well i'll guess i will have to give my opinion as well.

i dont agree with some of your opinions about the differences between a story and a game..

i mean, in a GAME you have main quests, side quests and character stats and skills..
Which were all thought of by the ORIGINAL group of writers (which includes me).. But now i hear it was a STORY then, and a GAME now..

so it was a story when we entered the world and inmediatly have to fight orcs (which were dead in 2 posts allready i believe...) and after than go in a cave, fight poisonous rats (next fight after only a couple of meters walking..) and blow up a castle... thats a story? ok

but why is it suddenly a game when ppl start to fall in love?
when people start to make new friends..
When people leave the group for a while, to figure things out for their own, to sthrengthen the individual character (and i do not mean the strenght but the personality..)

I tried to create plot twists.. Like me getting evil for at least a while (remember talking sword?) but it was destroyed, never to return.

I never STARTED a fight as well iirc, but i do enyoy writing along with the others once a battle has started anyway.

well, this is just my view of a game/story.

because, i dont see any increasing in the fighting.. nor i see any decreasing..
but according to you, SOMEWHERE it has become a game, and well, i just wanna know WHERE you think it has become a game then?

i hope i dont offend anyone, i hope all will return and we will live happily ever after <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

now everyone is leaving, i too am losing my will to write..
i am thinking about maybe staying behind in jolies village for a while..
i cant keep up with you guys anyway..
Its the same as luc's problem earlier.. When you dont have the change to write much anymore.. you get the feeling your character is being ignored.
I havent made any decisions yet.
i hope everyone will come back, including me.

sorry for the long post, but i just wanted to tell this <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

i will now start to make my new entry in the story..
i wont leave..yet.

jvb, royal dragon prince Cheers!