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Quote Originally Posted by Privateerkev View Post
Nah, don't do that. I will just advocate IC for tying your NPC to your avatar. If you refuse, I will provide the IC consequence of "ignoring." I will also attempt to get him banned from the Magnaura.

But please keep in mind that is all IC, not OOC. OOC, TC has made it clear. You have an avatar, therefore you can RP what ever you wish. So, OOC this is settled for me.


Not to beat this issue like a dead horse, but here's my thoughts.

IC/OOC often has a very blurred line. Your character won't interact with mine IC for reasons which are OOC. If this were "real", your character wouldn't be "aware" that this NPC is in fact an NPC, so therefore any issue your avatar has with this person is technically an OOC issue, now that the "rule" status of the character is settled.

May not seem like a big distinction, but it completely ruins the IC aspect of being in the senate for me. Which hampers my gameplay experience.



The mere fact that your character knows mine is a NPC which is different from the others destroys the illusion of reality. I'd never be able to use that character with that mess hanging over things, or create a story, or even confidently debate in the senate without voting.

It is as though we are all collectively writing a novel, but one of the characters refuses to interact with another character when the story calls for it, breaking the suspension of disbelief, and possibly the fourth wall. If on an episode of "I Love Lucy", Fred and Ethel show up with some nephew that wasn't in the script, Lucy would attempt to interact with Fred and Ethel but the nephew would speak and just be ignored. It would completely ruin the audience's ability to enjoy the story.

I understand your reasons for not wanting an IC interaction with this NPC, and those reasons make it impossible for me to effectively use the character. For me to proceed from this point on would make the senate a farce. And after all that, what would I have done? Basically ruined several people's enjoyment of the game, all for the sake of introducing a completely unimportant character which everyone will attempt to forget ever exists.

I'm afraid although TC has ruled this character is legal, he unfortunately suffers from Chuck Cunningham Syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_D...am_Syndrome.22

A superfluous, out-of-place character whose minor interactions with others are best buried and forgotten. Or at the very least, written out of the story.

So, the "senator" in question can be quietly forgotten, dragged out of the senate in chains, or suddenly die of a heart attack. Whatever would best get the story moving again. I've determined that, under the circumstances, I can't really use such a character, and would not want to. It's already been too much of a distraction and I regret writing it.