[Discuss] Is Fun Dead? End of RP

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 4 Feb 2007 at 13:07, Timothy Collett wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Gloria Santos wrote:
> > Rania,
> >
> > You see a lack of RP when I see quite the opposite.  It is  
> > precisely because people stick to their characters and to the story  
> > coherence that they act that way.
> 
> But people *should* be able to change.  What was the figure--three  
> months in RL is (more or less) one year in BM?
> 
> Sure, there were people and families, and even nations, who would  
> hold grudges for decades.  But shouldn't *some* people start to  
> change, rather than simply indoctrinating generation after generation  
> with the same hatreds?

As a mid-level player in this EC conflict, and one that has been directly involved 
in the planning of it, let me just say that there *has* been quite a bit of 
discussion and some RP about this situation in the Islands. The current invasion 
is *not* just a bunch of realms joining together at the smell of easy prey.

This whole Island invasion is actually amazingly IC. If you haven't been on the 
EC in the realms involved for the past 8 or 9 months, you really can't see how 
the whole thing started and played out. There is a *lot* of history behind the 
current invasion.

The easiest way to understand it is that a realm that was the ally of half the 
island got taken over in a brutal rebellion. A completely unrelated group of 
people moved in, conspired with the rebels and family members of the rebels 
and took over. Now the allies of the original realm that was destroyed have 
finally managed to extricate themselves from their individual wars, and are 
going to go liberate the islands from the occupational government. What's 
*not* IC about that?

If these realms had decided to be friendly toward these people, then that would 
have been very OOC.


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