(09-11-2015, 12:42 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(09-11-2015, 11:08 AM)SaintEaon Wrote: I mean specifically when you do something ICly that's totally in character for your character and you know its going to annoy/anger/disrupt other people ICly?
Yep.
L'yhta, for all her positive qualities, can also be a self-righteous, judgmental, selfish jerkass. While she's gotten better at holding her tongue over time, she still picks fights with people over tribal traditions, screws up others' plans because of her sometimes hardline interpretation of the Code of the Magi, and can't help but shoot her mouth off at "zealots" (such as Ishgardians who are politically active), and so on.
While I do like a bit of conflict RP, I have to confess that I feel a bit bad when L'yhta decides to start trouble. So, I tend to send OOC tells afterwards apologizing for my character being a prick. I know IC is IC and OOC is OOC, but I can't help feel a twinge of unhappiness that I might've made someone's RP less fun.
I'm closer to being more like that. But like say my character is seeing another character and then a third character ends up having a thing for them. The moment my character catches wind of that he tears down their life. He goes after their friends, if they're in a Free Company, he runs disinformation to their mutual interest, and once he starts putting all that pressure on its just about feeling out and seeing what their character can and can't take, and once you find out what they can't take and get that scent of blood you move in for the kill. Its proven incredibly effective, in general Love mixed with a willingness to intimidate someone by letting them know they should be afraid of this other party is a super effective way of dealing with things. Then you mix that in with a few "professionals" who are good at observation and provocation and you can warn someone to be afraid of this person because they do XYZ and then convienently provoke those exact reactions at the worst possible time.
And as good as we've gotten and doing that to people we're "enemies" with, there are times OOCly where I'm like, "Man I hope both our "victim" and the people we're manipulating aren't too upset by this OOCly. I'm not pulling my IC punches but if this works it'll really disrupt things for them." and some people don't handle it well. We lost an RP partner a few weeks ago because we ran this campaign and trying to fight our information network that's existed for awhile this character tried to make their own and pull in help and to do so they ended up metagaming a lot and lying to people to get shit done and it resulted in a huge issue that temporarily made me look bad then a week or two later reversed when they started talking to this other RPer and it got her in serious trouble and cleared my name a bit. Its always a little difficult to gauge a person's reactions OOCly but in the words of some rapper "This is every day business so manage it or run away now if your ass can't handle it."
"Don't be scared homie."
