(01-30-2014, 06:02 PM)Rikve Niall Wrote: Natalie--if you're being forcibly arrested and the other character disagrees with your OOC intent to escape--then you're arrested. Obviously a compromise is ideal... but you don't get the final say just because you started the rp with C'kayah.
I take issue with this as well. By that logic I could use this on every other character I meet.
"Natalie--if you're being forcibly murdered and the other character disagrees with your OOC intent to be alive--then you're murdered. Obviously a compromise is ideal... but you don't get the final say just because you started the rp with being alive."
I'm joking a bit, but I think it's true. Also I don't think a character walking up to talk to you counts as "Joining an RP". I think that if you approach people with zero discussion OOC, then you have to be willing to accept that they might not 100% go along with everything you say. I'll go along with like 99% of what walk up RPers say, but if it involves the death/imprisonment/disgrace/maiming of my character, it kind of needs to be discussed at least a little first, in my opinion.
(01-30-2014, 06:29 PM)Rikve Niall Wrote: The other rper is making a public arrest for the confession of a crime in a public setting. This arrest sounds realistic to me. (Granted, I wasn't there for this part of the Natalie-C'kayah-mage rp so it might've played out differently than I imagine.) If we deny the ability for our lawman rp characters to make lawful arrests in a public setting... then you're effectively castrating those lawman characters. Like what Augustine said, what's the point in rping a lawman if you go to arrest a person and you always have to back down because the character's author is squeamish in getting arrested? If you commit an illegal act in public, be OK with being arrested.
As I said, I had no problem being arrested. As you saw I went along with it. The only part I have issue with is when after we left, the person was unwilling to go along with any outcome other than I go to jail. I was also unwilling to go along with any outcome other than somehow I get free, even if temporarily. This is really the core of the question I was asking at the beginning. If there is a situation like this, where neither player is willing to back down and follows the other's lead... do the original RPers have the high ground? Or is the Public RPer just as valid in not backing down. Do I have an obligation to treat the actions of people who walk up while I'm talking with the same weight as the people I'm actually doing the RP with? I tend to think I don't, because the public RPer can easily do things and walk away from the consequences. I think, as others have said, if they do want to seriously alter what is going on in front of them, they need to talk to people OOC.
