Policy PK Helpfile

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======================================================================Other: policy pk======================================================================Syntax:PK, or player killing, has developed quite a bad rep in online games,with the view often being that it's just a way for bigger people to harasssmaller people for their own sadistic giggles.  While this can be true, PKon Buffymud, like everything else, is IC, and is primarily supposed to beused as a RP tool. If you're a fairly normal, goodie type slayer, your job is to stop evil.Most of the evil in the game is being perpetrated by soulless players.  Theypatrol the streets, killing innocent people.  It's quite simply bad RP foryou to ignore that just because you know OOC that they're a player.  A worldin which vampires and slayers give companionable nods to each other betweenkilling their prospective targets is simply not the world of Buffy.  Whilesome people may choose to play pacifists and cowards, you need to figure outwhy your character would kill dozens of demons and vampires every night, andthen completely ignore those that are players.  Some players may have validIC reasons, but most don't.  I try to make pk code as unobtrusive aspossible, with variable injury timers, or even the ability to justincapacitate your opponent and leave, for those of you who really don't wantto annoy people.  But you have to remember at all times that this mud is setin the Buffyverse, and in the Buffyverse, slayers kill vampires, andvampires kill humans. Players are largely responsible for whether or not this feels like aBuffymud or just another gothic mud with vampires.  It's up to you to givethe vampires something to fear, to make them more careful in their hunts.It's up to you to stop them ending the world, just like it's up to the evilplayers to stop the slayers, and run their evil schemes.  PK is a tool wegive you to carry out the IC actions of your characters.  PK is not theenemy of good RP, it's a tool of good RP. Say you're might be out on a date, and you get jumped by a vampire whotrashes your plans.  You might say "Hey! That PK nut just ruined my RP!"In response, I'd say go watch 'never kill a boy on the first date.' IfBuffy is about anything, it's about the supernatural world screwing up yourattempts to have a normal life.  And furthermore, it hasn't ruined your RP,it's just changed your rp.  Your characters best laid plans will often goawry, just like in the show or real life.  It's up to you to take that newdevelopment and roleplay the consequences.  Often RP going awry leads to amuch better, more interesting plot than you never would have though of. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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