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Anyway I second what people said about 'app someone competent,' because you WILL find people generally more willing to reach out to someone who 'is useful' in whatever way ICly, even if OOCly they need a bit of a helping hand, than someone who wants to play 'It's my first night on the job and what's a Caine, anyway?'

I sort of did the latter with my most recent vampire PC as a change of pace for myself, but I had already meshed with a play group who knew I wasn't going to trample everything and claim ignorance as to what I was doing wrong, and who I could plan out an arc of development with so that Dumb Baby Sabbat eventually earned her spot as Dumb Templar Sabbat.

I also advise against making a ghoul (or kinfolk or etc.) to 'dip your toe in,' because while those roles do have less commitment, it's also a lot more likely you're going to be kept on the fringes of anything important, or at worst assumed to be a TSable blood-doll or something.

Basically just shoot for something solid and be up front with people that you're still figuring things out OOCly. Most folks will be much more willing to help out a Brujah enforcer who's already suffered a few dots of humanity loss in the name of getting the job done than they will be a week-one Malk who's still crying over having to drink blood, just because they can probably take that Brujah along on a quest, while the Malk would just come off as a liability, politically and otherwise.

@Ganymede said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

My PC on Arx is quite openly bisexual, and literally no one fucks with her shit.

And I’m happy with this so much.

Same.

Though, a woman Katarina was lovers with rostered, and someone new (AFAIK?) took the character. And they haven't logged in for a week so I've been in the limbo of "ha ha ha how are they going to react to this @mail of 'well, here's a summary of our past interaction.'"

ETA: I'm fine if they're like "oh, well, I don't really want to pick up that thread," because that's fair and no hard feelings, I just hope it doesn't make any weird drama or whatever.

@Jeshin said in Someplace to play?:

https://liberationmush.site/

Ground floor somewhere?

Not actually open yet.

ETA: I figure anyone who clicked the link has figured that out already, but still worth noting for the thread at large. Current status is 'still setting up code, making sure it's not broken, etc.' so it's not ready yet for dozens of people hopping aboard. Soon, though.

I don't have the exact words I used handy but it was something to the extent of: "They were very close to the point that she was Katarina's personal bodyguard for a while during a recent thing, and Katarina is one of the people with a copy of her will in case of horribleness. Also, they were lovers, but if you have no interest in that, it's all good, no worries." Just kinda ripped the Band-Aid off.

Eta: and honestly the main reason I mentioned it was because the relationship had come up in RP with other people and I figured better to hear 'oh these two had a thing' than to have someone go 'oh, but I thought you and Kat' or something in RP and then they have to figure out wtf people are talking about. I've had similar situations on both of my alts and hated that worse!

@thesuntsar said in [NSFW] Erotic RP Concepts:

I'm not falling for this. This is going to be another thread where @reversed almost convinces me they don't know what TS is.

This time I don't know what vore is, please explain.

Lately for me it's a matter of time, energy, and all the other things that are in frustratingly short supply between work, health, and other RL factors.

If Other Player X invites me to come along on the Island of Mysteriously Uncomfortable Chairs PRP, I'm likely to go. If Other Player X is holding an open-to-all Arbor Day Party, I might go if I feel up to it, but that's far less likely. In the former, there's an objective I can focus toward, and in the latter, if I don't have the energy or the focus coming from my own self, it's easy to just watch paragraph after paragraph whiz by on the screen and go 'okay.'

But that's just me and the situation I'm in lately. I can't speak for anyone else or their thoughts on why they're not going to Arbor Day parties.

@arkandel said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

@reversed said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

If someone's playing their character in a way that's antagonistic to the point of disrupting how a faction operates IC

The gray area here is in defining just what 'disruptive' means and just what is unwelcome.

It's the very essence of IC antagonism to be disruptive. By definition you are in the way of what someone wants. However not being able to get what they want is not necessarily a bad thing at all since in many ways that's exactly what makes it valuable in the first place. If your Elder is blocking me with her vote from achieving a rank I want that adds value to the rank which would otherwise be a nearly empty string set in my +sheet.

The other aspect here is players are quite notorious for not being able to tell the difference between not being immediately able to get what their characters want and being harassed or singled out in an unconstructive manner.

Right. I agree that it's a gray area, which is why every game that wants to include the possibility needs to nail down just what their game's shade of gray is, and proactively communicate that, not wait for people to cross invisible lines.

Started playing in it instead of learning to play the guitar or something.

More seriously, a few months of bad decisions cheered on by being much too online and abusing prescription drugs, that I still feel looming over me, years later.

I don't know if this is the funniest all-time, but recently someone on Arx wrote their character out of a scene so that they could GM combat for the others. At the end of the scene they said "welp, I should damage myself too, because of the way I wrote myself out," and then misjudged how strong @harm was and accidentally killed their own character.

I had to get up from the computer because I was laughing so hard it hurt.