Chapter 41, Page #319 of Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind:
"The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason."
This is what I have seen since the beginning.
First observation. You created an entirely closed SL. No thing anyone could do, regardless of logic, capability, or any other circumstance could affect the SL in any way except in the ways you directly set out; ways which have been entirely unavailable for several months now. The consequence of this left a choice: Either Drake, Rose, and Ron abandon 'Anya, or are tortured by an unrealistic inability to have any effect on the situation. The net result of this: either we become bad roleplayers, or are forced to endure an unpleasant situation ceaselessly. You say you don't chain us and force us to roleplay, but the only alternative we have is to cut off 'Anya for OOC and illogical reasons. That is no choice at all.
Corollary to the first observation. We do this to have fun. Depriving us of this fun by forcing a static situation on us is unfair. We did not agree to this, but we must nevertheless deal with it, and have been dealing with it.
Second observation. Second-hand promises. Since August, we have been hearing that a solution is coming soon, that this mess will be resolved soon. These promises always came second-hand, due to the third observation. Either you never said this sort of thing, in which case we've been lied to, or you did and reneged, in which case we've still been lied to. In either case, this would not be a problem except for the third observation.
Third observation: Communication. Your biggest complaint back during the time of trouble was that no one was communicating with you. However, when I attempted to do so, you ignored me. I would have accepted a simple reply saying, "I don't know," or words to that effect; instead, no one recieved any word whatsover. A simple response would have solved a number of problems and laid rest to a number of doubts. Ignoring the message implies either that you don't care enough to answer it, or don't want to address what it said.
Fourth observation: Convenience and logic gaps. A catch-all category. For example, the notion that D-Boy is the only being capable of touching 'Anya; logical, perhaps, but also particularly convenient. The fact that you say that your SLs are not scheduled, that it's live interactive roleplay, but as per observation one, the only possibly interaction or effect anyone else can have relies entirely on you providing an opportunity you didn't provide. (There is also using OOC information, which is both bad roleplaying and completely counter to what we've seen IC.) Other things which totally escape my mind at this point in time.
Those are the observations, and the conjectures I've drawn from them, objectively as possible.
Breaching objectivity: Truth be told, I don't like you either. I find it ironic that it seems to be the fate of dragons to dislike each other; you're the second other one I've personally known, and I ended up hating the first one. (If it's any consolation, she jilted my best friend, so you've got nothing on her for pissing me off...) Truthfully, I think that if magic ever comes back into the world, the dragons are all going to end up being feudal overlords of nation-states, constantly at war with each other. At least in that case, our domains won't be in direct conflict..
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Re: RESPONSE pt. 2