Main Courtyard & Officers Lounge ~ (Social Gatherings & OOC)

[Captain Philip Pears]

Working on getting antoher Lt. biggrin  

[Time-Spanned Soul]

Great, a 3rd lieutenant, soon to be acting 2nd lieutenant. This voyage will still have to go a lieutenant short now until it returns to port.  

[Captain Philip Pears]

We're thinking on his name now, the avatar is already dressed up. biggrin  

[Admiral Lord Cochrane]

Feel free to at least introduce our new recruit to the OOC. Once they are ready and we figure out how to properly introduce this character, they may begin to partake in the campaign with us.  

[Captain Philip Pears]

Told him (well, technically her).  

[Colin Shane]

Good night, here Colin Shane.
What to say, I'm a strange guy who see the life as a game, and as such I don't like to lose.

Hope I can survive in this navy for a time, I can be sometime nasty and cruel, but have a good heart (at least, I think I have one).

My specialities are foreign languages and all sort of games.

If you want to know more and need someone like me, then let's play. biggrin  

[Lieutenant Billings]

You're more than welcome to join us. There'll be little need of games aboard ship. Though the foreign languages will be most welcome.  

[Captain Philip Pears]

And if you play nice, i'll get you boots and a sword too. biggrin

 

[Admiral Lord Cochrane]

Oh my. Seems like good incentive to me.  

[Nigel Brannigan]

Yes indeed. Also, researching and teaching yourself about Naval practices in the Age of Sail would be most beneficial to your roleplay abilities. Knowing how things are done, and what is expected of you helps quite a bit. It allows you to anticipate things and to write more detailed replies.

It also helps you to remain active when you are not actively roleplaying with other people because you can roleplay your activities and duties, even when alone. On a real ship, much of what you might do involves decision you would make on your own and things that you do. It's not all a giant conversation.

I know that I personally read a lot, watch movies about the era, I look at outfits, and find written works on naval practices, I look for proper terminology so that my posts are as legitimate as possible, while still being entertaining.  

[Admiral Lord Cochrane]

UNIFORMS ARE NOW UPDATED! NOW WITH FRENCH SERVICE!  

[Lieutenant Billings]

So, is anyone getting any help from the educational material I posted? If you need any help, both Cochrane and myself are actual tall ship sailors.

Just ask us questions. It's okay. We all learn sometime.  

[Alan Clarke]

Good evening, Gentlemen.

I have to admit, I am sometimes at a a loss -- not concerning the procedures on a ship, I learned much since I started, especially from the Admiral.

Right at the moment, but it is exemplaric, I have the relatively simple situation that all seems to be done for at least the next few hours concerning my char's immediate tasks, and there is an opportunity to accompany Lt. Shane -- he suggests to go fishing.

I was told, "an officer would just not do this". This I report not for the purpose of nagging. But still, I feel very limited in my choice what to do at all by now. Lt. Shane's player and myself play together a lot in other forums and we never had this problem, which is for me:

I find it extremely difficult to find a brief moment to actually interact with Shane. (Billings I won't mention here as he is not online often.) A little excursion on the isle would help me a great deal to get something for the roleplay in this thread out of it, as I don't even know what attitude my character will evolve towards Shane.

To just go by rule of thumb if in doubt -- as the Admiral suggests in the thread before -- won't do, apparently, as I can see from the comments. Normally I am not somebody who needs to be told every single step, I have a brain that is quite capable of managing some organisational tasks; though I admittedly never unloaded a ship or ordered sailors, I unloaded quite a few trucks in my life and organised productions in my time as sound engineer.

No matter what I ever roleplayed or in which world, I always found it advisable to play a character who is slightly more open-minded than his surroundings. For me there is a huge difference between "an officer won't do this," and "it is neither appropriate for an officer nor common. If you do it, it has implications on how the crew and your fellow officers see you." I am perfectly fine with the latter, I hope not to be court-martialled for going fishing in my spare time. smile

My last comment: As Lt. Shane introduced himself, the reply was something along the lines of "there won't be much need for play onboard."
I disagree with that. (That the offer to play was meant in a non-literal meaning concerning a Lieutenant's tasks was obvious I guess.)
I take pains to make my rp char a good one, with a background and future plans, which I won't just give away in mental soliloquies staring dreamily at landscapes. I want others to play with me, to make my char laugh, sad, angry, eager, I like to fight, run, work -- if it cannot be avoided, and quite a few other things. Just "playing" by myself is not the same thing, as it is in no field of life.

Excuse my rant, and probably my grammar too; as you might have noticed, I am no native speaker.