takamagahara | November Activity Check/HMD

Welcome to another Activity Check!

The AC will run from November 23 through November 30 and ending at 7PM EST. If that's confusing for you, just look here.

In order to pass AC, you will have to provide TWO proofs of your activity. What counts as a proof of activity? Simple! Any one or more network threads consisting of ten (10) or more comments from your character OR one or more log threads consisting of five (5) or more comments from your character. To make AC easier for you, we've created a nice little flowchart for you to follow. Remember, comments must be from Nov in order to count. That means anything from Nov 1 through Nov 30 will count towards AC.

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In addition to the Activity Check, this month will also have our mandatory bi-monthly HMD.

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I don't believe I ever once said that Fae's post was the best idea she could have gone with. I think the post ideas you suggested definitely would have been the better options, but they weren't what happened and the post is out there.

I have not forgotten that the character I play is only a version of him. He's a shinki, which cuts out a lot of the potential game-breaking aspects of his character, but I still try to play him as accurately as possible. And when it comes to working with castmates and close CR alike, I'm good at running things by them when the situation warrants it.

Still, I don't feel that talking about a character in game ruins the ability to play them. And if it does, certainly not any more than if there had been another player with that character who dropped before they picked them up. They come into the game with pre-determined CR that way. A lot more pre-determined CR that often runs a hell of a lot deeper than one post on the BBS with a second-hand vague account of "this guy is really bad, don't trust him."

I'm sorry for any feelings that got hurt along the way. My opinion on the mater of Terra's post itself has not changed. Although I do see where you and the anon(s) are coming from, I just don't agree that it's necessary to treat everything as if every character not in game will be apped and therefore needs permission to be talked about in a way that the player feels is IC for their character. I know I was definitely more curt than I intended to be in my last comment and I am sincerely sorry for that. I had put the comment out there and wasn't going to play the game of deleted/edited comments to make myself look better, so I let it stand even though I wrote it while not in the best of moods.

You say that you understand the concerns being raised, but then everything else you say here makes it clear that this isn't in fact the case. And that's fine -- I'm not in your cast, I have no intention of joining your cast, and at least you've been public about the level of respect you feel you owe to your potential cast members.

No, I do understand them, and even agreed with some of them. I just also feel quite strongly that players should have the ability to have their character speak about other characters without being policed on it.

If my feelings on this matter have made people think I don't respect potential castmates or even other players, I'm sorry. The only way I can undo that perception at this point is by showing respect to future potential castmates and other players from here on out. Just saying it means nothing if I can't back it up with my actions.

a different anon here, but the base problem is that it's not actually IC for terra to appear and immediately warn everyone about characters who may or may not be here. It's something I could see from Sora, or maybe Aqua, but not Terra.

There is more than one anon, yes. The person who first brought this entire situation up is not me, I am only in the particular thread where I (and you) responded to the idea that nobody was interested in apping Xehanort or Maleficent so it didn't matter who got told. Someone was interested, therefore it mattered.

Someone was interested as evidenced in this thread, but afaik no one in the cast knew they were until after the crit to Fae was posted and it was mentioned in this thread.

but to be fair, that doesn't really matter whether you knew or not. talking about anyone that could be a potential castmate in a game-wide setting that has people from that cast chiming in to say what a big bad they are, no matter the canon, is going to look bad.

ie; if sansa from game of thrones made a game-wide announcement about ramsay and joffrey, as right as she might be in hating them, trying to set an entire game against cr that isn't even in game is a terrible selfish, and short-sighted thing to do. i get that it was done without consideration of the possibility of them apping in ever, but the basic rule of thumb is to hope or expect that there's always a potential for a castmate. any castmate. siccing an entire game on 'the bad guys' in any one canon is just a borderline godmod thing to do and it's terrible roleplaying. the fact that fae didn't think about it at all is even worse, to be honest. there's a question you have to ask yourself when you post about castmates, and that question is: 'if they were in the game, would this be a shitty thing to do without talking to them first?' if the answer is yes, don't do it. if it's a character-type thing to do, the other player mentioned it up there, but they could have made it cast-exclusive. again, that fae didn't think of it shows that maybe she shouldn't be rping in a game setting if she can't think of her gamemates or potential castmates.

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