Characters that irritate you/yours -

[Vitae Essentia]

I've actually seen screaming matches between couples. Two relationships simultaneously dissolved in one town because people had cheated. There was so soooo much screaming and it resulted with my char getting banned from the town xD

Twas fun.

Man this reminds me of the good old days with Jessi sleeping around on Olivia!

[CN]

Man this reminds me of the good old days with Jessi sleeping around on Olivia!

omg, I'd totally forgotten about that!
Rofl. and they were screaming at each other over the freaking radio!

[Vitae Essentia]

Man this reminds me of the good old days with Jessi sleeping around on Olivia!

omg, I'd totally forgotten about that!
Rofl. and they were screaming at each other over the freaking radio!

lmao and things got even worse when they were all in town and then again a few years later when Olivia found another boyfriend.

[Arenti]

Some people are more private and if there's cheating involved, they don't want outsiders to hear about it. Rather than having public drama, I think gossiping about things in private is much juicier.

Edit: I was trying to find a quote but I can't for the life of me remember which day it happened, so I'll paraphrase it. This has nothing to do with irritating characters but keeping up with the topic of cheating.

My character and a guy are alone in a building for some reason. My character starts feeling drawn to the guy so she touches him, he reacts well, it leads into a kiss. Just then, another guy walks in. Nothing is posted during the second he spends inside, but for the sake of continuity, the kiss must've been ongoing, so my character rushes out after him and goes "Please don't tell my girlfriend, it was only a kiss, I swear, we didn't go any further." And the guy is like "don't worry, I won't tell". Later my character had to slip Mr Kissing Partner a letter saying they couldn't do it anymore because the risk of getting caught was too high, couldn't whisper to him because it could've gotten overheard. He only nodded and they never talked about it again. Sort of tragic because their chemistries seemed to match, and it's cool that you could just randomly initiate an encounter like that without saying a word and have another person react to it so strongly.

I know who you mean yes

[phoenixannwn]

AND faked his own death to try to get away with it.

How does that work?

[Doug R.]

He and his floozy went on a trading trip (which was really a let's get away from my sleeping wife and have sex trip), when they came back, she told the town that he had died there and a newspawn buried him before she could react. It was a great plan, really. Unfortunately, being as weak-willed as he was, he just had to tell his best friend the truth, who is notorious for over-reacting and not keeping her mouth shut. In this case, an over-reaction was justified, and of course she couldn't keep the secret, so the whole town found out, and he was nearly executed by the Emperor, ostensibly for abandoning his post, but really because he hurt the Emperor's feelings. The Emperor then kept him under house arrest, and sent his floozy into exile on a boat after stripping her of all her possessions. She of course started trouble against the Empire in the place she landed, but I heard that since then, trouble found her, terminally. Landis was unceremoniously divorced by his wife of many decades, who, even more crushingly than crying or acting hurt, just told him that she was "disappointed." He then spent several years literally living like a homeless man in town, laying about in an unkept state, generally feeling sorry for himself and all the people he hurt, being emotionally spat upon by some of the townsfolk that found they could not forgive him. Since then, all the people that hated him because of what he did fell asleep, and the town's attitude turned back favorably upon him. The Emperor, having finally found happiness and a reason to live in a spunky young guard, granted Landis' new wife's request to free him. And there that story ends.

[phoenixannwn]

Epic.

[SekoETC]

That's much more interesting than people living a perfect, happy relationship.

[Doug R.]

I give lots of credit to Landis' player. Most players would have just put their character to sleep and starved them off instead of dealing with the fallout. Playing through it took a lot of spine.

[phoenixannwn]

That's much more interesting than people living a perfect, happy relationship.

Exactly.

[Addicted]

Who was the first wife? Sorry, it reads like a Mills and Boon. What's the ending? Happily ever after?

[Doug R.]

Johanna Lyte was the first wife. It's Cantr, it doesn't end until you're dead.

[Mitch79]

Anita was a bit pushy but I don't think Landis would have gone as far as he did without Johanna's sleepiness being a big part of it as well. She was asleep a long time. But I have to agree with Doug on Landis and the playing it out like they did. I was impressed they stuck to it and played it out and it was interesting to see the results and go through that event.

[RedQueen.exe]

Along the vein phoenixannwn touched on, I find it eerie how similar the start of many cantr relationships are. X flirts with Y, X and Y go into the public storage building and emerge a day later sweaty, and with the unflappable bond she previously described. A year later they start referring to each other as husband and wife and it ends when one of them has a heart attack, prompting the other to starve to death.

[Snake_byte]

Landis was unceremoniously divorced by his wife of many decades, who, even more crushingly than crying or acting hurt, just told him that she was "disappointed."