The Apology Thread

Arkandel

Unless you are already part of that sphere, never deal with (WoD/CofD) Mages.

Ever.

For anything.

I think I've mentioned this before but on HM I was running a Vampire plot which involved a dead body found in the sewers, so I posted on a public board about that part. A Mage approached me (in retrospect it was Juerg but the name meant nothing to me at the time) and asked to join.

Without even knowing who it was when I mentioned the possibility to the Vampire players (expecting they'd just shrug and not care) they rejected the idea violently, and said they'd rather be out of the story than play with Mages.

It still seems like an overreaction to me.

Tinuviel

@Arkandel Not really an overreaction in my experience - not with Juerg, but with Mage interactions in general. A Mage (when played by someone with piss-poor social skills at least) can and will do all of the things.

Oh, you want to investigate the dead body? Well I just asked the local spirits what happened, examined the body using fifteen flavours of special sight, and then reanimated the corpse for personal reasons. Y'all can just not come, it's already done.

hedgehog

@Tinuviel

Oh, I see you've met Gwydion at CoH.

Tinuviel

@hedgehog No, but I've met plenty of Mages.

kitteh

This is my general experience with the sphere on multisphere games, yep. I think it's basically the one game that should be put in a ghetto and never allowed to play with others.

The others may have disparate power levels and create various kinds of twinkery, but Mages are gods in a game of mortals. It's an interesting theme on its own, but in mixed play its not fun for anyone but them.

Thenomain

@Tinuviel said in The Apology Thread:

Is this a totally mage-centric issue, or more an issue regarding the instant escalation of any conflict to murder-death-kill?

I believe that it's an issue of people using the game to its best statistical advantage. After all, that's what you do in games, right? But you got it right; nobody wants to play with a Sherlock Holmes in the middle of their CSI.

Warma Sheen

Since this is an apology thread...

I'm sorry that all spheres aren't power balanced equally. And I'm sorry some people have the expectation that it should be, despite numerous editions of the same game lines where they absolutely, and continuously, do not try to balance one sphere's powers against all the other spheres' powers.

And I'm sorry that despite plenty of people jumping in on multisphere games to be mages where they can lord their infiinite might over others, that people find them rather boring when they are placed in a game all on their own.

Oh god! I'm so sorry! -sobs -

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I'm sorry that people don't like me.

Not for my sake. I'm sorry for their sake. Because I'm awesome.

Arkandel

I'm sorry this thread went from heartfelt apologies to sarcastic 'sorries'.

We have too many of the latter and too few of the former as it is.

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I'm sorry for contributing to the derailing of the apology thread.

Auspice

This one isn't sarcastic:

I want to apologize for the times my social anxiety has snapped before I've managed to notice. When I notice, I get up and walk away. Sometimes it occurs too quick and hard for me to realize before I've opened my (proverbial) mouth and put my foot in it.

I do try to come back and talk it out once I can breath again, but it can be difficult depending on the particular personality clash. So for those who have gotten hit by the sudden panic button, I am sorry. The meds and therapy have helped immensely and the early warning system is greatly improved nowadays. I've seen improvement and I hope you have, too, but for those blindsided in the past, I do apologize.

Lithium

I want to apologize for vaporware games. I really hoped I could get some of them coded up and finished, and sometimes I did finish the code, but, I couldn't find the support in order to actually /run/ the game and had no desire to try and be the solo staff of the game.

I know there was some interest in a few of my projects, but work has really eaten me lately (I am gone from my house for at least 11 hours a day these days) which leaves me little time to do much of anything, let alone try to run a game.

Maybe when I retire in 13+ years or so... if the hobby is still a thing...

But I really am sorry.

shangexile

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Sfire

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Ghost

@Spitfire Closure is good stuff. Good on you.

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Alamias

@Spitfire Hey there. Cairo/Spencer from TR. We always wondered what happened to you. Sorry life got in the way.

The Pure thing ended up being a blessing in disguise for me since I was at the time a ghost that was headed Pure way, but it was easy enough to turn around...and that lead to a bunch of really good RP (and even some friends that I still talk to even though we don't game together anymore). So, while it might not have been the best thing or the best way to go about doing it, it wasn't ALL bad.

Just wanted to let you know that some good did come out of it, so don't hate on yourself to much.

Ghost

This is totally what I hoped to see when I started this thread.

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Arkandel

I'll do mine.

I'm sorry for flaking out on games for the last... I want to say year and a half. I mean to play regularly and while I'm in CGen I actually get excited about giving this a shot but then I often find myself taking the path of least resistance.

Sure, I can sit in yet another office chair like I've been doing all day at work... or I can go watch TV or play a video game on my recliner which requires less effort. I very often lose enough of those battles that I can't build RP momentum and the character fades into the sunset.

I know I pulled some of you into RP that I then dropped so I apologize for that.

Alamias

@Arkandel said in The Apology Thread:

Sure, I can sit in yet another office chair like I've been doing all day at work... or I can go watch TV or play a video game on my recliner which requires less effort.

This. I try to use my laptop on said recliner, but my net has been shoddy as of late so I have been playing more things that don't require me to re-login every few minutes.

Macha

I just want to apologize to everyone I was playing with, or venting to, this time last year. I know I was a super hot mess - Dad was in and out of the hospital and swiftly declining, and I was getting my own pretty dim diagnosis. I was super emotional, and most of it dark. So if I flaked on the RP, if I was harsh with you and lashing out because I was drowning - I am truly sorry.