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Comments on Profile Post by Plotvitalnpc

  1. Valette-Serafina
    Valette-Serafina
    Seduce someone! Kill someone! Avenge your [Non-existent] Sister/Brother! Win the approval of your [Non-existent] Homeland, and become King/Queen!
    Conquer somewhere! Steal a thing! Protect a place/person/thing! Earn the Friendship of Someone! Master a Style!

    Anything that could be a character's motivation.
    Feb 27, 2015
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  2. Plotvitalnpc
    Plotvitalnpc
    By those standards, I still want to make a Raksha with the motivation of 'consume food for energy and engage in evolutionary struggle'.
    Feb 27, 2015
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  3. Valette-Serafina
    Valette-Serafina
    Just remember that the person who cares deeply about the motivation, the character who strives for it, doesn't exist.
    It's a mask, a façade put up to amuse a being that cares little for anything.

    A fake person. A Puppet.
    Feb 27, 2015
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  4. Valette-Serafina
    Valette-Serafina
    Which offers another nice motivation: Become a real person.

    Except that's still fake.
    Feb 27, 2015
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  5. Plotvitalnpc
    Plotvitalnpc
    I don't see much of a difference between 'become a real person' and 'consume food for energy and engage in evolutionary struggle' for a Raksha.
    Though I guess that's more 'become a real creature'.
    Feb 27, 2015
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  6. Plotvitalnpc
    Plotvitalnpc
    I wasn't asking what would be a good Raksha motivation, I was asking if the one I've been mentioning over and over again would make a good Raksha motivation.
    Feb 27, 2015
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  7. Valette-Serafina
    Valette-Serafina
    Oh!
    I really misread that. Sorry.
    Feb 27, 2015
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  8. Plotvitalnpc
    Plotvitalnpc
    S'okay!
    Feb 27, 2015
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  9. RCa
    RCa
    The first part isn't exactly hard for you to do nor heroic, and can probably be discarded. What makes it worthy to be part of your Motivation? I see that you're trying to go for the "become/mimic a real boy" thing ... but how is food significant enough in that context to be called out?
    Mar 1, 2015
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  10. RCa
    RCa
    The second part is a little weird. What stories does it help you (the player/GM) tell? It's a passive state of existence for things in the real world, not something they aim for (even if many Creation species were wrought rather than evolving). And what counts as "evolutionary struggle" for a raksha that you might engage in it? Evolution relies on reproduction and inheritance, which doesn't work for raksha.
    Mar 1, 2015
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  11. RCa
    RCa
    Are you just trying to prove yourself personally the most adaptable? Do you start fiddling with others to examine evolutionary pressures, and does that count as "engaging" (arenas and rape-camps ahoy)? How much do humans even engage in evolutionary struggle, especially along any time span you could be expected to play?
    Mar 1, 2015
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  12. Plotvitalnpc
    Plotvitalnpc
    I'll be honest, I read a guide to playing a Raksha that said 'destroy shaped existence' was as shitty a motivation for a Raksha as 'Eat food for energy and engage in evolutionary struggle'. The idea was that a Raksha might, due to their incredibly sketchy comprehension of shaped existence, think that was actually a conscious goal humans had.
    Mar 1, 2015
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