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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jardel_Karabella" data-source="post: 2558616">That's okay, I support freedom of speech. <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=":)" />I could shoot of a dozen reasons, but that would get us stuck in a point for point debate.  However the point is here: You never really know why someone isn't doing what you expected.Possible in character explanations- Are they deadly afraid of illnesses?- Are they from a culture where you don't help strangers?- Do they have superstitions about helping strangers?- Are they merely apathetic to the suffering of others?- Is that "little chat" they're having on the bench actually something critically important that they can't tear themselves away from?Possible OOC reasons- Have they had many bad experience with such plots and players in the past?- Are they currently distracted by something going on in PMs?- Do they simply have more than enough on their plate and don't feel they can handle anymore right now?That's just a few examples off the top of my head, many of which have applied to me in the past.Well experience and my psychology classes that I was cruely forced to take in college tell me they will.  I won't name names, but I have known of several "needer" characters who were constantly being flung into disaster by their players simply so the character would get attention.Why did they do this so often? Because that was a system they'd found that worked and they figured when you find a good thing, stick to it.</blockquote>

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