What's That Game's About?

[Coin]

@Thenomain

I ran a neat plot with a Fetch-Child and a Fetch-Spawn on The Reach. >.>

[ThatOneDude]

@Coin Can you run something for cross sphere? That way I can jump in with any of my PCs? >.>

I honestly, honestly had the most fun on The Reach in cross sphere events. Some were the old crazy EoW ones, but others were just ones that the ST opened to everyone. Cool RP came out after the fact along with some stupid RP, but, it was RP

[Coin]

@ThatOneDude

Most of the things I plan on running for Eldritch will be cross-sphere friendly. But anything I run not on Eldritch will probably be just for my friends, etc., just on the main principle that I only have so much creative energy, and if I'm going to run anything outside of my game, I really need to want to do it.

[ThatOneDude]

@Coin We're not friends?! q.q

[Arkandel]

@ThatOneDude said:

@Coin We're not friends?! q.q

@Coin has no friends. Was that a trick question?

[Coin]

Trufax.

[Ganymede]

@ThatOneDude

I can run shit for you on The Reach, if you'd like. I'm there as Clarice or Lindsey.

If you want to RP with me as either alt, that's fine. Be advised that Clarice is a tight-lipped Winter Court Mouse, and Lindsey is a motor-mouth Ithaeur Bone Shadow. Both aren't really going to talk about who they truly are, but I've had some fun pretend-times with both.

I'm considering a vampire again. The concept's not pulling together, though, which is a sign I should heed.

[Miss Demeanor]

Vampire is fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun right now. A bit on the slow side, but we're making our own fun.

[ThatOneDude]

@Ganymede OK! Its on... as for @Coin ... Dude is DEAD TO ME! DEAD!

We can pull in @Miss-Demeanor, @Luna and @icanbeyourmuse along with whoever and make shit happen.

[Miss Demeanor]

@ThatOneDude Hope you're still talking about TR... that's the only place I've got a vampire. Never picked up B&S.

[Luna]

There's fun in vampire? No one invited me to the fun.

[ThatOneDude]

@Luna Maaaaaaaaaaggggeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[silentsophia]

Yeah, cuz everyone knows vampires suck.

[Ganymede]

@ThatOneDude

Cool with me. I resurrected my vampire -- Ripley. I need to go through the respec, but I'm still up for running scenes. Page me when I'm on; I'm most consistently on during weekdays, EST, business hours.

[Arkandel]

Here's a question - theme and plot. How much (any? all?) is it appropriate for people to ignore? What about somewhat wide-affecting stories? And how far can others go with ignoring it?

So for instance someone else runs a plot - let's say it involves a sniper. There's a sniper out putting slugs through people's skulls, there's paranoia, a media frenzy, people are afraid to go out etc.

So first off - if for any reason I don't want to be involved in it is it acceptable to pretend it's not happening for me? Just ... not incorporate it in my RP, not refer to it in IC conversation, just basically pretend it's not there as far as I'm concerned?

Now, let's say I take it one step further. I run my own plot which probably wouldn't happen at the same time, such as a festival scene where I pose hundreds of people walking around carefree, not one worry in their heads about their skulls exploding. Is that acceptable?

In other words, where are the lines of sandboxed freedom drawn?

[Pyrephox]

@Arkandel Although my preference would be not to avoid any part of the plot that's currently happening, I'd say that the former reaction has more RL precedent than the latter. Whatever disaster happens, there are always people who just don't worry about it much because it hasn't (yet) directly affected them, and it's part of an OOC consideration of "games should be fun for the people playing them" that allows a player to gloss over - to some extent - things which are Not Fun for them. The idea of a big, public event in direct contradiction of things that are going on is less, to me, appropriate, since it creates confusion in the greater setting about what's going on, and that can make it a lot less fun for numerous other players.

[ThatOneDude]

@Pyrephox Agreed.

The only exception to me would be something more than a PRP. Something like a game changing/and game wide event and meta story changing situation or whatever.

[Arkandel]

@Pyrephox Do you think though that the "I" in this case would be justified in claiming the first player crossed a line first when he attempted to change theme through their plot?

Also does it matter (or how much does it matter) if that player is staff or a player with a staff-approved plot? I'm excluding the possibility it's just a ST who decided to run major things without asking first, since that's generally frowned upon.

[Coin]

This is why I like +events for large stuff (like the example festival scene).

If the Sniper plot is already happening, it necessarily informs the Festival plot. It's at this point that the Festival plot should take the Sniper plot into account. It would be best (IMO, as with all things) if the Sniper plot affected the Festival plot. It's easy:

1. Decide if the Sniper threat is enough for the city or festival organizers to call it off. Get staff opinion, but don't necessarily delay everything because staff dwaddled.

2. Decide if it's enough for the PEOPLE to not go. Get staff opinion, but don't necessarily delay everything because staff dwaddled.

3. Grab the Sniper plot's ST, ask them if their plot makes sense for the sniper to target someone at the festival.

4. Run the festival as you envisioned it!

5. Insert Sniper attack when it seems appropriate, or if you don't want to disturb the body of the scene, tack it on at the end. Shots fired! Police sirens in the distance! Annnnnd curtain.

The way our comunity and communication works isn't ideal for this. But if you do it, it creates a sense of cooperation between the storytellers that genuinely helps players believe that the world they're playing in is interconnected, which, to me, is invaluable.

[Arkandel]

So would it be fair to say in general terms it's acceptable to ignore plot you don't like (but others aren't obligated to accommodate you, such as for example if you ask that they don't mention snipers in your presence), but you're strongly urged to communicate with others if you'd run plots which might (or should) interfere with their existent ones?

Also should or should it not matter if either person is staff? For instance if I'm staff running the festival, do I get precedence over a player-ran sniper plot?