I haven’t RP’d in awhile and I forgot all about the ‘there can be only one girl’ player. You know the one that will immediately perceive nearly all other female PCs as threats and ignore them when a male PC is present and otherwise be weirdly passive aggressive about everything because you might take their man.
Lady, I just want to kill zombies. You can have all the dicks. I don’t want them.
@Whisky said in MU Peeves Thread:
Woke up in the morning to find the password changed and my mostly-done character was now a roster character, mostly edited to suit what they wanted.
I would be super pissed if a PC I made (even if I didn’t finish it!) was made a roster without my consent or approval. That’s so rude.
There are things I really like about Ares, but if you’ve got ‘is everyone hanging out without me’ brain weasels it sure does love to show you scrolling pages of private scenes that say yes, yes they are.
I always thought of vignettes and journals/blue books and things like that less like solo RP and more like RP hooks–you’re putting it out there hoping someone reads it and is like gee this person sounds cool or hey I have information on that I could help them with.
So I guess it is kind of like throwing a (long) pose out into an empty room and hoping that someone sees it when they come in and wants to pose back.
You all know this is a troll, right? There are no minds to be changed here.
She’s the person I was complaining about who wanted all the dicks on the zombie game. It was so blatant and ridiculous that she’d go out of her way to exclude other female PCs on a summary writeup for a posted scene.
And like just to be clear the sexiest thing my PC did in that scene was lift up someone’s shirt to see if they were wounded there (they were)! So it’s not like I was romantic rivaling her or whatever.
@KarmaBum said in Neitherlands:
(to KarmaBum) Irene says, “I didn’t do submissive things about female PCs.”
Please tell me that’s not just a transcription typo because LOL.
@Serafine said in Neitherlands:
but given the hasty rush in and out of the hospital for (I forget exactly what, it’s still posted on the bboards) exhaustion/stress/burnout/whatever, which was then blamed on said player…
@Serafine you are the one that brought this up. All @Cobalt was asking was if this particular thing, which you said, was really true.
It’s okay to say “That was just what I thought” or “Sorry, I’m making shit up to keep the conversation going” or “lol i dont even Rp” if you don’t actually know that she blamed her hospitalization on @Jenn
I get that everyone is very excited to be able to AI generate Henry Cavill their favorite actor as their PC, but can we please keep everything safe for work on actual character pages? Generate all the naked/nearly naked pics you want sure, but please share them on Discord or something and don’t post them to your character page.
These are both from Tenebrae back in the day:
Being in a dungeon crawl scene and having the warrior PC have a breakdown IC and OOC because “no one is searching for traps!” He ragequit and the next thing posted was a pose with a character saying, “I found a trap!”
It’s been like twenty years and the players I keep in touch with from there still reference it to this day.
The other was when my head of the thieves guild was in a territory dispute with another thieves guild that was trying to take over at the same time as the city was being raided by an outside force. I had some bad rolls and got captured and the Bad Thieves insisted that she lead them to the secret thieves guild lair in the city.
She lead them to the headquarters of the people invading the city instead and they slaughtered each other. The GM didn’t realize what I was doing until the very last second and then was like “goddamn. That was a good plan.”
Then there was one on Devilshire that I REALLY wish I had a log of, where my character interacted with a character whose mind was broken and scattered in time and he did the entire scene BACKWARDS (like started with “See you later!” and ended with “Hello!”) and I still don’t know how it worked but it was amazing and hilarious.
That time Wren and I cornered the market on Arx to make a dress with 1000 lace to model. It was so stupid but so fun. Also breaking the modeling code early on by rolling a crit during an Assembly of Peers with every high ranking noble including the king in the room. That was great. Sabella and Nik making a sketchy plan with Alessandro and Margaret just in case both marriages were nixed by their families to ensure they could still be together. Luckily all families went for both matches, but it otherwise would have been hilarious!
Oh, and helping to blow up a werewolf on the Network. The whole Redemption run was some of the most fun I’ve ever had on a game and I regret to this day @Clarion and I were never able to finish our scenes!
I said Other – I don’t mind bad stuff happening if there’s good story/plot behind it. Not ‘I, as a GM, think maiming your female PC in some way is cool plot development for these male PCs’
That’s not fun. That’s I don’t want to RP that and I think about retiring my character time.
@Warma-Sheen said in Empire Discussion Thread:
I cancelled a bunch of others cause having a bunch of actions open that we’re being addressed was really making me feel a kind of way.
This is the key bit of that log for me. It seems like this person was already being kind of passive aggressive and establishing a bad behavior pattern over waiting five days for a response from the lone staff member running the game. And it sounds like the other characters hadn’t even weighed in on the action yet for the staff member to even respond.
I don’t think log/no log was the real issue here.
I think when doing something like this you also need to be very aware that “historical prejudices” are still very real today and that mushes are still overwhelmingly white. So while it might be fun for one person to play being racially discriminated against in the old south, there are a whole lot of people who deal with that every day and might be going online to escape from that and not want to see that in their fun-pretendy-time game. Especially since there are definitely players out there drooling to put that white hood on and let the things they don’t dare say in real life to a person out online.
Like a social contract is great, but also is going to probably ensure that your player base is mostly white.
@bear_necessities I loved when The Network did their cowboy thing. It was so much fun!
God this thread just reminds me how ancient most of us are.
My first time RPing was a total accident. I used to watch the Disney Afternoon and at the end of a Gargoyles episode they were like “Come join us to chat at #gargoyles on IRC!” and i was like what is that?
We had a brand new tiny computer at home and I figured out how to get in (with Homer!) and joined and…there was no one there. Eventually someone came in and said “Hey no one is ever in here. Come into this place instead.”
‘this place’ was a RP room. I want to say like Red Dragon Inn but I think that’s wrong and I ended up in Gryphontavern for years and @Herja and I have a shared Infamous History with a Certain Someone who is like a legend of powergaming in the early online RP world.
Then I drifted away and one day a friend from there sent me an email and said hey, I’m playing on something called a MUX, you should come play!
And I made a truly horrifying stereotyped Irish character (as we all have done at least once) on Project Infinity.
I am still friends with people I met there like, 30 years later. WE ARE OLD.
I missed all of WoD though. Just had no idea it existed and then it just…it just sounded bad, guys. You all tell so many horror stories constantly, so I don’t feel like I missed out!
I always thought of vignettes and journals/blue books and things like that less like solo RP and more like RP hooks–you’re putting it out there hoping someone reads it and is like gee this person sounds cool or hey I have information on that I could help them with.
So I guess it is kind of like throwing a (long) pose out into an empty room and hoping that someone sees it when they come in and wants to pose back.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner. He was 54 and unconfirmed reports saying accidental drowning while he was in Costa Rica on vacation 
Decades ago, Tenebrae put something in place where you would basically rate your plot before people signed up. I think it was like ‘Risk of Death’ ‘Risk of Maiming/Weapon Sundering’ and then just ‘No Risk.’
It worked for the most part. People who signed up for the risk of death scenes knew that it was possible their PCs could die and they were usually Big Plots where it was cool if they did. Did that stop some players from still being super mad about it when it happened? Nope. In a big Save the World scene I remember a staffer had a monster with an insta-death ray that would kill anyone with a bad fort save. So he made sure it targeted the PC in the scene with the best fort score and thus the best chance of nothing happening. Like I specifically remember the conversation on the staff channel where a bunch of us weighed in on who it should target because while it was high stakes we didn’t really want to kill anyone.
The PC then rolled a 1 and accused the staffer of doing it on purpose and declared the whole scene had been set up just so they would die and it was a whole thing.
@bear_necessities I always felt like there should be a way for players to indicate to staff if they wanted to be involved in things or not but I have no real ideas on how to implement it. Like you could do metaplot y/n because there’s always people who are dying to get in on things, then you have people that are just there to do social scenes and never want to know there’s a dark god hanging out at the bookstore, etc.
I am that person that loves to pull people into things, though. Did you take a point of map making on your sheet for a lark? Boom, now there is a plot where you have to read a MAP and SAVE THE DAY.
Though I can see how if you made your map making pc just to romance your friend the explorer, you might be annoyed if the Gnome King interrupts your date to make you go get a group together to save the Kingdom of Butterbright.