The Kraven Corporation
14-06-2006, 17:58
This is my advice guide to those who want to RP as a darker nation, or an “Evil” nation, a few people on MSN have asked me how I achived this so easily and so I decided that instead of repeating myself over and over again, I’d make this guide for people who wish to dabble in the darker arts, and so for your reading pleasure may I introduce you to: Kraven’s Dark Arts: A Guide to Evil Role playing.
Reasons:
Why is your nation evil, or why does it take on the evil personae? There can be many reasons for this, which you can either decide upon the creation of your RP and your first post, or can develop through the medium of RP, many people often start as a nation with good intentions only to be turned to the darker side of life by events that happen through out the world, from Genocide to rebellions, some nations turn evil during a civil war, where the darker faction of the nation managed to take control, be it through better tactics or the outside intervention of nations.
Exploring your nations darker side can be incredibly fun to write, the characters are often very deep and can be an exciting part of the role play experience, for example, your national leader could seem like a very noble and upstanding person when faced with the cameras of the General public, but on the inside, he’s a coward, scarred by power and afraid of leadership, so he hit’s the bottle hard every night…
Its this kind of angle that brings an exciting element to role playing evil nations…
How can you get other to recognise your evil, or at least begin to?
This can be done in many ways, by the gradual hinting that your nation has a darker past, or by hinting through present actions that your nation has an alternative motive, this is possibly the most difficult aspect of the RP, being able to keep your audience interested but without divulging too much information, or loosing your audience through long winded explanations of your past history.
Here is an example
Doctor Jenkins walked down the long corridor, it was surgical white, and the bright fluorescent lights made the crisp white walls only harsher, the Doctor looked through the small glass window of a heavy blast door, inside was a young woman, looking at her dishevelled shape, his mind was cast back to his early days as a doctor, his left hand started to tremble, and tears weld up in his eyes… he clenched his hand into a fist and quickly moved on…
From the above writing, we can see that something reminded the Doctor of his past, something he’d rather forget, yet the information is just vague enough to keep you hooked, and judging by the Doctors reaction to the girl in the cell… his past isn’t something that he particularly wanted to be reminded of..
Another key to role playing as a Darker nation is to write emotively, meaning to write in a style that people can imagine really well, via descriptive words and hitting them in an emotional context, this is another difficult aspect of role playing, being able to describe a situation in depth and detail, describing what people are seeing around them and using the smells of the room to make people wretch as they read it…
Let me divulge a little in the form of another example, as this is the easiest way I find to make people understand, followed by a little explanation.
The woman had been strapped to the dentists chair, the room was hot and against the black leather of the chair, she felt uncomfortable, as the sweat from her body made her skin cling to chairs upholstery, she looked around the room nervously, it was obviously some kind of bunker, as the gentle rumble of artillery exploding possibly many miles above was barely audible through the thick concrete walls that now surrounded her, her eyes strained to see something that was on the wall, it looked like something had been spilled onto the wall, then it dawned upon her.. The smell… the pungent smell that made her feel ill… stale blood, she couldn’t work out what it was, but the stain had made it obvious to her, her eyes quickly darted around the room as her breathing rate and heart rate suddenly increased as her natural flight or fight kicked in, she finally realised that she was in mortal danger…
As you can see from the above, the woman is in danger, she’s probably been drugged and brought to this bunker to await interrogation or more likely torture, the key here is to make the reader feel for the woman in the chair, connect with her and feel sorry for her as the Interrogators get to work, the idea is to make the person reading it, feel as though they are in the room as well, as though they themselves are actually in the woman’s position, generally when writing about NPC interrogations, to really strike a chord with people, I generally choose people that will cause the most outrage amongst the readers, such as Woman, old people, children, Fathers, Priests, this is the main key to being Evil, being able to play on peoples feelings and emotions.
Another idea as well, one that you can explore, is the fact that anyone can commit genocide, I’ve done it to two nations so far, Jagada and The Aeson, but it takes a special RP’er to make people feel for the people your butchering, simply stating in one or two lines that your butchering a thousand people, makes them just that, a thousand people.
However, making the people reading the genocide, feel for those you are killing by describing in detail a few of the executions will make people more outraged and will guarantee that if your looking for international outrage, again here is an example:
The soldiers stormed up the street, tipping over bins and shouting orders to the civilians that were stood in the street, carrying bags of shopping, children clung to their mothers in fear, as an Officer walked towards them, shouting something in a language they didn’t understand.
The soldier produced his pistol and grabbed the young child clinging to her mother, the woman cried, dropping her shopping and pleading to the soldier to leave her daughter alone, the soldier continued to bark orders at her, but again… she didn’t understand, on her knees before him she cried, begging the Officer to leave her child alone…
The Officer responded by putting a bullet through the skull of the child, fragments of skull, sinew and brain exploded over the mother and in a fit of rage, she threw herself at the Officer, a desperate attempt and retribution, but instantly two soldiers ran to the Officers aid and pulled her free, a rifle butt to the jaw line gave her ample time to rethink her actions…
She lay there moaning, crying softly, clutching her now broken jaw…
The Officer walked over, his pistol held limply in one hand, the Officer simply shook his head, then rolled her onto her back using one of his knee high Jackboots, the pistol was used once again, effectively silencing her moans as the bullet broke her skull, in a similar fashion to her child that was just executed moments before her….
From the above section of writing, I’ve made it obvious that the soldiers performing the execution simply didn’t care, but the woman pleaded for the life of her child, that was cruelly snuffed out before her.
Successfully writing to make people feel for your characters and those you are executing will bring new depth to your Dark role playing.
I hope this gives you a little help in writing for the Dark Side of NS, it can be the fun and entertaining to read, but most of all, I hope you enjoyed reading this, I was at a loose end today, so decided to rustle up this little nugget of information, please, Enjoy and if you like it, please direct others here.
Yours
Kraven
Reasons:
Why is your nation evil, or why does it take on the evil personae? There can be many reasons for this, which you can either decide upon the creation of your RP and your first post, or can develop through the medium of RP, many people often start as a nation with good intentions only to be turned to the darker side of life by events that happen through out the world, from Genocide to rebellions, some nations turn evil during a civil war, where the darker faction of the nation managed to take control, be it through better tactics or the outside intervention of nations.
Exploring your nations darker side can be incredibly fun to write, the characters are often very deep and can be an exciting part of the role play experience, for example, your national leader could seem like a very noble and upstanding person when faced with the cameras of the General public, but on the inside, he’s a coward, scarred by power and afraid of leadership, so he hit’s the bottle hard every night…
Its this kind of angle that brings an exciting element to role playing evil nations…
How can you get other to recognise your evil, or at least begin to?
This can be done in many ways, by the gradual hinting that your nation has a darker past, or by hinting through present actions that your nation has an alternative motive, this is possibly the most difficult aspect of the RP, being able to keep your audience interested but without divulging too much information, or loosing your audience through long winded explanations of your past history.
Here is an example
Doctor Jenkins walked down the long corridor, it was surgical white, and the bright fluorescent lights made the crisp white walls only harsher, the Doctor looked through the small glass window of a heavy blast door, inside was a young woman, looking at her dishevelled shape, his mind was cast back to his early days as a doctor, his left hand started to tremble, and tears weld up in his eyes… he clenched his hand into a fist and quickly moved on…
From the above writing, we can see that something reminded the Doctor of his past, something he’d rather forget, yet the information is just vague enough to keep you hooked, and judging by the Doctors reaction to the girl in the cell… his past isn’t something that he particularly wanted to be reminded of..
Another key to role playing as a Darker nation is to write emotively, meaning to write in a style that people can imagine really well, via descriptive words and hitting them in an emotional context, this is another difficult aspect of role playing, being able to describe a situation in depth and detail, describing what people are seeing around them and using the smells of the room to make people wretch as they read it…
Let me divulge a little in the form of another example, as this is the easiest way I find to make people understand, followed by a little explanation.
The woman had been strapped to the dentists chair, the room was hot and against the black leather of the chair, she felt uncomfortable, as the sweat from her body made her skin cling to chairs upholstery, she looked around the room nervously, it was obviously some kind of bunker, as the gentle rumble of artillery exploding possibly many miles above was barely audible through the thick concrete walls that now surrounded her, her eyes strained to see something that was on the wall, it looked like something had been spilled onto the wall, then it dawned upon her.. The smell… the pungent smell that made her feel ill… stale blood, she couldn’t work out what it was, but the stain had made it obvious to her, her eyes quickly darted around the room as her breathing rate and heart rate suddenly increased as her natural flight or fight kicked in, she finally realised that she was in mortal danger…
As you can see from the above, the woman is in danger, she’s probably been drugged and brought to this bunker to await interrogation or more likely torture, the key here is to make the reader feel for the woman in the chair, connect with her and feel sorry for her as the Interrogators get to work, the idea is to make the person reading it, feel as though they are in the room as well, as though they themselves are actually in the woman’s position, generally when writing about NPC interrogations, to really strike a chord with people, I generally choose people that will cause the most outrage amongst the readers, such as Woman, old people, children, Fathers, Priests, this is the main key to being Evil, being able to play on peoples feelings and emotions.
Another idea as well, one that you can explore, is the fact that anyone can commit genocide, I’ve done it to two nations so far, Jagada and The Aeson, but it takes a special RP’er to make people feel for the people your butchering, simply stating in one or two lines that your butchering a thousand people, makes them just that, a thousand people.
However, making the people reading the genocide, feel for those you are killing by describing in detail a few of the executions will make people more outraged and will guarantee that if your looking for international outrage, again here is an example:
The soldiers stormed up the street, tipping over bins and shouting orders to the civilians that were stood in the street, carrying bags of shopping, children clung to their mothers in fear, as an Officer walked towards them, shouting something in a language they didn’t understand.
The soldier produced his pistol and grabbed the young child clinging to her mother, the woman cried, dropping her shopping and pleading to the soldier to leave her daughter alone, the soldier continued to bark orders at her, but again… she didn’t understand, on her knees before him she cried, begging the Officer to leave her child alone…
The Officer responded by putting a bullet through the skull of the child, fragments of skull, sinew and brain exploded over the mother and in a fit of rage, she threw herself at the Officer, a desperate attempt and retribution, but instantly two soldiers ran to the Officers aid and pulled her free, a rifle butt to the jaw line gave her ample time to rethink her actions…
She lay there moaning, crying softly, clutching her now broken jaw…
The Officer walked over, his pistol held limply in one hand, the Officer simply shook his head, then rolled her onto her back using one of his knee high Jackboots, the pistol was used once again, effectively silencing her moans as the bullet broke her skull, in a similar fashion to her child that was just executed moments before her….
From the above section of writing, I’ve made it obvious that the soldiers performing the execution simply didn’t care, but the woman pleaded for the life of her child, that was cruelly snuffed out before her.
Successfully writing to make people feel for your characters and those you are executing will bring new depth to your Dark role playing.
I hope this gives you a little help in writing for the Dark Side of NS, it can be the fun and entertaining to read, but most of all, I hope you enjoyed reading this, I was at a loose end today, so decided to rustle up this little nugget of information, please, Enjoy and if you like it, please direct others here.
Yours
Kraven