elyse:

I sense that one has to give cues to the other player/s or goad him/her into making some kind of response, even if you don't know just what this response will be. Otherwise the play would get stuck in a limited situation, it would lose dynamism and momentum. because unlike "Dungeons & Dragons" style RP (which I've never done anyway; in those you have a prescribed complex setting and a number of predefined characters and places) there's not any fixed storyline to follow in bdsm RP, just a number of type situations (robber/victim, master/switch/sub, psychopath/hostage, etc plus the trappings of bdsm culture, sometimes used in a highly ironic way) or anything you care to come up with

If I write that my sub/prisoner character feels the dominant spanking her ass, tearing her bra off and calling her certain things, and that the Dom is "holding something long and thin" (dildo? whip? spreader bar? towel?) behind his back, I'm cuing the other to respond by adding something new and reply to the girl's distressed state (more spanking? evil laughter? a new threat? suepending her in the dungeon?). In one sense I'm over at his side by writing stuff that's starting to happen (he's pulling off her bra, tossing her into a pick-up van etc) but I can't know just what he will do to dvelop it, and I'll have to adapt myself (of course i don't want to be too specific in the things I indicate the other is doing, I pick stuff that I feel would fit the moment). Might add that to me, sticking to your character, is not a totally rigid concept and it's just as much to do with viewpoint (in character, what do you see/feel/hope about what's going on at the moment?) as with merely describing your actions, words and feelings ("Now I'm tying you to the chair...I'm poking your tits...I watch the gagged slut with glee" etc).

It's easier I think to do RPing if both (or all, if you're three or four) are writing in 3rd person, it gets less blunt and more varied, rounded out, easier to develop.


This has to do with trust in the other player - just like in real life playing - when I've been doing this with Sbbe, TDS or Lizeskimo I know there's a flow between us that will take care of those small cues and keep the RP line moving and pulsating, and the mood and the characters consistent. We're on the same wavelength (and if they feel some of my cues will not work for them, they're free to push them aside in some way). That's beautiful and erotic, and it can make it a readable story as well.

I think this works also in more short-line roleplay when you're posting maybe twice a minute and not doing fuller posts with maybe 20 minutes or many hours in between. Everyone has their own ways of handling these things, but if I didn't trust the other player or felt curious about what's going to happen, I wouldn't stay on.