TTT suggestion is the most intelligent one: instead of bitching around, Doc or Grimm could have simply tied up Gooz post to Aisling, showing that somehow the menace was coming from Aisling itself. It would have been their right to do (as for anyone else), this is a collective stories and everyone is entitled to bring the story in the direction he feels.
Also, like Mxy rightly said, we never discussed if one main plot and a secondary one is acceptable, if they both regards Vanguard. Saying that every issue should have just a one, basic plot it's not something good for the stories, IMO.
Third, I don't think any rule could help to write a good story, with the various definite moments a story should have. That could be done just in solo, like both Doc and Grimm are showing with their excellent tales. The collective story is a role play, it should be really done for fun, like a challenge.
In any case, the habit of demolishing any proposed plot advancement, that Doc often has done with my posts, is something bad for the stories at the least as introducing secondary plots, IMO.
I perfectly understand Grimm and Doc motivations: they are very good storytellers, as their stories shown. I appreciate their effort to bring that excellece to the collective stories.
But, that's not the way. Tomb was good because the posters loved each others, because the characters were the same for all the run of the series, and every poster knew them perfectly, and because it was done for fun, not to create good stories. And in fact, not all were good stories, even if every one of them had its fantastic moments. But by then, each day there were at last a new post, while now, by chance (?) since the posting of the rules, the stories are slow and even left hanging not just by the middle, like always has been here, but even at the start and at the end, to the point to have just one poster writing two whole pages by himself.
I don't want to see Grimm and Doc leaving, but they have chosen to do so by months, and I think it's legitimate that they show us what they are capable of doing with Vanguard Europe.
On my part, I think Gooz has done just something refreshing and cool in the story, just like he has usually done. Now if he only would really bring Turner in Vanguard...
