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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drindin" data-source="post: 2559517" data-attributes="member: 38617">Re: Thoughts on Entitlement to InteractionHmm... funny, the two times that I offered help in a story line, it was done in such a manner as to not disrupt the story line, as I was simply going on with what was the idea, and still...Okay, I will.Robert_olidamarite: I"m seeing people oppressed. I don't like that, I should help them.Backstrom: Having been captured at one time myself, and forced to do things I didn't like.... should I not help them?I've never had a character do that.However, I have had characters offer healing...Think of it this way: You're walking down the street, and you see a homeless person getting beat up. Would you just walk by without doing anything? Or would you try and find a way to help them? That's where my characters are often quick to jump in.When JR. Tolkein met CS. Lewis, it was in a bar. Plenty of friends meet in bars.Yes, because, you know, this is the real world. And in the real world, we can cast spells, can ride dragons, or ascend to god-hood by turning into a lich and sucking out the powers of our followers, and we routeinly kill things so we can gain that second level of Expert that we always wanted. But, if you are going to work with parrallels: in the real world, when some body is choking, is hurt in an accident, or whatever... would you just sit by and do nothing? I wouldn't, I'm not supposed to. I have a level A in first aid, and I'm supposed to use it until the ambulance arrives.If it bugs you that much, simply go to a different room, acting as though you haven't seen the attention-sucking character.I don't seem to recall saying those are the ONLY characters allowed in it. I do plan on allowing other people in it. Hence why this has to be so very large. I plan to make it a story line that, would not just threaten a small select group of people (which seem to be most story lines), rather everybody who goes onto the chat site (not saying everyone has to co-operate, only those whose characters would do so, rather than being apathetic and thinking 'it only happens to other people, never to me')That said, yes, I have plenty of socially inept characters, but not as character flaws... simply because it's nearly impossible to make connections on-site unless you've been here for at least a year, or are a wizo.So, you've made your point, I've made mine. Let's leave at that, and we can both leave well enough alone. You can go on playing your characters in whatever story line they're involved in, and I'll continue planning this story line. Then, everybody's happy and we live happily ever after, the end.</blockquote>

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