Roleplay

[A51 Shipper]

RP is such a subjective thing. Two people can see rp so differently.

Here I must first apologise to VIPER. And here's the situation.

1. Shipper undocks from Manhattan and dead ahead is Viper attacking ships. So Shipper watches, VIPER must be aware shipper is there, they are close.

2. Viper kills two ships and Shipper realises that he is killing without reason.

3. Shipper scans VIPER and finds police and other good aligned pilots in his hold. Some 20 of them.

4. Viper, in front of Shipper from between 1k to 4k away continues to kill liberty police, then he destroys a neutral trader, again for no reason.

5. At 4k out Shipper opens fire, Viper is not hit. As Viper closes on Shipper he opens up. Viper dies but this was at the hands of another PC, a liberty police that had also engaged Viper.

Now in hindsight, using Discovery rules only I should have engaged in coversation (how this can be called rp I have no idea).

Now in real life, no policeman or citizen, merc or army office with weapons is going to think twice about asking a homicidal maniac to stop killing kids. He is just going to shoot! Nothing more or less.

I've been trying to apologise to Viper for not adhering to Discovery rules but have not seen him on. I'm also prepared to pay damages. But seriously, this can not be seen as rp, needing to talk first. I agree it must be done, but please call it a Discovery rule, not rp. Roleplaying should mirror what would really happen, in real life had that been a real life situation. Had it been a real life situation I would have been shot for not openning up on Viper sooner. Would love all of your opinions and believe me I'm open to changing mine!

Tallyho what!!

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