[Breakaway~totheweird]

'Sup nerds. As some of you know, an event was held yesterday (4/10) in Law's End on request that the Anubite burial grounds were cleared. Everyone seemed to enjoy it despite some blaring hiccups at the beginning and middle portions of the event. I know that I (and maybe Chaos) don't mind hosting more IC events of similar caliber in the future. However, I'd like to gather consensus on what people would prefer to see next time, constructive criticisms, and everything in between to ensure a better experience next time.

That out of the way, I'd like to toss my two cents in: it was fun, but disorganized. And I will take full blame for that. This work week kept me wiped each time I attempted to go home and formulate/ pre-write. Shit, the people I asked to play NPCs had their dialogues ready for cranking out. All in all, it felt sloppy in my opinion. Not to mention that DnD-styled events are extremely foreign to me. They sound neat in concept, but were never touched on my end. Who knew there were injury sheets? I surely didn't.

There's also the fact that people have to work on Monday mornings. I forgot that's a thing. Sunday just seemed right after figuring out other people's schedules. But I digress.

On the other foot: There was a lot, A LOT, of OOC happening. Someone somewhere even described it as it being meme-ridden. Personally, I only had issues with, well, people not taking this very seriously at the start. For example (and I will use instances that I remembered, so keep the saltiness down), there was a blacksmith character in Law's End looking for materials. He explained the situation to the groups, albeit sterotypically, and his own account. There was a corbie who had to give rapid-fire one-line emotes about how convenient this all was. Maybe there were other people cracking the same jokes. Iunno. Jokes, much like crack cocaine, is fine in minimal amounts. Not when you do it every, single time.

I can't be motivated to provide quality RP scenarios when people are simply there to dick around. If you don't care, then let me know so I can stop wasting my time.

Another problem to consider was everyone trying to treat this like a speedrun. Again, it may very well have to deal with the fact some folks had to wake up in the morning. But when there's a bunch of vulnerable bandits camped off to one side, the bandits you were hired to merk, you should probably deal with them immediately. Not rush into the temple like it's no big deal.

Either way, that's what I can gather from memory. Feel free to say your piece.

P.S. I didn't know where to stick this thread at in the forums.