Roleplaying Advice
by Urwin Rippentropp
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 383
Wear gwethdesuans
If I could offer you only one tip for the future
Gwethdesuans would be it
The roleplay availability perks of gwethdesuans have been proven by event whores
Whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meanding experience
I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the freedom and wonder of your newbiehood
Nevermind.
You will not understand the freedom and wonder of your newbiehood until they've faded
But trust me, in 60 circles you'll look back at logs of yourself
You'll recall in a way you can't grasp now
How much scripting lay before you, and how idiotic you really looked
12 pieces of black leather armor and a crossing backpack is worse than you imagined.
Don't worry about the game's development
Or worry and know that worrying is about effective as
Trying to get yourself out of lockout by writing feedback
The real troubles in your game
Are apt to be things that fall within the grey area of policy, which is all of it
The kind that blindside you in the anlas of peri'els's watch on some idle Tuesday
Do one thing every day that gets you to murky
Never fucking sing
Don't be reckless with other people's accounts
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Spar
Don't waste your time on circle jealousy
Sometimes you're ahead, you're more than likely behind
The race is long, and in the end its against people who started 5 years before you did.
Remember the RPAs you receive
Duck the warnings
If you succeed in doing this, don't brag about it on smellycat
Keep your old cyber logs, throw away your old exp all's
Powerwalk
Don't feel guilty if you don't know why you play this game
The most interesting people I know didn't know at circle 22 why they continue to play a text MUD
Some of the most interesting 100 circles I know still don't
Buy plenty of cebi root
Be kind to empaths, they are required to be increasingly less servile as their avenues of exp gain broaden
Maybe you'll text marry, maybe you won't
Maybe you'll have kids, but unless you're Drexella you shouldn't
Maybe you'll lose count of your divorces
Maybe you'll win a king's wedding and delay it for a decade for lack of a groom
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much
Or berate yourself either
Your choices are largely made by a handful of people at the top of the staff structure, so are everybody else's
Enjoy your character
Use it every way you can without getting locked out
It's probably the most developed roleplaying persona you'll ever have
Roleplay
Even if you have nowhere to do it but the DR dungeon
Read smellycat, even if you don't post on it
Do not read NEWS for new and updated items
Never roleplay parents
I did not create a doctor to clean up placenta from the floor of the Ratha bank
Be nice to GMs
They're the arbitrators of right and wrong, and they judge you on your reputation and history rather than the relevant facts of any one incident
Understand that roleplaying partners come and go
But with a precious few, they should hold on
Whereas the more badges and sycophants you collect the more you need the people you knew when you were just another random circle 10
Live in Shard once
But leave before it makes you a junior Vampire the Masquerade LARPer
Live in Therenborough once
But leave before it makes it makes you a useless militia twit whose two abilities are looting and dying
Get kraelyst's travel script
Accept certain inalienable truths
The platinum kronar will inflate
The thief guild will be openly discussed
You too will get high circle and when you do
You'll fantasize that when you were young a platinum kronar was valuable
The thief guild was a secret brotherhood
And newbies respected their clerics
Respect your clerics
Don't expect anyone else to train you
Maybe you'll have bought plats
Maybe you'll have an HLC spouse
But you never know when either one might get deleted
Don't mess too much with alterations
Or by the time you're circle 40 you'll look like a bard
Be careful whose roleplay you accept
But be patient with those who offer it
Roleplay is a form of wish fulfillment
Dispensing it is a way of fishing a caricatured version of yourself from your mind, wiping it off, and crafting an interesting and creative vehicle for collaborative storytelling
Or a fairy elf princess from another dimension with an insatiable appetite for light suburban middle-aged bondage play
But trust me on the gwethdesuans |
