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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3987773" data-attributes="member: 4936">Mmm.I'm going to not be offended by the implied statement in yer post, Lemming...though it's worth pointing out that it could easily be construed as an attack on the rest of us. Remember that intents in the magic world of text on pages aren't as easy to gauge when there's no body language/tone/expression/etc to help us out. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />To respond: I'm not sure exactly what the "utopian neolithic era" of the game has to do with this. Human beings are human beings. When they're attacked, they get ticked off; even fight back. I can't stress this enough - They attacked us. As we slept. Does that mean killing them is a perfectly rational act? Is there no valid argument for taking prisoners, or trying, as Enko is, to open talks? Of course there is. And no, it's not perfectly rational. But it is, I think, perfectly understandable, and, I maintain, a normal enough human reaction.And even us peaceful hunter gatherer types live in a dangerous and hostile world...threatened by animals, by each other, and by spirits and creatures we barely understand. When confronted by nasty, icky horrible monsters with froggy eyes and sharp teeth, who come at you with knives of sharpened bones and screeching in some horrible inhuman tongue, I think the human being who -doesn't- feel an atavistic urge to grab a stick and keep thwacking until it stops moving is a rare exception. In summary: I don't see the problem with anyone's RP. Including Enko's. I find his reaction a bit surprising in its vehemence, but that's all. If I could be said to have a problem, it'd be far more in your continuing to try to imply or suggest that we're not RP'ing our characters 'correctly' or well. I especially find the assumption that we're subscribing to a mindlessly aggressive "typical D&D" mindset more than a little insulting.Give us a little credit, alright?</blockquote>

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