(07-21-2015, 10:38 AM)War Siren Wrote: snip
This is a pretty common problem in large-scale RP communities. Â One server like Balmung has -thousands- of players who could have similar ties.
Which means if each and every one of them Has the Echo, Helped the Warrior of Light, and has been key in the entirety of the history of the MSQ centric events, you have a massive ball of people who should know eachother, should have worked together, but have never met, have never interacted on any level, all in this circle of "Me too!"
Sure, logically, you could be that One, or that one of some, but it's not feasible to have thousands all calling claim to the 'special' as it were. Â Which isn't to say you can't, but it will clash with what has become kind of the defacto solution, which is to play a normal-ish person who isn't involved in the MSQ but still adventures and has things Happen to Them inside the setting.
Sure, they might have seen or even been there when Titan hit limsa, or been part of the military in Ala Mihgo when the Rhalgar monks were slaughtered, but they weren't the general of the Mihgan army under the king of ruin and they didn't personally slay titan. Â You're part of history but you're not the keystone holding it together.
Which means that most people subscribing to this method, and there's a lot (me included) have never heard of an echo, don't know about black mages or white mages beyond "Long ago mages blew shit up and it was bad", can't summon Primals, or plenty of other things the WoL and Friends will find out during their "I find out everything" adventure of FF.Â
People in this kind of focused char generation often view being MSQ active as being a 'special snowflake', which is a derogitory term in this sense. Â If you're MSQ active, as it were, often it's assumed you're looking to be the Important One At All Times, in these kinds of circles.
It is OK to be MSQ Active! Don't get me wrong! But you are going to run into a LOT of people who play chars who have no idea what an echo is, and probably don't care, ICly. Â Which means if your char centers around that single concept you're going to have a lot of people who you can't interact with.
It's why I like having a basic char with a history that other people can be slotted into (Siren for example!) and then rolling with it. Â
'Normal' People can have crazy adventures and forge their own legend. Â People with the echo and whatnot can too! Â It's just a question of why you might need it to be central to your char's history and concept. Â
If it could work WITHOUT the echo, and it's not generating anything except a gold star on your list of things your char is, then it probably works without it and probably doesn't need it!
If it DOES have some intricate, plot centric tie that influences and guides a char's existence?Â
Hell yeah be echo sensitive and play out dealing with that.
Just be ready for blank stares from people not playing in that ballpark. Â RPers play in a lot of different versions of things so you have to be ready to switch which feet you're using when dealing with people in different facets of the larger game and lore as a whole.
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