MU Peeves Thread
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@helvetica Yeah. Honestly, I would love the chance to dig into some angst or other powerful emotions on my characters, but tend to accept that just…no one but me is interested. Especially if it’s not something that can be ‘fixed’ easily. And I don’t want people to play things that aren’t fun for them!
But it does mean that I tend to have an entirely separate mental series of events for things that happen off-camera for my characters so that I can at least enjoy thinking about it.
And then I write a book.
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@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.
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@mietze It’s def a “check-ins take energy” circumstance mixed with “oh gosh am I being cringy” thoughts in the back of my mind. Even though so far the only check-in I’ve done about it, the IC-connection was all in, cards on the table.
@Pyrephox This makes me feel like this would be solved if this was happening on a game with logs and vignettes.
@Roz You know more than five words.
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@helvetica Aw, thank you.
You’re also never fucking cringey. (Nor is @Pyrephox, for that matter.)
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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.
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@SpaceKhomeini naturally, I immediately assume this is about me
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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!
