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Originally posted by The Eurostar:
Some things, then, I will shut up.
You don't have to shut up. In fact, talking is the best thing we can all do right about now.
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“This is Eurostar universe”. In a way, this is. I made the first posts of the new Universe, and somehow, I set the Universe. It’s a sin? I don’t know, it could have happened to each of us. In any case, I envisioned, and still envision, this universe as a “Ultimate Marvel” Universe, with some remembrance of the old one. If I want a completely different environment, I have the Strikeforce 5 Universe.
I don't think it's a sin that you made the first post. Not at all. We all developed our first few posts from everyone's. You brought in the metagene, I formed the MCCA fromthat and Chewy made himself a sciencist studing the metagene, etc. That was a good approch. But we did make this with the idea it would be a New Universe, with a different feel. Euro (and I am NOT singling you out) in one post, you had a new Lioness fight Agent Turner and in your post she talked about Marisa (Gooz's original love) and Smasher (Gooz's old best fright) like it was the same exact thing in the New Universe (which I had NO plans to ever use that or any other "back story" for Turner as you now see). This was susposed to be different, or we would have never started anew, we coulda just continued the old universe.
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“This is Eurostar story”. Could be. I prefer to think this is Euro, T5 and Mxy story, the ones that gives directions to the story, posting in it. Let’s face it, we are the ones that posts regularly, and it’s natural that the universe is shaped by us.
The "Euro, T5 and Mxy" Story? WTF, I guess all my posts were invisible? In the beginning stories I posted just as much if not more than you guys. As things went on and got more and more tangled I began posting less and finally wrote my character into the background. Even now, I still post just as much as you.
Danny has added a great deal too. And it seems every interesting subplot he begins to develop is fixed in one of your long posts. He opened these subplots to develop a character, not to have someone else quick fix them in one post.
Chewy's writing and plot development has been amazing! If he continues to write as he has been I give him permission to kick Turner's ass left and right through the whole New universe!
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But I admit that, maybe taking the role of “leader” too exaggeratedly, I have taken the story too much in the direction I wanted. That is exactly why I had tried to wrote Euro out of the story, completely, without a need to come back, giving him his son. It was my way of resolving my preponderance in the story, making a big step behind.
One of the things I hate most are the quick fixes. The single posts that are bad for storytelling but wrap things up nicely. You had no need to write yourself out to clear things up. And if you wrote his out so "completely" why did it seem to open ended? If you wanted him out completely, why didn't you just leave him dead???
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But no. I am talking to you, Chewy. I expressly wrote to leave Euro away. You said I was taking too much space in the play. You should have been happy. But no, you couldn’t accept your team has been beaten, so you had to scramble the story, make it unnecessary complicated, ruin the happy ending for my character. Well, I say this loud: EURO AND HIS SON ARE OUT OF THIS UNIVERSE!
As I said with Turner above, I have no problem with Chewy or Danny or any one beating him in a fight, AS LONG AS HE IS WRITTEN IN CHARACTER! The EPS was written fully out of character and in one post you took away months of development to give your character an easy win and "happy ever after" ending. You should have talked to him, maybe he had a huge plan for eddy? maybe not. But would a quick PM have hurt? Chewy goes out of his way to find out about a character before he writes about them, hell, I must have talked to him for a few hours about him using Turner in a recent post (while Turner was only used in many two lines).
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I have fixed this unfortunate episode in a light and simple manner in the story. If my desire to have my characters out of the New Universe will be respected, I will return as Nadia. If not, this will be my last post here.
I don't think you should quit. I just think you need to learn that not every story has to revolve around your main character. We are a pretty big group here.
If you are quitiing, I would like you to know, that it has been a pleasure writting with you over the years and I wish you and your family well in life.
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PS
Gooz, you killed Agent 57 
Indeed. I killed him after I stated my displeasure of adding him into the story. It would be like me adding Super-fast-know-it-all-man or Prometheus to the story without them knowing it and using them how I see fit. If someone is not here, why should we add them in. It is much wronger than Chewy writing about Eurostar (a character IN the story), wouldn't you say?
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PPS
TTT, I waited for days to have you writing the meeting between the heroes, Quantos and Chimp, then I wrapped up the story because no one seemed able/interested to continue it. But there is always space for flashbacks, especially for you time shouldn’t be a linear thing.
[ 02-19-2002: Message edited by: The Eurostar ]
I agree. And after this story there will be plenty of time to develop the Chimp with everyone else. I agree that we should scale things down. Have no villains or small normal threats for a while. That is what my proposal was about.
-Ritchie
