I'm sure everyone has dealt with this at least once, if not more. You approach a group and ask them if you can roleplay with them for a while. They accept with open arms and that's great....only where did they go?
Realize I am not talking about situations where your own character's behavior (or even your behavior OOC) may be provoking people into running off/not wanting to RP with you, I'm talking about people who either you ask them or they ask you to RP and their character does not linger long enough to give you really much time to interact with them.
Now, I know that some characters are simply like this. They don't want interaction, they want your character to go away and that is fine. However, if you have a character like that and want to RP with somebody, you need to give the other person a little more wiggle room EVENTUALLY to DO or SAY something... otherwise, its not roleplaying. Its sitting on opposite ends of the map role playing with yourself and that defeats the purpose of inviting someone else to RP.
I have plenty of characters myself that would rather climb to the top of Ascension Island just to avoid talking to someone but even they have their breaking points. Usually the way most players get around dealing with their anti-social characters....well...anti-socialness is tiring them out. Hey, everyone has to sleep sometime right? Or they create an excuse about waiting to meet someone in that very place so that they /can't/ leave. Things like that.
These little add-ons may seem pointless but they really do help the person you are role playing with. Because lets face it, no one is going to be really enthusiastic about role playing with anyone who's character, anti-social or not (as I have seen some completely social characters do this too! Why? I don't know.) if every conversation or interaction made two-posts in ends up with your character leaving to some unreachable or difficult to reach location or going out of range.
Some of us don't always have nosey or persistant characters who are willing to chase another around the map inquiring about why they're upset and moody. In fact, most of mine would probably do what most normal human beings would and just shrug it off and go find something more interesting to do, but /that/ does not make a roleplay. I personally find these situations extremely frustrating, to the point I just don't feel like RPing with someone who is going to do that consistently for the entire RP. You asked me to roleplay, not play tag. What do you guys think? Is this kind of behavior acceptable all of the time? Frustrating? Perfectly fine? What are your thoughts?
