Willy
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Post by Willy on Mar 16, 2012 22:31:35 GMT -5
Ok... well then... what WOULD your character join a group for? That's what I'm asking.
I'm not interested in what doesn't work. I'm trying to figure out things that will work. What reasons would your character have for joining a group? Any group.
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Soaring Spirit
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Post by Soaring Spirit on Mar 18, 2012 2:20:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I had that same complaint, too. Janice would probably want to join a group looking for a way to return to the 1st dimension.
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Willy
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Post by Willy on Mar 18, 2012 13:41:51 GMT -5
Hmm... well perhaps that can be mitigated easily. If she doesn't know HOW to get back to the first dimension, she might hope that among a bunch of adventurers planning to trudge through some ruins, there might be a few who may be knowledgeable about the dimension and perhaps point her in the right direction.
You see, you don't really need to want to do the thing a group wants to do to want to be a part of a group. One simply requires some want to be a part of that group, for whatever reason. There may only be one or two people in the group that actually want to accomplish the goal of visiting the ruins. Perhaps there are even more that are hoping that they can find some allies that can help them... and maybe others that are looking for a rival...
You said yourself that Janice isn't too big into fighting. Perhaps she has decided that because of this, she decided she might need someone to help her if she plans on trying to find a way home. A sort of bodyguard? But, maybe because she doesn't want a loose cannon that will just fight for the sake of fighting, she doesn't want to go to some tournament and ask some brute for help. Perhaps she saw the poster and figured there would likely be someone in the group that would be able to help her.
Or maybe some other reason. The point is, sometimes with roleplays made for larger groups of people, you have to be a little creative with why your character is there. I mean, sure, it would probably be easier for everyone if the poster was an ad for a group of humans who were meeting up to attempt to find a way home, but looking at it from that way... it wouldn't really make much sense. We already know that the creator himself has put things in place to keep humans from getting home. So why would someone advertise something like that? There are plenty of holes in that plot, and either the mods would be flying by the seat of their pants while they tried to fill them in, or it would take a long post to explain why our characters are where they are... and then we would get all settled in and be like "Welp... how do we get home?"
This is really just our way of jumping right into the bit where we go defile some hallowed tombs. Perhaps your character is joining because they think it might lead them to a way home for some reason? Perhaps they feel that trying to understand DN2's history might lead them to information about the dimension that will help them get home? Again, there are loads of reasons to join the group... you really just have to figure out which one fits your character.
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