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Rules aren't for everybody. One day, once you've got something worth taking, you'll be paid a visit. A man will come, probably not alone, and he'll ask for a taste of what you've got. You're a man yourself and you say no, of course. We all say no. But the wolf comes prepared for a negotiation. Usually it's a tire iron to the knees, or brass knuckles to the face, or vice versa - whatever works. A beatdown, something that'll sting for a while; something to remember him by. With a sour little taste of what the alternative is, you're guaranteed to remember exactly what he wants from you. An eye swollen shut, you look up at his ugly mug, and you think to yourself: "Shit. I had coffee with this guy the other day. Our kids go to the same school. How does he get away with this?" Easily. When the wolf is done with you, he wears your skin and blends in with the crowd. He drives home, kisses his wife hello, and relaxes in front of the TV or his PC or what-have-you. For a short while, much like yourself, all he's got to worry about is his family and his bills. But tomorrow's another day. And unless you've got his taste, it might be your last.

Joseph Muharib Nero

"How do I get noticed?" We get that question a lot. The motives differ (getting invited, getting promoted, et cetera), but the bottom line of the question is always the same. So what's the answer? We all have our self-indulgent reasons for why we got into role-play in the first place. We all started off with our fancy dialogue and /me lines serving only as an avenue to getting into car chases, shooting people, or looking cool on screenshots of a big drug deal. If you want to get ahead in this particular faction, you're going to want to bury that self-indulgence. At least a little bit. Let me explain. You all enjoy books and movies and TV shows, right? There's so many out there about exactly the kinds of things you are interested in, and yet, you only truly enjoy a few of them. Why is that? Think about all the reasons why you love those pieces of narrative media and try to apply them to your role-play, because that too is a piece of narrative media. Or rather, what I'm saying here, is that it can be. It often isn't. Which is a shame. So what do you (we) like? Character development. Realistic down-to-earth dialogue. The occasional twist and turn. Immersive descriptions of characters and their surroundings. Almost anybody can write or film a shootout or a drug deal. It takes a master of his craft to make his audience give a shit about it. When you write, do it to entertain the reader, not yourself. Any fool can masturbate. P.S. I'm not even saying that we've made it to that point yet, ourselves. We haven't. But I'd like to think we're well on our way.

You might have to prepare for a long riot.