(01-30-2014, 06:29 PM)Rikve Niall Wrote:(01-30-2014, 06:16 PM)Whittledown Wrote:Â(01-30-2014, 05:17 PM)R'ikve 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. Â There is no authority in this game beyond what we agree upon. Â By saying this, you're effectively saying that the OTHER rper has final say in what her character does. Â And that's just ridiculous.
I said that. Not sure why it's quoting Augustine Frost. ((EDIT: Nevermind, I must be seeing things.))
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.
The problem is that just because you've decided to RP an authority figure, that doesn't mean that you have authority over RP that you otherwise aren't involved in.
Example. I was involved in an RP where my character was attacked by two assassins. She survived, but it happened in a pretty public setting. The assassins escaped, but word traveled to a player who is playing an authority figure with the Immortal Flames. I was contacted for permission to have the Flames involved but since it wasn't really my character who would be most impacted, I referred them to the player of the character who ordered the hit. The character ordered the hit has agreed to allow for the Flames to get involved in the plot.
So there we go, an authority figure wanted to be involved in the plot, contacted those involved, was given permission, and things proceed. This isn't difficult or time consuming.
Without knowing the player of a character VERY well I would be extremely leery of allowing characters who ostensibly have authority to impact my character in ways that I have not previously agreed upon.
