A question from the newbie

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Hey, my player would like to know, is it unusual to feel guilty when he makes me do things that will cause me a lot of trauma and make a lot of people pissed off at me and just, in general, make me not happy?

Comments

Re: OOC for... uh, OOC?

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

[nod] Exactly. And that's how we work in little narrative outs for ourselves so that we stay IC yet still allow for fun gaming.

Heck, that's why I'm glad Angel's got Sean. If nothing else if he gets so broody that he's impossible for people to deal with, I can give him puppy time to get him back to being verbal. Or verbal for him, anyway ;)

Plus there's plenty of characters who are assholey in their behavior - Bel, Blackadder, Logan, GOB - just to name a few, but who make interacting with them fun even when they're at their worst.

IC Angel would *love* to beat the shit out of Bel for all the things that he's done to remove the soul. But OOC I glee whenever I get to do a scene with Bel's player. The fighting is sexually charged a fun writing challenge, and the antagonism allows Angel to do and feel things that I couldn't get him to do otherwise speaking of sexually charged....

So there are ways of having the bad stuff, yet no player guilt or misery. Win/win. =)