[Kelvic] Mizahar's Wild Children

[Sira]

Eh, Shep made good arguments, but I am going to refuse to accept them just to spite him, lol.

[Septimus]

Haha, so is anyone planning on doing something with themselves becoming successful wise besides finding a master?

[Sheva]

Haha fight the power! Who needs to bond anyways. Okay we all do, but we wouldn't die without it. Besides my tiger pride refuses to let me accept anyone other than myself as a master. If someone wishes to form a bond with me, it will be as equals.

All that mumbo-jumbo aside...plans to become succesful? Probably not...but I will be leaving to explore the world soon...go on crazy adventures and stuff. So perhaps I'll become a successful adventurer...does that count?

[Tryn Frostfawn]

Well Varjo is a Kelvic Nightwalker and my first thread is gonna be showing up in Syliras, willing to work to eat after all the catastrophe that happened, and I think I could end up having him be an asset to the Knights, either as one, or as a mount for one. Not sure. Got some crazy ideas going on in my head, lol.

[Sira]

Well.. Sira is pretty damn successful. She's an Endal, which means she gets to be the leader of everyone who isn't an Endal in Wind Reach.. which is kind of reverse role for a kelvic. But she has her bondmate, who gets to tell her what to do. Except that they don't like bossing each other around, so instead they whine at each other and that's how they get things done.

[Tryn Frostfawn]

That's adorable. You just met my other charrie in Inclement Weather there

[Septimus]

I myself am in Syliras looking to be come a War Horse for the Knights.

[Jynx]

This is my first attempt at a Kelvic and I have only just started it, so I am obviously not an expert. I have long thought this would be an especially difficult race to play, although I suspect many people new to Mizahar think it will be easy (which would explain why so many new players start with a Kelvic). "Hey, I've got a warrior who flies!" sounds cool, until you remember that that's not really what you have. What you really have is a bird who can wield a sword. The order in which you say it matters.

But what I really want to comment on is the question raised a few posts back about what constitutes "a successful Kelvic." It's a pretty easy question to answer from an IC point of view. A successful Kelvic is one who is accomplishing his own goals, which will mostly revolve around serving and protecting a master or mistress. This sounds easy but I'm finding the logistics of it a bit tricky. Does it mean that I and my mistress always appear together in threads? Can she go off and do her own thing? Can I? Hmm ... inquiring minds want to know. If I'm really going to play my Kelvic IC, then I am not going to make him a self-sufficient character who is perfectly happy to go about his business without a master or mistress. In other words, he is unlikely to have much of an agenda apart from whatever agenda his master/mistress has.

The other side of the "successful Kelvic" question is the OOC side. And here is where I think it gets interesting. Let's face it, a character who does nothing but follow his mistress/master around all day might have a pretty limited range of play. Nobody wants to play a boring character and nobody wants to do collaborative story-telling with a boring character. So the player also has some goals (s)he wants to accomplish. Maybe I like physical conflict stories. Or maybe I like psychologial conflict stories. Or maybe I don't like stories with conflict in them (if there's no conflict, is it still a story?). The trick is to figure out how to align these OOC goals with the IC goals. If they don't align, I won't have a consistent character. Nobody expects a Rat Kelvic to wax eloquent on deep theological issues. That would introduce a glaring incongruity into the story which will break the suspension of disbelief and as we all know, you don't want to put things into a story that break the suspension of disbelief.

So, what is "a successful Kelvic"? It's one that is completely believable from an IC point of view and is satisfying to play from an OOC point of view. Of course that true for every race. I Just think it's especially difficult to do with a Kelvic.

[Nya Winters]

So along with finding a bondmate (what you guys are calling a good Master or Mistress) serve a higher power. It is a whole lot more fun, from a Kelvic perspective, to follow God or Goddess than just what you guys are describing as Masters and Mistresses. That, I think, is the critical problem with the way you Kelvic players are thinking about it. My PC has a bondmate. He is not her Master. He is her partner and he spends just as much time seeing to my needs as I see to his. Together we serve a higher power... both different ones, but they often work together.

You guys are seeing yourselves (well I'm sure Sira doesn't) as slaves. You don't bond and them mindlessly serve. You look for partners and then you rp together. In a way its no different than any other race and their rp buddies. The kelvic bond is special because it makes you loyal, but bonding is a choice so you always enter into the bond willingly.

[Jynx]

Hey Nya, way cool cave! Do you still live there?