Basic Emoting - 12/18/08

[7:08] Srilania Svoboda: Ok, please take all cross talk to IM, and all collar, etc commands to the secondary channels!
[7:09] Srilania Svoboda: Welcome to House of V's College of Kink! I'm the new teacher, Srilania Svoboda, and your instructor for this lesson.
[7:09] Srilania Svoboda: While I have only been in Second life for about six months, I have been about in the real world for many years, as well as out in other realms of the internet, as a submissive, then became a Domme, which I have done for about 5 years.
[7:09] Srilania Svoboda: For any that need to leave early, all transcripts can be found at http://collegeofkink.blogspot.com
[7:09] Srilania Svoboda: The lesson for today is Basic Emoting,
[7:09] Srilania Svoboda: or
[7:09] Srilania Svoboda: "How the hell do I put my hoohoodilly in her cha cha without a poseball?"
[7:10] Srilania Svoboda: First, some are asking, WHAT IS AN EMOTE?
[7:10] Srilania Svoboda: Is that some breed of Emo?
[7:10] Srilania Svoboda: Emoting began back in the days we didn't have this fine 3d world to wander about in, and only had text to manipulate.
[7:10] Srilania Svoboda: To show an action instead of something said, one would mark it or in the case of IRC chats, use /me to show an action, like so
[7:11] Srilania Svoboda: *drools*
[7:11] Srilania Svoboda: ::Drools::
[7:11] Srilania Svoboda drools
[7:11] Srilania Svoboda: Easy enough, isn't it?
[7:11] ***DH*** nods
[7:11] Srilania Svoboda: But, we're here in this world of animations, poseballs, and lucious nakedness. So why would we need something so old as an emote?
[7:12] Srilania Svoboda: Simply put, while this digital world has many things, it's quite limited. Many toys out there make play easier to show, but have not replaced the basic emote. Simply put, the game only allows so much creativity.
[7:12] Srilania Svoboda: Not only that, not many of us can afford to slap together a 100,000 linden dungeon just to animate out every perverse fantasy, or the time to learn how to make the scripts, animations, and primwork to make a 100k fantasy playpen on your own.
[7:12] Srilania Svoboda: So, rather than restrict ourselves into boring animation loops, we emote. Mind you, that 10,000L sex bed ain't crappy either, as it DOES at least set the tone for the emoting.
[7:13] Srilania Svoboda: Seriously, which trips the trigger to flow emotes better, 2 people standing around, or one naked and bound, while the other flogs them?
[7:13] ***DH*** votes for flogging
[7:13] Srilania Svoboda: Since there is still need for emoting, it's important to learn how to do a good basic emote.
[7:13] Srilania Svoboda: First thing in emoting is how to do it. it's not hard, but can take getting used to. the usual ways is marking normal text, and using the /me command.
[7:14] Srilania Svoboda: When you use the /me command, it removes the colon behind your name, showing an action, like this:
[7:14] Srilania Svoboda wraps her arm around your head, pulls you down, and proceeds to strap you into a creaking wooden rack
[7:14] Srilania Svoboda: See, not hard to do. Just type /me followed by what you want to tell the person you're doing.
[7:14] Srilania Svoboda: The other way is marking it. These are good for ones where you have a mix of talk and action. One good one is this:
[7:15] Pirate Russell types /me before she types "types"
[7:15] Srilania Svoboda: So, what do we have here? *leans in and sniffs your neck, the breath tickling* Ohhh, that perfume is divine. *purrs the last word*
[7:15] Srilania Svoboda: Note how it allows you to mix actions with talk. This style is also great if you meant to have a tone of voice, a look, a quick action, or just prefer it over /me
[7:16] Srilania Svoboda: Biggest rule is never emote the reactions of someone else. ONLY emote your actions. This is an example of a bad emote.
[7:16] Srilania Svoboda grabs you roughly by the shirt, then slaps you, making you cry.
[7:16] Srilania Svoboda: You just took away any other choice in reacting. This would make your partner just a reactive meat puppet.
[7:17] Srilania Svoboda: And they DO make scripted prim sex dolls for that kind of thing
[7:18] Srilania Svoboda: Here's the way to make it guide the person to the reaction you want, without removing choice:
[7:18] Srilania Svoboda grabs you by the front of the shirt, then proceeds to slap your face roughly, trying to make you cry
[7:18] Srilania Svoboda: Notice the difference? This one allows your partner to do something other than cry, but expresses the direction you'd like to take things.
[7:18] Srilania Svoboda: One thing that can drive people crazy in a scene are a ton of one liner quickies. this is an example:
[7:19] Srilania Svoboda screams loudly
[7:19] Srilania Svoboda squirms and thrashes
[7:19] Srilania Svoboda then bites you as you try grabbing her
[7:19] Srilania Svoboda: See how that just breaks the whole thing up, and makes it a general pain to deal with? Let's show how you can make that into one smooth emote, that sends your partner down the happy trail:
[7:19] Srilania Svoboda while screaming, she squrms and thrashes as you try grabbing her. With one piercing shriek, she lunges and sinks her teeth into your shoulder.
[7:20] Srilania Svoboda: Notice how much smoother that looks? Lets it flow in one stream, rather than chopped up.
[7:20] ***aK***: but long sentence are not simple when english is not your native nanguage
[7:20] ***AU*** nods in agreement
[7:21] Srilania Svoboda: True, ***aK***. However, short and simple rapid fire does tend to frustrate and annoy people. Even taking the 3 from the bad example, and just sticking them together would be better, as it puts them all as one post
[7:22] Pirate Russell knows when She's with someone that is not an Native English Speaker, and makes allowances for sentence structure, and spelling.
[7:23] Srilania Svoboda screams. squirms and thrashes. Then, bites you as you try grabbing her
[7:24] Srilania Svoboda: See a difference ***aK***? Even just taking those rapid fire ones and slipping them into one post smooths and speeds things a little bit
[7:24] ***aK***: yes, but think we have to read too...
[7:24] Srilania Svoboda: And mind you, I more reffer to some that I have experienced, where rapid fire emoting is 10-20 short posts
[7:26] Srilania Svoboda: I just did not wish to torture the class with a full example of that. There's better forms of torture
[7:26] Srilania Svoboda: The other hazzard, however, is the emote that does not end. The wall of text that crits for a million hitpoints.
[7:27] Srilania Svoboda: If you find your emotes are taking 20 minutes to write one reaction, and it's taking 2 screens to read, you might want to consider breaking it up into shorter emotes.
[7:28] Srilania Svoboda: \Example mercifly not given, not only to reduce needless pain and suffering, but due to technological constraints of the lecture technology
[7:28] Srilania Svoboda: But most people in class has seen the emote that does not end
[7:29] Srilania Svoboda: To wrap up the class, remember the basics, and a couple of the worst mistakes one can make when emoting.
[7:29] Srilania Svoboda: Our next week's scheduled class will be basic roleplay, so come ready to get into the spirit of things!
[7:29] Srilania Svoboda: Questions, opinions, feelings?
[7:29] ***aK***: no thanks
[7:30] Srilania Svoboda: I know, a pretty cut and dried topic, but next week's is how to have a romp with Legolas without getting arrested for stalking
[7:30] ***MG***thinks it was all very interesting, and thanks the instructress.
[7:31] Srilania Svoboda: All transcripts can be found at http://collegeofkink.blogspot.com
[7:31] ***DH***: thank you Srilania
[7:31] Srilania Svoboda: For Class times and topics, Y/you would always check the Search/Events and look for College
[7:31] ***AU***: are there any tips for emoting with several people in a scene, how would you consider a good way to handle more then 1 reaction at a time?
[7:32] Srilania Svoboda: As in a threesome scene?
[7:32] ***AU***: aye, as in a threesome
[7:33] Srilania Svoboda: I've found that making a good emote to react to both people works. But, if there is too much going on in the scene, you might need to react to each person seperately
[7:33] ***AU*** smiles nodding and taking in the information
[7:35] Srilania Svoboda: In that situation, just as with dealing with someone for whom English is a second language, you have to be more flexible. The biggest one to avoid is the novel emote, where you take 3-4 days to write a response
[7:36] Srilania Svoboda: You might find those 3 other people that were grouped around you going after each other instead
[7:37] Srilania Svoboda thumps the lag monster with her cattle prod
[7:37] Srilania Svoboda: [ you have reached the end of the current notecard - resetting to first line... ]
[7:37] ***AU*** giggles, also the lag emote where the lag kills the moods
[7:37] Srilania Svoboda: You mean taking a long time to write the emote, or the system lagging your response?
[7:38] ***AU***: system lagging the response, I have had that happen before
[7:38] Srilania Svoboda: Aye, but we came here because we had no lag, so we decided to come to Second Lag
[7:39] Srilania Svoboda giggles
[7:39] ***AU*** laughs
[7:39] Srilania Svoboda: Any other questions, comments?
[7:40] ***DH***: Thank you
[7:41] ***AU***: thanks for your time, this was great
[7:41] Srilania Svoboda: Ok, please remember next weeks lesson is "How to beat Brittany Spears without getting nailed for assault and battery", and thank you for attending