The Backup Plan (Or: What if I can't finish The Elder Scrolls: Equestria?) · 8:13pm Oct 13th, 2015
No, I'm not dying.
I accepted my mortality the day my dad died of a sudden heart attack that he didn't deserve. That was also the day I stopped believing in God. I came to understand that we're all going to leave this world with just as many unfulfilled wishes as fulfilled ones. It's not really something that grates on my mind, it's just a little thing that I've come to understand.
But there's also the matter of 'shit happens'. Real life can get in the way of the things that we would love to do, because greater possibilities take precedence. That's also just another way of the world.
So, what happens if these things we love fall to the wayside? If they're not really that important in the long run, we can let them fall by the wayside. But what if they're so grand, so precious to you, that you cannot bear to fully let go?
Such is the case with The Elder Scrolls: Equestria. It is one of the greatest things I've ever done. I've created a living, breathing world out of just a few ideas spawned from a children's cartoon. Caro, Tohro, Shae, they're all alive to me, and their quest to save Equestria from Shokenda and Saviikaan is fairly close to its end. If something bad happens to me, I don't want to leave their tale unfinished.
I want to entrust a select few people with what will happen next in the series, so they can continue and finish it if I go absent.
Are any of you up to the task?
It's not so much that I've stopped believing in God more so that I have stopped believing in religion. To me, there is a difference. Man has been doing it wrong.
I feel ya, man. It hurts and you wonder why. In the end, we'll all go home.
Mind if I ask what prompted this sudden interest in insurance?
3467863 Work. Looking for an apartment. That sort of thing.
Damn. I wish I could meet you irl.
On the on-topic note, sadly, I can't. Editor, perhaps. Role-player, sure. Writer? No. Too impatient, and at the same time too indecisive.
3468076 Ah, I see.
I'm almost tempted to sink all of my free time into catching up on that story so that I can say with absolute certainty whether I'm a potential successor, and I haven't read a single word yet.
3468076 I didn't know an apartment search counted as the end of the world as we know it... And I'm easily one of the masters of doom and gloom!