Alright, *Tusami here. I have something to say. Though its been quite awhile and a lot of our issues have passed now, I wanted to re-post one of my comments that I made on one of Thadius' journals because I know not everyone read it or even saw it, but I think it's extremely important to read anyways. It will start out by commenting on Thadius' journal, but later will really get into my point.

First thing's first. I will now paste a copy of my orginal message. Please take the time to read. Thanks! Warning: Will take up a lot of your time because it's quite long. Make sure you have some time on your hands.


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Orignal Post:
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...Wow, I don't know what to say. I suppose I better get started then. (I will also make a copy of this comment and put it in a journal. Frig, this is long just to warn you.)

First off, I'm so incredibly glad, Thadius, that you realized what was happening and saw what you did wasn't the right choice and you now attempt to fix it. I can't thank you enough for recalling everything you said and did; I thank you so very much for turning around and seeing how your anger was affecting others and yourself and you ask for forgivingness of your mistakes and because of that you will be forgiven. Everyone makes mistakes, but it's only a true mistake if you do nothing about it. (wow, more quoteful words of tusaminess wisdom... lol)

I am also sorry to everyone; this was the very last thing I had ever thought would truely happen. I didn't really get involved in the fighting because I was afraid of the turn out, so I was really trying to be a good person by staying on everyone's side, I hope people noticed this. I am still friends with absolutely everyone, even if they said some things or did some things that could have been handled better, I am certainly not mad at anyone. I've stuck to everyone's side: Kama's, Taro's, Sanyai's, everyones. I didn't realize how serious this was getting to be until I opened my freakin eyes and saw what I mess this had become. I strived toward fixing it and now it seems that the fighting is finally come to an end.

I know there are people who are hurt and I know there are some bonds that were broken, but now that we have shattered the great, once sturdy wall of our friend-ship, we can re-build this wall. We can have a new begining and make it even stronger and greater than the first wall. We should be looking at this agrument as a positive thing in our friendship, not a negitive one as Kaito said. I hope that everyone can see this too. Now is our chance to come togther and make things right again between us. All the emotion that we kept up inside had exploded and it was absolute disaster and chaos. But now that it has finally been realeased, I think that everyone feels better. They've finally gotten a chance to speak their minds and let everything go.

Though it may not have been pretty, it was probably nessesary or would have happened anyways since we can't build our friendships off of people who are ready to explode. I'm quite sure that there is more to be said by others, though whether they should say anything or not, I do not know for it is their choice alone. I just hope because of this, people will realize how dumb this really was of us to be mad at each other and look to start over as a greater friendship. I have. Even through this whole thing, I still believed it could be fixed, I just didn't realize until now that this was release of thought probably needed to be done. I'm sure there are many of those who regret things they've done or said but now is our change to rebuild the wall, but one person can't do it alone nor can a few. We need everyone.

Though I'm quite sure and confident that our friendship will be perserved, the other side is still quite delicate at this point. The Elementals rpg is the matter that had brought on the explosions in the first place. This is something that I'm not sure the outcome will be as good. Several people are leaving or considering leaving The Elementals because we can't seem to get along there, but in real life things seem to work out much better and most people are choosing to still be friends.

Though personally, I'd really like us to start absoultely everything over, everything. The way the Elementals was begining to be created angered many people, but it seemed to die off without ever really becoming started. But this is exactly why I say we need to start over. Our group of friends is just not the same without a rpg of some kind. There are a few things that could happen with this.

One way is to go back to the orginal Elementals (which is the exact same thing as the G.A.M.E.. 'The Elementals' was a re-naming of the 'G.A.M.E.') Personaly I don't see this working out completely. I will elaberate more on this if you ask me.

Another solution would be to start over on a clean slate and compeltely re-create The Elementals as a group. There seems to be a great deal of people choking for democracy. But Catome and I were nowhere finished discussing the New Elementals. Here was our plan that not many seemed to realize: Our plan was to talk back and forth between each other (Catome and I at first) for ideas and once we had come up with ideas, we would present them to the entire group and make a group decision. Unfortunantly, some of the ideas that people disliked got knocked over and spilled everywhere and negitivly spread through the group; people had saw these things as the new hard-core rules that everyone must submit to or else they couldn't be a part of it.

This is the exact opposite of what we were trying to accomplish with this and I've really been wanting to explain for long time now! What Catome and I were trying to do was help structure The Elementals on something so the rest of the group could have something to work off and/or revise. We never wanted any of this to happen and we never got a chance to explain how this was going to work before the arguements started. We both feel extremely responsible for this whole thing and we really want to truely say "I'm sorry". I really wish there was a better way to say how sorry we are. Catome's idea was about the four main elements that bring balance to the world to become the main powers. Though he did say "most powerful", I think he ment that the people who would have these powers could be very powerful since these four elements are the central powers that govern this world, but of course he was not going to make them so freaking god-moding almightly powerful and completly disreguard everyone else! He was only implying that these "powerful" people would have the direct spirits of Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind and would make them very important in The Elementals, but of course he was going to give everyone else a just as major role too! Without all the other elements in this world, it would become unbalanced.


What the New Elementals was going to be about: (The stuff that no one really knows about it)

A lot of the following is a combination of mine and Catome's ideas. Some of them are strictly mine that I haven't even told Catome about yet nor anyone else, I was still playing with the idea in my mind. But I hope you read and understand what was going to try and be accomplished.
The idea was that the dark/evil/shadow/whatever element was becoming too powerful and throwing off the balance of power. That's what our purpose as the Elementals is, to keep the balance and fight off the evil. The history of the world would go like this: In the beginning there was light and dark. They were equal, they were powerful, they were absolute. But they were oposite and seperate and needed something more to help. So they divided themsleves to be in better control of all aspects of the world. From them came the four elements. Again it was all created equal: Fire and Water, Earth and Wind. These four elements governed over the world in a system of checks and balances. (ughh... polotics *twitch*) But they were not complete. There had to be more division to govern other aspects of which they had no control, things like electricity, ice, etc. It was an almost perfect beautiful word (of doom! Muahahaha!) So throughout the millions or whataver of years, if one was getting out of hand, it would eventually be corrected by the other. But yet, it would not permently last this way. The darkness was overpowering, becoming more powerful and strong than the light. In desperation, the light had chosen to send the elements it had created into physical beings (since darkness was doing the same) to push back the dark into it's original domain. Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind are the ones that were created initially so that's why Catome was putting empthasis on these four. Though the rest of the elementals spawned afterwards from them, they are just as powerful and important as the four elements (again this whole balance thing). The only difference is that (in general) the "lesser" elements were created to govern over particular things while the four elements were supposed to be more generalized... but that's not the real case.
There was also the matter of more than one person having the same element or having more than one element. This was going to be delt with.

Example: The element of fire was not given to one single individual, it was spread out between (currently three) members in our group. But us three have differnt ways of possesing the power of fire. One person will be able to manipulate fire while another would be able to generate fire. (I'm not saying that this is EXACTLY what was going to happen, I'm not trying to assign roles to anyone yet, this is just a possible example) Basicly, though Catome made me the Elemental of fire, I am not the only character that has fire. Since Shyria and Eirra also have fire, the element of fire was split between us three. The "most powerful" thing comes in here. While I would have the most powerful fire, Eirra and Shyria also have another power that made up for the less fire. So summary: I am strictly fire. Shyria has fire, wind, and a tad of psychic. Eirra has fire and earth (and possibly one more thing, I can't remember at the moment). But we are all equal in strength or powerfulness. I just have more powerful fire because that is the only thing I have. This is why Catome states that the four elementals would be the "most powerful"; not that they'd be the most powerful character, but because they'd be the most powerful of their element

Now apply everything... I'm sure you get the rest of our story. We fight the evil. Yey. Do we win? What happens next? Exactly, you deside. From this point on in the story, we would create everything else as it goes along. This is where we start role playing. We now had a story to go off of and now we could do anything we wanted with it. We of course would limit everyone's power and there really aren't any rules at all accept for 'NO GODMODING' obvioulsy. There would be guidelines to follow, such as 'make it reasonable' (no magically creating a new planet and pronouce yourself king and make robot monkey slaves to do your evil bidding... just as a example. Make that a quite WEIRD example.) Basically, we'd make "rules" that everyone would be happy with, but the rules will be nothing that is unfair toward someone or strictly mean etc.

See, Catome and I had a wonderful idea that never could have been shared until now. In fact, I hope by reading this you have a much better understanding of what was trying to be accomplished and have second thoughts about all of this.

We elimitated copyrighted characters for obvious leagal law issues and to have everything be orginial and limitless in what you could come up with. We didn't want you to use an already made character that you would be constrained by, we wanted it to be unique and open.

What I want you to take from this is understand what is going on and use this to come up with your own ideas. One last thing too: This was only an idea. There might be things you like about it, there might be things you don't like about it, there may be things you want to change, it may be you hate it completely or love it to death, but this was only the very bare minimum of the beginning of our ideas. It wasn't complete yet and it wasn't absolute. Even though Catome hasn't told me to say any of this, nor do I know completely what he thinks of everything that's been going on, I'm quite sure he agrees with me that we just want to have you understand everything with this. We didn't intend for things to get out of hand, we didn't ever think that this was going to cause so much damage, but we really, I really, want to express how very sorry I am to everyone how I've helped make things worse. Now is the chance to make things better. I for one, am taking it.

Our last option would be to eliminate an rpg altogther from our group... but this doesn't seem right to me: abandoning something that was key to our friendship and has exisited there from the beginning.


What I hope to do is this: We need to talk. Meeting or not, we need to talk. The issues we discuss will probably be about everything that's been going on lately... but mostly I want our friendship to last. At one of these meetings, whether I go up to everyone individually or we talk altogether as a group, I don't care how, but some time, and I don't care if it's tomorrow or in 7 years, but we are going to decide as a group whether or not we are going to have an rpg at all.
Are we going to try and go back to what we had before?
Are we going to use what Catome and I had ideas for?
Are we going to start fresh and create something completely new and orginial altogether as a group?
Or are we going to kill it off completely?

I really want to know what you guys think of this and anything in my comment in general. Thank you everyone who took the time to read this, it took well over 2 hours to type. No joke. I hope that you think about what I've said and let me know your thoughts on this. I really appreiciate everything you guys have done for me; I love every single one of you and I care about you. I'm open for discussion on anything whether it be talking about the Elementals or a personal problem or just to be there to provide a shoulder to cry on. I want things to be right again as I'm sure all of us want. I will try my hardest. We will be united once again...

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Ok so very, very sorry that took so long. I don't have any more time availible to be on the compy now but I wanted to put this up. I'm still grounded *shhh!* Please reply if you can. Maybe I'll add more later... anyways. I'll cya arround!


-Tusami