It's not Obsession

I've been RPing a very long time, it seems. Well, when it comes to LJ/IJ RP, anyway.

In January of 2004, I did a search on Livejournal for fans of 'stargate' and came up with a roleplay game. It was a game called the_sgc and the first character I picked up with was Anise and her human host, Freya. The moderator there was a girl who went by the name of panthera.

Now, Panth? Panth was a kick. She was one of the best mods that I've ever had the joy of writing with. She was patient with newbies and when I went to make an original character (that was really supposed to come and go), she let her be a Mary Sue kind of gal and that was it. There was no accusations or rudeness, she just let us all play and it was glorious.

OH, well. I also met ambisis in that game, and it turned out she lived like, ten minutes from me and we've been best friends ever since, but that's another (fantastic) story. ;)

So, I played Anise/Freya (who had twins with Sgt. Walter Davis - those twins will be FIVE in July) and I had my new character, Shannon Weiss. Shannon's gone through some reworking, but she eventually became the sgc_spybarbie that married daniel_sgc and those two had a baby named... hattie_notqueen. :D

I really love my RP's.

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I started off in Theatrical Muse in March of 2004 with Helen of Troy and wrote prompts for her for a year before I even thought about jumping into the side business of RP with her.

She became good friends with John Munch (of SVU fame), and eventually married him, much to Hermes chagrin. But before they were married, she and Hermes had a really amazing one-night-stand. Oh, those two. Always snarking at each other, bitching about each other, and really? The closest friends. They do love each other. Not in a way that they'd ever BE together, but it's a love nonetheless.

So, they had this lovely one-night-stand and from that came... antigone_grace, who eventually came into her own in my head.

Helen, after three years of marriage to John, witnessed his death in a drive-by and ended up asking Zeus for her mortality before committing suicide. Hermes took her to Elysian Fields and there she stays.

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So, basically, I've had the same characters in my head for years... and years... and years... and though I try to let them go, it's hard. Even now, when Hermes does something outrageous or wacky, Helen is the first to poke her head up with a LOOK.

I've spent years creating elaborate storylines for them and played those storylines out with very skilled writers and I've been so fortunate to have that in my life.

To be honest, I miss that.

I miss the time and the dedication that went into the weeks and months of storylines and not knowing what was going to happen next, exactly. Having a starting point, knowing what points we wanted to cross and getting to some kind of vague ending... thing. Whatever happened in the meantime was awesome.

The closest thing I have going with that is the KITT & HATTIE thing, but that's because we play in journals. Maybe the LC people, at times. Occasionally the SPN people, but yeah. It's all just sitting out there in petty one-offs.

People are so concerned with the concept of godmodding that they don't TRUST their RP partners anymore. I know I can say to certain people, "Okay, take over for me with [my character] and I'll see you tomorrow!" in a party post or something. I know they're not going to do something wildly out of character with mine.

And when writing a scene, how hard is it to say, "Sue smiled. Motioning with her head, she led them to a table and sat first." How dare Sue assume that Ted wanted to sit down?!

I just don't understand why some assumptions can't go into writing if you trust the person you're writing with. If you don't trust them, why are you playing? It's made me skittish around players I don't know very well. I don't want them to jump on me.

That said, I just met an entirely new group of people, an entirely NEW GAME. I don't know them, they don't know me and yet... we all MESH. And I did. I said, "Okay, Lauren, you can move _____ for the rest of the party. Have fun!"

My girl got another drink and made out with her boyfriend on a couch. It was in character (enough) for the game, and the scene. I'd known Lauren all of a week. But I trusted she wasn't going to make my girl the party floozy and have her do a strip tease.


... I just miss that kind of RP. Where epic stuff happens. Example? Antigone's had quite a life. ♥

/rant

Every now and again, fanfic writers go back and read their first stories.

Well, if you're an RPer, go back and actually READ when you first started RPing. Seriously. Do it.

Thanks to LJArchive and my darlingest friend panthera, who was the mod of the first game I ever played in, I was able to do just that.

Um, yeah.

So, I'm not saying I'm a fantastic, wonderful, YAYGOME RPer now? But WOW was I horrible. And Panth? Was always nice to me. And even when I created my first OC (whom I still love and cherish and mold to whatever I need - It's Shannon, btw), she was still nice. She was nice when she told me what worked and what didn't, but mostly?

She just played along. Let me play and just... played with. :) Karen was in that game (matsujo9) and that's where I met Lani! :D In January of 2004. At The SGC on LJ.

And then... and THEN there was the Jacket Saga. Which will never not be funny to me.

[in case you get a hankering to read something funny that you may or may not understand]

I loved this game and I MISS this game. ♥

PS: Where did ya'll first play?

Teresa going 'huh?' all the time makes this work. Panth doing it yesterday makes it perfect. Look what Rachael found:



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[there was utr chat. there was saying of 'make up your own stories before someone makes them up about you!' I'll have you know that littlemoresonic had sex with her bff on a llama at Paris Hilton's birthday]

It has been decided that LODI will decipher the secret documents and I will diffuse the bombs. Always cut the third wire, especially if they are all the same color.



LODI and I went on a bar tour. During the course of it, we sent several text messages to KAREN, one of which told her to get the Senator's yacht. As PANTH said later, it was a good thing it was insured.

We snuck on the horse, which someone dressed up in the Senator's pants. No one is confessing, but it wasn't me. I was trying to dive off the side of the boat and LODI was trying to stop me. We came back... horse had pants on. I think it was LANI. She was WAY into the chihuahua. Upset it only gave culinary advice though.

Once, the Senator woke up, he joined in the chocolate finger painting and KAREN 's mad skillz with tap shoes are the only things that stopped us from getting boarded after PANTH did this thing, which distracted the Captain and THEN... well. You know.

Oh, and I made off with the Michael Shanks lookalike. He's now stashed in my closet.

From there, LODI went ahead to Sri Lanka because she needed to "fill in" as the "desk manager" at "her friends" brothel. Yeah, we don't believe that either

At any rate, once the rest of us caught up... we found out that LODI was working as an "exotic dancer" to help pay our way back to Jamaica. Here's where it gets a little... strange.

KAREN told LODI that she should have sold the diamonds. Well, none of us knew about the diamonds... LANI said that KAREN had said that the turtles ate the diamonds, and KAREN maintained that the turtle had eaten the rubies. I had heard LODI say diamonds, but LODI swore that her tiara and bracelet were fakes. I had to explain that my tiara wasn't (as it was a gift from the Emperor of Argentina) and LANI said that her contact in Switzerland said that LODI 's jewelry was real.

LODI got upset and said that it was my fault because LANI and I didn't split the gold evenly. LANI had to go and claim it was to the thousandth of a gram, but since we were being chased by locals with rifles, it wasn't POSSIBLE to be that accurate. Not my fault.

On top of that, PANTH remembered that she had bribed this fighter pilot. That was because LODI wouldn't hand over the two-for-ones for her "friends" brothel. Gold nuggets and a lap dance at mach 2. LANI played DJ in the backseat. She was "offended" (Psh, yeah right) that none of us offered to help. Well, LODI had the brothel, I had taken home the MShanks lookalike, and lets face it... KAREN had done more than her duty with the Senator.

I was offended KAREN had called us theives since she had made off with the rubies. At that point, LANI remembered that KAREN had ALSO made off with the sapphires. LODI admitted taking the emeralds, which... okay, I had, too.

The reason LODI didn't have any more two-for-ones was because she'd given them all to the park rangers. Or so she said. But without them, we'd never have escaped from that avalanche. And LODI ? With Shanks in my closet, I don't NEED to talk to Joe. Mmkay?

The St. Bernard they brought not only had brandy, but condoms as well. KAREN said he gave her more than condoms, but I don't think she meant the dog. She CLAIMS she meant Blake. KAREN also declared her undying love for Javier because he hauled her out of a river. As LANI pointed out, due to his "banana leaves" we had a hard time hauling KAREN out of his hut when it was time to go. His coconuts were rather large.

There there was the rest of PANTH 's pilot's flight crew. Moose, Goose and Grouse. LANI wanted them all. And HAD. And then she tried blaming it on me which pissed off my Shanks lookalike. Grouse kept faxing photocopies of himself to KAREN at work. Body parts that take seven sheets? UNCOOL.

Truthfully, she was more angry when she only got the middle sheet. I don't blame her. He was hot.

Headache or not, I have massive love for Lani and HER love for... well, like she said, 'ships that don't sink'. :D

[The Royal Marriage of First Prince Ressal and Elithriel Kamtash]]

When she asked for clarification on Josh's name MENTIONED Freya and Walter's twins, I was like, "What? What for?" And then OMG!HEE. Photos. I'm lovin' it. This is just too cute for words.

Aww, SGC!RP. <3 That's love. Always.

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AWWW, Freya/Walter 4eva!

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Our game was awesome. With the lil Goa'uld Halloween Costume: