your two separate CDQs (essentially) |
an important personage also there under strict guard |
Originally Posted by RollinsCat upon hearing of Rael's movement toward Lor, Andrew is going to run, not walk, to Sister Moonriver. he'll explain his involvment in keeping Lor from being taken over and his concern that Lor is about to be "saved from the dark elves" whether they want to be or not - and whether there are in fact any dark elves attacking the surface or not. he'll ask if can take some medicine "to go", as he feels he can be of assistance in this matter, or if she does not trust him to apply it is there someone near Lor she trusts enough to do it while he's there. he's adamant - he needs to go and help. //this is something Andrew's been involved in since just after I first joined the server, via Beli/Buddy/Masterjack. I am hoping we can work something out that Andrew can attend any events relating to Rael's march on Lor and Steel's Triple S initiative. how do you want to handle this? |
Originally Posted by Rowana Sister Moonriver will be understandably concerned about Andrew doing anything that might worsen his condition. She cannot send medicine in advance with neither herself nor to someone in Lor. The medicine, as she mentioned, takes animal blood but that animal has to be drained of it's blood with a certain freshness and it is being drained in Voltrex. The animal is rare additionally. She simply doesn't have enough to make any kind of supply for him or Tyra. He's not a prisoner there at the temple but she can't supply the medicine he'll need to be away for an extended period of time. She goes over with him the risks of his decision (worsening of his condition, possible death if it advances quickly for any reason, potential spread from contact if he's injured greatly and someone else tends to his wounds, etc, etc). She leaves the decision up to him, however. |
Andrew is spread thin like not enough butter on toast. He needs to focus himself and figure out how he can best direct his efforts for whatever path he wants to work. Is his goal in life really to understand and become adept with the Heartsong? It doesn't seem to be his priority. |
Anyway, so how it relates to your character, clearly if you are going to play it true to RP it leaves your character idle somewhat. I don't think it lessens your ability to do things but perhaps I have a different perspective there. If I were you, I'd arrange player events. There are people happy to attend those when they can and it exposes you (ah, no pun intended) to new folks. These are sometimes (okay, a lot of times) better at WL development then going a-huntin' anyway. Perhaps Andrew gets involved with temple fund raising given his condition. Perhaps he wants to connect with other adventurer parents. Perhaps he does the storyteller's night thing. It's clear to me that his character needs the interaction to some degree and one way to cope is to have more interaction to a lesser degree to fill that void. Additionally, you could set up more "appointments" with Connor and Anna, or perhaps Katrien, or Jaelle or other folks Andrew is involved with. I think most of us are more then willing. In all of this is the opportunity to gather information about a potential cure for his condition, I might add. Lastly, and clearly, there is the option to go out as if business is usual and run the risk there. Andrew isn't trapped, we didn't want him to be trapped because we knew it was likely to be some time before he would be able to run freely. We tried to balance it between realistic RP and unconsequential RP. We are willing to work with you if you are willing to work with us. No one wants to leach the fun out of the game for you. |
I doubly do not enjoy having to rp a terminally ill character. I have seen terminal illness close up - I'm sure you have too. It's not pretty. It's not joyful. It's not something I wish to force myself to go through. To some, perhaps, a huge opportunity for character expansion and exploration and growth; to me, memories that blur the line between game time and real time in a way that makes me uncomfortable. |
In this case it is necessary because frankly the most important thing in a relationship is trust. Clearly both players had no trust in me or where events were taking their characters. After the way events played out I have no trust that the players/characters will not revert back to previous grievences and make additional headaches for myself and other team members over the same material. Its better its gone and all parties can move. |
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