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Holy fucking crap! Hello -- nobody said anything like this to me at the time.



Why was I going to start another board fight when I could avoid it by not saying anything. At the time I had a plan for one of my characters that involved Tobias (sorta like how Mxy wants Larry in the wedding), but after you just took it upon your self to write him out, I have to change plans (which happens, round robin). But you made the descision for everyone.

As for people who really just get tired of us and leave, I really feel that their characters should become OWNED and OPERATED by Vanguard International. If they never write them out and if they ditch us with not even a goodbye, than I would like to say two words: FUCK THEM! Why should we fight, and work around what they might have wanted or didn't want? I say that if you leave and don't take the three seconds it takes to write your character out, than we can change or do what ever we want to them. Same goes for my guys, if I fully just get up and leave, have fun using my characters as you see fit.

You mention how you wouldn't want your characters written. YOU CARE ENOUGH to write them out. They didn't care enough to write them out, nor do they care at all to come by and say hi. If we are really handling their characters so bad, I am pretty sure that they aren't losing any sleep over it. Hell, I'm pretty sure that they don't give two rats asses.

Personally, if I left and you guys continued using my characters it would not only put a smile on my face but I'd keep reaing just because how curious I am of what you guys would do with them. Most of the time, you guys write them better than I do anyhow. The only time in MBL history that I wrote my characters out for an extended time was when I didn't have computer access for 3 months (Gooz got sucked into another universe a la Mutant X Havoc, fun stuff). An example is more recently, I knew that I wouldn't have the time to post, but I left Priest on the team (i think i posted three times in three months?). I was not only impressed but people used him very well and fleshed him out even more. Another example is Chewy, he is more or less gone but he not only trusts us with his characters, he's excited to see where we take them and how we write them (don't worry buddy, I have some huge EPS stuff coming I did not forget about them).

TTT, if you left and let your characters how would it not be your character that is being written? Your character is not you. You created and fleshed him out with all of us, posting extenssively in talk threats, chat and Secret Files to make sure everyone understands and uses them properly. Its a little dishearting to me that you don't trust anyone to write your characters.

And as for active and supporting players. TTT, how many "support staff" members have you created? On that same note, how many should we be afraid to fuck up? Because if we have to be afraid to fuck them up than they are not really support staff but YOUR characters and than if you leave we have to worry about writing out a half a dozen characters that are tied to the team in large ways. Kit Piper, Doctor Quantos, Alex, your other new active Vanguard members... etc.

In conclusion (of this post that is getting rather large) if people up and leave us, fuck them. They can write their characters out if they want them out. But if they never come back, I firmed think we should take full control. I would want the same if I were to leave. And a question for you TTT is where do we draw the line between support staff and "active" team members? Would you be very mad if I wrote Doctor Quantos messing up and losing his vision, or having an arm chopped off?






Oh, Chewy, it was a very short post by Tobias that brough him back into the story. About two sentences that stated he had found his son and that it was time for him to rejoin the team.

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