Regarding the Pie Incident

brb gonna go RP out pushing maggots into the flesh of a man who I've skinned alive and pumped full of drugs to make sure he's still awake, then salting the flesh
then rp eating said maggoty flesh
and shitting it into a bucket
then having him eat that shit

EDIT: My point is, I can do all of this shit on the server, but RPing out a character being in the mood because of a pie filled with... aphasiacs or whatever, isn't. It's not like people were jumping on eachother going full out blowjobs and rimming right in the damn streets. It was a temporary change in emotions, which also caused some backlash once said emotions wore off in the characters.

Saying that you should avoid any development because of this, would be simply mean for the characters. I didn't have a character who ate the pie, but if I did, I'm sure she would've made some advances and flirts that she normally wouldn't have made, showing her secret interest in such a character. This development would allow for more interactions in the future.

As for consent, everyone who ate the pie knew what they were getting into. Is it not allowed to poison things in the server, on the basis that some random shmuck could run in, take and drink the poisoned wine from the target without asking OOC what's up, then complain about not consenting, causing the scene to be voided alltogether?

That's my two cents on the topic. You guys are blowing this way out of proportion, especially with this being on one of the first things you see coming to Antares. Christ, people.

 

I think John Lennon talked about this once lol

 

i got in trouble for groaning

 

Seriously, however... If someone didn't want their character to become sexually aroused, they would not have consented/ would have voided or something akin to that. SO long as actual rules weren't broken like server ERP, I dunno what the issue is. Yeah it was lame RP but you have the power to ignore those people. So fuckin' what. If people used this as an excuse to ERP or be hella gay then that's what they wanted anyway. So long as that wasn't happening on the server then there shouldn't be an issue.

 

thank god

 

This is far more attention than the "incident" warranted.

Are you not embarrassed having this on website's front page?

 

Hallelujah.

 

To loosely quote Kirby, this announcment is a bleeding eyesore and really... do you want people thinking about joining this server seeing THIS on the front page? Take it down.

 

We all know that mass ERP isn't allowed, if we started doing stuff like that, crack down on that harder than a nutcracker on a... nut.

And it's like this. People knew something was up with the pie, right? They implied consent to what may happen to their character. If it was death or something super crazy, they probably wouldn't have gone through with it, yeah. A simple hallucinogen or change whatever, though, they knew something like that may happen, and would like their character to experience that.

It's like saying that because my BF and I fucked after fondling eachother in the shower, but neither of us verbally consented to it, only body language and implied, it would be rape until proven otherwise.

As for the maggot stuff, that kind of shit has happened in the past, and not a single word has been uttered against it. Remember Traptooth? He was such an amazing character who did horrible things. People never ridiculed TD for it, other than saying she had to put a NSFW warning on her art in the transmissions.

Anyway, the pie, right. If you void that, you're changing up the entire day. You guys are so worried about Antares being back in it's kinky Floran bonding ERP days that you're shutting down harmless stuff and voiding things. I'm sure if you went over to Taco and basically said 'Hey, don't do Apsodiacs next time, right bud?" He'd be onboard with that. Now, as for the consent again... who had a character, that ate the pie, and is bitching and moaning about the event? I haven't heard anyone come up, yet, only hearing outside parties get their knickers in a twist over the event.

Once again, this post should be removed or sent to another place. You guys are blowing it out of proportion, just do a slap on the wrist, say 'Don't do this again, alright?' You don't have to go through and change people's characters.

 

My issue is this is the sort of thing that could easily be handled with a few private messages and a slap on the wrists.

But instead, we have an announcement, a thread, a voiding, and all this stuff that just makes a mountain out of a molehill.

 

when the thought went through my head about doing this, I wasn't thinking about the fact there might be people under the age of 18 and that you don't have any rules regarding being 18+ IRL like on other servers I play on. mostly just a mistake on my part for assuming that everyone would take it in a mature, respectable manner. instead it was blown out of proportions and made into a big issue.
sorry for that.
please accept my apology and i'll try to avoid from making such a crude source of humor for not only myself, but everyone else involved that had a laugh out of it