Hold Up!
First of all, as the MASTRIX of this game, HEATHER if YOU felt like "Morgan" and "Alison" were "stealing the show" then YOU should have come to me via PM or expressed your feelings in OOC LONG before the climax of the storyline. You have NO RIGHT to just DERAIL the direction and momentum of a storyline because YOU feel something is not the way it should be. It's because a stunt like this that you were put out of the game during the Inferno Crisis, or had you forgotten that?
If you can't post the way you SHOULD because of work or whatever, then just WAIT till you can! How many times have others not posted as soon as we would have liked because they had issues to deal with in their own lives? health, family, whatever. Sometimes I cant post because I'm swamped at work, or not feeling well etc. we ALL go through that. I've said it BEFORE if a thread takes longer to finish, then so what. its not like we have anyone to ANSWER to is it? its OUR game, we take the time we need and if there's a problem that will make a player have to be out for "long term" then they notify me in OOC or PM and i work AROUND it so they can return when they are ready and the rest of us can move on.
if you were not readily available, you shouldve just told me and i wouldve "carried" blaze through and that would have freed the other characters to react in a better fashion.
everyone will not "do" things the way i "want" them to do per se but i DO expect the players to follow my lead, use common sense and post according to what is going on in the game. not to just IGNORE the situation and act as though nothing is going on.
Seconly, Lexi and Sam are right. We werent Bashing YOU at all. We were making fun of BLAZE- a CHARACTER. How many times has Spellbinder been the butt of jokes in the shoutbox? "Slutbinder" anyone? hell, Brandon used his character Prophet to openly make fun of "Alison" and her fashion sense IN the game...did you see her (or I) raising a fuss about it?
Aside from seperating the player from the character...We make fun of EACH OTHER in the shout box ALL THE TIME. Farrah=Feather, etc; Lexi=Boll Weevil etc; Sammi= any and everything i can think of
Not only that, but it was done out in the OPEN because we had nothing to hide. it was all in good fun. Now when i express my displeasure with the way the ending of this storyline has been handled...you want to turn this around...well its NOT going to work.
common sense shouldve told you that starting an argument with the characters while Morgan and Alison were now transformed by grief and rage and destroying EVERYTHING around them was not a good idea. it totally took away from the POINT. THEN, when Persephone saved the team from Malice's final strike...NO ONE reacted to it properly. given the fact that Persephone has evolved SO MUCH since her days in MoE and this was the first act showing that she actually CARED about her team mates, i would think it would have warranted SOMETHING more than what came. It was a creative idea on Sam's part designed to JAR the team out of its petty bickering to realize the gravity of the situation.
Someone else PM'ed me expressing concern that Morgan and Alison were the only focus and I explained to them (as others will attest in here) that every story will have focues. And your character will ONLY be as "noticed" as much as you play/him or her. if you "stand back" because you claim not to know what to do all the time, then your character will be an afterthought. if you GET INVOLVED the way Persephone or Black Widow or Alison have in the past (and MorningStar in this current playing thread) then your character will be recognized.
This game ISNT about Morgan and Alison and if you paid attention, Morgan was OUT on at least 2 storylines and Alison was not involved in MOST of this storyline. We've had a storyline that centered on Prophet , Guardian and Erika King. We've had storylines that focused on Shockwave, we've had storylines that saw Haleigh being brought up to the forefront as Team Leader and the UP COMING storyline is supposed to feature Prophet's funeral as well as exploring the mystery that links Haleigh and Persephone (as revealed by Alison and being investigated by Alycia)
The bottom line is this: i would appreciate if people would FOLLOW MY CUES and not make their own. If you want to be noticed and recognized, then GET INVOLVED and STAY UP. if you have a question about something, contact me via pm. Be creative with your responses.