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So, last night at game someone did the Haunting on me. Now, I'm all for roleplay, but this was just vindictive.
A month ago, I removed two measures of standing from this individual, he proceeded to regress, finally writing a note and giving up his primogenship. He then proceeded to lose all sense of reality, so much so that he just became a driveling ball of emotion. Two weeks later, when I'm not there, he's fine. He's started getting his "life" back. Two weeks after that, he's painting and then court is called for everyone in the domain. I'm standing beside the Seneschal as she introduces our newest arrival, and whammo I'm hit with the Haunting.
First off, everyone is unsure how it should be played. I'm told I have schizophrenia, which Bob already has. So the ST said, treat it like Aphasia. Now, the other two Malks have had it, and have treated it differently. I'm shocked, because The Haunting lasts the rest of the evening. It's 9:45 and game ends at Midnight. In essence, my character has been knocked out of the game.
I sit there and get a google definition for Aphasia:
Loss of ability to speak or understand speech.
www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/bridge.html Difficulty understanding the speech of others and/or expressing oneself verbally.
www.alz.org/Resources/Glossary.asp
I lean against a planter and start experiencing it. 10 mins later the player who did this horrible thing to Bob, picked up his bag and walked off. I shouted, "Are you leaving?" He waved and walked away. I sat down and thought, what a fucker. He gives me something that makes my character inoperable and then he just goes home. I asked the AST he was speaking with and he'd said he was bored.
So, I sat and bitched at the AST about this shit, because I'd thought the player would have been proud of the fact that I'd learned how to manipulate him, after 5 years of playing... but as someone else pointed out, he probably would have been impressed if it hadn't been his character.
Eventually, I sucked it up and got down to playing it. Everyone had been off fighting, then slowly they came to realize that the motormouth that is Bob Davidovich wasn't actually speaking. The last hour was spent with me trying to explain what was going on, but lots of not understanding stuff. It ended up being an awesome rp experience, and in the end I received 5 shoutouts, including 2 from the ST's.
But, damn... talk about pissy.
A month ago, I removed two measures of standing from this individual, he proceeded to regress, finally writing a note and giving up his primogenship. He then proceeded to lose all sense of reality, so much so that he just became a driveling ball of emotion. Two weeks later, when I'm not there, he's fine. He's started getting his "life" back. Two weeks after that, he's painting and then court is called for everyone in the domain. I'm standing beside the Seneschal as she introduces our newest arrival, and whammo I'm hit with the Haunting.
First off, everyone is unsure how it should be played. I'm told I have schizophrenia, which Bob already has. So the ST said, treat it like Aphasia. Now, the other two Malks have had it, and have treated it differently. I'm shocked, because The Haunting lasts the rest of the evening. It's 9:45 and game ends at Midnight. In essence, my character has been knocked out of the game.
I sit there and get a google definition for Aphasia:
www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/bridge.html
www.alz.org/Resources/Glossary.asp
I lean against a planter and start experiencing it. 10 mins later the player who did this horrible thing to Bob, picked up his bag and walked off. I shouted, "Are you leaving?" He waved and walked away. I sat down and thought, what a fucker. He gives me something that makes my character inoperable and then he just goes home. I asked the AST he was speaking with and he'd said he was bored.
So, I sat and bitched at the AST about this shit, because I'd thought the player would have been proud of the fact that I'd learned how to manipulate him, after 5 years of playing... but as someone else pointed out, he probably would have been impressed if it hadn't been his character.
Eventually, I sucked it up and got down to playing it. Everyone had been off fighting, then slowly they came to realize that the motormouth that is Bob Davidovich wasn't actually speaking. The last hour was spent with me trying to explain what was going on, but lots of not understanding stuff. It ended up being an awesome rp experience, and in the end I received 5 shoutouts, including 2 from the ST's.
But, damn... talk about pissy.