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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jardel_Karabella" data-source="post: 2558620">Re: Re: Please Let Me Play My CharacterI don't buy this one bit, for four reasons:(1) Juxta is supposed to be carefully monitored and regulated both  by the Marshalls and Moonbeam Adepts.  It is not the Wild West. The concept that you just randomly got attacked on the way is highly implausible and contradicts from the setting.  Juxta is a place of law and order, therefore criminals there take care not to get caught so they certainly don't just mug people in the open then leave them to go get help.(2)Why in blazes would you go to a marketplace when there's a temple district right next to it? If you got stabbed by a mugger and you had a choice of going to a private hospital or a supermarket, which would you choose?  Is your bank balance really worth that much more than your life?(3) "I couldn't afford healing." doesn't fly either considering there are a vast multitude of temples in Juxta (at least one of them is liable to take pity on you) and failing that... there are a vast multitudes of portals to other worlds.  Somewhere there has to be a place where you'd get help, especially since you'd have no reason to believe that if the religious orders who run the temple wouldn't help you then why would one off duty in the marketplace do it for free?(4) If you want to "off-screen" mortally cripple yourself and blame it on the setting, then IMO, you can damn well "off-screen" get yourself some help from the setting too.  If you think it's illogical nobody would help your char... have them helped by some of the dozens of underappreciated NPC shoppers and merchants.The crawling in on the brink of death routine is old, cliched and has been incredibly over-used by so many people I don't blame anyone who doesn't go to help the dying guy.  In short it's an uninspired demand for attention (highlighted by your claim it made no sense for nobody to come and help you).I do not take kindly to OOC demands from strangers when I'm RPing.  Particularly when they're random and for no better reason than they want attention. I certainly do not reward them by humouring the person unquestioningly and making them feel their idea was a great one they should try again whenever they want attention.In short... if you want a good response, make a good entrance.  You know what entrance I've found get's the best results?Walk in like you're coming to a marketplace, then go over and find a reason to introduce yourself to some strangers you think you'd like to talk to.  If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.  A great tip for this, ask them about themselves.Seriously, you'll find you'll get a much better reaction to simple human friendliness and socialising than you will to meladramatic sequences focusing around your character's impending death or the destruction of their world.Go in, make some friends first, then you have a chance of getting people come help you.</blockquote>

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