almost every day that i play gw2 i want to say something to another player like "Pardon me, I'm sorry to be a bother but I'm horribly lost and I'm told that the Springer ranch is nearby, you wouldn't happen to know the way?" but i don't do it because i'm 100% sure i'd be made fun of mercilessly
@Rosemary most of the time when people try to engage with other players as characters in the world it's in starting towns and it's just longform rp that happens to be in gw2 chat as opposed to, say, discord