Echoes of the Past: Problem Players
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Oh, this shit absolutely happens everywhere. It happens in my game.
I interpreted this thread as a warning about two specific players residing in a specific game.
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Seanan McGuire? Really?
How did I not know this lore? Fuck. I love her books, but the more I think about it, the more her October Daye series feels like stolen MU logs for the first few. The entire tone and scope of the story changes wildly after like book three.
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@InkGolem said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:
Seanan McGuire? Really?
Really, really. Find any old WoD MUer and whisper “Seiche” at them to see their reaction. Though, to be frank, she and much of her cadre have long-since departed MUing and, seemingly, have changed as people.
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@Pavel I’m sure they have. People tend to do that. I’ve never been a WoD person and seem to have totally missed this.
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@Juniper said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:
Oh, this shit absolutely happens everywhere. It happens in my game.
I interpreted this thread as a warning about two specific players residing in a specific game.
It was absolutely started as that, or at least I chimed in as that, because they’re not containing their behavior to one little corner that can easily be avoided by just not being on That Specific Game. I’ve seen it personally across two games, heard about it on a third, and given their appearance on other community hubs, expect it to be expanding into Ares games soon.
But BMD is BMD and will do with a topic as it likes!
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@Aria said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:
But BMD is BMD and will do with a topic as it likes!
I’m just building up to where I can launch my definitive study of behavioural issues sorted by MU genre. I’m thinking ““All the World’s a MUSH”: Genre as Destiny in Collaborative Roleplay Behaviour.”
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I guess I can count myself lucky in that I know I’ve been on games that VASpider and Seanan McGuire were on, but as far as I can remember, I never interacted with them, or never in any significant capacity.
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@Juniper said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:
I interpreted this thread as a warning about two specific players residing in a specific game.
It kind of is - but it’s also a call for people to take a step back and think in general about what’s going on around them.
I have learned of two more sets of people on that first oWoD game who are, by more than one report, employing the same fucking tactics. And there are other games that I’m not on, and shit that I’m not seeing, and things that I don’t know. That call for people to stay safe and look after each other? That was heartfelt. By looking after each other, we reduce the harms of all sorts of things, but this stuff in particular.
Respect your own boundaries, and the boundaries of others. And above all, care.
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@Pavel Looks at the Star Wars Aoa thread Ayup it happens.
Take care of yourself out there folks.
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@Juniper said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:
I interpreted this thread as a warning about two specific players residing in a specific game.
idk that something really be a warning about a specific game or specific players when it doesn’t name the game or players
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ok
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@Roz said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:
@Juniper said in Echoes of the Past: Problem Players:
I interpreted this thread as a warning about two specific players residing in a specific game.
idk that something really be a warning about a specific game or specific players when it doesn’t name the game or players
I don’t know how to double quote but they said this
“Having watched them kill a game in that fashion and gain more friends and more enablers in so doing, I joined a freshly-opened game and created a Garou there in a brand new sphere. A week or two ago a new pack joined - the only pack - with characters that were rewrites of the werewolf and vampire player’s oWoD wolves in it. I battened down the hatches and waited for the attacks to start, because my character was an obvious target and I expected they knew he was my character. Two nights ago, the attacks began, and over the course of the day after I realised what the whole pattern was and where I’d seen it before.”
So I think it’s a warning of two people specifically AND of problem players in general?
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@Evilgrayson Role players are bonkers. RPG players are bonkers. WoD fans are bonkers. Add the anonymity of nick names and you wind up with an abusers paradise.
Staff are simply blind to too much (the nature of MU*), and can only react, because nobody wants them proactively violating privacy. When there’s a proper shadow society being maintained OOC, more organized and longstanding than a game, good luck.
It took me about 15 years to figure out this mix is bad for me. I’m sorry for your experience, truly. I was gutted my last time MUSHing, and called it quits. The circumstances bore comical similarities to your tale. Hugs for y’all.
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Sorry to hear that someone found your fun bug and stepped on it. That really sucks. Hopefully you find a game that’s chill. Thanks for the heads up.
In the meantime I was just about to app a werewolf into a game… but even if it isnt them I want to stay far the fuck away from that shit. Could you dm me the owod game for peace of mind?
