Post by Ares on Feb 10, 2016 16:00:20 GMT -5
-Ares starts singing- "im still alive and well, still alive and well. I know sometimes is hard to tell but im still alive and well". Ahhh yes the classics!
Okay in all seriousness.
I want to make this post to share with everyone how exciting it is to see our original concept really start gaining momentum.
We started New Olympus in December of 1999. We are heading into our 17th year of roleplay. Now in all fairness many years we didnt have a room or we used it very little.
I have to apologize to everyone who was with us from the beginning. I could have handled things a lot better than I did. I was not experienced in role-play, but I knew the Xena-Herc shows very well. I focused too much on everyone being battle ready. As if other people coming into our home and causing an issue should even matter. This was our concept and our idea. We should have simply prohibited the irrational use of outside homes bringing in their stuff.
So I created a set of powers to use. They weren't terrible, but it immediate placed us in an arena with other FF homes. The gods of Olympus simply used their powers to do what they wanted within reason. There was no power lists to pull from. This is one area Merle was right about all along. I wanted to create something special with powers, but in reality, I should have never walked down that path.
I also wish I had not been a part of asking Thor to be king. Don't misunderstand me, Thor and his player are awesome and the player of a good friend. Merle did need to step down, his rt was so bad that he (by his own admission) made bad choices. We both did. For my part I apologize. We could have done well without a king until Merle's situation got better.
The powers I had wrote has been revamped over the years and I have gotten help to make them better. (nods to Jenn and Greymalkin). Being that we had worked hard to create a more accurate list of powers, they will be available for deities to use if they wish, but they do not have to.
It does me well to see many of our original members coming back to rp. To build upon the excellent idea Merle (aka Hercules in rp) had all along. Let us take advantage of our new room in portal of dreams. Lets make the rp better than it ever was (and we use to fill up the room!).
Okay in all seriousness.
I want to make this post to share with everyone how exciting it is to see our original concept really start gaining momentum.
We started New Olympus in December of 1999. We are heading into our 17th year of roleplay. Now in all fairness many years we didnt have a room or we used it very little.
I have to apologize to everyone who was with us from the beginning. I could have handled things a lot better than I did. I was not experienced in role-play, but I knew the Xena-Herc shows very well. I focused too much on everyone being battle ready. As if other people coming into our home and causing an issue should even matter. This was our concept and our idea. We should have simply prohibited the irrational use of outside homes bringing in their stuff.
So I created a set of powers to use. They weren't terrible, but it immediate placed us in an arena with other FF homes. The gods of Olympus simply used their powers to do what they wanted within reason. There was no power lists to pull from. This is one area Merle was right about all along. I wanted to create something special with powers, but in reality, I should have never walked down that path.
I also wish I had not been a part of asking Thor to be king. Don't misunderstand me, Thor and his player are awesome and the player of a good friend. Merle did need to step down, his rt was so bad that he (by his own admission) made bad choices. We both did. For my part I apologize. We could have done well without a king until Merle's situation got better.
The powers I had wrote has been revamped over the years and I have gotten help to make them better. (nods to Jenn and Greymalkin). Being that we had worked hard to create a more accurate list of powers, they will be available for deities to use if they wish, but they do not have to.
It does me well to see many of our original members coming back to rp. To build upon the excellent idea Merle (aka Hercules in rp) had all along. Let us take advantage of our new room in portal of dreams. Lets make the rp better than it ever was (and we use to fill up the room!).