I haven't had a sad RP on FFXIV in my time on it quite yet. Not one that made me cry anyway, but I can tell you about the first time I did cry in a roleplay situation.
I was at a LARP some time back and playing as a staff NPC during the big end of weekend event (we went in-character 24 hours a day for 3 days straight at each event with no soft-stop on activities so that night owls could have events in the dead of night). The whole in game town had been fighting off invaders during the day and undead during the night all weekend and were exhausted from it all.
Cue our NPC military detachment tromping into town. We were supposedly the good-guys, coming in to inspect the town and check in with the military unit of player characters assigned to the town. Our NPC leader met with the leaders of the town's unit (the commander of which being the game director's NPC and the Lieutenant being an actual paying player) in front of the whole town of player characters. The NPC in charge of our side spoke with the Lieutenant and asked to see an heirloom of the Lieutenant's...an old gun.
The NPC took the gun, complimented it, and then shot the Lieutenant dead with it in front of all in attendance. Cue massive battle. The aftermath of it I observed as a different nameless NPC and found myself in tears over all of the players who were distraught about the loss of one of the longest running and most well-liked player characters in game. (It had been the player's choice to retire the character)
I was at a LARP some time back and playing as a staff NPC during the big end of weekend event (we went in-character 24 hours a day for 3 days straight at each event with no soft-stop on activities so that night owls could have events in the dead of night). The whole in game town had been fighting off invaders during the day and undead during the night all weekend and were exhausted from it all.
Cue our NPC military detachment tromping into town. We were supposedly the good-guys, coming in to inspect the town and check in with the military unit of player characters assigned to the town. Our NPC leader met with the leaders of the town's unit (the commander of which being the game director's NPC and the Lieutenant being an actual paying player) in front of the whole town of player characters. The NPC in charge of our side spoke with the Lieutenant and asked to see an heirloom of the Lieutenant's...an old gun.
The NPC took the gun, complimented it, and then shot the Lieutenant dead with it in front of all in attendance. Cue massive battle. The aftermath of it I observed as a different nameless NPC and found myself in tears over all of the players who were distraught about the loss of one of the longest running and most well-liked player characters in game. (It had been the player's choice to retire the character)
