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Sarah Nikitin
All Things Disney!
Join date: 30 Oct 2007
Posts: 31
02-28-2008 05:50
From: Letty Heartsdale
Lady Sarah (squee!) and I went into a Medieval RP....certainly interesting, but so fun! My favorite qoute from her, "Ye olde vending machines. They had them even then" LOL! It was so pretty and relaxed...Colette mentioned bad acting...you had it on the ball! There was a certain character making me cringe! But all in good fun I suppose!! I am excited to see what else is in store, and visit other communities. I have said it before, but thank you again for all your help! I felt as prepared as I could be for a RP Noob. If you would like to join me on this lil adventure of mine, please feel free!! The more the merrier.


It was a surreal experience! I couldn't get over how nervous I felt sitting behind a keyboard...almost like the last minutes of an eBay auction! Though this place didn't have labels or name tags for noobs, it had free clothing and nothing screams noob like "generic default clothing!" LOL! I felt better once I found a store with a new outfit. I guess I wanted people to know I was new, I just didn't want to look like it. But all in all, there was very little interaction with the residents and I liked it that way! The sim was VERY well built and beautiful to explore. It will be awhile before I can "talk the talk", but we did have fun and that was the whole idea.
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Letty Heartsdale
Sprinkled with Pink
Join date: 21 Jan 2008
Posts: 30
02-28-2008 06:21
From: Trout Recreant
I'd love to join you Letty! I'm playing in a ye olde poker tourney right now (shhh...iot's not on SL, I promise, but the feds definitely wouldn't approve...good old Bodog. It loves me.) I'll look for you the next time I log in.


Alright I better see you lurking around waiting to join the adventure to be!
Shez Oyen
Tree Hugger
Join date: 17 Mar 2007
Posts: 208
02-28-2008 07:06
If you kids see any schools for learning and perfecting blade skills (SpellFire sword/dagger) in your RPG wanderings I would like to know about it!
Colette Meiji
Registered User
Join date: 25 Mar 2005
Posts: 15,556
02-28-2008 07:27
From: Surrealist Seesaw
The weirdo waves wildly and smiles surreally.


There is a difference between someone playing as a neko android vulcan Princess Dinosaur all the time and saying "I keep my RL private"

and someone who freely divulges a made up story which they claim is their real life for the purposes of manipulating others.


In the 43 year old married mom example:

If she said she her SL persona is a 19 year old model from the Seattle Sim .. but she chooses not to reveal her real life self --- Okay .. people can take that for what they will. Certain people, myself included, will limit how much we will emotionally become involved with people who won't reveal anything about their real lives.

On the other hand If she says, In her real life she is a 19 year old model from Seattle, and uses that lie to gain friends, lovers, etc --- then shes a lying manipulative type.


It really becomes an issue when friendships become close or relationships are blossoming. If its just an aquaintance, its no big deal.

Those who lie to their friends and paramours however are weirdos.

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This would go for all the transsexual real and imagined gender bender pretenders as well- I know a few people who have been in a situation where they didn't find out their Online love was really a Man (instead of the RL woman he claimed to be) *OR* their online love was really a woman (instead of the RL man she claimed to be) -- It wasn't till the hinted at RL meeting that they fessed up.

While that situation is the most sensationalized in these forums and on the internet ...

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By far whats more common in online dating is the person who lies about being Married IRL. If they say specifically "I am single IRL" and they are not ... that is an issue.

Sadly I know some who didnt find out their online to RL love was married till after a RL visit or two!

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Those with a don't ask don't tell policy - thats cool. They just need to make sure the people they are getting involved with are fine with that policy.
Colette Meiji
Registered User
Join date: 25 Mar 2005
Posts: 15,556
02-28-2008 07:29
From: Surrealist Seesaw
Yes, I think so too Trout, and thank you for articulating that. I just get a teensy bit concerned that people who take SL very literally might interpret comments like Colette's equally literally and condemn all roleplaying out of hand. One only has to read other forum threads to see how many don't 'get' roleplaying in any way, shape or form - and there have been times when I've been asked persistently "but who are you REALLY?" :(

The rest of the time, I figure my acting must be so damn good they don't even realise... :D


I was making a distinction between those who are role-playing to role-play.

and those who are only role-playing their "Real Life Story" among those people who aren't role-playing at all.

If you are going to tell friends and lovers about your real life, then you shouldn't lie about who you are.
madminxmag Vandeperck
Registered User
Join date: 8 Dec 2006
Posts: 25
03-04-2008 01:54
Come to Tombstone Arizona!! We are set in 1897. Lots of ideas to get you started in rp are in our welcome area.


The only requirement is you wear teh hud that is 10l and you get a free gun with it!
That way you can join in the fun!

We supply the free clothes!
Gummi Richthofen
Fetish's Frasier Crane!
Join date: 3 Oct 2006
Posts: 605
03-04-2008 04:23
We should have an "RP Bloopers" thread. I used an alt to RP being stuck in a pair of pervy shoes: ended up with about 3 people standing around asking me what service pack I was running. Some days it's just not worth logging in!
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