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Gathering

 

We have decided after a frank chat we will not go to the gath. (may turn up on Monday as ref and battle marshall as well we live close have a valid ticket and be nice to see everyone. The only part that hurts about our decision.

 

Im not having fun anymore. When Debrenni and Sebastian and Keely were alive it was fun. I had lots of it. Im just not infused and I guess knowing the type of person erienne is she wouldn`t be out enjoying herself, she would be at home looking after what is left of her world trying to make sure that they make it to adulthood. And at least they have one link to their family. If not a biological one. (although she claims to be Sebastians sister she is not related she grew up with him well after him she was younger.) the osps I spent on shipbuilding were so that she would have a link to the Navy still even though her brother is not admiral and she pretty much just kept the lads/lassies alive in his ships..Tbh the character wants to live out her days mending/building ships and bringing up her last link to home.

 

I hate playing depressed. But that’s what erienne is. She lost anyone and everyone that she holds dear bar the splitters. They gave her a purpose and carried her on. But still its not enough for Sharon to try and keep going.In fact playing her is also getting to me ooc after that event I was shocked at how I was reacting. It was like someone had died OOC not IC.

 

I don`t want to give up LT but I guess I need more that what I got right now. I loved playing with friends. I loved annoying tin can on the gate.  Alan hasn`t got into the swing of playing again he is going back to staffing. Me I don`t know.

 

Anyone want a lost soul trying to find a place back into the LT World trying to find the fun again?

 

Maybe im just passed it :0 (looks at the older ones still going) Maybe after 10 years I finally realised there is no fun to be had anymore. Who knows. But for this event I will bow out. I hope that all those that are going all those that have lost the fun also find it again and have a cracking event.

 

Next year I will be getting married anyway so what events I can afford to go to I don`t know. Maybe Two years out and a new character is what I need. I have ideas to go back to my old group be surrounded once again by the people that made me do this hobby in the first place (and well kept me on when I split up with one of them!)

 

*bows* enjoy the Gathering everyone going.

Comments

[notatart-wibble.livejournal.com]

Come back to the Bears... :')

You know we have room for you!

*hugs*

[plucky-lass.livejournal.com]

I know Alan has in the past found that - heck, we've all had times we don't want to go anymore - but he found Lochlan really got him back into the system and genuinely enjoying it. Maybe a change of character? If Erienne just wants to build ships and say out of the firing line, it maybe doesn't make a lot of sense to keep playing her. After all, you can easily spend a weekend miserable and worrying about stuff without paying £60 for the privilage :)

[extorian.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I'm the same. I haven't been to the Gathering for a few years now. I used to enjoy it, and every year I think about going back, but the thing that made it for me were the friends I saw there (Rhino, the Prince Bishop William Hatfield, and all my friends from Durham Treasure Trap, Huggs, etc.) but they became less every year as one by one they stopped going. The ever rising costs for a poorer experience every year didn't help either.

I suppose the biggest thing that stopped me going was one particularly crap ref. I don't remember his name, but he had black medium length curly/wavy hair, and wore glasses - I remember him being at the Darkness Rising events too.

Anyway, it was the day of Rhino's departing speech, which I really wanted to attend as the happiest memories I have from the Gathering centre around my time in the Lions with him as leader - I'm sure you can relate to this. But this particular ref asked me to build a fire. Of course there was no wood to burn, so I asked said ref if some could be brought to the camp. I hung around waiting for him to do it, reminded him several times, yet it was two hours later when he actually picked up his radio and asked for some wood to be delivered. Why couldn't he have done that immediately? It took 10 seconds! He could have done that while wandering from place to place! So anyway, I pointed out that I didn't want to miss Rhino's parting ceremony, and he assured me it wouldn't be a problem - even said he'd come and get me when it starts. An hour afterwards the wood arrives and I build a fire. Sweet. I go to the command tent and find the ceremony already well under way, and the door sealed with the same ref behind the door. I asked if I could come in and he refused. I pointed out that he gave his word I would be allowed in and he said he didn't care what he said, nobody was getting in.

Meanwhile, I spot several people leaving out of the back door, so I wander round, enter the back door, sit down, and listen for a bit. Several minutes later the same ref notices me, walks up to me and explains that the reason he didn't want people coming in was that whenever anyone enters or leaves it interrupts the ceremony - fair point. But instead of listening to the very words he just uttered, he has the stupidity to ask me to leave - thus disturbing the ceremony yet again.

Afterwards, I pointed out to him that it was him asking me to build a fire that delayed me, that it was him not radioing for wood that delayed me further, it was him that failed to come and get me when the ceremony started, and that he had given his word I could get in - which he then didn't keep. His reply to this? "I don't give a f*** what I said mate!" and wanders off...