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Date Posted: 19:48:23 04/02/05 Sat
Author: Kitty
Subject: Pup, GC, and DS...

When I began writing this, I didn’t know exactly how to start, except to say that I’ve thought about this for a long time, as to whether or not I should say anything, or even had the right to. However, the past months of returning to RP as well as re-building New Isle have brought to me a kind of pure enjoyment and excitement that I’ve rarely felt in the entirety of my junior year, as physically and mentally strenuous as it has been. You see, New Isle began as DragonRiders of Pern, an admittedly tacky site that an unskilled 11-year-old Kitty made out of pure love of the series. It continued for awhile, before Sushi joined me in ownership, and with her experience, we updated the site and improved its appearance and opportunities. Then, after a brief copyright scare, we moved all of our players to Etreus, and finally back to Pern with the creation of New Isle. Together, Sushi and I ran NIW until school and work, forced us to ask Kain and Erin for help. They kindly agreed to run it, Kain even describing herself as Warden of NIW, and Sushi and I sadly retreated into the reality of our busy schedules.

Then Kain and Erin became busy themselves, and you three stepped up to the plate. You’ve done a fair job of keeping it running, with interesting plot ideas and very careful eyes of leadership. Thus, I really thought that maybe I aught not to say anything. I mean, I had created it, and I do love it dearly, but you’d offered up your time and perhaps it would be wrong of me to ask for my Weyr back. But then I stopped to think about it more fully, and I realized that maybe it didn’t have to be as bad as I originally thought, if not an absolutely good thing! Perhaps you’ll allow me to explain my train of thought...?
I want to reclaim my Ownership to New Isle. However, as an owner one is given certain privileges as well certain duties. Privileges involve the creation of new places and types of characters (such as a new room in the Weyr or a Wherhandler) and the ability to come up with main plot ideas (Threadfall, flights etc.) Duties involve yelling at people if the break a rule, maintaining order, working out disputes, updating the members lists, updating the news page, updating the message boards, watching over the message boards for foul language, and checking the Joining Board to make sure all characters are legal. So, I thought to myself, perhaps if I could find a way to provide the privileges, and offer to take away the duties, it would not only be a fair way to earn my site back, but perhaps even provide repayment for your dutiful hard work!

Here are my ideas so you can still influence Pern's future and thus maintain the benefits of leadership without the duties attached. A. Revitalizing “The Wire” – Via the use of Master Fandarel’s invention, we could honor his inventive spirit by having this board become the place where all members could suggest ideas for new Holds, Halls, Rooms, Positions, etc. I would then promise to look at every idea offered, and so long as it was canon with the series, would approve. This idea would then be moved to the second new board…
B. Plot Board – A place for people to come up with new ideas for things that they wish to occur in New Isle. TinyPlots can be arranged here for any who wish to have a basic outline of sorts for an RPing idea and want to make sure they’ll have a few participants before hand. WirePlots would involve the inventions that were approved from the Wire, so that RPers could find a way to ICly work them into our world in an accurate fashion! MajorPlots would be suggestions to me for things you’d like to see in Pern’s future, and the place to put Flight requests to add to the Flight list. With these, so long as they are canon, I would do my best to work them into the storyline via the news board, but would spread things out so that it was still accurate as to New Isle’s ‘reality.’ (Aka: Two Queens Flying, Threadfall, and a Gather on the west coast of the island don’t all happen on the same day.)

So, you’d still have access to the perks of plots and ideas, and I’d be taking the problems away. The only change would be the name under Webmistress, though I intend to place everyone who has helped to promote the survival of our fantastic New Isle on an eventual Thankyou page. Obviously, you three will be on there.

*quiet smile and hug* Please accept this offer. I miss running my site, I miss answering questions and helping the players. My life has finally opened up enough time for me to make New Isle even better with new ideas for everyone to enjoy, and I really, sincerely want to.

-Kitty

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