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We are at Amia Wiki too, now: http://amiawiki.shatuga.com/index.php/The_Nightshadows

I have to run to work now, but I will finish this article later.

bout time yall started back up. And expect a pm from yours truly on a few items and ideas i wanted to talk to you about. Ill do that when i get back from work as well

Updated.

Don't mistake those with the Nightshades! Biiig difference, yep, yep, yep.

There is also a small group Night-watch

xdrone561x wrote:

bout time yall started back up. And expect a pm from yours truly on a few items and ideas i wanted to talk to you about. Ill do that when i get back from work as well :P

Where is it? >_>

BlackDahlya wrote:

xdrone561x wrote:

bout time yall started back up. And expect a pm from yours truly on a few items and ideas i wanted to talk to you about. Ill do that when i get back from work as well

Where is it? >_>

ive been working..ill get on it i swear!

*Bumping*

Soo glad you guys are still around. Nice to see some semi-secretive factions still around.

They're so secret they bump a topic in GD about them regularly.

I guess its a fine line between faction death/lack of members and keeping yourselves secret. I still think the ONLY way to recruit successfully is IN GAME. Especially for secret groups and sort of secret groups (shady groups I guess you could call them?).

Given that most factions typically have 5 to 10 PCs if that and new factions start all the time, its a case of competing for players attention. Given that most characters start today, gone tomorrow...the actual base of consistent long term RP characters is even harder to find.

Each day I log in, I see a whole bunch of new character names. One can invest a lot of energy recruiting someone only to find they've rolled up a new character tomorrow and forgotten all about you a day after they lose interest and are too keen on the new character. Several weeks later, that character is gone too....i'm sure we've all done that at some point.

Nightshadows are a great group to RP with and I hope they get a few new members.

TormakSaber wrote:

They're so secret they bump a topic in GD about them regularly.

Actually, we are not secretive anymore.

I just keep bumping it in hopes it will attract people's interest to join.

Every drow from Ultrinnan is free to RP recognition, since Rizzen's head was adorning the city gates for a long time before I decided to Resurrect him. He's the High Priest of the faith, in case you're all wondering.

This is also a green card for those players (from Ultrinnan) wishing to join the faction but that are unsure about the secrecy factor.

Though I have been taking turns getting my V out and my non-V PCs, it's hard finding those willing to join a faction.

I guess not everyone likes the conflicts that would follow, or maybe having to have his/her PC living in hiding all the time to avoid said conflicts.

EDIT: Grammar and typos.

soundofastream wrote:

I guess its a fine line between faction death/lack of members and keeping yourselves secret. I still think the ONLY way to recruit successfully is IN GAME. Especially for secret groups and sort of secret groups (shady groups I guess you could call them?).

Given that most factions typically have 5 to 10 PCs if that and new factions start all the time, its a case of competing for players attention. Given that most characters start today, gone tomorrow...the actual base of consistent long term RP characters is even harder to find.

We had some 15 members at one time, but after some problems with metagaming, most left. Others went inactive because, of course, Real Life takes precedence.

It's gotten to a point where were down to two active members and four semi-active with another one popping on from time to time, which is not quite semi-active, and not yet inactive. Of these seven members, four are known-vhaeraunites already, at least at Ultrinnan, and are exiled.

Add to that the problems we used to have (and we still do!) with timezones.

Two or three ideas of events are also "frozen" in our forums because we are lacking PCs and I am not even daring to send them to the Staff for approval because we would need NPCs to back up our numbers and DMs would rather see a bunch of PCs working together.

soundofastream wrote:

Nightshadows are a great group to RP with and I hope they get a few new members. :)

Thank you. ^^

EDIT: Typos.

I think I've found you a great roleplayer and potential new member. Contact me IG and I'll mention who it is in a tell.

*Bumps*

At Amia Wiki
http://amiawiki.shatuga.com/index.php/The_Nightshadows

Off-Site Forum
http://nightshadowsatamia.freeforums.org/

Or PM me for more information.

*Bumps*

We're trying to set a meeting for the next week.

It's your chance to make a V character or have yours join us.

PM me if interested.

*BUMP*

*sings* doin the bump, hey sexy sexy!

*Bump*

We got two more recruits. And I updated the Amia Wiki page.

i think you should make an IC post with all your names, hobies, and places of residence... to, eerr, aid recruitment...

Last edited by BlackDahlya on Sun, Jun 14 2009, 0:07 AM, edited 1 time in total.

GIVING UP

Yes, this time it is for real.

Some of you know the reasons, some of you I already talked about, some of you tried to convince me to hang in there...

But my level of mental stress is already high enough working with customer service and then having to deal with a sick grandmother and a nearly unstable mother. All that with merely 6 hours of sleep a day, if the nurse doesn't feel the urge to report to me about the previous day as soon as she arrives here, or about the reason why she got late, or about the horrible horrible accident she saw by the road - and when I should go straight to bed. Yes, my sleeping times are eaten by one chatterbox of a nurse, that I just don't send to the hells and back because I took care of grandmother once all by myself and I know how good it does to you when you can talk with a sane person about whatever you want to talk.

There's too little of my patience and sanity left to keep a level head when trying to lead a faction.

Rizzen will be around. But I guess some of you can guess as to what his fate is. Or you can accompany his situation here: http://www.amiaworld.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=34017. This is not yet IC knowledge. So far he still is who he is, Vhaeraunites who know of him and want to join the faction can still come to him IC if you need. But a change is happening and sure as the sky is blue, it will come full circle (and two or three DMs are already aware of it - still, any of those who know, or those that don't know yet, feel free to PM me). I just am not sure when exactly it will happen as the RP involving this change is being very chaotic but in a good, non-stressful sense. But we all will know when the change happened, one way or another.

Anyone feel free to post something here, or PM me, or nudge me on MSN if you want to talk about this.

But the faction is not entirely over. Sonic still seems willing to keep playing Sirin and will probably wear the cloak of the leader, being among the (currently) most known (to lolthite drow and a few Eilis) active Vs.

The faction as you know, as I started, will end. I will close our forums within a month and will probably remove the AmiaWiki page - or update it, depending on what Sirin will want to do about the faction.

I know I left a lot of PCs hanging, promises made but now will have to be broken, a couple of events ready but not put in action for lack of PC personnel (timezones and all that jazz)... But I will still perform that one, for sure, Siggy!

Hopefully, though, no hard feelings willl remain.

Despite some of the IC and OOC stress, there were really good moments within the faction and with players outside it.

*hugs*

Vhaeraun can never die.

I'll keep spreading the good word for you!

Dang, gurl.. I hope everything works out in RL, at least to the degree it can work out. This is just a game. Don't beat yourself up about it. But yeah, you've got to do that thing. Hep, 2, 3, 4!

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