Death of my first

[Zoltan]

One year after death, I believe is the time you're supposed to wait before talking about a previous character.

And you should avoid super secret things (that's kind of a gray area sometimes) and discussing characters that may still be alive.

[Gimfalisette]

One real life year after death, I believe is the time you're supposed to wait before talking about a previous character.

I'm going to add a caveat: If your PC died to some person, creature, plot, location, thing which is still IC...then it may never be un-IC to speak of their death. Likewise, some aspects of a PC's life may never be discussable OOCly, if they were involved in should-always-stay-IC stuff.

[deviant storm]

Usually the rule of thumb is a year after your character dies, though that can depend on if he died via super sekrit things, or if there's characters you played with who had something to do with the death who might still be alive.

I'm really happy your first character rocked so. Don't worry about sucky stats, just play your character like he/she is a real person. Have fun with it.

em hugs the new player. Then knocks ~new over and steals his newbie boots!

Welcome to Armageddon. 

[warforged32]

Ah, alright...

[deviant storm]

Don't feel bad. I still can't discuss the death of a Byn Sargeant, which happened over a year ago. Too ic. And it was scary, too. 

[Lizzie]

You ask when it's okay to post the cause of a death.

It's really not a good idea to post that your character died at all, for around a year. Reason being..MY character was your boss. And my character doesn't know your character is dead. But *I* know..and now I have the burden of knowing that my employee is dead, but having to pretend not to know that. The reason it's a burden, is because my character thought yours was going to be the next biggest thing to sliced kalan fruit, and would have had her entire crew searching for his corpse if she knew, AND tracking for his killer, and putting out a bounty, and all this and that.

But now, because *I* know your character is dead, if MY character does any of that stuff, your character's killer's player will think I'm bringing this information I learned outside the game, into the game.

It gets really messy. So - we avoid the whole mess, by refraining from mentioning that our characters are dead, or alive, or that we're in Tuluk, or that we met cool people in the Firestorm, or anything else about our characters until they're a year in the grave (or longer).

Of course you know my crew will now be on a search for your boots. I'm assuming you left them in the [redacted] where the [redacted] spawns. We'll start there.

[Reiteration]

Most of my characters fell under the YASD category.

[zeia]

I'm quite proud of my char.. She's my first char on ARM... more so my first char -ever- on a MUD.. and she is currently at nearly 21 days old =] Despite what shes gone through.

[warforged32]

21 OOC days?
How long -IC- has the character lived since creation?

[zeia]

No lol.. 21 in game days.. I've had her since.... just before new year I believe..

[Chettaman]

High-five... my first lasted about three hours.
shit... so tired...

[warforged32]

I meant IG time, as in... How many Zalanthan days/months/years.

[zeia]

Well she started out as 23 years old I think it was.. and she's now.. nearly 26.

[Zoltan]

Well she started out as 23 years old I think it was.. and she's now.. nearly 26.

What a co-inky-dink, my first character started at age 23 and lived a long-assed time as well.

He became a Byn sergeant and lived for like 8 months RL time, almost 30 days played, I think. *flex* My very next character did the good ol' "play for almost a RL week, die from total stupidity." Protip: newbie assassin combat skills aren't quite as reliable as those of a veteran face-melting warrior.  I haven't had a legitimately short-lived character since then... I feel like I'm missing some of the Arm flavor. 

[Bogre]

First of many!

[Kol]

>.>

If you like, Zolt.

I can kill a ew of your noobs. ust give me your coin, and I'll do the deed

[Saellyn]

How the crap do you guys get long-lived PCs? Here's a tip...

STOP DRINKING IN THE GAJ GET YOUR ARSE INTO THE SALT FLATS AND HUNT MEKS WITH A FORK!

-Gripe about people and living too damn long.- Back in my day our PCs barely lasted two weeks -_-!

Kidding. Teech me ur survivin' tactics. These stupid Americans I play with (and I'm one of them) keep getting me killed!

[Akaramu]

My characters tend to be careful and avoid doing things they consider risky if they don't absolutely have to. They often die from being stored. 

Every time I want to play a PC who is a bit more risk happy... I end up liking them / their relationships / their skill progress / their plots so much that I start playing carefully again.

[warforged32]

Being stored? I don't know what this means...

[Lizzie]

Storing a character = retiring a character. It's a request you send to the staff when you're done playing your current PC. You'd do it instead of suiciding, so you can play a different character.

HELP STORE in-game and out of game explains the details.