MU Peeves Thread

Snackness

@Herja If I could lurk in some rafters I almost certainly would.

crawfish

@Herja I LOVED ME SOME RAFTER LURKING

fight me

Herja

Oh, I was right there in the rafters with everyone else. I was an archer with a dark and tragic past. Where else was I supposed to sit??

BloodAngel

@Herja IN A CHAIR IN THE RAFTERS!

crawfish

@Herja oh so that was you sitting next to me! I was the naked blue demon with spoons in her hair.

Herja

@crawfish I feel like this says so much about our relationship and role play styles, rofl

crawfish

@Herja hhahahahahah oh shit it does

Herja

@crawfish It’s like I’m the overdramatic Method actor that has like a full history of every character that no one else will ever see except revealed in small drips and drabs. You are a chaos demon that delights in putting together as weird of combinations for characters as allowed.

crawfish

@Herja You forgot the part about being naked.

Third Eye

@jujube said in MU Peeves Thread:

Peeve: How certain names are forever ruined by your experience with them.

Certain played-bys, too, which is a bummer. There are a couple actors with faces I find very evocative but they’re too strongly associated with Annoyances in my brain for me to ever use.

L. B. Heuschkel

@Third-Eye said in MU Peeves Thread:

Certain played-bys, too, which is a bummer. There are a couple actors with faces I find very evocative but they’re too strongly associated with Annoyances in my brain for me to ever use.

This. There’s a handful of very skilled actors that I can’t not associate with people I’d rather never think about again, and it kind of sucks.

MisterBoring

That’s part of the reason I don’t use played-bys for my characters, and pretty much ignore them on wikis and stuff. I don’t want to ruin an actor in my mind if my interaction with a character using them as a played-by turns out terrible.

Floof

@Third-Eye I’ve stolen these sorts of PBs to reassociate them in my head, honestly. Not, like, on the same game. But other places. Because if anyone’s going to ruin a PB for me, it’ll be me, dammit.

Snackness

I suck at RPing in crowds. The older I get, the more I suck.

Tez

@Snackness said in MU Peeves Thread:

I suck at RPing in crowds. The older I get, the more I suck.

Maybe it’s not YOU that sucks. Maybe it’s RPing in CROWDS that sucks.

(aka, i feel you, i understand, i feel this too, this is what i tell myself to make myself feel better)

Herja

I love big crowd scenes. I love one-on-one scenes. I am terrible in middle-sized group scenes because in RP, I either want a lot to react to (thanks, ADHD) or I want to dig deep into what makes the other PC tick. Mid-sized scenes that seem to dissolve into the RP equivalent of small talk, unless we are actively doing something, just lose me entirely.

Solstice

@Herja

The magic number for me to lose all of my brain cells completely is around five. One-on-one is best, add a third and that’s fine, a fourth and you start running into some pose delays, but it’s usually okay, at 5 my brain breaks. I end up having to just basically skim poses in order to turn one of mine around in a timely manner.

By contrast, in huge scenes, no one is really expecting me to have massive hot takes and I can kind of just react the way the character would in small bite-sized pieces.

Midsize scenes are very hard.

Pavel

@Solstice said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Herja

The magic number for me to lose all of my brain cells completely is around five. One-on-one is best, add a third and that’s fine, a fourth and you start running into some pose delays, but it’s usually okay, at 5 my brain breaks. I end up having to just basically skim poses in order to turn one of mine around in a timely manner.

By contrast, in huge scenes, no one is really expecting me to have massive hot takes and I can kind of just react the way the character would in small bite-sized pieces.

Midsize scenes are very hard.

I agree with the magic number there. More than five and it’s no.

But I also can’t do big scenes in the way you describe. I don’t have time to sit and play set dressing, when I could be doing something else.

Packrat

@Pavel I feel that larger crowds can be fine, but not if I am expected to keep track of what people are actually doing outside of my 'bubble.

Also of course an absolute no if people expect a whole room pose order. At that point I might as well go for a five mile walk or something instead of trying to RP.

RightMeow

I use to LOVE large scenes, like a year ago. Then something happened in my brain and I no longer enjoy them. I get anxious that I’m leaving someone out or someone isn’t enjoying it or someone is feeling unwanted. Then I start to stress out and stop enjoying the scene myself.

I really think it’s my RL overwhelm carrying over to my RP overwhelm. It’s been a long few years.