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Originally Posted by Leslie Smith:
One character? Do you mean we can only have one active team member, or do supporting characters just no longer mean anything to anyone? :

You know exactly what we mean by this. We've talked about it at considerable lengths in the Talk Thread. Don't play stupid.

I can understand all the other rules, and they're good ones. And to be perfectly honest with you, yeah, I've got a little bit of selfish motive here. I happen to have created two very good characters here (some of the best characterization I've done yet, thanks to some help from some of you), and now I'm gonna have to let one of 'em be relegated to some hellish reserve status or put on some damned JSA-esque F-Troop? Or even worse just dropped into literary limbo?

It's called a "Solo Thread", Phil. It's what we use to express massive amounts of personal stories, and ideas, without cluttering up the main thread. I don't really care which character you use, Leslie, or Phil. But, as we stand, there can be only one in the main group. It's up to you to choose which one you would like to use each adventure.

Other than that, I think your ideas for new rules are very well thought out. They free us from potential entanglements, whether it's the tendency of asshole writers such as myself to lord it over the story with our own subplots or the tendency of other individuals to BSAMS this universe by dragging in pointless details from the distant past (or other continuities that happened to be by the same writers) and then nitpicking about them. But if you really wanna do this democracy thing, and you really want this to work as a team, then I suggest you put each of these up to a vote, since you're gathering our opinions.

A vote will more than likely come. But, as we see it, we've tried "democracy". It's left us nothing but this constant bickering and confusion.

These rules are, simply, no different than the ones that we used in the TOMBLverse. And, we had very, very little problem whatsoever while under these guidelines.

In that case, thank yo ufor making these a proposal rather than coming in and saying THESE ARE THE RULES... in which case there would be absolute mayhem. (Not that I mind a little mayhem, but in this case that might not be so hot.)

Well, it is a proposal. We aren't forcing anyone into this. If the consensus is that an agreement can not be reached, then, we will simply remove ourselves from the fiction. That way, everyone will be happy.