create their stories . It ’ s all co-dependent and this new person who just walked in is likely the fresh blood you ’ ve been wishing for . Instead of ignoring them , IM them , welcome them , ask if they need help of any kind even if it ’ s to create an avatar to help them live their RP dreams out with you and your community . The more we nurture these new people , the more role-players we bring back to the SL RP community and the better off we ’ ll all be !
Thwap Shwing Pew Pew
OK … if we ’ ve been around for more than five minutes , I ’ m sure we ’ ve all seen the battles with bows and arrows or guns , swords or other weapons . The ones that resemble a MMORPG computerized fight where everyone ’ s running around shooting at each other and finally someone goes down in a lovely little orb of shame , leaving them in a misshapen pile of pixels on the ground at the feet of the victor while a string of green spam flies uselessly around in the local chat so no one else around these players can get a quality role-play sentence in otherwise .
THIS , my friends , is what we refer to with the term , “ Pew Pew ”. It ’ s a metered fighting system that ’ s built into the weapons . The players are wearing HUDs that help keep track of who hit who harder , worse , more often or missed , and whose health points depleted first leaving them rendered the slain with victor gloating above them .
In some communities , this is common , but only in designated areas so that role-players can continue their stories elsewhere , usually within a city wall where their ava-
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