Zaku
Member
Dear Beloved,
Friends, Acquaintances’, the HJU team, members, and Project IC Staffs’
I write to everyone today in the hopes that everyone on our small but ambitious and creative RPG community would learn. We’ve been through a lot of worlds and nations, we’ve piloted Mechs, Henshin transforming into heroes. We’ve witness the joy of a character’s wedding, entered the palace of the biggest royalties, watched relationship bloomed. In some cases watched the skirts of the most beautiful female characters fly. We’ve also had our hearts broken with the death of many beloved characters. We’ve waltzed in the plots of the deadliest villains, betrayed by the most calculative hacker, fell into the apocalypse. We’ve smiled at external reference, reminisced in the long lost summer days, and huddled together in cold winter nights. We’ve been to many high schools, laughed at a random masked man and a long way our friendship grew.
For years these stories were written, many played over and over, most never make it to the end. Hundreds of characters are created to journey; most never make it past a short lifespan. This has been the cycle of things for a long time here in HJU. The RPG section was called a grave yard, a cycle, even a haven for the fools that keep repeating the same mistake. But after these years of being on here I have looked and studied coming to a conclusion that this cycle can end.
I have witness this with my own project, and found that to pull the best of talents from the RPG section one need a good plan, a good team and good system. Relations with the community are got to be at its top to get the best participation. The KEY to A Successful Project is The CREATOR. Lately, our relationship with each other has been deteriorating we’re all so focused on ending our stories, how to run them how to do this and that and forget that it is the journey itself that brings us together. We’re here to escape our real world, our busy lives, and our stresses. This is one of the few places where a dumb 16 year old who is failing his math class, could still play that highly skill hacker who helps a Kamen rider solve crime. I ask everyone now to not forget who we are what we are here to do, yes we have lives we have things that we have to do outside of the forums. But that is not an excuse for the Creator of a story to not go the extra mile to bring everyone together to journey.
A creator should never blame his participants, a good creator never brags about the success of his past project because he/she is working with a different set of people, a creator should be able to come up with a backup plan, and a main plan that isn’t based on experience that is from places with 1 liner entry RPG such as our beloved Gaia online or Disney’s Club Penguin. Of course he treats his participants as equally as possible, being as patient as possible, one person even as a main character or player isn’t better than the one that has to go out to feed her kid so she posts late. A creator should also be able to predict the ties of the RP section and know the best time to run an RPG. You have to be wise and not a fool, the fool would run an RP when 7/10 people is out on vacation. Finally, a creator knows his/her beginning, middle and end. And lastly, he or she is the one that is heart broken when the story and the journey comes near its end.
I speak from research and experience, even success, but I did not do this alone. I did it along with 7 other people, I did it along with a team of 5 dedicated staffs and the success in which I experienced with only one part of my story completed. Took a year of planning currently if I took my one and only RP which I’ve ran here I could make a small book. You have to go the extra mile if you want to succeed here. People either fall into the not serious enough category or the too serious category, and lately we have quarrels with each other too.
RPG sections close your eyes and take a deep breath, open your eyes and open your arms. Shake hands and prepare to journey once together again. Whatever and I don’t care attitude don’t belong here, and if those sentences are in your daily post and the words “hate†appear often in your vocabulary. Then I think it’s time for some self refection, this section is a community, if you’re not up to working with others and want to be by yourself this isn’t the place for you. Each and every one of us here, look forward to a new better journey, one without storms.
The conditions won’t improve unless; we can start working together again and the creators of the stories start going that extra mile. The participants as well must do their best to be good players and advisers to the creator. NO one can do things alone here. No more Do what ever first post, or I'm sorry but this RPG has to close due to lack of participants.
As one of the most I do dare say respected member of the section, I wish that all of you here at the RPG section would start seeing things in a different perspective, living here together in this community with more humility and patience. I also promise you that the journey that I started this April will end and at that point my heart will break momentary because I know with the end of one journey, another one will start.
So RPG section, who is ready to bring down the corrupted in 24 hours, smash zombies by the head with a baseball bat, be part the sentai in a huge megazord. Have another school year, laugh at another external reference and wake up every day coming on to see that bolded thread replied to by your friends who are in your RPG.
I know I do, But I hate to do it alone, Come with me.
Sincerely yours,
Zaku
Friends, Acquaintances’, the HJU team, members, and Project IC Staffs’
I write to everyone today in the hopes that everyone on our small but ambitious and creative RPG community would learn. We’ve been through a lot of worlds and nations, we’ve piloted Mechs, Henshin transforming into heroes. We’ve witness the joy of a character’s wedding, entered the palace of the biggest royalties, watched relationship bloomed. In some cases watched the skirts of the most beautiful female characters fly. We’ve also had our hearts broken with the death of many beloved characters. We’ve waltzed in the plots of the deadliest villains, betrayed by the most calculative hacker, fell into the apocalypse. We’ve smiled at external reference, reminisced in the long lost summer days, and huddled together in cold winter nights. We’ve been to many high schools, laughed at a random masked man and a long way our friendship grew.
For years these stories were written, many played over and over, most never make it to the end. Hundreds of characters are created to journey; most never make it past a short lifespan. This has been the cycle of things for a long time here in HJU. The RPG section was called a grave yard, a cycle, even a haven for the fools that keep repeating the same mistake. But after these years of being on here I have looked and studied coming to a conclusion that this cycle can end.
I have witness this with my own project, and found that to pull the best of talents from the RPG section one need a good plan, a good team and good system. Relations with the community are got to be at its top to get the best participation. The KEY to A Successful Project is The CREATOR. Lately, our relationship with each other has been deteriorating we’re all so focused on ending our stories, how to run them how to do this and that and forget that it is the journey itself that brings us together. We’re here to escape our real world, our busy lives, and our stresses. This is one of the few places where a dumb 16 year old who is failing his math class, could still play that highly skill hacker who helps a Kamen rider solve crime. I ask everyone now to not forget who we are what we are here to do, yes we have lives we have things that we have to do outside of the forums. But that is not an excuse for the Creator of a story to not go the extra mile to bring everyone together to journey.
A creator should never blame his participants, a good creator never brags about the success of his past project because he/she is working with a different set of people, a creator should be able to come up with a backup plan, and a main plan that isn’t based on experience that is from places with 1 liner entry RPG such as our beloved Gaia online or Disney’s Club Penguin. Of course he treats his participants as equally as possible, being as patient as possible, one person even as a main character or player isn’t better than the one that has to go out to feed her kid so she posts late. A creator should also be able to predict the ties of the RP section and know the best time to run an RPG. You have to be wise and not a fool, the fool would run an RP when 7/10 people is out on vacation. Finally, a creator knows his/her beginning, middle and end. And lastly, he or she is the one that is heart broken when the story and the journey comes near its end.
I speak from research and experience, even success, but I did not do this alone. I did it along with 7 other people, I did it along with a team of 5 dedicated staffs and the success in which I experienced with only one part of my story completed. Took a year of planning currently if I took my one and only RP which I’ve ran here I could make a small book. You have to go the extra mile if you want to succeed here. People either fall into the not serious enough category or the too serious category, and lately we have quarrels with each other too.
RPG sections close your eyes and take a deep breath, open your eyes and open your arms. Shake hands and prepare to journey once together again. Whatever and I don’t care attitude don’t belong here, and if those sentences are in your daily post and the words “hate†appear often in your vocabulary. Then I think it’s time for some self refection, this section is a community, if you’re not up to working with others and want to be by yourself this isn’t the place for you. Each and every one of us here, look forward to a new better journey, one without storms.
The conditions won’t improve unless; we can start working together again and the creators of the stories start going that extra mile. The participants as well must do their best to be good players and advisers to the creator. NO one can do things alone here. No more Do what ever first post, or I'm sorry but this RPG has to close due to lack of participants.
As one of the most I do dare say respected member of the section, I wish that all of you here at the RPG section would start seeing things in a different perspective, living here together in this community with more humility and patience. I also promise you that the journey that I started this April will end and at that point my heart will break momentary because I know with the end of one journey, another one will start.
So RPG section, who is ready to bring down the corrupted in 24 hours, smash zombies by the head with a baseball bat, be part the sentai in a huge megazord. Have another school year, laugh at another external reference and wake up every day coming on to see that bolded thread replied to by your friends who are in your RPG.
I know I do, But I hate to do it alone, Come with me.
Sincerely yours,
Zaku
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