No, there isn't a way.

Just set your demeanor to neutral before asking for healing, or befriend the empath you want to heal you.

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Rev. Reene, player of a few

Reene: hey you should play this with me
Zairius: last time I fell for that line
Zairius: I ended up in DR

Well, no, but you don't pull away while dead (how would you?) so it's a nonissue.

I wish they'd allow touching while reserved though.

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Rev. Reene, player of a few

Reene: hey you should play this with me
Zairius: last time I fell for that line
Zairius: I ended up in DR

>> Well, no, but you don't pull away while dead
>> (how would you?) so it's a nonissue.

Golly, that's logical...

There is presently no way to befriend on basis of guild, and I don't think there ever will be. You'll just have to use Demeanor Reserved, and befriend whichever empath is healing you. Or else go back to demeanor neutral if you use an NPC.

Ryeka


Sometimes the key to happiness is not assuming it is locked in the first place- Ziggy

A journey of a thousand SMILES begins with a single step- Ziggy

There may not be a way to BEFRIEND empaths yet, but there is a way for them to apply herbs to you without a demeanor problem.

CONSENT EMPATH [CLEAR]
WARNING! This will allow any Empath to affect you with substances. This does not allow an Empath to pick up your grave items.

Ran the test for ya:

Reserved:

>hug Lucerella
You try to give Lucerella a hug, but she doesn't seem amenable to your attentions.

>touch Lucerella
Lucerella avoids your touch.

>kiss Lucerella cheek
As you start to kiss Lucerella, she pulls back away from you.

Cold:

>hug Lucerella
Lucerella turns away to avoid your hug.

>touch Lucerella
Lucerella avoids your touch.

>kiss Lucerella cheek
As you start to kiss Lucerella, she pulls back away from you.


I think they all sorta seem similiar, though with a cold demeanor the pulling away or turning away is a bit more definite. I didn't go through ALL the physical character interactions though.

I do like being able to set my demeanor to a certain race, but I'd love to be able to set it for guild as well. Specifically for the Empath situation mentioned before.


Hope that helped,
~L.S.~

>>Also there appears to be a bug in Reserved that's occasionally keeping your class closed even after you've set it to open. I've given up on demeanor entirely for now.

I hope its not a bug, I love keeping my classes closed and seeing how many people will whisper to me about the new teaching verb.

~Player of "One of the Caels."
Queen of Non-Sequitors

> Well they are purposely setting it open, so that sounds like a bug to me.


Not a bug. Open classes will take demeanor into account -- if the teacher is reserved or cold towards the student, the student will require an invitation. This was deliberately added because players were asking for a way to exclude specific individuals from being able to join open classes, or likewise to make it only open to friends and so on.


- GM Dartenian


If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford

the only thing I really see as a drawback to this is that the game requires you to have more than neutral <i.e. friendly or warm> settings in order to be healed by the local NPC.

I see that as rather unrealistic. Even a hard-nosed criminal/aloof intellectual/wealthy snob/absentminded professor -- might still be willing to be treated by a "medical professional."

I'm trying to figure out what the cold and reserved demeanors mean in regards to various things like empaths touching you, and the various fluff emotes like hug and whatnot. Unfortunately, elanthipedia is less than helpful in this regard.

Could someone give me the run down on these? Or perhaps update elanthipedia with your knowledge? Thanks.

-Evran

Crackling with unspent rage since 386A.V.

Cold doesn't prevent listening to a class, that's a Set command. Both cold and reserved prevent you from being touched by an Empath and avoids other things like hugs and kisses, for a more specific run-down I'd suggest trying it out for yourself. A couple other things that change are the EAT <person> commands, instead of nibbling on someone you try to bite them.

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Your mind hears Sahfra thinking, "Always the temples. We will burn your temple to the ground."
Your mind hears Zaslamel thinking, "shutup you undead wench"
Your mind hears Malfrien thinking, "hiya Zasl."
Your mind hears Zaslamel thinking, "Hiya Malf"

There's the default to closed thing and there's also an avoid that prevents people from trying to teach you something, I believe it was put in place so people couldn't see if they had higher ranks than you in something by attempting to teach a class in that skill to you back when teachers had to have more ranks than students.

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Your mind hears Sahfra thinking, "Always the temples. We will burn your temple to the ground."
Your mind hears Zaslamel thinking, "shutup you undead wench"
Your mind hears Malfrien thinking, "hiya Zasl."
Your mind hears Zaslamel thinking, "Hiya Malf"

>> Oh.. I think I remember Caelumia posting about this. It makes your classes default to closed, yes?

Reserved and Cold both make your classes default to closed. TEACH OPEN does not override this for some reason and it is very, very annoying and it's the only reason I am not reserved all the time.

The SET command he's talking about does two things: one, it prevents you from being taught anything (which under old teaching was a way of seeing if someone had less skill than you) and it prevents people who ASSESS from seeing a relative skill level (basic, advanced, etc) of a class you are teaching.

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Rev. Reene

Fenyr says to you, "You. Have. Issues."

Oh right, AVOID not SET.

Derp.

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Rev. Reene

Fenyr says to you, "You. Have. Issues."

Daenar, I've been around a while as well and I didn't say anything about it defaulting a class closed I said, "Cold doesn't prevent listening to a class". You can always listen to any class no matter what your demeanor is, the only thing that prevents you from listening to a class is the avoid teach setting which only makes it so people can't offer to teach you a class.

I didn't say anything about having a class you are teaching being automatically set to closed. The reason I said "Cold doesn't prevent listening to a class" is because I have my demeanor set to cold and listen to classes all the time without having the teacher befriended.

Your demeanor is cold.

Click help for more information.
>befriend list
You don't have any friends!
>
Xxxxxx begins to lecture you on the proper usage of the Arcana skill.
To learn from him, you must LISTEN TO Xxxxxx.
(LISTEN HELP for more options)
>lis to xxxxxx
You begin to listen to Xxxxxx teach the Arcana skill.

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Your mind hears Sahfra thinking, "Always the temples. We will burn your temple to the ground."
Your mind hears Zaslamel thinking, "shutup you undead wench"
Your mind hears Malfrien thinking, "hiya Zasl."
Your mind hears Zaslamel thinking, "Hiya Malf"

As far as I know, there is no difference between Cold and Reserved except messaging aesthetics. I assume the same is true of the other two?

The system is pretty underdeveloped.

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"...I am inclined to think the focus of the [Warmage's] spellbook should be ways to make things explode, to help you make things explode, or to assist your victim in exploding." -Armifer

I don't think there should be a befriend guild option... but I also don't think <Touch> should not be lumped in with someone stepping into your personal space for a hug or to lick your face.

It's unplayable, unrealistic, and unfun!

Also those three to what someone else said about demeanor and classes.

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"...I am inclined to think the focus of the [Warmage's] spellbook should be ways to make things explode, to help you make things explode, or to assist your victim in exploding." -Armifer

I've discovered that both COLD and RESERVED prevent NPC healers from healing you. :/

-Evran

* Prophet Hotoke Fuku-Nyorai snuck out of the shadow he was hiding in.

I really, really dislike the idea of a guild-based demeanor option, unless it somehow hinges on them having their profession on.

Make TOUCH an avoid again. LET TEACH OPEN OVERRIDE DEMEANOR FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

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Rev. Reene

Fenyr says to you, "You. Have. Issues."

>>I really, really dislike the idea of a guild-based demeanor option, unless it somehow hinges on them having their profession on.

Profession or a (pretend) guild title? :D

I would love something like that.

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You drop some gum.

Jaedren picks up some dirt-coated gum.

Jaedren begins chewing the gum.

Jaedren suddenly fades away.

You say, "Oh gross."