State of Inkwell
I think it’s not been much of a secret that i’ve been putting less of myself into my event as of late, and though i’ve talked about some of this here and there on discord, I think I should be clear and get all my thoughts out here. I’m very, very thankful for all my regulars over the years, @commanderbragh, @llane-venner, @mremaknu, @maralina-ooc especially were good about taking the time to attend even during the downtimes and Ireally appreciate it and all the fun we’ve had. So, a few things are happening, first, ShC is dead, and has been dead for sometime, and even though we continued as a friend group, I think we actually managed to get burned on rp because we had the same characters interacting together for years, all built around the pillar of 10 to 15 active rpers. Life has gotten busier and busier, interest in the game has waned, and I think people are just less interested in seeing the same old OCs every time. Unfortunately for me, I interpreted this personally at times, I perceived my characters as boring, that I couldn’t keep the interest of my friends anymore, especially with things like prompts and asks drying up for the most part. No one cared anymore, and Inkwell was kinda a weekly remind that just a couple people were even interested in trying. Been a bit of soul searching and reflection since then, and I came to the sensible conclusions, we couldn’t maintain what we had anymore, we couldn’t cling to a community of just us and put the pressure of being the entire community on each other. Relying on a handful of people for rp to even happen isn’t sustainable, in fact i’m shocked it ever did. A lot of us are making plans to move to a larger community at WrA, and i’ll be one of those people, once i’m settled in, and we have our community over there (if we really decide to do this) I will probably pick up the event there, probably returning to SW with the hopes of attracting newcomers to join us in our rp. This, however, may take a bit, some are waiting for the new leveling, and we are still raiding and swapping servers right at the beginning of a raid tier might be a bit much to ask. So i’ll be sure to keep folks updated, but for now, I would like some time to recharge creatively, prep for moving into a new community, and let my friends kinda organize what they’d like to do, and start fresh. I hope everyone understands my thought process behind it, and knows just how thankful i’ve been for each and every one of you that have joined me in all of my events over the years, from when I served at the golden leaf to now.
