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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Too Many Annas suggested a Friday Five-Hundred Ficlet addressing how our characters would deal with the heat. Living where I am I know well how miserable it can be when a hot and humid heat wave hits. Then Megaly immediately began complaining about being too hot. Here is my result.

Thanks for the inspiration, Anna!

Too Hot!

Meg woke with her mouth feeling nearly as sticky as her bare skin. The stuffiness of the room and the thick, sticky air told her what kind of day it was going to be; hot and miserable. Again. The temperature during the night had dropped to almost pleasant but with the coming of dawn she could feel the heat and humidity rising to envelope Stormwind.

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Okay, I’m gonna try something new at TDRP. Each week I’m going to throw out a RP challenge to anyone that happens to read this. It will be something different that could stimulate RP for you and others around you. If you participate in the challenge come on back and post how it went in the comments!

Thursday RP Challenge for June 24, 2010: Walk This Way!

Here is the challenge; every time you are in a city or town, walk. Don’t run. For one week. Turn off your run. You can be mounted or on foot but walk only. You don’t have to do it on every character but maybe give it a try anyway. See what kinds of things you notice around you. See if anyone else is walking. Then come back here in a week and let me know!

Ready? Set! GO!

So when I left game there was a thriving RP community and if you knew where to look you could find events, weekly get-togethers, even just random encounters.

Since my return it seems the RP has dwindled. Almost gone underground. I’m sure it is there somewhere I’m just not having much luck finding it.

So someone tell me and share with anyone else that might visit here: Where have all the role players gone? Where do they congregate on both Alliance and Horde side? Are there any weekly RP get-togethers still? Where are events posted?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Recently I’ve had some pretty miserable things happen in my life. Just within the past month I’ve lost two of my beloved cats. Dealing with that on top of other things that have been going on has been quite a chore.

However I don’t want to be a wallower so I’ve decided to try to find something good in the muck. I started thinking about how my characters deal with personal tragedy. Every real person deals in a different and unique way. How would our characters handle death of a loved one, loss of love/home/friendships, etc. Or even what would they consider a personal tragedy?

Here are mine:

• Nauloera: As a priest she should follow the ideal that “everything happens for a reason” but she doesn’t. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that she is fairly recent into her position as a priest. She does, however, try to accept that bad things happen, that loss is inevitable. Since the loss of Draenor and her beloved sister her resolve has been hard pressed in this area. When she learned of the destruction of her home village where her sister still lived she was devastated. It was her sense of responsibility that brought her back from the edge. There has been little to compare to that tragedy in her mind so she feels if she could survive that, she could survive anything. As a healer she now understands that wounds heal eventually… even her own.

• Merlinne: Merlinne tends to bottle things up inside. Raised as she was she was taught that ladies kept their feelings to themselves and in some cases were not even permitted to have feelings of their own. The greatest loss she ever endured was the loss of Hugnir. During the time of his “death” which came about when he sacrificed himself to save her, she withdrew into herself so far and bottled everything up so tight she was more a statue than anything. From experience it has been discovered that the longer she keeps things inside the more explosive it is when they finally release. As a mage that explosion is sometimes literal.

• Megaly: She drinks. Heavily and with great abandon. She figures if she can still remember it then she hasn’t had enough to drink.

• Ithrene: Her pets are more than just pets. She identifies better with animals than she does with other people. When she is affected by loss and tragedy, she turns to them for her solace. Their love and unconditional understanding is where she finds the comfort she needs to get through her difficult times. Having something big, warm and fluffy to curl up and cry with truly is healthy!

• Xedra: The loss of her husband is the greatest tragedy she has had to endure…. and she is still dealing with it. She tends to brood and plot. In her mind she is plotting preventative measures to help others so they don’t have to endure what she has. In truth she is still plotting vengeance. She can’t get enough of the rage against the Scourge out. She gathers information, skills, artifacts, all in the hopes that someday she in some way contribute to the purging of the Scourge and will gain retribution for the death of her husband.

I have other characters but they’re still pretty quiet after my hiatus from game so I’ll wait to write about them until they’re talking again. Feel free to post in the comments how your characters react to personal tragedy.

The world is a better place for your contributions and a sadder one for your departure.

Rest in peace, David Lance Arneson.

With the introduction of Wrath I waited with bated breath to see what nifty clothes we were going to be given. More skirts maybe? A variety of cold weather inspired robes? Perhaps some jackets or parka style tunics? How about some woolen pants? Anything new or exciting would be welcome.

Instead it seems Northrend has been beaten with the ugly stick. No… let me rephrase that. Northrend has been raided by the entire damn ugly forest! And it wasn’t even a very imaginative forest either!

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Every story must have some conflict or drama to be interesting. When it involves RP, how much is too much?

Every player has their own tolerance threshold for character drama. Some are going to have a fairly high tolerance, some are going to have a fairly low one, and some it will depend on what they have recently been involved in, how believable the drama is, and how original it is. Personally, I only rarely create major dramatic threads for my characters. Why? Because they get real old, real fast. I rarely get involved in other people’s major plot lines. Why? Same reason.

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Is there such a thing as Role Play Etiquette? Certainly there is! It may not be so obviously called that but you can usually tell when someone is breaking it. How can you tell? By listening carefully to what others say.

I’m going to try touching on the subject of RP Etiquette. Mind you there are hundreds and hundreds of RP pet peeves that individual RPers might have that I certainly can’t cover, but I will try to cover some of the most common ones. I will also discuss how to know if you’re breaking RP etiquette and possible alternatives or solutions to such behavior. Making role play fun for everyone is the goal. So let’s work towards that goal together.

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This is an article I’ve been kicking around for a while and my friends have been nagging me to write something for the blog so I thought I’d drag this topic out and dust it off.

Romance In RP

Now before you start to point and snicker, muttering about “cyborz”, notice the title is ROMANCE, not ERP. That is another topic for another day. Romance can cover a wide range of emotional depth from the friends that exchange flowers on occasion to full fledged lovers or marrieds. Role playing romance DOES NOT mean cyber just like reading a book that has romantic elements does not mean reading porn.

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