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[FreelanceWizard]

All, let's stay on topic and let the discussion of dead horse beating and mod stuff drop, please. If you'd like to continue it, Off Topic is over that-a-way.

[Seriphyn]

Question; was the person who "arrested" your character donned up in full Flames attire? If I'm seeing that screenshot right, it's a black mage? 

 

My Flames LS/FC copy the NPC uniform (from the overcoats to the open shirts out in the field)...we do this to claim validity, but not authority. If they were donned up as a black mage, then your character had every power to be like "Who are you? You're not in a Flame uniform". At best, it would be a member of the Free Brigade (which the game assumes all Immortal Flames player characters are in by default), and the adventurer units in the Grand Companies probably have lesser authority than the main fighting units.

 

Otherwise, it looks like a part-time employment of GC membership just when it is convenient. Among my group, we roleplay membership as a full-time thing, not something to deploy when we feel like it.

 

From the description the OP gave, I think she ICly knew the Flame in question.

 

Ah, I see. Still though, not aware of any black mages with a relic weapon who are full-time Flame soldiers >_> There are some thaumaturges, though, but even they are in the shirt/sarouel uniform in cutscenes.

 

Maybe it's nitpicky, but IMO if you want to roleplay a Grand Company soldier with authority, gotta make -some- effort to follow the lore of the game world. The Grand Companies are fully professional outfits with uniforms and regulations after all...

 

Or as was mentioned on another thread, even adventurers might be able to 'turn someone in' to the authorities given how much adventurers are used. Perhaps this black mage was a member of the Free Brigade, and in-universe can be said to be following those lines.

[Ildur]

He could also been off-duty, or his clothes be a replica and not the real thing (or their micro-canon might imply that Black Mages are much more common.) It's hard to say. Though I do agree that if your character is a member of a certain group you should try to look the part as best as possible unless you are in the process of levelling up and 'getting there' so to speak. Then you can handwave that your uniform is actually the correct one (even though in-game it doesn't look like it) and ask for OOC agreement in this.

[Musemi]

Yes. OOC communication is the most important thing and even if it breaks the flow of the scene it needs to be done. I don't know why some people are so afraid of OOC communication, it's so necessary to prevent drama.

 

 

Pretty much this. As RPers, we are pretty much actors. Engaging in a fair bit of improv, and a little bit of script. Only... we do have an idea of where we'd like our stories to go, and so we also play director; if something is completely ruining the outline of the script we have in our heads, we have to try and reel things in. And this can only be done OOCly. If effective OOC communication is used from the outset, that reeling in might not even have to occur.

 

Even in improv the actors are giving prompts, and oftentimes have to converse with each other OOC to get a feel for where they want to take the scene. And if professional actors use OOC talk, why shouldn't amateur rpers?