(03-27-2015, 12:32 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: Anti-social works find, but to make an anti-social character work, one must either force them out of their IC comfort zone and MAKE them be social, or have some premade group of people to do that. Passive emotes won't do much for that. Your character won't initiate speaking? That's fine! STARE AT PEOPLE. Find a way to interact with them. Maybe walk and "bump" into them. Or spill a drink.
Another trick is to do something that would catch attention. If you see a mage nearby -- let's say it's L'yhta, since I can speak for my own character
-- start grumbling to yourself about how hard a particular spell is. Practice little motes of fire magic. Play around with your carbuncle, or have it balk at what you're telling it to do. Comment about how magic is a waste of time or the coward's way out. Any of that will definitely catch her attention in one way or another.Or you could literally bump into her.
If you're a highlander or roegadyn, you'll get to send her sprawling to the floor.In all seriousness, it's possible to play a shy or anti-social character that puts themselves "out there" in a way that offers hooks for others. I think part of the issue is an OOC anxiety to do that, perhaps due a fear of being judged harshly or attracting the wrong sort of RP.
Another option that's often overlooked is to just send the person a tell saying you see them and would like to come up with a reason for them to meet in that scene. You can then come up with any number of contrivances, from mistaken identity to a spilled drink, to strike up a conversation. This is often more effective, I think, than trying to set up a scene for a future time because of its immediacy. You're saying, "we're both here, let's get some RP started."
On the larger topic, breaking into an established RP community can be hard. There's fewer big mixer events than there used to be, and if you don't want to take the step of applying to an LS or FC -- or, conversely, if there isn't one that matches your character concept -- it can be tough to get a foothold. Is there more we could be doing? I don't really know.
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