[sblock=OOC to everybody]Hello.
First off, my apologies to all of you for my absence. This has been due to many things. Lack of time due to the schedule of my recently acquired job. And most sadly of all, a lack of enthusiasm on my part. My fellow players and DM's are not to blame. It's not because your stories or characters are uninteresting to me. But for some reason my desire to play, my enjoyment of playing, has taken a back seat to just doing my duty to keep posting for the benefit of everyone else for a little while now. I don't know if it may be related to my protracted lack of playing D&D in RL or not.
What all this boils down to is this: I need to take a break. If I didn't come here and declare it and let you all know, if I just disappeared, the guilt would keep me from reappearing someday. I hope to come back. I want to be able to come back and play and enjoy it again someday. I've been playing PbP here since before Morrus took over the boards from Eric Noah. The reason I've been absent for the past week was in coming to this decision one way or the other. But I've made my decision and it's time to implement it. Sorry to everyone involved for the trouble this causes. I will miss the stories we share, and I think that's important. If I kept going just to keep going and got even less interested, I might have lost that as well. I am hopeful that in missing the stories and the camaraderie, it will help draw me back here when I'm ready to start again.
For the Dm's I'm playing under, feel free to NPC my PC's until you find a convenient place to write them out of the story. For the players in my game, I'll give a little more detailed info for the adventure before disappearing.
To everyone here, farewell for now. I hope to return and enjoy your company again someday. Someday as soon as possible.
[/sblock][sblock=To my players and the judge Ozy]Well, this sucks.
For you more than me maybe even. I'm very sorry to do this to all of you the most. The question is whether you want to wrap up this combat (like its not already about over) and say that this room was the last in the adventure, or if Ozy gets stuck DMing the last few encounters. I don't know whether this should players choice or what. I know the judge stepping in is for if the DM disappears entirely. But I'm willing to wrap up this encounter at least and give all the XP due and wrap up the adventure here if that's what the players would prefer. I don't wanna stick Ozy with all sorts of trouble because of my falling out.
Not finishing the last 3 encounters would maybe unbalance the Magic Item distribution that was planned for the adventure. I don't know if it's possible to advertise for a replacement DM instead of foisting it upon Ozy. Unless he wants it. So those are some questions for all of you. I'm not totally disappearing quite yet. I'm done with my PC's for now, but I'll check back here until the DM stuff is either done (if adventure is ended after this encounter) or turned over to someone. I'll post the XP once we wrap up this encounter, but I don't have the time today. I gotta get to work. I'll check back again soon to see what you all have said.[/sblock]