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Hi all!
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It’s with a heavy (light) heart, that we have chosen to close Moonrise. It has been an amazing (nearly) two years writing with you all. We’ve been through a lot together, both good and bad! However, the admin team has had a lot of discussions throughout the week (and weeks and weeks ago), and we’ve decided that ultimately, it was not sustainable for us to continue running the site.
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It may come as a surprise—Moonrise is still, by many metrics, a successful, healthy site. Over 30 accounts still log in daily, and we cross dozens of posts in the course of a few days still. However, the community and site no longer matches our vision of what it could be, and we no longer feel that it can sustain the path we wanted it to take. Rather than watch something we both love extinguish over time, we wanted to be transparent with you all about its ending.
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We both have committed a lot of our time and energy into this site. But both of us have also gone through a lot of change, and we’re realizing that personal matters have taken precedence over Moonrise. This is not anyone’s fault, we just have changing priorities and in the grand scheme of things, need to defraud the government, need to touch grass–
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Jokes aside, unfortunately we are not amenable to keeping the site (publically) open. Nor are we interested in having others run the site voluntarily. Current members will be able to still access and enjoy the site, a plan for which we have outlined below.

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After SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15th, the site will become PRIVATE—no new accounts will be able to be created, and and IC boards will only be visible to users with a log-in.
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Moonrise will live on forever as an archive to those that have contributed to it—your posts, coding, art, the emojis and the wonderful times we shared will always be a part of our collective memories. You all absolutely are encouraged to continue posting and enjoy the setting, lore, and characters that you have put the time and effort into creating.
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Unfortunately, due to background issues with coding and idea theft, we are banning SHO, and BEAU from Moonrise, including the Discord server. You know what you have done, and have until OCTOBER 15TH to collect what you will from the site. To see the extent of their egregious behavior, feel free to peruse this link. HERE
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The Discord server will also remain open, though we encourage those who want to stay in contact with us to add us directly (or through other platforms).

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We love to innovate, design, worldbuild, create. Moonrise has been the pinnacle of these things for us. It was a truly unique, welcoming, and thriving site that has contributed ideas and systems that will live on forever in other roleplay sites.
Thank you for trusting us with your characters, for immersing yourselves in this strange world born (and ended) over the course of late night conversations between two friends. Some of you even invited us into your homes and deeper lives---getting to know you all (in-person or not) was a wonderful experience.[break][break]
It’s been a pleasure and an honor!

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We don't really plan on leaving the RPC. If it happens it happens, of course. But for now let's say we're tinkering away at something...very fun. And very different. What (if anything) we create next will be far removed from the wonderful world of Moonrise (and, by extension, Starfall)—no more witches, covens, and daemons. As with all great projects, whatever comes next will take time. A lot of time. Moonrise took us about a year, and that was working with concepts from SF and borrowing its world.
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Remember, a delayed game is eventually good. But a rushed game is forever bad. If we do launch something—anything—you will be the first to hear about it as long as you stay in the Moonrise Discord.
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