You must admit that your description of the RP does sound...um...horribly biased, I think the word is? "Hundreds are fleeing"..."Many are trying to make it across the Channel to avoid Madame Guillotine"..."handing escapees back to Robespierre's men"...and of course, you list "Those who make a choice, those who flee, and those who join the revolutionaries" and immediately follow it with "spies, heroes and villains". Usually, when two lists immediately follow each other, it implies some sort of correlation, ergo: make a choice=spies, flee=heroes, revolutionaries=villains. Particularly as you immediately follow it up with a request for more revolutionaries!
Note that you then say: "Will your character escape France and resettle in England or will they help French aristos to escape? Will they betray their ex-employers or will they risk all to keep them safe?" So the choices are: escape France, help the émigrés, OR be evil and betray them?
Do you blame us for assuming that what you want is more revolutionary villains to balance out your RP?
...lastly, "Robespierre's men" is probably a bad thing to say whilst in earshot - or typing-shot - of any Robespierrists, because it sounds like you're accusing him of personal evil/dictatorship/immediately what sets off all our counter-revolutionary/propaganda alarms? Better say that it's the Comité, or the Convention, or the Assembly, or whoever you think is in power when your RP is set, because it's marginally more likely - besides, by the time Robespierre was able to influence policy the way he wanted, hadn't most people had left that were going to leave? And if you were a rich aristocrat and you were in fear for your life, what in the world took you until the Terror to decide that it might be a good idea to leave...? *shrug* The Comité certainly had spies, no one is denying that, but we have many of their names, and, well...you see the reason for skepticism.
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Date: 2008-04-30 09:11 pm (UTC)Note that you then say: "Will your character escape France and resettle in England or will they help French aristos to escape? Will they betray their ex-employers or will they risk all to keep them safe?" So the choices are: escape France, help the émigrés, OR be evil and betray them?
Do you blame us for assuming that what you want is more revolutionary villains to balance out your RP?
...lastly, "Robespierre's men" is probably a bad thing to say whilst in earshot - or typing-shot - of any Robespierrists, because it sounds like you're accusing him of personal evil/dictatorship/immediately what sets off all our counter-revolutionary/propaganda alarms? Better say that it's the Comité, or the Convention, or the Assembly, or whoever you think is in power when your RP is set, because it's marginally more likely - besides, by the time Robespierre was able to influence policy the way he wanted, hadn't most people had left that were going to leave? And if you were a rich aristocrat and you were in fear for your life, what in the world took you until the Terror to decide that it might be a good idea to leave...? *shrug* The Comité certainly had spies, no one is denying that, but we have many of their names, and, well...you see the reason for skepticism.