Loosing is fun: The story dump thread (Aka the R.R.Martin thread)

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Introduction
Welcome to the ''Loosing is Fun'' project. This thread serves as a subsection for everyone's character stories. This opening post serves only to explain the general idea and posting guidelines. Again, everyone is welcome to post their stories here, be it post by post or multiple ones in one. Remember, we do have a skype chat for those who wish to collaborate on their stories, so simply PM me if you want to be added to it. Joining the ''group'' is not required for you to post in this thread!


Guidelines
The general gist behind this group is to realize and accept, that losing is fun, that your characters, however the game mechanics say otherwise, are not, in fact, immortal. There are many ways to play the part, but there are a few simple notes to keep in mind:

First of all
All characters are closed-economy characters. What does that mean? It means, once you create a character, you may not draw cash from other characters to fund it. In other words, all the credits you make in order to make progress must be made on that ship alone. Using restarts and then using the money you get from selling the CSV is allowed and encouraged.

Secondly
Loss of ship or character. This part is purely based on your preferred level of challenge. I personally like to accept the character's demise with the death of their ship. But I am sure not many would like the same, especially with potential non-RP dangers such as rule breakers, tradelane deaths as well as more rare and obscure mishaps. If you think that an instant death is too much, simply use a ''/dice 100'' command upon death and decide if your character does or does not survive the explosion, are they tractored and taken hostage, or does their escape pod make it to the closest station.

I died, now what?
Long or short, your poor character lived an interesting life. Post it. It can be a CNN sort of report about a lethal battle or accident, a simple character biography text, a black box recording, screenshots, rage comics, it does not really matter. Just show us what happened and try again. If you are using the dice to determine if your character dies or not, in the event that he survives, remember that he needs credits for a new ship. Change the ship accordingly.

Keeping tabs on statistics for fun!
Your character name, affiliation and location of the death, total ingame time, number of ships flown, total money made, number of battles, encounters, favorite brand of underpants. It can all be added in the end of your post as a little oorp bonus for the enthusiasts.






Any suggestions?

Yus.
First of all, I advise against making your character into a dedicated miner. Not only it kills the experience, it also means that you have a larger chance of losing the character very quickly. But again, it is up to you.

Petty pirates, spies, explorers, junkers, scouts or just simple civilians. All of such small ideas can be played out quite well. All you need to do is try.






Post away.

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