Are your clan NPCs being weird and creepy?

Shit I'd bet a large.

I wish these were baseless rumors, but they are not. I've posted this with the knowledge that the producers and the most likely offending staff member read this board regularly enough that they will see this post very soon, if they haven't seen it already, and maybe do something about it before it gets worse and hurts more people.

If it is Is Friday/Valkyrja -- which I can neither confirm nor deny -- then I would find that genuinely sad. The last remaining non-cynical part of my brain thought that Armageddon getting a professional DM willing to waste their free time staffing the game would be nothing but a win for Armageddon's culture. In my experience, professional DMs have a very keen understanding of what truly terrible DMing looks like. They are aware of just how much damage to the hobby is inflicted by pimply-faced DMs who try to put players into weird and creepy sexual situations in TTRPG campaigns. Such genuine sadness might have motivated me to create this post, if I was able to confirm that Is Friday/Valkyrja was involved, which I cannot.

In my view, the worse and more blatantly wrong aspect to this is the harm done to existing PC relationships. Having an NPC push their way into such a relationship for no other reason except to break it up seems really weird and creepy to me, even if the romantic aspect is entirely faded. It seems like staff running a plot with the primary aim of harming a PC, which is clearly not allowed, and hasn't been allowed since long before Shalooonsh was a thing. Because the staff can't run 360 noscope gith attacks or throw perfectly aimed molotov cocktails at the annoying aide PC, they've now started to interfere with players' ERP. But instead of falling back on the old pasttime of instakilling humans RPing getting anally penetrated by half-giants, they do this.

"But Mehtastic what if the NPC gets consent?" Getting valid consent isn't possible if the staff member has made an effort to make the NPC look like a PC to the player, because it's deceptive. It's also not possible to get valid consent if at any point the player feels like they have to give consent because it's a staff member who's asking. Any honest staff member should be able to see why it is weird and creepy to ask for consent as an NPC, for the same reasons why sponsored roles have to ask for consent earlier than regular PCs. Players are being held to a standard beyond what staff hold themselves to, which will do nothing but continue to feed into the mistrust of staff that many players understandably hold.

The good news is: if this is happening, then there is a paper trail. The producers are free to check the run logs to see if what I'm saying is bullshit or not, and if not, then do something about it before things get worse. Or, they could pretend it's bullshit as they usually do, wait until the logs start getting around, then deal with angry players knowing that the producers knew all this time. But a small amount of damage has already been done, because the NPCs were already animated to do harm to PCs, and have already used the staff/player imbalance and deception to get consent.

Do staff want to shut this down now before it gets worse, or let it get worse and deal with a Shalooonsh level explosion a few months down the line?

Eh, logs or didn't happen. We're fresh off a guy making stuff up to be the victim (hi doublepalli), it is patently too easy to do so.

If someone has logs and doesn't share them because they're scared they can't go back to playing a cuck, they are in fact the cuck and I'll not respect them anyway.

Pretty much yeah.

If you're getting cucked by staff and you're too scared to speak up about it publicly, let alone quit the game when you're clearly being wronged... 

At what point do you deserve it?

Probably as soon as you logged in, with how much dirt there is on Armageddon at this point.

Have some dignity, share your story, quit the game and move on. Don't let parasites retain any sort of control or influence over you.

   

why are these so goddAMN COMMON IN THE MUD COMMUNITY AT LARGE

jesus screaming in agony on the cross christ