Dante's Abyss 2011

[Sophia]

Trafford's entire post sums up how I feel. I'm prefacing this by stating that I am deeply appreciative of anyone that is willing to run this. But even appreciated things can be met with unfortunate circumstances - that doesn't suddenly mean no one appreciates it.

As Trafford said, the "announced since January so how is no one ready?" argument isn't valid because the announcement was basically "sometime this year we'll run it" with both people vanishing off the site entirely for quite some time, then one returning and getting back in the swing of things while the other was assumed to not be coming back at all. It had been questioned, and a few people honestly thought Sophia had a strong position of fully intending to not return (not saying this was desired by others. I have no idea, and I for one have no problem with Soph).

So faced with those prospects, people found alternatives to fill their time as a manner OF keeping activity up, and then their efforts are condemned because everyone was supposed to sit and wait for "sometime this year" to happen. If they knew a more concrete timeline of when it would start, say "July is when we are planning to start", then this would not be an issue because the ball falls to them. Instead, "anytime this year" was the reserved time slot, to which we then get a post that basically says "drop everything, if you can't finish in just a couple of days or put your thing on hold then you can't join", except it didn't end there but instead went the direction of "and if you don't join, then sure, passive aggression here and you'll just miss the only important story of the entire Chubbs community so I understand if you don't want to, we'll just try next year I suppose, if we haven't had the site fall apart by then. Dot dot dot."

Absolutely the wrong way to respond to this. I get the frustration from your end in that you both returned specifically to do this, but you can't expect everyone to have been sitting here just waiting. I'd rather see people active with SOMETHING than completely inactive in hopes of something else that they have no concrete guarantee of it even happening.

Those said, as is always a problem with me around this time period for DA, I am not looking to participate. Do I want to? Yeah, HELL yeah, I really wish my character was further progressed than she is. For some reason I was suspecting late July if this even ran, but I had put it out of my mind since no further word had been spoken. I just NOW realized that I have issues every year with it due to Memorial Day week, when I'll be out of town. Since I'll be in VA during that week and then in TN during the following weekend for my birthday, I won't be able to participate (since I know others essentially require it to happen during that specific time slot or THEY can't participate, and I'm not going to take priority over them).

Listen, I understand all of this. Really, I do. There absolutely does not have to be some sort of rift created by all of this. Let me take some time to think this over, and if someone managed to wade through all of this and is still free/interested in participating, they can feel free to sign up. There's no harm in doing that.

That said, I maintain that this is due to poor planning on everyone's part, although I will admit that I take the lion's share of the blame.