Forum RP Game Woes Part 3
Ok.. I was gonna quit. I was!! I swear I was. I even deleted the GM off of AIM. Then Laurie convinced me to keep playing because her and the other player put a lot of time into their characters and really wanted to keep playing, so I agreed to give it another try.
Let me describe my character:
Adora was raised in a small clan of people, part of a tribal society. Basically she's a farmer and her people worship this kind of mothering/agricultural god. Now, every year the people have this big "You're a woman now" ceremony where they have this big party where all the girls drink blood and have big orgy's or something. I didn't come up with that part. Now, my character was like the black sheep because she was the only girl that didn't have her period and was all sad and crying off in a corner reading "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret." During the ceremony she saw the village elder sneaking off a bunch of kids, like a dozen or so (sneaking, yeah.. ha!) and she decided to follow him because it was suspicious, but the rest of the village was all "yayyyy big gratuitous group intimacy!". When she followed him she saw him making this deal with a Taker, which is basically a big evil bad guy. She was like "OMG! He's giving the children to the enemy!!!" and ran out to confront him. When she hopped out of the bushes he hit her with a mental attack (the elder) that should have made her a vegetable and essentially killed her, but instead she was able to fight off the attack and snapped out of it. All the children got hit too, they were most definitely veggified.
SO.. Adora runs at the elder that was the representative of her village and she should have trusted and worshiped as a great leader, but just tried to kill her so obviously is not a cool guy, and she stabbed him with her belt knife. He died. The Taker grabbed half of the brain dead children and ran off. Adora stumbled back to the village with the other half covered in blood (not from her period) and sobbing because of the traumatic event.
Her village is all "HEY! You killed the elder!" and she was like "Hey! He was a bastard!" and they were like "Hey! We don't care! You are banished. Goodbye." Adora leaves, outcast and downtrodden. She decides to seek out the Clan of Joshua. They're off on some island and are basically all the outcasts of the various tribes and clans, joined together. THAT was my starting concept. He told me that she lost her connection to her god but in return got some dark emo powers in replacement. Ok, w/e.
NOW. As I said previously, the GM threw us into the starting scene with no information. Basically we worked out that my character went to the big city to try and find word on how to get to this tribe of rejects that she wanted to join, and it wasn't long after her banishment, so she's only like 13 or 14, and very lost and alone. I figured it would work out well because she could run into the rest of the party and be all "Ohhh I need friends because I am young and afraid in the world, please let me join you."
I had said that my character just decided to look for a bar, then the riot broke out. Then chariots showed up and all that. NOW.. here's a funny detail. Laurie's character, Apphia, was supposedly a friend she had in her childhood for a summer. This was a detail he threw to me in a random PM. My character is only 13 so I figured "Hmm, okay, maybe when she was 6 or 7." They run into each other in this random riot, and Laurie's character who is now looking super-beautiful, WAY older than she should be, and has TWO EXTRA ARMS (yeah, four total). Adora is all "OMG! Apphia! WTF?!" and immediately associates her with the EEEEVIL Takers. She tries to run away, but Apphia is all "wait, I want to talk to youuuu".
Meanwhile, the crowd starts turning on my character, "You are in league with the Takers! You know her name! You're eeeeevil too! Attack!" and my character tries to flee, but despite the rolls of awesomeness I mentioned before, fails. The other player brings in his character, who is a Taker in training or something, and starts SLAUGHTERING the people in the streets. Death and mayhem everywhere, fireballs, people getting run down by chariots that appeared from nowhere. Eventually all three characters end up in an alley, chariots are on fire, people are dying and my character is having a mental breakdown and just wants to have her PERIOD because she wants to be a WOMAN!
Laurie has her character drag my character into a tall tower, the other player's character was actually ON FIRE at the time and follows them. He's actually immolated in flames, but still alive. So now, the party is sitting at the base of a skyscraper like tower and Adora is sobbing on the floor terrified out of her mind because basically she just got kidnapped by the Nazi's of her world. All she really wants to do is run away to find the Island of Misfit Toys and be with all the other outcasts of the world, but she's trapped here by two people in league with the ONE THING in her character background that she was absolutely against. THE ONLY THING that she was negatively biased towards, I somehow have to get her to go along with to keep the party together.
What did the GM say when I asked WHY my character would want to go with the other two party members? "But it is her childhood friend!"
HOW?!?! So I don't have ANY ideas that make any sort of sense on why my character wouldn't want to use her emo-shadow powers and escape, so I just have her crying like some shock victim on the floor.
Let me describe my character:
Adora was raised in a small clan of people, part of a tribal society. Basically she's a farmer and her people worship this kind of mothering/agricultural god. Now, every year the people have this big "You're a woman now" ceremony where they have this big party where all the girls drink blood and have big orgy's or something. I didn't come up with that part. Now, my character was like the black sheep because she was the only girl that didn't have her period and was all sad and crying off in a corner reading "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret." During the ceremony she saw the village elder sneaking off a bunch of kids, like a dozen or so (sneaking, yeah.. ha!) and she decided to follow him because it was suspicious, but the rest of the village was all "yayyyy big gratuitous group intimacy!". When she followed him she saw him making this deal with a Taker, which is basically a big evil bad guy. She was like "OMG! He's giving the children to the enemy!!!" and ran out to confront him. When she hopped out of the bushes he hit her with a mental attack (the elder) that should have made her a vegetable and essentially killed her, but instead she was able to fight off the attack and snapped out of it. All the children got hit too, they were most definitely veggified.
SO.. Adora runs at the elder that was the representative of her village and she should have trusted and worshiped as a great leader, but just tried to kill her so obviously is not a cool guy, and she stabbed him with her belt knife. He died. The Taker grabbed half of the brain dead children and ran off. Adora stumbled back to the village with the other half covered in blood (not from her period) and sobbing because of the traumatic event.
Her village is all "HEY! You killed the elder!" and she was like "Hey! He was a bastard!" and they were like "Hey! We don't care! You are banished. Goodbye." Adora leaves, outcast and downtrodden. She decides to seek out the Clan of Joshua. They're off on some island and are basically all the outcasts of the various tribes and clans, joined together. THAT was my starting concept. He told me that she lost her connection to her god but in return got some dark emo powers in replacement. Ok, w/e.
NOW. As I said previously, the GM threw us into the starting scene with no information. Basically we worked out that my character went to the big city to try and find word on how to get to this tribe of rejects that she wanted to join, and it wasn't long after her banishment, so she's only like 13 or 14, and very lost and alone. I figured it would work out well because she could run into the rest of the party and be all "Ohhh I need friends because I am young and afraid in the world, please let me join you."
I had said that my character just decided to look for a bar, then the riot broke out. Then chariots showed up and all that. NOW.. here's a funny detail. Laurie's character, Apphia, was supposedly a friend she had in her childhood for a summer. This was a detail he threw to me in a random PM. My character is only 13 so I figured "Hmm, okay, maybe when she was 6 or 7." They run into each other in this random riot, and Laurie's character who is now looking super-beautiful, WAY older than she should be, and has TWO EXTRA ARMS (yeah, four total). Adora is all "OMG! Apphia! WTF?!" and immediately associates her with the EEEEVIL Takers. She tries to run away, but Apphia is all "wait, I want to talk to youuuu".
Meanwhile, the crowd starts turning on my character, "You are in league with the Takers! You know her name! You're eeeeevil too! Attack!" and my character tries to flee, but despite the rolls of awesomeness I mentioned before, fails. The other player brings in his character, who is a Taker in training or something, and starts SLAUGHTERING the people in the streets. Death and mayhem everywhere, fireballs, people getting run down by chariots that appeared from nowhere. Eventually all three characters end up in an alley, chariots are on fire, people are dying and my character is having a mental breakdown and just wants to have her PERIOD because she wants to be a WOMAN!
Laurie has her character drag my character into a tall tower, the other player's character was actually ON FIRE at the time and follows them. He's actually immolated in flames, but still alive. So now, the party is sitting at the base of a skyscraper like tower and Adora is sobbing on the floor terrified out of her mind because basically she just got kidnapped by the Nazi's of her world. All she really wants to do is run away to find the Island of Misfit Toys and be with all the other outcasts of the world, but she's trapped here by two people in league with the ONE THING in her character background that she was absolutely against. THE ONLY THING that she was negatively biased towards, I somehow have to get her to go along with to keep the party together.
What did the GM say when I asked WHY my character would want to go with the other two party members? "But it is her childhood friend!"
HOW?!?! So I don't have ANY ideas that make any sort of sense on why my character wouldn't want to use her emo-shadow powers and escape, so I just have her crying like some shock victim on the floor.