Delilah Scythewood

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Her head had been turned away from the staggering Verad, looking down the opposite end of the lane that led towards the Quicksand. The occasional patron would emerge, both the intoxicated and non intoxicated variety, and it was an idle past time of hers to wonder at their lives based on their appearance. One male Lalafell toddled out with a rather scruffy face and long blue robes. Thaumaturge? Conjurer? Perhaps was hoping to win over the ladies with his whiskers or maybe didn't have time this morning for a trim- Her train of thought faltered as she caught the elezen in her peripheral. Right as she looked, he was already flopped on the ground before her and begging like a lame dog for scraps. It took her a moment of confused blinking and opening and closing her mouth in a search for the right words to say before she realized who she was dealing with. "Heh...hello, Verad. I take it by your moaning you want a butter and honey bun?" Her perked a brow, not moving down to help him but faintly smiling all the same. She knew the man from a time or two in the past. The first interaction of which led to her being rather colorful in telling him to, under no uncertain terms, 'go fuck a carbuncle'. Alas, neither party held ill will in return...that she knew of, anyways. Regardless, she didn't waist for a response before plucking up a roll and adjusting her skirts so she could crouch down and hand it to him on his level.

Think you pretty much covered everything

I love this! <3

*gives a big bowl full of 'like's* Sometimes though it can still happen even after speaking with the person and thinking you know them well enough to judge that they aren't the type. Sometimes the bleeding doesn't happen until further down the line.

I had been having a rough last two weeks or so, and even took a small break from the game. I came back to my FC having gotten this! http://files-cloud.enjin.com/686141/module_gallery/full/2012855.jpg[/img]

*throws orange autumn leaves at in the spirit of the fall season* Oops!

Sadly douchebaggery is going to be every where. I tend to avoid blacklisting when I can. I've only blacklisted two RPers in this game, and both were because of OOC reasons and that those people had made me uncomfortable enough as people that I didn't even want to deal with their characters. Some of this goes back to what I said in an earlier post where communication can be sooooo darn important. It also can help loosely judge how a person handles certain things with RP if you drop them a line like 'Oh wow, I wonder how these interractions go! Our characters are so different!' during the IC bits and see how they respond. Sometimes you can be surprised what basic psychology can do to help gauge a player. I've helped dodge some red flags in the earlier stages of RP by briefly poking at the player and being friendly. The example I'll use (which is honestly my only real cautionary point that I'm not willing to bend on) is when a player keeps referring to the character as if it were them. "Wow, your character was a bitch to me!" or something along those lines. I'll stop, drum my fingertips atop my desk, and think on how to handle that. Are they a new RPer? Do they realize that that kind of phrasing can give the wrong impression? Should I tell them or will I just sound like a bitch? Should I wait it out and see? Or the question that crosses my mind on a normal basis: "Am I just over thinking things?"

It is indeed open

Add me for a flat color as well please! Will message you the details

I think one of the biggest things is that more often then not people use futanari as something purely sexual and for ERP purposes moreso then it being part of the character. It's not even a matter of being transgendered, intersexed, etc. as it is for sexual gratification. Of course, there are exceptions to everything. I had a good friend roleplay a hermaphrodite on GW2 and she was very eloquent in RPing out the struggles and complexities that can come with it. Even managed to make a very androgynous character for the part. As for lore-breaking...*shrugs* In this game it's not so much 'magic' as it is 'fantasia' when it comes to making things happen. Personally I just let it go at this point.

Giving a grunt, Lili loaded the last box of Ado's things onto the little cart just outside their now previous residence of the Gold Court. Wiping her brow, she leaned back with a grimace, letting her back give a little twinge before cracking with an obnoxious sound that startled her chocobo, Milo, who was hooked up to the cart. Her menagerie of critters also peered down at her from atop one of the boxes: Sire the goobue sproutling aimlessly staring into nothingness and drooling while swinging his stubby little legs, the household mammet sitting dormant besides Sire with its back resting against the seated flank of Dot the fawn, and Ado's pet dodo was snoozing in a makeshift nest of blankets and trilling besides the equally snoozing Tub-Tub the baby puk. And on the driver seat in his own pile of blankets was her adopted son. His little body propped with blankets and pillows so as to be comfortable, blonde hair tossled and sucking on his knuckles in his sleep. The sight warmed her heart, and she allowed a tiny smile to come to her lips before looking back to the house. There was still something she needed to do... With a small measure of hesitance, Lili moved back through the doorway and towards the kitchen. The house was quiet, with some of the furniture already moved out to Kayah's new house he now shared with the rest of his group. She'd be going to her own company residence until she found a more suitable location for her and Ado both, but before she could do that she needed to relieve herself of a few things. The first was a chain around her neck. Thin, silver, with little finger bells at the end of it, she slipped it off her head and gently placed it on the dining room table. The next? Her engagement ring. A silver band of silver leaves entwined around an elegant little diamond in the middle, Kayah had made the joke that there should be a third entity at play since she had been a Hyur, he a Miqo'te, her adopted son a Lalafell...so why not make the ring Elezen in make? It took a moment of wiggling, but she managed to slip the ring off and set it gently atop the table next to the finger bells. She didn't really care what he did with either artifact. It wasn't her concern any more. All that mattered was the little boy dozing in the cart outside. Slowly, she took a moment to twirl in place and look around the room. Her alchemy shed was cleared out. The sheets cleaned and bed made. Floors scrubbed. Whenever he came back to finish moving things out or doing whatever he had planned with the place, at least it'd be tidy. The look to fall over her pale green eyes was fleeting and unreadable, though her expression seemed calm enough as she stepped out the door and quietly shut it behind her. The only things she left behind were in Ado's now mostly empty room: A chocobo clock with a timeworn black leather collar draped over top of it.

Started my own RP thread! Wish me luck! o/ http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=8457

All of this is also good too I've put a very tight rope on my own emotions when it comes to RP. I generally don't even talk to people on an in depth level anymore since some tend to question why it is I'm so separate with little to no immersion. Though there are times where I'm being affected by something outside of game (a bad phone call, argument with a friend, etc.) where I need to pull out of an RP STAT. Sometimes with little to no warning for the RP. I've had people accuse me of blending when these have happened at stressful moments in an RP and that I'm 'running away'. This is where the aforementioned communication comes in to keep things clear.

All of my yes. Just...here, take all of it. *shoves at and piles on the 'like's* I just recently ended an RP partnership where communication was HUGELY lacking at the end. And it's something that can stem even outside the boundaries of IC and OOC melding. If one person can't/won't/is unable to communicate...it can cause things to fall apart. Majorly. I have seen more RP and had more of my own RP end because of a lack of communication. It takes barely five seconds to drop someone a line or express a concern. "Hey, you ok? That RP was pretty exhausting and you seem a bit out of it" or "You seemed to get pretty angry over our characters' fight earlier. Something up?" These are mild examples, but sometimes all a person needs is a little nudge to open the doorway. More often then not I have seen interactions go sour because one person was saying or doing something wrong and didn't realize it made the other person uncomfortable, IC or OOC. While some would rather avoid the possible confrontation those things would bring, most tend to be more then understanding. Those that aren't? Safe to say a little extra evaluation never hurts in case they may have something lurking under the skin. Some people who it seems are IC and OOC blending may not even know they're doing it, or that they're coming across that way. And then there are those that go 'IC and OOC blending? Derp, what's that?'...and that's when you get on your SCH cap and give them the 411.

Will likely poke you in-game soon! Been looking for an FC for my miqo'te alt! She's a good girl who needs a good home :lol:

I liked a lot of stuff in this Though there's always that difference between subtle IC and OOC mixing (like the literacy and tribal bits though the latter is less subtle) and throwing your family keyboard across the room when Becky Lou chooses Bobby Bill to go to the RP event instead of your character. Which I think is what the OP was trying to get at. And even on the rest of the signs as well. Most of them were listed as things that made her cautious until proven otherwise. Which most people are cautious the first few RP interactions anyways, and look for signs based off past experiences. Like with me, I've seen people look out for RPers who are single IRL. I used to be the same, but even players I RPed with who have been married or in committed relationships can turn into bigger creeps then the friendly college virgins over the smallest things.

I'm going to let my FC know about this and see if anyone will come along this coming Thursday So look for DOVE members!

So! I'm one of those insomniac ridden gamer girls who is fortunate enough to have a job that allows me to work from home. This being said, I find myself putzing along the game alone between 2AM-10AM EST. Wasn't sure if anyone has asked about this before, and if so, is there a OOC LS for night owls? So we can hoot our way into late night RP or PvE or hunts, etc.? And if not, I may just make one if there's any interest for it UPDATE: I have made the LS! Called The Night Owls! Poke me on here or in game for an invite

Besides here (Lilithium Altair and M'subi Hena are my toons' names), I can be found on ArcheAge either as Vadina or Lilithium (Nuian side) or very RARELY on GW2 as Vadina Whyte. *runs away from the lickings!*

Sounds like you've been around the wrong crowd! Come sit in the pumpkin patch with me! *flounces in the pumpkin patch and throws autumn leaves at people in the thread*

My close friends complain I'm too understanding. I tend to give multiple chances before emptying out my 'give a fuck' pockets and then saying 'hit the road' long after many others would. There's been enough people that deserved it sooner, but there have been a handful of others over the last decade and a half who have made me happy I gave them the extra chances to buck up.

Yeah. I ended up kicking one of my old FC members back when I first formed it because they got very, VERY upset when my character ultimately chose another character over them. They even lashed out at people in chat. It was unnerving. One thing I've seen a few people do is add a player 'dislike' list on their profiles. Well, less of a 'dislike' list and more of a 'I can't stand these things so please don't bring them near me even in RP' list. One guy I saw months and months ago had 'White Mages' listed on his character's dislike section and even had an OOC note that he'd block anyone he met that played a White Mage. Twas weeeeeeird.

A lot of this is stuff I have seen and had experiences with in the past. Though it seems to be with the newer generation of RPers rather then the older ones. I didn't used to come across a lot of the IC/OOC blending and breaking the 4th wall until the last...three years? At least that I could tell. Starting with WoW, though it wasn't very prominent to me on there until the last six months I was in the game. When I left the game was when GW2 had just come out so I went over there. THAT'S when it got bad. In sooo many ways. One of my last experiences before I left that game was a previous RP partner asking me invasive questions about what my character had been doing sexually since they separated. It went from being a mostly innocent question in a player-to-player context to them getting very callous when I gave a rather vague answer. Found out later they had tried asking around to people to see what my character had been doing and then came back to me as if to test me on the knowledge. When I got annoyed that they were being rude about it I ended up getting kicked. Well, technically, I left, but I was out of the guild whether I liked it or not. No love lost there. Another episode was an old RP partner getting mad because I went and RPed with another person without him. Even started harassing me over whispers and in Skype and at one point demanded I screen share with him so he knew exactly where I was. That night I blocked and deleted him from Skype and never RPed with him again. Now, on topic... As an FC leader I made sure that the IC/OOC separation rule was one of the first things I posted. Because it is becoming one of the largest problems I see in the community, and because it's one of the biggest complaints I get about other characters. Almost ALWAYS in a romantic context of some kind (so-and-so dated so-and-so and made such-and-such sad, boohoo) and such negative feelings are almost always tied OOC. Almost always. Though I think, at least on the new RPer front, most people either take things too easy and don't drive some of these points home...or are neglectful. They either don't emphasize certain barriers or ground rules, or let too many mistakes slide without pulling them aside and being nice about explaining why whatever it was they were doing was bad. In the case of this thread, IC/OOC not being separated. And neglectful in how more often then not there's a number of people who avoid new RPers like the plague because they do NOT have the patience to teach them the 'ways of the world'. Which, hey, I can understand. But we were all there before. We were all new, inexperienced, and started off in some less then eloquent places. *cough*MSNGroupsYuYuHakushoRPGsite*cough*