Katja Armitanis

Happy birthday!

*She wanders in, sees everyone on the ceiling, so she walks up the wall and over to the tea party table and makes herself comfortable in a chair.*

Oh, no, no! I wasn't targeting that at YOU, but more using your tangent of conversation as a jumping off point. Sorry if I made it seem that way, it certainly wasn't my intent.

I get your drift, though. I'll be sure to bring my RP-mojo to the table when I'm out and about. I'm still getting used to the game, in general, so I haven't been RPing with the NPC's as much as I usually do. I'm too busy staring at the map going, "You want me to go where?" Seriously, it took me, like, an hour to figure out how to get to the Hollows last night. *lol*

Of course, this brings up a whole different, but similar, issue when it comes to RP communities creating their own dividing lines: The "You have to prove you're worth RPing with" mentality. Why should anyone have to "prove" anything? It sets a daunting and, quite frankly, unfriendly expectation that a new arrival won't be welcome unless they're "up to snuff". It also subtly reeks of Elitism. (*scoff* You aren't good enough to RP with me.)

I roleplay with everyone equally. If I enjoy the RP, then I'll add them to friends and seek them out for more RP. If I don't enjoy it, well, I'll call it a wash and probably not actively seek them out in the future. I won't flat-out avoid them or ignore them should I come across them, they just wouldn't be first on my list to call when I'm in the mood for some RP.

I try to keep in consideration that online RPing is still relatively new to a lot of people. For others, the entire concept of "roleplay" is a foreign idea. So there are a lot of new people out there that just need a guiding hand. However, if you're just going to glove-slap them from the start, well, that leaves a lasting impression -- although, not one you'd be likely to be proud of. It's situations like these where people are snubbed for what are ultimately petty reasons that lead to a server's "bad reputation".

I've actually met more ****** single women (and temporary girlfriends) than I ever have wives. Of course, you might be speaking from personal experience; the wife a harpy-shrew at home? No wonder you're jaded.

>_> That's not what she is, though. She was never human and just happens to have cat-bits. She comes from a race of primal and proud cat-folk known as the Tyberan (my own creation) who are very much a warrior-oriented caste-society. You fight or you die and the strong rule over the weak. It's made her an interesting character (if I do say so myself) -- but I suppose that will all be in the proving, should I get into RPing here on Virtue.

Well, catgirls are a running joke everywhere, I think. Even back at the peak of Katja's career in the GDI, they were frowned upon, and then came the age of "furries" (furres?) where everyone who played a catgirl (or any kind of anthro) was a closet pervert.

I just hope this isn't an issue of judge first, RP later (meaning never). Katja is a quality character built over years of practice, love, and inspiration.

Oh, well, good. At least we have a good Stalker/Stalkee relationship.

Yeah, I know where Tomball is. I work in Humble, but live in Cleveland.

Hahaha, sadly, the latest expansion had less influence on my decision to play than the number of friends that I have that *already* play.

But... Katja is a catgirl. Well, catwoman really, but one with an intricately detailed and long personal history (She's the character I played at the GDI for years... I revamped and tooled her story a bit so that she ended up in COH.)

Have I told you I'm still madly in love with you and have subsequently stalked you to another game? <3

I'll give it a look-see, if I can figure out how to get there. XD I'm still learning. Day Two so far, but it's been fun.

Global: @Writerholic -- For those interested. Be gentle with me, though, I'm new to COH and am still trying to figure things out. x_x

Well, I'm not from H-town proper, more of an outlying suburb, but it's the closest major metropolis that people would associate with. XD

Now in that situation, I can understand, when a character is an alt of another character. However, the situations I'm talking about are like so:

Having two characters that are "best friends" (like I've seen elsewhere); it just doesn't make sense. You'd never see them together, so how can they be "best friends"? Or to have two characters that are romantically involved... who are never seen together, ever. The list goes on and on of people having these intricate (and sometimes intimate) relationships with their own characters -- when those characters would never have the opportunity to interact in-game. To me, it just breaks the quality of the RP.

Well, I have no idea where that is yet, so... I'll settle for RPing in Atlas City? XD

I tend to agree, but I'm sure there are those who would argue that Character Story trumps Character Level (an argument I've heard *many* times in the past). That's a different debate for a different day, though.

If you want them by name:

Left Side:
Prince Eric
The Prince (Snow White's Prince was never actually given a name)
Aladdin (Prince Ali)

Right Side:
Prince Charming
Prince Phillip (Sleeping Beauty)
Prince Adam (Technically, The Beast was never given an actual name in the animated feature, but fans later gave him one)

I'm a Disney animated aficionado. Yes, I am.

I was part of the Green Dragon Inn RP community for 4 years -- all we knew back then was Free-form, since that was all the internet chatrooms we used seemed to be able to do. I ran a very complex and entertaining storyline that spanned two years (real time); it was all FFRP.

Personally, I never have my characters know one another, save on perhaps basis of reputation. They'll never actually have an opportunity to interact in-game, so there's no real point in having their storylines merge and/or intersect.

Considering I don't even know what the RP hotspots are for COH yet, I suppose I'll just have to RP wherever I find myself! (Which is what I usually do anyway, but that's beside the point!) I agree, though, get outside the box sometimes, you never know what (or who) you might find.

I think every RP'er anywhere hates godmoders. In all honesty, I don't think any of my characters has ever straight-up "won" a fight. >.> Not that they're weak or that they're pushovers; they fight to a stalemate and the villain runs off to "live and fight another day". It happens all the time in the comics, so it makes sense. *lol*

I laughed so hard everyone in the office is staring at me. >_> Thanks, Hyper!

With friends like this, who needs enemies? Seriously, cut this self-conscious, snot-nosed whiner out of your life with a quickness.

As a woman who is naturally curvy (no silicone augmentation necessary) I kind it find of offensive that she'd consider a woman with excessive chest tissue "grotesque". She sounds like someone with some really major self-image issues, considering she's insulted anyone who even remotely agrees with the concept of curvy women.

Also, as someone mentioned on page 1 or 2 of this thread, well-endowed women have *always* been indicative of the comic book industry; regardless of whether the artist was male or female. In fact, here's a list of female comic creators I bet you can go through most of their work and *still* find curvy girls on the page. It's -just- part of the industry and what fans have grown to enjoy and expect from the genre. Either she accepts that -- or she doesn't.

From my perspective, she sounds like a verbally abusive, image-conscious, self-absorbed individual who really needs to get her nose out of other peoples' business. This is a game and people should have the ability to enjoy it the way they want; big, tiny, ugly, pretty, superdeformed (chibi) -- or wherever your tastes lie.

Get rid of her. You'll definitely be better off. She doesn't sound all that enjoyable as a friend, so why keep torturing yourself?

I'm not sure *exactly* what you're looking for, but I'm new to the server, I have 20+ years of roleplaying experience (including Superheroes/Villains Unlimited, D&D, Iron/Jadeclaw, Deadlands, and a host of other traditional RPG's), and at 10+ years in online MMO's/MUD's/FFRP Forums and what-have-you. While I'm new to COH and all that it implies, I'm certainly no stranger to quality RP.

To give you a sample of what I bring to the table, here's the old wiki file for my Human Paladin in World of Warcraft, Gospel Lightfaith. Everything there was written and/or planned by me with the exception of a handful of stories.

*points at the shark fin circling around the tank*

Also, howdy! Almost time to go hoooooome... so I can start working on my Magic Defender some more. @_@

Well, at least there's a silver lining to your cloud. I work with a bunch of young mechanics, so nobody's in any real danger of losing their job, they just choose to make my job harder so they don't have to do their paperwork. I wouldn't mind if it was every once in a while, but it's getting to where I have to take hours out of my work week to do their junk and it's just really starting to get on my last nerve.

I work on a heavy-duty project for our Landing Gear division, so I don't usually have any extra time to fritter away doing other peoples' work. If they'd just do their own jobs in the first place instead of being lazy and doing that whole "Oh, someone else will do it..." thing I wouldn't have anything to complain about.

It's just gotten on my nerves hard this week because I already have an overloaded desk (literally, there is maybe a clear one foot of desk space in my six-foot by six-foot cubicle desk). And we're talking stacks of paperwork up to a foot and a half tall. It's insane. >_<

If not, I'm sure we can take volunteers from the audience...

Thanks for the welcome, Fedor! Cupcakes and hugs! :9 I like this place already.

Hey there, Cyrsei! I thought that was you, but wasn't entirely sure.

RP Prompts are still going strong over in LOTRO and I post them every Wednesday on my writing blog (the Writer link below).

Wildore has pretty much gone the way of the do-do and future neighborhood efforts died out after the Shire 'hood was established. I don't hear anything about events going on in either place anymore. I shut down the Wildore website a few months back and forwarded the address to my guild/rarely updated site. A few of the Wildorians visit now and then, but I don't hear from most of them. I've only managed to keep in touch with Lynxa, Lainie, Kailis, and Lokath. The rest have either gone silent or dormant.

F2P has been a bag of mixed blessings. I established MyLOTRO United after Turbine tanked the blogging community on MyLOTRO -- some people had their entire blogs wiped out, others weren't able to post, some had no problems at all, but it still hurt the blogging community a lot.

They also introduced something called the "layer" system, which creates multiple instances of highly populated areas, so finding random RP at the Prancing Pony has become difficult and a major labor of love for a lot of people, since to get on a "layer" with someone involves setting up a raid and inviting people to the raid so they can merge onto the layer all the RP'ers are on. It's a pain.

On the other hand, there are a lot more people running around at all different levels. I don't notice the hardships of missing content and what-not since I still have an active subscription. I like being able to buy all the pretty outfits and stuff with Turbine Points rather than having to grind out Skirmishes, but I think it also detracts from a lot of the effort that goes into it -- that whole feeling of accomplishment.

I still play, just not as often as I used to. Most of my characters I level with my husband and he works nights now, so we don't have much opportunity to play together. Plus, with my writing and all, my playtime tends to be sporadic anyway. I figure COH is something I can tinker with in my relax-time.