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    • MisterBoringM
      MisterBoring @Roadspike
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      @Roadspike said in Character Death:

      Do the players of your character’s loved ones (family, significant others, packmates, etc) want to play out grief?

      I think that question is ultimately answered by asking a second question:

      Do the players of your character’s loved ones understand your approach and willingness to participate in character death?

      I think it’s a serious conversation that needs to happen anytime someone wants to play a PC with an emotional bond with another PC. How much grief are you willing to deal with as their bonded PC? This goes beyond character death and into just the consequences of failure or social conflict in general. Are you okay with witnessing a character your character is bonded to in some way going through all manner of tragedy and tribulations?

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      • saoS
        sao
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        I love rping eulogizing a dead character. Non-sarcastic. I got a lot of practice at this and discovered I really enjoy it. Real characters are best, I also did a spider funeral at one point but that was for specific IC reasons and I had fun with that too.

        let it be a challenge to you

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        • MisterBoringM
          MisterBoring @sao
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          @sao said in Character Death:

          I also did a spider funeral at one point but that was for specific IC reasons and I had fun with that too.

          A Gangrel in a Vampire LARP I played in would make his entire Clan attend funerals for animals that died in service to his needs.

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          • AshkuriA
            Ashkuri
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            When I RP’d a preacher on good ol’ Fort Bloodshed I had a tally of how many weddings I did vs how many funerals. Weddings were ahead but just barely. The funerals were far and away the better RP of the two.

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            • MisterBoringM
              MisterBoring @Ashkuri
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              @Ashkuri said in Character Death:

              The funerals were far and away the better RP of the two.

              Every wedding I’ve ever been a guest at on a MU has always just felt like social-rp and never felt like it impacted anything. Every funeral on the other hand rearranged the social structures of the gam.

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                dvoraen @sao
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                @sao said in Character Death:

                I love rping eulogizing a dead character. Non-sarcastic. I got a lot of practice at this and discovered I really enjoy it. Real characters are best, I also did a spider funeral at one point but that was for specific IC reasons and I had fun with that too.

                I want a eulogy from Aureth now. 😞

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                • saoS
                  sao @dvoraen
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                  @dvoraen I mean, I’m sure he kept them up for many years after we stopped playing. He may be Dominus but he’s still Death’s special boy.

                  let it be a challenge to you

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                  • somasatoriS
                    somasatori @MisterBoring
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                    @MisterBoring said in Character Death:

                    @Ashkuri said in Character Death:

                    The funerals were far and away the better RP of the two.

                    Every wedding I’ve ever been a guest at on a MU has always just felt like social-rp and never felt like it impacted anything. Every funeral on the other hand rearranged the social structures of the gam.

                    This is because, similar to real life, at a MUSH wedding you’re just celebrating that two people can now bang it out according to God, but at a funeral you’re realizing they can never bang it out again

                    "And the Fool says, pointing to the invertebrate fauna feeding in the graves: 'Here a monarchy reigns, mightier than you: His Majesty the Worm.'"
                    Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destines

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                    • MisterBoringM
                      MisterBoring @somasatori
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                      @somasatori said in Character Death:

                      but at a funeral you’re realizing they can never bang it out again

                      Are you trying to slyly suggest that MU character funerals include a reading of the “best of” bits of their TS poses?

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                      • somasatoriS
                        somasatori @MisterBoring
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                        @MisterBoring said in Character Death:

                        Are you trying to slyly suggest that MU character funerals include a reading of the “best of” bits of their TS poses?

                        I would never suggest such a thing! But now that you mention it–

                        "And the Fool says, pointing to the invertebrate fauna feeding in the graves: 'Here a monarchy reigns, mightier than you: His Majesty the Worm.'"
                        Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destines

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                        • JennkrystJ
                          Jennkryst
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                          Taking a moment to think about it and remember that the L5R 20 questions includes ‘how should your character die’ because the idea of death is always in the back of their minds… Im wondering if that is a factor in the L5R MUs I’ve seen not doing terribly great for too long, or if addressing this and everyone going into it knowing there is supposed to be an almost romanticized view on a good/noble death… if that will somehow help it out? I dunno.

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                          • MisterBoringM
                            MisterBoring @Jennkryst
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                            @Jennkryst The whole looming presence of the cycle of beginning to end is so much part of the theme of L5R that I would honestly be upset if a MU in that setting didn’t have a warning at character generation that all PCs were expected to find a story ending in a reasonable amount of time. Honestly, I’d almost say you’d want to go with the Game of Thrones approach to death where it’s just always there.

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                            • somasatoriS
                              somasatori @MisterBoring
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                              @MisterBoring said in Character Death:

                              you’d want to go with the Game of Thrones approach to death

                              So a wedding AND a funeral!

                              "And the Fool says, pointing to the invertebrate fauna feeding in the graves: 'Here a monarchy reigns, mightier than you: His Majesty the Worm.'"
                              Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destines

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                                dvoraen @somasatori
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                                @somasatori said in Character Death:

                                @MisterBoring said in Character Death:

                                you’d want to go with the Game of Thrones approach to death

                                So a wedding AND a funeral!

                                a woman says they 're the same picture while sitting in front of a window

                                The funeral IS the wedding. And vice-versa. (In GOT.)

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                                • MisterBoringM
                                  MisterBoring
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                                  Remember, if you have enough weddings during the funeral, it becomes a romantic comedy.

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                                  • WuffW
                                    Wuff @Jennkryst
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                                    @Jennkryst said in Character Death:

                                    Taking a moment to think about it and remember that the L5R 20 questions includes ‘how should your character die’ because the idea of death is always in the back of their minds… Im wondering if that is a factor in the L5R MUs I’ve seen not doing terribly great for too long, or if addressing this and everyone going into it knowing there is supposed to be an almost romanticized view on a good/noble death… if that will somehow help it out? I dunno.

                                    three cartoon characters are chained to a wall with the word death written on the bottom

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