My statement regarding current events

This is the beginning of a statement I am making regarding recent events, and my stance on the matter. I am referring, obviously, to the new-old nation of Goraia, and the players who are taking part in it.

Let me start this off like this. I don’t mind villains. To have an interesting story, you need some antagonistic elements, sometimes. I’m not opposed to the concept of villainy, villainous characters, antagonistic actions, or actions that some might find offensive. As I’ve been told, this is a sandbox, and things happen in it. Lots of things, without much regulation.

However. I’m here to have fun. And I have. I’ve had a lot of fun. I haven't really done any creative writing before my date of joining last September, and since then, I’ve been faced with all sorts of interesting and challenging posts to write. I enjoy posting, developing my character and interacting with the characters of others. I like it here, and I’ve met a ton of interesting people, and befriended a lot of them.

I don’t really mind what anyone else does in their time in the sandbox. What sorts of power levels characters have, or what sorts of plots or actions they take. I’m chill like that. Do what you want, I don’t really care.

However. Actions taken begin to concern me when they begin to endanger my enjoyment of the site, or my friends’ enjoyment of the site. And this is where we begin to run into issues.

If you remember, I brought up a similar topic a while back. Just last month, in fact. Though the faces were different, and the specific cause of friction not quite the same, the underlying issue persists between both issues.

The thread I posted was here, and the gist of it was such that I, and a number of others, who are listed on the thread, thought that some manner of rule change was needed to prevent malicious individuals from interfering with the enjoyment of others. There was a lot more words to it than that, but that was the essence of what I had to say.

However, my solution was shot down. People wanted to ‘preserve the sandbox nature of the site’ and ‘deal with things on a case by case basis’. And I said, essentially, “Alright, fair enough.”

But yet, here we are today, faced with just such a scenario, where a bunch of players appeared, and have stated, outright, that it is their intention to go around messing with characters that don’t want to interact with them, and destroying other people’s RPs and characters without their consent.

So I think you can see where I start to have a problem with this. I- with many of my friends, am here to enjoy myself, and a bunch of people have just shown up, and stated that they intend to make that impossible.

With that stated, why I have an issue, allow me to begin my actual statement.

I’m not opposed to the concept of doing RP with anyone. I’m not opposed to the concept of an in character conflict, or a war involving my character. However, I am very vehemently opposed to the concepts of characters invading threads where they are not wanted, with the intention to kill characters that the character’s player does not want to lose. (This also extends to slavery and violation and all that. Generally doing things to characters that are against the wishes of their player. Killing characters that are fine with being killed, or doing things that are consensual are still fine, I don’t care.)

Additionally, I am opposed to the concept of playing unfairly, or attempting to dogpile Goraia with every nation and character because they did some torture.

I’m also not here to argue. I don’t like arguing, and don’t like it when others do. I’m not going to debate in circles, or try to settle things in chat. That’s not my way, and I think it’s a pretty ineffective way to deal with things like this.

So this is my action; this is how I’m handling this. If Goraia wants to play fairly, and interact in ways that are both fair and enjoyable for all involved parties, players, and characters, fair enough. I’ll acknowledge them, and play fairly in return. This is the most preferable outcome for me. I would like to see the effects of a war on Isra, and would like to play in a wartime environment, that sounds fun in concept.

However. If Goraia, as they’ve stated it is their intent, begin to introduce themselves where they’re not wanted (ex: The Chalet), and begin to take offensive action against characters who don’t want to be enslaved, violated, killed, or any of that, I’m going to stop interacting with and achkowlegeing them. Just completely. I refuse to play with people that intentionally work to the detriment of others. I’m not going to do it, a bunch of other people are of like mind, and will assuredly do the same.

And additionally, if players proceed to act in this way, and if the site’s administration refuses to take a stance one way or the other and take action to remove the conflict, I’ll leave. Not going to play in a place that allows people to come in and ruin everyone else’s fun. I enjoy the sandbox element of the site and everything I’ve done, but not enough to stick around and be besieged by a bunch of intentionally malicious players. I’m not interested in combat, or my character being killed. I’ll take my business elsewhere, as it were.

I’m going to go ahead and dump some quotes right down here, to illustrate my point and justify my course of action. I’ve said none of these things myself, these are the direct quotes of my like minded fellows.

“I just want to enjoy this world and I can't do that when there's the constant threat of people swooping in to wreck everything just because they want to.”

“I just want a place to play where I don't have to worry about my characters being embroiled in a war I have no interest in. There's no such luxury when they openly state the intent to invade and destroy and kill mercilessly.”

“I find this whole thing to be appalling. I'm fine with horrible evil bad guys but not with this. This is intentional, malevolent, asinine, and straight up assholey behavior.”

“Never eat sour watermelon.” [This one is unrelated, but he asked me to include it anyway.]

So, in summary and conclusion, my stance is as thus.

We don't mind if you [Goraia] sit over there and do your thing. We'll engage in interactions as so long as the interactions are fun and enjoyable for both parties, but the moment that you lot start doing things to characters against the will of a player, or force combat on those who don't want it, we, as a group of like minded people, will refuse to play with you.

As with the last thread I posted in this OOC forum, I encourage civil, OOC discussion working toward a resolution or stating your own stance on the matter. However, please don't let this topic degrade to the crude insult-fest or levying of threats.