Monologue button

[Smoopadoop]

I know that this suggestion is dumb as shit but I want to at least raise the idea of something which would allow people to push powergaming aside for just a second, and allow cool rp shit to happen. So keep that in mind, even if you instantly dismiss this post.

So what if we had a button which let us tell people we want to monologue without being fucking shot?

Say you're a traitor and you want to make a dramatic entrance because drama is fucking cool you can't deny that okay. A Roboticist is giving mechs to Sec for Sec reasons, talking about "yeah we'll secure this shit right up yo". Then you walk out from behind the mech with a fuckin trenchcoat and a revolver or something dicky like that and you wanna say something cool, and then have your traitor buddies come out of the shadows and take out sec from behind while you take the mech and fuck the station up. It'd be cool as fuck, you know it, it'd be some cool-ass Metal Gear shit.

So you walk your ass out from behind the mech and before you can even type a single letter, you get Tazed and spaced. And that my friends, is why we need a monologue button! Simply press the hotkey shift-M (or use the verb monologue if you're shit and don't use hotkeys) and a big speech bubble will display near your character, telling everyone to listen to your ass. And then, press shift-N to display that you're finished talking. Obviously this would be abused into oblivion so there should probably be rules about that shit.

Man I don't know I just want to say cool shit without being powergamed to death okay.

[Remie Richards]

People probably wouldn't listen.
Basil might.

[Lumbermancer]

It would be abused to clown hell and back. And back again. And back.

[Shaps-cloud]

If someone rounded a corner and shoved a gun in my face and said they were going to kill me, you better fucking believe I would try to tackle them.

[InsaneHyena]

You know what all villains with big monologues have in common? They all lose. Often because they were too busy monologuing to notice that the hero is doing something.

[Saegrimr]

[Reece]

Just write your speech out in the OOC box then hotkey paste it into your IC chat.
This is a game for aspies, act like it.

[oranges]

monologuing is something that happens only in the movies.

[Super Aggro Crag]

Hahaha what a bad idea

[Screemonster]

let's face it, typing indicators are a great big "I'm vulnerable, cuck me now" sign in literally anything other than a high-RP server

edit: bonus points for throwing one up there so people stand still out of a sense of sportsmanship when really your "monologue" is unlocking your PDA and spawning a revolver