Posts made by peasoupling

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

How long does a scene need to be before it gets to TS (feel free to include foreplay as part of TS)? What's ideal for you?

For example do most of your TS scenes get right to it once the scene begins? Are they the logical followup of a separate scene leading directly to it? Do you ever just start TS at the end of a completely chaste RP?

I've started scenes that were understood to be pretty much specifically for TS purposes, more or less, and then had hardly any sex happen because it gets too late on account of all the scene setting, so that's a thing. But typically they just happen at the end of romantic or flirty or just awkwardly sexually tense RP.

Sometimes the RP leading up to it is completely chaste, but there's always just some kind of IC segue that makes sense, it's not like <OOC> Okay now that we've wrapped up the minutes of the wizard gardening association, let's get boning.

Also bonus question! Do you ever pause in the middle of TS then pick it up at a later time?

Sometimes more than once. As in the same scene happens over three different sessions, at least. Usually when there's some kind of emotional or sexual development going on, I guess? Like, oh... let's not fade to black there, I want to see how they react to this.

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

@Pandora An NPC is a tool, just to run plot and move the game's story/ies forward. That's all they're for, and when they're used for anything else it comes across as playing favourites or playing them like a PC.

I don't know, sometimes NPCs can just be like long descriptive passages in books. Not really moving the plot along, but that's fine.

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

Okay, so while we're still on the topic of IC appearances in general (whether based on a specific PB or otherwise), if you're about to create new character(s) with another player - in other words they're kind of destined to be in a romantic/sexual relationship (*) - do you ask or provide input as to their looks?

(*) While we're at it, would you say you usually create characters more or less knowing in advance who their partner's player will be, or do you wing it once they hit the grid purely based on their RP?

I occasionally make characters more or less knowing in advance who their partner's player will be, and, not gonna lie, I have been talked into playing on games specifically for romantic RP with a particular person. It's usually not the focus of my RP even with those characters, but there's something to be said about having a tragic backstory over winging it on the grid. Long burn.

And in those cases, we do end up talking about character's looks. Usually I tend to be on the unhelpful side of "whatever is good, play what you like!" but I have vetoed at least one PB.

@Jeshin said in TS - Danger zone:

@peasoupling

What kind of PBs are bypass nopes, cliche ones like Jason Mamoa or porn star ones or what?

It's hard to say. In some cases it's like @Tinuviel says, and has to do with celebrities who have been rather terrible people of late. Sometimes it can also just be a character they've played that has skeeved me out forever which just means they were doing their job and are probably great people but nope. Often it's just... okay, brain!

The thing I've noticed with porn stars is the choice of pictures. When you pick a PB and slap some pictures onto a page, there's a whole range of pictures you can choose. It's not just about raw physical looks, I feel like it's also about style, and sometimes the choices just make no sense to me, unless I get the feeling it's a deliberate take on the character and not just "here are some hot pictures". If it makes sense for the character, then that's totally fine. But that's not about the PB, that's about the player.

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

Alright, I'll get this thread back to its disgusting track by asking all the wrong questions!

Does the played-by (either your character's or someone else's) matter to you when it comes to TS at all? Does it influence how you play your PC or which characters they pursue or uh, how?

Sure! I mean, a PB contributes a lot to how I imagine a character looks, and that will color my reaction and how I figure my character reacts to them to some extent. But my reaction and my character's reaction aren't necessarily the same, so it's not a linear thing.

But, on an OOC level, I think the biggest effect is a negative one. Some PBs are just nopes. Not even in a "I am not at all attracted to this character on an OOC level but my character might be." Some PBs just bypass that and go straight to nope.

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

@magee101 Or impossible. You can't clone yourself in real life as much, but Life is one flexible Arcanum.

Okay, now we get to the important questions.
Is boning your clone incest, or masturbation?

Incest. Unless you're going to somehow meld together the clones, complete with memories, after the deed, maybe?

@Jennkryst said in TS - Danger zone:

Sample: The dwarf before you should not be naked, nor should her pubic hair be that color. But she is. And it is.

If this is someone's description, I approve, but also, a more suspenseful version:

The dwarf behind you should not be naked, nor should her pubic hair be that color. But she is. And it is.

@Ghost said in TS - Danger zone:

I've wondered sometimes (and never asked, perhaps I should have) if the "you" was because they were knowingly trying to put me, the player, as the target of an action or if they were honestly trying to write scenes from a 2nd person perspective for the reader to absorb.

Three or four paragraphs of "She grabs her boob" get super confusing.

That is all.

That is the entirety of it.

Assuming two people of the same gender. And I don't even want to imagine what it would read like for two or more non-binary they/them partners.

I mean, it's doable, but.

PS: And by that, I mean, I think I'd need both hands, at least, to count the times I've had to interrupt a scene to ask: OOC Wait, whose boob? My charname's boob?

So far, I have Troll seamstress who actually sews! But... busy.

@bear_necessities Right! In an original setting, I really don't think it's as much of a factor. On Arx and elves, it's more that I don't think people expect xenomorphs to be playable in a game set in the Alien universe.

I can see that humans-only cutting 50% of the possible players but only in a setting that typically has non-humans as expected playable characters, maybe? Like, if you make a game in a setting with dwarves but I can't play a dwarf, you can go to hell and take your game with you, which I feel is a perfectly reasonable reaction.

It's kind of like TS, really. It helps if you can keep track of where your body parts are at any given time, but the nitty gritty of what your pronated hands are doing is not as interesting as what it reveals about your character and how your character reacts to things. Sometimes details matter and are fun to pose out, often it's more a matter of describing your character's mood and overall f*****ng style.

In a forgotten corner of a Lords and Ladies game grid, a village where we can play: Peasants and Peasants. I would play a peasant. We could have peasant adventures, like the case of the missing cow, and dynastic politics involving rival peasant families feuding over someone moving some land markers around three generations ago!

@Ghost said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

@mietze Yes, because it was in reference to your post/concept.

It really reads like you were replying to an argument @mietze didn't make. The actual argument was in the rest of the sentence that you left out of the initial quote. It feels like you just read the start of the post and replied to that, ignoring the rest.

@Waller said in MU*, Youth, and LGBT+ Identity:

As the kids say, it me.

I played a character one time with the shtick of "law professor woman who wears men's suits 24/7." The Played By was an actress who is known for her forays into men's clothing. In retrospect, this is pretty cringy, so yeah. I'm very sorry about possibly harming LGBTQIA people thinking I was being oh so clever...when I wasn't being clever at all.

I mean, the character might be terribly cringy for other reasons, but not because she wore men's suits 24/7. Okay, the 24/7 might be, but who even writes a "business description" and a "going to Walmart at 2am description" anyway?

I mean, "law professor who wears men's suits 24/7" probably doesn't shop at Walmart but maybe it's a zombie apocalypse, I don't know.

On the one hand, this sounds like it could be really neat.

On the other hand, I'd feel a terrible pressure to try to be funny, and that can't possibly end well!

@krmbm said in Cyberrun:

@Admiral said in Cyberrun:

@Groth Am I correct in my assertion that the game is sex-based? Because the game seems sex-based.

Gonna have to go with a yes on the sex-based.

Nia, a dark-eyed gal with biosculpted curves (A-)
Willow, a curvy, tattooed honeyed teenage beauty (A-)

Those... really could be shortdescs from just about any game ever.

I enjoy mysteries, but it can be kind of an obstacle when I realize everyone apparently has known about this thing I thought was neat for ages, and now it really feels kind of late to get involved. Not only are things passing me by, I won't even know it until after the fact.

And, honestly, you can play on a game where everyone shares everything and just... not spoil yourself? It's not foolproof, but then, on games with mysteries what happens is that someone ends up spoiling me on things OOCly anyway.

A lot of Great Literary Classics are basically fanfiction. I mean, the Divine Comedy is self-insert fanfic, of all things.

That said, I sometimes enjoy other people's weird alternate universe takes on things, but I don't really tend to make up my own.

That said, a lot of MU*s are coffeeshop AUs anyway.