I'm setting this thread up so that we could discuss our future strategies and agree on interactions or at least to IM each other. I thought IM would be enough, even some PMs, but it's now evident that we need to set some ground rules.

I noted some problems over IM. I'm going to paste excerpts from the conversations here. Our first priority, though, should be to correct the last post that Raven made.

As a note to everyone, defeating a monster that has a 4 to 6 level advantage on you is very difficult. It takes considerable effort and several hits from skills. A lot of players nowadays often overlook that when writing their battles. It also depends on the type of monster, since they have a "size" class. The Small monsters are easier to handle, but the Large types require a team to take down (even with a slight lead on them). It influences their defense and HP relative to other monsters of the same level. Unfortunately, that information isn't in NISDIP.

The remarks that follow refer to Raven in third-person because they were part of me trying to decipher what was going on.

Some of the mistakes:
The Hackberry King is level 34. It's plain impossible. Those things may not be vicious, but one strike would have killed either of them. And they heal. The damage would be negligible.

Raven, I'm sorry, but your posts seriously downplay the difficulty involved in defeating many of the monsters you've faced. Monsters that have a 7 level lead on you are very powerful. Your last post was certainly impossible. In the event, Raquar is level 12 and you are level 14. The Hackberry King is level 34. It could kill you in one hit, even if it's not a violent monster. Your hits would do maybe 20 damage, and please remember that these things heal. The Hackberry King would have healed all the other mushroom monsters in its area.

Some other things bothered me. However, you certainly have a right to your own IC opinion, mistaken or not. And you can even have some slant in your writing. It's not particularly accurate, though:

I'm annoyed by a few things there. I'm not ignoring people who aren't from my clan. I only have IC acquaintance with part of the party, so if it's a matter of speaking to people, we'll get to know each other better over the course of this adventure. If it's about giving out instructions by name or giving items, well... there are no Swordbreakers in this party other than myself, and I don't play by clan lines.

I still tried to boost everyone with Ap Vakz and Ap Raio. A few people didn't notice or post receiving it, and Raven in general seems to live in his own posting bubble where he doesn't recognize anyone except Asuka.

Ichida was nice enough to take notice and also knew that, even though he wasn't named directly in my plan, he was included in the lower-level option. Sure, some probably disliked that he posted about not being able to fight something his size. But he hasn't been running out on his own, and it's not fair to single him out.

I'm not trying to pry control away from anyone. I merely suggested a better idea after considering Sasuke's, both because Sasuke was confused at the time (he accidentally made a plan assuming Halloweens were Physical-tolerant, he later corrected his post), and because I wanted to play on our strengths and give everyone their share of posting in the process. He didn't have access to the info, though, so it's not his fault.

Sasuke isn't trying to fight with me for control of the group. In his credit, he was the first to give any instructions and to post. He didn't know I would suggest another plan. This happened in round 1, and we didn't do it again. OOC, I my only qualm with Sasuke is that he said he'd kill certain monsters, then encroached on other players' monsters. But Raven started it when he killed monsters that Sasuke and Strato wanted, and which were above his level. <_<

Suadela's post for this round says we're split, but Sasuke and I haven't contradicted each other since that first instant. I suspect that post inspired Raven. <_<; He should know better, though.

Oh, and... <_<;

The red chests were mine. I was even asked if I wanted to have my character controlled in the admin post to take the items. I chose to have it done as it was in the other thread, where the chest appeared and the players got to decide what to do. I had hoped to surprise them by telling people not to open the chests, lol, or at least trying to disarm them with Fortune Wires. Since they're not the usual color.

Yes, you could take them, but it'd be nice to ask. Especially since, you know...

Yoink, anyone?

Aside from that, we all need to try to stick to our own monsters and give people a good share. Plans work better when we stick with our things and don't encroach on other people's monsters. And we should decide what to do with the chests and other things.

Finally, everyone should answer the following honestly:
Do you believe I'm struggling to control the group, or hampering it in some manner, or ignoring someone? If anyone feels something unreasonable is going on, I'm certainly willing to correct it.

Okay...I'll agree with the part about the Hackberry King being a bit too much, but the blame there doesn't lay totally with me since me and Raq came up with that over AIM...He asked to be hit, and he said he'd survive...that part was his decision, not mine. If you'd like, I'll edit that out, as well as a few other things that I added in because Raquar's conversation points seemed to indicate this would come after the recently marked portion of the EC quest. In short, I took that to mean I should be a bit higher leveled than 14, guess not, eh?

What I have an issue with is how badly you seem to be taking those comments in my post. I have no problem with the way you're doing things Kiwi, I do not think any of those things...however, what I wrote is an in character opinion, it is how Raven would see things and does not necessarily reflect my own opinions on the matter. He would just see that you and Sasuke's characters for the mopst part seem to be only interacting with certain people, forming little groups that haven't been speaking with each other much. He also doesn't know who is on what clan aside from his own, so he is only assuming when he made that 'own clan' statement.

As for neglecting all but Asuka...well, Raven doesn't have quite as much SP as your character, so using Ap Corv on everyone would seriously take away from his fighting ability since he relies a good deal on spells and skills. He did however decided to use it on one other person, a lower level friend who happened to be standing right next to him at the time.

As for stealing monsters that others wanted...first of all, the only much higher level monsters I killed were Grand Mages, which have little defense and little health to begin with, even if they are a good few levels higher...and I didn't kill them easily either, I hacked away at them a good deal before dealing an elemental critical...also, when did Sasuke say he wanted those? I didn't see that. Everything else Raven killed was a bit lower than them, so I doubt Sasuke would have been concentrating on them. I also only killed one of the Grand Mages the first round of posting, leaving that second one open for those closer to its level. No one took it however, so I decided to kill it in my next post. As for Strato wanting certain monsters, I didn't think I encroached on that. Did I? If so, I'm sorry, but I didn't see the ones I killed in his list the first round, and I believe I posted before him second. If you guys expect me to not kill certain monsters, then PM me about it. Otherwise I can't really know if you don't say anything.

As for sticking to your own monsters...that's a load of BS...no offense Kiwi. Not all of us want to stick to our basic hack and slash stuff with the exact same monsters one after the other, we want to expand and take on a few challenges here and there. I mean, if there's one hell of a difference in power, then yeah, bad idea...I only thought we could manage the Hackberry because it was two of us together, and even Raq agreed that it shouldn't be able to survive that many elemental criticals.

As for the chests, sorry...I wasn't aware you had asked them to do that. Again, something that could have been mentioned earlier if you really wanted no one else to say anything about it. I'll edit that out if you want, but notice I only opened one and left the other for you since I figured you'd be able to get to them first...

So yeah, talk to me, tell me exactly what you want me to change and I will. The chests, the monster, is there anything else on the list before I hit the edit button?

True, I did come up with the idea that I would survive a single hit on the Hackberry King, but that was based on me thinking I was at Level 17, when for this particular quest I'm only 12. So that one hit probably would've wiped me out. I had talked to Hacorie about the possibility of doing this quest with the levels I had recently obtained from my solo, I'll have to talk to him to iron out the details of that.

I think the biggest issue here is a lack of communication. Raven killed monsters that Sasuke and Strato had planned on taking because he didn't know. Sasuke ended up killing monsters that Ichida would've killed because he wanted to make sure the deadline was met. I think the most important part here is communication. I think any planning that is done, especially over IM, should be posted here as well, that way we can focus on eliminating those communication issues.

Now as the matter of leadership. In my head, I had already sort of thrown Kiwi into that position. He's the highest leveled of our team, had been around a while, and is an experienced and well respected character. The two other options for leader would probably be Sasuke and Strato. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Strato seems content following for the most part, and Sasuke does the same. Don't get me wrong Sasuke, your soliders love you to death but you can get a little wild sometimes. ^_^

Either way, I don't think this is a huge disaster. We can come up with something that Raven can edit his post with, I think us killing the two Scarlet Kings would probably be okay, and leave the Hackberry King out of it. Also, we may want to consider posting some sort of monster allotment or schedule of some such here. That way we can use a reference as to who's killing what, and if somebody is unable to do so, we can pick up the slack there.

C'mon guys, we can do this. And let's show up Team 2 while we're at it.

Honestly, I wasn't too miffed about missing my turn; I was bogged down with my work's unstable hours and my very tall unfinished games pile, not to mention the fact that I'm still in the concept phases of my novel. God, I'm behind. >.< Anyways, my only concern is knowing when I should be posting, and making sure that someone leaves something for me. One or two monsters is good enough; I'm not looking to be a hero here. Leadership? Not really an issue for me. Kiwi seems like the man for the job. Again, my only concern is making sure I can post my fights without conflict.

Duly noted. I'm sorry for bringing that up.

See, there's an odd distinction involved. I had already mentioned that it was possible you wrote everything you did because you meant to express your character's thoughts on the team. Though I think it should have been phrased a little better. To an extent, readers assume the narrator is impartial and objective. Therefore, any writing that isn't noticeably tied to a character is assumed to be a sort of OOC statement. However, this assumption isn't necessarily true. Some writers like to add "voice" to their writing, where even the narrator seems to share characteristics with the author's character or the main character at that moment. There are also styles that espouse using biased narrators, crazy narrators, etc. It's similar to the whole deal with whether your writing is 1st person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient, etc.

We can get some good out of this, at least. Perhaps having the explanation here will also alleviate any other players who might have felt uncomfortable with that characterization.

That's not what I meant. We want our posts to refer to other players, allowing us IC interaction and teamwork. It feels as though your posts are focused on Asuka, without there being anyone else, despite that some interactions would have affected you. Of course, you engaged in a long conversation with Raquar this round, but that's uncommon, and the process involved separating yourself from the party for an extended period. I'm not sure, but I think we would have tried to interfere in some way. Or maybe not.

The point is that we should write with each other, not near each other. It bolsters the quality of our writing, too, and yet it doesn't mean you can't have your character be independent.

You are correct about arrangements, for the most part. However, it wasn't really considered an issue because you weren't supposed to be able to tackle the monsters that were chosen for the higher-level players. Let's examine this more closely to provide something a little more substantial than "because I say so". <.<;

You defeated the following monsters in your second post:
Cyclo Shark (11), 2x Goblin Wiz (16), Dark Witch (19), Grand Mage (23)

The numbers in parenthesis are the levels. You are level 14. The Cyclo Shark is fine. The two Goblin Wiz are two levels stronger. Troublesome, but sure, why not? The Dark Witch is five levels stronger and very fast. Equally very unlikely. The Grand Mage is a smooth nine levels ahead. No way.

You probably misunderstood me. You're certainly welcome to challenge a monster that's stronger than you, even defeat it if it's within reason. What I was noting is that everyone, not just you, should be careful when choosing a monster to attack because other people might have already intended to attack that particular monster. Of course, we can simply fix that by agreeing ahead of time. I did believe that attacking the Grand Mages was a poor move because they were 9 levels stronger than you, and Sasuke was in line for that.

It's phrased in a peculiar manner. I thought you took both. I was willing to compromise and let you have one. I hadn't mentioned anything because this post was completed last night, maybe 30 minutes before I went to bed. You posted perhaps 15 minutes after I got home and checked the thread.

I thought I could count on people to use good judgement in choosing their monsters. Particularly, as explained above, I thought that the levels involved would physically prevent people from choosing the wrong monsters because they'd simply get killed. Sasuke was slated to go for the high-level fire monsters, Strato for the high-level darkness ones. Raven may not have realized that taking out the Dark Witch and Grand Mage would throw a wrench into this. Sasuke had also chosen his targets perhaps immediately after Suadela posted and consulted me. I thought he would be one of the first to post, thereby prevent this. Instead, Sasuke switched his targets after Raven posted and took out the Ectoplasms and Dark Witch. That knocked out the second Dark Witch that was meant for Strato. The Ectoplasms were the only realistic target for the low-levels at that time, which cut them off. In Sasuke's defense, however, he apparently offered Ichida to edit his post to undo that. It was an unforeseen chain reaction.

Aside from all that, I expected this could become a problem because we can't readily reach each other online. I had hoped to steer clear of a thread and complete things through IM, but people seem to have radically different schedules. Though, if we're concerned about tipping our hand during a boss battle, we can use simple encryption.

The monsters need to be toned down. The Scarlets Kings are within questionable range, but then the Mushroom Kings would be easy. The problem with the Scarlet Kings is that they can heal 400 HP at once. Given the rate at which you could cause damage, they would probably heal before you could kill them. The Hackberry King has the ability to heal the other mushrooms around it, too, for another 400 HP. That itself is going to cause the whole team problems, including the strongest players. Even I can't kill the Hackberry King by simply hitting it. I figured we'd have to disable the stronger monsters and kill the low-level ones faster than they can heal.

Personally, I think that your character's choice to go in on his own would quickly backfire, since the monsters would take hits and then heal back to normal. If you want to kill something, though, a Mushroom Kings are weak enough to defeat in two or three strikes. A Scarlet King would require both you and Raquar gnawing at it.

As I said earlier, you can take a chest if you want.

Okay, edited my post. I reworded the chest thing so it's easier to understand, and I removed the killing of the Hackberry. I also added a few extra attacks to the Scarlet's, though I still say that with only a 3 level difference what I have should be fine.

The conversation with Raquar was meant to be private...its not something either of them wanted others to hear. They were making a point of staying out of ear shot for that.

As for the Grand Mage, there may be a large level difference, but when I look it up...it only has 200 or so hp and low defence to begin with. Even if that defence goes up for every level difference, I still say Raven could have handled it in the way he did, though that may just be my opinion.

Just a side note: While the Grand Mage and Dark Witch onlyhave 200 or so HP, their evasion rate is much higher than any of ours. Their Physical defense and magic defense is also fairly high, so killing them off because they have 200 HP isn't exactly the easiest thing to do (as seen when I fought to kill the last Dark Witch).

Anyway, as it has been stated before... a lack of communication = a lack of organization, which leads to confusion in the ranks. As Kiwi has said many times before, certain individuals are slotted for certain monsters and, with that, certain roles in this quest. Kiwi and I are not pitted against each other for the role as leader, although that would be fun to role play, it would make this already complicated quest a little bit more so. None of us are the permanent 'leader' for this quest; Kiwi has his strong points, and I have my own, but others in the group will be given their chance at leading our horde as time moves on and when we get further into this event.

So how about we set the guidelines for our side of this event? I suggest we get together and set our own 'in-house' rules as to what we do in each given situation. Sample rule being: If there are uber-strong monsters then leave them for the highest leveled players (myself, Kiwi and Strato). Along with that, the highest leveled players will henceforth leave the low leveled monsters alone, and we'll collaborate for choosing how to kill the mid-leveled monsters.

Of course, that's a sample... sometimes that doesn't exactly work, such as the situation with the Woodstock; I happen to be an Earth element user, and the Woodstock happens to be weak against said element- the obvious answer to 'who gets to kill the Woodstock?' is Sasuke, while the other individuals that may be stronger than me get to go off and kill off monsters that could possibly hinder my path (as one did while I was running about).

Anyway, my screen name for AIM can be found by clicking on that icon at the bottom of my post, I don't have any other Instant Messaging services so lets try and meet up as a group to set the guidelines. If that is asking too much, please let me know. I'll take in mind that each of us may have different schedules... I for one work a 12-15 hour shift almost all week, having an average of 70 hours of work each week... but I am very easy to work with, so I'll meet up at any time... whether that means lack of sleep or otherwise... it's cool. So what say all of us from Team 1 meet up and chat it out, or we specify who is going to make up the rules/guidelines for us.

Speak, or forever... hold your peace.

-Sasuke of the Blue Sky-

I'd be okay for that...if you guys are on when I am. Like I said earlier as well, my post was fixed for the errors listed, so if someone wants to get a post up, they could do so any time now as I'm sure the GM of the quest does not wish to wait much longer for us to finish this round. I believe we're being given a week per round to post, so even though I'm in agreement that we should talk amongst ourselves and hammer out details and strategies, I don't think we should be taking to long either...

*NOTE*

EDoU Team One will move along on Sunday night. There will be penalties for those who have not posted. MUAHAHAHAHA! So Please post.

Danke

Thank you, I'm actually surprised you didn't say anything about that sooner...

My uncle died last night (Saturday), and I am not in much a writing state of mind.

So I have to say sorry, I'm going to have to miss this round I guess. I hope that doesn't do too much to mess up the strategy.

Don't worry about it Strato, take as much time as you need. I understand completely what you're going through, it's not easy to deal with that and then turn around and write a post. Just post whenever you feel like it.

*Nod* So what happened to the others? <.<;

Sasuke posted, so he's fine. Viva is out of commission permanently, I'm not sure how many people are aware of that. I'm the only one missing, but I still have a chance. Let's see if it works out. I've been sick this weekend, and I write relatively slowly. I can only seem to put out about three pages in a day, though its improving with practice (I previously managed a 15 page event post in 24 hours, not sure what's going on lately). Hence, completing Christmas Wishes and posting for ZombieFest has eaten up my daily output.

Sorry to hear that, Strato. I'll be waiting here when you resume your duties.

Just some news on my side of the world. Kiwi and Raquar are probably the only ones that know, but I'm leaving Japan in about a week from now, so I'll be losing my internet very shortly. This means I may not be able to post for this next round, but we'll see how it works out.

We can still stick to the plan that a few of us have spoken over, and we'll be able to complete our tasks shortly as well, but all we gotta do is get active again. I knew we would have problems with active-ness after a couple of weeks, it's very normal for gigantic clan quests as you may all know from your own clan quests. But I say we hit this bitch from the get-go and finish off the rest of this scenario. Strato, of course, is exempt from this week of posting, and I may or may not be able to post due to appointments, meetings and otherwise busy work IRL. Making a move from Japan back to Midwest America is a little tough, ya know?

Strato, I hope all goes well for ya, take all the time you need... the same thing happened to me while I was deployed to Iraq... sad times...

Everyone else, let's get to work! Hua!

-Sasuke of the Blue Sky-

PS: Did Suadela give us any new bad guys? or change anything for us or something? I didn't see any changes in it other than she destroyed a Statue Menhir or somethin like that for the other team... anyone??

Okay, the new round has begun, and it seems as if there are no new monsters to deal with. Instead, we actually have three less. The Hackberry Kings are gone, leaving us with only three Scarlets and three Mushrooms. Do we want to divide these up between us now like we mentioned before? So, we might not be able to count on Sasuke this round, so I say, we divide them up amongst those of us remaining. If he becomes able to post before the end of the round, he can split whatever's left with those who haven't posted by then.

So, we have, what? 6 people aside from Sasuke? Wow...that works out a little too well...So, is it safe to divide them up as follows?

Scarlets: me, Kiwi, Strato
Mushrooms: Rei, Ichida, Raquar?

That's not taking into account whatever forms of teamwork you guys want to use though, so, suggestions please.

Dividing the monsters up like that is fine. The idea that Kiwi, Strato and myself were going with was that I would take Raquar and head out of the forest and together we would blow the absolute shit outa the forest (a counter-measure for guerilla tactics), and that would flush all the monsters to the clearing where everyone else is currently standing in. When they all start coming out then you'll all be able to take on whichever you feel you'll be able to take on. Since the Hackberry Kings are gone that means Kiwi, Strato and I do not have to take any of them out on our own and the fight will actually go a lot faster than planned.

Raquar and I shall be firing rounds of 'zot' type attacks into the forest, our attacks may hurt the monsters so play it out that the monsters are hurt a little bit, but not so much that they are crippled. Aside from that, he and I will join up with you guys after a few minutes of shooting off the shots and then we'll be the 'clean up crew' that will kill off everything else that's not been killed. So we'll wait for everyone else to post and then Raquar and I shall toss in our bit and then this scenario will be completed.

Like I said before, I've got a lot of IRL appointments to do, so posting on ANYTHING, let alone this event, will be very limited. But lucky for us, out of the 4 or 5 quests that I've been doing on the multiple RPG's I'm a part of, this is on the priority list as far as quests go. AOD CLan quest is number 1, Senkai story mode is 2, and this is number 3. Go team one!!

-Sasuke of the Blue Sky-

*double post of doom*

Hey guys, they just came and took all my stuff out of my room to move it to my next base. That means I'm officially out of commission. I'll have limited accessibility to the internet from here on out so hopefully by the time i get back on we'll have moved on to the next stage. I'll be back sooner than you know it, give it a week and I'll be able to get onto the internet again, but like I said, it'll be limited. Good luck with this portion of this stage!!

-Sasuke of the Blue Sky-

As I did with team one...I am mandating a period of five days...Five days I need you participants to post here or make a post. No one has even posted since the last GM post which is very VeryvEryveRyverYVEryVERyVERTVErYVeRy bad.

But you have a five day span. So good luck. I am awaiting to see a few posts....if not I will have to find something else to do.

Danke
~Hac

Sasuke has returned and is posting as Hac has requested.

I just got back from Georgia but I still do not have internet of my own so I still have limited access online... so nothing has changed for me. Anyway, what's up with no one posting?

-Sasuke of the Blue Sky-

I'm not sure about everyone else, but you said that you and Raq had something planned, so I was waiting for at least him to make his post first so I could get my post right...but I guess that's not going to happen...so yeah, expect my post later today, it may be a bit shirt as is though, so I hope no one minds if I take out a few more mushrooms than just the one I had planned before...Then again, no one else is exactly jumping up to take any of them anyways...

Sasuke and I had something planned? Where was I for all of this?

That. Sorry, it seems I misread it. It was a plan involving you, but you were apparently not part of the conversation when planning it. Still though, none of the people who had planned it seemed to have come forth and made their posts. I mean...for jumping down my throat for posting quickly before they could come up with a game plan...and apparently ruining some ideas they had that no one bathered to mention, a lot of people sure don't seem to be bothering to try this round...

Oh. That, yeah, lol, didn't know about it. I can go along with it, but yeah, that means waiting on somebody else to post for it really.

*jots down notes* Glad to see you all still alive and kicking. >.> Maybe I should lay down an iron fist more often XD.

Nah, it doesn't suit my personality...

Psh... yeah, right. You know you love power. It corrupts all!

Oh, and good luck to everyone here. Seems my team died =D

*runs back to his thread before being shouted at*

Okay, and we have my post up. I took the liberty of killing of 2 of the Scarlets and 1 of the Mushrooms. I'm sure the rest of you could deal with the other 6 monsters easily...

I just did most of your jobs, you lazy no-shows, XDD. Whoever jumps in first can have the last Scarlet King.

Well, they're all dead now. Moving on, if at all...

Double post. Well, the story post is up...and minus the slight discrepancy that Raven took two of the pieces, and yet apparently they're all in Kiwi's hands during that post...we have very few details to work with.

Any ideas? Not that I'm expecting a big response from anyone here considering the complete lack of posting in that last round. I mean, I know Sasuke has a good reason, but what the hell happened to everyone else?






...and seriously...was it so hard for the GM to notice that Raven opened up that last chest, and therefore has the piece that was inside, you know, since Kiwi didn't post at all last round...

My reason for not being able to participate is still valid... I am back in the states, safely, but I'll be leaving my parents house on saturday to go to my new Base. It's gonna take atleast a week or two in order to get set up and such, but if I can get internet or whatnot rather quickly after I get situated on Base then I'll be able to take part in the rest of this event. Sorry I've been MIA, might still be a few more weeks...

-Sasuke of the Blue Sky-

Here is the deal....last time I looked I encouraged Kiwi to have the pieces in my GM post. I know you two had a discrepancy earlier in this thread of who should get them. So, I just went on conjecture that Kiwi kept them. I will change that one little introductory phrase to suit that you have the pieces. And the description that what was in the chest was for whoever opened it(which was you on your last post). So, basically, I just had a misconception about who had the pieces.

But now that I know who has what pieces, I will correct my GM post. Sorry folks.

I think that is also what caused your other discrepancy. Since that 'all' would include the piece in the chest. My fault yo. To think one small phrase could cause so much trouble XD.

It's not that much trouble, I just wanted to point out that there was a discrepency there. I was stressing the latest piece more than the previous ones though, mainly because the previous ones could have ended up in Kiwi's hands by that point. It was the latest one that was the issue.

Well it was changed ^^.

--Just to make sure, that means you have every piece, correct?

No, Kiwi has one of them, but Raven grabbed the other two.

Okay, now that I am set XD...we should not have many more problems. You guys will have fun with this boss....trust me ^_^.

Oh, I hope so. Though I don't see myself getting a good length post out of attacking a monster I know nothing about, but I'm sure I'll figure out something.

That's all the fun =p. More or less, It is not really even paying you guys any attention. Or I guess you could say it is scanning you, but you do not know that. In fact, you may not even attack it (if you wish). But trust me it'll become a lot more fun after Sua's next post. ^_^

If anyone does not post by that time period....pray for your character's soul...buahaha.

Yeesh, we get it. XDD.

Lovely. XD.

*cough* I've been through a rough couple of months, but I'm back.

I'm at work now, but when I get home I'll read through everything and think about how to write myself back in. I think I'm finally ready to get back into writing.

I apologize for being gone for 2 months.