By Grease Coakes
A friend of mine Inhandra Birdsong told me that when she
wasn’t in Second Life for a while that she was on under a different name in a
roleplaying sim. I actually found this out when Aurora Avila asked where she
was. When I IMed Inhandra and told her that, she told me about Cadair, the
roleplaying sim she role-plays at.
What’s Cadair? It’s a medieval roleplaying sim that takes
lots of patience, but the patience can be rewarding as you role-play a
character in a medieval magical environment. I put together an old B@R clothes
set and some bow and arrow props to make myself look like a ranger type of
character which would mesh well with my green Tokushi griffin avatar.
New to roleplaying? Not to worry the players there will
assist you to craft your roleplaying into a richer part of everyone’s addition
to the roleplay experience. Furries and humans are both welcome as I ran into
both human characters and furries. The first character I ran into was a mute
woman named Birala when I role-played that I was new to Cadair as a ranger
searching for a “Bow of Destiny.” Even if with her name above her head I
pretended I didn’t know her name. She invited me to her house using hand
motions. Each motion of explaining what your character is doing is about a
paragraph or two so there’s lots of typing involved. Later she told me her name
through a scroll she handed to me from her belt.
She was helpful to me reminding me to use quotation marks
when I spoke to make it clear what I was saying and doing were kept separate.
Very quickly I improved as my adventure began in Cadair. I role-played along
helping her prepare fish and eel that she brought home with her. She got upset
with me, gesturing when I chopped up too many vegetables for her stew. I stopped
helping her and went to the table instead. She told me of demons to the west to
be careful of. I asked her about the "Bow of Destiny" I was hunting for as part
of my character story. She had no idea shaking her head no.
The Bow of Destiny as I explained in RP “Would let the
clumsiest farmer or the most skilled archer hit any target without fail.”
Birala ventured away to Real Life having to leave the sim so I wandered around
some more running into merlin and some child characters. Then a minotaur walked
over asking me to accompany her to the infirmary. She asked for my allegiance
to the land of Cadair. Playing along I said sure that I may find the Bow of
Destiny helping the land.
Walking along with Vilge the Minotaur I walked into some
more people talking about demons and other things. Vilge who crashed requested
that I tag along to help her something. Learning the hard way I found out this
was a bad idea. Read along and find out why.
Following Vilge for a short walk she led me to an
underground cave which happened to be the warded moonpool of werewolves! Wait
werewolves? In my character’s words “If there was a mad cow disease its name
would be Vilge for leading me here. “
I roleplay myself jumping on to a ledge and shooting the
alpha werewolf in his shoulder, but instead his mate Violet takes the arrow
instead. Next the child named Saliu next to me morphs into a werewolf (WAIT she
was a werewolf? I didn’t know that she was) and she pins me to the ground. Luckily for me her clan mates bite her ear to
get her off of me. All I had was an arm bruise wound.
To make this interesting, the minotaur character was called
away for business and the same for the alpha werewolf character named Maral. I
roleplayed action with the remaining characters, however Vilge comes back and
asks technical questions. Luckily my actions were valid and Vilge did nothing
so my actions were not voided. A RP overseer, like a dungeon master, came by and
ruled in my favor.
When Maral came back as well, we continued the roleplay to me
being led to a firepit. Saliu seeing me was enraged again as I shot one of her
parents. Once again her clan mates intervened as I flew away, stating out of
character, then I flew far enough to escape their clutches. A lot of the
characters said I did a great job of paragraph roleplay for my first day in Cadair.
I was also told that having a RP overseer intervene is a rare occurrence. So it
was neat to see a RP issue handled first hand.
Looking for something new and exciting within Second Life?
Check out the Medieval roleplay sim Cadair. Just be patient with others and if
real life gets in the way there’s not much you can do about that.
Whatever you
do DON’T FOLLOW THE MINOTAUR!
Grease Coakes
