Bad Stuff Happening IC
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@somasatori said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
No one wants your death pose to be delivered by someone who can’t put together a decent goddamn sentence
I feel attacked, having horri-bad pretendful words filling up my sentences with swollen, purple girthy prose. Luckily, I try not to kill people, instead trying to drag them to the
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@hellfrog said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:
Fuck them up, but don’t embarrass them. I’ll embarrass my character if I feel like it.
i am convinced that embarrassment is actually the number one thing MU players hate, way beyond any other bad stuff happening.
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if the embarrassment feels like the other player’s intentions were to embarrass me as well on like an OOC level, I am 100% with them. but one of my fondest memories of the hobby was having my character unexpectedly embarrassed in front of others in a way that revealed something to me about him and their character, that we kept playing into and had so much fun with later.
it absolutely comes back to trust, though. I knew that player was trying to make a compelling twist in the story, not be cruel or petty to me.
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Unexpected, unintended, unplanned embarrassment is generally why when I hold the idiot ball, I try to only hold it in front of people I trust, because otherwise someone’s gonna’ post a proclamation the next morning LORD EIRAN, LAYABOUT OF THE LAURENTS, SEEN BEING AN UNMARRIAGEABLE IDIOT.
But honestly, that’s rare! A lot of people are good sports.
Bad things happening, botched shit, generally A+, gimme. It’s just that social thing of oops my character looks like a fool even if he’s not actually supposed to be a fool about this.
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Unplanned embarassment is fine, I love botching rolls and coming up with BIG OH NO things that happen from them.
… But that’s still me having some kind of say in the failure, so circles back to the control of it all. Meep morp.
