Announcements like this are never easy, especially when there has been healthy and continuous activity on the dash. Initially, before anything else, I would like to thank you all for that. Your dedication and commitment to something that began as my little thought child in the middle of Psychology way back in 2014 has become an adventure that has spanned over twenty months. Whether you’ve been here since day one or joined a bit more recently than that, your contributions have been appreciated so, so much. You’ve helped to shape this into a journey and a legacy that I never could have even started to fathom.
Our next event, Jasper’s Celebration of Life Party, will be the last event held on Elysium for the foreseeable future. We have not yet decided if we want to revamp Elysium and potentially come back at some point, but right now, at least speaking personally, I feel like after twenty months Elysium has become something that I more feel obligated to do (at least when it comes to running the main, creating events, etc.) than something that I truly enjoy doing. Activity for some people has been amazing and for others not so much, and I feel like it’s starting to become a battle that I just don’t want to have to fight any longer.
This decision is one that I’ve been kicking around for a couple of weeks now with Izzy, and we’ve finally come to the conclusion that it’s better to just get it over with than to keep dragging it on whenever we’ve both kind of decided that this fate is inevitable. The last thing that I want to do is to have more and more people to apply with the internal knowledge that we’re considering shutting down. I hate to have people spend time on applications, character blogs, and getting to know their characters just to rip it all away after so much hard work.
I want to keep the option open that Elysium might come back, but I want to refrain from promising that or promoting a timeline just in case we decide against it in the long run. I hold full responsibility for things that went wrong in this last revamp, most notably I feel that I rushed it much quicker than I should have, and for that, and how it could have potentially negatively impacted Elysium I apologize. I can only speak from personal experience, but I have put my heart and soul into this RP for so, so long that this does kill me a little bit, but I know that it’s for the best to end (whether permanently or semi-permanently) on a high note than to have it fade off and die.
Further information regarding our final event will come shortly, by tonight at the latest, and although I hope that everyone will participate, I do understand if activity suddenly drops with the release of this admin note. Because these are all characters that were written by myself or Izzy I do respectfully request that these characters aren’t taken to other RPs solely because they’re characters that we wrote from scratch and put so much of ourselves into. If Elysium does end up coming back, I do know that there will be quite a few changes with how we open, for example, allowing even returning members just a single character due to struggles that we’ve had over the past couple months from how we went about it this last time, and I also know that we will cut down the character list substantially to make it a lot more intimate of a group than it is now with so many extra open characters.
Although we have been playing with ideas of how we would change things if we returned, I do want to stress how much of an if that possibility is. I know that I will personally continue to post on Kaden just as I did during the last revamp because I just can’t let go, but make sure to continue following the main if you want any updates regarding decisions we will finalize in the future. Whether or not we decide to come back, and whether or not you decide to come back if we do, I thank you all once again for your continued support and participation in what has become the best RP I’ve ever been a part of.
Thank you so much again for making this such an amazing, wild ride. For what you’ve given me with Elysium, I love you all.
