Running a PrP scene where everyone is awesome, and it goes on for six plus hours and it didn't even feel that long. Also the surprise about how the solved it all (even if I had vaguely thought it might go that way, I didn't expect it to) - so now there's even MORE story.
Oh gods, more story.
Logging in to discover a log of a scene I was not in, did not know was taking place, and had no influence on -- but it's a direct consequence of a plot I am running, and the player characters are totally into that plot, they picked up all my cues from previous scenes and are energetically comparing notes and coming up with solutions.
When something shitty happens on a game and you find out your friends are really your friends.
When you are stressed out and fucking grumpy and your friends still love you! (And also when you can slip back into RP with them comfortably no matter how much the brain weasels say you've been away too long!)
Being able to play my character's job.
I love playing my character's job.
Also, PrPs being tweaked to start early enough so I can join the WHOLE thing. I get that it's not going to be always possible and I'll NEVER ask for the accommodation. From my heart forever I'll appreciate the accommodation tonight.
(even if it means Norwood's skin comes off, it's fine.)
@silverfox said in MU Things I Love:
Being able to play my character's job.
I love playing my character's job.
Yeees. I'm having amazing amounts of fun lately, just playing bartender in training and doing weirdass tricks with bottles and maraschino cherries.
@silverfox I don't know your timezone, but I just wanted to put out there for other folks who are in less common timezones: personally I never mind - and in fact appreciate - getting the occasional nudged reminder that X plot hasn't had any action when my GMT folks can make it.
I try to remember, honest, it's just that there are a lot of moving pieces, and it's real easy for me to lose track of what's been run when. I usually think of it for the big all-hands stuff, but lose track of it in the smaller day to day things.
A polite request that some mayhem be scheduled earlier if at all possible is a totally thing welcome, for me.
I can't ALWAYS accommodate, but more often than not, it's an oversight that someone on the ST team can fix.
It is less my time zone and more the fact that I am clearly an old lady who can't function without a solid night's sleep.
I feel bad asking for accommodation when I am making the CHOICE to leave early.
@silverfox Don't think of that as a choice that you're making. You have a bedtime, which most working adults do, and that's when your availability falls into. Thinking of this as just a choice you're making implies that we shouldn't think of our sleep as part of our schedules when it comes to RP availability, which is a recipe for burnout.
ETA: And I say that as someone who had to seriously adjust her availability after starting a new job in the fall, and I very much understand the frustration of not being able to stay up late anymore for RP stuff. 
@silverfox said in MU Things I Love:
It is less my time zone and more the fact that I am clearly an old lady who can't function without a solid night's sleep.
I feel bad asking for accommodation when I am making the CHOICE to leave early.
I mean, same thing really, practically. I'd feel the same way about a player working shifts that adjust their sleep schedule. Or players that have kids they schedule around. I can't hit everyone every time, but I also want to do my best to involve people who want to be involved when I can.
@Roz said in MU Things I Love:
ETA: And I say that as someone who had to seriously adjust her availability after starting a new job in the fall, and I very much understand the frustration of not being able to stay up late anymore for RP stuff.
reaaaaaaach from the worst timezone
@Ifrit said in MU Things I Love:
reaaaaaaach from the worst timezone
CET says hi. Get up when everyone else goes to bed, go to bed when everyone else gets home from work. 
http://keys.aresmush.com -- Come to Chincoteague, we have ponies.
@L-B-Heuschkel said in MU Things I Love:
@Ifrit said in MU Things I Love:
reaaaaaaach from the worst timezone
CET says hi. Get up when everyone else goes to bed, go to bed when everyone else gets home from work.
Sing it! GMT also greets you from the passing in the night area of rp...
Sleep is not a choice!
I saw my alt's name mentioned in a scene today and I thought the 
was over but it's not. But that's kind of nice in a way. BITTERSWEET.
@thesuntsar said in MU Things I Love:
I saw my alt's name mentioned in a scene today and I thought the
It's lovely in that, it really feels like they were small parts of a bigger story, and that story's continuing. It's so rare to get this out of the hobby, because so many characters just kinda fade away or get cut off when the game they were on ceases to exist. I've only gotten real closure that feels like ending a chapter in a good book a few times, and I'm incredibly grateful for @Darinelle for giving me one of those that still reverberates now and again.
I'm grateful that right now while one of my alts is utterly stuck, the other has things to do.
It's not half-bad RPing with @Tinuviel again.
Y'know, he's tolerable some of the time after all.
When it all clicks and the writing is so good in a scene, it's literally breath-taking. And you sit and stare a while, between poses, after poses, spending long minutes weighing your response because it's all valuable, it means something to these characters, this story, connects it all into something greater. Like a chess match with feelings and prose. Just ... wow.
Yeah. That was awesome.
Running a PrP scene where everyone is awesome, and it goes on for six plus hours and it didn't even feel that long. Also the surprise about how the solved it all (even if I had vaguely thought it might go that way, I didn't expect it to) - so now there's even MORE story.
Oh gods, more story.
