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Killing someone while they're afk is like killing someone in their sleep. AKA in a world of unmitigated violence it's a pretty normal way to ensure a victory. That said it's never easy to know-know if someone's AFK. I tried to reave Meltas once when I thought he was afk and he was like "no."

People who want a kill (especially from a person who's notorious for shouting from behind locked doors in a city while on top of monoliths) are gonna do what they can to secure the kill; fair play in RPK especially is a tall ask, if the path to victory is "enter one command while they're not paying attention." I get that it might smack a little of meta planning (it does, but it doesn't; throughout history there's tons of examples of battles and wars being won because a strategist banked on catching their enemy with their pants down), but I dunno, it's so easy to avoid being PKed while AFK that I don't really mind it.

I didn't say manipulate; stop twisting my words, thanks. I said guilt. Which you absolutely did try, with this comment right here.
The only thing he "took advantage of" was you being in an open spot. Don't care if you agree or not, this right here as an attempt to guilt someone into feeling bad for doing something, as though he's some kind of psychic who knows what you're doing all the time.

It's not shitty gaming etiquette. It's Nipsy playing a character, and you having a whinge that he did something you didn't like/agree with. The "terrible way of looking at it" are those who can't divorce themselves from their character, when deciding how their character's going to act. Nipsy's a great RPer for being able to do that very well.

Even if I'm in the city. And then (not from nipsy) I hear bitching when I start going afk at the flame because 'no fair, we can't go there without dying'.

I dunno, if you've fired off another Ayastia shout or done SOMETHING to make those people angry IG then go off to afk at flame, I'd say their complaints are pretty justified? It's really too bad about the RL stuff you have to deal with, that's not something you can shrug off. The other side doesn't know that, neither do they necessarily need to know.

Life is hard, we get that. Probably easier not to let what's said get to you if you know you have a valid reason for not being able to engage - and if you happened to go afk when you've started something that absolutely will stir the other side up, they're reasonably not gonna be happy about it. Maybe it's time to rethink whether playing your character the way you do is the thing for you if this is bothering you this much/your family needs stop you from responding in a timely fashion in a RPK game. Ayastia can be nice enough to the people she likes, and character is a fluid thing.

EDIT: typo.

Now you're trying to argue something I never said.

I said, very clearly, if you care about dying then you should take the literally half-second it takes to close off Aetolia. Which you can do in the process of getting out of your chair or whatever.

And yes, you are trying to guilt him by saying he "took advantage" of something (rather important) he had zero knowledge of. People afk for all sorts of reasons; how would anybody differentiate this from someone simply alt tabbing for 30s to look up a youtube video? Should we just not do anything whatsoever to someone who isn't immediately answering us? Should we send them tells asking if we can come pk them, when they're being antagonistic (and thus give them ample time to just go hide on guards)?

Also yes, absolutely everything should be decided from an IC perspective. That is literally the purpose of it being an RP game.