Character Death

[MisterBoring]

@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.

[dvoraen]

@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.

[sao]

@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.

[somasatori]

@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

[MisterBoring]

@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?

[somasatori]

@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–

[Jennkryst]

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.

[MisterBoring]

@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.

[somasatori]

@MisterBoring said in Character Death:

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

So a wedding AND a funeral!

[dvoraen]

@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!

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

[MisterBoring]

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

[Wuff]

@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.