Link (heroofhyrule) wrote in ttooc,
@ 2009-08-30 22:42:00

I've made this observation that I thought was worth sharing. And that is during the IC chats and events like the ball, is it is really hard to stay in character. For me, both Sasakura and Link got out of character (very, very out of character), making it really frusterating come morning when I was recalling all the crap I handled badly. Like the whole 'Sasa' name-calling from Konata.

I think this has to do with the fact that when you chatting live time, you don't get as much time to think about what your characters are saying and doing. Also it becomes a little harder to distance yourself and not see things as personal attacks. I know I'm espeically bad about that and I'm trying to be better.

I know we try to stay in character on this RP, so I find this frusterating a little bit. And the worst part is I can't think of a good solution either.

I am in no way suggesting we abolish the IC chatting, but I think it might need looking into. Or, if its just me having these problems, please let me know and bare with me while I try to get past them.

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	falsejustice 2009-08-31 06:57 am UTC (link)
	Don't feel the need to rush yourself though in a real time situation. I took my sweet ass time responding to you guys and didn't have too much of a problem. You might find it helpful to slow down a smidge? Then as more and more people slow themselves down it should be a-ok! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	heroofhyrule 2009-08-31 06:59 am UTC (link)
	Hmm, that might be it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

falsejustice
2009-08-31 07:02 am UTC (link)

It usually happens when people feel they need to quickly respond and by quickly responding you end up just giving frustrated response that slowly slip further and further from the character. Dare to be a diva! Make them wait for you! IMO you respond pretty fast in threads as it is ICly so you should be okay making em wait a little bit for response in chat situations as well.

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	heroofhyrule 2009-08-31 07:03 am UTC (link)
	I type fast, so I try to reply fast. But thanks for the advice. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	falsejustice 2009-08-31 07:06 am UTC (link)
	Yeah to be honest I'm actually new to the thread thing all my old RPs did them in IMs and chatrooms and then just posted the 'logs' behind the LJ cut with like a summary of what the log was above it. :D So I know chat/IM rp styles more than I know what the hell I'm doing here. (Reply to this)(Parent)

allhailzero
2009-08-31 08:04 am UTC (link)

While I don't believe chats moving to quickly is a reasonable excuse to get out of character and react to an extreme to anything, I suppose I can help?

Like Light-mun said above, you need to pace yourself. Chats tend to go pretty fast sometimes but nobody is going to forget about your guys there if you don't respond right away. I often take a second to scroll up and re-read things in a chat before responding to make sure I got everything right and I find it's a really helpful to do. Another thing is that chats get especially hard if you're juggling more than one character around. If you have three characters going at once and they're all talking to different people it can get incredibly easy to loose track. Perhaps you could keep them doing simple things like have one eat food while the other carrys out a conversation so it's easy to keep track.

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	heroofhyrule 2009-08-31 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm I do. Because you feel the need to respond quickly, you write something quickly and if you start to drift from the IC of your character, you can get further and further away with each reply. Though you have good advice too. Thanks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	allhailzero 2009-08-31 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	No offense or anything- but I still don't see how it's an excuse since you're the only one having this problem. Everybody else was doing perfectly fine keeping up with the chat and staying in character. And there's never an excuse to allow yourself to drift that far away from your IC-ness, fast moving chat or not, especially when people pointed it out. You're welcome. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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