@Rook said:
I never understood why a simple +IGNORE-like command made you unfindable to people whom you don't want stalking you. Maybe another level could hide you from simple WHO, +WHO, +WHERE, +HANGOUTS when they run them.
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Edited: Moooooooving this post to the right thread. People going and making new threads mumble mumble mumble.
I love rping bad relationships. That's way more fun that super-happy ones - but you're totally right. You don't necessarily have to say explicitly that's what is going to happen, but you have to have a pretty good idea you're in the IC relationship with a like minded individual, or at least someone who is cool with going with the flow.
I tend to avoid people who have strict IC expectations for how interactions will go, in general.
Eh. "Bad" relationships have a place, but so do "twisted" ones. The dynamic is not bad between the characters, but it is definitely not something an outsider would call white-picket-fences healthy. And yes, it takes a lot of conversation and comfort to launch into this, but with a stable RPer, they go great. Everything needs to be a negotiation, anyone that comes into the conversation with 'HAVE TO HAVE' types of attitude tend to be a hands-up, "Sure sure, thanks but no thanks" moments for me. It just signifies a closed mind.
More like fun stuff that I'm excited to do right: starting to plan out the multi-week plot you're closing your game with and getting to pull out ALL THE STOPS to make things ridiculous and awesome. I'm giddy.
@Roz said:
More like fun stuff that I'm excited to do right: starting to plan out the multi-week plot you're closing your game with and getting to pull out ALL THE STOPS to make things ridiculous and awesome. I'm giddy.
Just coming back here to say that you were right to include that plot in stuff done right.
Although this was written with authors in mind, I think we might be able to pick up a few things from it to improve our shitty poses. 
Or maybe not. Either way here it is, an article recommended by Brandon Sanderson.
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/08/26/i-smell-your-rookie-moves-new-writers/
It seems to cop a lot of flack, perhaps for things in the past, but I am finding Tenebrae really awesome. Very encouraging towards new players and getting them involved, some cool bonuses for getting on the grid and RPing (although it does suffer from people in the OOC room sitting and waiting on plot) and easy for players to run plots on. And despite some OOC room idiots who think they are cute, most people are kind and helpful.
So for whatever it is worth a thumbs up from me.
I keep thinking about Tenebrae every once in a while. I got a gigantic fantasy itch to scratch - it's closer to a rash by now.
I have had a lot of fun there, only issue is some OOC room idiots. But they are everywhere.
That and the inane bias against female characters. I literally had a description that only said "All her curves are covered with heavy studded leather armor." And they were like: NO! To Sexy! At which point I left since literally everything else was her facial features and her weapons. It was beyond draconian.
@Lithium Have not seen anything even approaching that. When did it happen?
Maybe a year and a half, two years ago around there tops. They had a thing against 'Sexy' characters because apparently someone in the past was a problem child with a sexy character so all sexy females are just banned.
I've literally never heard of a game that micromanaged descriptions like that unless they were truly absurd. Wow.
That turned me off a bit to this game again. Maybe it's for the best.
Edit: Were sexy males also banned? ("What do you mean your PC has biceps? You some sort of gigolo?")
Two staffers on AetherMux were almost draconian about it, but the rest of staff kept them down to simple administrative work.
A lot of my friends tried their follow up Aether game and their description requirements drove us all off before even trying.
This is a tangent, but I thought it was interesting,
Considering gender of players is about parity I would suggest there may be more to this story.
I may be beating a dying horse but there are so many things wrong with this kind of thinking.
Bah humbug.
Lets not forget the famous and wonderful chain mail bikinis.
@Usekh said:
Considering gender of players is about parity I would suggest there may be more to this story.
I don't know if it is still the case, but it was the case when I tried to play there. Believe it or not. I had a half-orc male battle cleric that I got to play in one adventure and it was fun enough that I brought a friend over and we were going to make a dark elf sorcerer and a half-elf druid. My druid literally had a 5 line description which was mostly face, because armor and I got told mentioning 'Curves' at all made a woman a sex object and they didn't allow those type of characters.
I have no idea if it is still an ongoing thing there, maybe they finally moved past it, I don't know but I have zero reason to lie. I wasn't there long enough to come up with any opinion but my own.
I remember Whirlpool I think it was, was trying to go to bat for me (or at least tried to be reasonable) and my friend but other staff just kept going on about it until I stopped logging in for good.
Um. But my character's desc mentions her being busty and having curves. No one ever got on me about anything beyond a honking typo I made. Granted, yes, I play a human monk but.
@Rook said:
I never understood why a simple +IGNORE-like command made you unfindable to people whom you don't want stalking you. Maybe another level could hide you from simple WHO, +WHO, +WHERE, +HANGOUTS when they run them.
<logs on an unknown alt>
<types "WHO", "WHERE", etc>
<profits>
