@Deviant I have only ever reached out through a mutual acquaintances once and it was because something was very clearly wrong. I’d been RPing with this person for about two months. All our scenes were great. We were chatting in pages pretty regularly. Then one night in the middle of a scene, they logged off very abruptly. Literally, it was without any warning at all. A few days later I logged in to a message from them apologizing for that and explaining that a family member had a medical emergency. They hoped to be back soon. They did not come back soon. They did not come back after several weeks. In fact, they didn’t come back at all. So between knowing that something serious was up and some very clear signals that the game wasn’t going to last much longer, I reached out to someone I knew they were already friends with prior to joining. It felt very awkward, but I did tell that friend of theirs something that was basically: “Hey, I hope this isn’t super weird, but I know you and Player are tight. Would you mind passing my contact info on to them? It’s cool if you’d rather not. It just seems like they’re going through something rough right now and I want to make sure they’re okay.” I got a message on Discord a couple of weeks later. The aforementioned Player was very much Not Okay because of real life things, wasn’t able to RP anywhere or with anyone for another several months, but was actually really happy I reached out. Apparently a lot of people they’d known for much longer hadn’t taken the time to check on them after they disappeared, which they weren’t feeling great about. We’ve now been friends for three years, but I don’t attribute that to contacting them through a third party to say, “Hey! I miss your RP so much! Come back.” There was no pressure whatsoever to play there or anywhere else. I attribute it to contacting them through a third party to say, “Hey. Are you okay?”

@Nerdvana I remember Dani! I can’t remember how much we played together but I had a Fae-Touched with a little rat companion. I remember she won a big summer competition by letting everyone else fight while she just raced to the finish line or something.

@Arashi Hey you! Haven’t heard from you in forever, hope you’re doing well!

Updated.

@tsar I am replying here to get your attention for no reason related to past posts in this thread. I just want to say I both appreciate and over the facts I see when I peek at Crimson Compass’s site.

Only one place these days. Maybe I’ll get spicy and try a second place.

@Melichor said in Melichor’s Playlist: @tsar OH OH I just saw your playlist — I knew you as Nenita!! Iirc A’nas had a big giant teenaged boy crush on her He developed as my coping strategy for teaching an unruly class of teenage boys that year, channeling all my frustration into a character. Your game has come across my radar. I’m staffing on the Ares Pern game right now (On Dragon Wings) and enjoying coming back to the genre after so long away—taking the best bits of the world and scrapping the rest. It’s been a blast. I’m happy to run across you again! Glad you found me! OH MY GOD YES, at Ista! That makes so much sense. God, I loved playing her, lol. It’s nice to see you back around in the community again!!

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@Trashcan one day i will rp with you again

A few more added. Gods, do I feel old sometimes.

Not that it relates to a character… but making some stupid comment and having it show up visualized as actual art shortly after was pretty awesome

Oh, hey! I know Carl!

@Meg said in Meg's Mu* Mist: Updated. Trying to get back into this lil hobby, this quaint what did you call it? RP? Are you sure? Well, if you are sure you want to call it that. Sounds a little sexual tho. meg I couldn’t decide whether to do a “one of us” GIF or the “come play with us” creepy girls from the Shining to try and sound sinister. Please advise.