I really did wish we just stuck to the greetings tho =/ I posted once or twice about the Shinra Alchemists and then everything in that thread got lame afterwards.
I've been RPing since I joined ACF and since then I joined up around 4-6 other forums, usually to RP there as well. The ones that come to mind are from Megatokyo, The Old Republic (some random) and so on. I've seen too many good and bad RPs die out, stuff that a solo project would churn out as an awesome story or at the very least a fantastic fanfiction
I joined 4 RPs on Megatokyo, and I don't usually join RPs unless I find the premise to be worth my time - I just don't have time. Time is, I think, the most underrated commodity in the human race. The RPs all died, but the fact was that each of them had different skill levels of writing and so did the players.
What I guess I'm getting at is that not everyone's a champ at RPing and that there's nothing wrong with having a lower-quality RP. Hell, not everyone's a champ at English. It's obvious. And, well, after thinking about it for a while, it just might be a little daunting for a fresh face to come in and have write-offs with some of the best writers of fiction this forum has ever known.
Right now we have an incredible elite right now, but that's what it is: an elite. I would personally welcome the Shinra Alchemists: not because the posting is second-to-none in quality, not because I like Final Fantasy VII, Bleach, or Fullmetal Alchemists (although I would say that I like the former and the latter :monster), not because I've spent one or two years in that RP, but because it's a chance to teach people how to write properly, how to write well, and also how to write creatively.
I think if an RPer has achieved being better at one of those things, they've gained so much more than anything anyone in
this RP has ever done.
Now that I've gotten that out of my system I can go back to being normal again
YOU ALL SAID DUMB THINGS IN THAT WELCOMING THREAD, GO SIT IN THE CORNER AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE
AND WHEN YOU'RE READY TO APOLOGISE TO THE INTERNET WE'LL BE HAPPY TO LET YOU DO SO
EDIT: ALSO MORE RP MEMBERS MAKES HAPPYFACE HAPPY.