Rumors about the ressurection of Marcus Cole.

Jealous? Really??

QR: I found it easier to read if i placed my mind into an alternate dimension and started replacing characters with T-Rex's, Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster and Cthulhu

I've been in ERPs that involved more talent then this.

Fun fact:

Demetrios, who we see to have bad grammar and spelling, was making fun of someone who has comma placement troubles.

Mind you, the person who he was making fun of? Not exactly the best at grammar or spelling either, but I suspect said person isn't an English-first person. I may be wrong.

Okay, in all seriousness, I think what most people are trying to get at is that there is a general objection to the idea of you attempting to dictate the game world and it's established lore.

You liken your portrayal of established NPCs to an actor playing a part in a Shakespearean play, and while I'm glad you have that kind of confidence in yourself, it brings me to ask: Have you ever actually been in a play? Even in the tightest budget am dram production there are auditions. The director dictates the direction the character is taken, and while an actor will inevitably bring their own spin on a character, they must always do so with the director's blessing.

As for jealousy over the fact that your characters belong to someone else? Um...no. Just no. Definitely no. I, and (I'm sure) everyone who objects to your statements, have several original characters that I came up with and worked into the CoX world. They have been there at major events, they have taken part in invasions of various descriptions, and they all have their own lives and problems to deal with.

I can confidently say that I am at no point envious of what I consider to be a misguided attempt to hijack the lore of CoX.

Of course, I'm sure you will find reasons to disagree with me and call me a WoWtard or whatever, but before you do; did you really expect any other sort of response when you made that first post telling everyone to conform to your view of the world?

It all lies within the fact that we fit our characters to the lore.

Not the lore to us.

I'll now go to OpenOffice and write a entire 3+ paragraph reply that will blow brains.

/tophatfancybow

Dear Demetrios.

As the canonical ******* of the server that you are trying to pull these shenanigans off (to the point where I've had signature characters look at Flea along the lines of 'Whiskey Foxtrot Tango, did he just say that?') I would like to politely inform your Lord of Demons ( 1 of about about 10,000 going by Pocket D averages these days) that I am disinclined to acquiesce to his request and to jolly well bugger off before I stuff his infernal/abyssal/tartian/netherworld-ial/etc head up his back side and solve this problem for us all.

Signed,
Flea.

Crappy day at work.

This has really tickled my fancy, amused to the point where I could pop.

What a vainglorious verbose way to commit forum and game suicide, I would applaud but I am luaghing too hard.

CB, we haven't agreed on much over the years, but in this, I am merrily holding your coat.

Its like some *self censored* decided to mix deviant art with a thesarus.

I get that sometimes it is nice to play pretend, when I was eight I used to play Power Rangers with my brothers. When. I. Was. Eight....


Seriously, once you progress to big boy school your pretendy fun times games, should at least invovle your own creations.

Hi everyone!

There isn't much to add to this thread that hasn't already been said, so I'm just announcing that I have added "Be officially recognized as Captain Collateral Damage" to my bucket list.

Hi there Demetrios, I’m Omy (Who members of the Union RP community might recognise as ‘Oh god, it’s the obsessive lore nerd’), and I’d like to talk to you about a few issues that have come up here.

To start, well there’s a lot to go through so we’ll start somewhere important, I’ve glanced through the lore references you’ve made here and in other threads and well, it might hurt to hear this my friend, but you’re wrong.

Yep, in almost every single reference you’ve made I’ve found crucial errors in what you claim is correct vs what is actually correct, this isn’t exactly helping your case is it? Campaigning so hard for ‘Lore RP’ (Which I’ll address later) while showing critical lack of lore knowledge yourself, ouch.

Next up would be the fact that you seem to dismiss anyone and everyone who holds a counter view to your own as just people who hate and/or are jealous of you, this is a bit more of a problem and is why I’m not really expecting a rational response but what the hey I’m four paragraphs in now. Anyway, why are you doing this, can’t people have valid views of their own? I mean as I’ve already pointed out you’re not as accurate on the lore as you claim, so if you can be wrong there, maybe you should listen to some other peoples views on other things too?

Now to the meaty part, ‘Lore RP’, it’s not a thing, sorry. No really, it’s not a thing, I don’t know where you’ve gotten the idea from, but RP in MMOs comes in two forms, those who acknowledge the world they’re in and build characters to fit, and those who just RP whatever the hell they like and do whatever they want, naturally these two kinds of people don’t get on.

Perhaps by ‘Lore RP’ you mean the playing of characters from the game lore? This is a big no no! As anyone who knows me will tell you, I frown enough at even having canon characters cameo in stories, actually playing out one of the characters like that? Well, that’s just not right, they’re not your characters, you don’t accurately know every last piece of info about them, their future roles or plot significance and so on, not to mention you’ve got the factor of interpretation to take into account, that can change a character quite dramatically!

To delve deeper into it, would you think it’s okay to RP another person’s character without their consent? It’s just bad form full stop. What’s more you seem to be missing the point, if you’re ever at say a PnP game, you’ll roll up your own unique character and have fun with them, yes you fit them into the background of the world they’re in, but you don’t commandeer parts of that world (Unless the point of the game is reshaping the world) for no reason other then it makes you feel more important, heck most Rpers don’t tend to like adventure supplements that come with pre-genned characters (With notable exceptions but they’re another kettle of fish entirely) at all, so yea, point is missed there.

Anyway, I’m rambling now, TL, DR version:

You’re not exactly doing it right.