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Heh, it's so easy to post when I write them up ahead of time....

But seriously, this is more personal rambling. Doubt that m/any of y'all'll care, feel free to skip it.


What with the Hell Week from Arizona, arriving on Friday night, and barely getting my tent set up before I went to sleep, I didn't have any time to brace myself for getting ready for a new faire, with a different plot and a different cast. Add to that that my previous time here was spent as a visiting entertainer, but that now I'm approaching it from more of a crafter's angle, and it left me feeling quite off kilter.

I feel like I've regressed several years in my interactions. I've always had slow responce times, but in-character conversations feel more awkward. I haven't the faintest idea how to respond to flirting (not that I ever have, with the more recent exception of during dancing), and I feel utterly tongue-tied when someone kisses my hand. (Oooh, someone bowed over my hand, but didn't kiss it! That was so cool!) I did manage to say a couple things that proved there's *some* sort of brain inside my skull, but nothing I'm overly proud of.

Meh. So, I guess, I need to work on character development, and figure out if the young noblewoman Corinna bears any relation to this strange Corinna who works for a living, yet has opinions on fine Italian dancing.
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It's so wierd... I feel almost like... I get on Everquest, and awesome things happen...

More Everquest geekiness... )

*more joy*

Dec. 8th, 2004 05:22 am
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So, even though I lost the logs for the RP I did with Fey and Cor, I was able to commemorate some of it... I was running through New Tanaan when I heard someone thank another person for her stories... so I turned, to say, "Oh, I missed it?" and it was a GM! Meep!

*smiles* So, I said it anyway, and he, a collector of stories, of dreams, asked that I relate one of my own... with a false start or two, here is our conversation....

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I keep on thinking, 'Hey, I should put [insert topic here] into my livejournal' then I keep on forgetting the topic... *sigh*

This weekend was a good weekend on site. Some ups and downs, and some interesting complications to the job thing, but I won't post anything on that until the matter is resolved.

I had an interesting conversation with a patron on Saturday, and had to make the awful decision of having a meaningful conversation, or staying in character. *sigh* So, I chose the former, and hope that was not too ill-done.

We had been talking about Her Majesty's attendance at the evening dancing, and he made mention of how he felt almost blessed to ... then he stopped and retracted the word 'blessed' because it had, perhaps, too strong of a religious connotation. I thought that was surprising, as wouldn't a well-bred young lady of some stature in the Renaissance unquestioningly be religious to some degree? So, I made a quiet jest, saying that well, perhaps he might prefer the word 'fortunate,' if he did not feel uncomfortable with the blind chance and luck that implied.

That led to him questioning my ... 'technique' as it were - Do I have to say things I don't mean while I'm working? How strong is the difference between what I feel and what Corinna feels? Are my reactions to the politics of the Chess Board faked, or am I really that naive and sheltered?

It was very interesting, and I hope he walked away from the conversation with a greater appreciation of the village and its inhabitants. I know I learned a great deal about the average patron and their knowledge base. Very, very informative.

/sigh

Jul. 15th, 2004 08:59 am
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You have FAILED to successfully roleplay!

Grrr.... *makes mental note: One is generally not allowed when roleplaying to simply say what their character is doing....* *grumbles*

*sighs*

Well, on the plus side, at least I'm not mentally cringing from my (lack of) attempt. That's an improvement over Beloit.
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I had an idea for a post, really I did....

One of the things that surprises me greatly about this online stuff is how differently I come across. At least, I think I come across vastly differently online, anyway...

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I was at work a few weeks ago, and my cute coworker had figured out how to write messages to other users on our Unix network - so we amused ourselves by writing to each other for a while.

In conversation, a standard reply for me is to say, "Neat!"

In text, a standard reply for me is to say "*chuckles* Heh, I wouldn't have expected anyone to come up with *that* idea... *ponders a bit* Yeah, that is really cool!"
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In real life, I am so awful at improvisation. Then on Everquest a few days ago, a situation came up, where I needed to ... enforce, basically, a new thing that my guild has been doing. I mentioned to our guildleader that I needed to check the messageboard quickly to prep, because I'm awful at improv, and her reaction was, "... actually, you're quite good at it."

!?!?! WTF?

People think online that I'm a good roleplayer. !?!?!

Seriously, the dictonomy between online perceptions and real-world realities is *so* vast... I guess I'm not expressing myself very well, but I think it's just crazy.

Sorry for randomness of post. Be well, peeps.

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