(10-15-2015, 11:57 AM)Meishali Wrote: Keep in mind: I'm not talking about being romantically involved with/interested in people behind our pretendymenz, I'm talking about seeking OOC friendship and new plots with new folks with characters you find too interesting for your own good.
Tl;dr: cool people, and how to approach them
- Did you have any of these "roleplayer crushes"? y/n, is it just me, being a creepy nugget?
- How do you handle these? Do you just send an aggressive PM/tell with things like "you, me, RP, 8PM EST"?Â
- Stories to share? Bonus points for embarrassing things.
- Did senpai notice you, when you started emoting at them very very loudly?
- Just how excited do you get when plotting with these new people, and realize they love your ideas and bring even more material on the table?
- Did like, once, this person was actually pretty awful and you regretted everything? Happened to me more than I'd like to admit, BUT, I still keep on pushing.
Oh man. OH. MAN.
There are SO MANY PEOPLE I see around here or elsewhere (or have stalked their wiki pages) that I'd like to RP with, so you are not alone in your (potentially) creepy nugget-ness. I'm pretty bad myself at reaching out because usually I see these folks and the first thought I have is 'well they're over there with all their cool friends and contacts they probably don't want me noob'ing up the place'. But a few times it's worked out well so!
-The way I go about it is...I usually try to see what they have going on (some folks keep a 'currently' kind of thing on their wiki or hooks) and how it might mesh with one of my characters (yay alts!). I'm pretty notorious for running up or waving or generally being the big dork ingame sending a whisper that says "OMG I KNOW YOUR NAME FROM x-y-z place". Most of the time the response has been good and conversation has rolled on from there.
-While my PMs aren't that aggressive haha it's usually something like 'Hey, wanna go run this or RP or can I bounce a story idea/arc/whatever off of you?'
-Storytime! I actually got to RP with Delial after she saved my lame ass out in the Shroud. She healed me while I was on one of my alts then I saw her name again on the forums and was like OMG YOU. And then I proceeded to throw crazy RP stuff at her which ended up with her being dragged into a nice lil story arc of mine then an event of hers. It was great fun.
-I am usually super excited to share story stuff even if I'm not the 'main' character (which honestly I tend to prefer) focus or whatnot. I love playing sounding board to others because bouncing ideas around tends to bring more ideas and more excitement and it's one big loop of goodtimes more often than not.
-I can't say I've had any overly bad experiences in FFXIV regarding this but definitely in other games. I'm getting better about posting in 'making connections' threads for folks when I can now that a lot of leveling and other story stuff has calmed down. The downside is just, as has been mentioned, time and schedules and making things work that way. Speaking of, this thread reminds me of one I had been meaning to post in!
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Armand Tremaux - Justice, like lightning.
"We're all snowflakes in a great blizzard." - Virara 2017