Posted by Nepenthe(IMM) on April 26, 2000 at 01:38:17:
In Reply to: Comments on Shokai, Zulg and Pend's posts below. posted by Graatch on April 25, 2000 at 15:35:01:
I thought that example might come up, and I hope you don't mind me commenting now that this character has been gone a year or more.
I remember having a discussion or two with Bria about him at the time he was playing, re: how she intended to balance the value of letting the character play out his role (which was obviously not one that had the law as a first priority) vs. the value of other players not getting screwed over too far by a corrupt Arbiter having free reign. . . .Arbiter being a cabal that almost demands Imm policing because of the potentially gamebreaking nature of their powers (we can get into a discussion of why that is if someone really wants, but I'm not all that interested).
She (Bria) said something to the effect that she was willing to give him (Gorgidas) a little room to play around with. . . .as long as the mortals didn't start catching him being bad. The thing that you (Graatch) probably didn't know is that there were notes to the Arbiter immortals in possibly record numbers about Gorgidas. I mean. . .sure, you expect a few complaints by someone who's just pissed that they died about even the best Arbiters, but Gorgidas got a lot of them. Further, there were no small number of notes alleging misbehavior on his part to the imms by other Arbiters. At some point I think the Arbiter Imm collective decided the camel's back had been broken.
Now, maybe some or all of those note-writers were lying and they didn't honestly catch Gorgidas doing something wrong (though I'm sure you could appreciate the irony of that); however, I can verify that there were a damn lot of them written. At that point, is it inappropriate for the imms to intervene? I don't think that it is.