[the_old_crowd] OT: Corporations&Rol (was Re: Bellatrix's age, Tree, Vampires was: A Few More Twigs)

[silmariel]

Carolyn:
> Silmariel, you are priceless! Have just read this after extremely
> stressful day at work, and now glugging alcohol. I suppose you are
> talking rp games, but hope you bury a few live 'uns every now and
> again! Hopefully executives of big corporations..
>

^_^

I've got Bill targeted, you know - I wrote a joke some ten years ago that 
curiously has survived. I signed as Silmariel, and copyleft it, some sites 
list it as anomymous. I don't even know if I want the credit for it, it was 
just a fifteen minutes on going joke - Linux Commandments. ("Los Mandamientos 
de Linux", googling for mandamientos+linux appears as first results) - I'll 
translate on demand. 

Yes yes, I was talking rp (and I wouldn't admit it in other case <g>). After a 
while, one forgets to add the reference, been playing since 14. It can lead 
to amusing experiences. As the day I was walking, chatting with a friend and 
I said something like 'Are human sacrifices required or not? Because it's a 
mess, you know, you always end avoiding a legion of avengers, or the city 
guard. I can always change the deity'. Oh, the face of the two ladies that 
overheard me, what a picture.

Then we had a day in live roleplay. Three monitors and four players (not of 
age). We were representing a couple of right-hands of the city prince in a 
mission to obtain some magical stones from a smuggler, we were in the port of 
the city (that was true, and I may add that the city has a strong army 
presence), and the players were supossed to be spying from a corner, that is, 
out of sight. By the third time we had represented the 'give the little 
packet in exchange of money and make it fishy' scene, we realised what it 
would look like, if seen, so we grabbed our dignity and moved on.

Or a group of players that set a bomb and then *forget* it's there and walk 
into it. End of history.

And you'd think if you make appear a group of 50 -super armed dresed in black 
mounted in war horses- knights the players would have the common sense *to 
hide*, but no.

Silmariel, having a good day.