General Roleplay Discussion

[mojomuppet]

I saw this - I pounce on you pinning you to the floor- in another game last night...I was right it freaked me out. *shivers*

[mikki]

Regardless of who thinks it is right or wrong. I still think it crosses the line but of course this is only my opinion here. When it says he did this or whatever.. it makes more sense.. When I read someone and I don't care what the reason is.. he hand you the note.. he touches you... *shiver* Freaks me out plain and simple. When something like that happens, I have and will continue to find a reason [b]in game[b] to make it to where I dont have to deal with it.

[nateflory]

I saw this - I pounce on you pinning you to the floor- in another game last night...I was right it freaked me out. *shivers*

I have used "I / me" fairly often in the game, until two seperate people had told me in OOC whispers that I should be using "He/she". So I got out of the habit. However, if someone says "I pounce you" I was surprised to hear that this is freaky. I suppose being so active in table-top RPGs and such, I never thought it would translate as anything else than inter-character interaction, particularly if the two people were alone in a location, so it was obvious who was acting towards whom.
Interesting.....

[minor Edited for re-wording clarity.]

[Money]

so the only way I could think of wording something was "you two". I wanted to know if that would be considered weird like using you, and I.

[gejyspa]

If it's in speech, of course, it's fine... but for people who are weirded out by second person in emotes, you should have used "those two".

[Money]

I was addressing two people about something they were doing right now. I was feeling kinda weird about saying it since their is a whole conversation on this thread about the use of second person speech, but I just couldn't think of anything

[CrashBlizz]

so the only way I could think of wording something was "you two". I wanted to know if that would be considered weird like using you, and I.

If its in an emote then:

Both of them
The two of them
Them (if there's only three of you there)
Using their names

[randognsac]

I guess you doesn't freak me out because I (or my characters, whatever) don't have Cantr sex.

[EchoMan]

Using their names

Personally I hate that. I want my characters to be introduced or to overhear an introduction, rather than learn names from emotes.

[CrashBlizz]

Using their names

Personally I hate that. I want my characters to be introduced or to overhear an introduction, rather than learn names from emotes.

Well, technically its impossible for a character to learn a name from an emote. Even though some do... *looks at someone in perticular* (you know who you are)

[Arenti]

Don't look at me! Sometimes you have to use names in emotes. But I only give people the name when its actually spoken.

[Kelli]

*glares at Crashblizz and then quickly looks away, whistling innocently*

It was an ACCIDENT!?! Aren't we all entitled to a mistake here and then? Geez!

[Doug R.]

Using their names

Personally I hate that. I want my characters to be introduced or to overhear an introduction, rather than learn names from emotes.

Sometimes it's impossible to avoid it. If there's three "him"s in a situation, and you're emoting publicly, how else can you do it?

[Voltenion]

I don't think it's any problem, as long as the player can understand who "John" is. Now if you're emoting with names and the other people around stay completely confused looking at the people list, wondering who "Jack" is, that's not right. I expect that other people follow the rules and understand that, even though they know that character's name, their character doesn't.
When I see other people use names in emotes of character's whose names I don't know, I take their name and put it there but with some kind of reminder that I still don't know it.

[gejyspa]

Yup, Voltenion, I do the same (or when a character introduces themselves when mine is asleep). I bracket the name with ?...? to remind myself that I don't actually know it. Which can lead to:
You say "*point to John* So, what's your name?"