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Re: Deadpan Snarking/Sarcasm

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Something that always helped me when I played a similar character was that I'd think about things I wished I could say, but could not to people who were assholes to me. If you work in customer service at all, this will be easy to do because you'll have plenty of fodder to work from.

Then take that and come up with a way to word it so it doesn't sound offensive, but still gets the overall meaning across even if it is sarcastic. Often sarcasm is just saying the opposite of what you really mean or coming up with a special term to describe someone that sounds nice but in the way it is said, it ends up actually being degrading. For instance, at work we call out crazy asshole customers our special customers with sparkling personalities.

It's hard to explain, but overall that gets my mind and wit working to help me pull it off IC. It is something that often will take practice and you may want to try bouncing your character off someone for some test threads where you have an idea of the outcome and let that person give you some feedback on it.

Also, don't be afraid to add brackets describing things and if you have to, outright stating that yes, it is sarcasm. Remember that sarcasm does have vocal inflections to it to make it more apparent, and that doesn't translate as well into text so an issue may be that the players in your game read it as serious and truthful when it is meant to be sarcastic and miss most of the attempts you make. If you have to, describe that tone. If your character really has no special tone indicating it, mention that in brackets that it's definitely hard to tell if that really is sarcasm or not. That can help clue in the player that yeah, it is and they can react better. It may also help to have the players point out some examples where you did it right and where you didn't so you can get a better idea of how they are reading your tags as well.