How dare you suggest I play this game?

[dave_littler]

I recently joined a panfandom game. Normally, these games are crap by their very nature and seem to encourage players to do nothing more than have their various young, attractive protagonists of various popular TV shows hang around and fuck one another. This one, though, actually grabbed my attention, for having a lot of great stuff going on.

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[jarethrake]

I'm not seeing how they're bad RPers, tbh. They wanted different things from the game, they left. Everyone wins.

[dave_littler]

As far as that goes, I agree. I'm just saying that their oddly hostile aloofness and refusal to have anything to do with anyone outside of their clique rubbed me the wrong way, and ran contrary to the spirit of games like this.

[beardedtroll]

Uh... why shouldn't people quit a game when it moves to a tempo which they don't enjoy? Some people like slow games.

[dave_littler]

Sure, yes. I get this. And I don't begrudge this. It's just that that was apparently the last straw for a group who already viewed the idea of other players in "their" game as a grotesque imposition.

[painangrrfear]

I can certainly see your point here (I just joined a game where there's a pretty obvious little clique of players who would rather rehash old war stories than create any new RP memories) however I have to wonder if there isn't something else going on that the mods aren't telling you about.

I just recently quit a game that had mods just like you described: active, always coming up with great plot, into recruiting new players, etc. That was at the beginning. Then the mods lost interest, plot lagged, and the game all but died. A small core of dedicated players hung on, RPing little side plots and hoping the mods would regain interest...

Which they did, with a vengeance. Spiffy new plot, pretty new graphics all over the place, and an intense advertising campaign that brought in a bunch of new players. Everyone was excited. Everything was great! Until the mods lost interest again after a month. Most of the new recruits dropped the game, and it was back to the same old core group playing a slow-paced game of trivial, personal

[hickumu]

Lucifer Morningstar?

Supernatural's Lucifer Morningstar?

[dave_littler]

No, the version from Vertigo's comic book series, Lucifer.

I've actually never watched Supernatural, but I'm aware that there's some characters from that show in the game, which should make for some interesting encounters when they crop up.

[hickumu]

Ah. Never heard of it, I'm afraid. I only asked because we have a Lucifer at our game, which also happens to be panfandom. Well, had - he's on temporary hiatus due to the finale.

Should make for some very interesting encounters, yes. Especially if you run into a Sam and/or Dean.

[dave_littler]

I'm slightly aware of these characters. I'm more immediately interested in Castiel, who I know a touch more about, and who I think would make for an interesting foil.

There's someone else playing an interesting version of Azrael, the angel of death, which is sort of a combination of mythological elements and OC-ness who I had an amazing confrontation with already, and I'm looking forwards to more of that type of action with another type of angel character.

(and if you're interested in this type of subject matter, I can't recommend the comic book series highly enough; one of my favourite comic series ever)

[dimitrinabokov]

Agreed. Especially since they joined the RP when the pace was much slower, something they could keep up with.

It's not like they joined when it was 20 posts a month and then started complaining it was too much and rage-quit.