Bad Stuff Happening IC
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@Faraday said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
“Bleed”, to me, is something else. It’s a crossing of boundaries that’s more than just the simple emotional response.
the part I meant specifically when I originally brought up insanely uncomfortable amounts of bleed is where the boundaries between someone’s understanding of events as happening to their character and happening to them have gotten so hazy that they start taking purely IC things intensely personally, and it changes the way they make their characters behave and affects their relationships with other players.
bleed itself by the definition people have been providing here is absolutely something that happens to everyone and isn’t that extreme on its own, I think, as long as you’re being self aware enough to recognize it and manage it, as already mentioned.
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@MisterBoring said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
@Yam said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
I think negative bleed is less of a problem than someone just being a butt about things.
I sort of disagree with this, but I think it’s because different people and groups handle negative bleed differently.
Some circles take negative bleed and resolve it in a healthy manner, so it’s not a big problem.
Other groups (including a few major LARP organizations I can think of) seem to delight in using negative bleed to drive perceived rivals away to make sure their characters are dominant in all situations.
that’s literally what yam was saying though: the issue isn’t the feeling itself, it’s if people act like a butt because of the feeling. you could be feeling bleed like CRAZY, utterly miserable because of the stuff happening to your character, but also being self-aware enough to take a break and keep it off the game and away from the other players
“handling negative bleed differently” is the point
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…If I can trust the GM.
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Really don’t care.
Full-send, hard-in-the-paint effery across the boards.
Even if I don’t trust the GM.
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@Ashkuri Of course. This is why I always seek out friendships with your characters. A blight, to be sure.
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After reading more of this thread, I kind of want to find people to do a group application that I am referring to as “Project: Misery Boat”. The intent is to be the most unsuccessful, tragic group of PCs a game has ever seen. Horrible misfortune will hit them in every major scene they are in. Limbs lost, houses burnt, property stolen, loved ones annihilated by foul magic.Nothing is off limits for the Misery Boat.
Proud Member of the Pro-Mummy Alliance
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@MisterBoring Silent Heaven already exists
ETA: joke
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@MisterBoring Horror MU was like this when I played it, PCs will die or be maimed. Bad things will happen. Was quite a bit of fun.
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@KDraygo said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
@MisterBoring Horror MU was like this when I played it, PCs will die or be maimed. Bad things will happen. Was quite a bit of fun.
Same with TGG. It can be fun when people go in knowing what they’re signing up for.
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@howyadoin said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
@MisterBoring Silent Heaven already exists
ETA: joke
You joke, but Silent Heaven players will 100% sign up for all of that and have a great time. The first event I ran that was tagged “risk of character death” had 31 characters sign up for it. I’m impressed by their ability to find brief moments of IC fun, relief and happiness for their characters, even in the direst situations.
