<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=90903.msg4157858#msg4157858">Quote from: NicciKotor on 20-01-2011, 23:01:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Can't we just assume that we all know each other now with the morning coming along, and just move on? I am still deeply confused as to who is doing what and where, and a fresh start would be fantastic.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It can be assumed, but not by me - it's not my place to do the assuming.<br/><br/>My advice, since you mentioned in your last two OOC posts about being confused about what's going on, is to try to participate more in-character rather than metagame. For example:<br/><br/>- At the very outset of the campaign, your character was clearly annoyed to be in a temple and wondering what she was doing there. Yet in the recruitment thread I had stated it would start in a temple, and even listed a half-dozen reasons a char might be there. Posts like that simply tell me that 1. you hate the RP concept (which is fine, but why join?) or 2. you insisted on playing a character that makes no sense being in he opening scenario.<br/><br/>(Sometimes roleplaying creativity means NOT doing/having that which is most archetypical of your character - explaining why they're in a temple even though they hate temples bitterly, etc.)<br/><br/>- Now your character is wondering why they were there 'til the morning. I asked days ago if staying 'til morning was okay with people.<br/><br/>Your character just seems perpetually....frustrated? mad at the world?...and her thoughts are essentially meta - "I have no reason for being here, I'm just here cuz the DM said so." My advice is, think of reasons. (That's basically what roleplaying means. Explaining why your character does what they do, rather than having them on metagame pilot).<br/><br/>C28's suggestions above are good ones - why don't you play up that angle, have her mention that she wants to join the others b/c fighting a dragon sounds like a challenge she wants to give herself, etc. (Also IMO she's probably Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Evil, not Chaotic Good.)<br/><br/>Again, doesn't have to be done in real time, or stated explicitly - the point is that, *you* should know what's going on in your character's head and be able to explain why she does the things she does, like hang around the others. When you have her think to herself "I just stayed at a boring house all day and night with no reason", you're essentially just telling me you don't think your character has any reason to be going along with the others / in the RP (and that you're metagaming /  feeling forced to metagame to avoid dropping).<br/><br/>If so, that's fine! I hate to railroad players! (So my suggestion would be either to think of a reason she *would* be there, or have her wander off and make up a new character with a compatible personality and life goals, or to drop.)