As the guy who put together the group you're talking about (and presumable the one with the OOC drama you're blaming for the dissolution of said group), I'll give you a very public piece of advice:
It takes work to do what the NHSC used to do. Quite a bit of work.
Most of the work involved actually finding plots for us to participate in. You'll recall that the main charter of the group, OOCly, was to participate in other people's arcs on the criminal side. I spent probably about 5-10 hours a week talking to people about these arcs. OOC limitations, timing, consequences, storyline concepts and the like all have to be discussed. Sometimes things would crop up after a few hours of discussions that made it clear we weren't suited to the arc - For ever arc that resulted in an item in the NHSC forums, there were probably another 2 that never made it that far because of this.
Once we actually had something on the forums, the work didn't stop. Any arc that actually progressed required work to maintain. Talking to the other people involved; keeping up on changes; etc.Â
As an aside, you'll recall how often those arcs failed to progress for reasons outside of our control: That's common. You have to accept it, and accept that the work you put into that is gone. Sunk costs are irrelevant.
Finding members, too, took work but that's mainly fun. Meeting people, talking to them, and the like. That's all fun, but it does require you to get out of your FC house. The way I'd typically do it (for new members, not people I knew who I brought in) was I'd go somewhere public when I was bored and simply look for roleplayers. I'd examine people who were RPing, or walking, or even just sitting around, and I'd look at their tags. Anyone who looked likely would get a /tell. We'd chat a little or a lot, and sometimes it would come out that they were interested in criminal RP.
Same thing goes for maintaining connections with other criminal RPers. It takes time. You have to identify them. Find them. Talk to them. Some are happy with a quick OOC convo to establish a relationship, while others want to RP out fairly involved stuff.
So I guess my advice to you, E, is that if you want to do more of that sort of thing, you need to either get out of your FC house and put it together, or you need to find someone else who is willing to do the work. From my own experience, joining a RP FC that runs organized RP is a fantastic thing. I know you're very happy in Lady, so this isn't necessarily something you feel comfortable doing. An alternative might be to link yourself in to some FCs long-running RP on the villain side. Again, though, you'd need to get out of your FC house and do the work.
 I wish you all the fortune in the world, E. Emelie is a fantastic character, you were good at criminal RP, and I know you liked it. I hope you're successful at finding it.
It takes work to do what the NHSC used to do. Quite a bit of work.
Most of the work involved actually finding plots for us to participate in. You'll recall that the main charter of the group, OOCly, was to participate in other people's arcs on the criminal side. I spent probably about 5-10 hours a week talking to people about these arcs. OOC limitations, timing, consequences, storyline concepts and the like all have to be discussed. Sometimes things would crop up after a few hours of discussions that made it clear we weren't suited to the arc - For ever arc that resulted in an item in the NHSC forums, there were probably another 2 that never made it that far because of this.
Once we actually had something on the forums, the work didn't stop. Any arc that actually progressed required work to maintain. Talking to the other people involved; keeping up on changes; etc.Â
As an aside, you'll recall how often those arcs failed to progress for reasons outside of our control: That's common. You have to accept it, and accept that the work you put into that is gone. Sunk costs are irrelevant.
Finding members, too, took work but that's mainly fun. Meeting people, talking to them, and the like. That's all fun, but it does require you to get out of your FC house. The way I'd typically do it (for new members, not people I knew who I brought in) was I'd go somewhere public when I was bored and simply look for roleplayers. I'd examine people who were RPing, or walking, or even just sitting around, and I'd look at their tags. Anyone who looked likely would get a /tell. We'd chat a little or a lot, and sometimes it would come out that they were interested in criminal RP.
Same thing goes for maintaining connections with other criminal RPers. It takes time. You have to identify them. Find them. Talk to them. Some are happy with a quick OOC convo to establish a relationship, while others want to RP out fairly involved stuff.
So I guess my advice to you, E, is that if you want to do more of that sort of thing, you need to either get out of your FC house and put it together, or you need to find someone else who is willing to do the work. From my own experience, joining a RP FC that runs organized RP is a fantastic thing. I know you're very happy in Lady, so this isn't necessarily something you feel comfortable doing. An alternative might be to link yourself in to some FCs long-running RP on the villain side. Again, though, you'd need to get out of your FC house and do the work.
 I wish you all the fortune in the world, E. Emelie is a fantastic character, you were good at criminal RP, and I know you liked it. I hope you're successful at finding it.
