How to RP a keeper?

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Well, first things first, as the others have recommended already, read the Nomad Lore. Back when I was starting to get familiar with Nomad RP, that's the first thing I've done.
You might not memorize it all right away, but it'll give you a sense of what to do at first. It helps a lot as a point of reference.

Furthermore, go on your morph whenever you see a Keeper online. We'll -always- RP with a morph, especially if it initiates RP with us itself.
For example, I was setting up a character in Iota yesterday, a morph contacted me with an in-RP PM, we started RPing, and it all ended up in about an hour of RP with multiple Keepers, a run around the Omicrons, and culminated in a nice fun gank (Indeed not joking, it was still amazing fun) in a system we shall not name.:P

Bottom line is, just try and be around those who are knowledgeable in RPing them, and don't be afraid to ask questions. We indeed do not bite.

And just to let off a few hints for starters, regarding "Nom speech".
Let me paste something here.

Keepers, just like Nomads, don't talk in a regular manner, they use telepathy. While it does allow some form of communication it has be done with great care. A nomad/keeper player cannot simply talk to human characters like anyone else does, instead there are several rules.

First of all telepathic messages are identified by three asterisks in the beginning, and optionally at the end. What goes in between is not a speech, but supposed interpretation of the telepathic message by the humans. In short the message have to be encoded in a puzzle form, vague and ambiguous. It's what the human players understand and how they interpret the signal. A description of the transmitting vision is encased into circular brackets, but have the same three asterisks in the beginning.

Keep in mind that it's not the words being sent to your target, it's visions and associations, a direct thoughts, not a human speech.

* Keepers don't want peace and they don't seek it as there is no gain in it from their perspective.
* Keepers may refer to themselves as a lighting, for example a shining star would mean themselves in the conversation.
* Their ship/character names do not really exist within the context of roleplay.
* They don't insult anyone.

What's in ()'s is always either a vision being conveyed to the "targetee", or an expressed emotion. It is very easy to figure out which it is from the context itself.
Don't consider things in ()'s words, but more like images being transmitted.

And basically, also read some stories, that always helps. The Keepers Faction Status lists several story examples, all of them containing samples of telepathic speech.

Especially try This One.

And don't be afraid to ask any of us.
I personally am not yet -that- experienced, but I like to think I have a sufficient grip of all the RP which I'm building up and up.

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