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Next Steps Sept 7, 2016 9:04:25 GMT -5

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Post by Kenzie on Sept 7, 2016 9:04:25 GMT -5

Hey everyone. I just want tog et a feel for how you guys feel/what you guys want to happen for the future of our RP. A few days ago we lost one of our close friends, Mel, and one thing is for certain -- the forum will never be the same again. I want to hear your opinions for what you want to do and what seems like the best way to roleplay again.

Here's some of the options more explained:

Keep on this forum and just do a timeskip, during which we say Mel's characters left the school.

The option is basically we'll keep the roleplay on this forum specifically, but we'll do a timeskip and say that Mel's characters (or any characters closely related to hers to the point it's painful to write them after this) transferred out or left for whatever reason. We can make one board for Mel in tribute to her and where all her characters can go rather than just archiving them. All you guys would have to do is age up the character bios and I'd handle the rest of the maintenance for the forum.

Create a new forum for new RP and keep this one in tribute to Mel

This option is basically implying that we do a time skip to the next academic year, but on a whole new forum. This way, Mel's posts and characters don't get flooded away by new threads and roleplays. This way, this entire forum can stay as a homage for Mel. Of course on any new forum, we'd still put a tribute to Mel. And any characters too closely connected to hers can just not be brought over. We can make a thread devoted to the after stories of characters who are not being brought over and what they and Mel's characters are doing now. As far as what you guys would need to do, you'd just need to change the age of your characters up a year and copy-paste their bios in their appropriate section in the new forum. I would handle the setup and such. As for roleplays going on now on this forum, I believe we could keep those going. As this would be set still within the year we're in now, so those can get finished up as everyone's own pace. As for the AU threads, like the timeskip threads, we could either try to repost them on the new forum, or just leave them on here and still continue them on here -- honestly, whatever works best for people. We can discuss the options for that within this thread or via PMs or cbox or whatever.

Make a tribute board for Mel, move all her characters to it, and keep everything else the same.

This option is to change nothing really about the roleplay or forum, but make a tribute board where we'll put her characters and their threads and the remembering Mel thread. Then I would just have to change the claims and ratios, and then we just continue roleplay as it was.

And of course, if you vote for other, please comment on here with your ideas or what you'd like to see happen. I want this to be an open discussion.

Last Edit: Sept 7, 2016 9:05:49 GMT -5 by Kenzie

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Next Steps Sept 7, 2016 14:11:47 GMT -5 Bethany likes this

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Post by Lori on Sept 7, 2016 14:11:47 GMT -5

I don't want to say i'm voting 'other' and i don't wanna say i'm leaning towards one response more than another. And i really hope nothing i say comes off as offensive in any way to anyone or that i'm saying something the wrong way.

No matter what, i do think skipping to the next year academically is a good idea. That's not to abandon any current roleplays, plots or downplay any plots any of us would have used with Mel in the near future. Not in any way, and i hope it doesn't imply otherwise. Speaking as someone who had spent the past year hurting and used this site, the characters, the talks with everyone, as a distraction to help me get through everything, there have been so many times where i wanted to skip ahead in life to where it stops hurting. Or, at least hurt a little less than before. But the thing is, there's no time limit on it. There's never a time limit and everyone's time of grieving and hurting is different from the next person's. Maybe i say no matter what, in some way i vote to skip to the next year because i think it will help. That i hope it will help. Moving on with the characters implies that we can move on, too, that maybe it'll help us. I don't know. No matter what, i personally don't think we can just continue as everything was; just keep the roleplays going and change the ratios and everything like...i don't know how to word it right. Not that we just lost some characters or that Mel decided to leave or that we keep going like everything's perfectly fine. Because none of those are the case. They're nowhere near the case and none of those are even close to what's happening. And no matter what, to me anyway, it doesn't feel right to do that. The ratios should stay the same, the playbys should still be Mel's, and she and those characters and ideas helped make this forum what it was.

That being said, i don't know if i would vote for keeping everything on here or moving to a new forum. Kenzie makes a point that by moving to a new forum nothing of Mel's would get drowned out. And ideally, they shouldn't be. That's also not to say that moving to a new forum and taking some of the characters with us is acting like this one never existed, that nothing any of us did on here never happened because they did. Mel had so many ideas and was so creative that, in a way, it might be right to leave this whole forum as a dedication to her, to the good times we had with her and to show everything she was capable of. The question to that is, is it something the majority or all of us would want to/be willing to do? That'd we would all feel comfortable doing? Or would it be better to stay on here and continue roleplaying in the place that pretty much helped bring all of us together and, with all of Mel's characters being here, in a way she's always with us? For me, the only - or maybe just the main - downside to that is, i would still always expect Mel to sign on. Because part of me has still been expecting her to say something else in the plot box even though it's not gonna happen. I still think she's gonna pop up in the chat box and talk about, i dunno, something her cat did or last week's episode of Catfish or something. But she's not. I hate thinking like that cause it's not that easy anymore, it's not how it is anymore. And i hate having some of these characters to use that i basically created with her and, no offense to the characters, they're next to nothing without Mel.

Ultimately, i vote for moving to the next year, wherever we roleplay and whenever we are all comfortable enough to start up again. And no matter where we are, a tribute thread to Mel stays. Not just for her and for the memories we had of her. For her characters and ideas we well. If Mel had any plots that were never able to be used, whether they were hers or a collaboration, they should be shared some way. Whether it's in a paragraph or a summary of the plot or even after stories like Kenzie suggested. Mel, and us, didn't come up with ideas for them never to be used and if any of our characters that had a special relationship with any of hers - whether they were siblings, friends or significant others - it sounds like a nice way to bring them all together one last time, for her. Because of how much she loved these characters and plotting with them. That's not to say anyone who's not comfortable writing anything else with them has to, or that the idea even has to be done. Whatever we all decide, whatever we as a majority think and feel is best, that's what we do as long as we help each other through this time and have each other's support. These are my thoughts, for what they're worth.

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Next Steps Sept 10, 2016 13:43:48 GMT -5 jaetoxicvenom likes this

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Post by Bethany on Sept 10, 2016 13:43:48 GMT -5

I don’t want to upset anybody by what I say, so if anybody does get upset or offended, I truly am sorry. But I have to say how I feel and give my opinion on this. I respect that everybody else will say how they feel and I will completely listen to that, so please, listen to me too.

I want to move to a new forum. Like completely start over and we all have new accounts and so forth. I’m finding it a really big struggle to even log into this forum now and see Mel’s name. Like it actually hurts. Knowing that we’re never gonna get to RP with her again or chat with her like we did. I keep imagining that I’m gonna log on and I’m gonna have replies from her or that she’ll be active and it’s so, so hard for me to actually even be on here. I don’t know if a new forum will make it any easier, but it will definitely hurt less, for me anyway. But I think this forum should be used as a tribute to Mel, that way none of her things ever get lost. We can all access it whenever we want to. We can look back on all the amazing plots and threads Mel had, and we can see all our old characters. In no way, shape, or form, should anything of Mel's ever be deleted. Ever.

I think I’ll have to remove quite a few of my characters. They don’t make sense without Mel’s characters and I don’t want to change that. I like that they were characters I used mainly with hers. So people like Gio and probably Maddie, I won’t use anymore. Because Gio isn’t the same without Jasleen and Maddie isn’t the same without Brad. They just won't work without Mel and Mel's characters. I'm sure a lot of you will feel that way, too.

I feel like skipping a year is probably the best way to do things. I even think starting with new characters or characters that we haven’t had chance to use much is a good idea. Like a clean slate. (please don’t take that the wrong way, I don’t want to wipe away anything of Mel, but I can’t think of another way to word it). Obviously, characters that didn't interact with Mel's characters could stay, too. I suppose it's personal choice who we bring on this little journey with us. However you feel more comfortable.

I agree with Lori, in sharing a thread about characters/plots/stories we shared with Mel. We could maybe put those in the Remembering Mel board or something. What I don’t want is for people to use the playby’s Mel had, or even the characters we are leaving behind as a tribute to Mel. Those playby’s are part of the stories we had and it would feel so wrong to have somebody use a playby as somebody different. If we do move to a different board, we should have a list of ‘please don’t ever use this playby’ names. So if we have new members and such, they know that we can’t use those. I dunno, I just don’t wanna take them away from what we had.

I hope this made sense.

Last Edit: Sept 10, 2016 13:47:44 GMT -5 by Bethany

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Next Steps Sept 11, 2016 18:12:50 GMT -5

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Post by pierce on Sept 11, 2016 18:12:50 GMT -5

I have always seen death as yet another stage of life – completely unknown and undocumentable. Something to be respected and acknowledged as not an end, but a transition. Consciousness is fluid, it can hold shape in any vessel. That conscious builds within each vessel whatever tendril of this whole spiderweb of consciousness we guide and vice versa. I know Mel is guiding herself along to the complete outer reaches of all we know, with everyone's love she continues forward and prospers.

I've always seen Mel as a sibling, as I see all of you as siblings to me. We meet here and share ourselves, for better or worse. Like a family. We comfort each other and support one another to the very best of our intentions and situational abilities. We can assist each other with this, and grow, with our knowing that Mel can, has, will always transcend.

My decision is made due to my perception of death, of my own experiences and my complete compassion for Mel in her passing onward. I poll like everyone thus far: that we do indeed progress a year as we'd been intending to prior to this sobering shift of events, and create a new forum. I honor the memory of Mel, especially the groove that she's left in metric-arts.boards.net, the fact that by opening the cbox I see her and I see all the threads she has weaved with us in this story thus far – is enough to know that she is being thought of and forever a part of this forum. It wouldn't be right to shift things around and push all of her efforts on here in to a corner. Which of course would be much more than that, but I think you all know what I mean. I do not mind moving to another forum and letting this one remain as a tribute to Mel and to all of our RP endeavors with her <3

Last Edit: Sept 11, 2016 18:14:47 GMT -5 by pierce

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