Bus-sized Blunders

Jakarana

What's the biggest, clumsiest, most suspension-of-disbelief busting mistake you have ever unintentionally made role-playing in Achaea?

Recently, I was sitting there RPing up a storm: witty comments, esoteric knowledge, casual sharp jests, standard blademaster sword-worshipping BS; the works. All in consistent character.
Then I had a friend of mine nudge me and told me that my carapace was especially note-worthy today.
Obviously this caused a small shock, seeing as I'm a Rajamala. One "L ME" later and I felt incredibly dumb.

Not to long ago I hit level 30 and decided it was time to actually, finally complete the cultist/beast task, and then afterwards finally got the task to describe yourself, despite me already having a pretty decent, detailed description already.
So for the sake of completionism I just opened up my .txt file containing all of character notes along with descriptions, etc. and quickly "CTRL+C, CTRL+V"ed the same description I already had.

Except it wasn't the description I already had.
It was the description from a Horkval Character that I had deleted a nearly year ago.
Upon realizing this I swiftly crawled into a hole far, far away and commit BLADESUICIDE out of shame. Then set my description back to what it was.

We decided to mark it off as a freak reincarnation incident that was swiftly rectified by dying, and not worth remembering or mentioning. Ever.

Kez

I have a gem of transmutation, so this happens more often than I'd like:

I've reincarnated from rajamala to other races and left my raja desc on, which has resulted in "She is a beautiful siren who enjoys life on all fours. (yadda yadda fur yadda tail yadda)"

It's been pointed out to me. One person said they thought that was my real siren description. I really should make a trigger to change desc on reincarnate or something, but describe is sooooooooooooooooo spammy.

Tharvis

@Kez tried gagging the "you change your description" line? Could even replace it with a simple echo that captures the race name and just goes :  "You change your description to that of your " ..matches[whatever].. " form."

Kez

Gagging something that size causes hiccups with my client. It wouldn't be as bad as seeing the 2 pages scroll by, but still annoying enough to be a deterrent.

Saeva

Once upon a time I thought I was in dragonform and I was not. This caused a series of inappropriate emotes to take place. I realized it and just went...wow this poor siren is suddenly very beastly.

Aurom

Was on another game, but IC I was a very cordial, quiet character, and then this world message showed up I hadn't seen before. I was going to talk on a clan channel, "What the fuck was that?"

(City) You say, "What the fuck was that?"

gg

qq

Natliya

Written as the player.

Once upon a time, in a garden far, far away, Natliya was performing one of her piano compositions. 
Fun fact; long ago, I used an alias to activate each different composition/dance I had made.

Also fun fact; I no longer do so.

It's kinda awkward, explaining to a friend how you danced through the air with a piano you were about to play... ...Much less an entire gathering.

Thankfully, my first time in a MUD RPG has been mercifully filled with me not bringing many anachronisms in.
Still. Dat piano.


As it turned out, no one noticed anyways, because (sadly) who even reads art in game at all? 
It is a sorry state when people can't even bother reading a little to realize I'm dancing- not playing the piano. They'll nod, and smile, and say "wonderful music"...

-The Lonesome Willow,
                                           Natliya Cain

Multon

Hmm... if I walk near Targossas I could try killing some of their Eidolons... I can always just stop walking before I get there... easy right? One lag spike later, and I am a smear on the Champion's Bridge...

Okay, poor decision. I'll just go back to bashing for a while to make sure I don't lose a level... Hmm, no Goblins, so I guess I'll just go to Moghedu, as long as I avoid the knights...

Bugger... Okay, it's only one level down, if I'm careful this time I can make it up pretty quickly, it's not like the exact thing will happen agai-

Damn it... I hate my internet...

Skye

(Shallam): You say, "Hail Mhaldor."


Yeeeeeaaaaah.....

Melodie

The most recent big blunder I did was during Melodie's first Black Mass, Kaevan was in the middle of speaking some sorts and stuff and had his hand in the chalice of blood, about to sprinkle us all with it, when I decided that NOW WAS THE TIME TO DRINK instead of, you know, after he directed us to. So I drank. His hand was still in the chalice. I expect it looked something like Mel boldly walking forward from the crowd, tilting the chalice down despite his hand within it and sipping greedily upon the contents, and as she does so, she stops and gazes up at him, he down at her, a furious and silent exchange happening as their eyes meet.

What really happened is that my enter key slipped as I leaned forward to read it fully (first Black Mass, I wanted to get in on the text I've never seen before!)

I managed to only get hamstrung and not executed. Somehow. I think Kaevan was feeling generous.

Probably the only other one that really comes to mind was during my trying-to-get-redeemed period after my first excommunication, Targossas was hosting their first Festival of Dawn. Tesha pestered me to perform for their "come do a song or dance or something" event (name escapes me) and despite trying to wiggle out of it, she wouldn't hear of it, so I agreed to. I rarely ever do performances, so I was thinking and got the grand idea of LETS DO A RENDITION OF THE SONG FROM THE CUBE IN NERAEOS' TEMPLE. Yeah except I didn't know it was a gift given by Lorielan, who for those who do not know, turned her back on Shallam and since all the other Gods had died, left Shallam unprotected and eventually the city fell into the sea because of Bal'met's baddies.

Everyone save one or two in the audience knew exactly who plucked this song, however, as I performed my little heart out.

That was an awkward day. I got a lot of bad looks, and then Aurora did a lot of grumping at me about an hour later.

You wanna know the crazy part? After getting scolded and questioned and figuring my life and my devotion was over... that was the day I actually got my devotion back. It went from being one of the worst experiences to one of the best in the span of about two hours. How? Your guess is as good as mine. I don't look back on that log anymore because it gives me too many feels, but suffice to say, it was amazing. It's probably on the forums somewhere.

Blunder or blessing, I'll never know.

Xasha

That awkward moment when you want to EMOTE but then your fingers type SAY and you end with:

"You say, "peers around, wondering if the cat is still here.""

....(awkward moment as I read what I've just done)
... (disbelief)
... (cringe)

Quickly type:
EMOTE: peers around, wondering if the cat is still here.

Then pretending I never said anything. >___>

Aurom

^ Oh, I totally had a moment like that the other day. Was trying to do emote that incorporated an actual mechanical action... and I forgot that you're supposed to start off with the action instead of EMOTE...

*stares at blunder*

BLADESUICIDE