While "Going quiet" is not the way to go you should also keep in mind that as someone who has been bested to allow your opponent a chance to speak, monologue, explain his evil plan, or just have his fun as a bandit. It's a delicate balance between laying there like a wet noodle while someone is asking you questions but there's time and place when you should clam up. Try doing simple, few word emotes of your agony/etc instead of spouting responses.
- If you're in a big group of people having been bested by a more powerful figure it can be hard for one PC to keep up with all the subdued chatter. A lot of people tend to swear revenge or bust out the "We are going to kill you so bad" or have 50 people responding to "WHERE IS THE RELIC" or "WHICH ONE OF YOU IS IN COMMAND" or whatever etc. Sometimes you gotta just become a spectator not an actor. Sometimes it's cool to let the level 4 PC who is with you and just got his teeth kicked in try to lie to your captors even if you are holding the sacred cup of sharess and the bandit just wants to get crunk.
- Another thing to consider is if you're in a group of people who subdued 1-2 PCs, it's okay to shut up and defer to the boss or whoever had instigated the PvP and won or etc. Having been bested by a lot of good guys and mobs as a villain I can tell you there's nothing more gut wrenching than "Tag alongs" shit-talking you. If I'm playing a bandit and a watcher i've been feuding with has some adventurers down me with him, I'm fine interacting with the Watcher but it just sort of makes me want to RP my own suicide when other adventurers who I've never met just start spouting off about how my "USELESS LIFE OF CRIME IS AT AN END" or chatting up some batman style dialogue like we had been fighting for weeks.
Sometimes it's best the two rivals have their chatter, not shouting "WORLDSTAR" and "HA HA GOT U SUCKA U GONNA BURN" and other things that tend to crop up from mob mentality in the peanut gallery.
- I'd say the worst thing you can do in a group PvP is start spouting off threats.
There has been more than one time where one or two people in a group of subdued people get mad and just start swearing blood oaths of murder and death. While the "Appropriate" response as a villain is to just grin and bear it and do some mocking and ride away- Some villains are CE cyricist clerics who have burned churches just to light a cigarette. If you run your mouth off there's a chance you'll die.
As was pointed out in Lemur's post you should always try to find a way to avoid killing. Victims though you need to put yourself in the villain/antagonsits shoes. He just risked a lot to spread the story and stir some conflict. Sometimes though a villain is a villain and if you spit in a serial killer's face and swear to kill him because he took 150 gold and 2 haste potions you're just going to end up stabbed in the chest.
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Most importantly keep things concise. PvP doesn't always happen in a safe environment for theatricality and if you're in the middle of the in between or crossroads where anyone can show up sometimes it's just gonna be quick
- If you're in a big group of people having been bested by a more powerful figure it can be hard for one PC to keep up with all the subdued chatter. A lot of people tend to swear revenge or bust out the "We are going to kill you so bad" or have 50 people responding to "WHERE IS THE RELIC" or "WHICH ONE OF YOU IS IN COMMAND" or whatever etc. Sometimes you gotta just become a spectator not an actor. Sometimes it's cool to let the level 4 PC who is with you and just got his teeth kicked in try to lie to your captors even if you are holding the sacred cup of sharess and the bandit just wants to get crunk.
- Another thing to consider is if you're in a group of people who subdued 1-2 PCs, it's okay to shut up and defer to the boss or whoever had instigated the PvP and won or etc. Having been bested by a lot of good guys and mobs as a villain I can tell you there's nothing more gut wrenching than "Tag alongs" shit-talking you. If I'm playing a bandit and a watcher i've been feuding with has some adventurers down me with him, I'm fine interacting with the Watcher but it just sort of makes me want to RP my own suicide when other adventurers who I've never met just start spouting off about how my "USELESS LIFE OF CRIME IS AT AN END" or chatting up some batman style dialogue like we had been fighting for weeks.
Sometimes it's best the two rivals have their chatter, not shouting "WORLDSTAR" and "HA HA GOT U SUCKA U GONNA BURN" and other things that tend to crop up from mob mentality in the peanut gallery.
- I'd say the worst thing you can do in a group PvP is start spouting off threats.
There has been more than one time where one or two people in a group of subdued people get mad and just start swearing blood oaths of murder and death. While the "Appropriate" response as a villain is to just grin and bear it and do some mocking and ride away- Some villains are CE cyricist clerics who have burned churches just to light a cigarette. If you run your mouth off there's a chance you'll die.
As was pointed out in Lemur's post you should always try to find a way to avoid killing. Victims though you need to put yourself in the villain/antagonsits shoes. He just risked a lot to spread the story and stir some conflict. Sometimes though a villain is a villain and if you spit in a serial killer's face and swear to kill him because he took 150 gold and 2 haste potions you're just going to end up stabbed in the chest.
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Most importantly keep things concise. PvP doesn't always happen in a safe environment for theatricality and if you're in the middle of the in between or crossroads where anyone can show up sometimes it's just gonna be quick