Leri wrote: In reading through the Afterlife and other forums, I stumbled upon the concept of imm deletion several times. I tried looking for guidelines on the matter in the helpfiles, but haven't been able to find anything on it so far.
Prolly not mentioned much in Afterlife, as most people don't exactly brag about having gotten their character deleted.
Leri wrote: I wondered if someone could explain what exactly constitutes an imm deletion? Is it an IC or an OOC act? As in, is it the god that 'permanently kills' said character, or is it the admin behind the god that does the deleting? Is it done purely for IC reasons, purely for OOC reasons, or a bit of both?
When a character is deleted for a breach of the rules, it is entirely an ooc action. Even when a penalty for rule-breaking doesn't go as far as deletion (but is more along the lines of an XP penalty, levels being taken, forced adjective changes, loss of skills or spells, etc.), it is still entirely ooc. Those who try to take things like this and make up stories about how a particular god did this to them ICly run the risk of having that god then face them down ICly and doing worse to them at that point. No holds barred, in other words.
Leri wrote: The reason I ask is I'm trying to figure out the roleplay guidelines on the matter. There seems to be a lot of scorn on here towards characters setting themselves up for trouble/being unfavoured by their god(s) - which is a little new to me, since I always thought it a vital part of religious roleplay. IC punishments, disfavors, taking away privileges - all that I can understand. But I guess I've just always seen a deletion as a strictly OOC decision...
There is generally not scorn for those who inadvertently find themselves in trouble with their god ICly. It happens, after all. Characters are human (or mortal, shall we say) with mortal frailties and are not perfect, and the RP that can be derived from such an instance is often some of the best in the game.
The scorn generally comes in for those players who are known to be unable to play a character without having said character fail in their duties to their god and to do so in a spectacular fashion. (They've just done it so many times that it's come to be expected.) That's all.
Leri wrote: How should one roleplay for example a friend's permanent deletion? Is it treated as an IC godly act? Or is it ascribed to murder/suicide/one of the ususal 'excuses' used when a character deletes?
Generally, you can RP it as if they're simply...gone. How would you RP it if they just never logged on again and you didn't know why? *shrugs* "He went missing a while back." "I've not seen him in a while." "I wonder where so-and-so disappeared to."
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