I know Otto's mentioned that he wants something light and fun, but I'd like to suggest that you put some thought into making getting arrested a consequence of something you do in RP, rather than simply a scenario that you act out.
I've done both sorts of RP. I've done scenarios where it's all "Okay, now I'll get arrested and frog-marched to the gaols, where...", and scenarios where Sultansworn RPers (hi, Nat!) have spent a long time investigating actual RP crimes C'kayah has been involved in. I've got to say, the latter is by far much more fun than the former.
There are a couple of things you have to do to make this happen:
Think about giving this a try. It's crime RP from a bottoms-up perspective, as opposed to a top-down ("I have a plot, here's what's going to happen") one. You lose the coherent, integrated plot that you might have in a top-down RP, but you gain both an organicness to your RP as well as a fascinating intellectual exercise.
I've done both sorts of RP. I've done scenarios where it's all "Okay, now I'll get arrested and frog-marched to the gaols, where...", and scenarios where Sultansworn RPers (hi, Nat!) have spent a long time investigating actual RP crimes C'kayah has been involved in. I've got to say, the latter is by far much more fun than the former.
There are a couple of things you have to do to make this happen:
- You have to trust the cop RPers involved. Since this becomes a real game of cops-and-robbers, you both have to trust that IC information only will be used, and that it's properly scoped. By scoped, I mean both characters can only use information that's ICly available to them.
- You have to engage in actual crime RP.
- It has to be in public.
- You have to accept the fact that things you do while you're RPing as a matter of course can and will be used against you.
- And lastly, you have to be vulnerable at all times that you're IC. By vulnerable I mean you can say "Sorry, I'm OOC - in queue for Coil" when the cop character comes up to you, but you can't say "Sorry, I'm RPing but it's closed".
Think about giving this a try. It's crime RP from a bottoms-up perspective, as opposed to a top-down ("I have a plot, here's what's going to happen") one. You lose the coherent, integrated plot that you might have in a top-down RP, but you gain both an organicness to your RP as well as a fascinating intellectual exercise.
