RP at Events - Advice Needed

[plumsamurai]

Meeting people at events are great. I love walk ups at these sorts of things, but like most of the people before me have said, chat scroll is overwhelming, especially at very populated events. I've gotten /tells after the fact of "I was going to interfere but you were talking with someone else" or "You didn't see my /say so I left." Half the time I can't even find my own statement in the chat box.

 

Personally I tend to hone in on emotes involving "you" or my character's name. And if that doesn't work, there is that loud /tell sound that catches most people's attention. Don't get downtrodden from it.

 

And Jancis is a sweetheart. I know she's really busy at the Pilgrimage events, but she's the sort to make time for everyone if possible.

[Ashe]

That chat scroll though...

Despite the type of RP I engage in (My main is a noble with a shitty attitude), I'm too afraid to engage with others randomly. The last event I went to, I told my FC about it because we needed to fill our event day and we formed a party and went. We engaged with each other mostly and I noticed a lot of people engaging with only people they knew too. Someone in my FC tried to engage others and they completely blew her off. At the same time, another dude in my FC was a freakin' social butterfly!!!

Even the person/people I engaged with outside of my FC I knew from an LS.

So yeah...I suggest trying to find people you know who are going ahead of time or make connections before hand and invite someone with you. If you see other loners, maybe engage with them too!!

 

...I'm pretty sure there's an entire FC of characters pissed at my character right now from the last event I was at hahaha..../cries

This is why I don't go to events often >>

[Valde]

Events can be overwhelming, and finding people within them to actually RP with is a daunting task without the fact that chat-scroll makes it near impossible to keep up. Events would be one of the few times where not being passive and poking people OOCly is a big way into some interesting RP in a context you don't normally get from taverns.

 

Just be persistent and remember: They're not ignoring you because they don't like you, it's because they simply didn't see you. Don't be afraid to try and get noticed.