Hopefully everyone had fun with the last RP Challenge! This week’s can be as difficult or as easy as you like. I hope that everyone will at least make it somewhere in the middle.

Thursday RP Challenge for July 29, 2010: Sweet Emote-ion!

This week your challenge is to emote something at 10 strangers over the period of a week. It could be something as simple as a nod as you pass them in the street or as complex as blowing your nose on their shirt sleeve… as long as it is IC! Now sure, it isn’t very difficult to just walk past someone and nod. So maybe try something that encourages interaction? How about bumping into them in the street? Staring at them as they sit at that table? Be creative! The choices are endless!

Remember, they must be strangers. Someone you have not interacted with previously. It’s a big server! That shouldn’t be too hard!

Come on back next week and lets talk about how it went!

Recently I met a couple really great players in a random from Stormscale Server. They were saying they were disappointed in their current server and were considering transferring to a roleplay server. Well of course myself and Benemus (who was also in the group) were more than happy to extol the virtues of Feathermoon server. And after advising them it might be best to roll a baby here first before transferring level 80 characters to the server we felt like we’d had a good day.

Later I began thinking about some of the things we, having “grown up” on a role play server, might take for granted. How could one explain the minor technical details? The odd server “history”? Where would one begin to help someone coming to the server as a level 80 understand and not feel overwhelmed by the RP atmosphere and feel the need to retreat into non-rp just to survive?

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Hey folks, I’m taking a much needed break this week and spending time with my father so for the challenge this week I’m just going to extend last week’s. Did you already do your 10? Do 10 more! Or do something different and come tell us about it!

Have a great week!

-Nau

For me the second challenge was a great deal more fun. I was constantly pressed to find a reason to speak to people and find a way to slip them some booze. My drink of choice was Snowplum Brandy. I chat logged many of the interactions but there were some I missed and, doofus that I am, I didn’t write down the names. Below are the encounters I had.

As you can see in some cases the brandy was more an afterthought. In attempting to keep the encounter brief (so as to not be a pain to those I was accosting) it sometimes just ended up tacked on. However I still perceive the encounters as a success because it created interaction no matter what the original goal might have been.

Below are the ones I actually got logged and I send out my thanks to those who played along with my challenge, even if they didn’t know they were!

-Nau

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Despite our little delay while the server was down, we’re ready with another RP Challenge! This week is yet another interactive one and a bit of the opposite of last week’s where the goal was to give out booze. This week you’re going to try to convince others to give YOU something.

Thursday RP Challenge for July 15, 2010: Money Talks!

The challenge this week may seem simple until you actually try to make it work. Remember, this is to be accomplished In Character!

Over the next week, In Character, convince 10 people you don’t know and have never met before to give you 2 copper each. This can be accomplished on any combination of characters for any IC reason. Even if it is a level 1 mule posing as a beggar in the street. Be creative!

Come back next week and we’ll see how it went!

(This was originally supposed to post on July 7th but it got eated too.  -Nau)

One of my great joys on returning to game was to discover that the RPA channel was still alive and well on Alliance side. Since then there have been some great IC conversations going on there but so far this one has been the most spectacularly explosive. Sometimes a simple misunderstood phrase can lead to some hilarious interaction. Enjoy!  -Nau

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This post was originally scheduled to go up on July 6th… but it got eated. So here it is now.

-Nau

I probably should have posted this Thursday or Friday. Ah well! I’ll do better next time!

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I found this tiny gem while going through my logs. While it was happening I was deep in whispers with three other people and missed it in game. I am truly remorseful that I missed reacting to it! Though after so long being gone, it is good to know Kyraine still has her stew bucket! -Nau

Kyraine rummages through her pack

Kyraine gets out the pot

Kyraine tosses in some Salted Yeti Cheese, Frost Lotus, Savory Snowplum

Kyraine adds some Magic Eater for good measure, and some Split Hoof

Kyraine grabs a bowl, sits down on the dead Nerubian, and starts eating

Welcome once again to TDRP’s Thursday RP Challenge.

The purpose of the RP Challenge is to provide an idea to encourage role play interaction and see what kind of results we get. Last week’s RP Challenge was a simple one, however this week’s is a bit more… Challenging!

Thursday RP Challenge for July 1, 2010: Have a Drink on Me!

So challengers, here is your goal this week! Over the next week give a drink (bourbon, wine, honeymint tea) to twenty random strangers. They don’t have to all be in the same day. Spread them out and have fun with it! And no, you can’t just run up and open a trade window, then run away. Where’s the fun in that???? Come up with a reason for it! Did someone next to you just ding? Hand them some grog and congratulate them! Did you just ding? Pass them out telling people the great news! Did someone cough? Hand them some honeymint tea to ease their throat. Be creative!

And remember, the key is do it all In Character.

Come on back in a week and tell me how it went!

So this is another ficlet response to Too Many Annas’ ficlet challenge. After writing about Megaly, Gentlewind told me she was too hot also!

Too Hot!

The normally soothing breeze blowing though the grasses of Mulgore today carried nothing but more of the oppressive heat. Even the grasses themselves seemed to wilt under the unrelenting summer sun. Gentlewind lay among those grasses next to the small creek near her village, her fur still wet from rolling in that same creek. It didn’t help. She wanted to fuss and whine but mother would tell her that whining accomplished nothing. Gentlewind knew from experience the only thing it accomplished was a scolding!

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