OOC: So here's the thing about Kitty.

[marieann_d]

Apparently, I am the only player not having a good time with the Kitty plot. Rogue was supposed to be happy-giddy after parent's weekend and Logan's visit, and now she's gone positively emo. I'm sorry, but I don't like her emo. There's a reason I stopped writing angsty X-Men fanfic. I'm not mad at the players involved, please don't think I am

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[sensethevisions]

You are not the only one not having fun with it. I'm not either as it seriously impacts two of my characters (Phoebe and Illyana).

I've had to stop and seriously wrack my brain for ways on how my characters would either deal with or avoid the knowledge of this.

I would also add my request to yours for the future.

[auroryborealis]

Replying to Phoebe so that you both get the notification:

We never, ever intended to mess characters up, outside of our little group. Which was short-sighted on our part. At the very least, Phoebe, Illyana and Rogue should have been notified as her roommates. And as I think all of us have said, we never intended for this to be mean. We were shortsighted and naive, but not malicious.

Again, if there's anything I can do to lessen the emo for any of you, let me know.

[marieann_d]

Hindsight is 20/20. Such is life. And I know you didn't intend to screw with anybody else's plot, but really, a student murdered? That's obviously going to throw a wrench in a LOT of stuff.

I feel like a broken record, so I'm just going to stop. I can't think of anything IG that will just make this go away for Rogue, so I'm temporarily taking her out. No hard feelings, bygones, etc., but just think a little harder next time.

[chasingangela]

The funny thing is we planned this out to the N-thousandth level and agonized overe details and wrote and rewrote and ... suffice it to say, we've been working on it for a long time.

We just forgot there were, you know, 75 other people in the game who might care about Kitty. Which we should not have -- as Rory said, it was shortsighted and naive, but not malicious. We were seeing it as being more an extended and improved version of the missing townies plot that got started and dropped early in the year than anything else.

Anyhow ... apologies, and I'm sorry this is making the game less fun for you for now.

[maias_notebook]

I am not happy either, my character did not know Kitty at all but it affected my characters friends and caused several plots to have to be moved or altered etc.. due to curfew and the fact that they were friends with Kitty and so Maia has to respect that and their grieving etc.. I am keeping Maia completely neutral on this thank goodness she detaches from death and does not deal with it at all because I am really keeping her angst/emo for a long time to come and this does not help out in plots she has with her other friends. That does suck you were not informed for at least a headup.

[spyprincipal]

I sincerely apologize and ask that if you have any other concerns, please see me or Spider about them and we'll see what we can do to work them out.

Based on what's happened with this plot, admin is going to employing stricter guidelines for this kind of far-reaching plot.

[marieann_d]

Thank you. I do appreciate all the hard work you and Spider have done to make this game run as smoothly as it has. Like I told Rory-mun, there isn't really anything IG that will make Rogue magically better, so I'm going to take her out of it. No hard feelings, bygones, etc., etc.

I think guidelines would be a really good idea. Like notification OOC BEFORE the plot starts, to field questions/comments/concerns from players. If you want some other suggestions on how this might have been better handled, I'd be more than willing to help out there. Rogue will be gone IC, but I'll still be around.