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Post by sneakingyoda on Jun 22, 2006 14:40:40 GMT -5
Alignment Game:
Taking candy from a baby.
This is something that could be both amusing and enlightening for me. The object of this game is simple- A person will need to take candy- a cherry lollipop (if you need details) from a small innocent child.
Go through the Alignments and give me what YOU think the alignments would do to accomplish this goal- and why they would do it. Make it amusing if you wish.
The reason why I’m interested in your reply? Simple, alignments are written clearly in the player’s guidebook- but we all role-play them slightly differently. I want to see how you would personally handle the situation. Indulge me.
LG- Take the candy? Are you nuts? hmmm. I better stand here and guard this child from any candy thieves and law breakers. She’s so innocent looking.
NG- Clearly, that child is too young for the candy, and could choke on it. I’ll ask the child to hand over the candy- or to throw it away themselves. Er…. who’s that proud looking fellow guarding the child with the candy? Right- you know what? not my problem. I’ll be right over here… Buying my own candy. hmmmm Candy.
CG- How could that child be eating that candy in front of other candy starved children? And who’s the dude with the sword guarding the kid? With a little distraction, I could snatch up his coin purse and buy all the children candy with his money. Looks like he has more than enough anyway.
LN- Oh look, candy- with a baby. Isn’t it funny the way the other children pine for the candy because they- HEY! That guy just stole your money pouch!
TN- *some dude over by the fountain watches the candy display unfold. He merely nods mysteriously* Ah .. the balance is complete.
CN- Well that was fun to watch until that idiot alerted the other idiot about his money. Hmm. But then again. *Steals the money pouch of the LN character while they are all distracted, and whispers to the kid with the candy.* Psst. Run for it while you can.
LE- Well clearly there is a lot to be gained by this situation. I think I’ll have the two obvious thieves arrested, so I can use them for questioning later- maybe even pay their bail so they will owe me favors. *rubs his chin* and then, I might just use this whole candy fight as leverage against the local duke. I think I’ll have to take the kid’s candy too- as evidence.
NE- I hate aristocrats. *walks up to the kid and takes the candy away.* YOUR WEAK! this is life! get used to it. Besides- look at all the trouble you caused, you little twit. *Sucks on the candy with a smirk.*
CE- *fireball* Oooh… Whats this? Candy?
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Post by heimdall on Jun 22, 2006 18:24:19 GMT -5
LG - "Ho there youngling...candy is bad for your teeth!" *takes the candy from the baby* "Now, where is your negligent mother?"
CE - "Kick the baay-bie!"
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Post by DM Grizwald on Jun 22, 2006 19:26:11 GMT -5
Alignment Game: Taking candy from a baby. This is something that could be both amusing and enlightening for me. The object of this game is simple- A person will need to take candy- a cherry lollipop (if you need details) from a small innocent child. Go through the Alignments and give me what YOU think the alignments would do to accomplish this goal- and why they would do it. Make it amusing if you wish. The reason why I’m interested in your reply? Simple, alignments are written clearly in the player’s guidebook- but we all role-play them slightly differently. I want to see how you would personally handle the situation. Indulge me. LG- Take the candy? Are you nuts? hmmm. I better stand here and guard this child from any candy thieves and law breakers. She’s so innocent looking. NG- Clearly, that child is too young for the candy, and could choke on it. I’ll ask the child to hand over the candy- or to throw it away themselves. Er…. who’s that proud looking fellow guarding the child with the candy? Right- you know what? not my problem. I’ll be right over here… Buying my own candy. hmmmm Candy. CG- How could that child be eating that candy in front of other candy starved children? And who’s the dude with the sword guarding the kid? With a little distraction, I could snatch up his coin purse and buy all the children candy with his money. Looks like he has more than enough anyway. LN- Oh look, candy- with a baby. Isn’t it funny the way the other children pine for the candy because they- HEY! That guy just stole your money pouch! TN- *some dude over by the fountain watches the candy display unfold. He merely nods mysteriously* Ah .. the balance is complete. CN- Well that was fun to watch until that idiot alerted the other idiot about his money. Hmm. But then again. *Steals the money pouch of the LN character while they are all distracted, and whispers to the kid with the candy.* Psst. Run for it while you can. LE- Well clearly there is a lot to be gained by this situation. I think I’ll have the two obvious thieves arrested, so I can use them for questioning later- maybe even pay their bail so they will owe me favors. *rubs his chin* and then, I might just use this whole candy fight as leverage against the local duke. I think I’ll have to take the kid’s candy too- as evidence. NE- I hate aristocrats. *walks up to the kid and takes the candy away.* YOUR WEAK! this is life! get used to it. Besides- look at all the trouble you caused, you little twit. *Sucks on the candy with a smirk.* CE- *fireball* Oooh… Whats this? Candy? Thats pretty much how i would play each one |
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Post by Panros on Jun 23, 2006 11:19:57 GMT -5
As a chaotic good character I would not play robin hood and steal the coin purse and purchase candy for everyone. I would most likely take the candy and break it into pieces so that every kid has one. After all, I would be doing what I think would be right and technically I've done nothing wrong and done all the right things for the community.
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Post by Aodhan the Unusual on Jun 23, 2006 11:42:11 GMT -5
Lesse... From my main character's point of view I would...
Look at the situation carefully, figure out which would be more profitable - stealing the coin purse, stealing the candy, or both. Then I'd sell the "guardian" false information on a bunch of theives that had passed, take his purse as he leaves, then swipe the candy and eat it happily as I walked away.
However, my alternate characters would:
Chirp and tilt her head in curiosity at the whole ordeal not sure of what to make of it.
Hope the child chokes so it can be raised as another undead minion for the future army.
Shrug and wonder why everyone's so interested in this kid with this particular candy.
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Post by Markal Bakienr on Jun 25, 2006 15:20:48 GMT -5
I though NE were more of a secretive, hey I'll help you with that then opps you fell and ruined your candy, and oh my your coins are gone too.*You of course had tripped the brat, and as he fell skillfull plunder his/her's coins, hiding them where no one would look.* All the while making sure he thinks your his one true friend. That at least how I always saw NE as, like the false friend or cheaping girlfriend that sneaks around your back all the while showing your love and loyality to your face but behind the scenes is breaking your trust and ruining your life.
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Post by Pookey on Jun 26, 2006 18:59:28 GMT -5
Here goes. Pretty off the cuff without deep thought, though:
LG: That candy can't be good for that baby. Well, endangering a child is illegal. Officer! That baby could choke on that candy! You should take it away before it chokes. Here's a nice little piece of chocolate pudding to replace it! Nice baby.
LN: That child could choke on that candy. Endangering a child is illegal. Officer! That baby could choke on that candy! You should take it away and press charges against the parents for endangering the child.
LE: Mmm. Candy! I want that candy. Well, it is illegal to endanger a child, and it could choke on that candy! Officer! That baby could choke on that candy! You should take it away and press charges against the parents.
And so your honor, that is why I should be allowed to take charge of the child until the parents get out of jail for endangering it.
Gimme that candy, kid! Mmm. That tastes good!
NG: Hey, that baby could choke on that candy. *looks around for a law officer* Well, no one around so I'll have to take care of it myself. *takes the candy* Here's a nice chocolate pudding, little baby. You won't choke on that.
TN: Hey that baby has candy. Mmm. Candy. Gimme that! Well, it could have choked, right? I was doing it a favor!
NE: Candy. I want it. *looks around for a cop* Oh well, I'll just take it myself. Gimme that!
CG: Ooo, candy. Hey kid, how about I trade you this chocolate pudding for it? No? How about two? Great. Thanks!
CN: Where can I get some candy? Hey, that kid has some! Should I take it? Hmmm. Why not? The kid chould choke on that! I'll drop a coin in his mom's purse to make up for it. Whatever. Oh wait, I don't have any money. Oh well, I'll get them something nice later maybe.
CE: Ooo. I want that candy. Hey kid, look a dragon! *takes the candy and walks away quickly*
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Post by DM the Usurper on Jun 26, 2006 19:54:01 GMT -5
I would just eat the baby holding the candy
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Post by soulfien on Jun 26, 2006 20:17:40 GMT -5
Neutral Evil: Break a piece off and cause the kid to choke on it. Then walk away with the rest of the candy. Thus, no one suspects the kid even lost the candy.
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Post by Foomanchu on Jun 27, 2006 16:53:59 GMT -5
I would just eat the baby holding the candy HAHAHA you stole my idear  why not 'Take baby from a candy' |
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Post by Markal Bakienr on Jun 27, 2006 18:34:59 GMT -5
I like the way you said it Soulfien... mine was a little drawn out. By the way I think I have a book your mine like, contact me if you'd like to see it I could send you a scanned copy.
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Post by dogface on Nov 30, 2006 16:03:45 GMT -5
LG: Candy is bad for children. For their own good, we must keep it from them. For the greater good, these poor, uneducated children must be required to abstain from candy. They might undergo some temporary unhappiness, but they will thank us for it later. Likewise, children MUST be taught to share, so even if they get candy, they must be required to share it, or they will become nothing but selfish, chaotic monsters.
NG: So long as the candy isn't hurting the kid, why on earth would I take it away from the poor guy? I mean, it's not like the kid stole it, right? Okay, so his brother would like some, so maybe I can explain to him how it would be better to share, so both of them would be happy. Me, I'm a big boy, I can get my own candy.
CG: What kind of fascist, totalitarian FREAK would take candy away from a kid to teach him how to "share" or because it's "bad" for him. If the kid's happy with candy, LET HIM BE HAPPY, you police-state lunatics! If he doesn't want to share, well, that's not the best thing, but what do we teach a kid really when we try to make him "be good"? I'll tell you what we teach him, we teach him that it all just comes down to naked POWER. All these do-gooders who go around making us "be good" whether we want to or not really end up causing more evil than the worst demon in the pits! FREE THE CANDY KIDS!
LN: So long as it isn't acquired illegally, there's little problem--of course, we'll have to get him to share it with others. The good of the many outweighs the good of the few.
TN: Darn, I wish I had some candy, well I'm not starving to death, so I'm not getting involved.
CN: Let's see, if I can just distract the little sot, a quick snatch and I'm out of his sight in no time at all--ooh, a puppy! I'm gonna pet the--let's ride a bike--butterflies!
LE: I think it's time to engineer an "inspection" of the confectioner, a little palm-greasing should ensure a confiscation in my favor.
NE: I want candy, I will take it. Smack down the kid if he complains. Look out for guards.
CE: I like candy, candy candy candy. I like children. Children are my candy.
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Post by ShadowCatJen on Nov 30, 2006 16:14:23 GMT -5
Ha! You know what this entire thread is suddenly reminding me of? The now infamous journal in Resident Evil that you read that ends with:
"Itchy. Tasty."
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Post by vercingettorix on Nov 30, 2006 16:53:34 GMT -5
AWESOME!!! *laughs* That entry made me laugh for hours...
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Post by Munroe on Dec 1, 2006 0:17:50 GMT -5
The dog keeper's journal.
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Post by tskfrc58 on Dec 2, 2006 4:07:35 GMT -5
CE: replace the candy with a nice pudding. White, brown, or dun. Maybe a custard...did i say custard? Whoops i meant MUSTARD pudding.Barring pudding , maybe gelatin...ous cube. Barring any of those, submersing the candy in a nice bath of caustic green slime...then go find the kid's parents and sell them life insurance...at swordpoint...so that the same thing doesnt happen to them. And then do it anyway.
LE: Hire that guy^--- then have him set the house on fire, destroying all the evidence. Except a carefully placed corpse of a local guard. I could then use that, plus a few other well placed...and paid...operatives to orchestrate the overthrow of the local ruling authority for ineptitude and failure to protect the people. I would then enact a few new ordnances banning consumption of all candy unless it was approved by my new food and alchemy organization. The FAO would then take the time to lace all candy products with a new alchemical solution designed, by my hand, to create an overwhelming dependancy,and turn the users slowly into zombies. these zombies would,of course,answer to my every whim, as their brains turn to mush, their assets turn into my assets, and the candy spreads in popularity to all of cormyr...
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Post by marklar on Dec 2, 2006 4:53:44 GMT -5
LE: Hire that guy^--- then have him set the house on fire, destroying all the evidence. Except a carefully placed corpse of a local guard. I could then use that, plus a few other well placed...and paid...operatives to orchestrate the overthrow of the local ruling authority for ineptitude and failure to protect the people. I would then enact a few new ordnances banning consumption of all candy unless it was approved by my new food and alchemy organization. The FAO would then take the time to lace all candy products with a new alchemical solution designed, by my hand, to create an overwhelming dependancy,and turn the users slowly into zombies. these zombies would,of course,answer to my every whim, as their brains turn to mush, their assets turn into my assets, and the candy spreads in popularity to all of cormyr... *finishes writting* great tips, thanks! *evil laugh* candy anyone? |
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Post by TermaForever on Dec 5, 2006 17:18:42 GMT -5
CN: "I'm taking your candy cause its tuesday, kid."
LE: Gets a law passed saying he can take candy from a baby then does such.
CE: Takes the candy, impales the kid with his sword, then flings his little body on a roof four miles away before doing terrible things to the mother, nuking the city, and remembering he doesn't like cherry lollypops.
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Post by Paragon on Dec 7, 2006 4:51:19 GMT -5
I think that the first part of the alignment is method, and the second part is intention. Therefore each alignment would take the candy from the baby for different reasons, but essentially with only a couple of different methods.
Methods
Lawful characters would probably try to convince the mother, somehow, that the candy should be taken from the child, and if that failed, would seek to have the system changed so that they could legally remove said candy from the child's possession.
Neutral/- characters would probably try to convince the mother as well, but that failing would resort to force/theft to remove the candy from the child's possession.
Chaotic characters would probably seize the candy as soon as they could do so without immediate repercussions.
Intentions
Good characters would probably take the candy for some altruistic reason, such as, "candy is a horrible addiction, it must be removed from the child or he'll have all kind of problems later on in life," or "the fate of this city depends on me getting that candy away from this baby!"
-/Neutral characters would probably take the candy from the baby for some self serving purpose, such as "damn, I skipped breakfast, and this fat kid has candy that I could be eating," or "If I don't make my candy gathering quota by the end of the week, the boss will have my hide!"
Evil characters would take the candy basically to cause suffering in the child or the mother, and the thought process would be something like, "Nobody understands my pain, everyone hates me, and this stupid brat is flaunting his candy in my face," or "I am completely superior to all of the worms in this city, and should be allowed to take candy from anyone I please!"
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Post by Theo on Dec 8, 2006 23:20:55 GMT -5
Lawful: Go on a rant about "BACK IN THE DAY, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY FANCY CANDY." After a few hours of talking about how spoiled the child is, and how unhealthy he is for eating candy, and how he shouldn't be eating candy before dinner, the baby will hand it over out of guilt.
Neutral: Take the candy from the baby, then when the mother objects that you stole candy from her baby, says in an incredibly droning, apathetic voice, "I don't care." The mother and baby will both be too depressed to object any further, and the guy will walk away and probably not even bother to eat the candy, saying "what's the point?" before tossing it away.
Chaotic: Blatantly steals the candy from the baby. Nothing clever about it.
Good: Convinces the child to donate the candy to less fortunate children.
Evil: Let the baby keep the candy because it's candy corn, knowing when he tastes it he'll be afraid of candy for the rest of his life.
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Post by ♥Zach♥ on Dec 9, 2006 21:53:31 GMT -5
But not to say an Alignment will act exactly how the the definition of the alignment will be. You can have a Lawful Good man who never questions orders, always carries out the good law of the land. But not to say he can make a Chaotic Good action?  Lets say he ignores his lawful nature enough to let the child have the candy? |
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Post by SamuraiGoat on Dec 9, 2006 23:08:09 GMT -5
Lawful Stupid: Baby has candy. Candy is bad. Baby must be bad. Smite baby.
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Post by ♥Zach♥ on Dec 9, 2006 23:28:46 GMT -5
*Smacks head sidways on the wall* Chotic Stupid: Chocolate Milk! *throws brick at the Lawful Stupid*
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Post by RevelationMD on Dec 10, 2006 6:57:10 GMT -5
Hi all!! My very post and I thought I'd throw my 2pence in (yes I'm from the UK)...
To me, alignment has just been a two word way of describing a persons personality. I tend to try and think up a personality for a character then think which two words of the given 9 options best describes that personality.
In my experience, the description is very rarely a perfect fit.
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Post by Theo on Dec 10, 2006 13:07:04 GMT -5
*Smacks head sidways on the wall* Chotic Stupid: Chocolate Milk! *throws brick at the Lawful Stupid* Theo invented chocolate milk on FRC. |
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Post by Munroe on Dec 11, 2006 0:39:32 GMT -5
*Smacks head sidways on the wall* Chotic Stupid: Chocolate Milk! *throws brick at the Lawful Stupid* Theo invented chocolate milk on FRC. This is an aside to the topic but... Chocolate milk was sold on FRC before Theo ever started playing here. It is sold in several taverns around Cormyr under the name Cocoa. |
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Post by Theo on Dec 11, 2006 18:10:18 GMT -5
Theo invented chocolate milk on FRC. This is an aside to the topic but... Chocolate milk was sold on FRC before Theo ever started playing here. It is sold in several taverns around Cormyr under the name Cocoa. Lawful: I guess I should just admit I'm wrong. Chaos: Guess I'm going to have to kill every person who saw/knew about this before anyone else says I wasn't the first to invent chocolate milk. |
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Post by Driderman on Dec 11, 2006 18:19:20 GMT -5
This is an aside to the topic but... Chocolate milk was sold on FRC before Theo ever started playing here. It is sold in several taverns around Cormyr under the name Cocoa. Lawful: I guess I should just admit I'm wrong. Chaos: Guess I'm going to have to kill every person who saw/knew about this before anyone else says I wasn't the first to invent chocolate milk. Neutral: Claim that it was your idea first and you should at least have royalties from whoever sells the stuff. Evil: Kill the sod who beat you to it and take over his business. Lawful Evil: Secretly have documents created that prove that you have the sole rights to chocolate milk sales, predating your competitors and put them out of business, post a claim for reimbursement and bankrupt then, hopefully forcing them into indentured servitude at your chocolate milk factory at lousy, next to non-existing wages. Gloat. |
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Post by SlothfulCat on Dec 12, 2006 8:17:06 GMT -5
LG: Drink the chocolate milk while everyone else fights over it and tell the kid with the candy that this is why you should put others before yourself and seek not wealth but a modest lifestyle sharing youre excess with more unfortunate ones... like people who dont have candy.
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Post by max on Dec 13, 2006 21:36:44 GMT -5
LG: Dear Gods, this baby is going to choke on that candy! *takes the candy* calm child, for i have saved your life today *gets candy stolen by CG person*
CG:*Takes candy without LG person knowing and is talking to the baby, then decides to give said candy to other baby, and goes and finds a rich baby and takes it's candy*
CE:*takes the candy from the baby, then shoots the baby with a crossbow bolt pointblank*
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why not 'Take baby from a candy'
Lets say he ignores his lawful nature enough to let the child have the candy?
