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I would just like to say thank you so much for everyone who participated in our final event for the time-being. As of now Elysium is on an indefinite hiatus, although we welcome our members to keep posting on the dash if they would like. If there’s enough interest of people still posting, we might have some casual events or whatnot, but we’ll see how things go. Any future updates will be posted on the main regarding a potential re-opening, so make sure to continue to follow Elysium, or at least check out the blog regularly, to see if anything changes.

Besides that, I just want to thank everyone once again for the amazing twenty months that we’ve had on Elysium, and I wish everyone the best in their future writings!!

ADMIN DANNAH

As Admin Dannah stated, thank you to you all who stayed around for the final event. It has been a privilege to write with you all. It is understandable to us if you seek other roleplays to fill your time, remember, don’t use the characters that are here in Elysium. They were created for Elysium thus they should be used here and no where else. If you choose to not stick around, it’s entirely understandable, we just want you guys to enjoy roleplaying as we have with you for the past nearly two years. If you stick around, I’ll be here to plot. If not, I hope we come across each other in the future.

Hey everyone!!

This is an awkward message to write because I don’t want to call anyone in particular out publicly, but just because the main hasn’t been active in months doesn’t mean that our characters are up for grabs to be used by others partially or fully. Intellectual property is still intellectual property, and all of those rights still do belong to me unless you played an actual OC.

During my almost 3am in the morning random RP browsing I found an RP that seems to have a member that has taken strong inspiration from three characters very dear to my heart and though I don’t want to accuse anyone, I have my suspicions. I guess I just want to put this out there as a general PSA especially because we still have characters actively posting every single day. Just because the main isn’t active doesn’t mean the characters are dead, and even if they were they’re still my intellectual property.

Obviously this doesn’t apply to like 99% of you, but for the 1% that might be casually browsing for “inspiration” please just don’t. I get too fired up and irritated, and it’s not good for my soul.

Other than that I love everyone and miss everyone that still follows the main. I have a lot of free time right now so who knows what might happen in the future, but for now I hope you’re all doing amazing with whatever you’re doing at the moment!!

Today is the last day of the Celebration of Life event, so make sure that if there are any other plots during the event that you would like to explore that you get those posted before midnight tonight! After that, as mentioned on the blog, there are no planned events in the near future (unless Izzy or I get a wild idea), and we’ll be closing to new applications until further notice. I still have a habit of checking the main, so if you have any questions, feel free to send them in, and if there are any major changes we’ll make sure to post a public update about them!!

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.