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    My Roleplay Problem: I Suck at Clubbing

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    I had been told for the better part of a decade across five separate MMOs by gatekeepers and 'pillars of the community' that 'people don't really want social RP/slice of life RP/relationship RP, the majority really want XYZ but you don't see it because it's behind the closed doors of a permanent group.'  

    At this point I've accepted that was garbage, and yes, actually that really is what most people want.  With a long term partner/tripod/harem/whatever.  People don't want 'plots,' they don't want adventure or intrigue or mystery, they want to hang out somewhere as an idealized version of themselves and talk about the same damn things they talk about in real life and be affirmed and validated (especially if they do not receive that in 'real life').   Because even behind those closed doors, I found that's what people wanted.

    And that's fine.   It's what people want.  Just not really what I wanted or am proficient at.  And that's just how it is.

    So I've lowered my expectations to something more healthy, and try to be happy with what I get as a roleplayer rather than keep chasing something I've built up in my head that doesn't match up with reality.

     

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    Fish out of water

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    Before reading #15, 'Anything that can go wrong,' based on RP with fellow player Breakaway, check out Breakaway's intro--'Worst Case Ontario!'

     

    Worst Case Ontario:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LOhUVEakTXLKokJvtsoldU1Pr4WUex_CRjFjM8qA4uw/edit

     

    #15, 'Anything that can go wrong.'  Features both our writing in a back and forth fashion.  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fswhgZrREwDFX7W-2V6P9hT2B0-RG3QWTvF0uHQgIVo/edit?usp=sharing

    The Sidhe - CoH lore?

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    I can't answer your lore questions as I'm not a lore expert as some around here are.  I'm new here.

     

    However, if you're telling me this cop is a person caught between--between two worlds, two time periods, two ways of life and that is an important part of their identity then that's exciting to me because that's opportunities for good storytelling as this Sidhe cop makes her way in Paragon City.  One foot in the forest of concrete and steel and one in her identity as Sidhe.  A little bit this, a little bit that.  Again, if I'm reading this right--sorry if I'm not. 

     

    I'd like to hope there's always a place for compelling storytelling.

     

    Also, the idea of a beam rifle wielding Sidhe made me think of Puck/Owen Burnett from 'Gargoyles', so extra points from me for that ;)

    Fish out of water

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    Once upon a time I was a regular player and in-game roleplayer within the online game The Secret World.  At that time we had a large number of refugees from City of Heroes (sometimes figuratively, sometimes quite literally).  I'd never had the chance to experience the game, but all of them spoke so warmly about it I wondered what I had missed.  The setting we 'secret worlders' called home was a relatively good fit for the transplants—modern setting, powers, other dimensions...but all with a cosmic, eldritch horror feel.

     

    Now the shoe is on the other foot.  My 'home' is more or less gone, and my friends have told me that Paragon City is back!  Why not come over and try it?  So just as they fit their heroes to the Secret World, I now take my occult war-fighter out of his grim setting and put him instead in Paragon City, home to superheroes, supervillains, lots of capes...and a very different set of rules.

     

    This is Frank Calhoun's story: on how he adjusts, the new friends he makes, and the new dangers he faces.  I'm very much a novice in Paragon City, but here goes with his 'introduction arc,' and some collaborative stuff I'm doing with friends already here will follow.

     

    ( #1 “Was it something we said?”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eXaC_nS1y4FBy7MWHOxZFTEtgJ3t0pjJUuPZUQ4OIPc/edit

     

    ( #2 “This can't possibly go wrong.”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeSPiZY733paVuLSAfzbWdT33XS3G6ehYq1DyC6tmoI/edit

     

    ( #3 “But why did you punch me?”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/12YfvXg5CikPOp0cAgZ0Kd38BIKqX2PUS_iazoecfIDg/edit

     

    ( #4 “Patience.”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vsbyERxyUe20YUPl_aLcXs5sPZ6SVLTHmal6nkmZaB8/edit

     

    ( #5 “Do they still have sandwiches where you're from?”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FwYRc10CJwxUHrD_eQajZ0ign7hR81VceUcFaYdWt64/edit

     

    ( #6 “My canon is more valid than your canon!”)

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1idmqoUWf2-bsOLyRk1ZBvhD8h6SkQ7DBj3_ef5ig6pI/edit

     

    ( #7, “A familiar face.”) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_jnIQ1msyHr5i4IMiPwQ3CNdbyRyhUKiz67emUtFM5I/edit

     

     

     

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