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MU Peeves Thread
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@helvetica Honestly, vignettes do help! Especially when I wanted to play out things that I thought were important to my character, but weren’t the sort of thing that other PCs would want to be in the position of doing. (i.e., having a character who was canonically very not well socialized and not well liked for good reasons in the setting and wanting to think about how that looked without needing to rely on PCs to act in ways people generally don’t want their characters to act.)
I’m not playing on any Ares games right now, but do still write little vignettes to myself about things that happen/have happened in the characters’ lives that would just be too boring or unpleasant for other players to be expected to engage with.
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@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Lurrr said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Roz said in MU Peeves Thread:
HELLO MY NAME IS ROZ AND I ONLY KNOW FIVE FUCKING WORDS AND THEY WILL APPEAR IN ALL MY POSES BECAUSE I CAN’T THINK OF ANY OTHER WORDS
I’m guilty of just vacating a scene on partners like this. I completely (mentally) disconnect then typically physically disconnect and go read a book or something. I know everyone starts somewhere but…fuck.
lol uh thanks i guess
ETA: It has been suggested to me that you probably just read my peeve differently than intended. To clarify, it was a peeve against myself and feeling like I often tend to reuse certain words a lot and struggling to branch out vocabulary for certain common things my characters do.
Pssshhhhh. You have so many words. My bad if it came off as shots fired your way.
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@Pyrephox said in MU Peeves Thread:
(i.e., having a character who was canonically very not well socialized and not well liked for good reasons in the setting and wanting to think about how that looked without needing to rely on PCs to act in ways people generally don’t want their characters to act.)
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@helvetica I don’t fluently speak gif, so I don’t know if I’m reading you correctly, but maybe it was confusing?
Basically, if I play a character who quite a lot of people are, realistically, likely to be weirded out or react poorly to (not a creeper, but someone who, for example, had a reputation in the town for being ‘crazy’ because of psychic powers, long-term trauma, and yeah, some mental health struggles), I know that PCs are likely NOT to be unpleasant to them, and very likely to befriend them at all costs. Which is fine!
But sometimes I want to explore some of the more normal reactions they receive in the world and how they react to them. Which means NPCs. So, vignettes are a fun way for me to explore certain things where the reaction of NPCs, unmoderated by PCs, is important.
Was that more clear? As an example, one vignette I did involved a PC going into a used clothing shop, psychically ‘reading’ something unpleasant on it, and having a physical/mental reaction to it that got him kicked out of the shop. For me, it was fun to explore the fact that this sort of thing is…part of this PC’s life.
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@Pyrephox Sorry, I was trying to be cute because the character isn’t the most immediately likable so your example was a little on the nose, lol.
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@Pyrephox Cliff & Cecilia had a horrible tragic end in my head. It involved her turning a bit Rogue-like and transmitting her empathetic powers through touch, and Cliff was all about holding hands and hating powers and anyway. They never work it out.
Because all the best stories are sad ones.
Someday, if we ever have toons that can stand each other again (which is like finding a leprechaun, I know), we can get angsty. You remain one of my favorite people to play psychotic with. 🥰
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@KarmaBum Ahahahha! I love it.
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When you know it’s time to retire a character, but you can’t make yourself let go.
as previously stated, good day.
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@farfalla said in MU Peeves Thread:
When you know it’s time to retire a character, but you can’t make yourself let go.
When you know it’s time for someone else to retire a character but they won’t let go.
I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
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@SpaceKhomeini naturally, I immediately assume this is about me
as previously stated, good day.
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Lollll I’m pretty sure it’s not. But I’m also pretty sure I’ve never run into you in the wild.
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being more interested in a game than a game is in you. that’s all. that’s the peeve.
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Asking a character if they would be willing to do an event IC, only to get an @mail telling you that they have this OTHER event they want to do instead of the one you ICly asked them to do because they are sure more players would be more interested in that event.
A couple of months later, schedule a similar event you asked about previously without going through them after they already indicated they were not interested in scheduling those types of events because you want to kick off some plots you also scheduled, only to get an @mail about stepping on their IC job.
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I remember talking about an idea I had for an event trying to see if there was any interest, only to have someone not in the conversation post the exact same thing as an event an hour or so later. At the time I was like oh, it must’ve been a good idea because someone else had it too!
I later found out that person had an alt on the channel where I’d been talking about it.
Oh well, it was still a good idea!
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I genuinely do not enjoy running events. Don’t enjoy going to them, either. I like intimate rp, 1:1, 1:2, 1:3. And someday I won’t feel guilty about that. #affirmations
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@Nynrose Well I hope they were polite at least. You do a lot, and in the over a decade I’ve known you, you have never failed to be anything but a huge positive contributor to whatever community you were part of.
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Reeling a bit from a mispage earlier in the day that kinda took the wind out of my sails.
On the one hand, I guess I know who to avoid in the future. But it’s coming at a really bad place of timing.
It really sucks to feel like you’re okayish enough to pass the time with RP wise if there’s nothing better to do, but you’re not of the caliber where it would be worth engaging in deeper RP with you since you’re just a lightweight bore and there’s nothing substantial there.
I do often feel (as do like 98 percent of the people I know) like i’m the always the unwanted/last person to be picked for the kickball team. I don’t /think/ it’s the reality (and hey if we were all the super popular kickball captains growing up maybe we wouldn’t have gotten into mushing or whatever so it’s just kind of a primal worry for a lot of people. But i’m feeling it super hard tonight.
I’ll work through it (or disappear) but damn. I’ve done my share of mispages but it’s been awhile since I got one and i have to say it kinda really did hurt this time. Even if if it’s from someone that I really don’t even care about!
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@mietze omg. We just finished a scene but rp with me again. I’m so mad this happened to you.
