User blog comment:ShonenChicoBoy/Thanksgiving and the Other Turkey in the Room/@comment-24384232-20161126020422/@comment-2089817-20161129061357

Shonen, I expected a swear-ladled rant filled with f-bombs and s-landmines but you instead presented a reasonable and thought-provoking argument. I'm so disappointed in you, I taught you better.

Seriously speaking though, I get what you're saying regarding the plot becoming stale. And that isn't necessarily because of the plan we have for the Coven, but simply how we've been conducting the RP overall. While we do have to follow a general trend/plan, it doesn't mean we can't have a "choose your own adventure" system where it gives those participating more of a thrill in RPing. The problem with this is, when we DO tend to do this, the FC tends to just die. Because things are left to everybody's devices, they go off on multiple tangents, and then everybody either gets lost or loses interest, and things die. So it's not something we can easily do, and it's hard to negotiate this line because it's very temperamental to make it work for a long-term project.

So there in-lies the problem: we need to conduct things in a way that gives freedom, makes it feel like choices can be made and they have an impact on the story overall, but also there is a distinct plan in place that makes it unlikely for people to get lost.