Posted by Arcana on April 24, 2000 at 21:04:36:
In Reply to: I believe Imm's should not anath mortals. Very long. posted by Graatch(VIP) on April 24, 2000 at 13:41:26:
You're absolutely right. Imms anath'ing is very ooc, and breaks the boundaries set by the game for roleplaying a character.
As for Shokai's... thought... normally I like Shokai, but he's basically saying "You're all too stupid to play a non-cookie-cutter right, so we'll watch over and make sure you play the role "right"...
Bad bad bad, Shokai. I like you, too, but you're off in this case. The imms should enforce *roleplaying* in general, never, ever ever ever a certain TYPE of roleplay. Check around the arcanas, Shokai, you'll find at least one with a less-than-pure-evil role fleshed out. Plus, any idget knows that 'evils helping evils' really is for the better good of the cabal... so long as they abide by the strict legalities of the laws and avoid being caught, no immortal big brother should be hovering around saying whether or not an imperial is evil enough. If the imperial contributes to the Empire enough to please the mortals, then his role is valid, and none of the immortals' business. A better use for their time would be writing quests to encourage what they perceive as better imperial roleplaying, or thinking up code to favor that roleplay, or playing a mortal and demonstrating that roleplay, or useing mobs to gently pull threads to shape the cabal with mortal aid.
This pound-pound-pound 'sharing information, anath' shit makes the game less fun and less versatile. It is not the immortals' place to do these things. I have at least three specific instances of anath's in my mind that were petty, anti-Empire, and did nothing but discourage me from playing my imperial. If they'd been done by a mortal, I would give less than a shit... that's a mortal leader's job and right. An imm has better things to do, as I've listed.