(09-22-2015, 08:04 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:(09-22-2015, 06:32 PM)Foxberry Wrote: Never said that it hasn't changed.Just why I avoided their forums.
There are communities that are worse than others; and that forum- after Ayenee collapsed got very very shitposty.
I think what I liked most out of the place was that it was so varied. There were so many types of rps. Anything from High Fantasy to Cyberpunk, to stuff like Star Wars and Magical Girls. People co-existed pretty nicely but it did die out. I actually met my IRL S.O. from a bar he ran. Been dating him since 02' live with him now.
It was very different. Â You could walk into a bar and there would be Werewolves from Werewolf: the Apocalypse, Castlevania vampires, Super Saiyans, characters from Final Fantasy games, Drizzt Do'urdin, homebrew characters that had no relation to any established setting, etc, all in the same room having random conversations. Â No one questioned anyone else, and most people had 6-7 characters at any one time. Â People often played their own relatives, etc.
The place where your sword-wielding knight of Hell could talk politics with a chromed up street samurai in a darkened tavern built into a tree.
It's why I've never had it in me to really be a lore nazi. Â We learned a whole different type or RP tolerance if you didn't want to miss meeting awesome people.
Plus, by the end of the conversation, you'd make a drone rigger and he'd make a black-robed sorcerer so you could run in each others' dedicated threads.
Foxberry
(09-22-2015, 08:04 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:(09-22-2015, 06:32 PM)Foxberry Wrote: It was very different. Â You could walk into a bar and there would be Werewolves from Werewolf: the Apocalypse, Castlevania vampires, Super Saiyans, characters from Final Fantasy games, Drizzt Do'urdin, homebrew characters that had no relation to any established setting, etc, all in the same room having random conversations. Â No one questioned anyone else, and most people had 6-7 characters at any one time. Â People often played their own relatives, etc.
Yeah. A friend of mine and I played a Dune story arc once; where the characters were transported accidentally to Ayenee through an experiment with Spice. His character was Harkkonen and mine one of the scientists. We started a huge brawl in the middle of this tavern and people didn't pay it much mind since it was a "Oh so there's another bar fight with scifi characters." It was pretty amusing really.Â
No one questioned as you said, and people were interested in the story rather than who played what. I used to play relatives, but later on it got to the point where it was frowned on.
Hell, I played WITH my real relatives! Â I can still RP with my brothers. Â The main sticking point is that we're older now. Â Back then, we'd get home from school, blitz our homework, and then hop online to run RP. Â These days, I sometimes have to work late into the evening. Â One of my brothers takes calls for the city police, so he works off-hours and takes a lot of overtime because he has two children now. Â The other is in the Air Force and has to continually take breaks so he can handle other business, especially since he's single and getting a bit disappointed by how hard it is to meet someone (he enlisted later in life and so he's working with a lot of 18 year olds rather than other people approaching 30). Â Right now, I'm the only one in FFXIV, certainly the only one with time to RP.
Luckily, my wife still plays and RPs with our FC.
