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If, in the game, and you are alone, do you keep up strong rp?


Cause liek.... one of my guys are STILL in prison (I'd appreciate if they'd LET HIM OUT), and It's been so long that I've decided to continue my roleplay on my own He prays to his gods every day now, and etc.

At least you don't have to wait for other players to wake up for a fluent RP.

Once my char talked to a dead body of a pirate and told she loved him...

sometimes I do just to keep my character interesting to me

I had some of my lonely characters write a diary. I guess that counts as RP.

Piscator wrote:I had some of my lonely characters write a diary. I guess that counts as RP.

Yeah writing a diary or journal works good because it gives your character something to do, and also leaves a little bit of history about that character for other characters to find or read later.

Diary, yes. Talking/emoting with no one around, no. I think it's pretty useless, since I usually just think about what my characters do when they're alone.

Well, yes. I do it at times.
One had been writing a diary, but he never continued on writing any more than one day into it.

Another of my characters kept talking to a bed.

I think I've occasionally had my characters do or scream something when no one else is in the room, but often although I can imagine what my character would do in a given situation, I see no need to write it in the box because no one would read it except me. When ever I do rp or talk alone, I wonder if someone from PD will read it. I think rp demands an audience, actual or imagined.

FiziKx wrote:If, in the game, and you are alone, do you keep up strong rp?

Never. The only time I RP when alone is if there's a chance of someone walking in on it, and that's almost never.

I haven't rped alone but I do have one character in a town with another sleeping character -- and she doesn't know if he will wake up again. I do rp her quite a bit - she slaps him and screams at him to wake up lol. In addition to her normal daily activities.

Bleh, who knows if it will ever be read but I can't have her just sleep too.

One of my chars would occasionally talk to his dead friend('s body) when others weren't around. Another kept a pretty detailed diary for a long time when he was sailing alone, but that tapered off to almost nothing before he died.

I agree that RP needs an audience. I've had chars that probably would have done more talking or other things when they were alone, but why bother typing it out if no one else would see it?

SumBum wrote:I agree that RP needs an audience. I've had chars that probably would have done more talking or other things when they were alone, but why bother typing it out if no one else would see it?

Completly agree, show the effects, if any of stuff your charrie did while others were away but what's the point of typing them when there is nobody to see them at that time.

By show the effects I mean if your charrie records days at see by scratching a notch onto the ship each day and someone visits you ship *You see lots of little notches carved out with a knife* I would say would be the best way.

I think this is a judgment call by the player's preference.

Personally, my characters will RP regardless of who might be able to witness it or not. To stay true to your characters, why not make it complete? If your character is delusional, why not RP seeing things in an empty room? If your character wandered into the wrong building, why not make him/her chuckle to him/herself at the mistake?

Characters are for me to play how I see fit. They are not played to satisfy others only when another character is present.

I've actually thought about this quite a bit, I always feel vaguely stupid typing a message to an empty room, but I don't want to come out later and be all 'oh I just cried all day' or 'haha I drew a funny mustache on your wife's corpse' if I didn't actually do it.

So - yes, for the sake of consistency I do sometimes RP alone, but not, like, paragraphs. I usually just halfass it with something quick and to the point.