I’ve made SO many attempts to bring Humans together.
I’ve made post after post on the Human Board – both IC and OOC – over my time here.
I’ve also made a few threads on the Game Discussions board to help make playing a Human more attractive.
Clicky for recent project.
As you can see… There are about 3 people who give a sh*t and a lot of people show the smallest interest before shrugging their shoulders, giving up, or pointedly dismissing the idea that Humans should be allowed to be here.
Humans just aren’t attractive enough to play and with the current story line, they don’t really have a place. They can either try to band together and kill Vampires – HA! – or they can go about their merry way and just… die of boredom or become Vampires.
The only time I see people playing a Human these days is just so they can have a stepping stone to Vampirism. It’s rare you get a Human stay as a Human and be successful.
I’ve created more Humans than Vampires on this game and I give up each time because there is just nothing going on. I try to implement change and just receive apathetic, dismissive or… no replies at all.
I would love for people to band together for a purpose – I don’t really care what kind of purpose either. Quite frankly, however, there is nothing to do as a Human on Path. Even the Blood Thieves, Paladins and Sorcerers get a raw deal – never mind the pure Humans who get a nice sharp stick up their backsides…
My idea with Clear was to bring a sense of balance to things, kind of like neutralising extremes on both side of the Masquerade.
Since we have a one trick pony to ride on here in terms of storyline on Path, I haven’t had too much in the way of rationale to work with. What I do know, however, is that Clear would just like to bring peace and balance to things. So if she were to open a Faction (I would probably call it The Pavilion), it would be open for all species.
The idea would be to create a database of individuals and determine their threat to peace, thus taking steps to stop them from becoming a danger. This doesn’t mean kill them. The idea is not to be all, “People don’t like my ideology, so I murder them.” I’m pretty sure they call that a Holocaust… Any who, the idea would be to guide them away from their homicidal/threatening acts and help them to find peace too and if you can’t do that, you find a way to reverse the damage.
I would see a lot of potential RP coming from this idea alone. It could work well with the Masquerade I suppose, but that’s not the main focus, really. It’s about giving people a reason to do something besides murder, belittle and bully others.
So… yeah. That’s my idea. You’re free to tell me to go play in the garden with all the other hippies if you’d like. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I’m told the game isn’t a hostile one and yet our only options are to murder other characters and bully them into submission. If it makes me a hippie to think that there are other alternatives to bullying people and ruining their leisure activities, then I am happy to make daisy chains with the other hippies.
