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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 5684769" data-attributes="member: 2710">Saktouk Bekloric, half-orc monkSaktouk decides it might be best if he did something he was good at. He lends his strong back to setting up the camp, mentioning as he passes the lord's men, "When I've done with ours, I'll be glad ta lend a hand settin' up your own, boyos. Rogar knows it looks like ye've had a tirin' day," he adds with a conspiratorial wink.[sblock=ooc][ooc]Part of the problem is that Saktouk's basically bad at any kind of social interaction, at least mechanically. He's just as bad at intimidating or bluffing folks as he is at being diplomatic. So I'm slightly at a loss as to what he can do that might change an attitude, since by design he's very bad at that. I'm not really frustrated in any way by that insofar as the game goes (I'm not entirely certain that Saktouk as a character is holding my interest, but that's no one's fault but my own. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  ); that's the nature of RPG, that periodically a specialized character will find himself in a situation toward which his specialties aren't really useful.  I don't want you to feel I'm not participating, but likewise it generally seems wiser for Saktouk to step back in situations like this.[/ooc][ooc]Honestly, I'll admit to misreading your post a bit, too. I thought I was the 'slowest poster' being referenced, and was trying to get out of the way so folks wouldn't have to wait on me in a social encounters since Saktouk's generally unhelpful in those to begin with.  I'm very sorry, though, if you're feeling left behind and/or underappreciated. I don't think anyone wants that to happen; we're all mostly trying to participate as well as we can toward a solid resolution and tasty XP goodness and character advancement. It may not help that Ariel and Veniarus are both aggressive personalities with strong points of view that aren't often in agreement. It's totally in character for them to but heads as a result of that. IC tensions are the stuff of good RP, but unfortunately they can also tend to color OOC feelings sometimes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />[/ooc][/sblock]</blockquote>

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