Hello everyone. Admin Emery here again.
This note will be the final “official” admin note regarding the hiatus. I hope that this note will give you helpful information with the hiatus so that you, personally, can make the best decision for you in terms of your writing goals and moving forward in general.
First I want to thank everyone who participated in the survey. Honestly we were worried that this would not be supported but most of you gave us a lot of love and respect for the decision and we appreciate that. The survey helped me gather insight as to what everyone was thinking that way the admins could make decisions on these little details involving the hiatus. So again, thanks for doing that.
Regarding the hiatus:
Like stated in the last note, I cannot tell you when or if we will be coming back, but what we will do is provide periodic updates as to the general status of Athoria as needed. We will do this either on the main or in the Discord, we haven’t decided yet. So please stick around the Discord server and turn your alerts on so you don’t miss it when you are tagged.
A popular question about the hiatus is what to do regarding new threads or plots:
My last note was somewhat vague because I wanted more information before I started posting all these decisions. So with information from the survey and general member feedback, I want to heavily reiterate the fact that Athoria is not a sandbox roleplay nor are we going to be converting into one for this hiatus. Though the idea has come up in discussion before, we will not be allowing current members to roam freely inside the roleplay without direction, a main plot, admin overwatch, activity checks, etc.
What this means is that as members, you can close up any current and active threads you have going on right now. However, you cannot start new threads with new plots in the present day time. Athoria’s plot is on hold with this hiatus. If the main plot is on hold, then your characters are also on hold. If you are itching to write, you can still post headcanons, flashbacks, self-para’s (as long as they are not with new plot ideas, but I think that general self-para’s would be fine), or if you guys wanted to get together to do ask meme’s or writing prompts, or maybe even a seasonal challenge, we could do that too.
Like stated before, for the most part everyone gave us a lot of support, love and concern regarding this hiatus so we want to thank those people for that. Everyone knows that the admin team has been at this a very long time. We ask that you trust us. However, I cannot stress enough that I am honestly unsure if Athoria will be returning in this exact state. I understand the concern and sadness that this brings and I hope that everyone can make a decision on what they want to do based on the fact that I am being honest about this information.
Athoria has always been a safe and beautiful place for creative writers to come together and it is not our desire to take that away from people. But at this point in our lives the admins have to take this step back from the game. And we are so sorry for anyone we have disappointed during this process.
If you have any more questions please chat with us about it in our Discord server.
Thank you all again. We love you!