He has his online status hidden, if you click on his profile it doesn't tell you when he was last seen like it does others. And it doesn't say he's online when he responds
Ye, it once he was online in the past his username used to show on the list. Best case scenario is he is still online and for some reason his his activity, but I believe he has stopped visiting the site for a while now.
 
Is there like a max waiting time before we can just take over this RP? I would be willing to serve as GM to keep this story rolling. The end game will probably not be the same that @Gattletowne was intending, but it doesn't seem like he's coming back...

If you guys are up for it, I can start personal messages with you all to try and gather any and all hints he gave out. Then I'll fill in the gaps as best I can.
 
Generally how we handle things here is that the owner of a roleplay maintains ownership of that roleplay, we don't give it away even if the owner leaves. That said there's three things you can do.

The characters and contributions you guys made to the roleplay are of course yours, so you could make a new (but different) roleplay with a similar premise, and import your characters across and adapt them and their histories to work for the new roleplay. This involves the most work, since you can't take the original GMs stuff, IE their characters and IC organizations, and specific elements.

However the GM brought you guys into the roleplay, and as far as I know left no explicit instructions on what you can't do regarding progressing the story. That means you guys are free to just keep trucking on without the GM actively present. As staff though we won't grant outright ownership of the roleplay, but neither are we going to tell people 'no you can't keep roleplaying in this roleplay'. Just means if the owner returns and there's a conflict over the roleplay, the staff will generally back the original creator that it's still his/her roleplay.

And lastly you can always shoot a PM to the owner and ASK if they can turn the roleplay over to you, and invite a moderator or administrator to the conversation. Then if they return later they can't pull it out from under you. It was officially handed off. If they have their inbox rigged to e-mail them when they get PMed they might respond. Either way I would make this your first step because it's the least likely to cause you complications down the road, and then decide which of the other two options you guys want to pursue if you can't get a hold of the original GM.
 
I'm still kind of interested in this rp... just busy with other stuff. My next post is still actually in draft and untouched for the last few weeks... but I didn't want to continue putting my effort in it unless I'm sure this rp isn't dead yet.
 
Dope, yeah I'll let you guys know if he responds within the next few days. But I doubt it. So assuming he doesn't, we have the first two options available.

I think the second option Tiko gave us would be best. The only thing we technically wouldn't be able to touch is Sixty-Six, because that's his character as listed in the tab. So whoever is with him will just have to leave his side. The rest of the characters are just NPCs as far as I can tell because Gattletowne never explicitly claimed them, so the new GM would just take over controlling them. The only other thing is the tabs on this thread will be static, since we don't have access to editing them. Unless the mods are willing to add a second GM to this RP like they do with epic roleplays.

Also, would you all be OK with me GMing? Or does someone else want to take over? We could do a vote if needed.
 
Ideally, we'd start from scratch. Having no lead in Gattletowne's motives could be trouble for the new gm
 
@ArQane @SedentaryCobra @Revelree @Morph @_BB_
Yeah so, big surprise, he hasn't responded. So is anyone wanting to GM this RP other than me?

Also, yeah not knowing Gattletowne's motives will mean the GM will have to come up with their own reasoning behind Murder City. But I still think it would be better to continue this thread because we have a starting point. Whoever is GM can message the other 5 players, and get any information Gattletowne gave out to them, then devise a story arc from there. If we start all over the GM is still going to have to make up their own story arc. At the point the RP is in now, I think it gives a good basis to go off of, but Gattletowne has left a lot open in the area of explanations. So the new GM will also not be too constrained in the direction they want to take this.
 
Also, @Tiko
Is it possible for one of us to be granted the GM permission, like where the new GM will have the little banner below their name and have access to editing the tabs? Or are the tabs on this thread forever static?
 
Only the owner/creator of a thread can add/edit tabs to it. And the banners are only for epic roleplays. Also, Gattletown had no GM powers either. That's pretty much exclusive to epic roleplays.
 
Hmmm... I find it quite disrespectful to use Gattletowne's characters though, without his permission. Like Christ for example. He hinted at me that Christ is going to be big on this story. I honestly think that if we want to continue the rp by ourselves, we should break free, create our own arc that will not need much of their participation anymore. Creating a new, fresh thread with another official GM sounds better to me.

On that note: I am already a GM (well, unofficially, at this point, but I'm already in duty) of Ame Damnee, so I don't think I can handle this one given restraints in my time. I'm out of the list of candidates to take over. @Tiko, where's my banner? lol xD
 
Yeah, I know it's probably not courteous to just take over this RP, but at the same time I don't think it was courteous of Gattletowne to just ghost us without any notice. And since we can't actually get his permission, I feel like it's okay to continue with his characters considering the majority of us are still wanting to play this out. I think this situation is a bit different, as we're not just sweeping the RP out from under him, he's been gone awhile.

That's just my opinion though. I don't know if I personally have the time to create an entirely new RP based around this idea. Because that would mean everything would have to be original to avoid copying Gattle, as Tiko mentioned in his first post here. So if the majority of us want to start fresh, I probably wont be the one to GM it. But I might be willing to play in the new thread if someone else takes the role.
 
You have a point there though, I must admit. So I guess I'll leave this to the majority to decide as well. Either way, I'm in. Rouge is a wonderful character that I am quite proud of, it would be a waste for her to be scrapped so nonchalantly like this.
 
I would rather not GM, honestly. I might be able to do it if I had more information, but as it stands, I don't have too terribly much and I'd be too afraid to break the wonderful mystery and atmosphere gattle has set up to do a proper job.
 
I'm happy for you to GM Incognus :) Fingers crossed Gattle comes back but at this stage it does seem unlikely. I'm wth Rev-I'd feel a bit off using Gattle's characters but at the same time Sigil and Apollo are pretty entrenched now and using them is probably going to be necessary. I think we can deal with their characters respectfully without anyone necessarily having to rp with them directly, if everyone's up for that? Then Gattle can always jump back in if they ever rock up again.
 
Alright, well it seems like you guys are cool with me taking over, so I'm going to brainstorm and will be messaging each of you later for any information I can gather.
The only person who hasn't responded to this conversation is Morph, but it looks like he hasn't been on here since Feb 4th... This is kind of unfortunate because I feel like Gattletowne dropped some good info to him, considering Vi was resurrected. Hopefully he will return though, until then his character can just sit off screen.
 
I'm wondering.. Should I create a new OOC so that I can control the tabs on there? It might be a good idea so we have somewhere to go for recent information changes and dead book updates etc.

I'll be making a post soon so we can get going. I have a pretty good idea where to take this RP now, hopefully you all will enjoy it.

Edit: It might be a little bit before I post actually. Im going back and reading the thread and it turns out Gattletowne was hinting at a lot of stuff in his posts, I only noticed some of it after getting your guy's information. Currently trying to take notes on everything to keep track of it all. Kinda makes me wish Gattletowne was here again because he clearly put a lot of forethought into this RP and did a great job at running this
 
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From now on, put the day count at the top of your post like I've been doing, that way we can keep track of where everyone is at. Apollo and Sigil are behind one day, so I would say finish up the posts with the day ending, unless you have questions for Six. Then feel free to ask away before you do that.

As for the rest of you, post when you think is necessary, I don't think anyone else is actually waiting on any NPC characters if I remember correctly

I might make a new OOC tomorrow. I'll post the link here if I do.

I need to sleep :eek:
 
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