But 3 weeks ago, with an old friend of mine back in SL Gor in the role of my char's owner, I decided to invest more in such role. This friend owns my character, he is a wealthy man belonging to an affluent Arian family, my character is more a high slave, as well as one used to display her owner's status and wealth. He is rather permissive with her, you could say she is some pampered princess.
As I know very well the Gorean culture, I think my RP is coherent with the character I chose. My slave is enslaved since one year and not much happy in slavery, she is conniving, smart, easily haughty and feels herself above other slaves. Men have set slave fires in her belly (following the books' expression....) and she is the kind who will kneel when addressed by a free person, and may even put her head down to the ground in presence of a FW, as the books make clear that FW who already, very commonly hate slave girls by inward envy and jealousy, might even been harsher to a high slave.
When I played a FW, I often got compliments in IMs from the people with whom I played for my creativity and they enjoyed the storylines we wrote together. I had no difficulties to get RP, and I must confess, with men, the difficulty was more to not yield to the temptation of getting laid and have fun in sex RP, to stay coherent with the rank, the status and the personality of my FW characters.
So, call me naive, but I was certain, in making this slave character, that I would have a lot of fun in RP, in a new challenging role.
I was wrong and I guess that I can confirm what many slave RPers denounce.
So, what I gathered, from my stil short experience:
- Slave characters are mostly ignored by FW, and when not, most will make you wonder what did they miss when they read the Gor novels, when each book states that FW hate slave girls and are cruel to them...
- You might get some nice through emote if you dare to emote about slave character's needs, craving for the touch of a man, if she tries to entice men. You will be so reminded that Gor is not just about sex blah blah. It happened recently to a friend of mine (guess many people missed the primary purpose of a slave and their deep misery when they are deprived of sex, as told in the books).
- That unlike the stories in the books, SL Gorean males are loyal to their FC and never aroused by a slave girl. Anyway, they prefer to spend their time with FW....
- You will probably discover that some people think they do you a favor if they interrupt the RP you are having with another slave, to send you to play a waitress in the local inn, because there is no serving slave at this moment to serve. Not once they will consider that it makes absolutely no sense to send a private slave, not owned by such establishment, and the slave of a wealthy man, serve in the local tavern / inn with such reason. And actually, I prefer no RP instead to RP this kind of crap.
Really, it doesn't seem difficult to me, to drag a random slave with you to the next innn / tavern, to keep her at your table and entertaining yourself with her charms, her conversation, while both typists emote about NPC serving / paga girls (and too, there is no inn/tavern in books, with no slave to serve the customers....) But for some people, nah, unthinkable....
- That unlike they need a drink and a city tour, many people don't know what kind of interactions they could have with a slave character.
- Many people expect, when they see a private slave, that she will come kneel at their feet and beg to serve. Give me one reason for which a slave privatively owned would do that? I have yet to see such scene in the books. But in books, a slave, who has been deprived of sex, may go beg a random man. Personally, I'm not bold enough to start such RP and be told that Gor is not about cybersex....
- FW get more erotic RP than slave girls (which I suspected when I played a FW, tough....)
- You will certainly be asked again that non sense of slave registration (well, your RP partner, the one who plays your character's owner). Certainly, some people believe it's fun to fill a NC called "slave papers", which will bring no RP at all anyway, especially when you's suggested to drop the note in a mailbox.... (not to mention the slave exam....). I wonder if the scribes meet after, with all these papers and start RPing how they read and file them by alphabetical order in their cabinets.....
- That your funniest RPs will happen with other slave rpers (but I knew this already, when I played a FW)
- That these same people who often RP with Earth morals, like white knights, who change their character's home stone every 3 months, FW who behave in a way where in the books they would be frowned upon, etc etc, still, will require that slaves RP by the books, with no compromise.....
- That people will easily send you away from a scene with pretexts such as "we're dealing caste business"... Examples:
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Seriously, when playing a FW, I never felt the need to send a slave away from a scene when one had joined it, never. If my character feared a spy, it was simple, my char threatened the girl to cut her tongue off, then I included her in the scene, OOCly enjoying the possible IC troubles which could follow, if some little secrets, even those of my char, were reported! But there, be sure that these people will speak of realism, when themselves should seriously, sometimes, study their role and re-write their non sense character.....
I must add something important: From my chats with other slave players, these situations are not specific to some particular sims. It's everywhere... But some sims are owned by people who, at least, won't make you feel like a second class SL Resident, nor, write OOC rules which are full of OOC discriminations and restrictions toward slave players.
But most of these slave players are taught this kind of RP in the lame Gorean schools which taught the way to play a perfect boring cookie cutter. Between them and the free characters who play the little tiny lovey dovey family story.... Sigh and bleeeh.....
