Camelot

Well, it seems that my beloved #Camelot is going through another convulsion about what it stands for. What bugs me is that the biggest uproar comes from the Never-Heres. They remember a #Camelot from times past. A place where they played and found a happy time, but then according to them Real Life (RL) interjected itself and they quit coming to #Camelot. Or at the most occasionally found a few free minutes and snuck back into channel.

The problem stems from someone coming into channel on one of these rare visits and seeing something they don't like. Then the cries "It was never like this in the Old Camelot." Thus the uproar starts and the channel slips into chaos and bad feelings.

The culprits of the bad role-play (RP) are what I call the Always-Heres. They have come to Camelot and found their fun time within the confines of #Camelot. Sadly the Never-heres didn't show them the right way .. All they do is belly-ache and holler for it to go back to what it was. They stir things up for a few weeks and then they slide back into oblivion until the next time they find a few minutes way off in the future. Though I wish the new ones would do better, at least they are RPing as they think it should be, right or wrong.

The last group is the Nearly-Heres. They are the once in a great while RPers or the Idlers. This group just hangs around never really doing anything. But frequently they are the first to say "I remember when so and so or think their RP of 6 years ago is still happening now as history repeats itself." Well, wake up, all you are doing is wasting the air and attribute nothing to #Camelot and its history.

Time have changed and so has #Camelot. I am sorry that the Knights and Ladies has been replaced by the Healers and Mages. I am a Knight and will die as one. Who knows what it will be in a few months. They are here now and RPing their lives. The Never-Heres are just that Never Here. If you want it the old way then get into channel once again and RP your heart out. If your way is the best .. Then the Always-Heres will see it and change .. And I am confident that will occur. But don't pop-in then channel and stir things up for week and then melt into the darkness once again. That is worse than filling the channel with mediocre RP. If you are so good .. Show the new people what it is like. Remember .. Actions out shine words any day.

Changes?

1. No more Idlers. Parking your nick while you play elsewhere will cease. Come into channel to play not park yourself while you eat dinner, wash clothes, clean house, do homework or anything else. If it is important to you .. you will give it your attention and that applies to life in general too.
2. If you want to run multiple characters in channel at one time. Then learn how to use multiple instances of Mirc. Getting your windows confused is not right either ... Focus on what you are doing and that will help others follow your story and might even make them want to join you.
3. Make your characters believable. Those who Do All, Be All, Defeat All, and Know All are not welcome. I can't role play with someone that I can't see as a real person. And if your Role Play interferes with the channel .. Find the front door right now.
4. If you want a voice in the channel as to how it runs or how the Role Play goes .. Then be there. If Role Playing is being superseded by Real Life. Ok, give Real Life your attention. But don't use Real Life as an excuse to be a Never-here and then try and force the role play to a time long ago.
5. The OPs list will change. Most of that list are in the Never-Here group. If your Character deserves respect and honor for what they did in the past or now, then the characters in channel will give you the respect. But the OPs (@) should be for the people who are regularly there. Let them police themselves.

#Camelot is not going away. Neither is it dying or is dead. It is evolving and changing. Much like it has over the last 8 years. #Camelot (Starchat) is way different than #Camelot (Dalnet) and #Camelot today is different from those two. But underlying it all .. #Camelot is Alive.

Blackhawke
Knight of #Camelot
Guardian of #Camelot