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Hm, well, I'm having trouble imagining how a deer knocked up a miqo'te. No, wait, now I'm imagining it but I still can't understand how it's possible. And what in her ludicrous deer ancestry managed to give her a split personality? A traumatic event like, say, a hunter killing her mom? If so, you may as well re-name her Bambi.
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I consider internal aether/chakra to be used regardless of a person's will, even if you don't have a talent for it or have enough of it to cast spells. All of your flashy attacks? Aether. As for Flash, it could be an unconscious trigger of the flight or fight response, affecting those around you on an instinctive level through a sudden burst of aether that resonates with their own. And since you're using it against enemies, it triggers the fight side of it; in a city, you could RP using it to trigger the flight side of it in ordinary civilians. In anime terms, it could be the same as being able to sense or emanate bloodlust/killing intent. All the GLA/PLDs out there just consider it a special technique and don't try to reason out the underlying factors.
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Random RP: Sometimes You're Not Being Ignored On Purpose!!
Raccoon replied to Tiergan's topic in RP Discussion
It should also be pointed out that a hook has to be something physical, a look or something to that extent, or even verbal. Having an internal dialogue about the people around you isn't going to get a reaction IC since nobody is/should be a mind-reader. If I'm in the mood, I'll tell a person that OOC, but other times I can't be bothered. As a heavy RPer, I like to stay IC whenever possible, and having to handhold people OOC to get them involved is not my thing. -
Role-playing alongside the storyline: YOU did WHAT?!
Raccoon replied to Zac Evans's topic in RP Discussion
I don't have a problem with people being a member of the Scions. The story indicates that they are branching out and attempting to expand, particularly after the spoilerific event that happens to them, and basically seeking out anyone that has the Echo -- which is basically anyone that has ICly fought a Primal. But it's rather ridiculous, for the reasons Ashren suggested, to try to say you're on the team that defeated any of the one-of-a-kind enemies. It's just not plausible. Now actually being on one of multiple teams that's laying waste to Praetorium, causing airships to fall out of the sky and thinning the defenders out, is actually far more reasonable. By the same token, considering that Serpent Reavers and other dungeon enemies can reoccupy the same spot repeatedly, it's not unreasonable to assume that other adventurers make regular patrols there. Just not for the reasons that the Hero did. What are you going to do when someone asks you "I heard there was one adventurer that stood out from the rest, who works with the Scions, found Cid's airship, etc.? Was it a guy or a girl? What race? What did they look like? What weapon did they use? Come on, man, this is stuff for the history books." You can't answer those things even though you were on the team that they were in and helped to take down Gaius and such. -
After a certain point, it'd seem you'd stop and wonder if it's not just every single possible person you meet but you yourself that is causing these reactions. Nobody else probably wants to say anything because it seems like it's starting a fight, but I'm only suggesting this for an introspective look at what you might be doing wrong. Perhaps you're doing something particularly godmodey, metagamey, or similar that's getting everyone up in arms. Have you ever taken a Mary Sue test to try to determine whether you're making any newbie RPer mistakes somewhere? I ran into a Miqo'te the other day that had an invisible Egi (you can't make your Egi invisible; plus they don't move it to the side, so it sits there and flaps over your head annoyingly) which just so happens to be able to read minds or something, so she automatically knows everyone's name and who knows what else. Infringements on consent and such aside, that's just an annoying concept that gets on peoples' nerves. Though if they're calling you a troll, it's entirely possible that the character you've decided to roll up is a particularly abrasive individual, or you yourself are. Not much you can do about the latter except try to restrain yourself, but you could try to temper the character to be less so. Or it could also be mixing IC/OOC in some manner, such as having your OOC personality being your character's IC personality. This is probably where most people would offer to take you under their wing and mentor you on your RP, telling you where you're going wrong and such, but eh... I'm kinda lazy. There's a mentorship program on the RPC that might be able to give you that kinda support though.
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Mysterium's alive and kicking!
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Unfortunately, most people are like you -- and me, don't get me wrong -- who want more events but aren't willing to start one themselves. It's a pain to organize and host these events, plus you kinda need to limit participation somehow, or you're going to have hundreds of RPers and maddening scroll. But by limiting participation, you get called all sorts of things, with elitist being one of them. The only times I've ever seen anyone turned away is when Mysterium is having a super-secret FC meeting and our catgirl-guarding-the-stairs turns them away IC, or when someone tries to walk up and RP without asking first. In which case we're usually in a scene that's typically not located where we're sitting, or it's got a month-plus worth of story behind it that's just plain awkward to have a random person walk into. In both cases, they get told politely OOC that that's what's happening.
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Bard Prerequisites Met, but No Soul of the Bard Quest Awaits
Raccoon replied to Mongoose's topic in FFXIV Discussion
Do you still have the level 30 quest "The One That Got Away" or any of the previous class quests by any chance? You have to complete those first. -
Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Seth, my main, only has some minor aspects of me. I cringe at the things he says and does. Though that's part of what makes him fun to play. Deitrych on the other hand is much more like me than I'd like to admit. It's probably why I rarely play him.
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A little Lala kid tried shooting Seth and another member of the Tower during Early Start or soon after release with little wooden pointed sticks. It was annoying to put it lightly. He would have drowned the thing if he could have gotten ahold of it and there were fewer witnesses.
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Not to sound defensive, but can you explain why? In addition to Liadan's reply, nobody's going to want to include the child character in anything. If you just want it for aggravating people in the Adventurer's Guild and all, that's one thing. But nobody in their right mind (and do you really want a kid around someone who's not?) would take a kid along on a fight with a Primal or into a dungeon. Also, though I've never heard of it happening, I imagine there's the risk that playing a kid could get all kinds of uncomfortable invitations from the ERP crowd. Unless that's your thing, in which case... ew.
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unlikely eve players are smart folk and very good making business if you haven't played eve keep you mouth shut. i don't see wow players to play this its out from that market But it won't be EVE players; they will stick to playing what they have invested their time and money into. WoD Online will be every LARPer and vampire fanatic in existence. A good portion of which are complete idiots. And don't tell people to shut up unless you're looking to start a fight, you illiterate ass.
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I haven't really heard anything about the MMO in a long time, which is going to be full of idiots I imagine. The last real update was:
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I'm not really a big Captain America fan, though I do know who Winter Soldier is (was? should be?), but that does look pretty awesome. Can't trust trailers though. The X-Men movies looked badass too from the trailers. >.>
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INTP, of course. Eh, can't argue with most of those. Assassin? Mortician? >.> These do not go well with the others. But I clearly missed my calling.