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RE: Bad Stuff Happening ICposted in Game Gab
What happens, happens. A roll of the dice - and my dice luck is legendarily horrific - or someone outplaying my character intellectually, politically, whatever. Bring it on, as long as the playing field is level. And as long as I’m allowed to come up with what happened because of a bad roll, botches are almost always some form of hilarious, because my characters often take themselves too seriously and I love the chance to poke a hole in that.
But when it’s not a fair playing field? When you wake up in the morning, log in and find out your character died while you were asleep for no reason? When your plot fails because staff doesn’t want their friend to be discomfited but you can go hang and they didn’t bother to mention that X won’t be changing in advance? When it’s written in the stars that you’re going to be the universe’s punching bag forever and always because you created what the source material says is absolutely normal? No. Not playing that game.
If the only real way to advance on a game is to TS a staffer’s alt, they can go fuck themselves because I’m not going to indulge them. If the only real way to succeed is to follow this nice set of rails, but no-one does me the courtesy of telling me they exist and I just have to kind of guess at what to do next and hope this is the right answer, I’m derailing myself right out of the game. Let my actions have consequences, and let me do things you haven’t foreseen. And if those consequences fuck me over sideways, as long as it’s all fair or I had some sort of chance, I’m happy with that. And if everything I do has no consequence at all, because the plot’s already written and all the roles are filled and that person over there is the shining hero who saves the world? No thanks.
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RE: Your first game?posted in Game Gab
I was on the L&L Crossroads, briefly. It was not friendly to someone in an ‘off’ timezone - I only lasted a few months.
My first MU* was a place called Spheres, and I logged in for the first time on the 4th of January 1999. I memorised the date because I knew this would be the start of something big in my life, but I definitely wasn’t prepared for just where the journey has taken me.
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RE: Your first game?posted in Game Gab
My first MOO was Harper’s Tale in… 99 I think. I was on a lot of PBEMs and chatrooms before that, starting when I was about 12.
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Testament lol just ask me next time, I would help you!
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RE: MU Peeves Threadposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Wizz To be fair, I think the other website is gone. How do I know, because I was trying to remember a name of this website and typed in the other one.
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RE: Bad Stuff Happening ICposted in Game Gab
@junipersky I have no idea who these people are but these sound like very cool plots. That Norwood one is very neat and more consequences like that need to happen on games.
It always seems like there’s an overemphasis on wounding a character physically, where combat is going to be the thing that has the big negative consequences (speaking for WoD games mostly here), but it would be great to have more of those plots where the consequence is some kind of moral injury.
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RE: Bad Stuff Happening ICposted in Game Gab
I want bad stuff to happen sooner rather than later, to see how the staff and community make it fun, because that’s going to be a great way to know whether or not the game is right for me.
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RE: Your first game?posted in Game Gab
I love finding interesting threads in the moths between poking my head in.
My first game was Chiascuruo? I’m aware that’s not how you spell it, but gun to my head I could not spell the name. Which is probably the ONLY thing I remember about it. Oh, and it was a fantasy game. So, two things I remember about it.
That’s it. I think I played some random common dude?
