[Suzerain of Sheol]

If I could weigh in on some of the proposed suggestions:

First of all, there are succinct summaries of each of the event stories found here. I would qualify that as rather condensed.

On a related note, after the Transition event, we... transitioned from using that storyline for our events to a more light-hearted plot involving the shop-keeper mascots of the site, while the former, more involved, story is being published in the Storybook forum periodically. I know the war events were popular, but those were an undertaking of a much better-equipped staff (and a more robust user-base) and we simply haven't had the resources available to be able to stage something like that again yet.

I'm personally indifferent to the web-comic idea, it's not my preferred medium of storytelling but I see the commercial appeal it offers, but as has mentioned several times, that is a significant undertaking and not something Trisphee as-it-is will be able adopt easily, much as we might like to. As a longer-term goal, though, I think it's realistic enough that we could achieve it if all goes well. I'm not sure I agree that it should become the principle focus of the community, however. To me it seems that something of that nature should be supplementary, not the main attraction of the site.

And while I can agree with the suggestions on offer up to that point, I have to go on record as being... aghast, really, at the thought of a user-interactive or user-derived plot for the site. Even just working with the staff-iconic NPCs in the past, there was a barrier in creative control that absolutely impeded our ability to tell the story (both in-narrative and having to hunt people down to get permission for every change to their character), I simply cannot imagine trying to write a plot where every single character was representative of a user on the site.

As a community role-play, sure, I suppose (I'm 50/50 on the idea of sanctioned RPs for the site, the idea, to me, seems unwieldy but there may be a way for it to work) but as the principle storyline, I don't see how that level of audience participation could ever possibly work.