Role Playing for ... whoevah!

[[Originally posted on opensimcity.org earlier today!!]]

My first disclaimer is that this is ALL +virtual christine 's fault!  She put the bug in my ear, and like Checkov ... bad things resulted.

I am not a profesor .. I've never even role played one before.  So all ima be doin is ramblin on and on about role playing and what I know about it.  And if you got questions, ask way.

One of the first thing I've noticed is how people are often mistaking OOC (Out of charcter) with IC (In character).  You created a character ... and frankly you did that when you created yiour avatar.  OOC is YOU .. you in RL ....  IC is the character you create for Role Play.

Example ... and I will use Virtual Christine, because this is, after all, all HER fault!!  Lets create an example character for her.  nOW WE ALL KNOW WHT THE "real" Christine is like ....  so lets see what a character is like.

This new character ... hmmm ... is .... lets get creative .. everyone wants the perfect size 6, young sexy girl.  I think if Christine tried to play that shed be laughing so hard, she wouldn't be able to type.

So ....... We got a ..... 78 year old Jewish grandmother from ... hmmmm  Jewish Harlem instead of Spanish Harlem.  Now .. Louise Rothenberg ... that s her name .. has outlived 3 husbands!  All died ..the poor lamb!! She speaks highly of all of them.  Her eldest son is a lawyer and she cannot stop talking abut him.  He is a defense attorney in Los Angeles.  They still speak once a week at least.

Louise has come to live on the island of Gati (cause I may as well toot my own damn horn!!).  She complains loudly about the stairs and maybe she will see if the can live in the lighthouse in the twn common, where there are every one of 5 steps.

Now ... this is Louise ... Virtual Christine may not know a DAMN thing about being Jewish, being widowed, or anything.  Doesn't matter cause this is a CHARACTER .. not a real person.  And in fiction all things are possible .....

Is her son her counsel whenever a husband dies?  Including his own father?

Is the looking for victim .. I mean husband #4?

Did her husbands die of natural cuses ... or did it just LOOK like they died of natural causes?

OK that's character development .. next time .. if I can remember .. we can talk about emoting ......

Have a great day!!  They only last 4 hours ... make the most of it!!!