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Originally Posted by Venom_Fish
-To be quite frank, I don't recall any success from Regency Theatre.
-Scotland Yard was an organization/concept that ended in failure, repeatedly.
You'd have been better off mentioning Section 31, since that didn't fail nearly as many times as Scotland Yard.
- Stop beating yourself, allow me.
-In pertinence to organized workplace, the conclusion is that he failed.
In your world, nothing causes another, therefore the reasons for his failure are absolutely irrelevant.
Seeing as I'm always educating you...here we go again.
Completion and success are two different things.
Not sure (don't recall), he may have "finished" Regency, but I doubt it can be considered a success.
In short, just because you finished something, doesn't make it successful.
Success: The favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors.
Complete: Having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full
Completion is a requirement for success. However, completion doesn't require nor does it mean success.
To water it down for you: You can finish a test and still fail (unsuccessful).
As you can see, these are separate. Alec's attempts were unsuccessful (failure). Complete? I don't know and nor do I care.
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In regards to Regency Theatre, it was quite well received. The public commonly attended their performances and was an excellent time to see what Era's talent has to show. How do I know this? I was a part of the Regency Theatre, and therefore I saw it first hand.
Scotland Yard was quite controversial due to certain rights they had and no one else had. For example, their right to have handcuffs (an idea that some organizations had in the past, SY was able to get it).
Alec's ideas were centered around role-playing, but this wasn't good enough for the Era Staff as they felt Era was about PKing -only-, thus leading to opposition towards Alec and a few others. However, I've come to believe that an addition of role-playing on Era is not impossible, merely improbable due to the staff's idea of PKing only.
I will use the Merriam-Webster dictionary to define success, as I trust its definitions.
Success: obsolete : outcome, result.
Therefore, under this definition provided by Merriam-Webster, we can clearly see that these were all a result of Alec's ideas, and thus successful. Now of course, was it favorable? In my opinion, yes. Regency Theatre and Scotland Yard garnered a lot of public praise (and negative praise), even Morgrim wanted to recreate Scotland Yard (as a Gang).
Because of the public approval of some of his works, I argue that he was in fact successful. Was he perfect? God no. Was he the best manager Era has seen? Probably not. But he was by no means a huge failure that you are proclaiming.