Suicide Missions

[naitome]

Just a random thought; figured i'd throw it out there.

Since (myself included) alot of people get bored of a particular character or get inspiration for a new character mid-way through role-playing but don't have any more scraps, the common way for people to get a legitimate death involves pestering cbox for someone to fight and kill you. Perhaps no one else is bothered by that, but...i figured maybe their's a way to circumvent boredom/rp/and not 'cheat' the system.

Suicide Missions, S Rank missions which a person can take by themselves, or (if they want, if GM's are willing) have GM'd for them by staff, wherein, you basically fight against impossible odds and are killed, but are allowed to role-play it out yourself.

For instance; I want to make a new character, but my current character is out of scraps.

I make a thread (Suicide Mission [closed][private]), and role-play out an S Rank mission from hell. (This is not to say something thats one paragraph...i'm talking about a legitimate S ranked mission, maybe 30 posts/2 pages or some such, where its understood that I won't survive). Mods would then be able to come into the thread, look over it, and decide if the role-play was sufficient to constitute an approved death.

or

I request that a GM oversee my Suicide Mission, they make the thread, and proceed to go absolutely bonkers with enemies and situations until they have successfully killed me.

I dunno...seems alot better than asking someone to kill you and pretending to really fight, or asking someone S-A rank to fight your D rank in a situation where you'll 99% of the time be killed, which is essentially suicide anyway. At least this way there'd be some sense of earning your death.

Suicide Missions could count as Regular Missions, Events, or be cataloged separately, depending on what the mods think is best.

Just a thought.
Curious to know what others think.

[zenoske1ryu]

Sounds like a pretty good idea to me.

[Elgar]

So lemme get this right. You would want to kill your character off anyway. But in a mission, without using a scarp, and getting a mission for it. Is that right?

[Naota]

ALLAHUAKBAR!

[zenoske1ryu]

Think he means more alone the lines of dying doing a mission trying in it, rather than going and having some half assed battle that you intend to lose.

[Corvus]

And logically, he'd only get the mission credit if they managed to survive and complete the mission. After all, if you die, your mission count is reduced to 0, or however many you need for your new character's rank.

Personally, I think this would be a good idea, only make it possible, albeit insanely difficult, to complete the mission. Think of it sorta like challenge mode missions in many video games. The odds are stacked so far against you it's not expected for you to survive, much less succeed. Metroid Other M's hardmode is a good example: All the enemies, with the exception of some of a few boss's attacks, do more damage then normal, AND there are no upgrades that aren't absolutely required to pass the game. I'm STILL stuck on Ridley because all but two of his attacks kill you in one hit.

I'm thinking that these 'Suicide Missions' should be more of a high risk/high reward situation, you have a miniscule chance of survival, never mind success, but if you do succeed, the payouts are worth it. Since the RPer would genuinely be RPing out their death in a grand fashion, it wouldn't count as a scrap as they simply don't fall off a cliff into a bed of spikes, but are instead fighting against the odds.

anywho, just my 2 ryo

[← KIRA →]

Well, considering the fact that it's impossible to take an S, A, or B rank mission unless you're the appropriate rank [ Chuunin, Jounin, or AnBu], this wouldn't work. Also, that may as well be counted as a scrap, since your point is to take the mission, and you have already stated it's for your death. Just go to an event or get someone to take you on a high rank mission.

@corvus: Why would it have a high reward if they WANT to die in it. Just get them to join a higher ranked mission with someone that's willing to take them on one.

There is no point in this kind of mission; join an event, get someone to take you on a high ranking mission, or go fight someone. It's not going to pass like that, though.

[奥田 (Okuda)]

The way I see it is: If you plan on dying, why hinder and risk another higher Rank shinobi by joining them on a high level mission that you plan on dying in? Sure the higher rank shinobi will most likely survive the thread and succeed, but still its an undue burden on the rest of the RPers, by having suicide missions, that are available to all shinobi if they are 100% certain they are ready to kill of the character should the RP turn out that way and they don't half ass the fight, will only draw down on two or even just ONE persons time for RPing with a mod or higher coming in and looking over to see if the death/success/survival is good enough to pass or what not. Again, these kinds of missions should only be locked in for people who are 100% willing to see their character live, but still fight it out and RP it legit and not half ass or just give up. But thats just my two cents.

[Kuro]

If you plan on dying and you want to die via roleplay, GO MISSING?? shit... If you go missing, your village will most likely hunt you down. Thus creating story for whomever hunts you and captures or kills you. Wambamthankyoumam.


But creating a suicide mission is.. Scrapping with more story behind some half assed post like hanging yourself cuz you ran out of milk for your cereal.

[Kyogi]

Kuro ninja'd me but yeah best way to get someone to kill you is go missing >_>

[Deleted]

At any point where you go about intending to die it should be (and generally is) counted as a scrap. I am fairly certain that this kind of idea has been brought up in the past and Heero has denied it. I seriously doubt this time will be any different.

[naitome]

Well, its nice to see that NFRP hasn't changed at all.

Why not just go missing? (1) Because there's an extremely low probability that anyone currently roleplaying in my village full of five whole people would even be capable of killing me (2) even if they were capable of killing me, 99% of people won't even take the chance unless they have a cushion of 5000 TP or so/ or they simply don't enter DE threads at all (3) the point behind the idea was centered around losing muse, not forcefully dragging someone into a storyline that I don't even have the inspiration to finish with a character that i'm fully willing to let die (4) that completely breaks the storyline established by most characters; the desire to scrap isn't a desire to completely erase all traces of the work and effort put into a character, but simply an acknowledgement that their particular story isn't mine to write anymore.

@ Kira: Then make it an event so it doesn't break any of the 1,000,000 convoluted rules of the site.


@ Kurenai: No. Instead of having 184 RP'ers search someone out to pretend fight them for half a round and ignore their godmodding just to be rid of a character they can no longer write for, i'm suggesting that we be allowed to write out our own deaths, in grandiose fashion, and receive a scrap for the fact that it was actually role-played in a thorough and hopefully interesting way. How epic would it be to read an ACTUAL death worthy of someone who might call themselves a ninja, as opposed to "Ryu walked out of the house and was attacked by a moth. He died." or some one sided fight between an S rank and a D Rank that makes absolutely no sense at all.? Very epic, that's how epic.

Nevermind. Somebody please lock this. I really forgot how things were here.

[Defiant]

Tears in your ears from laying on your back kicking and crying because NFRP's so mean to you.

Look at that, it's even in your signature; how cute.

But I'm not fully opposed to the general idea that good RP should get you scraps, but at the same time, what's the point of a good RP if you're not using that character anymore? People could just put out one last good RP, or a couple last ones just to get a scrap. We've already got people who incentive village jump, we don't really need another way to get around the three scrap rule.

Really though, we shouldn't be rewarding people for something they should be doing already, this is an RP site, you RP on it. I don't know about you, but I don't get any rewards for breathing other than the chance to continue that action and to do other stuff that requires me to breathe.

Anyway, click.

[Solus]

Want to die? Go to Snow and try to pull down the pants of a charry called 'Sekitan'.