Doug Millington-Smith (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
magicaddict) wrote2013-10-21 02:06 pm
magicaddict) wrote2013-10-21 02:06 pm
What The Fuck???
WHAT THE FUCK????????
Guess we'd all better be really careful not to mention anything negative even in mission reports any more, if it's no longer cool for characters to be nasty about other characters in any written medium.
You know, like they are to mine all the damned time.
It was a report. A biased, non-egalitarian, single-opinion report (like all of the others were), from a character who had had a nightmare all weekend at other characters' hands. What in the world did they expect? Rainbows and fucking unicorns?
Would it have been any better had Tony posted it rather than me? I asked if he'd be up for that, and got told I was fine with it (every word of it, from the creator of the system and GM of the game in question - how d'you like those onions?), just to wait until the debrief had gone up.
I swear on my soul that I put aside any OOC feeling I had, and wrote Meek's side of things as Meek and not me. It's a bad write up. Get over it.
Gerrard gets bad IC press every time he goes out, but I don't go whining to the committee that I'm being victimised OOC. Should I start? Is that the assumption we're supposed to make now?
Guess we'd all better be really careful not to mention anything negative even in mission reports any more, if it's no longer cool for characters to be nasty about other characters in any written medium.
You know, like they are to mine all the damned time.
It was a report. A biased, non-egalitarian, single-opinion report (like all of the others were), from a character who had had a nightmare all weekend at other characters' hands. What in the world did they expect? Rainbows and fucking unicorns?
Would it have been any better had Tony posted it rather than me? I asked if he'd be up for that, and got told I was fine with it (every word of it, from the creator of the system and GM of the game in question - how d'you like those onions?), just to wait until the debrief had gone up.
I swear on my soul that I put aside any OOC feeling I had, and wrote Meek's side of things as Meek and not me. It's a bad write up. Get over it.
Gerrard gets bad IC press every time he goes out, but I don't go whining to the committee that I'm being victimised OOC. Should I start? Is that the assumption we're supposed to make now?
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I suspect skins are feeling a tad thin at the moment - it's been quite a while since
1) that particular group of characters had their arses handed to them. When you've got someone HL, you get used to them wading through enemies, so any fuck ups they make are fixed easily by application of a bit more brute force. So suddenly coming up against SUCH a brutal game will have brought them back down to earth with a bump (I anticipate this happening with Pro on Sunday). And then, not only was it hard, but they failed. To not only fail, but fail and then be explicitly told from all sides that the failure was their fault. Egos will have been not just punctured, they were just blown up with heavy duty artillery.
2) We've had such harsh demotions handed out, without some sort of semi-OOC cooperation/volunteering. To be fair, we haven't had a high level game where the stakes were so high for such a long time as well, but then, they get it wrong and are handed IC repercussions for it - things which these characters haven't been in the firing line for for years. So that would be the artillery shell taking out their pride as well.
So, right now, you have a lot of hurt, and I suspect those in question unwilling to level it at the system's creator. (Although I'm incredibly glad he was the one to run this game. I don't think any other GM would have managed it without a flounce from the people involved if this is how they're reacting to a single mission report.) But they'd like to level it at someone. And then you stroll in presenting the perfect target...
Which, frankly, sucks of them. They shouldn't be doing it. They should be putting on their grown up pants and accepting that LARP is reactive; it does not owe them a win, and should they screw up, they will lose and get consequences, and when you get to high level, the stakes are proportionally bigger. And throwing toys out of pram is freaking ridiculous. *hugs*