Lately I have started playing a second roleplaying MUD. While, in my opinion, it's not as good as Shadow Siege, I have been playing it more often. At least actively doing something on it. Of late, I feel like Shadow Siege has been a desert, a few skittering tumble weeds blowing across the horizon, but as a whole, nothing much going on. I know that part of the reason is that, frankly, I'm not on during the day like I used to be. I work now. because of this, I feel completely and utterly uninvolved in any of the main plot (or any plot for that matter). I feel uninvolved in general.

I know the nature of one of my character is to generally be uninvolved, but I have started playing my second more often. Of course, she hasn't had interaction with any player in some time despite the fact I keep her in public areas. (I tend to keep both of my characters in public areas). So, because of the waste land of RP lately, I have started playing another MUD as well as Shadow Siege. I must admit that this is at the request of a good friend of mine.

Now, I have been spoiled with Roleplay by SS. Well thought out posts, intelligent people, good grammar. But, it wasn't until I started playing the new MUD (Cities of M'Dhoria for those who care) that I realized how spoiled I had truly become. I realized that the people who play "evil" character on SS play them really well. They aren't pointless murderers or psychopaths. They have a reason to do what they do and do it well. Now, those of you who know me from SS wouldn' know it, but I like to play "evil" character. So, on my new game I decided to make one. Now, I don't mean to brag, but I put many of the "evil" character to shame rp-wise on the new game. SS has definately raised my standard for roleplay in general and I find the normal one line emote (or worse yet... social command) blase. I find myself always emoting rather than using the social commands and my emotes are longer and more frequent than most other peoples. Apparently I am also one fo the few people who actually uses the "think" command on there. I have always felt that this command is truly vital to play a really good evil character. A character is not evil because of what they do, but why they do it and how the accomplish it.

This dual gaming has kept me entertained during the dry spells on SS, but I know now I will never, ever leave Shadow Siege. It is probably one of the finest roleplaying games out there. (Or perhaps it is just the people who make it so great.)

I really hope that the dry spells end soon. I have been thinking of ways to get more people active and involved with more characters. And I think soon I may have a mini-plot put together to go into the game. I hope to involve as many people in it as possible, but we'll see.

Posted by Utopia at July 26, 2005 02:06 PM

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