Posted by Imbrogno on July 9, 2000 at 16:19:32:
In Reply to: It was horrific RP and here's why posted by Hey on July 9, 2000 at 13:09:16:
There are a number of situations where the Law is arguably wrong in an OOC sense, it's NEVER wrong in an IC sense because it's been fashioned by divinity and hardly anybody denies deferrence to the gods when their existance is undeniable. We, in the real life might find it easy to be atheists(or agnostics for the more "politically correct" nonbelievers), because we have no proof beyond faith that he's up there on his cloud looking down on us...but I digress...
The law states that providing assistance to a criminal is itself a violation of the law. Blinding special guards and an arbiter, regardless of intent (as was stated, and rightly so by Kopentol in the log) is impeding justice. Now we can sit here at our computers and say that the law is wrong or is at best muddled on this instance, but as any firm believer in RP knows, Therans can have no idea what is right and wrong based on our more modern and refined sense of the words.
Yelling in Galadon that the Rock just used the people's elbow on Triple H is poor RP. Yelling "Merry Christmas" is poor RP. Doing your job, believing that the word of law is right in every instance, and sticking to your guns is NOT poor RP.
Like I said before, OOC it was a pretty shitty thing to do. Conjurers are constantly getting the shaft at the hands of the law. If you attack a conjurer in the city and his elemental assists against you and uses an area attack, the conjurer has violated the law and should be made wanted. Is that fair from and OOC standpoint? No, no it's not, but it IS from an IC standpoint because intent means dick these days the conjurer violated the word of the law.
I don't think The Arcane posted this log because he thought it was poor RP, but I could be wrong. I think he understands my above points, because he knows that RP and ICness can explain away just about anything.