You know, I'd rather deal with repeated GM fiats than having to go back through everything that becomes difficult.

Seriously, what's the point of resetting?

I'm this close to just dropping here. The very idea annoys me.

I'll put up the new thread tomorrow. Just give the day for everyone to take a break, slow down, and think and discuss amongst ourselves about how to handle it without going crazy again.

And guys, please. Don't let this be the thing that kills the RP.

I share this feeling.

Seriously, it's perfectly natural for characters to become confused and end up in akward situations. This is one of them.

Why do we even have to restart the thread, why not we just determine what happened, and move on.

That way most people get to keep their character development, and there's no restarting, just retconning.

I personally, would perfer retconning what happened much much more then having to do that all over again.

Edit: I sorta share the feeling also, this is really getting somewhat annoying.

Alright, hold up. Reserving this for my thing.

[EDIT]: Alright, here's what we're going to do. Yes, there's GM influence in here.

Taking advantage of the major argument amongst Team Evil, Kurama grabs Garud and Youji and takes them back to the airship. Pyros notices that Jen's character is still behind, and not wanting to leave her with the people that had captured her, he grabs her and follows Kurama, since he's the one that freed her, it would likely be safer for her.

Tayuumi is already near the airship, and when Kurama and Co. arrive yelling for her to get on, she grudgingly does so. At that point, it's up to BlindMime whether Sanjuro follows them on the ship or not. Also, it's up to Funka whether Iori stays where he is, or follows the other members of Team Good away from there. Same goes for Grim and Reaper. The airship, while not fully repaired, is repaired enough that they can take off and escape.

Meanwhile, the members of Team Evil are where they are, and they've talked themselves down.

Ok, so here's my thing: Everyone says things went 'wrong' when the melee started, or just when the two teams started interacting

Well, we're going to have to do this at the temple... and then in europe, and probably in some side quests, and at the purifying temple, and whatever else.

What keeps things from going wrong there?

As for Iori 'switching' sides. He wasn't very strong on team good in the first place, and I doubt he's going to be big on reviving demon kings and what have you. He has no reason to and it goes against his character's code.

And Koyuki can't switch sides right off because she still needs to kill Kurama.

AND, how does stopping them from having character growth in any way hurt the RP?

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for using this as a lesson as to "Why we don't have PCs who are nothing but GM Fiat personified" BUT resetting accomplishes nothing except for annoying everyone.

Ah, but technically, you can still be on team good and kill Kurama.

Think, she'd be using him to kill Talkatz, and then backstab him.

But I still agree with all of the above points.

Edit, Down: Personally, reversing key points in character development matters to me. Playing a nameless stormtrooper is no fun. Regardless, it is settled now.

We're no longer resetting.

However, from now on, we can't just let things go out of control from now on.

Please guys, don't let this die this early over something that, in the long run, doesn't really matter.

I think one of the funny things about this situation is the fact that 4 characters are mixed up in a very introcate knot. The knot has in big bold, golden letters, wirtten in English, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese that say, "Honor."

Seriously, I was worried about the reset, because there wasn't much of a problem. Most of the controversies were close to an end, or could be terminated quickly (no excape routes blocked), and Koyuki already gave a good argument to stop all the dueling. Since, y'know, she's a really good looking girl who has Raikotsu entranced and Anbu whipped because she's his commander.

Also, Phoenix, Koyuki can release the big slashy thing on Anbu, purely because of the fact that you do *NOT* threaten your commander.

Alright. I behoove you to do your best to block it, however, and she'll probably not have the heart to use it to it's full extent.

Just make another post leading to provoke her, and I'll put it in, whenever you feel is appropriate to end the standoff.