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RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - OttoVann - 05-19-2015
(05-19-2015, 01:11 PM)Max Wrote:(05-19-2015, 12:48 PM)OttoVann Wrote: I don't justify shit to anyone anymore. My RP has blossomed harder for it. I render no apologies.Heya Otto. I think you mistook the intent of my thread(?)
Free your mind OP.
I'm not demanding an explanation or apology from anyone. I'm curious as to why X character is away from Y through a story perspective. Backstories are the foreground of our characters, so I don't believe it's out of line to ask. We all have reasons. If you choose not to share them with others that's OK.
(Normally I wouldn't respond to these types of things but the last line of your post came off as a jab. If not I apologize for taking it that way)
Oh, I'm not trying to jab at your or anything. I think were talking about two different things. I thought we were like, trying to justify how our character can or can't do things or something. No bigs.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - D'aito Kuji - 05-19-2015
D'aito is arguably employed by the Maelstrom so she can be anywhere in the realm on official or not-so-official business. Â But because she's a bounty hunter and an adventurer-for-hire, she's necessarily going to do a lot of traveling.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Gegenji - 05-19-2015
I like to try and make sure my characters have enough leeway to be basically anywhere they're needed. Chachan is a Free Paladin, so he could conceivably be found anywhere under that pretense or just visiting friends and whatnot. He does frequent Ul'dah and Limsa more than Gridania, though, mostly due to the former being his former home (and semi-base of operations for his errand-running) and the latter being his current one.
Judge, likewise, goes wherever his services are needed.
That said, I'll still somehow find ways to limit myself from going to places. I missed out on a little beach party because I couldn't rationalize suddenly being out at Costa on Chachan. And his current arc more or less has him sticking around Mor Dhona, though I manage to justify his attendance at events as him still wanting to help out regardless of his situation.
Someone else offered "fast forwarding" and the like as well. Basically, remove the linearity of the events and have whatever thing you're attending (random RP or event or whatever) be before or after whatever would keep your character from being there. Which, I suppose could work for some people?
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Flickering Ember - 05-19-2015
(05-19-2015, 11:55 AM)Max Wrote: Hello! I'd like to pose a question for those with characters that are oft away from their stations.I guess I get around it by NOT RPing those types of characters. I make my characters flexible so they can be in a variety of areas. Ember is technically a citizen of Thanalan but lives off the land. She goes to Shroud frequently for herbs and a greater abundance of food but also visits La Noscea because she loves beaches. Coerthas she doesn't go to but there isn't a lot of RP there anyway.
Why is your Ishgardian Knight mingling in Ul'dah?
What is your Wood Wailer doing outside the Twelveswood?
So on and so forth.
IC and OOC perspectives are welcome!
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Aaron - 05-19-2015
Simple.
Aaron is a grown as man with two working legs. He can go wherever the hell he wants.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Hammersmith - 05-19-2015
Hammer runs caravaneering investments. Â Sometimes he's hands off, sometimes he's forcefully hands on with his work.
Which means he's often wherever he needs to be at a given time, or en route and purposefully unavailable to the public at large.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Random Encounter - 05-19-2015
Phae'ra is a mercenary type, there is no real "shouldn't be there" zone thanks to that. Only thing that can affect where he is to be found RP wise is work and his mate.
Seda'ir is a pirate, so Las Noscea does tend to be the go to for him. But really, anywhere money is to be made is a good enough reason for him to wander there.
Xh'rizen tends to be my more stationary character, but research does drag him around a good bit too.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Zelmanov - 05-19-2015
Orrin originally had leave to explore the outside world under the mission of finding means of aiding Ishgard. He got sidetracked by an Ul'dahn plot involving Dragons and what not. Once that was concluded I've restricted Orrin to Coerthas, he has no reason to be anywhere else, not with ol Niddy awake.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Chris Ganale - 05-19-2015
I don't have justifications for my characters who are locked to specific areas. Consequently, I don't get to RP on them very often.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Uther - 05-19-2015
Uther was disillusioned by Ishgard after the death of his wife and unborn child. Became a lancing instructor in Gridania for a while. Got carried away by the war with the Garleans. Now he kind of wanders around fighting big bads for money and pride like it ain't no thang.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Qhora Bajihri - 05-19-2015
Qhora's an explorer by blood, so she'll travel just for the hell of it. She's kind of a specialized mercenary, so she also likes to take jobs that send her to various places. She's the kind of person who's meant to be found everywhere, just based on who she is. She used to hate the idea of "home" but she's growing a little more fond of having her own place of refuge between adventures.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Enla - 05-19-2015
Enla was essentially kicked out of service with the Wood Wailers due to her sudden onset of blindness and the pervading tensions between perceived tribal Keepers of the Moon and Gridanians as a whole. (Basically it's complicated.) She's only beholdened to her mercenary group in the loosest sense and unless they ask her to return she has pretty much free rein to do as she pleases, within reason. Even then, if her mercenary company tried to restrict her movements to Ul'dah where they are stationed she'd rip her contract apart and not look back for a second.
It also helps that Eorzea for as large as it feels it should be, isn't that big at all. There's an NPC in Horizon that states that they made the trip from Gridania to that outpost in a day, though it clearly almost killed both them and their chocobo due to exhaustion. Factor in airship travel which has probably become less restrictive in the years since the story started and I wouldn't be surprised if it really did just take a day to get from point a to point b. Which means that even those who work for strict groups could in theory use their days off to go wherever they honestly pleased without too many repercussions. Point is, if you really -really- needed to fish for an explanation there's almost always one to be had even if you want to play the idea straight and mainly keep your character in the general area of where their job has influence.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - C'kayah Polaali - 05-19-2015
What good is being the crime boss of an up-and-coming organization if you can't justify literally everything you do as business?
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Imo - 05-20-2015
Imogene is a free paladin who goes where she's needed. While technically an instructor at Vylbrand Academy, her wandering lifestyle means she runs classes sporadically at best. She used to be in the Flames in her backstory, but left after Ultima Weapon was destroyed.
RE: How do you justify being here & not there? - Zac Evans - 05-20-2015
I'm an adventurer. Eat a dick!