(01-30-2014, 03:14 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote:(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 thinks basically, having my attempts at directing Erik's story get firmly rebuked really helped me be respectful of other people's stories.
You are not who I am talking about, but when that happened I felt bad, but I find myself loyal only to the logical outcome of my character. It can feel bad blowing someone off (and I was really upset I did it) but if you want to really respect your character you have to be rough sometimes. I respect you for rolling with it. I'm no innocent, I have run over the stories of others by mistake, and had to reboot to make up for it, but I did because of the respect I feel for that other player.
So it all boils down to respect, respect for your character, for the characters of others, and to each of us as players. That other player who killed that PC sounds to have no respect. We work as a community more then most RP communities because we are so close, all here really, and we respect eachother and enjoy eachother's stories enough to want to guard them as much as their own.
My advice is to get the one killed, rewind the whole thing, and go back to the Qsand tonight and start where you left off as if it never happened. If this player is disrespectful enough to godmode and kill another player (never cool unless invited), they don't deserve the respect of acknowledging their actions.
RESPECT THE MCBEEF!
