[OOC] Tales Of Endoroth (A Slice Of Life MMO Roleplay) (CLOSED)

[AwesomeZero5]

I'm around, but it's not my turn. O.o

@shylarah

Eh, it's already been 9 days counting think that's fair nuff-.
Ye can double check with GM but-

[Eviledd1984]

Honestly, I am unsure how I feel about continuing this roleplay. I feel like I have done poorly DMing and keeping interest in the story. So I may cancel the RP idk.

[AwesomeZero5]

@Eviledd1984@Randomguy@vietmyke@shylarah
I'm still pretty down for continuing.
Although it's really up to the rest of ye guys.
Whether or not you're still interested?

Also what pointers could be used to help with the GMing?
Perhaps what things you ( @Eviledd1984 ) are struggling with in particular or what you're aiming to do at this moment...?

[Eviledd1984]

@AwesomeZero5

I am unsure, i feel like i have lost interst in GMing. I feel that I am and have never been a very good GM.

[shylarah]

@Eviledd1984 You're not a bad gm at all! I think the issue is that there's not much of a driving plot right now, and that means there's less focus on advancing it.

[Eviledd1984]

@shylarah

Mmm true. I'm having a hard time coming up with a main plot for you guys. I was thinking of using the jester, but I don't think that's gonna work out. I was hoping I could keep interest by doing these smaller quest before introducing the main quest.

[vietmyke]

Hey all, things have been pretty busy on my end, admittedly.

For me, the plot has felt a bit unfocused- that's not meant as a failing on the part of the gm, but a sort of open do whatever sandbox isn't really my jam.

As far as the jester goes, I don't think it was a bad idea, but the stakes given the setting doesn't really add up. If we're playing a group of regular gamers, there isn't much point of searching for/hunting down a cheater that presumably can't be killed- not a whole lot they can do about him really. I wasn't super enthused with the fact that the whole party was defeated without even being able to put up much of a fight, it just kinda cemented the fact that they as regular players were helpless against the jester, and so should just avoid him rather than confront him.

It mightve been more viable if there were serious stakes that required the players to find him- maybe there's a recent virus going around that has been hurting people irl when they die in game, and the jester instead of kidnapping just any child had kidnapped one of the players siblings or something. Or found a way to prevent people from logging out, etc. Idk, just spitballing

I know I've been dragging my feet a bit on posting, but it's been a bit harder than I thought to find some motivation

[Eviledd1984]

@vietmyke

I was thinking the exact same thing. I feel like i should have planned the story a little better. Which is why I am thinking about ending the RP.

[AwesomeZero5]

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A way to keep the party together (without the jester) may be walking into a dungeon and procking a hidden event campaign could also be a thing (where the players have to have a main group together to continue the plot) likely granting a chance at rare items, or at worst locking the party from going to other dungeons until the story quest is complete.

It seems you really want the party to head after the Jester, but at the moment there is far more reasons not to.
As mentioned, some of the persons here minus jaiden since he does work in cybersecurity but would risk being banned don't really have a decent chance to stand up to the guy or away to achieve it which is why Jaiden wanted to avoid conflict with them earlier. The motivation for going after the Jester is a little low.

A simple solution I would see to tie them together would be blackmailing the doxxed players.
Perhaps giving a list of demands, which does force the group to generally stay together, in turn Jaiden receiving an online "bounty" on the guy. The alternative of Doxxing Jaiden would be less likely, and may have his job actively ban him from playing said game in turn for a full investigation
Or corrupting/threatening to corrupt character ID's...

Depending the Jester could be pissed off that they may have not received the artifact, or at least a fully functional one.
As Goibniu's automaton could have damaged or even broken it, which I don't think was noticed. Leading to the Jester needing to manipulate or otherwise hunt down the party again, whilst being looked out for, or needing to manipulate a situation to buy or trade the artifact indirectly from the party. If they try to trade it, they would need to bring something to the table and possibly reveal more of their own motivations.

It'd probably be less invasive to have the Jester be a background or reoccurring threat otherwise. Such as them paying other players to PK the party, and thus making dealing with Jester (or their midway guy) more pertinent. But that's more of a tightrope (don't want to overdo it), because... as a player, that could raise the chances of just, quitting tbh. So it'd have to be annoying but not overwhelming, probably more of a villain of the week type of deal.

@AwesomeZero5

Kinda brought up plot stuff before.
Honesty think ye need to take a day to go to the drawing board.
Write down a bunch of ideas, maybe poke about character backgrounds if you want to tie us in more. But take a breath to process everything. Even if it means going: "hey, what may motivate your character to go after X or what's a way to make this thing work?"
Gotta restructure.

Can't particularly say on the hacking causing persons to be harmed physically IRL/preventing log out stuff ideas. It might work, but am a tad impartial too it.

I'm pretty much going to ride it out either way.
Since again, pretty down with just RPing MMO stuff. I'd pretty much just be repeating myself tbh.

[AwesomeZero5]

Hi @Eviledd1984
How's it going, what are the thoughts?

[Eviledd1984]

@AwesomeZero5 @Randomguy @vietmyke @shylarah

Unfortunately, I think I will have to end this roleplay since I can't think of any intersting plots for you guys. I apologize for being such a terrible DM. I want to thank you all for participating in this roleplay with me.

[shylarah]

@Eviledd1984 please don't apologize. I had fun. <3

[AwesomeZero5]

Goodbye, see ya

[vietmyke]

All good, I still had fun