"Don't be frightened she's just playing in-character."

As RPers we see the game as an extension of our creativity. We do not see leveling and running missions as an end to a means. Putting our characters into situations to see how they will react and how it will affect them later based upon our own storylines is what we crave. We see the game as giving us a set of tools (and COH has given us a great set) to realize our own creativity.

Most of us will stay in-character so often that the ((OOC)) will be used when we are actually talking out of character.