People who can't play

[wichita]

An extended dreamwalk with your spirit guide, or other deep meditating trances, would do the trick.

Practice for a couch potato competetition.

Play the "I'm mad so I'm not talking to you game," for a week.

Just a few I came up with...

[Solfius]

The top one is quite applicable to one of my characters actually

[AoM]

Yes, I think RPing a time of stasis is a good thing. Most of my characters end up coming down with the sleeping sickness. I treat it as something that people constantly have to be wary of, but that for some people, they come out of it.

One of my chars explains that he needs to meditate and pray for religious purposes.

Others just get too caught up in their work to respond.

But there are some cases where I feel an OOC comment is warranted. If your character is a leader type and his/her sleeping is going to slow down an entire town, I think letting certain people know is a good thing. Otherwise IC conclusions can be drawn about your character that were really not intended by you. (ie: being considered a lazy bastard when really your char is a hard worker and you had to be out of town for a week.)

[Solfius]

well, that is why I would speak OOC in such circumstances, out of courtesy, to let the people I'm playing with not to be put out in an occ sense that I'm not responding, even though IC they'd have to treat it the same as any other sleeper

[west]

Yeah, one of my chars specifically got accused of being a lazy bastard just because I had more important things in my life than cantr for a couple months.

[kinvoya]

...I mean *totally innocent-looking smiley-face*

[Surly]

Yeah, one of my chars specifically got accused of being a lazy bastard just because I had more important things in my life than cantr for a couple months.

More important than Cantr? WHat could be more important than Cantr? *ignores the shouts of: "exams" and "relationships"*

[west]

Exams (got a 3.5 last quarter, hurrah!)
and relationships (started dating an amazing girl last quarter, hurrah!)

[Surly]

Maybe I should cut back on my Cantr...

Just out of interest, is a 3.5 good? What is the scale?

[Solfius]

I think it's out of 5, 5 being the highest. Unless West is German in which case I think lower is better

[griogal]

Comatose by head injury?
That'll also get you taken care of.

a chisel is the best tool for taken care of that kind of problems, unless we get something better in the near future...like a drill

[Sarah]

I'm rarely away from Cantr, but if I was I'd just have my characters say they'll be asleep for a while. Players should be able to figure out that the player is gone and it's not the character being lazy.

I think it's out of 5, 5 being the highest. Unless West is German in which case I think lower is better.

If you're talking about GPA, the highest is 4, at least it is here. But, you could get over 4 (the absolute maximum being 5) by getting high marks in advanced or honors courses. 3.5 is good, but a GPA isn't all that great of an indicator, it doesn't tell if the person in question is taking super-easy classes or not. (That was not directed toward west or anyone else. I, for example, am taking mostly easy and effortless required classes this year and have a GPA of 4.3 or something like that.)

[Yo_Yo]

You can't tell how smart someone is by books. The only way is to put them in instances where they would use and apply said information.

Book smarts is for loosers.

[DylPickle]

So, Yo-Yo, I take it you have zero book smarts like me, eh?

[SekoETC]

At least he can't spell loser right. But don't worry, I used to write it with two o's for a loooong time.