Asking for RP

It was a little weird and uncomfortable, but when they would rebuff/ignore all attempts to engage, we started to rp with each other while they continued to parallel. They stayed around so I think they were having a good time (or maybe not having a bad time?).

Pyrephox

@Pax said in Asking for RP:

@Sammich said in Asking for RP:

It’s even ‘better’ when you do try figuring out a reason only to have every single one of your suggestions shot down because it wouldn’t be ‘in character’ for them.

A lot of RP has died before it could live because it was sacrificed on the pyre of “bUt ThEy wOuLd NeVeR dO tHaT”. Cool, then I guess the rest of us are RPing and you’re scratching your ass, cheers chief.

SLANDER.

I never get ANY sacrifices. Where are my sacrifices?

Pyrephox

@Pax said in Asking for RP:

If I set, and you don’t say shit, greet, or even notice my character in your first pose, take off your coat because we’re fighting.

I set a lot, and this is infuriating. Nine times out of ten, if I’m setting, I’ve come up with SOMETHING for us to interact about, or at least draw two people together. The quality of my set does vary based on how much I know about the other PC - if they are a black hole of information, it’ll be pretty generic, but there will usually be SOMETHING.

And then some motherfucker wanders in and basically sets up doing something nowhere near what the set entailed, and now I not only had to set, but I have to get myself OUT of the situation I had set, and come over to where you’re doing fuckall? No. Hate.

IoleRae

@mietze said in Asking for RP:

I have actually seen someone parallel RP in a scene instead of engaging with the others (and this was a scene they trawled for!).

It was a little weird and uncomfortable, but when they would rebuff/ignore all attempts to engage, we started to rp with each other while they continued to parallel. They stayed around so I think they were having a good time (or maybe not having a bad time?).

I used to do this when I was a shy child (15-17ish and mushing). I would go into rooms with people and RP doing my own thing in the corner to better learn how to RP.

Faraday

@mietze said in Asking for RP:

I have actually seen someone parallel RP in a scene instead of engaging with the others (and this was a scene they trawled for!).

This is weirdly common–almost the norm–on Storium, which I’ve dabbled in between MUs. It’s like everyone’s just writing their own story, loosely connected by plot threads.

I mention it only because it may be an issue of culture clash.

sao

I think I’m about 50 / 50 on asking / being asked, which probably means my rp partners ask all the time and I don’t realize it because I have the self awareness of a brick.

Ashkuri

@Pyrephox said in Asking for RP:

And then some motherfucker wanders in and basically sets up doing something nowhere near what the set entailed, and now I not only had to set, but I have to get myself OUT of the situation I had set, and come over to where you’re doing fuckall? No. Hate.

This happens to me all the time, lol. I hate it :')

Another gem is they ask to RP or are set “looking for RP”, you go say hello IC, then they RP about how disruptive and annoying you are for coming and talking to them.

mietze

@imstillhere ah yes. the lovely ambush ask for RP.

I have played PCs where that was more common (due to their position, ect.) but usually people would be nice about it if I asked them oocly to tone it down, or to maybe reschedule for later if that’s something they needed to do but I wasn’t prepared to really do it justice.

farfalla

I also hate when the set is otherwise normal except they make themselves impossible to engage. Like bar RP, good, easy enough to engage, but then they pose “Character is deeply engaged in a book and doesn’t notice anything around them.”

GF

@farfalla That’s why I kind of dread setting a scene. So many times I’ll spend fifteen minutes establishing the time, setting, mood, and things I’m doing that could possibly be a hook, and they’ll pose that they walk in wearing this or that outfit, waiting for my character to go engage them. One of these days I’m just going to respond to that with, “I walk over and say, ‘Hey, I noticed you when you walked in because you look like a PC, not like all the NPCs in the background. Want to do something?’”

KarmaBum

@GF I have absolutely given a nod in the meta before to the fact that my character notices someone else’s because otherwise this scene is gonna be over real quick.

STD

@mietze said in Asking for RP:

I have actually seen someone parallel RP in a scene instead of engaging with the others (and this was a scene they trawled for!).

I must be very weird because one of my favorite scenes from Way Back in the Day was basically this.

It was on a Babylon 5 MU* and our two characters were in a bar on the Zoccolo which was playing an ISN feed of a debate between two talking heads.

We took turns posing the ISN feed and didn’t even interact with each other. Somehow it was hugely amusing, though.

mietze

@STD i could see the fun in that but to me that is still interactive RP (you’re responding to each other’s poses just not with your PCs). You’re not ignoring everyone’s poses and not responding to anything in them to just do your own unrelated vignette!

Pavel

@mietze said in Asking for RP:

vignette

I constantly misread this word as vinaigrette . Not really important information, but I figured someone might giggle that my first thought is that people are RPing in some kind of sauce/dressing.

helvetica

@Pavel A vignette? In front of my salad?