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@Pyrephox

Thanks, appreciate that, KK here.

the guy I am thinking about has all those tells and then some, but not comfortable going into it. But I appreciate hearing the tells if anything to help me process wtf happened.

Not ready to tell my story, but pretty convinced I was dealing with him. Probably will never be ready to tell it.

But one thing I do want to say is that I find Ruiz player’s portrayal of Native American men to be racist.

It doesn’t seem that way at first, because he is a good writer and does a lot of research on the tribes he is presenting.

So it is not in your face racist.

Anyways the reason I find it racist is that he portrays Native American men as mysterious, dangerous, alien, beastial, /other/, not fully human, as abusive to their lovers, angry and etc.

It is subtly the negative stereotype of the dangerous savage man who will rip your hamstrings and I find it a racist portrayal. It is a little covered by him mostly playing predator shifters of some kind where being beastial and dangerous make sense, but he generally steps up a bit beyond what the source material demands.

If its the same guy or if its not the same guy, either way I find it it racist be it one or two players doing that.

He also goes in for the emotionally distant which is part of the steroetype too.

It is pretty subtle and it comes out more with time and it s partly hidden because he is extremely private about what is playing. So people not in private scenes with him, it might be less apparent.

@Duke-Whisky

I appreciate you making the game, putting in the work and running it. It is always a lot harder to run a game and staff on a game, than to arm chair judge how it is going. I say this as a person who has never staffed and never plans to staff.

If we didn’t have players out there who were willing to run to games and put in in the work, we wouldn’t have games at all.

Sadly there is a lot personal problems on mushes. And is not only male presenting players who are creepers and female presenting players who get hassled.

A female presenting player pushing for hooks up from most male presenting characters is far from uncommon in mushing. I have def seen it.

Your game wasn’t really for me for various reasons - but I still appreciate that you spent your time, energy and creative efforts in making a world for other people to enjoy.

I hope continue with world building and game running, but I very much understand if you do not. It is personal choice if one wants to devote that kind of time into entertaining others.

The world building is the fun, creative and low drama part. It is us mushers who are arrive with all our problems that create the problems.

We could also stand to understand how hard staff works to build worlds and be as excellent as possible while on games.

Was told that Addison on Liberation is Ruiz. It may or may not be true. His character type, ooc behavior and writing style do align with Ruiz though.

I just deleted cause I rambled a lot about too many princesses, but I like the game runner and realize that the game runner and the staff worked hard on the game and just because I don’t like that style of game, doesn’t mean its not a good game!

But sum up what I in the post I deleted, to many princesses is pretty much why I didn’t play.

But the staff and players were great.