(01-30-2014, 03:05 PM)Erik Mynhier Wrote: Something like this has happened and continued to happen until my character died. Some of the people I rp with know who I'm talking about so I won't call them out. The general point of it is they try and overwhelm and even arrest my character without even consulting me on it. The attempt to constantly cast me in chains or even stop me in what my toon does actually is not possible IC as my character is established (which that establishment is known and approved by people I rp with).
When this happens the best thing to do is to jump into public occ, ie use the (()), and call out the action and stop it. Using the public request grants witness and gets the persons attention more then PM, which in situations like this don't always work. If they become angry over it, there is no law saying everyone on the server has to have interconnected stories, though a surprising number of us do.
Hope that helps.
I'm really glad you said this, because I think I did this to you once. When I first started RPing, it was hard for me to figure out the difference between my stories, and stories I was just involved with. My character started interrogating you, and I got sort of mad OOC when your character basically blew me off. I was mad at first, but then I realized, "Wait this isn't my story, I either have to play a side character, and go with the flow, or not be involved". I ended up being a side character, which was good, because I was involved in something cool, and met lots of people who I could explore future RP with.
So thanks basically, having my attempts at directing Erik's story get firmly rebuked really helped me be respectful of other people's stories.
