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Trapped in the Underdark ~ Out of Character discussion


Re: Trapped in the Underdark ~ Out of Character discussion

It's going to be difficult to portray a non-consensual slave trainer without the use of cruelty. Personally I don't MIND the cruelty so much, and if you want to keep the idea of sexual slavery (relatively) light in tone, then you'd probably want the masters to enjoy frequent positive reinforcement, as well as showing genuine care and attention to the well-being of their 'pets' even as they put on a mask of menace for show.

For example: a dom who puts a slave into predicament bondage but is adamant about having a safety knot that can be easily pulled to release them if they're in actual pain.

Or if something traumatic happens, the same domme would cuddle and pet the slave or take some time out to treat them humanely for a short while before re-introducing them to the expectations of servitude.

There are ways to pull off sexual cruelty and temper it. We're already working in a very dark fantasy territory, so putting in efforts to have lighter shades of grey and redeeming personality traits are going to be essential.


Edit: With regards to our current story. The fact that Ventus (and Lily) are full of passion despite being undead beings makes them more appealing. The idea that the death knight may still have some internal struggles and actual respect and care towards her potential property is appealing. And I'm personally a sucker for a good redemption story, so Dasyra is going to try to show Ventus the light, just as much as Ventus will be showing her the dark.
 
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Ventus also has my attention on this. Xirce slightly as well but that's mostly cus she reminds me of one of my paladins of all things.
 
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then you'd probably want the masters to enjoy frequent positive reinforcement, as well as showing genuine care and attention to the well-being of their 'pets' even as they put on a mask of menace for show.
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Oh don't worry about making things look sympathetic, thats easy. To be fair, Ventus is up in the air on your well being, excluding your lich. :p

But I'm not telling anything more. If you want a backstory you'll have to entice that character into purchasing you ^^.

Anyway, I've delayed my response long enough, we should be picking up a pace!
 
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Oook, Zilrax, just letting you know, if Lorelai keeps disrupting my attempts at eroticism I don't think this setting has a place for you. I just spent a disproportionate amount of time trying to keep things going with you first ignoring the zone of truth, now the arousal magic.

I realize that this early 'you are all horny naow!' is a bit of a railroading, but it is ment to help you set up the ways for the future of the setting.
 
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Maybe you could add a status line to mark the limits than a player have to do a move.

Like

Aroused>>horny>>>>> sex frenzy
 
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I used a color coding on another website, but this one has less options.

I have no problem with her, any of you fighting effects off, my issue is that it seems there is no interest in erotica at all, just ignoring the effects completely to powergame.
 
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Lena couldn't resist the temptation and whatnot. As addled as she is, at the moment, it'd be hard not to let her instincts rule her actions. :p
 
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All looks to just dont be a slut from the start. But i can tell than the characters will fall to just cock slaves soon or later
 
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Its fine to resist or don't resist just.. don't ignore. :p

A good analogy I once heard was 'rp is like wrestling'. If you want your character to not be slutty, go ahead, just fight 'through the hornyness' to be defiant, just don't ignore being hit with horniness.

Aaanyway, post up, down to four bidders. Xirce dropped out, as her personality was too narcisistic to be satisfied with half an attention. ^^
 
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Power game implies I get something mechanically out of doing it. I'd say it's more character stuff than anything. Anyways, it is fairly railroady, but I was planning to have her start working herself next post anyways. It's not ignored, but we're a poor lot of adventurers to give in so fast as well. Clearly I wasn't... Overt enough about it though. Too analytical I suppose. But if we're speeding this along I can do so. Though if you're looking to her to beg someone, guess I've gotta go with Moren since it's the only one that makes sense at this point despite how much she dislikes him.

Though seeing what was posted now, suppose not. Well, Vara is firmly on the going to be force fed a wraith eventually list if Lorelai manages this part.
 
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Well, I'm just concerned we are on the same page. You do list interest in lotsa erotic stuffs, but your character seems anything but. Remember, I dun know anyones rp on here for now. :p

You don't have to beg, but.. Well, yeah, perhaps too analytical fits, as in.. emotions don't seem to affect her... and if spells don't affect her either, I really don't know what to do with her.

You can have 'not interested in any of the erotic options' and 'strong willed enough to ignore all influence on her' But not both. You just seem like a party pooper, to me, else.
 
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Well generally the implication with corruption is well... Corrupting. Having someone who's already just going along with everything isn't really that uncorrupt to me is all? They're just... You know... Not as corrupt I guess? Though depends on ones definition of corruption I guess.

The spell does, I just figured it was slowed a bit. I suppose I may have went overboard a bit, but I wasn't anticipating the sorta softer slave purchase thing here. Kinda figured there'd be more force to it than there is. I mean whats happening now seems similar to what I expected originally.

Though maybe shoulda went with some of my other ideas first. Ah well. See how this goes and if not, well least we've an easy way to remove her from play right?
 
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Zilrax said:
The spell does, I just figured it was slowed a bit. I suppose I may have went overboard a bit, but I wasn't anticipating the sorta softer slave purchase thing here. Kinda figured there'd be more force to it than there is. I mean whats happening now seems similar to what I expected originally.
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Yes, I feel like you are forcing my hand, intentionally shifting the tone to something you are more into.

I mean, at this rate Vara is not gonna retain you, so I can make her a bit harsher so its no big deal, but I thought I'd address this rather than let it linger.

By all means I'm not telling you to play your character, but I am telling you that, depending on how she acts, it might be hard to keep going with her.

I do have to set up the first slaver as more sympathetic, so you have something to anchor you, see before.
 
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Pervy said:
I do have to set up the first slaver as more sympathetic, so you have something to anchor you, see before.
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Out of curiosity, do you mean the buyer being more sympathetic to the slaves, or the slaves being more sympathetic to their buyer?
 
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Well the tone wasn't maybe the most clear at the start, guess everyone reads captured and being sold as a slave a bit differently. I guess I sorta figured the initial capture and sold would be a prelude to trying t maneuver and escape through underdark mess but I guess that's not the case. Not that it is a problem, it just wasn't what I figured.

I'll adapt from here I guess. Lorelai figured out she pressed too hard so she's going to play along a bit more now. Even if it's, well, mostly for show on her end. Probably ask Lena how to act more... Well like Lena so as to avoid any repeat events.

That or switch characters or drop out if need be I guess. I'm not purposefully trying to be disruptive, just to be clear.
 
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Lol, asking Lena for advice on how to act, when Lena's instincts have taken hold for the moment and she doesn't truly realize what she's really doing right now. When she does snap out of it, Lena's probably gonna cry in shame, or something. XD

Edit: Also to be honest, I didn't see all that much wrong with Lorelai acting the way she did, at least somewhat, since you did say that we didn't all have to make the will save roll like I did when I rolled the nat 1. Just saying. So wasn't beyond the realm of possibility that she'd try and resist at least a little. My posts thus far would probably be far different, had I rolled a lot higher on my optional will save roll. To the point that Lena would probably have tried to resist advancements towards her without more... forceful measures to make her do as I'm having her do now. I mean, they have been captured and stuff, and are about to be sold to the highest bidder. I'm actually surprised none of the others are spouting off at them, at least a little bit.
 
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I was originally inclined to have Dasyra act a lot more like Lorelai, but I saw the lust spell as an opportunity to excuse my character from acting normally. I chose to have her act slutty, even though she hasn't been broken, because I decided the slaves were being hit with strong magic and it helped to progress the story.

I don't think it was clear that this was how people should react to the spell because it hasn't been explicitly defined how it makes us behave. What does it mean to lose all inhibition?

Does losing inhibition mean we now do what we hate? Few of our characters would have any impulse to interact with these buyers. So taking away our breaks doesn't mean we have to step on the gas. If that was what the spell was meant to do, then it needed to be clearer.

That said, I wanted to interpret it that way, so I did. When this spell ends, any buyer better be prepared for stubbornness. Corruption would probably need to be magical or forced.
 
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Naira said:
Out of curiosity, do you mean the buyer being more sympathetic to the slaves, or the slaves being more sympathetic to their buyer?
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The latter.

As for the rest of the discussion:

Its one thing to resist, and another to directly antagonize everyone at the auction, as an LN cleric with high wisdom. As Dasyra pointed out, Lorelai hurt the case of everyone.

Zilrax I'd like you to stop making assumptions on how things will play out, or on how I'm supposed to play things and just roleplay your character. If that means flipping the bird to a bunch of auctioneers with control over her body, so be it, but I'm gonna ask you to drop your wis to 8 for that.

p.s. awww, no creds for the pulp fiction reference. :p
 
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Re: Trapped in the Underdark ~ Out of Character discussion

Haven't watched the movie, to be honest. I get some references to it, like "I shot Marvin in the face", but a lot of them will probably fly over my head.
 
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Anyway.. Resistance or not, it seems as if Ventus takes the lead, so I'm speading things up. Dun sweat it Zilrax, no offense just.. work with me a lil :p
 
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