I hear you on the frustration with the current state of play. You’re right, the game can’t tell a good story if people are just using the execute command to end every interaction.

But what you’re describing isn’t just a player issue, it’s a two-way street.

You mentioned people aren’t trying to get involved in your character’s story, but you have to give them something to work with. If a player tries to engage you as a prisoner and you consistently shut down the roleplay—whether it’s by spamming gestures to be ungagged twenty times or by just refusing to engage with the scene—you’re actively making it impossible for a story to happen.

When other players are met with that kind of resistance, where do you expect the story to go? Your character’s lack of cooperation doesn’t create tension; it creates a dead end. When you act like a difficult prisoner who won’t roleplay, you are effectively telling the other players that the only available outcome is to end the scene.

We all want to tell a good story. But if we’re not willing to accept the bad parts and the difficult scenarios as a chance to create a story, then we can’t be surprised when people get frustrated and decide to end the scene the only way you’ve allowed them.

It is human nature when conflict arises and communication fails to err the side of caution and remove the threat. Those we cannot communicate with we cannot trust and those we cannot trust we cannot trust not to hurt us. This is the basis of a lot of misery in the world. As a pretty decent episode of Doctor Who once said. War is just the thing people do before they finally end up in the place they were always going to end up across the table from one another talking.

I personally think that characters in the archetype like Luka would have very high survivability if the players of those kind of characters can take it on the chin. Is it asking a lot? Maybe. But it costs so little to play bravado, show cracks in the mask of fear, and in the interest of survival compromise. I think in most hostage / prisoner scenes all people want is the following and not always in this order.

1. Acknowledgement they have won this fight and you have lost in the form of RP reaction signifying the precarious or vulnerable state you are in.

2. Dialogue to understand why the conflict happened, that whoever lost the conflict knows they have lost, and some means assurance that FOR NOW you have won this battle HE-MAN and then skeletor escape after they let you go.

I don’t know if it will work 100% of the time but I feel like when a character / player makes themselves vulnerable they often (not always) get a lot of leeway to live another day.

it is funny to me that you compare the situation to women getting sa’d. because to me it reads like a dude getting unmatched on tinder, and then spending the next few weeks trying to track this woman down for an explanation on why he was unmatched, why he didn’t get a second date, why she didn’t acknowledge he’s nice. you are not the woman getting sa’d in this scenario, you are the man who winds up with a restraining order, still demanding an explanation from someone who wants to be left alone.

Like I said. I think the majority of players will not kill someone they have won over if that person provides RP, communication, and some vulnerability. Give the victor their due. A little acknowledgement of being in a losing position or afraid earns a lot of good will. If you cannot do that to avoid death than its kind of like you are wanting an OOC consensus sanctuary in lieu of a mechanical sanctuary. Which is fine if that is the way we want to take the game.