Re: Obligatory OOC thread
For those still around these hallowed boards:
Greetings, and may life be your ally in all things.
Its been 3 years since I've come here. And my life looks very different than it used to.
I am not returning to RPoL or this game, enough to make it work. And so I am advising you all that I'll be deleting this game from the site in one week. Please, if there is anything here that you want, do grab it between now and then.
I want to thank each and every one of you for your participation; it really was loving making stories with you all.
I hope that you are all out there, still making stories.
“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them”
“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters is that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself”
“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”
- Terry Pratchett; A Hat Full of Sky
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
-Terry Pratchett; The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
“Narrativium is powerful stuff. We have always had a drive to paint stories on to the universe. When humans first looked at the stars, which are great flaming suns an unimaginable distance away, they saw in amongst them giant bulls, dragons, and local heroes.
Concepts like gods, truth and soul appear to exist only in so far as humans consider them to do so... But they work some magic for us. They add narrativium to our culture. They bring pain, hope, despair, and comfort. They wind up our elastic. Good or bad, they've made us into people.
Humans add narrativium to their world. They insist in interpreting the universe as if it's telling a story. This leads them to focus on facts that fit the story, while ignoring those that don't.”
- Terry Pratchett; The Science of Discworld
Be well my friends.