[Meta Thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Oh you, Windos, my dear love and sweetheart... 

I'm so so so sorry that pharm school is such a hassle and chore and stress for you, I really am. I've already told you that I do understand your situation though since I can relate with it in a way, so please don't beat yourself up too much about going silent because of it, alright...? I'm not going to abandon you because of it, no, and I'm not going to cease supporting and loving you because of it, no x2. You mean way too much for me to do so, and I'd be a horrible person to not give you my utmost emotional support from the distance to continue pushing through. I hope that this fact as well as that gift-art I've sent you has helped you surviving things at least a tiny little bit better! <3

So proud of you for having passed this half!! ☆*:.｡.＼(＾▽＾)／.｡.:*☆ You absolutely deserve it, so do rejoice and enjoy 'the abundence of free time you'll be having in the near future' as you're putting it! Cheers to you, my dear otp! <3 


I'm sooo looking forward to get back into this campaign and enjoy playing it with you and the others, yes I really do - even if it's only for a limited time aka until you have to attend classes and again after winter break (but let's not worry about that just yet and enjoy ourselves!). I missed this, and I frankly missed you. *cue for another gentle cuddle and a tender kissu just for you~*


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Now, for all the campaign-related points you're stating:

(...)- First, I've been having second thoughts on throwing that Super Boss at you, at least this early in the game. The intro is all about getting people settled and guide them through the openning act of my campaign, but I have realized I may have let my zest for spectacle get the better of me here. Plus like half of my players couldn't/wouldn't be participating due to being underleveled and/or grossly outmatched at this point in the game due to their character level - hardly a good thing, in retrospect.

So, I make this offer - I can rework things so that nobody has to tackle the Super Boss in the near future if they wish to do other things/not have it loom over their heads in the mean time. It'll take a bit of work, but it can be done! (...)

Yes please. A definite 'yes pretty please' on not having to fight that Wandering Hurricane, at least not so in the fear in-game future. It's great that you gave this a second thought, I appreciate it! And yes I knooow you reassured me that Bern's capable and everything, but I personally am not feeling like I'm ready to take on a strong Malefic Monstrum THAT early in-game, for various reasons I'd happily elaborate if needed/desired. I much rather wish to do other things like properly preparing myself for the journey through Sutalör + handle some loose ends instead of the looming dread of a potentially deadly Super Boss fight that has a significant risk of loosing either one of my Pokemon or Bernhard as a PC before the campaign/journey has really started. You're likely aware that I tend to get attached to my PCs and fictional characters relatively easy, so I...indeed am asking you to please put in the bit of work and rework things so that this battle does not take place or is significantly delayed or canceled all together. This does also mean that the rewards for winning this battle are delayed or cancelled - but that's the lesser evil, and I'm fine with that (byebye, Philosopher's Stone! Maybe at some other time I'll be able to put you into my Inventory.)

Only problem about that is that Seddi in-chara has already signed some papers about that fight - but I'm sure you are able to settle/overwork that in some way? I hope??

(...)- Since the holiday season is upon us, I have an idea were we could have a Christmas Themed 'mini-campaign' within Wild Lands. In game it'd only take about a day or two for it to complete, and I think it'd be a tidy way of easing everyone back into the game after such a long stay of it. What do you guys think? (...)

Sounds interesting, so I'm up for that, another 'yes please' from my side! I like your thinking of this sort of event for easing us as well as yourself back into this campaign. I'll make sure to find the time for this mini-campaign among my currently busy job (inventory is coming up, ugh) as well as my other hobbies as well as loose ends concering my new appartment.

Wondering however whether you mean that it'll be christmas-themed IN-game or OUT-of-game? That, plus I've already planned my course of Actions/Encounter Slots for Bernhard for the current in-game Day, but if all else fails I can still re-plan things. My desire to try out a battling as a Scimitar via magics on the current Day is still there however (hence, - spoiler! - I asked Morgana in that letter to keep her fairy-kin available for me), so I'd appreciate if that could still be done please!

(...)- Going forward, I'm probably going have to decrease the overall effort and quality of my campaign if I want to make consistent updates outside of the holidays and during my school time, just to be able to do it at all on top of my workload. This includes minimizing characterization, putting hard battle limits (as in one Trainer Battle per day or so per PC, bar exceptions), and emphasizing more Encounters based on RP or simple dice rolls as opposed to my usual fare. It's not...great, but sacrifices will have to be made if I want to continue my campaign without driving myself pair juggling it and every other hobby and task I got loading down my plate.(...)

Decreasing the overall effort and quality of this campaign, if I'm being honest to you, doesn't sound fun and I'm much more into 'quality over quantity'-person, but as you're stating correctly sacrifices are needed if this game shall continue during juggling your job, pharm school, and other hobbies. Limiting battles per Day and going down a more RP-based route sounds good though, I'd support that! The overall decision on whether you want to continue this campaign that way or put it on hiatus is, in the end, up to you and I'm fine with either way; I'm not quite sure yet what I'd enjoy more. The only thing that's important to me personally is that this campaign will NOT be cancelled by you (bar some emergencies occur that warrant this for good reasons, but let's not talk about that) and that you please will take care to not overstress yourself/burn yourself out by having to handle it inbetween real-life-things, aka please do take breaks when needed, alright, my dear? I don't want that GMing this ends up feeling like a chore for you, that would not be fun both on my and your end. I'd also appreciate if you were to state things going into hiatus, like Iron did with his campaign a few times. I love this campaign and I'm already too attached and invested in this game, my PC and my Pokemon, haha... (^v^; ) It's so much fun to escape dreadful reality via it indeed. Unfortunately this doesn't always work because, to quote EeveeBailey, 'life be lifeing'.