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When I tell players that I am always watching, I really do mean it.
I enjoy being mostly hands-off where my Order is concerned.
I dislike OOC familiarity because I feel it would bleed into the game and influence the player's character perception of Chakrasul. This is why I never reply to OOC messages, unless it is admin-related.
I would like to usurp Severn as the ultimate villain but on the same vein, I believe that would never happen, so I settle for being an antagonizer.
I am terrible at RP but wish I was better at it. I don't like to make long, wordy emotes. I do a poor job of adhering to the unspoken 1 emote back-and-forth rule. You are much more likely to get three one-two sentence emotes fired off really quickly from me than a 5 sentence paragraph. I know this probably pisses people off but it's just how my mind works. I also love canned emotes. There's a lot of situations where they are very appropriate and I just don't feel like writing out an emote to smile derpily when I could just derpsmile.
Sometimes I take IC things quite personally OOCly. Usually it's when I can't figure out why a person is acting the way they are. As an example: My character has been really friendly with another character, we are getting along great! The next day they are suddenly mean without explanation. There might be some IC reason for it but I'm probably not going to ask, I'll just stop interacting until they show up and are nice again. I guess I can rationalize some sort of RP justification for it. Maybe Amberlea just doesn't deal with conflict very well.
My public and private interactions can be really inconsistent. I'll be really chipper on CT "Hello everyone!" even if my character is sad or angry and frowning/thinkmoting bad thoughts.
I tip the roulette/blackjack NPCs. It makes no sense. They never interact with me and the gold just poofs. I've done it on all my characters in all the games I've ever played. It's a weird compulsion.
I feel guilty that people don't get the reactions they want out of my characters. It's not that I'm unflappable, I'm just hard to flap in certain ways.
I always want my characters to be special to a divine but freeze up when they speak to me. In a blind panic I usually eek out thank you and then go hide.
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i am rapture coder
Between getting stuck in quote boxes and double quote-boxing, this software drives me batty. No. Veovis was discovered as Abhorash's plant in Bloodloch after the coup. Realizing that he couldn't do what Abhorash wanted, he threw most of the senior Bouchard and Bahir'an involved in the coup out of Bloodloch (as an eye for an eye thing), and took some gold from a ministry account (which in his mind belonged to Abhorash anyway) and gave it to the resistance. Didn't think that was a shrubbable offense, but I learnt otherwise.
Katszia is the first character I've had that isn't really afraid of Gods. Divine/mortal RP has always been one of my very favorite aspects of IRE games, and all of my characters have had a healthy dose of respectful fear for the Gods. I think Katszia has a few screws loose in that regard. Like, she knows they're stronger than she is and that a whim could kill her (and have), but it just doesn't quite hit that self-preservation or awe button? It's weird!
I get super paranoid/nervous in big groups RPing, mostly because trying to make the $ symbols work to direct emotes at people fail so often with me and it's embarrassing when that happens! So for the most part Katszia stands back in crowds and says and does very little. Part of that is her liking to be the silent observer in those cases, and part of it is me freaking out a little as the player.
My OCD trips when I accidentally start emotes with the ( to omit the name to start, and then I forget to add the ) to close it off and I instantly have this need to want to re-emote it correctly... but almost never do because I don't want to spam whoever I'm RPing with.
I RP by myself A LOT. It's not unheard of for me to have Kat in her haven and to just start... RPing about whatever, anything from little personal prayers to one God or another, or simple things like reading in the library or watching the fish in her pond or whatever else comes up. It's great character development, and sometimes company shows up, which is always fun too!
I envy people who have awesome backgrounds for their characters. I used to have in-depth stories for all my characters I'd make, but any more I forget the details more often than not so I mostly gave up on that.
"The smell of dusty fur, sweet smoke, waiting and patience, a thing that time cannot kill. The moth that candles won't burn."
Good to know though. Guess people may not be as abject to emotes being fixed as I thought.
*So. I mudsex. Not a whole lot, but whatever. It's a thing that happens. When I do, though, I purposefully try to avoid the words that I'm aware of that ping omni, not because I'm overly worried about the gods watching my (typically untargetted) mudsex, but because I'd think that would be -hella- annoying. Being a god and doing god things/work/RP and then all of a sudden wall-of-sext emote that you only got 'cause it has the word 'rhythm' or something in it. Invariably, though, it makes me cringe, because I go out of my way to avoid it, and then the person I'm RPing with, turns right around and hits like six or seven gods in the same emote. >.>
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*Man. 246 years old, in the guild that ENTIRE time, minus the eighteen startup years, so 228 years of being a guilded Bloodborn, including a ridiculous amount of that time as a Consul/HoN/GM and she's only JUST gotten to hear the guild's creation story. Because it's not documented anywhere and only like. Veovis, Seric and Irawn know it. You can -bet- she's going to write all this down and put it into a book, so it's known by future members of the guild. >.>
ETA: @Brae Your card-holding people have a really high estimation of people in Aetolia's ability to mudsex. Just saying.
*My confession is that this isn't even the strangest conversation I've had with him.
I had a statistics final when the reveal event was happening, so I don't remember exactly how the guild was discovered, just the generalities. I didn't actually get to have Veovis join until an RL day or two later if I remember correctly. That's why he was so hazy about the very, very beginning. When my old computer died I lost all the logs I had of the events from various people, too.
And lo, I have been reckless.
Sorry about that Oleis. It's how Ferrik gets the ladies y'know.
Artifice Disclaimer: This never happened.
Another one is I get horribly emotional if emotional stuff is going on IG. I heard other say it too but if it's sad or heartbreaking RL going on, I am crying my eyes out as I type and the RP goes on. I get so emotionally involved in anything I am interested in, this game, books, movies, tv shows ect.