[Yourstruly]

I feel like ‘fast’ may be a misnomer. Or maybe I’m lucky?

I have RP’d with one T3. I feel like I’ve RP’d with them ‘some’ but not a lot. My invitation has not budged at all.
This makes me kind of sad as I am here explicitly because I like the unexpected, I like putting characters in bad situations. I RP because I don’t know what’s going to happen.

Time to find other T3s I guess 😉

[Yourstruly]

Henlo, I play a Fabled.

And while I am new to Haven, I am not new to RP (though I have primarily a MUSH background). I am someone who can be stubborn about remaining IC in things. One thing I have noticed about the chatrooms (NewHaven especially) is that I think a lot of people slip into treating it like a Public channel. IC/OOC blurs quite often on it (and I do not mean when one of us mischans from Newbie as we have all done it both ways).

The way I play it is when my Fabled has it mentioned around her, it’s like someone hits a rewind or reset button. She just smiles it away or focuses on some other aspect of the conversation. She even does this when someone tries to inform her she must behave a certain way or do a certain thing ‘because the gods.’ I understand it from a gamer perspective. When people see ‘character with problem,’ they want to be the one to save the character and ‘solve’ the problem. It comes from a well-meaning place.

It is a… similar attitude when it comes to the Monster situation. Everyone knows that a Fabled given to a Monster makes the Monster go away. Lives are saved. So it becomes a solution to a problem. A way to help people! And people can get lazy about certain things.

Now, even THAT said… there are certain character types where this makes sense. Antagonists who are being bothered by the monster. Pragmatists who see the sacrifice of the one to save the many as an easy choice. Being so casual about it on the chatrooms is perhaps a little iffy and you begin to get into the concept of if a Fabled does not know they are Fabled do they know another is Fabled and if you know others are Fabled can you wonder if you are Fabled but if you ask if you are Fabled and someone tells you and you don’t know you are Fabled could you live life assuming you are….

……. end of the day even if my personal preference is that people do not talk that way? There are going to be canonical fallacies no matter what, so I stick to my own lane and tune out the stuff that doesn’t jive.

[Yourstruly]

Just wanted to weigh in as someone brand new to both the game *and* the college sphere (but with a long history in MUs):

It is a hellish beast to navigate. There’s no maps anywhere and ‘map level’ only works… sort of. If you don’t know which building the room you want is in, you have to cycle through all of them. Then cycle through each floor. Which is wildly tedious. If I want to RP, I don’t want to wait 20, 45 minutes until I find the right spot: *I want to RP.*

If there was some sort of map available (maybe a player has made one and if so: props, but it should still be a staff-provided resource IMO that would even make sense as an IC tool because unis ALWAYS have maps available), that would help. The information in the help files is wildly vague and because so much is AI generated: no one has any answers to questions that crop up.

I have spent time sitting in various ‘public’ spaces (like the cafeteria, student union, etc.) visible on where, roomtitle set, and… nothing. Not any sort of attempt to join me. And I don’t necessarily blame people. I groan internally every time I spent 20 minutes just getting to a hot spot to RP. At Windermere, that can easily be doubled.

And don’t even get me started on the night it was pitch black and you couldn’t move around at all because as a new person I had *no idea* I needed to buy a flashlight somewhere so I spent a whole evening at a loss for RP because I couldn’t find my way around and after a good 30 or so minutes trying and finally landing back in the dorms I just locked myself in my room. (And I did try to generate RP from THAT as well by mentioning it on NewHaven and Windermere both, but since people can’t navigate the place even in the bright of day, it’s not like anyone — understandably — was jumping at helping someone navigate their way out.)

I’m not about to quit. I’m willing to put the time in. But I don’t blame people for quitting. We’re here to RP and if the barrier for RP is too high: people go elsewhere.

[Author]

Posts