#mafias:admin

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Hello guys. I know it has been a few days since I last posted here and on the main but I have a reason behind my inactivity, as well as a sad news to break to you all. It’s pretty evident that the main has been inactive this past three days and I, being the creator of the roleplay, am very sad about the fact that I couldn’t be around much to manage the main nor to be on here as I used to since the rp opened last June. Personally, I have been busy dealing with real life things; I’m rarely at home these past few days and once I get home, all I want to do is to go straight to my bed and sleep. That being said, despite wanting to get online and manage the main and/or be active here as I used to, I simply can’t. Partly because I’m thinking about other things, which makes me distracted, and partly because I simply just don’t have the time. Next week, classes start for me and I doubt that I would be able to be here once I get busy with college, add up the fact that I’m taking a lot of classes this semester to catch up with what I didn’t, but should have taken the last time. The other lovely admins, on the other hand, have been pretty busy as well that communication through our group chat on discord has become sparse lately. Jen and Maddie both have jobs that take up their time, and we haven’t heard from Ana for awhile, so I’ll make a guess and say she’s busy with life, too, just like the rest of us. 

To cut through this short, as I am getting a bit emotional writing this, I have decided --- with the support of one of our admins --- to put MAFIASHQ to an indefinite hiatus for now. This means the main will no longer be active for sometime, and its contents removed, until the major revamp happens (which will happen, I promise you, but only after my/our schedule work out --- in case the co-admins would still want to run it with me in the near future but if they don’t, revamp will still happen as I’ve grown so attached to this rp that simply abandoning it once and for all seems rather painful to me) but you are all free to continue your storylines/interactions with other members, should you wish it. I, however, will be lurking on this account if you ever wish to contact me or talk to me but for now, both my muses here will be on hiatus as well until the roleplay gets revamped. 

There’s still much left to be done in this roleplay; so many plot drops and events in mind that never got to be played out because...life, it happens. When I started this roleplay, I had so much hope that it will be the longest and the best I’d ever run --- and it was, really. Out of all the roleplays I’ve created before, this one has been the longest I was able to run --- all thanks to the co-admins, too, who helped me run it and make it better. The members I’ve encountered since we opened last June were all great even though some have since left. The ones we have now, aka you who may be reading this lengthy note right now, are just as great and awesome that I couldn’t ask for any better members to join the roleplay. So, I’d like to take this moment to thank you all for being around and for joining this roleplay and contributing to make it a great and safe place for everyone to play their own muses. Thank you for bring such beautiful, diverse muses and for sharing us your writing.

I still can’t believe I am writing this note right now but it had to be done as I didn’t want to have to force myself to run the roleplay while I deal with life, making it a struggle for me eventually, and you guys deserve better than that. You deserve an admin who have the time to be around here most of the time (as I was during Summer time) and I, for one, can’t be that admin as of now. This may all sound like a goodbye but I promise you that it’s not permanent. MAFIASHQ will be back and hopefully when it does, it comes back better than ever and I (and the future co-admins) would be around most of the time by then to make the roleplay even more fun and enjoyable for its future members. I do hope that I’d get to see some of you guys when the revamp happens :)

For now, MAFIASHQ is signing off and I’m signing off as its admin, so are the rest of the admin team, until I find the time to fully commit to running it again and be able to revamp it in the near future. I am sorry for having to make this decision this abrupt but I do hope everyone understands why this had to be done.

Once again, thank you so much; to everyone who stuck around and to everyone who has joined us, thank you. I hope you guys have a great day/night, and I’ll see you guys around.

- Helena <3

[mafiashq]

Today is the first Saturday since we announced that we will be having honesty hours and so, here we give you the guidelines for the activity! Hopefully, everyone will take time to read this:

As opposed to our first rule for our meme days, players aren’t required to reblog the post reblogged by the main for honesty hour but merely, it serves as a source for question ideas. Additionally, players can come up with their own honest questions as well so get creative!

We will be posting a note before honesty hour starts and players who’d like to participate must like that post just so we can determine how many are willing to join. In addition to this, participants need to post their own links for their ‘askbox’ so everyone knows that they may send you questions.

Make sure that if you’re participating, you will be sending other participating members honest questions as well and not just wait for others to send some your way! It should be vice versa so it will be more fun for everyone.

Always answer the questions IN CHARACTER but you may also put little side notes with your own OOC comments so long as you note that it was an OOC comment.

Responses to questions will be considered canon unless the player decides they aren’t, in which the player has to note if the response isn’t considered canon by saying so.

Please do not forget to continue/respond to threads and/or abandon them while participating in this activity. Like in our guidelines for meme days, responding to honesty hour questions does not count as IC activity.

Have fun with this! :)

Please track the tag ‘mafias:honestyhour’ as the main will be tagging the posts related to this activity with that tag. As always, please like this post once you’ve seen it!

[mafiashq]

AS DECIDED BY BOTH THE ADMIN TEAM AND THE MEMBERS, starting next week, we will now have ‘meme days’ every Wednesdays and ‘honesty hours’ every Saturdays. Participation for these aren’t mandatory but are always encouraged simply because it’s fun and it can help you develop your characters! As to how this works? Well, for ‘meme days’, the main will be reblogging a particular post with a list of ‘memes’ ( usually dubbed as ‘sentence starters’ ) every Wednesday and members who plan on participating would have to reblog the said post and wait for other participants to send them a sentence taken from the list! As for the ‘honesty hour’, the main will also be reblogging a post ( merely for ideas ) containing potential questions to be sent out to those who will participate every Saturday but the only difference is that players are also free to send someone questions that aren’t included in the post reblogged on the main ( meaning, you can think of your own question to ask a character with! ) More details and/or guidelines about these will be posted on the day that these activities commence.

As for the mentioned ‘writing prompts’, the main will post a question on the FIRST WEEK of EVERY MONTH ( meaning, this is only once a month ) and it’s up to the members if they’d want to answer it or not. Again, not mandatory but very much encouraged especially since writing prompts are one sure way to develop your character/s further and explore more things about them that you, the player, possibly haven’t thought about yet. It’ll also be interesting to see their perspective on certain things, which we can potentially see depending on the writing prompt given each month. The first writing prompt will be given out on August 1 and will be posted here on the main! 

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to approach us through IM! And as usual, please like this post once you’ve seen it!

 We look forward to doing all these fun stuff with you all! :)

- Admin Helena

[mafiashq]

☠ ― Hey y’all! As you may remember, we have mentioned assigning days to hold an honesty hour every week as well as meme days. Saturdays are designated for an honesty hour and Wednesdays are designated for meme days (a bit more info can be found here). Now it is Saturday and we’d like to see a head count as to who’s around so we can get the ball rolling with honesty hour this week. So please like this post if you’d like to participate today! 

-- We do know we have a lot of amazing players who are from different timezones and we do want everyone who would like to participate in both days to be able to, so please inbox or im us with times that work for you and we’ll do everything we can to accommodate everyone!

-- Admin Jen

[mafiashq]

If anyone’s around right now, please hit like on this post. I’d like to know how many of our members are around and if I should move the opening time a bit, maybe at 2PM PST/5PM EST/10PM GMT? I know there were 7 people who voted for the 2nd option, which was to open at 4PM PST/7PM EST/12AM GMT so...maybe we can meet half way?

EDIT: So a total of 5 members (plus me, so 6) are around at the moment and we have 20 minutes for the original opening time to start? I'm going to go with it for the sake of those who are living in the GMT and the few others who live in a timezone where it’s already late now. I hope everyone’s gonna be okay with that. :)

[mafiashq]

As of now, I’m just waiting for 3 more accounts to be sent in but since majority of the members have already submitted their accounts, I thought it’d be fine for me to finally post this note. First off, thank you guys for being so awesome even when we haven’t started interacting yet and especially, thank you for joining this roleplay! I never thought people would take interest in it, really, but now, I feel all the love and am so glad!

Now, I’m sure everyone’s just as excited as I am for us to start plotting and interacting which is why in this post, I’m going to attach a link for the poll wherein you can vote for the ideal time and date for us to open for INTERACTIONS. I’m doing this because I know we all live in different timezones and know that if I singlehandedly set an opening date and time for the opening, it might not be convenient to some people — which would seem unfair, and I don’t want anyone feeling that way.

HOWEVER, I have decided that we will open for PLOTTING/INTRODUCTIONS starting 6PM PST/9PM EST NOW. The reason why we’re going to open for plotting and interactions in different times and/or dates is because I think it’d be nice to give you guys enough time (a whole day, possibly or a couple of hours) wherein you’re just going to post your introductions or backstories for your characters and get to know each other whilst also getting to know the wonderful characters that every member brought in and then, spending that time as well to plot with as much people as you guys want before interactions happen. We’re here for character development and all those good stuff thus, am going to take every opportunity for us to be able to do just that. 

So now, I’m going to ask for your help to click the following link and vote for which of the options do you think would work perfectly for you and whichever would receive the majority of votes, we’ll go for it and have it set as our opening time and date for interactions:

LINK: https://goo.gl/EyKaNf Please like this post once you’ve seen it.

I can’t wait to start this journey with you all. It’s going to be a bumpy ride! :)

[mafiashq]

AS VOTED BY MAJORITY OF OUR MEMBERS ON THE POLL HERE (including myself), we will be opening for interactions later today, June (Thursday) 22 at 1PM PST/ 4PM EST/ 9PM GMT! I will be posting a small note at 1PM to signify the official start for interactions, as well as issue “follows” for everyone’s account. We only have roughly 11 hours before interactions can begin!

Please like this post once you’ve seen it!

[mafiashq]

No offense but how do you guys expect the players to stay active when the admins barely do? You guys play half the characters

Hey there, anon! I understand the concern here and how discouraging it can be when the dash is slow or when the admins aren’t around most of the time but trust me when I say we’re trying our best to keep up with maintaining the rp while catching up with the activity needed for each of the muses we handle. You have to understand, however, that all of us have lives outside the rp world --- that includes the admin team, too. I recently just had a week of hiatus due to the fact that I had to accommodate my friends for a week before they had to go back to our home country and I couldn’t possibly be on Tumblr while they were here to visit me. As for the other admins, Ana, I believe, is doing volunteer work which takes up her time this past week; making her busy, and admins Maddie and Jen both have jobs that take up most of their time as well. I apologize if you feel like we’re neglecting our characters and seem like we’re just waiting for you, the members, do all the IC posts to get the dash moving. That is not the case. We are well aware of the fact that it takes both the effort of the admin team and the members of a roleplay group for it to be successful and thus the reason why we always try to come up with things that could help with the activity but certain things, beyond our control, do happen sometimes. It’s either we can’t find the time to get online since we’re busy with our own personal lives or some of us end up having writer’s block or our muse for our characters wane for a day or so ( this happens to me and I’m sure it happens to others, too ) and when it does, I personally would rather just not write replies for the day than force myself into writing a half-assed reply. I feel like my rp partner deserves better than that, you know? Bottom line is: please be patient. I started this rp, wanting for everything to be almost perfect and imagining the dash will be consistent and active every single day but the reality is, life does happen and things don’t run as smoothly or perfectly as we would like. We all have things to deal with outside the roleplay world --- some to be expected, some are not, and I think the best we could do to overcome it is to understand and accept the fact that this stuff happens but that does not diminish our passion for roleplaying or keeping this role-play alive. Rest assured, we always try to make time for the roleplay as we love it so dearly and would not want to see it die just like that. I do hope this clears up things and if you still have concerns regarding this, please message us through IM so we can sort things out properly. Thank you!