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Seriously an incredible PC.

GOOD!

Great

No screenshots of our duel? For shame.

He was awesome!

Good.

It's party time! I'm not available for a while~

RIP. I really liked what I saw of this PC, and it's a shame he's gone so soon.

The fact that courtesy is this unwritten and vague code that no one can seem to agree on completely is probably why there are so many arguments about it, and probably why these sorts of threads come along every few months. But I would say, in general, it tends to work for EFU and that's what matters.

Frankly, I don't think there is actually a "right" thing to do, or a "right" way to play a villain or a hero. When I played a villain, I spared just about everyone that I subdued. Is that a valid way to play a villain? Yeah, it totally was! I was looking to prolong whatever conflict I had with this motley band of heroes, and I think the server was ultimately better off for it, rather than some massive purge of PCs that had the misfortune of being mechanically weaker than me.

I do tend to think that villains play by a different set of rules than heroes do. I think there is an expectation and a burden on villain PCs to be "better" than heroes when it comes to courtesy and subdual- which, yes, does lead to some weird situations where villains are more merciful than heroes, but I think that this is ultimately okay and something that can easily be hand-waved away for the sake of a better story. Villains, at the end of the day, wind up having a lot more people at their feet than heroes do, and if every one of these ended in FD, the server would be a much different and (probably worse) place.

Everyone has stories they can tell of that one moment where a hero did something really shitty from an OOC perspective (wordless FDs, etc). You just have to deal with that kind of thing as a villain PC - it really isn't for everyone. I for one, however, enjoy the way it all works, complete with all the quirks, the excitement, and the devastating disappointment, and eagerly look forward to my next!

One last note... I think it's important that people realize that "just doing what's IC" isn't really a valid way of handling this kind of stuff, in my opinion at least. From what I've been able to determine, EFU is, ultimately, a collective storytelling experience moreso than it is a "roleplay server". It is easy, extremely so, to stretch your character a bit to make the overall story better, and I have done so countless times.

EFU is good medicine.

MUTINY!

Just a heads up but with RL and School winding down my playtime should be stabilizing once more around NOvember 10th-15th.

HE RETURNS...

I don't think, personally, that it's wise to discuss what happened the other night here in a suggestion thread!

I don't know why we're discussing monster stuff here either, but I will say that anyone who apps for a monster does so with the understanding (or at least SHOULD do so with the understanding) that they will not be treated with the same courtesy that they are expected to show others. It makes being an awesome monster villain all the more fun, never knowing what PvP will be your last!

This makes me so, so sad. Melanie was an excellent PC, one of my favorites on EFU. I look forward to what you come up with next.

This is really too bad, I liked her.