Lost Angels, a dark role play sim. By dark, it denotes that there is material and play that is adult in nature. There is sex, nudity, and subject matter that could be in a horror movie. It is not intended for kids or those who do not wish to partake of or witness this material.
role playing and concentrating on setting the scene. You should also note that OOC may confuse players and make a mess of the scene. Keeping it away from public view is the best way to handle it and keep from being reprimanded by a player or GM (Game Moderator). If at any time during your play, you feel that you cannot separate OOC feelings from IC feelings, the best thing to do is leave the game and return when you are able to separate them. Something worthy of noting is that making threats in IM or OOC will get you banned from playing in that sim, possibly escalating to being banned from that game system.
If you prefer role play that is less violent or of a gentler nature, then by all means, find a sim that has those qualities. Just because you don’t like the role play in a sim, does not mean that you should ruin every other player’s experience. Instead, find a sim closer to your tastes. There are currently over 200 CCS sims and countless other role play sims metered and unmetered of different genres. Search or ask around until you find someplace where you won’t need limits.
Suzanna Soyinka, creator of CCS and owner of the City of Lost Angels sim, explains it in high detail in this excerpt from a recent blog posting at www.ccs-gametech.com. “To fully define: In character: the actions and statements of a character within the game world, not always directly associative with the true thoughts and actions of the player of the character outside the game world. In character in role play can extend to multiple different forms of divergent behavior from the actual live behavior of the player of the character, in example, women that play men, men that play women, both that play strange hermaphroditic sex machines and whatever else. What these players do IN CHARACTER is not truly indicative of them as a person individually in real life, a male playing a female may actually engage in heavily sexually deviant behavior as a character and be completely heterosexual in real life, a woman playing an extremely violent evil character may be someone’s really awesome mother in real life, the character of the character is not the person that plays the character but is often completely the opposite or extremely variant and has no bearing on who they are individually in real life.
Fade to Black Speaking of role play limits, fade to black or FTB as it is commonly called, is used when you decide you don’t want to continue a scene and wish to just end the scene where it currently stands. This also means that your character’s part and possibly the entire scene will be null and void. FTB is something that should be agreed upon by all the participating players in Out of Character (OOC) chat. I have seen players call a FTB on a scene because they were uncomfortable with the subject matter of the scene or they feared for the reputation of their avatar because they also do other things in SL such as own stores or design clothes. If you use your avatar for matters that you do not want to mix up with role play, your best bet is to get an alt. FTB is available to you at any time but overuse will cause your reputation as a player to become tainted and eventually no one will want anything to do with you. Overuse may get you muted by other players or may simply cause players to ignore your character completely. Be aware that when a FTB is used, it cancels the entire scene thus wasting all the time and effort put into that scene.
Out of Character: Out of character is when you actually disengage the role play filters that you use when playing your character in the game environment and you’re just “being yourself” outside said game environment or even sometimes within the game environment. Things that occur in real life, or OOC that are not associated with the game itself are considered OOC events and thusly aren’t generally things that bleed into IC interactions with others. For example, you and your SL boyfriend break up, the relationship was not an IC relationship but the semi-atypical digital OOC relationship between two people that are
OOC and IC Another touchy matter is that of conversations that are OOC (Out of Character) and IC (In Character). During role play, it’s highly recommended that you keep all OOC conversations to a minimal or use IMs to do so. OOC chatter distracts the other players from 10