Messages Left at the Separation

[Ilana Logan]

(A record of our last official words before we came here)

Thread titled here - End of Days
Thread titled there - A Lasting Legacy


I should start this by saying how much I really love this place. I love the people here, and the role play, and pretty much everything. However, it's gotten to where it's more about the drama in the cbox that it is about actual writing, and I'm tired.

I'm tired of wondering whether or not this site will exist the next time I log in. The constant threats to close the site and just destroy all evidence we were ever a part of something this monumental. Because it truly has been that. We've done some great things here. We've had so much fun, and there's been real evidence of real people trying to build something bigger than they are.

But it's changed into something that makes me sick to think about. I hate the thought that when I wake up, everything I've worked for on here could be gone just because someone woke up with their panties in a twist. I'm tired of thinking about how everything has to come to a standstill just because one person is pissed off and doesn't want to post. It's ignorant and I'm done with it all.

I've thought about this very carefully for some time now, and I've made my decision. I'm leaving, for good. I'm leaving the site. I've had a lot of fun, and I'll never forget this site and what it's done for me, but I can't take the constant stress anymore. It's too hard, and I can't do it. I've got a family to think about. And being here and dealing with all of the bullshit is just too much. So, I'm done. I'm leaving and going on to the site i created, with help from a friend. You can call me a traitorous bitch if that helps you, but the truth is, I'm just trying to survive and this place is killing me. Whether you want to admit it or not, you know as well as I do that it's true.

I wish you all luck in everything, but I will no longer be a part of it. I'm not alone in feel this way, though. I guarantee there are a lot more who feel the way I do. In any case, I want to end this on the most positive note I can manage, so.... Thank you, everyone, for everything. For being friends, for giving me a second home, for just listening. I just can't deal with it anymore. So, thanks for the memories everyone. I'm out.

[Marcus O'Terra]

I've been with this RP since before it moved over. I can't say I don't love the times I've had here, and the people who've played this game. Marcus has been pushed further and forced to do more than any RP character I've ever played.

I can never forget this place that gave me that opportunity.

But there's a degree of stress I can't stand. The prospect that my character can be utterly outclassed by the GMPCs never sat well with me. Not characters that force a challenge on me, but characters that I can't see through, can't outmatch, unless I follow a single razor thin plan.

That's not roleplaying. That's "story time."

So it's been real, but I'm out.
Love and Peace,
Marcus O'Terra.

[Ray Hudson]

Disagreements with the plot, and harsh issues that are beyond our capacity to change have left me with no other option, but to move on as well. In spite of requests to change things that are perceived as our fault, we are not given the opportunity to change. Though it is clear the majority has a vision of what a Firefly RP should be, it is evident that our perception is different with the powers that be. We have tried to state our opinion, and we have tried to bring it back to a course that I would believe is for the best. For years this has been ignored, and I can no longer suffer through it. And so, I leave this site, with fond memories of the people I am leaving behind, and carry no ill will or hard feelings about any poor dealings of the past. And in so doing, I also have high hopes for our future, as well your one.

Thank you for the time you have given me.

[Jay Fuller]

I've been on the site for a year now, and I've got to say this was by far the best roleplay site I've joined. And from someone who's been roleplaying things from Harry Potter to Star Wars for about eight years, that's pretty cool. For me, RP is more than just fun. It's an expansion of my writing, friends getting together to create a fantastic story in a world completely different from our own. An escape into creativity, if you will. And the community here is one of the most talented and fun I've had the pleasure to write with.

But like Ilana, this has become stressful for me. And since I'm already dealing with shit in my day to day life, like all of us, I'd really rather not get sucked into the online stress as well. Especially not from somewhere I go to have fun and de-stress.

See, I helped run a guild in SWG for a couple years. And I could tell you stories. But, I won't get into that. Point is: I left for a reason. And now that I see similar drama starting up on the site, it's something I would much rather avoid. Especially with the threat of the site closing down just like that -- it's not worth worrying over when I go to classes or work.

With that, I am going to head out with the others in hopes of a little less stress and a lot more fun. Goodbye, goodnight, and I don't know. Insert inspirational parting quote here or something.

-Jay

[Morse]

It's been three years now. In that time I've done many things, and in that time I've seen many things. I've seen some of the best people I've worked with in my time RPing. And in that time I've only ever done what I could to help this site. I've been the lowest member, and I've been at the highest rank of staff. In this time, I have had many outspoken opinions. I've frequently been caught in arguments with people I have no interest in fighting with, over the most insignificant of issues. In this time I have presented many ideas, and I've always had a concept of what Firefly is. But in this time, I've also seen that concept be distorted and turned into something that it should have never become. I've always thought the best basis for Firefly, is Firefly. In my honest opinion, I cannot say, looking at this site, that such is its the basis. We carry the name, but not the content. And it is the fact of knowing that any day, at any time, things could go from being the best they've ever been, to thrown into a dead halt, for no reason. And it is also knowing that in an instant everything we've ever built here, could be wiped away, that I am saying this now. I can no longer continue on. In recent days I've come to be saying this phrase. "I need Firefly, and I need a Firefly RP, but I do not need the pain that comes with being on this RP." With this I leave, one final time, and I do not believe I shall return. We accomplished much, and I give credit to every individual that gave all they could so that this site would survive. I wish for only the best to all of you who remain. It has been a pleasure working, and playing here, and I do not take with me any malice towards any one or any event. It is the past, and that is what it will always be. I hope that you will remember the good times, and not think less of us who feel this way.

Sincerely, Morse