There’s no joy to be got in posting over there. A known bad actor with a thread hundreds of posts long came in spewing her bullshit and they not only treated it credulously but started making up narratives that could paint others in a negative light.
That site is the grease trap at the bottom of the MU* community. Everyone who is not a complete piece of shit has moved, and posting there is just for that clown show to pick apart in a safe space for them.
simplications if you’re reading this:
No hard feelings. I felt awful that you got banned. If I’d read what I wrote from the perspective you had, I would have wanted to scream at me too.
I didn’t really understand what I was getting involved in. I’m not gonna say y’all over here are nice, but you don’t seem like you have malice.
Whenever I hear that awful people like Macha have friends I just wonder what kind of person stays in the orbit of someone like that. Ghost answers that question. Imagine being a simp for Macha.
lol set the record straight to the five people that still use MSB
I think it’s impossible to approach this issue without first deciding what you want to incentivize, most importantly whether you want to see generalist or specialist characters. The mechanical solutions for each are going to be complete opposites.
I don’t think anyone here wants to play a bigot or have bigotry-related RP. I do think there is a meaningful difference between This is the real 1920s with everything that means but we’re not going to have themes of bigotry in scenes and This is a different 1920s where bigotry has been solved. That distinction is going to be important for some groups of players (either way).
@Roz said in ETO Drama Fork:
@shit-piss-love You can find all the context starting here! It was a wild conversation spanning many pages, but it was at least a contained conversation.
What I needed in my life today was a half dozen full on belly chuckles and this delivered, thank you.
edit: I had almost stopped at him trying to shame people for having boundaries with “Mind you, you have to soft verify you’re over 18 to play on this MUSH.” and I am glad I didn’t because it just got better and better. Don’t you love it when you can smell someone’s belief structure through the internet?
double edit: Holy shit I need to find a way to work “I wouldn’t have to mainsplain if ya’ll would stop being wrong about the facts.” into my future conversations.
I really like that you laid out a narrow focus for the themes and tone you want in the Thematic Integrity section. Nothing takes me out of the gritty futuristic economic horror or whatnot faster than getting a message delivered by Fluffles the Rainbow Colored Corgi.
I got the bug to work on a new Evennia MUSH project. Help me workshop some ideas. I’ve got two that are fleshed out enough for elevator pitches at the moment. Would love any feedback.
Do either of these sound like things you would want to play? What questions do these pitches inspire? Do these get your creative juices flowing? What kind of characters could you see yourself playing? Any and all thoughts are welcome.
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Ten Thousand Burning Stars
A Sci-Fi Epic About Identity and The Use of Power
A massive starship drifts through interstellar space until it is caught in the event horizon of a lonely sun. Light and warmth touch the hull for the first time in untold millenia, and it comes alive in fits and starts. A handful of ancient stasis pods disgorge their occupants, shivering and afraid. They have no names. No histories. No understanding of the labyrinthine vessel that is their new birthright.
Inspired in part by Xenophon’s tale of the Ten Thousand, this is a science fiction game about building a community from nothing. Of forging trust between strangers and working together to overcome even stranger opposition. And of how struggles for power test the strongest bonds to the point of breaking.
Unfolding in distinct seasons each with their own theme and focus, PCs will play starfarers that struggle constantly with concepts of Identity. Their own, surely, but also those of the communities they form. And, ultimately, that of the transformative force that is The Ship. A rising power that cannot help but alter the fates of the worlds lying in its path.
Touchstones: The Foundation series, Farscape, Event Horizon, Dune
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Liberty
A Transgressive Inversion of Lords and Ladies Genre
A game of political intrigue in a fantasy realm where the corrupt domination of the ruling class has set a course toward events mirroring the French Revolution. Rather than taking on the roles of the society’s noble movers and shakers enforcing the cultural hegemony, PCs are instead limited to roles that place them at odds with the prevailing social order; lower classes, criminals, members of oppressed groups and the very few with a little bit of legitimate power that are trying to walk the line between duty and compassion.
This game is about Punching Up. It is about hopeful people trying to shape the future into something less hopeless and it is about angry people taking vengeance upon those who have kept them in bondage. Lords and Ladies are primarily antagonists, the religious orders are bulwarks of ignorance, and the aftermath of a devastating war has left a generation of haunted soldiers standing apart from civilization.
There are other games that offer an escapist experience of historical fantasy roleplay in a world that subscribes to our modern sensibilities. This game’s escapism is about the spilled blood, fire, and ruthless commitment that it might take to make such a world.
Touchstones: The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Sails, Turn: Washington’s Spies, The Assassin’s Creed franchise
@Jennkryst fuuuuuck that one hurts too. Tina was a real one.
@sao Same. Ever since I first saw him in Rome, anything I saw he had a role in was a watch for me even if I didn’t have high expectations. He just brought so much earnest energy to his performances and it made him a pleasure to watch in everything. While I remember him most for Titus Pullo, he also gave us my favorite Blackbeard in Black Sails.
@Pacha said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
There is often a lot of what I will call “tonal whiplash” where there is a terrible civil war, or some other disastrous thing going in in the background, but all the player events going on day to day are like a pet fashion show or a slam poetry contest. I understand why this happens and of course anyone who runs anything on a MUSH these days is an angel, but I sometimes just wish there was a bit more “bite” to some of the day to day RP. Which, I am sure someone will tell me it is there but…(see point 2)
Are you me? This is exactly what eventually pushed me away from that game.
@Jennkryst said in Happy Birthday BMD:
BASK IN OUR MEAN, EVIL CRUELTY!
No, stop it. Please. Definitely don’t post any more mean, strong women. Certainly no ice queen witches and definitely not any sassy blondes. I just hate that. Especially no sassy blondes who are also ice queen witches I beg you.
@icanbeyourmuse said in MU* Wishlists:
@shit-piss-love said in MU* Wishlists:
My wish is actually a game that supports PvP very well and not liking someone IC and OOC is considered fine
Isn’t that basically what MUDs are? Each mud I’ve tried has just been pvping people with all the code stuff.
Huh that’s interesting. I always felt the defining feature of MUDs was their focus on PvE over human interaction. Makes me wonder that a lack of coded systems to enforce fair play contributes to PvP not working out in a MUSH/X format.
To clarify my wish; I want a MU* where I do not have to think about the real people behind the characters and can act entirely IC, and not have that negatively impact my outcomes. I recognize this is not a wish that can be fulfilled; the human element is precisely why there are so many problems in MU* and there’s no way to prevent OOC from getting involved.
Y’all went on this whole gif train and I didn’t get one upvote. Badguys confirmed.
Wild to me that it was less than a year ago that I was under the impression y’all were the villains. Still have not played a game with anyone here yet though.
My wish is actually a game that supports PvP very well and not liking someone IC and OOC is considered fine. Some people suck, and murdering their PC is enjoyable. I want to assassinate dinos. I want be a villain that people hate and let them feel the catharsis of taking that character down and I don’t want to water down the experience by having everyone involved aware of my sheet and collaborating to tell a compromised story.
The part where this is a fantastical wish is I’d like this to work and not turn into the staff’s favorite clique playing by different rules and not have to deal with the OOC drama that seems to inevitably slip into MU* games when you play this way.
@Jumpscare Congratulations!
I am planning to come out of retirement to try this.
Is it a roster game or OCs or both?