That's fine if it's in your characters nature to not remember names. I do tend to forget who i've met and who i haven't...Ralas will often say something to the effect of "I'm sorry...have we met?" Sometimes the target of the inquiry will respond and say something like "Yep, and you asked me that last time as well." This is embarassing for Ralas but not so much for me.
Like i'll hear people addressed by something, and later if I want to page them, I call them by that,a nd they'll totaly flip like "How do you know me?!"
That's a realistic reaction though, if they aren't aware that you overheard. There's no problem with your means of aquiring the name, and no problem with the reaction. I would say just RP offf of that.
I should have qualified my use of the word stupid by saying that I felt it was "stupid" to get OOC mad at a newer character for doing this, a couple of characters that I ran into before I knew better played it very well and were quite nice about it.
Me too. Played it IC you mean? See, you can't play it off everytime. I do think it's better just to slip into OOC than force a newbie to come up with an explanation for how they might know your name. In my own personal experience, it was similar OOC explanations (when given nicely, of course) that helped me to understand what PS was all about. This in turn creates a better experience, as you can 't really enjoy PS to it's full potential until you understand a few basic things.
