Role-playing!
I now know why so many don’t do it. I mean it was not all that bad at first. I sent out the add. Ok I did this to myself, but I sent out the add for desiring to role-play with a woman. Anything is fine. I just want to craft stories I can later turn into illustrated comics. It was a wonderful idea. I mean you can’t have a comic without content and if you can find someone to brain storm with you or build something together, well you are hard pressed to find someone to do that through linkedin or some other hiring website. Another reason why it is was awesome, and before I go into this rant of how bad it was. It was free. Free content that can be used at any time.
Why is it bad?
Cause the story changes every three minutes, and you end up arguing over the most asinine of details. For instance: I met this girl and she is nice and she wanted to role-play RdR2 and she asked if I played the game and I ignored that question because with role-playing I was sure we were not going to use the plot of previous stories and the overall character had room to grow. NOPE! Arthur Morgan remained a guy that could not talk to a woman enough to get her pants down and get his dick wet, even if he is set up with a 16 year old virgin. Even though I started this little adventure, none of my ideas where applied because “I never played the damn game, I wouldn’t play the game, not with the reviews that it got.”
Anyway in the middle of the role-play I slipped, I suggested that he was married to Eliza, but I forgot he wasn’t and it gave me a headache to remember exactly why he refuses to fuck the next available woman. Something about not wanting another Issac in the world. It sounds really gay to me, but this chick I am role-playing with thinks that kind of thing is sexy. I don’t know.
She wants details and sometimes does not think I am in character enough and decides to tell me what my character would say and how he would say it. WTF! Is that. I wanted to say and in character, I hope you are not this demanding in the bed room. Cause if so you are better off just using a vibrator.
After several days of game play I decided to change the characters nature a bit and because of what I know about the game this is acceptable:
Arthur sneers as Adelia and spits back at her disdain and hatred. As of now he has been wanting to keep the playing field between her father and him on "High Honor," he does not owe the man anything but he would like to be remembered for having being good at his job. Even if the job is as small as bring back the girl. Seeing Adelia tied up and vulnerable, young and still filled with a spirit to match his own. Her red hair cupping her face flawlessly, blood finally coming back into her cheeks after her heart began to settle began to make his own heart move around in a way that is uncomfortable for him. The thought of the night being a place only where the predators win due to their 'low honor,' reminds me of how shitty it is that all this trouble is going to bring him $500.00, she is well worth 3x as much, honestly as he continues to look at her, her desire to live out here among the wilds and moonlight is priceless. He is not too proud to make the offer. "Listen it is clear you don't want to go back to your father. I want to make it clear that I am not any man's hired hand but I do have this idea of being reputable, a flaw I know that gets in the way of a lot of good things for me, but I really can't stand the idea of anyone losing lives behind money, disgusting. So if you can make it my while not to take you back, then I won't. You have to have something worth more than your father's $500.00. Anyway if you don't have anything of value, I know of another way to get you off the hook. There is this killer in town, supposed to be some hot shit cause the sheriff won't do his job. I planned on going back and rustling up the money that comes with his hide, dead or alive, and maybe I can use that money to sweeten the value of your father giving you room to grow out side of his care." He cuts a smirk under his eyes wondering if she will take the bait of coming home with him peacefully believing he would be willing to buy her from her father, no matter the price. "I have not been with any woman since my wife and son died, I have had my share of pickin's but I have never met anyone with lips as tasty as yours, nor eyes bold enough to repeat what they have noticed of my beastly disposition and actually attract me, makes me wonder what you are hiding beneath those oversized clothes."
My role-playing partner was fine with everything but the last part obviously or I would not be writing this paper. She did not like the last part because he would not have talked about his problems with someone he just met. That is granted, but I also feel he would not have had this problem at all if he would stop being a little bitch and get over something that happened nearly, by the date of this role-play, after the Van Der Linde gangs comes to New Hannover, that would be years later, for those that have played the damn game right?
Anyway, I really felt role-playing would give people a chance to stretch their imaginations not become trapped in a world of days on end of text and no real motivation to continue. I have a hard time finding how Adelia could be attracted to a man like Arthur Morgan who is confused about everything and does not know what he wants out of life. Supposedly this little girl is going to want to ride off with Arthur and all that. He was 15 when he left home and survived well. He is an ace shot. That is what makes a video game work right, the hero does not die of TB and act like he is afraid of women or his shadow. Anyway I have not grasped how to reconcile with a character who is a virgin and naive but smart enough to keep a grown man from having his way with her. She would not be able to stop him. It is his own conscience that does that, and in the 1800’s wouldn’t she be curious, wouldn’t he need to tell her, “I won’t hurt you because of such and such reason.” Naw he is a bad ass that does not talk much and likes to rope little girls.
Yeah I could not take it and I like all sorts of stories, but this one was driving me bonkers.