enough on developing her magic sealing power, necessary for defeating Ganon. She did not, however, "stumble" on Calamity Ganon. Everyone had predicted his arrival, so they were ready for it. They were not, however, prepared for Ganon's retaliation, which cost them dearly. All four Champions died at Ganon's hands, and Link died in Zelda's arms at the very end. With no Hero to turn to, Zelda had to face Ganon alone. So she did. She and Ganon were evenly matched in power, neither able to defeat the other, so they were locked in stalemate for 100 years until Link awoke.

The Legend of Zelda: Bloom of Civilization

There was a soft clink. Zelda looked up to see Link put the utensils down. His hands felt calloused, yet gentle, as he took up her own. She lifted her gaze into the beautiful blue of his eyes.

"You've spent a century trying to hold this country together," Link said. "I've only been able to support you a few weeks. I'm coming."
Zelda pulled in her lips to hold back her sigh of relief. Links squeezed her hand, and she squeezed his back before releasing from his grasp. Then he said something that set her heart aflutter.

"I'll be your knight for as long as you'll have me, Zelda."

That cheeky boy should have known he'd make her swoon. She arched slightly and leaned back her head, eyes fluttering half-closed. "Oh, Link..." she breathed. Realizing she was swooning, she reddened and dipped between her shoulders. Zelda tried looking away, but the wall and weapon rack were poor substitute for Link's kindly face. So, reddening further, she returned her gaze to Link.

Then her stomach rumbled.
Zelda continued staring.
"Can I have some breakfast?" she suddenly blurted out.
Well, why not? He's a great cook...

Love Triangle - Who Will Win Her Heart? (2 Males Needed)

@imacamoprincess
What the heck, I'll be the wood elf prince.

The Faraway Land

@Lord Zee
@Hawlin
@Darkmoon Angel
@rush99999
@Cuccoruler
@Rekaigan
@ineffable
@Darkwatck01
@ManoftheNorth

Before everyone leaves, I need to issue everyone a more complete apology.

First, let's begin by stating the obvious: I've been an asshole. More specifically, I held assumptions about what your lives were like instead of taking them into account. I'd been expecting you guys to tell me that info, but really, I should have been asking. In my mind, one of my defenses was, "Well, why didn't you guys tell me that you needed time?" Because that's not really your job. That's my job as GM, to ask and find out. Because I'm not just GM for me; I'm GM for all of us. I should have been proactively seeking out ways to make your player roles easier, instead of punishing you for not meeting my expectations.

Secondly, I blew everything out of proportion. You guys have all been great. There were maybe one or two people I had issues with, but even then, it wasn't nearly as big a deal as I made it out to be (see prior paragraph) and none of you deserved what I dished out.

Finally, I should have put more work into the RP than I did. And I'm talking on multiple fronts. Lore-wise, I was more story-focused than world-focused, which meant that I had a clearer picture of the intended plot than I had of the world it's set in. I only worked out the lore later, and that stuff should have been worked out up front. Fobbing it off on you guys was...how shall I say this...a dick move. And then there's the atmosphere of the game. When players were struggling to find their footing and make a story out of the lore trash heap I'd set up, my attitude was mostly negative, if I expressed anything at all. I should have put more work into making the atmosphere positive and binding people together.

I screwed up, and you all are paying for it. I don't blame anyone at all for not wanting to stick around (and I don't particularly want to after what I did), and I certainly don't hold any hard feelings toward anyone. Even ManoftheNorth.

Special Apologies
To Lord Zee: You've been pretty chill and awesome throughout the RP, and a model writer. Seriously, I take notes from your writing. I gotta admit, it really stung hearing that you were one of the first core players to announce your resignation from the RP. You will be missed.

To Hawlin: I won't soon forget how supportive and loyal you've been. Leaving you is gonna be hard. If we meet again, I can only pray you harbor no hard feelings toward me.

To Darkmoon Angel: I must confess to having neglected you for most of the RP. Big mistake. You've been nothing but cool and supportive. Honestly, I'm gonna miss RPing with you.

To rush99999: Your positive attitude has always brightened up the day. You probably should have been GM instead of me. Just sayin'. ^_^

To Cuccoruler: Speaking of GMing, would you mind being mine? :3

To Rekaigan: You, more than anyone else, have had to take the most flak from me. Frankly, you didn't deserve any of it. I recall you saying that you were in school; I've been to college, and I should have known better than to knock you for your posting rate. When you're not in school, you're studying for school, and when you're not studying for school, you're stressing about not studying for school. Every moment is perpetual stress, and that wears a person out. Worn out people don't write much. I should know. You've probably come to despise me over the last few weeks, and I'm truly sorry I brought you to that point. Please forgive me.

To ineffable: What can I say? You've been awesome. You just seem like a really nice person, and you shouldn't have had to see me rant like I did, let alone lump you in with the folks I had problems with.

To Darkwatck01: You're one of my oldest friends, and you didn't deserve to be lumped in with everyone else like that. You've been so supportive, and I've been an ass to you.

To ManoftheNorth: For me to assume your life was anything like mine is a rotten move on my part. You didn't deserve to be ranted at.

Since going off and sulking is hardly a productive way to handle things, I'll be around. Perhaps I'll see you guys again soon. Best wishes to everyone!

The Faraway Land

For the health and sanity of everyone involved here, I think it's time to put this rp to rest. It had its moments and it was a lot of fun but currently the rift created between gm and players would be incredibly hard to fix, at least from my perspective. Maybe give it a couple months, work on the rp a bit and then reboot it when things have calmed down? I'd probably come back if this were the case.

For now, I'm outta here. It was a blast guys, I'll rp with ya later!

@Lord Zee

Unfortunately, I'm coming to that conclusion myself. I screwed up the beginning pretty royally.

The Faraway Land

@Thinslayer After having read through all of what I have missed in the OOC just now... You CAN'T AND WON'T do anything to make it right between me and you.

The nerve of saying it is MY fault, because I seemingly just don't want to post, is utter garbage. I am a caretaker to two disabled parents, I am a caretaker to two family Dogs, I am a man who has work to do around the house almost daily, and then I enjoy some time to myself that doesn't include writing. The time I get to myself is spotty, unscheduled, and usually me skipping an hour or two of sleep.

So you wanna know what Thin? Fuck. You.

Secondly! Let's talk about this Rp. I won't go over the EXTREME lack of story or lore, and the effects it has on motivation to write. What I am gonna talk about is the Power-playing. The Good ole-power-playin'!

Do you even know what it is? I will tell you!

Power-playing is when one player forcibly takes control of another players character, and writes for them in their own post. I.e. All the times your Gm posts force other players to due certain actions, or all the Dialogue you have written for them. I consider this a sin among Gm'ers. You don't power-play as a roleplayer in the first place.

Now before anyway says something! There very much is a difference between posts such as these:

"The Guy grabbed the girl, to move her and save her from the Arrow." - Not powerplay.

"The Guy yelled to the girl to move out of the way. The Girl then proceeded to due a paragraphs worth of actions that were written by someone other than her player." -Power-playing.

^ This particular brand of shitflakes is the reason I am not fond of your cereal. But to add to it, your sour milk of an attitude about everything, just because you don't get your way of someone making a post every single day, makes for a shitty breakfast.

@ManoftheNorth

Though I tagged you, I wasn't really thinking of you during my rants because you're new.

Not sure what you meant about the power playing. If you're referring to Darkmoom Angel and I, then you've jumped to conclusions - we hammered it out over PM beforehand, and what got posted was by mutual agreement.

The lore was written sporadically over the OOC.

The Faraway Land

I don't want to drive anyone away. I'm sorry, guys. I've been an asshole. What do I have to do to make things right?

The Faraway Land

@Thinslayer Jackass outsider opinion time.

I know I'm not a part of this RP so feel free to flail at me with the whole "you aren't a part of this, you wouldn't understand, go fuck off" shitck if you feel so inclined but I feel like given my time on RPGuild, I can speak with some experience and conviction.

First off, I highly suggest that you organize your mind and your priorities as well as the priorities of other people. Go do some yoga or taichi or something, collect your chi or something. As a GM of many RPs, some of which have lasted 5 days, some which have lasted 5 months, you are treating your players as objects whose sole purpose in life is to write posts for your RP. That's not called being a GM, that's called being a tyrant. If your best friend or closet family suddenly died and while you are grieving, the GM of an RP you are a part of keeps saying how "irl comes first" is complete bullshit and you should get back to posting. I highly doubt you would have a positive view of said GM.

You demand loyalty and respect from your players, but you give none back. You based what you believe everyone should be able to accomplish based on what you can do. Just because you can write a post in 10 minutes doesn't mean everyone can do that wether that be due to the fact they don't have the time to focus, lack the inspiration to make something or just are slower writers. What you're saying is basically like a lottery winner saying "Oh, I won the lottery on my 3rd ticket, everyone should be able to win!" or a pop star/actor saying "everyone can make it big in hollywood and become world famous because I can!". People are different, we aren't clones, if you fail to recognize that then there are larger and more pressing issues than your inability to be a good GM.

People loose interest and gain interest on a whim, its a good thing? No, but it happens. I know I have gotten bored of my previous ideas before in the past while they were still going, it happens to everyone. Its a part of life and its best you learn to take it in stride, death is inevitable in everything, nothing lasts forever so just enjoy the moment. Its what I do and what a good number of other do. Coming to terms on the fate of everything is a part of the path of being human and while I can't say how you should walk said path, I can safely say that your reaction of ranting and raving for three posts isn't the best way to deal with it.

The toxic way in which you are acting is only solidifying the fate of the RP which you apparently cared for so much that the concept of you daydreaming about other thoughts is pure heresy. RPs can be rebooted if players have enough of a positive memory of it and the way you are acting is not leaving anything remotely like that. In addition, you are acting completely self centered, narcissistic and prideful saying how you have a job, play games, try to write professionally, and have a life some how justifies everyone being able to copy what you do. You are Mozart saying that everyone should be a musical prodigy and genius. your bitter words are full of "I am" and "my own" and "I have", do you not think on the fact people have responsibilities more important than producing pixels on a screen that they will very likely forget in a decade?

All GMs wish for more activity in their RPs but dealing with said inactivity is part of what separates good GMs from bad ones. I admit to wishing that the RP I have run were more active and the OOC was full of jokes and memes and plans while the IC is host to epic battles, grand adventures, and legendary stories of friends and heroes and philosophical undertones but I accept that it won't always happen. You created this bare bone RP expecting the players to fill it in for you while you write 3-4 posts everyday between you unimaginably busy day which you have planned down to the minute and boast of to people online. If the lack of this bugs you so much, then go and write the novelization of this and just forget this since right now you're as salty as the dead sea.

Sure, I'm just some moron who just suddenly jumped in on this and writing this but I've been on this site a hell of a lot longer than you. I've seen good RPs with good GMs, I've seen bad RPs with bad GMs. Something you seem to fail to grasp is the concept that people RP for FUN or as a HOBBY and those things are not and should not be the driving factor and most important thing in someone's life. Your players are not bound to your will because they declared interest and made a character anymore than you are bound to them because you are the leader and made the RP. The moment someone thinks something is no longer fun, they don't do it. And once you try to force them back into, they won't find it fun or satisfying so of course they're going to loose their passion/fire/drive! Your mildly delusional "I thought better of it and decided to fight it instead" is only driving people away from you and your creation; you are fighting against what you see as a heinous demon but is really your own players, you are the beast you proclaim to hunt and you have failed to see that. No sane man would follow someone who screams their head off with gibberish and ranting and the same is with GMs. If you want people to like you then you need to learn things like temperance, humbleness and empathy, otherwise your shadow will walk before you and will represent you in your entirety.

tl;dr - Get off your high horse, balance your chakra, learn to be a better, more empathic and kind person, and respect others before demanding respect back before you try to GM.

@ClocktowerEchos

Yeah, the opening of your post was more correct than you realize. You weren't around every time someone told me they needed more time and I gladly gave it to them. Yoi weren't around when people said they were exhausted from work and school and had no time or energy to write; I gave them all the time and encouragement they needed. I empathized. You weren't there. I respected everyone's time until it killed me. I set up a posting order just like they wanted; I gave them lenient response time requirements; what more could I have done? Bent over backwards?

Does anybody respect MY time? What, do you think I'm sort of altruistic masochist who always RPs for others but never myself? Yeah, I'm in it for me. I want to tell a story. I want to tell it with others. I want to have fun. Am I somehow excluded from having any fun because others are here? Why can't I ask for SOMEONE to post something once every day just because I enjoy reading them? Is that some cardinal sin or something?

They all had time in their day to post and blow me off. The problem isn't time. It's motivation. They were highly motivated to post how much they hate me, but had none for the story. The problem is THEY have no empathy for ME. I have to sit here and give, give, give, and get only criticism in return. I gave them the posting order they demanded. I started giving them more lore that they demanded. I gave them time like they demanded. But when I ask for a little more of their o-so-precious time, I'm suddenly a tyrant who sees them only as posting machines.

Tell me I'm wrong.

The Faraway Land

Well, at least it's feedback, harsh as it is. Thank you guys for that.

So let me summarize the feedback thus far:
* The RP is a loreless mess and the story sucks.
* I never accomodate anyone who needs time.
* Asking for a posting rate of once per 2 weeks is tyrannical.

Accurate?

The Faraway Land

Don't you see, rush? The RP is dead. It's been dead for months now. There's no fire, no drive to write. Nobody's interested enough to write more than a half-baked paragraph. The "I have a life" excuse is becoming more and more common. Even I have started daydreaming in other worlds. Me! The GM! Losing interest in his own RP! And nobody gives a dam! Do you realize that the above post was almost my last? I thought better of it and decided to fight it instead. Nobody really cares about the RP anymore, and I'm not just gonna sit around for a week and wait for a post that'll never come.