Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3113043-20140513201614/@comment-4536066-20140516013539

Aztarwyn Gonzo wrote:

they ignore you I.Cly because they find the concert to be particularly boring and has a negative taste. Maybe if you went elsewhere with this, people might pay more attention. This, this is a very good answer. I have a few things to contribute to the point:


 * 1) I was once playing my vampyre in Canifis bar. There was a girl there with a musical instrument and the player was narrating that this girl was playing "beautiful music." As my vampyre was a vicious bloodthirsty murderer who wanted to have her drink in the quiet and not be bothered, and who thought "dreamy" nonsense had no place in her swamplands, she reacted to the racket with irritation. She/I did my best to just ignore it, and the player rp'ing the musician was upset about it because the music was "beautiful" and she was not getting the reaction she wanted. Time and place are important things in this question.


 * 1) Playing music itself is not an act that I would expect to draw much valuable roleplay. Imagine how you consume music in your real life. Maybe on a special occasion you get to go to a concert with a musician you adore and you fully commit your interest to them, but more often than not you experience music passively. You'll listen to recordings on your phone/radio/ipod/computer, maybe rarely you'll sing along or dance, but most of the time you play it while you're doing something else like working or driving. Or, say you're in a restaurant and there happens to be some live band playing there who you've never heard of - it might add to the atmosphere and be nice, but the vast majority of the time you're not going to directly engage with the musician. You're there to eat and talk to your company, and the music just happens to be there.


 * 1) Musical talent is a difficult thing to convey through our style of roleplay as it is, nevermind to people who are not interested in focusing their rp around how "talented" your character is with a lyre. The technical traits of RSRP are very distinctly not auditory; you can talk about the gentle curve of a woman's waist much easier than you can describe the composition of a musical number on any level that will hold anyone's interest. After all, when was the last time you really cared when someone described to you the quality of his character's voice?