To offer a different standpoint:
I have a hard time taking too much of the games storyline as IC. Don't get me wrong -- I love game stories.
But let me give an example. We'll use everyones love-to-hate stepchild, WoW. Shortly after the last expansion came out, my then-BF and I busted tail to get the leveling going. As is usually the case almost anywhere, you get better exp through quests, so we did those like crazy.
There was a pretty important one, which earned you a snazzy and pretty awesome cutscene, an achievement, and was just plain badass. We enjoyed the crap out of it.
Two months later, another couple in our guild was overheard ICly stating that they'd JUST COME FROM that event, and partaken in it, in-character.
You can see where we ran into some troubles. How could my character have said it took place in her personal storyline, if someone else claimed it happened later? If my entire guild had experienced it at the same time, what made our storyline better or worse than another guild we might interact with, who placed said incident at a different point in their personal timeline?
It started to make my brain do somersaults.
So the point is, I love love love story-driven quests. But I absolutely cannot incorporate most of them into my characters story. Because it just plain feels stupid to me to say, "Oh my gosh I just came back from <insert epic story here>!!" when the rest of the group stares at me, because they did that EXACT SAME THING last week.
That's a whole lotta 2 cents worth. >_> Sorry. I guess the short version is, I've never done what you're describing. But it does sound like it could be fun.
I have a hard time taking too much of the games storyline as IC. Don't get me wrong -- I love game stories.
But let me give an example. We'll use everyones love-to-hate stepchild, WoW. Shortly after the last expansion came out, my then-BF and I busted tail to get the leveling going. As is usually the case almost anywhere, you get better exp through quests, so we did those like crazy.
There was a pretty important one, which earned you a snazzy and pretty awesome cutscene, an achievement, and was just plain badass. We enjoyed the crap out of it.
Two months later, another couple in our guild was overheard ICly stating that they'd JUST COME FROM that event, and partaken in it, in-character.
You can see where we ran into some troubles. How could my character have said it took place in her personal storyline, if someone else claimed it happened later? If my entire guild had experienced it at the same time, what made our storyline better or worse than another guild we might interact with, who placed said incident at a different point in their personal timeline?
It started to make my brain do somersaults.
So the point is, I love love love story-driven quests. But I absolutely cannot incorporate most of them into my characters story. Because it just plain feels stupid to me to say, "Oh my gosh I just came back from <insert epic story here>!!" when the rest of the group stares at me, because they did that EXACT SAME THING last week.
That's a whole lotta 2 cents worth. >_> Sorry. I guess the short version is, I've never done what you're describing. But it does sound like it could be fun.
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