@Pavel Ahh, but ideas come easier when you know who wants to be involved. ‘Who wants to have a scene at X’ might make people who don’t want to go to X just never say anything.
I don’t put the onus on others – I just wait and see who I’m working with before figuring out what to do.
The Livia List, beacuse I’m back!
Current:
Kate, Prism - City of Glass
Past:
Elise - The Network
Nettie Harcourt - Blood and Gold
Katherine - LAMush 2043
Faith & Silvia - City of Shadows.
Jehanne Mercier - Fear and Loathing
Lisa, Katherine - Reno
The Penitent (Penny) - HorrorMu v1
Judy - NOLA
Katherine - Fallcoast (barely played)
One of the Victoria Roths: The Reach
Evelyn/Zelda/Jutte/Maria/Others - Haunted Memories
Andriax - Dragonlance: Age of Mortals.
Kaylana - Dragonlance Mu*
Namira & Isadia - Ashirion: The Broken Sphere
@Snackness said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Pax Same. I’ve been in a nice juicy ‘I must really suck for some reason, no one wants to play with me’ spiral for a couple of years now going on that logic.
I get stuck in this kinda feeling regularly too. I try to remember that a lot of people probably do, and just try to ask but it’s hard – sometimes I personally get really nervous about paging people, get stuck with thoughts of ‘well if they wanted to talk to me/rp with me they’d reach out and do it so I shouldn’t bother them’ etc etc.
I’ve been trying to remind myself lately that I generally like it when people do randomly page me to chat, ask for rp, etc, so most people probably like it when I reach out to them too. I hope. And even if they say no, they can’t right now, whatever, it doesn’t actually matter that much. And maybe they feel better for being reached out to.
idk, this was meant to be me just typing ‘same’ but then I didn’t stop.
@Jennkryst said in MU* Wishlists:
And yeah, wanting to keep sheets secret from people you are at war with for whatever reason is like. Appropriate.
Meh. Do it anyway, show people everything. Any IC conflict I’ve had with other PCs has always been way better when there’s OOC comradery and communication backing it up. I have no interest in OOC antagonism with the actual player.
I don’t have an issue with people buying a lot of things at once, though I can agree with not really wanting people to do it in the middle of a scene.
I hang out in OOC rooms a lot because I just like chatting to people. It helps me feel some sense of community on the game, and I enjoy that? But yeah, sometimes they get weird.
I’d like a CoD game to stick around. They seem to be pretty rare these days, especially in the traditional default urban setting.
I like the idea of rebranding to CvC but it’ll never take – though I have seen PvP that really is about just beating the other player. OOC lies to convince a player to join a scene in a specific way ‘I’ll help you evade the authorities!’ only the then ICly set them up to get got.
I’ve had the ‘Hey I’d like to scene with you’ chat with someone I didn’t ICly get along with, get warned ‘Depending on how this goes, this could turn to violence’ and then when I agreed, extra people suddenly show up to help the other player out. Violence was a 100% guarantee, not a maybe, and it ended with my character dead and over out of seemingly nowhere.
That said, I really do enjoy going against other players sometimes, but like most forms of RP, it’s always been at its best when it really is a collaborative effort like other forms of RP. Discussions with the other parties, talking about what could or shouldn’t be attempted – sometimes you do want to surprise people so you might not mention everything, but sometimes with some chatter people will happily engage.
I don’t mind serious or permanent injury being done to my characters in the course of it either. Back in the days of Haunted Memories I had a mortal+ character built as a sort of ‘Hunter’ archetype, and one of my good friends needed to go away for a bit and volunteered to have his vamp be torpored by her to explain his absence. It drove so much RP as people looked for him and looked for her, and she ended up getting got but I had so much fun.
But I generally wouldn’t engage in serious PvP shenanigans with pure strangers anymore either. Some OOC communication beforehand needs to be done.
@Pavel Ahh, but ideas come easier when you know who wants to be involved. ‘Who wants to have a scene at X’ might make people who don’t want to go to X just never say anything.
I don’t put the onus on others – I just wait and see who I’m working with before figuring out what to do.
Yeah I’m not sure, and as with most things one persons forever is someone elses ‘oh man I didn’t get enough time to touch base with everyone I wanted to!’
I feel like we got 2 weeks on HorrorMu? Mostly? I admit it’s been a minute and I can’t remember, but it seemed about that. Network I never really played through a hiatus as I have kept on drifting away from the game unfortunately.
I recall from conversations with The Director on early days of HorrorMu* that the plan originally was to just tell short horror stories. Then everyone makes a new character for the next one, with no real connection between them at all.
But she figured people would like some sort of consistent flowthrough of the story from one to the next, so that’s how the whole facility and the ‘archetype characters’ like The Penitent and The Bravo and so forth were created.
I think I agree with Roz, the downtime between the episodes, and to explore having memories of being different people, personally I found that fun.
@Tez Hee.
All the CoD stuff have spaces for creepy folks to hide behind ‘I’m just acting IC!’ unfortunately. I’m sure a lot of game systems might. I don’t think I saw it in Mage more than anywhere else, but it’s been ages since Mage was allowed in a lot of these games.
@RedJellyBean I think you’re thinking of Jeurg (Juerg? I can’t remember the spelling) from Haunted Memories who I think got a reputation for that kinda weirdness. No idea if it’s the same player though.
Mastigos and Mind Magic seems to be one of the common IC creeper covers. They’re meant to be confrontational and do awful things to make you think! Which can be a fine concept if handled properly oocly but I feel like a lot of weird folk have hidden behind it over the years.
@Pavel Prism ponders Percy’s pernicious Prism prison prism.
I like the idea of rebranding to CvC but it’ll never take – though I have seen PvP that really is about just beating the other player. OOC lies to convince a player to join a scene in a specific way ‘I’ll help you evade the authorities!’ only the then ICly set them up to get got.
I’ve had the ‘Hey I’d like to scene with you’ chat with someone I didn’t ICly get along with, get warned ‘Depending on how this goes, this could turn to violence’ and then when I agreed, extra people suddenly show up to help the other player out. Violence was a 100% guarantee, not a maybe, and it ended with my character dead and over out of seemingly nowhere.
That said, I really do enjoy going against other players sometimes, but like most forms of RP, it’s always been at its best when it really is a collaborative effort like other forms of RP. Discussions with the other parties, talking about what could or shouldn’t be attempted – sometimes you do want to surprise people so you might not mention everything, but sometimes with some chatter people will happily engage.
I don’t mind serious or permanent injury being done to my characters in the course of it either. Back in the days of Haunted Memories I had a mortal+ character built as a sort of ‘Hunter’ archetype, and one of my good friends needed to go away for a bit and volunteered to have his vamp be torpored by her to explain his absence. It drove so much RP as people looked for him and looked for her, and she ended up getting got but I had so much fun.
But I generally wouldn’t engage in serious PvP shenanigans with pure strangers anymore either. Some OOC communication beforehand needs to be done.
@Testament Yeah, I am with you on this one. I used to RP smoking all the time as a former smoker. Now I find that RPing smoking is one of the few things that gives me big cravings again so I just stopped, but I kinda miss RPing about it, weirdly.
@Cobalt said in Livia List.:
What was LAmush 2043???
It was the Bladerunner game! I only did like 2-3 scenes there, I joined too late and it was already pretty ghost town.
