[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Lord Windos]

Yeah, Nathan's not really in the mood for talking right now...not with Ventus, at least.  Not sure what else you expected to happen.  Nathan's a strong guy in a lot of ways, but he doesn't respond well to negatives hardly at all.

Also, with only an Insight of 2 and Kirlia too distracted with him to help analyze the intent of the question, the hidden meaning completely went over Nathan's head, so that didn't help either.

This was one of the responses I expected, but the other one I was looking for was Nathan to acknowledge him with either a yes or no to his proposition, so that Ventus doesn't have to start becoming pushy/mother henning/nosey right away. If he said yes, Ven could have waited until Night or a break in between encounters to make amends and actually lay out the play while Iron works on the next set, and if no Ven could just wait a day or two before proposing the question once more.

Now Ventus is forced to twiddle his thumbs and make a gamble of whether or not to approach Nathan later . If he wins it, things either get resolved or at least on track of being so. If he loses though....BOOM! Another meltdown from either of them, or yet another instance of the Vitrolic part of their Vitrolic Friendship coming to the for front, and being a waste of time for both of us. While I like roleplaying stuff mostly, I do openly endorse meta gaming (Like so) if it just makes things smoother for our characters in the long and short term.

Its how we navigated the Teleport Near Incident AND The Partial Reveal to your character, keeping all of us in and out of game happy as possible WHILE ALSO being productive and working towards completing own personal objective and whatever Iron lays out for us to accomplish. Playing you character TOO much, like in this instance, is wonderful in some cases, but can cause detrimental effect that neither of us want, but are saddled with if we truly want to be IC the majority of the time.

I had to start curbing Ven's pathologically hatred and fear of magic/arcane/fae/demonic and become less 'Shot first' because most of the party are steeped in those practices now and are decidedly non-aggressive, and if I were to entirely play my character straight or do gradual changes, then he would pretty much be a complete odds with almost everyone for a LONG time... Even if Nathan responding right away would be abnormal/not in character, it can still be done within reason and prevent the trouble I briefly outlined. A small sacrifice, but I think its worth it for the both of us. Or at least I think so, based on my logic. You have insight that can change this, so I freely welcome it, as two minds are (often) better than one!