silmefea wrote:
I think that the sounds IC are so fragile, the atmosphere so calm and peaceful, that many explorers are loathe to shatter the silence with words, choosing instead to IM each other.
With the upmost respect, this sounds like trying to find an IC reason for something that is most definitely OOC. There's no way a group of explorers would stand around IMing each other. Whisper, maybe, but whisper's do no damage at all (if everyone in the worlds wispered at the same time, the sum of the energy created by all the wispering would barely light a 40W bulb. Now you know

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I am certain that when DRC members type, we are supposed to take it as speach.