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Date Posted: 11:31:49 02/10/03 Mon
In reply to:
J.E.O.P.A.R.D.Y
's message, "Steel Dream! Meet your Death!" on 10:06:34 02/08/03 Sat
Hmm... you seem reasonable enough, if in my mind a little misguided. Firstly I'd like to apologize for reacting the way I did; namely, overreacting. But I'd like you to understand that I really love Steel Dream, he is based on a combination of my real horse and what I believe to be the best parts of my personality, and it really upset me when you did what I interpreted as deciding that he has to die without consulting me. I've fought battles to the death before in character and understand full well that if I fight one I might well lose. But the thing is that when I've done this before, the battle has lasted for many posts, each post making a little bit of progress and then allowing the other player to defend and attack. This happened WAY too fast for my liking. It's unrealistic in that Steel would have realized Jeopardy was trying to bring down his head and suffocated him, and at least attempted to pull away. He may well not have succeeded but as you played it he didn't even have a chance.
Of course this game isn't realistic, but the thing is, it does attempt to be realistic in the sense that horses don't fly around or do other absurd things. The point I am, rather badly, trying to get across is that while the actual game play might be excessively unrealistic I for one like to keep the fighting, especially for such high stakes, within vague bounds of reality except for certain things like magical powers some horses acquire. This post is long and rambling and making only moderate amounts of sense at best, but essentially what I'm trying to say is A) I overreacted, but B) I do feel I was right in some respects, C) I was wrong in others, and D) our main difference seems to be the way we role-play. What I think of as powerplaying, you don't see that way. I am of the opinion that if a fight occurs to the death it should be a very long fight indeed; when horses do end up killing each other (which as far as I know is fairly rare) I'd think it's after a long fight in which one or both of them becomes highly exhausted. However, I do not know this for certain and I've never really seen horses fight. When I said about your tactic being unrealistic, in all honesty I was making it up. I was upset and very tired, and feeling thoroughly unreasonable. But it still doesn't make sense to me that a horse could hold another's face in a suffocating grip like that while remaining in a rear for as long as it would take to kill another equine. Why would a horse be built with such muscle to do that? They have no real need for pressing their faces to their necks for extended periods in the wild, do they? I may be wrong but it just seems odd...
Ok, I'm going to shut up now. ^_^
-Fran
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