IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE READ

[Noola]

Hey! Maybe I want to change my vote from the ambivalent 'meh, I don't care' I voted to the emphatic 'No!' now! If this is real (and, really, there's a big part of me that just knows someone is pointing and laughing at me for entertaining the possibility of it being real) and Dawn leaves, that completely messes up my Sallita storyline! I'll have to find another healer! Boo on that!

AND still no one has said that we won't be switching to awful round robin posting.

I am becoming disgruntled!

[Clancey]

We are always glad to hear our members true thoughts, Dawn, and I am so glad you chose Triad as your home online  We really are trying to make the experience even BETTER than it is so you will LOVE it here.  

And Noola, I'm quite hopeful that we won't have to go to Round Robin posting (I remember doing that when I was in Arolos) but we have not quite determined that yet.  

Don't be too disgruntled pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?  

[Dawn]

Noola, I will do my best to see the storyline through with you if I do leave. I promise.

Dawn

[Amy]

If this is not an April falls trick, and I'm hoping It was. I am... Disapointed... to find the decision has been made and we're just being told it's happening whether we like it or not. I stand firmly by the belief that asking, discussing and then deciding is the way forward. I get enough dictating to at work and I - like dawn - chose to join triad, and I personally choose not to join Arolos.

[Guest]

This is Eimi again.

Don't worry about what they have told you. Triad isn't going ANYWHERE!

We (the Council) were approached by Arlos with this idea of merging the Weyrs weeks ago, but we ALL agreed that we would not go ahead with this plan until we had made an UNANIMOUS decision to do so! If I hadn't tried to log into the site and the forums and hadn't found that my passwords had been changed, WITHTOUT MY PERMISSION, I might add, I could post to the list the entire discussion. But unfortunately, it seems I no longer have full access to the forum, and I can't seem to find my member sheet on the site. Had I not decided to jump on my friend's computer today to check my messages, I would not have known ANY of this was going on. No unanimous decision was EVER made to go ahead with this plan, and it WILL NOT go forward. Remember, it is MY NAME that is on the credit card that has paid for this site, and I refuse to let Triad be merged with ANY other Weyr. I don't care how big or important they THINK they are!

Looking on other websites, I have noticed that Triad is not the only Pern fandom site that has been usurped by Arlos, nor am I the only person who finds this whole situation objectionable. I'm also not so sure that I was the only person to be caught off guard by these dirty, underhanded tricks. I found the "resistance movement " Emma alluded to on this site:
http://resist-arolos.proboards.com/index.cgi

Do not believe for a moment that Triad will be sucked into this mess. Triad is worth saving. Where in Pern fandom are you going to find the diversity of locations, and so many good writers, all collected in one spot? Where are you going to find the potential for unique storylines, like the female craftban, the rift between the north and south, the tensions between the Hold and Weyr... We cannot, and will not, see Triad become part of a homogeneous collective!

[Clancey]

Pay no attention to the lady behind the curtain......guest!

[emma]

Okay, as it is now officially Friday, I can confirm what many of you have already guessed...

APRIL FOOL!!!

I need to thank my co-conspirators here, Eimi and Clancey for all their hard work in preparing it, and the BoD Members of the other Weyrs that were involved, in particular Laura and Vicky from Arolos for having the evil ideas in the first place.

The one thing I do have to say is that nothing is happening to Triad, our little corner of Pern will carry on as it has for what I hope is a long, long time to come.

Thank you once again for taking part, you were all awesome, and we love you guys

[Devin]

There appear to be several people with too much time on their hands ...

[PastMember]

After talks late into the night, an agreement has been reached.

http://arolosweyr.co.uk/protec.php?p=peace.htm

(Many thanks to all who participated in this year's April Fool's, and to all a good night.)

[Dawn]

I agree with Becki! WAY to much time! lol

 :bootyshake:

Dawn

[Eimi]

lol  Well, you know, Arolos is FAMOUS for their April Fools tricks.  We're just lucky that they decided to include so many of us this time!  A lot of Weyrs really got into it!  But it is going to suck going back through the site and trying to find all my personas again  :kopfwand:

[Eimi]

From our friends in the Arolos BOD:

My fellow members of Pern Fandom,  today we have seen the triumph  not
of one weyr over another but of the principles and decency that we all
share. Often today, the 1st of April has been called a day of fools,
and yes, fools we might have been if we allowed this misunderstanding
to continue. An idea, a brilliant wonderful idea of unity was flawed
in its execution, but not in its principle, for we all share a common
ground  - a reverence and appreciation of the Pern worlds in all the
infinite varieties our minds can conjure.
That variety should be preserved and there should be no conflict over
this, lest that which binds us all together tears us all apart.  To
this end, in their wisdom, the assembled  Weyrs of all the Perns have
conducted Peace Talks and agreed the following action. All POW kitties
shall be repatriated, unharmed with their dignity intact. If they have
been harmed in anyway, the Weyr that cause the issue shall make
reparations.
All weyrs, will stand down any of their shows of force – this day will
see no bloodshed or conflict.
Arolos, will, by means of apology for instigating this situation, as
agreed will make reparation to the other weyrs in the form of
advertising links. The Infinite Crisis Plot is suspended effective
immediately and will be discussed no further.
Today, none shall be asked to shed blood for their weyr, or set friend
against friend, or face a mortal enemy. Today we are not fools. Today
we are ALL heroes for drawing back from the brink of war and having
the courage to embrace peace rather than suspicion and conflict.
Today, we honour our differences as much as our commonalities and
value them both equally.
Today, we are Pern Fandom, all of us, and will be forever.

[Clancey]

Want any help with that Eimi?  Thanks for selling the joke the hard way!

And thank you all for playing along, it was fun to be that wacky for a day!!  


For Dawn and Becki :angel12:

On a personal note, we all on the Council love Triad and all its wonderful-ness as it is today and like Emma said, we want it to stay around forever.  

[Bree]

Awww, I missed all the fun.  You can never trust ANYTHING with the word "Arolos" in it around the first of April.  

Like if they remake their Weyr into the Bunnyriders of Pern.  

[Eimi]

That one was fabulous!  And Dawn reminded me of when they were charging real money for ranks XD