Here comes the sad portion of our blog post. For many reasons, I will be discontinuing the Running Red series. The first is the workload. I've tried as hard as I can to balance all the packs I have currently so that I can keep them all updated, but I had to stretch myself to my limits to keep everything up to date. Between Pathfinder, Phoenix Reborn, [REDACTED FTB PACK], Dark Trilogy, Running Red, Renascintis, Running Red 2, and the unreleased RR: Descent, as well as the numerous pack ideas I've had but never brought to fruition, not to mention all the pack development I do offhand for the Phoenix Team and the FTB Team - I'm starting to not have time to keep thing up to date anymore. As you've probably already noticed - all of the Running Reds have fallen far behind. Every mod within them is out of date, and they haven't been updated in months.
As well, I made those packs when I felt depressed. They served as an outlet for what I was feeling - better I took action via my modpacks than in real life. I used them, especially Running Red 2, to vent what I was feeling. And you know what? It worked. The friends I found in the Modded Minecraft community and the ability to share my feelings via the Running Red packs changed my entire outlook on life. I don't feel depressed at all anymore.
And that serves a problem. I created the packs from my depression. I would write the stories when I felt bad, and then transfer them into quests. Each idea I had stemmed from something I thought about when feeling bad. The series helped me to cope and get better. But now that I am better, I don't know what to do. I can't think of anything solid for the series. I've tried several times to sit down and write the quests and implement new mechanics, but every time, I've been stopped. I lacked any inspiration, and inspiration is what made up the core of the pack. The music of My Chemical Romance inspired me to share how I felt, and that's been a huge influence on the packs. But I don't feel quite the pull to the series I've felt before.
So, I'm discontinuing the Running Reds. It's possible, depending on how things turn out, that I would continue them again. But the lack of time to work on them and the lack of the ability at all to write for them has left me without much of a choice. It was either to make the announcement that I would stop them, or let them sink into the depths of un-updated modpacks. I would rather be upfront about their status rather than hide it.
