by miyuka on Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:30 pm
What would have been dickish, or powerplay is if you walked into the bar, told someone hello, and they smashed you in the face with a much, said hello and then made you do a combat roll, and murdered you so that you had to wait for a rez. You got to interact, show that your char gives 0 fucks about authority (or is just ignorant of whom are the nobles, either works well), get some RP out of it, and get smashed without having to worry about the fees that come with it. This place has levels, yes people will be more powerful than you. I dunno what places you play at where you can just walk in with a fresh level one character and expect to be on par with people that have been there longer, but here, thanks to the beauty of free form and people enjoying that type of play (not everyone obviously) you can, in fact, exist as a "mean guy" or "Mean girl" from the get go and have people even though they are higher level than you, actually let you play your part without just one shotting you. It's something I see often enough and even as someone with many characters that are well past level one, even enjoy such play myself.
All that being said. As someone pointed out, you went up to a pair of nobles and their senschal. Of course you are going to get your ass handed to you. These people are nobles for a reason. In an empire that's built on might makes right, these Nobles are chosen for not just their expertise in whatever fields, but because of their immense power. Most of us high level folk aren't going to just murder-kill you and make you have to get a rez and all that, though even if it should come to that.