| From: | "Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: good grief |
| Date: | Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:26:08 -0800 |
>I think Mark is referring to the comments posted from Marathon, Orion,
>Mr. Bill and a couple of others when tracing someone called Dashira,
Not just him; see other messages.
>what Mark has forgotten, or not noticed, is that Dashira is an
>_extremely_ inexperienced person, and left himself wide open for
>tracing, this is something that was mentioned by Dashira's player, and
>agreed upon in PoltD and dealt with on Shadowtk. it's a shame he seems
>to have missed that bit, must have happened when the server crashed :)
I do seem to have overlooked the part about the player leaving Dashira "wide
open to tracing", but that fact has little bearing on my point. What I'm
curious about is why people would _bother_ to trace someone who spouts off
random garbage on Shadowland. The Shadowland of the sourcebooks, upon which
this forum is (I believe) based, has all manner of inanities and ad hominems
going on in it, and the vast majority of the pros who read it simply ignore
the noise or at best deign to make amused comments.
What we have here is a collection of supposed pros who are letting their dander
be "gotten up" by random posters to the board, about whom they initially know
nothing, and are taking the whole thing like some sort of antiquated blood
feud.
If I was an "evil" entity with a bone to pick with a character known to
frequent Shadowland and I suspected I could lure them into a trap by having an
agent pose as an inflammatory, inexperienced kid, I'd be all over the
opportunity. What all this exploits is a certain over-proneness to acting on
emotion that pros, in my view, should avoid. But, that's just me. =)
If people want to keep on hounding the inane and the clueless and trying to
bring them to an early grave, I'll certainly say the characters have the right,
but I'll in turn reserve the right to foment some sort of retaliation if
the "atmosphere" of Shadowland starts feeling "unsafe" for the more
respectable clientele. =)
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Major, VLSI. http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
-Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict
