*shrug*<br/><br/>Aurelie, I did offer you the option to be the kidnapee in the new version. The lesbian orgy was something that would have happened "OOC", not in the actual RP. In other words the closest we get to doing it is me saying just then that we did it!<br/><br/>Devi, I agree in principle with everything you said. (Except the bit about not<br/><br/>Of course, in practice, I'm not going to kill off a player character who's player is still active, and we all know that, but there is the thrill of danger there, the thrill of the unknown - not knowing what traps I might throw at you.<br/><br/>Except of course I never seem to get to throw any traps at anyone because we never get that far!<br/><br/>Yes, I'm bitter. And this is NOT a big game. If it were a big game it would still be going, because loosing over half the people involved would still leave me with enough players to carry on! As it is, three of us aren't going to make this work.<br/><br/>And as for recruiting more, well I'd far rather have people invited to join in than simply advertise again.<br/><br/>Although I guess I'm building a core team slowly. First time I found Amazon, this time I found you. If you want to keep the same character next time, I will certainly not say no.<br/><br/>So, I'm putting this to a vote.<br/><br/>I'm not prepared to continue the current scenario, because I'm fed up with it. It's clear it wasn't going to work, because it didn't work.<br/><br/>Your options are:<br/><br/>1) Scrap the idea altogether, - if this option wins, I will never run another Iron Fist RP.<br/>2) Run a mini-scenario with just the three of us, four if Aurelie can be persuaded to stay on as the victim, and/or Francine.<br/>3) Try and recruit more players from people we know. I have to admit I've asked most of my friends in the past, and only one ever joined. She then dropped out, rejoined and dropped out again when everyone else did.<br/>4) Open a new recruitment thread, and have exactly the same thing happen again.<br/><br/>Yes, I'm cynical. Right now, I'm not even sure I want to try this again, hence the inclusion of option one. But at the same time I really want this to succeed. And there is a saying: third time lucky.<br/><br/>So, if we get people in, I'm prepared to come up with a new scenario, other than a plane hi-jacking.<br/><br/>Oh, and btw, if you look at post 0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=95275.0) of this thread, at the rules of play, Rule 9 clearly states<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=95275.msg4144220#msg4144220">Quote from: Chrystal on 17-01-2011, 22:05:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Rules Of Play</span></span></strong><br/>9) I hope that no one wants to drop out, but if someone does, then their character will be NPCed by myself or Amazon until such time as they are no longer required, then they will be killed.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think that was quite clear.<br/><br/>The thing I find REALLY annoying is that people just vanish. They don't put up an A/A thread and say "I'm going on holiday", They don't post to say "Sorry, I'm going to be a little busy and may not be able to post", They don't even have the common courtesy to say "Sorry I'm not interested any more". At least Vincent had the good grace to get himself banned so we knew he wasn't coming back. As it is I am simply assuming that the three guys are no longer playing because they simply haven't posted here.<br/><br/>Sorry, I'm ranting, but I feel I'm entitled.<br/><br/>Anyway, now I've got that off my chest, what shall we do, Ladies?