Throughout the last couple of weeks, me and the group of nerds i've come to call a team have experienced some truly wild shit, and all of us have had our own issues caused by whatever is going on here. It seems that all of us just kinda stumbled together after walking in a random direction for long enough. We quickly found and started looking to the 3 bravest of us for guidance and delegation of tasks, as well as resource partitioning. Not quite sure what any of us were doing, but desperate for money, our Captains started to send us off on adventures, which is how, well, we got into the mess we are currently in.
Despite odd Jobs being an option for cash, they're REALLY odd jobs, so 90% of our cashflow is from these adventures, but im starting to question if it's really worth it. For example, one of our members got into a freak accident and is now a pokemon. It was weird for a couple days, but now she's been gone constantly trying to retrieve their lost pokemon, while another was sent off to some rickety ass castle in order to investigate what was going on. They havent been back for weeks and we should probably start to worry, but that's the nature of the Summer RPG, and I'm sure they'll make it home fine. On that note, I'm kinda jealous of Osi Caro and Prem. They just get to show up and battle. Totally not fair! And a group of 4 of our members literally get a free concert! However, as we've been losing group members for days to even weeks at a time, group morale has been low. A while ago we sent 3 of our players to compete in the Queen's Games, theyve yet to come back; Near the start of the season, one of our captains recieved a letter and ran off, he said something about the heart of the cards but I don't get what that was about; we also sent someone cave diving, some sort of artifact or cave painting a guy needed us to check on i think, i dont really remember, I think it's a waste of our time but he's giving us money for it so who am I to complain. I've been trying to help them out as much as i can, but it's difficult. I'm not familiar with these battle regulations and i'm not entirely interested in learning, so I've just been sitting in my corner twiddling my thumbs. I wish i could do more.
As for me, I've been mind controlled by Shadow lugia, how fun :). It's trying to destroy GSC UU but i couldn't really care. Im currently connecting with my pokemon, learning how to use them and their strengths, and am growing from every loss i recieve, kinda like our team. We allocate resources, go out on our quests and adventures, learn from them, and grow stronger together. I'm really starting to miss the rest of our team. Some of them come back to check on the rest of us every week, like me, but some are stuck doing whatever this cruel event is forcing upon them. But it's fine, I know they'll come back at some point. I love these guys, and it wasn't hard to. Some of them ive hired or been hired alongside, others I've worked with on other projects, and some I'm even just outright friends with, all prior to the RPG begenning. The true story of the UU Summer RPG is not one of competition, nor one of saving the day. It's a story of friendship, teamwork, and perserverance, even through tough times. I'll never give up, and neither will they. I wouldn't change them for the world, they are the best team as can be. This is what the UU Summer RPG means to me.