"I won't force myself on you..." Really now?

I often play alot of characters who have jackS**t for mental defense, but if i EVER get captain psi skeleton key, i make it a giant puzzle, you know how dreams are often metaphorical layers? imagine that.

Captainpsiknowitall: Probes the lizard's mind, trying to find out all exploitable information on his past
Captainpsiknowsitall-->: you see mental images of a swingset, Seattle school, a sign called mulberry road and some emotions of plutaonic love, then remorse and regret; and there's a clock.

They got what they wanted, it's immersive, and hell...fun if they figure it out!

I was tempted to put in my description "I'm not a werewolf and am not part of the Underworld or Twilight IP in any way. Cut that **** out"

Yeah, disclaimers can be fun sometimes.

Anyone have a video of a Barbie doll being smacked against a Ken doll? This thread evokes such imagery.

Death by thesaurus.

- that just might be the perfect epitaph.

Arrrrr!! I fought a Thesaurus once, rangy beast with teeth like daggers.

( is it still pirate day? )

This is why I don't RP.

I used to think *I* was creepy.

Some of the people I've met during attempts at RP in online games (and Live Role-Playing) make me look like a piker.

Just thinking about it gives me the collywobbles.

*SHUDDER*

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

Most of the time in my bio stuff, if I have something in there, it's a parody of other such themes. There used to be a mention in Liz' bio about "To psychics - you see yourself in the midst of a tryst with a 15th century gargoyle. Pervert." Similar reasoning.

I like poking fun at stuff. People take stuff too seriously sometimes.

I love it when people probe into my character's mind. They get so much images of nonsense that makes no sense. Or their mind link is instantly broken by the protection on the mind of the character, because a spirit protects it. Enjoy your blabbering, fools. Your mind will be destroyed if you try to probe further. And then you blame me for godmoding.

Or if you reach into the mind of my dead character, you won't find anything. He's dead. He doesn't think that way.
Or how about my robot? His mind is mechanical. It's just electronic impulses. Unless you enjoy decrypting binary, you will not get it.

Also, my favorite thing to "send" people is a kangaroo, a lamppost, and a tutu. How those fit together I'll let them figure out.

My main character has in her bio that she's partially resistant to psychic contact. 40.5% Psi Resistance as of her current build in fact, provided that Static Shield is running. So when people try to read her mind, I only give them three out of every five words. And when people send her telepathic communications, I only have her recieve the same. I used to select the specific words based on what would be most fun for me, but now I keep a few dice by the computer.

I run her resistance to other effects based on the magnitude of her mez protection. "You are now my loyal slave, and you love me, and want to get sweaty and nekkid with me down by the monkey cages" gets hit with "Is that meant to be a Confusion or Disorient effect? Also, what's the magnitude, and what's the recharge rate on the specific power, so I know if you could stack it sufficiently to overwhelm my mag 10.38 protection to either? And does it cause aggro, or is it like Confuse without a damage portion? Because if I'm aggroed, I'd like the duration you'll need to apply it for my character to respond with violence."

This usually gets a "Wut?", followed by "BLAM! I'm using Power Sink, slotted to siphon 80.3% of your endurance! What's your drain resistance?!" from me.

If Static Shield isn't running when they send those tells, I eat a Break Free and turn it on.

If they dare to use the word "Pheremones", I'll actually hit Power Surge so my Toxic Resistance will shoot from 15% to 90%. The lovely Lunaticia has pretty bad allergies, after all, and even a minor exposure to airborn toxins and irritants can make her reflexively activate her only relevant defensive technique.

By the time the three minutes are up (during which time the character's apparent sex appeal to draw these kinds of whackos is diminished greatly by her transformation from a pretty lady into a semi-humanoid jumble of coherent energy) they've usually wandered off to auto-seduce somebody else. Or if they've figured out how this is going to work and are hanging around to exploit my post-crash weakness, I can just make a run for the base portal.

I don't like to PvP, nor do I really like to Text Fight usually, but I do like to Text Fight as though I were PvPing. People either think it's awesome, and have fun figuring out how our actual character abilities would interact in a more flexible roleplaying situation than is presented by actual combat, or else they storm off in a huff.

Anyway, these days outright free-will stealing nonsense is pretty rare. But it does happen, and it's unpleasant enough to roleplay through that a little overreaction can be understood.

Do people even realize there's a power supression field in effect in Pocket D and that's why heroes and villains can't exchange fisticuffs in Pocket D?

I really think that if you're "ALMIGHTY POWERFUL" you can't break DJ Zero's own dimensional rules. If you do, I think you'd destroy Pocket D and therefore break the dimension that Pocket D resides in.

I've had this happen once or twice, when I was playing my Energy Tank. Being the brash, arrogant goofball he is, his response is usually this:

Psichic Guy/Girl: "I read your thoughts, learn your every desire, whim, and secret."
Me: "Then you must know that my one true desire was for you to spread peanut butter on my butt and lick it off. When are you gonna start?"

I usually don't get bothered afterwards. If they do persist, I start into some really, really dark fetishes.

I don't even get into IC justifications. I just won't be godmoded.

"I won't force myself on you..."

Yah, thing is... you can't force yourself on me. And if you think that's even within your purview, you clearly don't get this whole roleplay thang anyway.

There's no getting around player consent. Period. If I don't consent to it, it doesn't happen. Period.

"But my character has Mind Control and--"

I don't care. You cannot overrule my decision with game mechanics or anything else. There is no way to force your roleplay onto me. If my refusal to consent compromises your vision of your character, well, sorry, but that's your problem. Maybe you should've thought about that before creating an uber-psychic.

Furthermore, I am not obligated to provide any justification for my character's resistance (thereby giving the false impression that it's open for debate). Your mind powers just don't work. Come up with your own reasons for why that is.

Threads like this one make me sad.

Noone's ever tried to force themselves on me, mentally or otherwise. Of course, I doubt people would want to be in the heads of my mains. One's excessively crowded and one's just not exactly a nice vacation spot. Which makes it all the sadder.

Are you sure you really want that kind of attention? O_o

I want to spend more time in the D, since I greatly enjoy working my characters with other people.

But hardly any of my characters have the motivation to go there.

It's a harsh mistress, character growth/design.

I have a standard response when anybody tries to read my thoughts. And I apologize in advance because if you read this it's going to do the same thing to you that it does to them.


"My humps. My humps my humps my humps My lovely lady aaaaaargh, why won't you get out of my head you stupid song. Have to think of something else. Ummmmm badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom... NO! Not that either. It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all.... Somebody please kill me."