Do You Do:
Whether you are walking down a busy street or playing FF14 in a quiet coffee shop, someone at some point noticed you. They may have noticed your clothes, your face, something you did. It didn't draw their attention, but they still registered it.
This is the concept behind something I do a lot which I call "solo-emoting".
I am what you could consider a "shy" RPer in that I don't often initiate conversations, and tend to let the RP come to me. But just because my character is not interacting with someone else does not mean he is just standing there motionless. He is doing things, and other people may notice just at a glance. In the event that someone felt the need to speak to him, it helps if they have a rough idea of what he is doing. This is what happens:
"Thoreaux takes a seat at an empty table off in the corner and buries his face in his book...or so it might appear. He observes the patrons of the Quicksand over the horizon of the tome; people-watching with what he hopes is the stealth of a Ninja."
If something interesting happens around him, I'll emote him noticing it and pretending not to notice. Ultimately Thoreaux isn't a very approachable person, so these emotes are unfortunately not very inviting to others, but serial people-watchers are everywhere. I'd rather a passing glance know what he is up to than just have my pixels taking up a seat pointlessly. I usually avoid emoting him noticing any degree of physical features of others he is not currently interacting with because...well..."takes notice of his skimpy swimsuit from a distance" looks like a cry for ERP at least in my mind.
Tell me, do any of you solo-emote regularly? Or do you prefer to keep your character's private actions...private?
Whether you are walking down a busy street or playing FF14 in a quiet coffee shop, someone at some point noticed you. They may have noticed your clothes, your face, something you did. It didn't draw their attention, but they still registered it.
This is the concept behind something I do a lot which I call "solo-emoting".
I am what you could consider a "shy" RPer in that I don't often initiate conversations, and tend to let the RP come to me. But just because my character is not interacting with someone else does not mean he is just standing there motionless. He is doing things, and other people may notice just at a glance. In the event that someone felt the need to speak to him, it helps if they have a rough idea of what he is doing. This is what happens:
"Thoreaux takes a seat at an empty table off in the corner and buries his face in his book...or so it might appear. He observes the patrons of the Quicksand over the horizon of the tome; people-watching with what he hopes is the stealth of a Ninja."
If something interesting happens around him, I'll emote him noticing it and pretending not to notice. Ultimately Thoreaux isn't a very approachable person, so these emotes are unfortunately not very inviting to others, but serial people-watchers are everywhere. I'd rather a passing glance know what he is up to than just have my pixels taking up a seat pointlessly. I usually avoid emoting him noticing any degree of physical features of others he is not currently interacting with because...well..."takes notice of his skimpy swimsuit from a distance" looks like a cry for ERP at least in my mind.
Tell me, do any of you solo-emote regularly? Or do you prefer to keep your character's private actions...private?
