HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Ok, MY GOD, do I owe everyone in this RP a MASSIVE and most sincere apology!!!
I have SERIOUSLY neglected GM responsibilities for this RPG and I ended up dumping them ALL onto Bear when I wasn't able to maintain my online life or uphold my GM'ing title. Truth be told, I've never had a online life before and this forum is the ONLY one I had ever legitimately dedicated myself too, but it unfortunately became all too easy for me to neglect that life when real-world stresses and wants came to the fore.
To be brutally honest, I'm insanely flattered that there is still a desire to play this RP even if it meant replacing the GM or making a total shift away from GM-dependency. I do agree that without a GM to guide story, the RP does lack a certain direction and that there were certainly place that I wanted to take this plot. In the time that I've been gone I have actually been GM'ing a D20 game at a friend gf's apartment and have learnt some new things about loose plot structure and how the ENTIRE story can be changed by one good roll. It also taught me that GodHanding the game and it's rolls sacrifice the fun and possibilities.
If everyone is behind Saph taking up GM'ing duties, I am 100% behind that (should Saph be okay with that, also). I do also feel that I seriously underestimated the duties of a GM when I started this RPG, which certainly wasn't fair to you guys, considering how much you seemed to enjoy it. I do feel much better prepared now to take on these responsibilities, however, should you guys want me as GM.
I will warn in advance however... I am in the middle of working full-time and taking on a second part-time night job. There are always difficulties with RP'ing in-forum due to when people get online, but I'm hoping (tentatively) that we can meet those challenges and difficulties as we come to them. Hell, even if Saph does want to undertake GM'ing duties, I am all for rejoining the RPG with you guys to get this ball rolling again!
Let me know what you guys want to do in regards to this! (An idea occurs to me... Perhaps we should also employ a "Highest roll dictates turn order" thing, as in I get 4, Bear gets 12, Bear has his turn followed by mine, to solve the problem of mass-post-days. Yes, it will slow down post-speed, but let me know what you all think!)
But yes... PM your friends, tell you family... Baron is back!