Posted by One of the many Masters who couldn't stand you on September 26, 2000 at 16:32:49:
In Reply to: Ok, this might be kind of long, but I have alot of things to address. Let's just hope I can remember them all through the post posted by Hruptek on September 26, 2000 at 14:49:35:
> First off, to all of you who I keep hear saying, "Hruptek sucked," "Hruptek was blood-thirsty" "Hruptek couldn't RP" etc, etc..., the first thing I have to say is, how many of you actually took the time to find out WHY he was like he was. I put a pretty deep personality into Hruptek, and the reasons behind his actions were there. I don't believe that a person should be transparent in the least. How many people do you meet walking down the street, or work with on a daily basis, and just from that interraction, you learn everything about the person's personality and reasons for all the actions that make up their life? VERY FEW if ANY. If you want to know why someone is the way they are, you have to spend time around them in a wide variety of situations, get to know them, ask them questions, and most of all, PAY ATTENTION!!! Hruptek was a person like this. ANYONE who judged his character by what they heard over CB didn't do ANY of these. There were many characters I met in game that did do these, and most of them weren't Masters. These people actually got to KNOW Hruptek, and took the time to find out why he was the way he was. Because I suck so bad at remembering names, I can't say who they were, especially since I've been too busy with real life for the past few weeks to even be able to log on. After Narlock fucked over my char the first time, I spent alot of time working on getting him back in. Only to have him fuck me over again with an even MORE lame exscuse. > After doing what he told me to do for re-induction and coming back to speak with him again: > Narlock says, 'Hruptek, until you pull yourself and get out of your learning hole, you will never walk in the Tower again.' > This comes after an hour of ranking with him in Shadar and one other person whom I can't remember, only to die because he had to re-conjure and we couldn't convince him to come outside the streets first. Undead pikeman walked in while he was sleeping and one rounded me. While he was sleeping, I was sitting there explaining to him how my own moronic group members kept getting me killed with their stupidity, and just then the pikeman walks in, doing and exemplary job of illustrating my point. Then he goes and makes his own stupidity a reason for not allowing me back in. A day or so after this, real life started getting in the way and I wasn't able to log on for the next three weeks or so, except briefly to make sure my char didn't autodelete if I didn't get another chance. In the meant-time, the cf world continues on, Narlock deletes, and a new leader is found. However, with all the time that I've been away, I've lost track of the essense of Hruptek, and even though I could easily get him back in, (the new leader only asked that I get the recomendation of two adepts, which I already had Juxposona once before for Narlock; Xolthul and I have never had any problems and have always considered each other competant Masters, and Rendak and I have felt the same IC and OOC) I just don't have the energy or the desire to play him any more. I put ALOT into this char, and it'll take a whole lot more more work than I want to do to "fix" him. Much as I hate to let Narlock ruin him like he did, I can't convince myself to do that much work, when it's alot easier to just start over, so I deleted. I'll post my role as far as I had it added to my char on the char board, but there were a few things at the end that I hadn't gotten around to adding to his written role yet, that I had already incorperated into the way I played him. I'll post it on the char board, but I'll give the gist of it here as well for those of you too lazy to go ready it. Besides, what I say here is a summary of the whole thing, including the parts I hadn't added to the written role. This'll also be translated into how I interpretted the role I laid out. > Basicall, above all else, Hruptek desired knowledge, and the wisdom to properly use that knowledge. He sought knowledge because he saw it as a means of controlling his own fate. His father always told him that knowledge was power, and with sufficient power, one has the ability to handle any situation that life throws at you. When he joined the Tower, things shifted a little. He still sought knowledge above all else, but the reason for gaining knowledge shifted to protecting and upholding everything the Tower stood for. If he seemed blood thirsty, he kind of was, but only to ragers and sylvans (thought he didn't fight many sylvans til AFTER he got booted, fuckers always hiding from me while I was a Master, and then mobbed me once I was booted), and only when he was forced to deal with them at all. Not once did he give up a chance to research or learn so that he could go kill someone. Also, with the increasing number of ragers while he was ranking, he saw a very real threat to the Tower which he felt something had to be done about. It really pissed him off that as the ragers started to climb in numbers, the number of Masters logged on most of the time dropped to very low, and he was forced to go retake the orb on his own. Eventually it got to the point where there were too many ragers in his range for it to be prudent to retake the orb, so he gave up on that idea and just started trying to rank like mad so that he could get his final form and be able to tear into the ranks of the ragers some more. If more Masters had been willing to show some spine and stick it to the ragers when they started getting cocky and taking the orb alot, they would have stopped. At the time, it wasn't the skill of the ragers that was allowing them to take the orb, it was the difference in numbers. The ragers' numbers started to swell, and even before taking the time to gauge their skill, the Masters chickened out and let the ragers walk around like they owned the place. That allowed the ragers to hold the orb most of the time, which in turn discouraged even more Masters from logging on. When he pointed this out to a few people, and that he was putting his practice on hold til he could gain some ranks to achieve his final form so that he could fight back, he was branded as power hungry and blood thirsty. What pisses me off is that all the people in game that I ever remember hearing say that he was either of those, were people who rarely interracted with him IN PERSON. Most of them were basing everything off what they heard over CB. I got news for you, he rarely used CB for anything except strictly cabal matters. Almost anything that was in reguards to study, practice, exploring, research, whatever, was either kept to hismelf or done in private channels. Being an intended follower of Poetry, he rarely gave out info for free, and if he did, it was extremely vague. > Crap, now I lost my train of thought. Sat here staring at the screen too long. Well, to sum it up, I think before people start judging the character and saying that it was poorly role-played, they should get to know the actual ROLE first. Also I think the level of RP on this game would go up exponentially if people would stop making such transparent chars, and expecting everyone else's char to be just as transparent, then calling the non-transparent chars poorly roleplayed just because the observer wasn't bright enough to look beyond the surface. > If there was anything I forgot to say in this post, I'll probably find some future point to mention it