04-27-2024, 06:08 AM
Hey, premier talk-no-jutsu PC Falke here.
This problem "might makes right, you can't do anything unless you're strong" is actually what I came in here specifically to subvert. I wanted to make a character that evaded these issues, and I think I proved a few times that you can, in fact, talk a fight away. I talked Volt and Zico out of a danger-initiation RP, I got a submission cap without even opening an rpb in a war, I took a shot at Na'Ria and begged her not to kill Eivor and he ended up living (not entirely due to me), and so on. It was fun! I enjoyed subverting the norm like that, and I think I gathered that other people liked seeing it.
Uh. That's all grinded to a halt for multiple years. No pressing political drama because everyone's Avengers'd on the ontologically evil faction, I can't talk people out of squabbling with the ontologically evil faction, they objectively deserve it. But that's not the point I'm trying to make.
In line with this thread, the most pressing issue I can face down relative to current gamestate is the fact that I, as an off-meta IC build, rely entirely on a hypothetical rp partner to listen to me and not danger me. That was alright before, I made it work with Volt and Fichiyare, but ever since this dramatic shift in builds to ether (seriously what happened though) and especially Night Creatures, I'm now relying on them not seeing me as a danger/danger exp for demons, and also them not using the knowledge that they can obliterate me with their meta build in a verb (for a danger/danger exp), before I can even attempt to make the conversation (which I can and have fucked up before).
TLDR; meta being how it is especially in current gamestate (but applying to it at large) makes it just that little bit harder to do what's already—as evidenced by most people here think it's impossible—an extremely difficult thing to do.
I also agree that peace =/= stagnation. The peace times were some of my best rp (stopping the Beast hunt). A lack of combat means that each individual fight is more impactful, which is my personal interest.
This problem "might makes right, you can't do anything unless you're strong" is actually what I came in here specifically to subvert. I wanted to make a character that evaded these issues, and I think I proved a few times that you can, in fact, talk a fight away. I talked Volt and Zico out of a danger-initiation RP, I got a submission cap without even opening an rpb in a war, I took a shot at Na'Ria and begged her not to kill Eivor and he ended up living (not entirely due to me), and so on. It was fun! I enjoyed subverting the norm like that, and I think I gathered that other people liked seeing it.
Uh. That's all grinded to a halt for multiple years. No pressing political drama because everyone's Avengers'd on the ontologically evil faction, I can't talk people out of squabbling with the ontologically evil faction, they objectively deserve it. But that's not the point I'm trying to make.
In line with this thread, the most pressing issue I can face down relative to current gamestate is the fact that I, as an off-meta IC build, rely entirely on a hypothetical rp partner to listen to me and not danger me. That was alright before, I made it work with Volt and Fichiyare, but ever since this dramatic shift in builds to ether (seriously what happened though) and especially Night Creatures, I'm now relying on them not seeing me as a danger/danger exp for demons, and also them not using the knowledge that they can obliterate me with their meta build in a verb (for a danger/danger exp), before I can even attempt to make the conversation (which I can and have fucked up before).
TLDR; meta being how it is especially in current gamestate (but applying to it at large) makes it just that little bit harder to do what's already—as evidenced by most people here think it's impossible—an extremely difficult thing to do.
I also agree that peace =/= stagnation. The peace times were some of my best rp (stopping the Beast hunt). A lack of combat means that each individual fight is more impactful, which is my personal interest.