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Where's my money, Chad?
I think "outing" a narrative RP for taking place off-camera is breaking 4th wall, but then again...if I refer to things that happen in your narrative, and you respond that I "wasn't supposed to see it", you're now the one breaking 4th wall.
Addressing the descriptive narrative itself should be off-limits - that is, shooting on each other in parentheses, like Rocko Daymon did to Impulse forever ago. But the way I see it, if you describe an action scene involving your character, and that character has dialogue, it's fair game. Don't want people to respond? Don't write it. Who are you to tell me what I can and can't respond to? Write what you're going to write, and I'll decide how my character reacts. My personal feeling is that many people write "off-camera" so they can avoid being mocked for writing melodramatic poop.
My biggest problem with flicking the invisible narrative switch, is that 99.99% of the time, these characters are the same person off-camera as they are on-camera. Does that mean there's no kayfabe in e-wrestling? Castor Strife is really Castor Strife? Mike Randalls really lives in the desert subsisting off of acai juice and scorpion meat? I'm waiting for the narrative writer who, y'know, follows the f*cking rules of logic and has his character grab a beer with mine, complaining that his wife hates the schedule and how he doesn't want to do a job in his hometown. But you wouldn't write that, because it's boring as hell, breaks kayfabe, and goes back to the reason why we write on-camera personalities in the first place. It's still wrestling, like it or not.
Narrative roleplays are great. I've written them before, lots of people have. Narrative or script roleplays that happen "off-camera" are f*cking lame, always have been, and always will be. There is no logical justification for it, unless the organization is funding HBO mini-series type shows where your character's backstory is showcased in an admittedly fictional manner, for the purposes of promotion...and is agreed that such material won't be brought up in promos. That's how I justified PRIME "in-character", though I'm sure almost nobody else views it that way.
How about this for a new rule: if my character can't see it, neither can the judges. So in addition to your two roleplays that people can see, you have an unlimited number of invisible narrative pieces to expand on your character's love life and possible knowledge of MS-13 initiation-related murders. And if I want to make fun of it, I have to do it as myself, not as my character.
Everybody wins!
Addressing the descriptive narrative itself should be off-limits - that is, shooting on each other in parentheses, like Rocko Daymon did to Impulse forever ago. But the way I see it, if you describe an action scene involving your character, and that character has dialogue, it's fair game. Don't want people to respond? Don't write it. Who are you to tell me what I can and can't respond to? Write what you're going to write, and I'll decide how my character reacts. My personal feeling is that many people write "off-camera" so they can avoid being mocked for writing melodramatic poop.
My biggest problem with flicking the invisible narrative switch, is that 99.99% of the time, these characters are the same person off-camera as they are on-camera. Does that mean there's no kayfabe in e-wrestling? Castor Strife is really Castor Strife? Mike Randalls really lives in the desert subsisting off of acai juice and scorpion meat? I'm waiting for the narrative writer who, y'know, follows the f*cking rules of logic and has his character grab a beer with mine, complaining that his wife hates the schedule and how he doesn't want to do a job in his hometown. But you wouldn't write that, because it's boring as hell, breaks kayfabe, and goes back to the reason why we write on-camera personalities in the first place. It's still wrestling, like it or not.
Narrative roleplays are great. I've written them before, lots of people have. Narrative or script roleplays that happen "off-camera" are f*cking lame, always have been, and always will be. There is no logical justification for it, unless the organization is funding HBO mini-series type shows where your character's backstory is showcased in an admittedly fictional manner, for the purposes of promotion...and is agreed that such material won't be brought up in promos. That's how I justified PRIME "in-character", though I'm sure almost nobody else views it that way.
How about this for a new rule: if my character can't see it, neither can the judges. So in addition to your two roleplays that people can see, you have an unlimited number of invisible narrative pieces to expand on your character's love life and possible knowledge of MS-13 initiation-related murders. And if I want to make fun of it, I have to do it as myself, not as my character.
Everybody wins!
