tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.comments2010-05-17T06:56:07.873-07:00Luthienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01352827439802266016noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-47771179687140541062010-05-17T06:56:07.868-07:002010-05-17T06:56:07.868-07:00I agree with the nebulous Anonymous when I say, &quot;Indeed, more Caemlyn.&quot;Wivernrydernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-62401365559356528432010-05-14T19:28:29.181-07:002010-05-14T19:28:29.181-07:00More Caemlyn!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-13282356994161473592010-05-14T15:42:18.828-07:002010-05-14T15:42:18.828-07:00*cheers* WOOOOOOOO! Summer! Events! New Places! Summer! heheheAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-3838470736643723612010-04-11T20:53:24.771-07:002010-04-11T20:53:24.771-07:00Tsos galumphed again and server poofed on people. -.-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-44829613036058005062010-01-20T13:20:50.736-08:002010-01-20T13:20:50.736-08:00My first characters death was a bit long and drawn out, and wasn&#39;t horrible, he was a great character, and I enjoyed playing him, but in the end, I killed him more than the other person. Rioul on the other hand, hit me alot harder than any other, and he didn&#39;t even die. 9/10 of the time I spent on this game has been on Rioul, primarily trying to level his channeling, it&#39;s just what I enjoy, being able to strive for and slowly build up a character, not necesarily for PKing means, or self defense, I just enjoy the feeling of growing stronger over time, and the fact that he could experiment and do so by himself made it a little less trying. When he burnt out I was, at first, disbelieving, I figured it was me misreading something, I probably read that like of text 50 times before it kicked in. I logged off and left, just now have I started to get back into the game, I still refuse to give up on Rioul, I guess I&#39;ll just have to spend some time learning some other skills. In total, I felt betrayed in a way, that after finally making it to channeling rank 2, it was gone before I ever had a chance to fiddle around with it and get a good feel for it.Rioulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-84796591403472144302009-12-20T14:11:20.957-08:002009-12-20T14:11:20.957-08:00Well honestly I know what you mean. When I lost my first character I was really REALLY upset (just ask Zak!). I didn&#39;t log in for awhile and threw a huge fit. :P But I got over it eventually and learned to love her remort as much as I did the original; maybe more since the new one has a lot more prospects. <br /><br />But in all honesty I don&#39;t think anyone should let it get to them too much. Yea we spend a lot of time and effort on our characters but we also know that there is always that possiblity that we might lose them. There is always those risks... IE going into the blight with level 0 forms IC and expecting to take on a Fade.... &gt;.&gt; Or a wolfie and weapon master taking on a bunch of trollocs and not running... *shrug* It happens. You wouldn&#39;t stand in front of a speeding bus and expect to come out alright now would you? :DSheawynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-5086099024224401412009-12-14T12:23:35.315-08:002009-12-14T12:23:35.315-08:00@Van:<br />Mouahahahahaha.<br />-LuthAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-2992588997578257402009-12-10T13:27:50.485-08:002009-12-10T13:27:50.485-08:00Life just got too much in the way for me. Working 12-16 hours a day 6 days a week in the army and going to school full time since broke my addiction to the game pretty solidly a few years back. The characters I created a decade ago just don&#39;t seem to be mine when I come back to log into them. I&#39;ve changed from my life experiences and they really didn&#39;t change much during that time. Combined with the amount of time I spend working on the game and respective website (Valtama can probably indicate to some of you that something interesting is coming with the website), and its not like its a huge secret that the site beta is beta.tsosmud.org and you never know what you will see over there. But with constantly having more and more things to do its hard enough to have a life outside of work as it is right now for me to also have a strong life in the game. <br /><br />As far as character deaths go though, the only major one I had that I felt betrayed about was my very first death. I hadn&#39;t been playing that long and I got killed off by a player which I later found out had an immortal alt. I even called an imm, which happened to be the player&#39;s alt, to try and argue how the other person violated OOC knowledge and stuff. I was mad but it didn&#39;t last long, I just got determined to not make the same mistakes that were made the first time.<br /><br />As for any deaths I&#39;ve had since then, I&#39;ve had 2 on characters I played for multiple years. Neither I was upset over, both had their time and shone at during it but their deaths were great RP and at least one of them has his death on the RP logs of the site. I think there comes a time when you outgrow your own character and at that point death is a great way to take all that work you&#39;ve put into it and move in another direction. If you embrace it and your roleplay was solid, I can guarantee you won&#39;t get hit too hard by the skill set down and you get a clean slate.Vandreadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00857492656299155521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-53223498415167410042009-12-10T13:17:45.311-08:002009-12-10T13:17:45.311-08:00My initial reaction was a sort of calm acceptance, until the realization hit me. I knew it was my fault, and that I pretty much deserved it, but it never really sunk in until I tried to log in the next day before realizing that he wasn&#39;t there anymore. It did feel like a kind of betrayal, but not from my character or anyone else; I felt like I&#39;d betrayed myself. Like I&#39;d allowed myself to go down the wrong path over a long time, and didn&#39;t realize it was happening.<br />I now know that I had been really attached to my him, and the loss still kinda stings, but it&#39;s a thing that I&#39;m able to shove to the back of my mind.<br />I considered taking a few days off, but for some reason that just felt like a kind of defeat, so I just plowed stoicly onward. Looking back, the day after I was in a somber mood, and the next few days after that as well. I&#39;m glad that it didn&#39;t affect my actions too heavily, just my outlook.<br />My thought is that after a while of getting to know your character, getting to BE your character, you can&#39;t help but become attached in some way. I&#39;ll admit that in some roleplays, I let myself get involved to the point that it wasn&#39;t me typing the words, but my character doing the actions. I was reacting purely how he would react, because I knew him so well.<br />Getting to know one of my other characters has been difficult, because their personalities are so different. And I find it harder to immerse myself in the world because I have that fear of losing the character.<br />I had tried to prepare myself for the loss of my character, but I realize that even though I felt like I was ready, my reaction tells me I wasn&#39;t... at all. More than anything else, there was a feeling of unfairness (which I know is BS), and a bit of looking back and wondering. I was somewhat angry about it, until someone talked to me about their experience losing a character, and then it hit me: I&#39;m not the only one. I&#39;m not the only person that&#39;s ever lost a character, and I&#39;m not the only person that&#39;s been attached to a character. I think that now, I&#39;m just going to try not to dwell on it and move on.Doaglenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-47638585976104594742009-12-10T12:43:44.151-08:002009-12-10T12:43:44.151-08:00I think the first point when I had a sort of panic moment related to how attached I was to TSoS is when my first character (named Luthien, strangely enough) died. I still feel like I was kind of cheated out of it, at least in the sense that someone may have abused their power just a little to get in on the roleplay for the purpose of taking me down. That&#39;s neither here nor there though. I was pissed, felt betrayed by my character, the MUD, that other player, the world in general, etc. I was about ready to quit when a friend managed to talk me down and convince me that it was just a game and that things would have been a lot more boring without me around. I still took a couple days off to figure out things, but I haven&#39;t really been quite so attached since.Luthienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01352827439802266016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-60573080775980733302009-12-07T02:35:29.495-08:002009-12-07T02:35:29.495-08:00DEFINITELY thinking about this. A lot.Valtamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-27345796880702252852009-12-03T09:28:36.951-08:002009-12-03T09:28:36.951-08:00More stories please!!! I joined at the tail end of Nico&#39;s life, but she sounded pretty fierce.Valtamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-34447054705583762612009-10-06T06:32:54.247-07:002009-10-06T06:32:54.247-07:00A couple things worth noting.. Just because you don&#39;t feel like RPing doesn&#39;t mean that you have to. RP is what is going to take you farthest at our MUD but we are still a MUD, not a MUSH or other such thing. There is a delicate balance between the code aspect and the IC aspect, and it is important to realize that. There will be times when it actually might make more sense to avoid RP and focus on improving your code setup.<br /><br />To perhaps clarify the point Jeshin was trying to get at here, I&#39;d also rather address this IC/OOC thing. It&#39;s not really a big deal if you avoid someone because you don&#39;t like them, etc. The only time you&#39;d be forced to RP with someone is basically if you walked out on a RP in the middle of it previously and left something important (e.g., death, capture) unresolved. A lot of times it is absolutely true that a lot of the player will bleed over into the character, and if you don&#39;t like the player...well RPing with one of their characters is going to be pretty awful. So don&#39;t bother! That&#39;s what I say anyway. It&#39;s a game, it&#39;s supposed to be fun.<br /><br />Oh, and secretly I totally ducked RP with someone once for like a year. They finally did catch me though. You can&#39;t really duck someone forever, that&#39;s for sure.Luthienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01352827439802266016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-33814263924590640422009-09-23T23:09:50.983-07:002009-09-23T23:09:50.983-07:00I lost the game.<br /><br />Sounds like fun times.Klaivenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-45644998807735623192009-09-23T11:55:17.074-07:002009-09-23T11:55:17.074-07:00I hate you and your GAME also more storyies and who is Nico???<br /><br />-10 points if you can guess who this is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-13872141984953360162009-09-22T17:00:45.311-07:002009-09-22T17:00:45.311-07:00You son of a bitch!Dominichttp://tsosmud.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-66474289053934309582009-09-22T16:41:11.795-07:002009-09-22T16:41:11.795-07:00What game?Dreyanhttp://whichurl.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-24170839410345510852009-09-22T16:34:21.465-07:002009-09-22T16:34:21.465-07:00Or have they?Jeshinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-83561702468915649122009-09-22T14:04:21.092-07:002009-09-22T14:04:21.092-07:00Most people who read all the way through your post to my comment have lost The Game.Vandreadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00857492656299155521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-802304480277563569.post-68256639625289526642009-09-20T23:52:56.205-07:002009-09-20T23:52:56.205-07:00FuriKuri approves!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com