Some general information regarding Soul Twist 2: A Story of Infinity's End

This role-play was started on

Saturday, January 01, 2005

This role-play was finished on

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

    Well, well... Soul Twist 2 started out on the rocks, at first. It probably was a sequel I shouldn't have started, but did anyway! I don't think I could help myself. It was a long, uphill struggle to finish, but I mean, even if I did have to write a rather abrupt ending and still didn't finish up with everything that I wanted to, I was overall satisfied with the result. What was that result, you say? To end a series which dragged on a bit too long, and hopefully nobody will try to start up any spin-offs from that point. Are there any surprises past the end? Well, my lips are sealed for the moment. Soul Twist was a puzzling (and somewhat perverted) affair which revisited many old characters, and similarly, killed them off. There's a lot of open doors to the series that were never shut, but I never planned to shut them... it's all interpretation. What will YOU get out of reading the entire series together? I hope you at least feel some of the pain which was felt during the writing of both series and appreciate that both installments finished even with multiple frustrations. I vowed to complete them and like I promised, it was done.

    Atomic Toucan started Soul Twist 2: A Story of Infinity's End, and was thus the first person to join. She wrote 42.96% of the story, doing so in eighty-one posts. She originally went by the username Escaflowne Adept.

    This RP was somewhat difficult for me to follow at times. A lot of the time I was left unaware of what I could possibly do, but my favorite plot of the entire story was my sub-present plot relating to Saurel Andrek, madman, scientist, and surgeon of the cybernetics. 
    And of course, I loved how the battle between Josh and Cecilia ended. Shadow himself PM'd me and said something along the lines of "Wow" after I pulled back the plot device of that note. 
    I'm rather disappointed I didn't get the chance to do anything more with Cecilia though. I ended up becoming fascinated with what her past could have been, and looking back, it was rather lacking. 
    And of course I had announced that I was killing off Juno at LEAST a year ago around when the RP started. I doubt it came to anyone as a surprise. 
    I have somewhat of a hard time believing this is the longest living RP I've ever been in. More than a year? Doesn't feel like it if you read it. 
    Again, I wish I could have done more with it, but I've been getting a lot of writer's block lately and posts are hard to make, as well as for this RP. Though I did enjoy much of the RP, I hated writing battles, but then again, apparently not many people like doing so.

    Dr. Gate was the ninth person to join the RP. He wrote 18.57% of the story, doing so in fifty posts.

    I somewhat enjoyed the RP at the beginning. Things moved along pretty steadily, until, that is, they went to Carbuncle Corps headquarters. Things started to slow down from there, as there wasn't much to do except fool around, which makes no sense to do when you're trying to save the world. Yeah, we went to Andrek's castle and things moved pretty slowly there as well. 
    After we finally defeated Andrek, and returned to the headquarters, I had hoped (and somewhat expected even) that within a few posts, that the researchers would've found out something useful. However, what appeared to be a short time to recuperate turned into a record amount of slacking off. I mean, come on! If the researchers weren't finding anything, you'd think they'd have said so and the group could've just left and the researchers and them would agree to keep in touch so that they could relay information and discoveries back and forth. 
    However, the group slacked off long enough for Tsukara to conveniently be erased from everyone's memory and slacked off some more after that, supposedly waiting to get information. I don't know why they hung around for so long. I even had Mikorysa get kidnapped by one of Daemon's minions to make it more likely that the group would get a move on. However, that failed as well, for hardly anyone in the story seemed to care that she had been kidnapped, or even notice that she was gone. In fact, it seemed that for a brief period, the group members, with a few exceptions seemed entirely disconnected from one another. 
    As for the ending, I just plain hated it. Not only did many people die, but magic had also disappeared, making it so that in order to be "realistic", I had to have one of my own characters die because something had been done to her that could've only been reversed by magic. 
    On a side note, I can't help that this RP turned out this way partially because Atomic Toucan was tired of the series and wanted to put an end to it. However, the ending failed to do the long-running RP series justice.

    Elec was the seventh person to join Soul Twist 2: A Story of Infinity's End. She wrote 18.43% of the story, doing so in seventy-five posts.

    ShadowSword was unavailable for comment. He was the sixth person to join the RP, and wrote 8.22% of the story, doing so in forty posts.

    I hadn't enjoyed the first Soul Twist, and I had been rather intent on avoiding this one. However, after about a week, I guess I started feeling left out, so I joined. I really should have stayed with my first reaction and avoided it.
    The problem with the RP, I think, is that there was a feeling of "for the heck of it" that covered the whole thing from head to toe. Esca started it for the heck of it, we posted for the heck of it, some people joined for the heck of it (and dropped out soon after)... it was just a mess. And, well, we all had better things to do- even Esca. And, frankly, it shows. The writing is mediocre at best; I found myself not caring at all for the story, or for most of the characters- heck, I barely cared about my own character. The amount of filler material is extraordinary, and even the handful of progressive posts tended to be nothing short of confusing, especially towards the end. For an RP that had this kind of support, it is a miracle it actually reached the end.
    I ended up dropping out in June 2005, after failing to post for about three months. Six months later, I joined again, thinking I could handle it better since I was changing my outlook on how difficult posting should be. However, that didn't go well, either. Elec and I tried to get things moving by having Mikorysa get kidnapped, and that was ultimately ignored until the last second. At this point, I stopped reading the RP; I got around to reading what I missed a couple days ago, and I have to say it puts me off. There is a reason most stories have happy endings, or, at the very least, bittersweet ones. It provides a sense of satisfaction. 
    A sense this RP sorely lacks no matter how you look at it.
    Sorry, Esca. 

    Ricky was the eighth person to join Soul Twist 2: A Story of Infinity's End. He wrote 5.07% of the story, doing so in nineteen posts.

    BoomerangFlash was unavailable for comment. He was the fourth person to join Soul Twist 2: A Story of Infinity's End, and wrote 0.80% of the story, doing so in three posts. He originally went by the username CaviosDaryll.