Yes, my Death Knight is undead. That kinda goes with, you know, being a Death Knight. Yes, I know she's not a Forsaken. That doesn't make her any less dead. No, your character does not have the magical means to cure undeath and make her living again. I don't care if a lore character whose name I can't remember right now was successfully brought back from undeath, however it happened, your character cannot do it. If it were a feat that were easily performed, I suspect there would be a lot less walking corpses roaming around Azeroth right now.

Failing that, don't plead with me to change my character's story and make her a living DK "just for [you]". If I wanted to play a living character, I wouldn't have rolled a DK. Also, I don't care if you think it's a shame that she's not pretty. If that's what you're looking for, there are plenty of living/not-a-DK/really-a-high-elf types wandering around who'd fit the bill. Don't fixate on my character simply because she's the first one you came across.

Okay, so this was definitely brps worthy (hell, this entire girl is brps worthy, but something happened last night that really needed to be posted).

Okay, so this is gonna be short and sweet, little bit of background information, and what have you.

There is a girl, let's call her K, that I work with. She is very much obsessed with role playing in the Heroes Universe (which is odd to me since she is playing in a world full of super heroes, yet more than once has gone off to convents to try and be a nun... oh yes... tried is the key word). Every time I work with her she begs me to join the website she is on, and I tell her no. I've told her no every single time (but then she starts reading out loud her posts from her phone). When she isn't begging me to join the forum she is on (and no, I'm not even joking when I say she is begging), she keeps asking if she can join the forums that I'm on ("no... we rp sex sometimes... don't join it, you wouldn't like it" is nearly my answer every time). She hasn't given up after at least four months (hell, it might be six). But this isn't what made me stare at her in fear, it was last night when this conversation was had.

Me : *staring off into the distance silently*
K : and I made a new character! Did I tell you? blah blah blah blah blah. She's my new character in the Heroes universe! I'll show you a picture of her cyber cast.
Me : *has grown accustom to tuning her out, and grunts in reply*
K : Her powers are changing the testosterone in men so they'll fight over her.
Me : *blinks* whut?
K : Yeah, she makes them all aggressive, and want her, and then they fight over who gets to be with her.


...
Really!? Come on!
I curled up and fell asleep in a corner after that, whimpering of the horror that I just heard... and wishing I was making this up.

( People. Due to very....affecting issues the part of the RP where Character A accidently stabbed Character B.... Never happened. Due to the affects of it hurting me too much...I should have warned you guys ahead of time that too much drama makes me emotionally unstable and very sick....Once in another RP I got so sick due to the emotional stress of the drama in RP that I threw up.... So.... I'm just asking this once... Please keep the drama between Character B/Character A in RP to a minimum....? If not none...? )



Then WHY DID YOU SUGGEST IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?



If you're going to suggest something that will cause A LOT OF IC DRAMA, LOTS OF PLOT FOR EVERYONE AND SOME WONDERFUL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, DON'T TAKE IT BACK THE NEXT DAY BECAUSE PRETENDYFUNGAME DRAMA MAKES YOU FEEL SICK. :I

Not exactly bad RP, but it might be primed to go sour.

So I join an RP with a character; he's abrasive, he's got mommy issues, highly intelligent, has problems with his social caste, puts everybody down when he can, never had a girlfriend because LOL LEARNING IS COOLER THAN WIMMINS, high-class snob, etc. He's pretty much 'holier-than-thou' if it were defined.

About one hour later, a new character gets accepted. She's...abrasive, has daddy issues, highly intelligent, has problems with her social caste, tends to put people down, never had a boyfriend because LOL I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO...LIKE LEARN, high-class snob, etc. Is pretty much 'holier-than-thou' if it were defined.

My boy's turn-ons are: smokers, blue eyes, intelligence. (he's a reclusive virgin who's a little terrified of women). She's got blue eyes, smokes and is intelligent. She's a Leo, he's a Scorpio, and apparently those signs in relation mean 'A dramatic and passionate relationship', though the signs I could be reading too much into. They work in the same place, and both of their jobs/situations are eerily similar. She fears the exact situation that he's gotten himself into, which is prime for him being her woobie and her using her socialstatus!!11!one! to get him back into the public's good graces, despite his predicament, and to do what he's dedicated his life to, which is to make mommy happy (and she'd be damn happy if he found a good high-class girl, because their families are very purity-oriented.)



Basically, she's him if you just added tits.

I'm wondering; should I be worried of 'They're so perfect for each other, see? WE SHOULD PAIR THEM UP!', or am I just a little bit paranoid?

EDIT: Oh guess what? I found her pup's turn-ons. Guess who they describe to the letter? Ayup. And with the Big Bad and the Good Guys of the RP, my boy's indifferent. So is their girl. On teh evol skillz of the RP, my boy's pretty much 'It's cool to use them when you need to, but I wouldn't go overkill'. Her girl is, 'I'm fascinated by them, and I think it's perfectly acceptable to use them when you have to. I wouldn't go overboard with them, though'.
And her girl's mother has been pressuring her into getting married soon. My boy's been getting prodded by his mom to get married for years. Mmhm.

You've been back RPing for three days after swearing last year you could never RP again because God himself told you not to. You just posted your profile and first post and seemed very excited about it all.

And then you post this?

"Hey guys, I've got some news. I'm going to quit RPing again for good. Sorry for any pain I've caused. X out everything RP I've done on here. I have a great destiny ahead of me. And I hope God finds all of you too. So long. Or, rather, that you find him. So long."

I'm just kind of bewildered to be honest. This came out of nowhere. I mean, if you're gonna vanish at least have the decency to flounce for fuck sake.

He'll probably be back next year anyways. XD

When exactly did your character become more important than mine, or anyone else? I've missed a session or two, we all have. None of us complained when the rest of the group played through without us. You miss one session and what, did we burst your fantasy bubble? Is it suddenly not real enough for you? It's bad enough that you threw this huffy, passive-aggressive tantrum when you learned we'd played a session without you, but now you refuse to show up at all? Seriously, are you six years old?

If you app a character you know mine needs, in terms of being very close canonically, and you talk about how you're so excited to play them and interact with my pup, I don't think it's unreasonable for me to think you might actually post with them, occasionally. Or, at all.

We're talking months now. I'm still waiting.

There is something very wrong with a grown man who describes his 10-13 year old male characters (the only kind he plays, to my knowledge) like he was writing Harlequin romance novels.
( Here, have some skeevy examples )

[EDIT]
Epic wank in comments below. Creepy descriptions are creepy, regardless of whether player is actually a perv or not. Edited for rewording.

This might just be my anger talking, as it usually does, but we'll see if I'm just making something out of nothing.

With recent weather changes I've been having yo-yo type of sinus issues (I mean, really, when we go from sixty degree weather and sunny one day to twenty degrees and snow/flurries and back to fifty with sun, it's bound to mess me up) and with those I haven't been feeling very well at the very least. Which means I don't really have the brain to RP at the moment, coherent sentences and such are far beyond my grasping. That coupled with work makes me just want to sleep or have nice conversation in the chat without having to worry about tags. Everyone else understands this, why don't you?

I tell you simply that I'll get around to tagging it later when I can form coherent sentences, at first you understand and back off. However, when you come back less than thirty minutes later pestering me for a tag, it makes me want to fucking smack you. I told you, I'm not feeling well and thus do not want to make a shitty little tag because of it. Really.

You back off again which thankfully lasts longer than thirty minutes, but less than an hour. And we're back to the same routine. Shit, just... please, just back off and let me feel better. I'm doing this so you have something better to tag to when my brain can form proper words and sentences.

Dear Ms. Impatient,

Please take a chill pill and do something else why you wait for others to respond. ( Click for the full rant! )

Number one:

Why don't I listen to myself? I knew it'd be a bad idea to make a young, relatively good-looking priest character in this group. Everyone else is marvelous... it's just you.

Listen. I know your character (let's call him Fabio) is a self-proclaimed 'man-whore'. I also know he's gay. I also know you have a thing for 'corrupting' Catholic schoolboys in roleplays, so I shouldn't have been surprised when Fabio started to make moves on my priest (we'll call him Terrance).
Terrance is bisexual. I said so myself. However, he is first and foremost a priest! You know what that means? Oh yeah, none of your beloved buttsecks with your darling Fabio. No, just because he's bisexual does not mean he is constantly horny and wants to fuck everyone. Yes, it is possible to ignore hormonal urges, that's sort of the point of abstinence. No, Terrance did not appreciate Fabio groping his ass and telling him he thinks Christian men are hot, and no matter how often that happens it will not make him like it. So please, please don't get pissy with me OOC because you can't 'corrupt' the sweet, angelic (actually he's pretty nasty to people, where are you getting this angelic crap from) priest.

And most importantly, don't call me homophobic and a fundie just because my character follows his religion!

Number Two:

You're a good friend and you're an amazing artist. As such, I was really honored when you asked me to help make graphics for your roleplay board. But then things began to crop up. I recognized poses and character designs from artists I follow appear, apparently, from your hand. You said you just 'refrenced the pose'... I don't want to lose you as a friend, but when I'm slaving away making graphics, would it kill you to put in the same effort I know you can do?

(also it's not very nice to steal, you know.)

Dear admin,

If you're going to make anyone attempting to affiliate with you to use "the correct template," maybe you should post a template. Any template at all. Other than just asking we supply you with the banner code.

You requested I add a link to the site and try again. I did. You banned me. This is after I reread the rules, looking for that mysterious template you were referring to, and found nothing. The affiliation requests before mine? Same thing. Just had the banner code. They were accepted.

Maybe next time you should just consider saying "no" instead of playing these fucking games, eh?

No love at all,
Me

UPDATE: Oh, and apparently you saw fit to ban me from the cbox too, eh? Nice. I mean, I know I hadn't said a peep in there, but I can see the logic. After all, I might have tried getting with staff to figure out what the hell was going on. Like I just tried to do, and got a nice little message saying "your message cannot be posted, because you have been banned." Think I'll go ahead and take down your banner and ad now.

UPDATE the 2nd: D'oh, found the error; t'was a case of user / code fail. It was another site that pointed it out though, so, kudos to them for actually being helpful.

Dear you,

Please don't bring your gaybies into this realistic RP. Men can't give birth unless they were a woman when they got pregnant and had a sex change, plus decided to keep the child. We know these characters have always been men. So stop it.

From a rather confused me.

Dear You


I understand that you like this yaoi pairing. I have no liking for it whatsoever - or slash in general - but, I accept that you like this pairing.

However, the character that I am using is a fan-child of one of the characters in this pairing, and HER PARENTS ARE STILL A COUPLE.

Wanting to make sure that there would not be confusion and/or drama later on, I asked you, several times, if you didn;t mind me using her, since this split up your OTP. You told me you didn't mind, so we got on with the RP.

You have stated you didn't mind me using a fanchild, and therefore, setting her parents as a couple for this roleplay - so please, PLEASE STOP IMPLYING THAT ANYTHING HAPPENED WITH YOUR OTP.

I understand that you love it, just as much as I love fanchild's parents as a couple, and yet you continue to imply that your OTP has/will/did happen in this RPs timeline.

I have no idea why this is pissing me off so much, but it is. That's why I'm not calling you out on it.


With much love, and hoping my feeling of dread is simply me being paranoid
Myself.



EDIT: Dear Person who different friend and I allowed to lurk while we RP'd -


Don't you fucking DARE imply that there is anything sexual about a seven year old child, who has not seen her father for over a year, snuggling her face into his chest, while he hugs her.
I'm pretty sick of you turning every RP I let you lurkwatch into something sexual.

Gtfo, please.
Claire~

If your Ventrue vampire has been in torpor for 30 years. He is not going to wake up and be able to control the beast to the point he can go steal a car, throwing aside the non-preferred prey. Go to a club, find preferred prey, and feed without killing her. You’re god damn hungry as hell. You are going to munch on the first thing, containing blood, that crosses your path.

Then go to his old business and find his old HUMAN business partner (who is NOT a Ghoul to any vampire) unaged and ready to accept him back with a simple “Oh my god you’re alive. Welcome back” manly hugs involved.

And I’m not even going to mention how he’s not going to keep his underworld, corporate or any other ties, Influence, Status, or contacts by not being around for 30 frickin years.

Try again dumb ass.

Y'know, I realize this is somewhat nit-picky, and since I'm not a mod in the game I can't do much more than facepalm and actively avoid this player and her characters, since the mods kind of let this sort of stuff slide (too often, but that's another rant on quality and their lack of standards despite claiming to possess them). Basically, if the characters aren't completely setting-breaking, they'll just handwave it in and pretend the square peg fits in the round hole while the rest of us players cringe in anticipation of more fail.

Anyway.

( Wraaagharble. )

1. Cheat on your stats, giving yourself a chunk more than you should have. (For reference: he gave himself approximately four times as much as he should have had and then thought no one would notice.)
2. Enter a battle, assuming no one will notice this.
3. Get caught. Dur.
4. Get docked the stats you didn't have plus that much more off what you should for being a cheater, which has been done pretty consistently to anyone who gets caught cheating in that manner for about three years on the site now.
5. Whine about it publicly and say you're quitting, then threaten to spam the site with porn every day until we ban your IP. Conveniently leave out that the fact you think the administration is 'irritating' you and that we're 'attacking [your] credibility' because we caught you cheating your stats.
6. Get permabanned. Because duh.

A while back I did something that classified me, in that moment, as a bad RPer.

In an effort to provide a friend with an excuse out of something in character that was bothering her, I broke the out of game/IC line and had my character go a little overboard in something he was doing in the hopes that it would initiate what I knew my friend (not her character) was looking for.

Although it is normal for my character to go overboard in things, and in that instance it was realistic for him to do what he did, the very fact that I consciously made the decision to do something based on out of game knowledge (that my character didn't have) is what classifies that moment as a bad RPer moment.

Now, here's the part where I might be tempted to feel bad for that. And indeed, maybe I should. However, in a way I'm somewhat thankful for my bad decision, because it gave me, that person, as well as some other people a chance to initiate some really awesome fallout RP. I'm very blessed that I had people willing to roll with my mistake, and that things turned out for the better.

A tip for people interested in player plots:

If you decide to coordinate a plot so overarching and complex that it not only sweeps up all your castmates but also most of the other characters in the game, it isn't very nice to drop as soon as your character starts to taste some consequences.

Yes she was clever, yes she was educated, yes she knew what she was doing. She was good at it, and it's always been fun to watch. But there are some very observant characters in the game, and they noticed what she was doing. You knew they were going to notice. It came up more than once in OOC chat, and you agreed.

Waiting until everyone is taking their places and setting things into motion to bring the plot to its intended climactic conclusion to announce you've "lost the muse," don't want to do this anymore, and then dropping her--all within five minutes of another character officially calling yours out? That's what's called a dick move.

My character wasn't even a major player in the plot and she probably wouldn't have gotten to do much in the climax, but seeing what you did to those characters who did play the major roles and have been working on this plot for months pisses me off.

I've been roleplaying with you for several years now. I've always thought you were awesome, and we've helped each other through some real-life stuff. We even accumulated over 40 roleplays that we do with each other when we feel like it, and it's worked out very well since the long gone days of Neopets and Gaia Online.

But when you get me into a genre that you were excited about more than I was, and I finally get into it and develop ideas, ways that it could work out, you are the one who is "never in the mood to roleplay it." You're "burnt out" on it, when we haven't touched it in months. I find myself always doing what you want to do, because you've begun to pull the "my life is so much more terrible than yours because I have a job and my mom died" card every time I try to get you to do something else.

You're not that bad a roleplayer. Just increasingly selfish as time goes on. And I'm probably not letting you get me into any new anime either, roleplayer friend.

Just saying.