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I partially predicted some humor coming from your direction.
You did not disappoint.
Maybe those stags are all "stag" for a reason.
Especially at work.
That is all.
Something?? I am a visual person and I would -love- to have some sort of map to look at that way I can figure out areas and their location in direction of what I'm at.
But I believe @Teani's map is the official one:
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
> say (smugly) get good
You say, smugly, "Get good."
> say (smugly) get good
"Get good," you say, smugly.
Can we PLEASE get a method to fill seed boxes from seed sacks?! like, FILL BOX FROM or -something-?
I haven't felt the urge to log in again after realizing that there is a random artifact that apparently everyone and their uncle has -- that allows them to read other people's thoughts.
It might be nice to have some kind of inner-think command so I'm not spamming everyone in the room with my character's interior development. Or failing that, some kind of other-artifact (a tin foil hat!) or skill that allows somebody to "think quietly" in a way that can be defended through game mechanics.
Also, you may have just been incredibly unlucky in that ( if you're referring to the rp scene I think you are) you just happened to be chilling with two characters where reading/delving into the minds of others is a big part of their schtick.
But later I found out in another rp scene that there is an artifact without any possible defense against it to be learned or developed. Somebody having an artifact has never, even when I played before, struck me as a believable indication of either legitimate-special-ability-gained-through-background-and-story or actual-trained-skill. It's just one of the ways that the game is designed to create income, an element of unfairness that echoes unfairness in the real world.
Since the only response to that is to "just stop" explicitly roleplaying my character's thoughts, it's kind of a downer. Maybe I'll get the energy to creatively wrestle with my suspension of disbelief and figure some other response out that will accomodate the way I'd like to play a roleplaying game, but until then it really just feels as if Aetolia is not manufactured in a way that is conducive to my current gaming mentality, and I don't possess the levels of emotional investment to bypass that discomfort as easily as others might.
Honestly my levels are investment are just the happy thoughts of playing with people I have enjoyed playing with in the past. There are other games existing that suit my mentality more, it's just that unfortunately they do not have awesome Sibattis in them.
I'm not necessarily trying to whine that "if you don't take my suggestions and fix this I'm leaving waaahh", because I probably will log in again after all and get over it. I'm just leaving a suggestion to fix an annoyance that may also be an annoyance to others, while remaining true to the let's-cause-massive-bloat design model that Aetolia uses. I mean somehow while I was gone you all found a way to generate like fifty different extra kinds of semi-OOC currency. Kudos. What the hell are keystones tho.
TLDR; plz add a 50,000 credit tin foil hat artifact that I will never buy and just pretend to have by never using the think command, which seems to be the typical yet ultimately disingenuous response to this rp-conundrum.
However, consider this: The rp of my character does not start and end with the commands I type into a prompt! There’s a constant stream of notions, abstract ideas, feelings, moods, prejudices, etc. behind the-scenes that don't warrant or deserve explicit recognition or acknowledgement of their validity via the game's mechanics.
In other words, the magic formula that makes your character who he is doesn't have to exist anywhere but your own mind. And if you still find it difficult to wrap your head around it all, do what I do and treat it like there's multiple layers of thoughts and thinking out there. Surface thoughts that float near the surface, or are maybe "louder" or less controlled, and ones that are more closely-guarded or even secret.
So feel free to thinktalk as much smack about him as you want I guess. I rarely use think myself. I think it's hard to RP genuine thoughts.
I do unironically think there should be a way to conceal one's thoughts. It's purely an RP tool. Let people have deeper thoughts that others can't read if they want.
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On others, I tend not to react too much or too obviously to thoughts that Elene has read, or if I do, I tend to insert it in subtly so it's up to them to realise if Elene read their mind or not. I find this often plays out quite well!
Thinks also help immensely with getting the mood of the scene right, also! This is especially helpful with people I don't RP with often. It takes awhile to know a character, and picking up little mannerisms and quirks take time. E.g. That subtle difference between Sibatti looking at you because she wants to eat your face, or because she wants to eat your face.
Having said that, non-divine people are generally pretty good at not being obnoxious about reacting to other non-divine people's thoughts for the most part. That people are interacting with yours is likely just a sign that they found them interesting enough to.
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