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Last I checked, it's explicitly in the rules that your alts can have nothing to with one another. No off-screen RP, no sharing of profits, info, items, nothing unless it's things gained OOCly like credits.
It's the same reason someone with an alt in Spinesreach can't know what their alt in Enorian learned. They can HEAR of the alt, if they made a news post or something, but never shall the two meet or interact.
Personally, I think it's stupid for alts to know or chat with one another. Just muddies it up, makes things dumb, slippery slope and whatnot.
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You have the following active defences:
Your boar tattoo has been activated.
Your moon tattoo has been activated.
Your moss tattoo has been activated.
Your mountain tattoo has been activated.
Your armour offers you 28% increased protection to cutting damage.
Your armour offers you 28% increased protection to blunt damage.
You are disregarding your personal safety.
You are blind.
You are deaf.
Your senses are magically heightened.
You have insomnia, and cannot easily go to sleep.
You are tempered against fire damage.
Your vision is heightened to see in the dark.
You walk on a small cushion of air.
You are insulated against the harsh cold.
Your resistance to damage by poison has been increased.
You possess the sight of the third eye.
You are feeling extremely energetic.
You are unnaturally strong.
You are protected from the fangs of serpents.
Your sense of time is heightened, and your reactions are speeded.
You are utilising your bodily control to make yourself more fit.
Your mind has been touched by the essence of the Underking.
Your flesh is fortified against damage.
You are surrounded by a cloak of protection.
Your hands are gripping your wielded items tightly.
Your mind is filled with clarity.
You are protected from hand-held weapons with an aura of rebounding.
You are diverting melee attacks.
You are dodging melee attacks.
You have used great guile to conceal yourself.
Your blood is concentrated.
Your movements are supernaturally fast.
Your body is steeled against magical energies.
You stalk the night as a predator.
You detect the movements of nearby mortals.
You have enhanced your vision to be able to see traces of lifeforce.
You will attempt to parry attacks to your left leg.
You are protected by 38 defences.
Potence, right? Drains WP.
Lifescent might too, idk.
Not seeing the problem with that economy at all.
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Message #17059 Sent By: Oleis Received On: 1/03/2014/17:24
"If it makes you feel better, just checking your artifact list threatens to crash my mudlet."
What I'm talking about is a situation where they weren't both logged in but were supposedly both played as being there, in the same room, at the same time. That's the part that seemed sketchy.
Just knowing of your other character because they're relatively public seems fine. It's the above example that I thought wasn't okay.
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However, I do wonder what the the acceptable / generally accepted protocol is in some other cases. Like, lets say Jim has a billion alts. Jim has an alt that plays Aryanne's kid. Later on, Aryanne starts trying to romance a different alt of Jim, but Jim is pretty close-lipped about his alts and doesn't want to tell me OOCly that's him. For sake of argument, lets say Aryanne's advances are completely Jim's alt's thing. Is it generally OK to assume that acting IC in all cases is the best, and have Jim's alt go for it, maybe eventually marry, making Jim's alt his OTHER alt's step-parent?
In a case like this, what should Jim do? Is there actually an "This is what he should do" protocol?
Alternatively, what if I find out that Jim's alt is Aryanne's kid's player after romancing has begun? Is it okay to continue? Should I stop that line of RP, or tell Jim to pick one of the alts and only be closely tied to the one?
As for your mention of using AIM or Skype to interact together, I'm not sure how that can be taken into account in game since there's no real account of it happening.
But Jim? Jim's pushing it. Jim should know better.
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I've asked admin-types about this kind of scenario before, and it's not against the rules as long as none of the stuff in HELP SECONDS gets broken.
Which, really, isn't difficult to avoid. This sort of thing only creates a roleplaying problem in the sense that, if I'm Ary's kid, I should theoretically -know- Ary's future husband. Maybe not super well, but I should know him. And it also brings up questions like, 'Would Ary marry someone who's never -met- her kid?' 'Is it a breech of the rules to pretend you have, if it's logical from an IC sense that you would?' Etcetera. I mean if I'm married to Ary for three decades in-game, it's not unreasonable to assume I'd have met her kid sometime during that time frame.
There's a character out there that I won't name, but I ended up playing his father, grandmother, great aunt, and fiance. It wasn't on purpose, most of it, I just go where the RP takes me, basically. I don't consider it IC to be like WELP CONNECTED TO CHAR A ON ALT B /AVOID. Or to go, in the same vein, my char -likes- char A, but he's related to alt B, so...nope. That's a break in character. I've never claimed any of them have met each other, though. Mostly because they all have pretty IC reasons to want to avoid each other in that instance.
I think that what Mephi's talking about is highly questionable, in general. I've -also- questioned shops, and been told that as long as you're not pricing things special or giving your alts discounts or what have you, is fine. (Also, you can totally buy non-black non-ballgown things in Bloodloch. >.>)
Question! Backgrounds and their histories. How IC are they? They seem to be IC enough that they can be asked for as (post gr3) tasks and the like, but there's quite a bit of conflicting answers when you ask if the information is knowable via some record somewhere a la honours, or if it's actually ooc information that just gives players more information about your character's backstory/history. Thoughts?