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It's December; Balls have been dropped
Topic Started: Dec 6 2014, 11:22 PM (216 Views)
The Unspeakable
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First off, I want to thank everyone who stuck around from the start, as well as everyone who came back when we relaunched. I want to thank all the people here to read this, regardless of when you joined.

Now, I think it's pretty clear that I failed to attract the numbers needed to keep this site up as more than a glorified mausoleum with a few little busy groundspeople. The timing was not spectacular.

I relaunched this at the end of October, smack in the middle of a brand-new school semester. There was also a strong negative sentiment from our sister site, many members of whom saw this entire thing as a failed venture from the get go, and viewed attempts to draw dual-membership as antagonistic. On top of that, the month that should have been filled with nothing but me hustling to show everyone just how alive this site is beneath it's sleep exterior was filled with me running around like crazy trying to make the house I live in nice so my land lady from Saudi Arabia wouldn't kick me out when she got back.

Blah blah I didn't keep things running.

It's only been about 40 days since the relaunch, but it probably feels like longer. I firmly believed that the site would live through anything, so long as there was one person left who cared enough to keep it running. I still feel like that's true, but unfortunately right now I can honestly say that I can't be that person.

Special thanks to:

Basil, Darsis, and Leens for giving their best to keep the staff forum moving.

Celes and Fush, for sticking around and giving me one last try to get things moving again.

Doret, for coming back and soundboarding for me and offering help.

Kopa, for keeping the dream alive in his heart.

The Spring Guardian folks (Ricter, Sosina, ftant namely), for being our most active members, even when nobody else was.

Spirit and Yak, for hanging out with me IC even though they both strongly suspected the end was nigh.

J, for keeping the cBox moving with dubious traps and various assorted other humour.

And again, to everyone everywhere, ever, that RP'd here these past 40 days, that believed I could make it happen.


I was going to run an event before the official close, but I really can't do so now. I'm going to be kept on my toes playing housemaid until my landlady is gone, and literally as soon as that ends I'm off to Florida for the Holidays. I won't actually be sitting in my computer chair free of (most) worldly obligation and ready to work again until around Jan 10, 2015. As a result, I'm not going to string anyone on.

What this means for you: Everyone who has been active here for the month of November can post an extra claim. Activity will, in this case, mean that you've posted at all, anywhere. Just link to this and any post made by you, in any subforum, in the month of Novermber. After this, however, no claims will be possible. No further claims can be made for any day on or past December 6th.

Is this the end of FL forever? I sincerely hope not. I am going to return to this site with every intention of getting it back to it's proper state, but I simply cannot do that now. Though Basil and Celes made an exceptional effort, the very core design of this site means it cannot be run by just three people. Though others helped, it wasn't enough. I dropped the ball, and many of the people I had counted on to help me checked out before the patch even launched.

I apologize to everyone who believed for all the trouble, and I hope to make it up to you all some day. If you want to keep RPing here just in the spirit of it, while you can't claim, I'll be sure to see that those who keep FL the Dream alive get some reward in any future in which I succeed at truly resuscitating this site. In the meantime, though, I can promise nothing but that I'll try.

Maybe when the stars align again, if I can get some of the people who founded this board, if I can round up enough people who want to RP Fairy Tail on a site that isn't glittery trash, it will rise again.

I hope to see most of you over at OPRP for now, and back here some day, as soon as possible.

Until then!

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[Guild Master of Cheshire Smile]
Name: Morrison Usher Age: 32 Rank: B Alias: The Blackhat Gender: Male Race: Earthlander


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Tio Vega
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det

Thank you for giving it your all, Speak. I really do appreciate it.
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Sosina
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I appreciate it as well

I will still be RPing here as much as I can and hope to see the site back up and running once more

this is a very nice site and I do quite enjoy being here, and I do hope everyone else that left returns as this site has a great deal of potential we just need to give it that second chance that every site needs
Puru Puru

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