Join Bloodlines Vampire RP in Second Life

No one can steal your soul in SL



unless they have purchased on of my exclusive and porpriatary soul-stealling cameras. Now available in a choice of colors to match your mood. If you act now I will throw in the official Avatar Suspension suspension system for only 9999L$. With the ASS, I and only I can keep you avatar key safe in case you are banned. Once the technology exists to un-bann you, your personal avatar key can then be retrieved from our secure facilities (a.k.a. a sticky note) so that your avatar can live in comfort and security knowing that no other person can have your avatar key.

But wait, there's more.

You can double your order for only twice the price. You heard right. you can pay me twice the already low cost and I will save your avatar key in two places. That's security I can take to the bank.

Wait a minute... my Avatar has a soul? Okay not mine, but normal people?

/me laughs

So this is all a conspiracy and you are behind XD...

Would be fun if it would not affect newbies who don't know better. A lot of the zombies hang around in welcome and freebie areas just for that reason. And there are also people with religious beliefs in SL. Quite a number actually.

Mine even has a heart.

And whose avatar did you rip it from?

I have a wand that can steal your soul without you having to agree to anything.

A fellow with a copy of the same wand once stole Anshe Chung's soul with it.

It was grey.

Evidently there's a huge after-market in used souls. (Who knew?)

So, instead of just being bitten and "joining the 'roleplay'," create 500 alts, bite them, and sell their souls on for profit.

(Hint: Cash out frequently. See http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/general-sl-discussion/21769-too-many-alts-permaban-second.html .)

Helps the Bloodlines database grow without limit.

So when newbies ask how to make money, or try to bite the old-fashioned manual way, now we can educate them about economies of scale.

If you're good at it, then you can generally get people to play with you. If you're not, you're going to have the same problem in any virtual world, whether it's 3d, 2d, text, or pencil-and-paper.

You'll all notice a thread regarding Bloodlines and banning that has been nuked. For those who didn't get a chance to read it, here is a basic summary (from a thread at SLU):



This changes a bit of the perspective on Bloodlines. I'm now convinced that the fellows who hang around noob welcome areas and such aren't "playing the game", or trying to force their roleplay on others at all. If this person is not simply lying about how much money he made, then what we know now is that "souls" collected from bites do not merely have an arbitrary game value, but a tangible monetary value as well. In essence, whenever you are bitten, the "attacker" at that moment literally creates something worth $599 lindens out of nothing - whether he chooses to trade the "soul" in for money or not, the value is still there.

How can we use this information to our advantage?

One suggestion: Boy's idea is correct. We should en-masse demand that we all be removed from any Bloodlines database - including the no-bite list. As the Bloodlines people explained to Boy, this would render us all susceptible to being bitten again - which, when asked, we allow to happen. Thereafter, we repeatedly demand our removal from the list, repeatedly allow bites, and repeatedly redemand removal. It would take a while, I suspect, but the result of this massive prey-in would be that souls become devalued, as every Bloodlines player would accrue so many souls that it would be foolish to pay a "harvester" L$2000 for one or two or even three more. Extrapolation: Two possibilities. One, soul harvesting would cease to become an efficient method of making money, and all the bite requests would die off after awhile; Two, the people behind Bloodlines would lower or eliminate the "price" of a soul, so that there would no longer be an incentive to pester unwilling or ignorant people with bite requests. Either way, the annoyance stops.

I must say, that with all this money involved in souls and potions and the like, Bloodlines must be very lucrative.

Additional option: if Bloodlines places the value of $599 lindens on a soul, or is somehow involved with/allows the sale of souls, then bite victims are being defrauded out of $599 lindens every time they are bitten. May not be much for one person, but how many thousands of residents have been bitten?

This explains so much about my sex life.

With a little subterfuge, I have a soul trap that is even better. Once I have trapped your soul, I can control your BODY!

"Puma-man! Do as I command!"

I would never rip out a heart but do gladly share mine

Well i am sorry but this reminds me of ... girly man... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJRNyPK-lc

That depends on how you define "good at it". Probably it's defined in this context as "that others enjoy". That isn't just a quality issue though, it constrains choice of action too.

And, what is so great about these souls that Bloodlines players will pay L$1200 for one?

If you don't care whether other people enjoy the role-play you want them to take part in, you're unlikely to succeed in engaging them in the scenario of your choice no matter where you're playing.

It's not to do with caring though. If you want to play a role that you can't massage into something others enjoy, caring about it does not change that fact. The most typical such roleplay is wanting to RP someone much more skilful than the real player.

i am working on a script that when asked to be bitten i agree and then mine kicks in stabbing them with a steak in the heart blocking their bite and adding them to a kill list on my website..
and turning them to ashes until they buy my potion that cost 2,000L and a wirtten statment
saying they suck as a vampire..


i wish i really had a script i was working on like that but i'm not that good lol

Find other people who also want the same thing, and devise a scenario where you get to play out that role. That doesn't mean "taking turns being the audience", unless you all enjoy that as well. If you can't figure out a scenario to match, well, that's part of the skill of role-playing.

That's usually because what most people think RP is about is simply playing a character. They get together with other characters and act out their character's personality, behaviour, etc. So do all the others they are there with. Rarely, they are even remotely compatible, like playing a cowboy from the old west, and an alien from the planet Zark. As a result, many of them get quickly bored, and don't bother RPing further.

However, characters themselves do not a RP environment make; it requires a story, a setting, perhaps a plot. Having people with compatible genres is a good start, but without an environment, even mostly imagined, to interact within, it becomes hollow and empty rapidly.

In tabletop roleplaying we called that a "scenario", or for a more extended game a "campaign".

I figure a scenario is enough to get started with... but initiating an encounter in character is a way to engage people in the longer-running role-play.

Finding other people has the "waiting alone" problem though, and the tacit assumption that such a scenario always exists to be found isn't justified I think.

Yup. I remember..

..it's been so long. :-/

Is that steak blood rare - or medium, or well done?

Oh my GOD.. I am so sorry..In my haste i have misspelled a word which obviously has thrown you completely out of the possibility of understanding anything i was trying to say.

*bows her head in shame pulling out her note pad*
Note to self..(Ceka you really need to have more compassion for the anally retentive.post pictures just to be safe)

OMGZORZ eye can feel et..Can u fell et tew??U haff imprewved MEH!!!
\0/ whoooo hoooo!!!!