I am calling this my List of Demands (LOD) and it is subject to change.
The reality of this has become evident. With all the different features everyone has to resist and boost, it's getting to be on the edge of my capability using my current organization. You will all be level 5 for the dragon, and that will likely break/brake me. Additionally, the time sink for the long posts is getting such that we spend nearly all our free time on those days; the current record is 3 hours; the last big one was 70 minutes for reference.
The ratio of fun to work is now less than 1, and so I am pushing myself to get through this until after the dragon. My personal organization and method will need a complete overhaul, and my fun ratio needs to be over 1 after the dragon. Then, and only then, continuing if and only if I can revamp my organization majorly and hopefully automate most things in Excel or with .exes we could write in C, or push this onto you in some major way, or a combination of the three.
There will also be other changes
iff there is a "season 2" or "campaign 2" post-dragon. A required part of that will be to address my major gripes:
1. After spending hours on a post and after two days someone says, "I forgot," and crafts a 5 minute response. My counter to this after the dragon (
iff) will be to incorporate non-action into your moves whenever I feel like it. Doctor's notes will be considered.
2. Alice clearly needs to complain, and that's not changing, then she should delete the post before sending, or she'll get a time out of some kind appropriate to the severity of the relevance and appropriateness of the complaint. The complaints are typically benign but also annoying if unhelpful and counterproductive.
3. At my discretion, if someone (Alice) predicts what's going to happen, I will roll a chance and multiplier for what they/them/slimeself thinks and let the dice decide publicly. To your utter bane or boon, you will either get your wish or the exact opposite multiplied by a dice roll scale determined by another dice roll or x2 whichever is greater.
4. There will never be an animated brick or brotato. Your brick friend, if invoked, will be a forced hallucination that will cause only negative outcomes in gameplay.
5. In any case there will be a very long and necessary pause of indeterminate length post-dragon.
The rest you'll find out or as I remember them. All this is in an effort to boost my own personal fun ratio and punish Alice more because that serves multiple purposes.
I decided not to wait till the end to post this so you can appreciate the next (likely a year the way things are going) till the end of the boss fight with Summer. She's also looking forward to that so it's locked in.
This has been a very fun and unique experience, and 49% of me wants to continue, so I will do my best post dragon to bring that above 51%. You've all done well as players; congratulations for that.
It has been my privilege to serve as your DM so far and until then.
