Role Play Conference

[amcyr]

The Kami home world was dying, their sun fading into a dark ball. Their only chance was to escape to a new solar system. Unfortunately, their space-drive technology was limited. In desperation, they settled on a small ball of rock they could barely reach.

Unlike their space technology however, their biological knowledge was second to none, and they managed to grow the most wondrous plant on this tiny rock, creating a world nearly 10 times the size of the original planet. They named their new world Atys.

To maintain this plant, the Kami created insect-like beings to look after it. These 'kitin' could crawl from surface to root, nurturing the plant and ridding it of parasites.

Meanwhile, the Human race was expanding its control of space. Because of the long travel times, they created intelligent robots that could survive the rigors of inter-spatial travel. These 'Karavan' robots brought with them the seeds of human life, not regular humans, but humans modified to adapt to strange new environments, and also a sampling of animal life equally modified to survive challenging climates.

And so, in time, a Karavan ship landed on Atys. Under instructions from the re-awaked clone of Dr. Jena, the planet's surface was seeded with life. It was not until several generations later that the new arrivals discovered that they were not the only inhabitants of the planet.

[eohlwyn]

You don't think Takashi and the folks at Nevrax design and come up with events based upon the interpretation of the story they want to push? Come on.
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If a player were to read just the background and not any additional information they could very easily come up with an interpretation that the entire Kitin catastrophe is a story made up by either the Kami or the Karavan to keep homins under their control. That's not an acceptable interpretation so they do thing to make sure people don't think that and instead follow one that they want to push.

Actually, that's how my real life boyfriend is roleplaying his character. He's physically trying to get himself to negative faction with both kami and karavan, because he doesn't trust either of them and thinks they're working with the Kitin to control Atys for themselves. So far he's succeeding in getting that negative faction balenced for both sides.

The fun thing is, his character could be 100% wrong about what's going on, but he's still really flipping cool to talk and interact with, despite being considered a loon by homin standards. Almost because he'd be considered a loon by a deal of homin standards. You can't help but react to it.

But to a side note, your conspiracy theory about the devs and game gm's "agenda" intrigues me, and makes me wonder from what totalitarian society you believe they hone from.
But please..*shifts to whispery voice* be kind, I beg of you, if you're right about thier agenda, don't tell them about my boyfriend's evil plans to use thier faction system against them and spread his evil idea that clearly contradicts with what they intend. He truely enjoys this game and I would hate to see a Kitin swarm spawned by the evil devs come down and destroy him before he was allowed to have free thought.

(and aside, I appologize for allowing my sarcasm to finally get the better of me in this debate. I earnestly respect, and almost pity your clear need for strict structure in your playtime, Raynes, where others seek freedom. And I am sorry that you will never really fully have that need met because there will always be people to disagree with you.)

The overall point though, is that we're allowed to interpret and play things how we choose to individually and roleplay guidlines needs to allot for that.

I think someone's suggestion for handling larger lore disparagies icly above made alot of sense, as it still allows for the people playing the disparigies to react and have thier own interpretations still while letting some ic fun happen exploring thier concept of the true nature of matis. So long as it's done respectfully and people don't belittle others oocly for continuing to play thier characters in a lore contradicting manner, it's all good.

And cool funky stories, zumwalt, amcyr! That'd be wild to see a character play out as a belief system, for either!

[grandma]

Images from the event:

http://ryzom.vx3lan.com/ryzom/images/gallery/index.php?nav=%3E2005%2002%2012%20Roleplay%20Conference

[asaseth]

Images from the event:

http://ryzom.vx3lan.com/ryzom/images/gallery/index.php?nav=%3E2005%2002%2012%20Roleplay%20Conference

Good pics, GFunk.