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[Anyanka Funk]

When first starting RP, the question comes up, what are we doing when logging off? Sometimes, you rp in a place with other people, sometimes you are in a channel, sometimes you just dc and say fuck it for the night. There can be many explanations icly to what is happening.

When I know Anya is going to be back in eight hours or less, she will say she is sleeping. If dc'ing in person with someone, the old comms not working excuse doesn't really work, so she will say she fainted. More recently, Anya will claim to be at the Covenant Hospital working or in her quarters staying off comms.

Another explanation that she has used, but may be a horrible gateway to ooc drama, is that she is actually playing a mmorpg called "Real Life" and the money she gets in that game is then converted to ISK to buy PLEX. Discussing said mmorpg is where things can get a bit sour.

My questions are, what are your explanations and if you even come up with any?

[Dessau]

Other than Eterne's tongue-in-cheek dictum that capsuleers undergo a CONCORD- mandated period of unconsciousness for 15-30 minutes once a day, I haven't found anything yet to indicate that pilots outside of the pod have overcome the physiological need for restorative sleep. CQ come with a bed, after all. So sleep is an easy one.

When logging while in space, it's easy enough to say Dess is handling administrative duties for corp personnel and ship crews. CEO stuff.

Given his background, it's also not unreasonable IMO to say that he maintains at least a pair of planetside bolt-holes or safehouses with no GalNet connection. Find a populous temperate world and duck under the grid for a while. Works for extended absenses, as far as I'm concerned, though I could be wrong about the capsuleer nervous system not being pinged by some ubiquitous low-amplitude signal (so we can never really be off-grid).

[Nicoletta Mithra]

Nico is still head of her familyand thus has a tight schedule. So, most of the time she's not online she simplay is planetside, out of pod and doing whatever her 'dayjob' requires - or is sleeping. Basically, she spends part of her free time in the capsule, so...

...from paperwork over church service to sleeptime, everything is a welcome IC explanation. No, she doesn't want to hang out on GalNet all the time when having better things to do, she likes her work. And then there's the technical malfunction for all RL technical malfunctions.

[Desiderya]

That 'playing the MMORPG Real life' is a pretty special explanation.

[Esna Pitoojee]

Logging off is just shutting off your capsuleer-specific fluid router connections - essentially, just turning off your capsuleer channels.

What your character is doing while they are logged off is not fixed by any means. It's really no different than turning off a work-connected smartphone, just with futuretech.

[Elmund Egivand]

Sorry gais I am staying off Neocom and not undock for the next two months so I can play this holo-game where a fat demon sits on me until I die.

[Anyanka Funk]

Sorry gais I am staying off Neocom and not undock for the next two months so I can play this holo-game where a fat demon sits on me until I die.

LOL. Anya has also used that one. 

[Katrina Oniseki]

Sorry gais I am staying off Neocom and not undock for the next two months so I can play this holo-game where a fat demon sits on me until I die.

What.

[Quintrala]

I usually just mention I have to go but when I can borrow from RL to spice things up, I will... like getting together with a friend for ice cream, or my family visiting in town. Or lunch (although sounds weird when corpmates are in dinner timezone but hey, everything is relative in space and I have lunch at dinnertime). I normally do not feel like intentional logoffs are a big deal to be explained.

Now because my connection sucks bigtime since I moved a few years ago and I disconnect frequently, I do have this game-impacting, unexpected logoff thing which has me explaining what happened, after it happened and I have logged back in. Of course it takes place when I should be paying attention to expensive or life-changing stuff.

ICly speaking then, I faint or swoon. The worse episodes have me blacking out and picking myself up from a restaurant floor or so. I say it is some kind of medical condition, maybe a loose jack wire or something that I will get checked as soon as I can. That is the official line at least, and you will probably never get a straight answer anyway.

IC privately, I have a very good idea of what it is and it terrifies me. I have learned to live with it and accept I will never race again, fly logistics or operate heavy machinery  ; the chances of this going away (i.e. the chances of me getting decent internets here) are slim to none.

That being said, it does provide food for a story arc that I hope to explore someday.

Another explanation that she has used, but may be a horrible gateway to ooc drama, is that she is actually playing a mmorpg called "Real Life"

Well, that I have also done. Do not tell anyone but my main and my IC alt brother share a RealLife(tm) account: me. 

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[Marcus Gord]

I've been known to just use 'I have other business to attend to' or 'I should go' when I feel like channelling Shepard.

If it's just a quick afk though, it'll be something like 'Excuse me a moment.' or something to that end.

with DCing 'in person' IC, depending on how long it is, I might just pretend it never happened. Once or twice I've logged off without Marcus leaving a bar he was drinking in though, and had him wake up with a beer mat stuck to his forehead or something, as if he just passed out.