RP stories

[Jinx]

for the most part, stories are meant to explain things that cannot - or only hardly - be roleplayed ingame. - that is the history of a char ( you don t wanne run around ingame telling every john and jane where you were born and how you grew up ) - yet, it is important to understand what you are now.

so, most stories are totally ooc to know from another players pov - but essential to deal with your char. - in RL, one would easily consider someone "funny" or "strange" - especially when the world was full of rather "special" people like freelancer. - and in RL, one would need consideable time and patience to get to know such people. here in the game, we take the cheap and short route to simply write up a vita of such a person. - and its totally legit - cause who wants to spend their times asking ppl around for their history in an inRP way.

then there are stories that justify stuff - usually stuff that is out of the ordinary. that starts with the simple "i stole it story" which can for all intents and purpose be quite interesting and not at all simple. - up to stories that try to explain why the player is a half-nomad, quarter-god and quarter-sheep.

another part are stories that describe not the past, but the present - especially events that actually happened... sometimes like a dairy, sometimes like a novel. - those stories are often written to explain and describe further on. - the ingame engine can only assist us in RPing so much... sometimes the player feels that what he did and all requires a few more words than one can squeeze into 1.5 chatlines. ( reports to others especially )

the last part are stories that are written just cause the player likes to write stories. short stories .. that are character related and maybe event related, but mostly there to entertain the reader.

for example, i don t write much about my chars. - they are very solid when it comes to being out of the ordinary - there is little to explain about their doings. i try to focus on how i transport my chars ingame - which is - from my pov the most important part ( or else i wouldn t do it ). - for others ... the more important part might be to write about their chars. especially when the game engine simply doesn t offer such individual chars. ( or what would you write when you RPed a half god. - would you tell the common LPI "listen mate, i m a half god, so leave me alone" - the LPI would say "yea alright, and i am Abraham Lincoln and you ll still pay the parking fine for parking right in front of the manhatten docking ring" )

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