[Mkguild] Oren the Otter's Hippoc Arc

[C. Matthias]

At 01:49 PM 8/12/2016, Bryce Glover wrote:

>>On Aug 12, 2016, at 2:05 AM, 
>><mailto:cokane8116 at aol.com>cokane8116 at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>    I believe that Oren has permanently left 
>> MK.  I don't know of any plans to finish his story arc.
>
>Well, that’s a pity; I was looking forward to 
>seeing more exploits from that luckless TGed 
>Hippocci assassin of his, and, plus, wasn’t 
>there a quest some of his characters were going 
>to go on to Hippoc with MattRat’s in-‘verse avatar?

Oren left Metamor Keep over a decade ago.  I 
confess I had never particularly cared for the 
idea of my character going on the trip to Hippoc, 
but I tend to be very flexible when other folks 
want to use my characters and Oren was a friend 
so as long as he was going to bring me back in 
time for what I had in mind I was happy to let 
him have some fun.  Once Oren left there was no 
reason to continue the story-line and a 
collective judgment was made to let it 
wither.  The same has happened with Raven's story 
arc which was never finished before the main 
author left MK.  In that case we tried to decide 
what to do and had a few possibilities (all 
suggested by the original author), but not enough 
of us really liked any of them so we sort of let 
the plot fade out and left things as they were.

This is one of the challenges of a shared 
setting.  We do try to cooperate with one another 
and I think in Metamor Keep we've done a 
fantastic job of that especially as we are all 
pursuing independent plot lines.  But when 
somebody decides that Metamor Keep no longer 
holds any interest for them, it is extremely 
difficult for the rest of us to pick up what they 
left behind.  I know that were I to leave there 
would be no more stories about the Rats and 
that's just fine.  I do not expect people to do 
my job for them (though from time to time I do 
ask for a little help when it involves their characters).

Okay, that went longer than I intended.  I'm glad 
you have been enjoying Metamor Keep and want to 
see more of it.  I'm working on it here and there. :-)

May He bless you and keep you in His grace and love,

Charles Matthias
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