An Arx Peeve Thread

Jennkryst

@icanbeyourmuse Yeah, digging through the public ArxCode to try and learn STUFF for my Star Wars THING (that definitely didn’t stall at all, nope, why do you ask?) is… a lot. But it also reminded me of even more commands I learned and then forgot again, so that’s neat!

Gasboy

@shit-piss-love Or they could get more staff. Easier said than done, most of the time.

watno

What happened to this place? Used to be poppin’ 24/7

Roz

@watno There was a discussion over here v recently but the tl;dr from a staffer who commented was just that there’s just been a lot of RL getting in the way of stuff.

crawfish

There’s also a news update as of yesterday.

Tributary

@crawfish said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

There’s also a news update as of yesterday.

I feel this update in my bones.

Everyone is tired. Everyone was tired before, and then things started to pick up a bit after the new year. And then, right when things were starting to gather momentum, the database crash took the wind out of everyone’s sails.

Not just staff, either. A lot of players couldn’t find the momentum that had been lost by that incident, too. Just felt like a little too much.

Because it was a huge setback. It was an emotional situation. I’m sad that it happened.

Polk

@Tributary I just looked that up. Three weeks gone. That’s heartbreaking.

Tchotchke

An event finished with a GM’s player character being sad and the GM forcing all the regular players’ characters to be sad too. Don’t do that. It’s narcissistic and weird. If every time a player’s character was sad they wrote that now everyone else is sad too, that would be rightly ignored.

The alternative I guess is that it was really powerful magic and the GM’s player character had received abilities inaccessible to all regular player characters. Still really weird though. The character wasn’t at or relevant to the event until suddenly a GM wanted to put her center-stage. She came at the end to be sad and totally eclipse anything player characters were doing or feeling.

Don’t take agency away from players.

Cobalt

As a long term player, I’m going to disagree with you. Those the characters in question were NPCs now they both started as PCs and are both really relevant to the history and story of the game. And several PCs were heavily impacted.

kalakh

It’s pretty powerful magic when a demigod splits in half.

Solstice

I would gently encourage rereading the pose preceding that composure check.

Also, a character briefly getting sad from supernatural shit is laughably low stakes when one has already opted into a scene where death is very likely.

Jennkryst

@Solstice Something something, ‘I CONSENT TO (possible) DEATH, I DO NOT CONSENT TO FEELINGS’

Aria

@Jennkryst said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

@Solstice Something something, ‘I CONSENT TO (possible) DEATH, I DO NOT CONSENT TO FEELINGS’

From my BG3 memes group, but seemed relevant.

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Testament

@Aria Durge has entered the chat

Smile

@Tchotchke I’m going to have to assume you definitely didn’t read the pose. It was not a player character and an objectively magical event happened in that pose that lead to those checks.

Idk what gave you the impression people could cite “player agency” over reacting to a magical composure check. That has never been the case in Arx.

Edit to add: Objectively as in someone split into TWO.

kalakh

@Smile said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

@Tchotchke I’m going to have to assume you definitely didn’t read the pose. It was not a player character and an objectively magical event happened in that pose that lead to those checks.

Idk what gave you the impression people could cite “player agency” over reacting to a magical composure check. That has never been the case in Arx.

Edit to add: Objectively as in someone split into TWO.

It was clearly a divisive event ha ha haha

kill me now

Noraaa

@kalakh kills u

heysparky

I definitely missed the pose. But since my character was already sad… guess it’s okay? I was having trouble processing at the end there.

Wild event.

Meg

just a little peeve of myself. i already tried to bring my character back once and failed super miserably, and i know i’d just fail again if i tried too.

this wrapping up stories sound like it will be a lot of fun, but i just know i wouldn’t be able to actually participate.

hope you guys all enjoy!

Jennkryst

I’ve always had fun as Ysbail, but it was always tricksy getting into her because I very much don’t know the lore that she does, and picking clues together that a previous player found was confusing.

I’ll very much be there for the next go-round, hopefully getting in on the ground floor enough that the mysteries make sense as I learn about them and whatnot.

I’ll try to be around for the big finale, foo!