Audacious

Myriad Reality

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Yeah... this thing is starting to sound more complicated than I was thinking it was gonna be.

@Nimda

Don’t let it overwhelm you though. Is anything every as simple as you think when you’re going into it brand new?

Myriad Reality

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Right, like if there’s an earthquake or something. Disasters and all that. I don’t think I’m equipped to try to save people in any situation.

@Nimda

No I fully get what you’re saying. I still call it being a hero because that’s really what it is. There’s a lot to know, and a lot of disasters can happen in worlds unfamiliar to you, where nature can have some different rules, and people could have different needs. That’s all I’m saying.

Myriad Reality

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Sorry, maybe there’s a misunderstanding. I don’t want to be a hero.

@Nimda

Rescue work, right?

Myriad Reality

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both.

@Warwick

I can’t give generalized advice, but my advice for here? Be proactive in the interaction. Bring your characters to other characters. Maintain a conversation. And give some back and forth. Put yourself in a position to learn about the characters yours is speaking to, and naturally the opposite will happen, in a fluid flow of conversation. My experience outside MR is minimal, but MR is all about the cross-player interaction, and not a lot takes off without it.

In building a rapport with fellow rpers, I imagine this is also true to a heavy degree in the rest of the guild too.

Myriad Reality

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Where I’m from, we had things like fire departments and such, which even accepted volunteers.

@Nimda

Sounds very specialized. Not, like, doing anything much more than saving people from fire. When you sign up for hero work, in a society with a vast number of different species of people, you have to know how to save properly anywhere, anytime, and based on specific biological needs that some species may have that others don’t. And that’s just surface level.

Myriad Reality

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It wouldn’t be, like, on the job?

@Nimda

A lot of times you get full years of college for that sort of thing. Unless you’re really good at what you do.

Myriad Reality

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So, this is sort of my first dip into any job stuff. But every job trains you, right?

@Nimda

If you find someone to. The IA is fortunate enough to have institutions that do that sort of thing, so you’re lucky.

Myriad Reality

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Right, that would be tough. I could try clearing the rocks one-by-one at max speed.

@Nimda

Do you have a lot of experience in rescue heroics?

Myriad Reality

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For regular stuff, yeah. Not the speed I’d need to pull them out of a closed building, if that’s even possible.

@Nimda

The specific idea I was thinking of was someone caught in an avalanche. It kinda just works one way, unless you're just moving rocks at the speed of light too.

Myriad Reality

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Yeah, I don’t really know all the mechanics of it yet, but that’s part of why I wanted to do disaster stuff. It would come in handy.

@Nimda

Could other people handle the kind of speed you’d be using like that?