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 How sympathetic are you to your NPC's? |
 May 16 2006, 11:35 PM
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Dude, what's the compulsive masturbation supposed to mean? Isn't it supposed to relieve depression?
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May 16 2006, 11:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
Emo mentioned that he mixes anti-depressants with alcohol, which suggests that he's got some emotional problems that lead him to self-medicate. If these anti-depressants were prescribed for him, that could indicate that he is clinically depressed. Of course, I'm not ruling out the possibility that his psychiatrist was bribed to come up with a phony diagnosis to justify a phony prescription, but even that would make CK a somewhat sympathetic figure to my mind, since he's getting inadequate mental health treatment. |
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May 16 2006, 11:45 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Depends on whether or not you have a necrotizing foreskin incident. |
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May 16 2006, 11:48 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
That... that sounds bad... How does that happen, anyway?
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May 17 2006, 02:55 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: 9-May 06 From: Right behind you! Member No.: 8,538 |
Well, there could be a brown recluse hiding in your underwear when you try to put it on in the morning :evil:
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May 17 2006, 02:59 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
More realistically that can happen in cases of untreated veneral disease.
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May 17 2006, 03:08 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
Contracted from your hand?
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May 17 2006, 03:17 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Well, if you don't wash your hand after handling raw or undercooked meat, including seafood, shaking hands with someone, or visiting someone in a hospital it is quite possible. You get a little overenthuastic and slightly tear the foreskin and the bacteria from your hand enters the wround becasue you don't disinfect it properly.
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May 17 2006, 03:18 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
This guy doesn't sound sociopathic so much as suffering from a lack of inhibitions, which is sometimes a symptom of schizophrenia, or an organic brain disorder. It could simply be from an injury or a mild stroke, and it could go away in time, on its own or with medication. So you may want to consider those possiblities.
Sociopaths tend to be cunning, manipulative and charismatic. This guy sounds more awkward and clumsy. FAS? But it's a whole 'nuther ball of wax if you want to explore possible mental illnesses to justify your NPC's behaviour. IMHO, it's kind of outside the scope of the game. Sure, "evil" is a subjective term, so we're not all gonna define it the same. Use it if it suits you and your players, and just be prepared to elaborate on it if the PC's start looking into his background. If this is the way you want to go, it'd be easy to lift some stuff from any decent crime novel. Those authors love flashbacks into the villain's past. I guess my point is that it's kind of interesting to ruminate, but does it do much for your game? If you ask me, it does, but only in small quantities. |
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May 17 2006, 01:29 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
I brought that up because of my pretend diagnosis. Basically I came up with the most likely cause I could think of for his behavior (barring a serious medical problem like sociopathy, etc.) He's doing a job he's no good at, his father has high expectations that he'll do said job well, and he shows aggressive behavior towards 'sexual objects'. My first diagnosis would be he doesn't feel he has control over his life; he feels his father and the company are (and perhaps should) make all decisions for him, and he has no free will in his own life. A common result is that children in this situation act out in places where they DO have freedom. The most common area is sexual or quasi-sexual. Chronic masturbation is not an uncommon symptom because dad can't tell him to stop (hopefully dad isn't in the room at the time, right?) So that's one area the child feels he is free to explore himself and excercise his own free will, and as a consequence, it's one he engages in regularly. It's simply a way to release pressure from another part of his repressed psyche. I would wager his homelife with his wife would be bad. He'd like be domineering, aggressive, likely violent at times, and closed to disagreement or questioning. Again, he feels he has no control in his professional life, so he has to compensate by overcontrolling his personal life. The easiest solution is to break him out of his restrictive professional life and give him other creative outlets such as painting. |
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