JEDI Comport

Cerez Kay wrote:I've noticed that we've all really gone easy and fallen into an OOC habit of doing things out of boredom instead of living the lives of our characters, so I'm hoping that this will help to enlighten us how we can keep our characters human with their passion, personalities, and desires, but at the same time represent the more disciplined life of living in a Jedi monastery.

We are role-playing Jedi after all, and there should be a sense of respect and order in our monastery, even with the kids, no matter how immature, teenage, and impulsive they may be.

P.S. Even though we're having fun, we're not in a summer camp, after all. We're still living in a monastery of the Jedi Order, training to take a responsible role in protecting life, peace and justice in the galaxy as insightful and competent Jedi Knights.

Cael Dan’kor wrote:I see JEDI like a stage or theatre.
Imagine you're watching a theatre production and all of a sudden in the corner there are like three or four characters doing nonsense in the corner
while there's a scene going on

Cerez Kay wrote:We should focus our efforts on expanding on our role-playing world through our characters' eyes. Role-playing *is* fun -- that's why we have this community in the first place. There are so many interesting stories we can come up with.

Personally, I love the challenges of making an unruly child understand and learn the ways of the Jedi -- but that's my perspective, coming from my character's personality. There are of course a gazillion other ways to create exciting role-plays in a Jedi monastery.

Aslyn Denethorn wrote:For reference, I was a Padawan at a time when there weren't a lot of active Knights and Masters - they were around, but not nearly as much as Knights are nowadays. When our Masters were around, we focused on our training - the rest of the time, we focused on our RP, because we had to make a lot of it ourselves.

Cerez Kay wrote:I thought I'd share this source of inspiration in hope that together we can create a more realistic picture of life in a Jedi Praxeum, one that will give us more role-play focused fun.

I've noticed that we've all really gone easy and fallen into an OOC habit of doing things out of boredom instead of living the lives of our characters, so I'm hoping that this will help to enlighten us how we can keep our characters human with their passion, personalities, and desires, but at the same time represent the more disciplined life of living in a Jedi monastery.

We are role-playing Jedi after all, and there should be a sense of respect and order in our monastery, even with the kids, no matter how immature, teenage, and impulsive they may be.

Cerez Kay wrote:There are of course a gazillion other ways to create exciting role-plays in a Jedi monastery.

Kro'jan Touru wrote:That's also true. at first back when I was still new to JEDI, I thought that events, lessons, exercises and stuff like that were just the mentors' job, and I only came online when a Knight was on thinking that he/she will host something for us, so, basically I never thought about creating my own RP, I waited for RP to happen and I just took part in it. at this time I saw a select few students hosting games, lessons and other cool stuff, but I never thought of doing the same until I read this.

Wrennin Vae wrote: TL;DR: If you feel that people are too flippant with their characters, that is their choice. I'll choose conversation/interaction over sparring every day of the week, but I'd rather spar than sit by myself following a monklike routine. It's fine to have inspiration and I'd encourage looking to other sources to help pinpoint what you want to achieve. But not everyone has the same goal, nor should they aim for the same one. If this is the path you want to take, and good on you for taking it, lead from the front rather than the back.

Syrena Exan wrote:One thing I will note is that in our roleplay, our particular sect of the order was always known to other temples as the strange one. The one where they do things different, act more casual, take in the troubled ones. I would hate to lose that, as the reputation has allowed us to have more varied character development instead of being the cookie-cutter Jedi we typically treat NPCs from other temples as. Yes, some things should be a certain way because of the type of establishment we are, but I definitely don't want us to restrict ourselves to the point where we have to follow one stardard set of rules, one path, one character type.

I like to think of us as being like Luke's brand new group of Jedi instead of like the Coruscant temple.

Jago Mirax wrote:

Syrena Exan wrote:One thing I will note is that in our roleplay, our particular sect of the order was always known to other temples as the strange one. The one where they do things different, act more casual, take in the troubled ones. I would hate to lose that, as the reputation has allowed us to have more varied character development instead of being the cookie-cutter Jedi we typically treat NPCs from other temples as. Yes, some things should be a certain way because of the type of establishment we are, but I definitely don't want us to restrict ourselves to the point where we have to follow one stardard set of rules, one path, one character type.

I like to think of us as being like Luke's brand new group of Jedi instead of like the Coruscant temple.

Aslyn Denethorn wrote:Also worth noting that most monasteries didn't take in children: the vast majority of monasteries were joined by young adults or full adults prepared to live a cloistered life in worship of God. Jedi Temples don't work this way: they take in young children, complete with their impulsive and reckless behaviours, and slowly teach them the Jedi lifestyle. They're not immune to fun or crazy activities (just read Dark Rendezvous if you want a sense of day-to-day Temple life), but there is that undertone of seriousness that you'd expect to characterise a school or, yes, a monastery.

I completely agree that the need for immersion is there, but I've never minded people having a little fun, provided it's not so wildly out of context as to be absurd (which, let's face it, often happens).

Syrena Exan wrote:One thing I will note is that in our roleplay, our particular sect of the order was always known to other temples as the strange one. The one where they do things different, act more casual, take in the troubled ones. I would hate to lose that, as the reputation has allowed us to have more varied character development instead of being the cookie-cutter Jedi we typically treat NPCs from other temples as.