01-03-2019, 12:16 AM
Ah, the goals and aspirations thread... some years when I see this it gets me excited for the new year, but for the last couple I have to say that it's made me feel more like Danny Glover's character in Lethal Weapon when he says "I'm getting too old for this shit." It's never been about the game, but more about the personal life drama that was leeching away the fun I should have been having playing this game. Now that things have changed at work to the point I enjoy going in to work now, I enjoy my schedule, and my boss things will be different. Some might even say all that has already had a drastic change for me, because I accomplished two of my goals I have set for myself the last several years.
Two win a championship for the first time since GDW closed and to push my limits and beat Omar. Never thought that I would've done both in the same match and nor did I expect it to happen when I had decided that I was going to be walking away from the game. Yeah for those of you that weren't in the know about things... I was going to leave the game with Ryan exiting after the Invasion and then followed by Crissy a little later, and finally Sam some time after Trios (I know that's a ways away, but damn it I want to take part in at least one lol). I have just left before and always came back, because I never tell a fitting end to my character's stories and I had things in place that I could use to that affect. The contract renewal storyline in EMERGE for Ryan a few little things that have been going on with Sam and Crissy, but I'm going to keep that to myself don't want to spoil the surprises. However that was before things started changing at work and in my personal life that allowed me to actually enjoy writing again and not rushing everything at the last minute.
As you can tell Ryan is sticking around in EMERGE (at least until end of Season 3) and Sam and Crissy... I'm probably still going to work on phasing them out, but to make room for new character(s) with Sam more than likely taking on a managerial role. Because I figure before I do once again try to call it quits that I want to give SCW a serious run with a male character. Plus I guess I'm just starting to realize it's time to pass the torch it was about 10 years of using my original main characters (Rick Young, Mike Young, Jasmine, Chris Pressler, and Ryan Singer) before I passed the torch to Sam, Crissy, Dakota Dark, E.S. Cormier, Patience "Ember" Young, and Stacy Singer-Young.
So personally, my goals are to continue to have fun rping, finish my story arcs, and maybe do something out of the blue and shock everyone with one of my toons. Also I'd like to expand the circle of people that I work with and not be so closed off any more. Been burnt a lot in the past to where my circle of trust is really just Randy, Matt, Olek, Chris, and my friend Paige (who is the handler of Brianna Jameson-Singer, Ryan's wife). I unfortunately like to come up with ideas in the moment of reading something, get really excited about it, but instead of talking to who I need to, to see if they are interested I wait. I wait hoping that person I have the idea to run by will read my mind and contact me so I can tell them about it. I hate to bring it up again, but I blame Jonathan Collins for that, because every time I ran an idea by him in EXODUS... always I was told no because I was too new to the fed, that I hadn't done anything meaningful to warrant it, and etc. So yeah, I know that I'll never know if I don't ask and that my mom always told me that worst that can said is no, but yeah... Jonathan Collins had a habit of making me feel like he was ripping my head off when I approached him. So yeah, I'm going to try and push past that to work with more people... and please if any of you have any ideas about working with me I'm open to just about anything... (not proud of it, but when I say anything I mean it... did a storyline where Rick Young raped someone at the request of someone who was trying to help me get him over as a heel, but made him THE HEEL for forever more to where it played a huge part in his retirement and moving on to Samantha in his place).
Character wise....
Ryan - A lengthy Spirit Title reign and hopefully a EMERGE championship match before the end of Season 3
Crissy - Would love to matches against Bree and Blake (for obvious reasons), a one on one with Kennie, and some kind of title run.
Ember/Ash/Woody - to effectively have their characters grown within Crissy's and Sam's rps.
Sam - Trios match, a match with Selena Frost, Kennie, team one last time with Brittany Lohan, team up with someone unexpected (not including Trios), and some kind of title run.
Sorry for such a long post.
Two win a championship for the first time since GDW closed and to push my limits and beat Omar. Never thought that I would've done both in the same match and nor did I expect it to happen when I had decided that I was going to be walking away from the game. Yeah for those of you that weren't in the know about things... I was going to leave the game with Ryan exiting after the Invasion and then followed by Crissy a little later, and finally Sam some time after Trios (I know that's a ways away, but damn it I want to take part in at least one lol). I have just left before and always came back, because I never tell a fitting end to my character's stories and I had things in place that I could use to that affect. The contract renewal storyline in EMERGE for Ryan a few little things that have been going on with Sam and Crissy, but I'm going to keep that to myself don't want to spoil the surprises. However that was before things started changing at work and in my personal life that allowed me to actually enjoy writing again and not rushing everything at the last minute.
As you can tell Ryan is sticking around in EMERGE (at least until end of Season 3) and Sam and Crissy... I'm probably still going to work on phasing them out, but to make room for new character(s) with Sam more than likely taking on a managerial role. Because I figure before I do once again try to call it quits that I want to give SCW a serious run with a male character. Plus I guess I'm just starting to realize it's time to pass the torch it was about 10 years of using my original main characters (Rick Young, Mike Young, Jasmine, Chris Pressler, and Ryan Singer) before I passed the torch to Sam, Crissy, Dakota Dark, E.S. Cormier, Patience "Ember" Young, and Stacy Singer-Young.
So personally, my goals are to continue to have fun rping, finish my story arcs, and maybe do something out of the blue and shock everyone with one of my toons. Also I'd like to expand the circle of people that I work with and not be so closed off any more. Been burnt a lot in the past to where my circle of trust is really just Randy, Matt, Olek, Chris, and my friend Paige (who is the handler of Brianna Jameson-Singer, Ryan's wife). I unfortunately like to come up with ideas in the moment of reading something, get really excited about it, but instead of talking to who I need to, to see if they are interested I wait. I wait hoping that person I have the idea to run by will read my mind and contact me so I can tell them about it. I hate to bring it up again, but I blame Jonathan Collins for that, because every time I ran an idea by him in EXODUS... always I was told no because I was too new to the fed, that I hadn't done anything meaningful to warrant it, and etc. So yeah, I know that I'll never know if I don't ask and that my mom always told me that worst that can said is no, but yeah... Jonathan Collins had a habit of making me feel like he was ripping my head off when I approached him. So yeah, I'm going to try and push past that to work with more people... and please if any of you have any ideas about working with me I'm open to just about anything... (not proud of it, but when I say anything I mean it... did a storyline where Rick Young raped someone at the request of someone who was trying to help me get him over as a heel, but made him THE HEEL for forever more to where it played a huge part in his retirement and moving on to Samantha in his place).
Character wise....
Ryan - A lengthy Spirit Title reign and hopefully a EMERGE championship match before the end of Season 3
Crissy - Would love to matches against Bree and Blake (for obvious reasons), a one on one with Kennie, and some kind of title run.
Ember/Ash/Woody - to effectively have their characters grown within Crissy's and Sam's rps.
Sam - Trios match, a match with Selena Frost, Kennie, team one last time with Brittany Lohan, team up with someone unexpected (not including Trios), and some kind of title run.
Sorry for such a long post.