Wow.
Uh...
Well, after reading that thread, I realize that the person the player is talking about (in the second post onward, who called her character crazy) is, well, me.
The gist of it is that I was sitting at an empty table in the Quicksand, not much RP going on, when this person approached me and started doing waitress RP at me. Completely fine, nothing wrong with waitress RP, so Oskwell orders a few drinks and it's all fine, but I notice that each time she leaves a table, she goes and emotes talking to various NPCs, but not actually emoting what they say to her (so it just looks like a one-sided conversation.) A kinda-strange way to approach roleplaying with NPCs, but I don't take it OOC, of course. This is where it gets weird, though.
I don't know where this person got the idea I was OOCly or ICly questioning why they played a waitress, Oskwell hadn't said anything to her (before the Echo stuff, I'll explain that further in the post) other than idle small-talk and food/drink orders.
The bolded part here is what I take issue with. Oskwell pretty clearly was watching her serve the tables, and saw her whisper to the man in the turban each time she left his, it was a purely IC thing, and in fact I was trying to give this person some support by maybe acknowledging their constant emoting at various NPCs in the room as well. Though the person at least is being truthful about what happened IC. After Oskwell confronts the waitress for behavior he feels is pretty shady, she claims that he possesses the Echo. Oskwell tries to explain to her that he looked right at her while she was whispering to the NPC, but she insists that he's got the Echo, so Oskwell decides it's a good time to bail and offhandedly mutters something about crazy Quicksand people on his way out.
This is the part of their rant I just can't wrap my head around. Does this person not realize that OOC and IC are different things? Their logic for why Oskwell thought their character was crazy I just don't understand, how's it lazy? How's it cheap? Did this person think I was insulting their roleplay when my character called theirs crazy? Really, this whole rant strikes me as this person not being able to distinguish between IC and OOC, which I can at least partially forgive because they seem new to roleplay, I guess.
Uh...
Well, after reading that thread, I realize that the person the player is talking about (in the second post onward, who called her character crazy) is, well, me.
The gist of it is that I was sitting at an empty table in the Quicksand, not much RP going on, when this person approached me and started doing waitress RP at me. Completely fine, nothing wrong with waitress RP, so Oskwell orders a few drinks and it's all fine, but I notice that each time she leaves a table, she goes and emotes talking to various NPCs, but not actually emoting what they say to her (so it just looks like a one-sided conversation.) A kinda-strange way to approach roleplaying with NPCs, but I don't take it OOC, of course. This is where it gets weird, though.
Quote:The other piece of rudeness pertains to a patron who I had taken an order of drinks from and served. Now this guy just wanted to know what was I getting from playing the waitress at the Quicksand, interacting with non-playing characters and just adding to the fantasy of the place. Well, to answer him here, I do not get anything other than feeling like I'm making the piece of fantasy more believable to others. So when this "patron" calls my waitress over to the table to place a food order and adds, in character, "I'm just trying to find out what your angle is here and why you are speaking to the gentleman with the turban over there." (Why are you adding to the fantasy of my game, godsdammit?),
I don't know where this person got the idea I was OOCly or ICly questioning why they played a waitress, Oskwell hadn't said anything to her (before the Echo stuff, I'll explain that further in the post) other than idle small-talk and food/drink orders.
Quote:Well, my character was reporting to the man on the turban (an NPC) about the comings and goings of this patron at the Quicksand to further the fantasy that this waitress was an undercover member of some secret organization somewhat associated with the Scions and/or their enemies. She seems shocked when confronted (shouldn't have happened as she had been WHISPERING to the man in the turban out of earshot), but blames it on the power of The Echo which the annoyed patron seems to possess granting him the ability to learn secrets. At this point, the patron behaves as though my waitress character is crazy and that he doesn't know what 'The Echo' is.
The bolded part here is what I take issue with. Oskwell pretty clearly was watching her serve the tables, and saw her whisper to the man in the turban each time she left his, it was a purely IC thing, and in fact I was trying to give this person some support by maybe acknowledging their constant emoting at various NPCs in the room as well. Though the person at least is being truthful about what happened IC. After Oskwell confronts the waitress for behavior he feels is pretty shady, she claims that he possesses the Echo. Oskwell tries to explain to her that he looked right at her while she was whispering to the NPC, but she insists that he's got the Echo, so Oskwell decides it's a good time to bail and offhandedly mutters something about crazy Quicksand people on his way out.
Quote:Just seems like calling people 'crazy' in roleplay is one of the cheapest, laziest ways to roleplay. Why, I could have called the patron 'crazy' for thinking I spoke with the man with the turban (eventhough I plainly did). We can all call each other 'crazy' for roleplaying in the first place, right? But just because you don't understand that there are selfless people out there who will roleplay a lowly character doing menial things such as wiping tables just to add fantasy to your world doesn't mean you should go there and call them 'crazy' because you simply can't wrap your head around such selflessness...
This is the part of their rant I just can't wrap my head around. Does this person not realize that OOC and IC are different things? Their logic for why Oskwell thought their character was crazy I just don't understand, how's it lazy? How's it cheap? Did this person think I was insulting their roleplay when my character called theirs crazy? Really, this whole rant strikes me as this person not being able to distinguish between IC and OOC, which I can at least partially forgive because they seem new to roleplay, I guess.
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