Pet peeves: The return (Part 8)

RP him being uncomfortable about it but soldiering on. Like, he knows he should be afraid but has to deal with the disconcerting confusion of not being afraid. Cognitive dissonance of it.

Just say heā€™s still afraid of the dark.

A character actually having immunity to all fear, roleplayed to its full extent, would be practically inhuman(inelfen/indwarven/ingnomen/etc.). I generally take paladin fear immunity to be less ā€œyou never feel fearā€ and more ā€œwhen the time comes, a paladin will never break because of fear. They will always overcome it when they need to, even if it still rests in their heartā€.

Obligatory OOTS comic on paladin fear: https://i.giantitp.com//comics/oots/oots0372.gif

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My preference for it is that it just feels unnatural, where your natural instinct for fear is being repressed. But I guess itā€™s however the PC wants to play it out.

If thatā€™s all it took, it deserved to be destroyed :pray:

Anyway Underdeep is spot on, thereā€™s plenty of FFXIV RP. Loads, even. What it lacks is random, walk-up roleplay, something I donā€™t particularly mind either. I like being able to arrange stuff instead.

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To be brave is to behave
Bravely when your heart is faint,
So you can be really brave
Only when you really ainā€™t.

~ Piet Hein

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Hm, flavouring it as ā€˜my commitment to my god will allow me to stay here but I really do not want to be hereā€™ works for me, thank you

Could also give them heightened wariness ā€“ looking into shadows expecting Bad Things, even if itā€™s not sending a shiver down their spine.

Okay, I am Dutch and I know Piet Hein is one of our admirals, but I never knew he said thatā€¦ Iā€™m more familiar with Michiel DeRuyter!

Different one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Hein_(scientist)

Seems I wasnā€™t too far off though, heā€™s a direct descendant!

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Mr. Typhon finding out that i am very comfortable with just messing with his ears.

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If not to be fussed and played with, why fluffy?

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Iā€™m sorry, if he didnā€™t want to be messed with every time i walk past him, he should not be a fuzzy animal.

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me to the zookeepers when they demand to know why i keep trying to get into the gorilla enclosure

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people say gorillas would crush me and that approaching them is suicidal, but I think they would respect my positive attitude and general sense of humour and that we might come to understand one another

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i just bring my laptop with every king kong movie saved to it

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Iā€™ll read this post out at your funeral

me: i feel like replaying path of fire
arenanet: thats cool we just released a 7 day event where if you play path of fire you get a sunspear spear skin and expensive crafting mats :slight_smile:

sometimes the universe is a little kind. sometimes

itā€™ll seem ironic and confusing after I die at the age of 4032, long after gorillas were wiped clean from the planet by climate change

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