"Omega Road" or "The future + 4 years"

[OrochiGeese]

I've been giving this a lot of thought. And now it's time to talk about it.


Ideally and practically, it's time to hang up my e-boots. I've done more here (with my feds and with PW-W/FPCPP/etc) than I've ever imagined. Regardless of how my RL goes at this point, I now have the same mindframe that Elwood had a few years ago. I understood why he felt it then but I didn't yet share his desire to move on even though I knew that one day I would. I am now. Well, I was 8 months ago but I wasn't ready to admit it to myself.

Thing is, I also believe in ending OG-FPD the right way. You don't play with a toy for 10 years and then just throw it in the trash. You put it away properly so that other people can then play with it intact AND so that later you can look back on it with closure.


Introducing OG-FPD: Omega Road


It's a road because it's more than just one destination. A week or so ago I was thinking of just doing one more 12/13 Anniversary show this year and calling it quits like with OG-FPD Immortal. But the more I thought about it, I realized that there's no way I have the time now to even build to a show like that in a way that would make sense. It's too much work to shepherd story lines for that one big show. And since one of the main reasons I'm ending things is because I don't HAVE the time (or energy, or will) to write all that much in a short period of time, it would be foolish for me to attempt it. I'd either fall short and have a shitty build and show or take way too much time away from what I need to be doing now.

The good news here is that OG-FPD isn't ending NOW. The bad news is that I do plan on it ending. The slight good news is that perhaps I find a new way to approach my feds in the time it takes me to complete Omega Road, and then realize that I actually CAN continue things. See, that's my not so secret lie to myself...that maybe "Omega Road" is only the end of the road for my traditional/current approach to e-fedding. Maybe I don't have to burn it all down for money closure and progress. But in all likelihood, by next December at the latest, the OG-FPD will be over. But there is a chance that, sometime over the next year, my mind changes and I keep storylines going. Don't count on that though.

Now, I mention "letting other people play with my toys" above. When I'm done, I'll be giving some of my edits to those handlers who have booked them in their own feds. I'm fine with sharing too. I suspect FPRG and Zealot will each want to use RYOMA. If someone wants Saji (and not just to take him out back and shoot him  ) that can be arranged too. SOME of my characters will be officially retired (Orochi Army, for example) but a lot of other guys and gals and veggies have full careers (and far off expiration dates) ahead of them. I'd much rather that some of you guys use them then basically put them in the ziplock bag that would be a barely used edit pack. I'll pass edits off to who I want using them. Maybe I'll hold a draft for the remaining ones I don't mind being used.

It's likely, though not 100%, that when Omega Road does officially end OG-FPD that I may be done with e-fedding entirely. I may pass off or retire Saji and edits in other feds before that. I don't have plans to leave the community but my time will likely be limited as it has been recently. As long as the majority of my long time friends are still here, I want to be here too, even if we're all kind of busier than we used to be or want to be.

Also a note: The plans I had going forward with a lot of you are now pretty much fundamentally changed. A few of you though still deserve and can have closure for your characters or current story arcs (Corey O'Brian, I'm looking at you. We're still a go on that, Raven). But from this point on, I'm going to be focusing primarily on the larger story arcs that I had been cultivating over the past few years which are basically: 1) Orochi Army vs. Destiny, 2) UBL vs. Destiny, 3) OG-Joshi & LAWL co-existence. I can't guarantee that even a guy like Kurt Sanders (who I invested a lot of time into) gets a nod from me as we go forward. I'm probably going to start things off with a big storyline RP and go from there. I'm going to be flexible in how I tell the story. Think more "Geese Funeral" (before Immortal) and less traditional Voltage/Circuit show storytelling with matches. We may not have another official match in a while. It's going to be a lot of RP's from this point on.

Yup, gooses all the way down