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RE: The SA In Games Thread (Good Luck)
I think there are three types of sexual assault roleplay that are worth differentiating.
- Players consent, but characters do not.
- Purely NPC-oriented sexual assault.
- Player(s) do not consent; game code forces/enables the assault anyway.
#3 is out, period. Code should never override a player’s agency in such a way; it is anathema to how I believe MU stories should be told.
#1 is kink play, and that’s mostly fine. But you should go into it with both eyes open and maximal trust in the other person to handle the subject matter safely, like any kink.
#2 is where I pause, because though I agree with @Kestrel that having sexual assault as a thing that happens particularly in real-life-simulating settings like WoD or other urban horror/fantasy type games does add a thick layer of juicy verisimilitude, I also agree with @hellfrog in that it’s rather hackneyed as a storytelling device.
There’s also a list of, like, three people I’d trust to run a place that has SA-RP not specifically banned and part of why I trust them to do so is precisely because they wouldn’t want to.
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RE: The SA In Games Thread (Good Luck)
Take that to its natural conclusion and make a non-canon Discord scene, I suppose.
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RE: The SA In Games Thread (Good Luck)
Maybe the safest and most sensible way to enjoy story-rich CNC RP is to just do it on a game that forbids it, but behind a closed door, in a private room that can’t be spied on, and contrive a reason to never tell anybody IC or OOC.
If I never have to hear about it, I’m not gonna kinkshame it.
This applies to about 99% of things that annoy me on MU* tbh.
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RE: Haven
So whenever someone says that they’re not worried about the extremes when it comes to MUing, you can remind them that Haven existed and enough people thought it was neat for long enough that it’s getting a spiritual successor.
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RE: Haven
For all Haven’s flaws it does wonders for the activity of this board.
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RE: The SA In Games Thread (Good Luck)
Hello, certified bodice ripping enjoyer here.
I make no claims that my interest is in the pursuit of high literary art or sophisticated character development. It is purely for my OOC enjoyment, though I do try to also play a serious and realistic character that is not just a caricature in a porno.
It’s interesting to read people’s thoughts on what it’s like to be the annoyed bystander to this kind of play and I find myself agreeing with a lot of it. Part of the reason I don’t get to engage in this kind of content very often is that I don’t want to bother other people with it. SA as a story beat is very dramatic and very infectious and there’s a good chance news of it will escape containment once in a while and reach people who don’t want to hear about it and don’t want to white knight. Which, valid.
Another challenge is that, as others have pointed out, if there’s 99 games that don’t allow SA and one that does, there’s a good chance that game is fucking bonkers because of who they attract. Often those games feature uhhhhh other stuff too, and I don’t want to play alongside that.
At least games like Paroxysm are upfront about the kind of content that they are allowing there so people can make their own decision about what they want to be exposed to. I think the creator of is in a little bit of denial though. It’s not going to be a storytelling game with cool features that happens to have SA. It’s gonna be the SA game.
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RE: Children NPCs, yay or nay?
@Juniper FLARED unless you mean the base is covered in stickers and decorations
