I wanted to give it a couple of days before posting anything, this way it would give a chance for you to perhaps post... but seeing that its now tuesday and still nothing...
I had been looking forward to this. As were two of my friends who had been planning on attending. I was a bit late, due to a raid going later than expected due to some wipes.. I kept an eye on players in wildlands to see if anyone with an RPish name was there and zilch. After the raid, I traveled to Tesso, in epic, and waited... and waited.... and I waited for well over 10 mins with no one showing up. So I switched to normal mode... same thing.. zilch.
The time that I ended up waiting for no one to show up other than people questing, I could have ran some lowbies through sanctum, ran a guildie through toirdealbachs, ran a guildie through connals valley, got my sin into an atzels or crows nest run, gone to a pagoda hm on my PoM, or grinded MoA for my DT.
When a friend of mine logged in an hour later, expecting the RP event to be going on, I had already given up on the idea of RP outside the SHI that day, told her that the event was a wash, and she logged off, disappointed.
I understand that r/l happens, that net connections have fecal storms sometimes, that the game client enjoys dcing and redlining people randomly, but how hard would it have been to put a blurb on here an hour or two before the event, saying "hey, I cannot host the RP event this weekend because of x circumstance" At least that would have been better than letting people show up and wait for a good 30-40 minutes for nothing at all.