To Yggy: Sorry to hear about your house, hope you can sort eveything out soon. Until you can return I'll try and control your actions as best you can. As it stands, however, not much will be happening for the moment that is absolutely necessary for you to be controlling Lucian for, ie. I won't have him do anything uber big without you. If there's anything at all you want him to do/not do, post here, or PM, if you can get the chance.
Okay, on to the topic of Billy, I'm going to try and sort this all out once and for all here, so that everyone can see the outcome and hopefully everyone's satisfied without compromising either my position as Game Master or the RPG itself.
First, Billy's red eyes. Devon PMed me, and I understand Cry as well, about the source of these. It is due to Billy's stomach housing a young (50 to 100 years-old) Leviathan (giant sea snake) which his family defeated years ago. The red eyes signify the Leviathan taking control of Billy's body for a short amount of time. I have told Devon that this is unfair; to seal a monster inside another person is something I hadn't considered within this universe until he suggested it. However, to do so would require some sort of spell or ritual involving powers that no OCs may yet possess. Nor may Billy's family possess them; I had already decided that very few people within this universe know about such powers. Apart from those in the guild, a handful throughout the world know about them, much less possess them.
Devon suggested it being more of a leech attached to a host. This still would require some magic, so I am going to disallow it. Not only that, but there is presumably some great advantage to having a bloody great sea snake in your belly, an advatange that would be unfair to give only to one player. Therefore, I am going to entirely rule out the idea of anything being within Billy's stomach, or possessing Billy in any way. As Devon did not include any of this information in his Character Sheet, I feel myself justified in doing so. Devon, if you can think of another explanation, please put it forward. Otherwise, we can just ignore all 'red-eye' incidents as having never occurred.
Thanks Cry for your suggestion of the leviathan being released into the river, but my decision kinda makes it a moot point.
Next, the complaint of Cry's that Devon is controlling Johanna's actions too much. I think Cry is right here; Devon, large parts of your posts are devoted to controlling someone else's character, to their disadvantage. As Cry agrees, control of other's characters is impossible to avoid in this kind of RPG. The degree to which you control someone else's character, however, is entirely up to their player. As Cry has now voiced complaints, you really must cut down on this. Personally I've not been happy about your controlling other people so I entirely support her (I'm assuming your a girl Cry, if I'm wrong I apoligise. ^_^
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I'm sorry, Devon, I don't want to make it seem like we're ganging up on you, but as long as you cut down on controlling Johanna, and rule out any red-eyes stuff (unless you come up with an alternative solution that we can all agree on), then there won't be a problem. I won't ask you to go back and edit previous posts, what's done is done and to do so will just make a mess. But, if you don't do as we ask, there will be repercussions for your character within the RPG - the punishment could be a beating-up, or being wounded in some other way. If after even that you continue to break rules, I will have to ask you to leave the RPG, though I would really,
really like to avoid that situation.
If you have any objections or comments Devon, or if anyone else would like to say anything at all, please don't hesitate. Everything is always up for discussion and I like to think I am reasonable enough to listen to the wishes of the Players.
