Alright, my original post was more tongue-in-cheek, but seeing where this has gone since then I do have some more serious points to add!
Firstly, the idea that people are opposed to a bar brawl being immersion breaking is ridiculous. The Quick Sand is not a low-end dive bar, its a high end business and center of activity. The place is bustling busily, and serves a wide range of clientele from the lowly starting adventurer to the highest end of professionals in Ul'dah. Nothing in the entire setting appears cheap and inexpensive, Momodi takes her business seriously that much is obvious.
The last thing she would want is to have the business of the day interrupted by a brawl, broken glasses, drinks, bottles, and a wanton interruption of her steady gil-making activities. Adding to the confusion in the moment will come the tab for replacement of everything broken, for cleaning up the mess, and the added hassle when the Blades come by to find out what happened. This isn't a pirate or cowboy bar (where I am sure fights are still not desired, but just far more difficult to avoid without a legion of armed and armored guards in proximity), and if you think that's immersion breaking you're simply wrong.
From my own in-character perspective, who gets to clean up after the thugs when they're done? Who is at risk when the violence escalates? Yeah, my character! So, you can be sure that she does her best to prevent the outbreak of violence and often tries to intervene early to get those involved to step outside (then its the Brass Blades' problems, not her own). Some people really don't appreciate that, to the point of being jerks, but guess what, you're dealing with my immersion too!
Lastly from an OOC perspective I do not appreciate bar-fights because so often they result in wanton disregard for consequences and other people. I do realize that having a half dozen individuals interfere in your attempted RP is a huge annoyance, but for those of us that RP staff, regulars, and law-enforcement on the premises, we either expect to be respected when we become involved, or else we have to roll our eyes at an immersion breaking mess in the midst of the area that we have to ignore. There really is no good solution for this, and because of how crowded it is you're probably going to have some amount of trouble with it.
Now, it sounds to me like you have the right OOC mindset for it, and would play along reasonably! That means it could make for a fun scene that I'd enjoy OOCly! (even if Aya were quite very unhappy about it ICly!) If you really want to go through with it, I'd suggest sometime a little later in the evening (after 11 est) when the place is usually pretty quiet. Just be ready to pay the consequences including a hefty tab from Momodi for all damages (plus whatever suitable amount she thinks she can get away with extracting from your hide with the help of her bribed Brass Blade friends).Â
Lastly, to Askier:
The Quick Sand is as fun as you let it be. It is vastly better for a conversation or meeting than an action scene, but not all serious RP is action.
Firstly, the idea that people are opposed to a bar brawl being immersion breaking is ridiculous. The Quick Sand is not a low-end dive bar, its a high end business and center of activity. The place is bustling busily, and serves a wide range of clientele from the lowly starting adventurer to the highest end of professionals in Ul'dah. Nothing in the entire setting appears cheap and inexpensive, Momodi takes her business seriously that much is obvious.
The last thing she would want is to have the business of the day interrupted by a brawl, broken glasses, drinks, bottles, and a wanton interruption of her steady gil-making activities. Adding to the confusion in the moment will come the tab for replacement of everything broken, for cleaning up the mess, and the added hassle when the Blades come by to find out what happened. This isn't a pirate or cowboy bar (where I am sure fights are still not desired, but just far more difficult to avoid without a legion of armed and armored guards in proximity), and if you think that's immersion breaking you're simply wrong.
From my own in-character perspective, who gets to clean up after the thugs when they're done? Who is at risk when the violence escalates? Yeah, my character! So, you can be sure that she does her best to prevent the outbreak of violence and often tries to intervene early to get those involved to step outside (then its the Brass Blades' problems, not her own). Some people really don't appreciate that, to the point of being jerks, but guess what, you're dealing with my immersion too!
Lastly from an OOC perspective I do not appreciate bar-fights because so often they result in wanton disregard for consequences and other people. I do realize that having a half dozen individuals interfere in your attempted RP is a huge annoyance, but for those of us that RP staff, regulars, and law-enforcement on the premises, we either expect to be respected when we become involved, or else we have to roll our eyes at an immersion breaking mess in the midst of the area that we have to ignore. There really is no good solution for this, and because of how crowded it is you're probably going to have some amount of trouble with it.
Now, it sounds to me like you have the right OOC mindset for it, and would play along reasonably! That means it could make for a fun scene that I'd enjoy OOCly! (even if Aya were quite very unhappy about it ICly!) If you really want to go through with it, I'd suggest sometime a little later in the evening (after 11 est) when the place is usually pretty quiet. Just be ready to pay the consequences including a hefty tab from Momodi for all damages (plus whatever suitable amount she thinks she can get away with extracting from your hide with the help of her bribed Brass Blade friends).Â
Lastly, to Askier:
The Quick Sand is as fun as you let it be. It is vastly better for a conversation or meeting than an action scene, but not all serious RP is action.
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