>4) Cabal leaders or other authority figure characters who are afraid to reject applicants, toss out existing cabal members, or otherwise be harsh even when it's called for.

Best peeve this far. But with a question:
I've had a couple semi-leader figures. Mostly in battle. Often my character's role dictated that what I should look for in applicants was 90% fighting ability, and 0-10% theoretical discussions. Now I often met applicants who knew their theories, had a solid roleplay but sucked ass at PK'ing. I try to be a harsh recommender, and I was usually extra harsh at them. But since they were good roleplayers they could usually handle the extra harshness.

I think you get the question...
a) Should I induct Matraien and reject Zefarah?
b) Other way around?
c) Induct them both?
d) Reject them both?

I usually went with a)...

10) Recently mentioned in another thread: Characters that attempt to speak completely or mostly in a 'different language' drive me freakin' nuts. The odd one word here or there for flavor?

Ugh. Yeah. Hateum. Brings me to peeve number

11) The lack of proper cursing in CF. When people argue, and fight, most people don't say #### like 'you are a shameless coward!'. Especially not if they are duergar battleragers. If I am to curse someone I wanna call them fukking kunts, fags, ####packers. I wanna tell them how I fukk their mom in the ass with a tire iron. But that brings so much negative attention from everywhere, it just isn't worth it. So I'm forced to sacrifice that RP aspect. And instead my cursings become blatantly OOC because I only do it when I die silly deaths.

Having to sacrifice RP to keep people happy brings me to number

12) Cabals have so many behaviouristical rules it's insane. Pretty much every caballed char I've had have been forced to change their roleplay out of fear of being uninducted by 'an Immortal'. Of course you could always say that...

a) It's my weakness as a player that makes me change my roleplay to avoid in-game disadvantages. But hell, if I play a caballed character, I want to be with the cabal and I want to interact with them. I don't wanna play 70% of my time being booted for violations of silly fascist rules/laws that doesn't matter at all for the Cabal's goals.

b) My character knows about the rules and thus he should adapt to them... Can't really counter it. Except that in real life, when you break rules/laws, you get away with it 98% of the times. In CF, there's a secret immortal police that boots you for violating them, and you can never know if you are being watched or not.

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Last peeve

13) Gettings punished/booted/yelled at by 'an Immortal' for things that were perfectly well roleplayed. When 'an Immortal' punishes you, it makes you feel like you did some horrible roleplaying or broke some rule. Also, it makes it very hard to figure out how your character would react to the punishment or if you should just treat it like getting slayed for cheating and move on.



Disclaimer: These peeves ended up covering a verry narrow niche, I know that. If anyone feels insulted by anything above, wasn't my intention.