Comments on: What was I thinking?!

By: swanofgrey

swanofgrey — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:12:45 +0000

The most I do while drinking is write the posts of my characters having conversations amongst themselves. Nobody is affected there beyond my own characters… and if I wake up the next day and go “Oh what the hell?” I can edit the post.

I usually go to bed before exhaustion gets too bad. “Riding the Nexus” sometimes just has to be done.

And although it’s technically not an illness, I can say I’m definitely going through some emotional and just all around squicky feelings presently.. hence the abrupt disappearance of my RP presence.

I figure if anyone can’t understand why I’m not there or wish to be jerkweeds about it, they can bite my irritable preggo butt. Thankfully everyone so far seems to be really cool about it. Yay!

By: elf_fu

elf_fu — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:51:39 +0000

Do not role play when drinking. Even a glass. Do not role play with OTHER people who have been drinking, ever. Generally avoid even talking to them OOCly when drunk.

Some of the sweetest, nicest, most awesome people I know/knew when drinking, turned into some very scary people online. If I find out they’ve been drinking I just politely excuse myself and find something else to do.

One time, in Role Play camp, (STORY TIME!) I think about three years ago, a partner I played with semi-often kept pressuring me to try modern or sci-fi. (Back when I refused/couldn’t.) I told them I really can’t do it, it’s just not my thing. They kept pestering me until for some reason (WHAT WAS I THINKING) I said okay, and decided to try it.

Omg. Twenty minutes in, and I had identified the plots of at least three different movies, including the Fifth Element, and while I don’t mind BORROWING this person had just mooshed a bunch of movies together and left it. Not to mention in the middle of it they started sending me “futuristic” clothing shots telling me how good my character would look in trhjsdhjadssdksdsfsdsd I said “Wow, you know, so sorry, but I can’t play futuristic. I tried. And I’m not really comfortable with your OOC behavior.”

Apparently “I’m not really comfortable” = “OMFG I HATE U”

Anyway, tl;dr: No role play while drinking and/or with people drinking.
Suspicion when role player begins hounding me to play a certain thing even after politely saying no

…God, I didn’t realize how many What the hell was I thinking? Moments I had :B

By: Lilithiel

Lilithiel — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:47:03 +0000

My rules for avoiding bad ideas when roleplaying online are to mostly not RP drunk, and if a fight scene is going on for more than an hour, to tell the other people OOC that I have to crash, and that’s not an invitation to take IC liberties with my characters.

Most of the retarded situations I’ve seen others get into stemmed from roleplaying drunk, and revolved around killing their characters off. /sigh