MU Peeves Thread

mietze

@Polk why not put out a query more public, maybe you might have met some new people that would have loved to participate.

Polk

@mietze I do that, too! I post events, I mass @mail people.

But I know people are different. Likewise I’m weird about my own things in games. I hate big party scenes. My WoD scenes are almost never at night.

We all do our own thing, and the big social hobnobbing just is more visible than secret plotty shenanigans, sometimes.

This isn’t to say there aren’t games where the plot is clique-locked. That’s true. But I try not to play on those.

sao

@Third-Eye WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Gashlycrumb

@sao said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Third-Eye WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

I am not shocked, having had this exchange:

Enraged GM: “I ought to ban you! You told Player that I said I don’t have time for you!”

Me: “You did say that.”

EGM: “Yeah, but when you say it it sounds like I said you’re not important!”

SpaceKhomeini

@Gashlycrumb that sounds like an…

Escplosion.

Cobalt

@SpaceKhomeini no

Do not speak the forbidden words.

Polk

@SpaceKhomeini said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Gashlycrumb that sounds like an…

Escplosion.

In hindsight I’m so lucky I didn’t play Mage under that clown. I met some nice people there, but he and I would have butted heads very, very quickly.

I’m active. I ask questions. I try to do things and to understand the reasoning behind rulings. The first time he tried to bite my head off for asking the wrong question I’d have launched a rhetorical nuke and left.

And then I’d not have met the nice people I met there, before the culture of STing he fostered on that game eventually led me to do that anyway.

Gashlycrumb

@SpaceKhomeini Haha! Sounds like, but no. This person was fond of complaining about Escalus, but made him look a paragon of fun, fair-mindedness and competence.

Really, if you don’t take it to heart when Escalus screams his head off at you for some mystifying and petty reason, he’s not so bad. It took me years to figure out that he wasn’t joking when he does that, and I never did get over it giving me the giggles.

bear_necessities

My favorite story about Esc is when he told me to stop paging him because I said thank you for explaining something to me I keep this log because it still makes me LOL years and years later

From afar (to Escalus and Emma), Zachary (Zach) nods. “We’ll work on it, then. T
hanks for the input.”
<Council> Zachary says, “And I’m off!”
Zachary has disconnected.
<Watch> Zachary has disconnected.
Zachary is not connected.
Unable to page: Zachary
You paged Escalus with ‘Thank you again :)’
Escalus (Esc) pages: Will you stop paging me?

Ahhh. Memories.

Noraaa

My biggest MU* pet peeve is when you start a scene, and everyone poses walking through the door at the same time. It feels like I’m in some sort of sitcom or something.

sitcom

Prospero

@SpaceKhomeini said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Gashlycrumb that sounds like an…

Escplosion.

What’s sad is that as soon as I saw this and Cobalt’s reply, the name came back to me in an instant and I knew who you were talking about despite having not THOUGHT about it in years.

But yeah, searing vivid memory. Haha. Back before I realized how vibrant the meta-community was.

Vulgar Boy

Today my peeve is simple theme questions you’re told to +request and then no one ever claims the request and a week later you still have no answer to a question every character should know. If you don’t want people asking how many moons there are on your weird sci-fi planet, set your game in Sacramento. I know how many moons Sacramento has.

iota

@Noraaa said in MU Peeves Thread:

It feels like I’m in some sort of sitcom or something.

This drives me bonkers as well, which is absurd in itself since… it’s just people walking through a door, yet the visual of person after person doing the same thing is so irksome.

Similar as when an event or scene starts, and players go through the process of their PCs saying hello and greeting one another with little further context. How many minutes and rounds of poses over however many scenes will just become devoted to placid greetings instead of like, story or development or anything else? No. I just cannot.

Which is a convoluted way of saying: I’ve a preference for scenes that start within action already set/agreed as taking place - everybody already being somewhere, doing some thing in proximity, and/or picking up their conversation or whatever; no need for tedious pleasantries and introductions - because the stream of characters all walking through a door en masse and saying ‘hey!’ just tires me out.

Coin

@iota said in MU Peeves Thread:

I’ve a preference for scenes that start within action already set/agreed as taking place - everybody already being somewhere, doing some thing in proximity, and/or picking up their conversation or whatever; no need for tedious pleasantries and introductions

This is how I tend to run my scenes. I give a long expository intro GM pose so everyone knows where they are, why they are there, what they’re there to do, and when it is…

If you wanna chat and do pleasantries, either do it while you’re in the middle of the action or go make your own scene. >.>

Roz

I often end up waiting a round or two to pose in to a group scene like that specifically to avoid the feeling of everyone magically arriving at the same time. Idk I just like to stagger it a lil bit.

Pavel

I usually enter scenes (especially for events/planned things) like this:

sam reich

ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

Coin

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

Pavel

@Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

I think that’s just us on games period.

Coin

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

I think that’s just us on games period.

fair.

i don’t think we’ve been on a game together since New Orleans, tho.

Pavel

@Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Coin said in MU Peeves Thread:

@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:

ETA: Obviously not if my being there the whole time would be intrusive or story-corrupting.

this is exclusively when i’ve been there the entire time

I think that’s just us on games period.

fair.

i don’t think we’ve been on a game together since New Orleans, tho.

We don’t talk about that game.