IC and OOC crossing over (WoW, RP)
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thistlechaserIC and OOC are supposed to be two different things, so it's an issue that I keep overlapping (in bad ways!) with Keen. He never eats, eating makes him feel sick -- every time I eat in RL, I get sick. It's getting annoying! I don't think it's a food allergy because it's happening with vastly different foods with few or no common things (other than really basic things, like sugar and salt). Also, he sleeps like crap and is exhausted all the time. Me too! Blah! Last night was the first night in two or three weeks that I slept the whole night through, and I still feel like crap.
Hmm, I'm going to roll a dirt poor, ugly, unpopular horrible person next, so that OOCly I'll have to be all opposite things! :P
But, more seriously, there is a crossing over that's depressing me (not the random kind, like above). Keen's being stalked by a rapist. The rapist is a troll warrior. He's more than twice as tall as Keen, more than twice as muscular, and strength and fighting-wise Keen is like a toddler to a bodybuilder. Plus he's a freaky feral troll, so things like hiding in the shadows doesn't help Keen much (not that he's even all that good at it anymore), because the troll just sniffs him out. Keen's got no real friends (or at least friends who are both strong and he'd be willing to put into the troll's path -- so Franzis doesn't count). Keen can't even outrun this guy! Can't run, can't hide, can't win in a fight... such a lost cause. This troll is seriously evil, too. OOCly the RP is good, and on one level it amuses me muchly (abusing your own character is always fun!), but the bleakness of it... I can see no way at all that Keen could get out of this. It's too bad Keen is so DK-phobic, because DKs would be able to take on the troll. I thought about the Blood Knights, but... OOCly they don't thrill me as a group of RPers plus ICly Keen would have to admit what's going on... It's just so bleak and hopeless and depressing. (I could OOCly talk to the troll's player, he'd listen and be willing to work with me, but I bet the only way to make this stop happening without breaking character for either of them would be to have them stop crossing paths. I don't want to stop RPing with him!)
Related to that IC mess, I have the Keen name. ("Keen" is actually "Kianlar" using the fake 'Keen' name, he's rolled as Kianlar though. Only in the last couple weeks did I get the name Keen free and roll a character as it.) I was going to hold the Keen name and reroll him as a warrior in Cata, but... warrior doesn't fit Keen anymore. (Keen used to pretend to be a warrior so no one would know he was a rogue.) Keen currently looks like someone who has been in chemo for a year -- skin and bones, not strong, cold all the time, tired easy, doesn't want to eat, etc. I picked a class for the Keen name holding character at random: hunter. But... the more I thought about it, the more hunter kind of works, especially now. If Keen's not strong enough to fight, then he'd have a wolf or something there with him...
Which leads to the OOC end of things. I hate XPing. I hate questing. I hate instances. I (dislike?) PvPing. Since PvP is the least-hatey on that list, I tried it this afternoon. OH MY GOD. The amount of stupid in these BG folks made me want to scream. The hatred in me after one single match! (A half-hour long match for next to no XP!) These idiots DID NOT LISTEN. Arg! WSG is NOT COMPLICATED! But they're all idiots! Little ADHD kids on crack! GAHRRRAGHRRRJRQWERQWKL
So. No PvPing. So I can quest (hate) and instance (hate). But I really try not to force myself to do things I hate in a game. So... leave Keen-the-hunter low level? Forget the whole idea? XP really slowly when I have rested XP?
I feel like IC Keen: All this is too much for my poor tired brain to decide.
Edit: Also, I finally bought a new mouse! After using a mouse with two buttons (not even three!) all my life, that one will be really nice. Maybe I'll finally be able to become a mouse-turner, since I'll be able to map one of those buttons to autorun!
Edit 2: Lord, where is my brain. Half the reason I want to level Keen-the-hunter isn't even for IC reasons, I want another 2 profession slots before Cata. I really want a herb picker again, plus that would give me one more slot for something.
Hmm, I'm going to roll a dirt poor, ugly, unpopular horrible person next, so that OOCly I'll have to be all opposite things! :P
But, more seriously, there is a crossing over that's depressing me (not the random kind, like above). Keen's being stalked by a rapist. The rapist is a troll warrior. He's more than twice as tall as Keen, more than twice as muscular, and strength and fighting-wise Keen is like a toddler to a bodybuilder. Plus he's a freaky feral troll, so things like hiding in the shadows doesn't help Keen much (not that he's even all that good at it anymore), because the troll just sniffs him out. Keen's got no real friends (or at least friends who are both strong and he'd be willing to put into the troll's path -- so Franzis doesn't count). Keen can't even outrun this guy! Can't run, can't hide, can't win in a fight... such a lost cause. This troll is seriously evil, too. OOCly the RP is good, and on one level it amuses me muchly (abusing your own character is always fun!), but the bleakness of it... I can see no way at all that Keen could get out of this. It's too bad Keen is so DK-phobic, because DKs would be able to take on the troll. I thought about the Blood Knights, but... OOCly they don't thrill me as a group of RPers plus ICly Keen would have to admit what's going on... It's just so bleak and hopeless and depressing. (I could OOCly talk to the troll's player, he'd listen and be willing to work with me, but I bet the only way to make this stop happening without breaking character for either of them would be to have them stop crossing paths. I don't want to stop RPing with him!)
Related to that IC mess, I have the Keen name. ("Keen" is actually "Kianlar" using the fake 'Keen' name, he's rolled as Kianlar though. Only in the last couple weeks did I get the name Keen free and roll a character as it.) I was going to hold the Keen name and reroll him as a warrior in Cata, but... warrior doesn't fit Keen anymore. (Keen used to pretend to be a warrior so no one would know he was a rogue.) Keen currently looks like someone who has been in chemo for a year -- skin and bones, not strong, cold all the time, tired easy, doesn't want to eat, etc. I picked a class for the Keen name holding character at random: hunter. But... the more I thought about it, the more hunter kind of works, especially now. If Keen's not strong enough to fight, then he'd have a wolf or something there with him...
Which leads to the OOC end of things. I hate XPing. I hate questing. I hate instances. I (dislike?) PvPing. Since PvP is the least-hatey on that list, I tried it this afternoon. OH MY GOD. The amount of stupid in these BG folks made me want to scream. The hatred in me after one single match! (A half-hour long match for next to no XP!) These idiots DID NOT LISTEN. Arg! WSG is NOT COMPLICATED! But they're all idiots! Little ADHD kids on crack! GAHRRRAGHRRRJRQWERQWKL
So. No PvPing. So I can quest (hate) and instance (hate). But I really try not to force myself to do things I hate in a game. So... leave Keen-the-hunter low level? Forget the whole idea? XP really slowly when I have rested XP?
I feel like IC Keen: All this is too much for my poor tired brain to decide.
Edit: Also, I finally bought a new mouse! After using a mouse with two buttons (not even three!) all my life, that one will be really nice. Maybe I'll finally be able to become a mouse-turner, since I'll be able to map one of those buttons to autorun!
Edit 2: Lord, where is my brain. Half the reason I want to level Keen-the-hunter isn't even for IC reasons, I want another 2 profession slots before Cata. I really want a herb picker again, plus that would give me one more slot for something.
