Posted by Twice Arbiter on June 7, 2000 at 18:29:13:
In Reply to: Here's my point of View. posted by Daryl(VIP) on June 7, 2000 at 15:49:29:
You put it without heat, and accurately. The mother-figure thing is annoying, and turns me off on the cabal, and is punctuated by a narrow idea of what an arbiter is, and what the arbiter cabal is about. Technically, if you listen to her, it's a cabal devoted to worship Her. Not the laws. Her. The god. With no ties to the law. If she decided to change the laws to baby-killing and crackwhores for mayors, the arbiters would be expected to show equal devotion to the changed law. Seriously. I talked to some imm through the arbie elder for about twenty minutes, and this is honestly what she believes, which in my opinion explains a lot.
And the mortals, of course, do not help. Number one, they degrade the cabal as a whole. Number two, they give Bria an excuse for her cycles of smother-love followed by chilly isolation. And number three, they don't attract the kind of players who would give the imms a reason to give the cabal more autonomy.
-Twice Arbiter, won't be Three times until the imms change
> Bria is the problem, more or less. She's not too active as an Immortal, especially when arbiters need her around, ie (time of war, etc.) I cant really blame her though, with the ever increasing number of idiots who continue to ruin CF and bring it down. So, what you have is an endless cycle of a "motherly figure" by Bria, treating her arbiters like babies, instead of soldiers. Her actions, along with 40% or greater of the arbiters being idiots continue to turn the playerbase against arbiters and their ideals, therefore, that in turn brings far less skilled players to the cabal, I digress, but thats basically why a Lord/Lady cant do much more than Induct and set a good example as an arbiter. Honesly, I hope Bria retires soon and lets Astein take over. I may be cutting my throat by saying that, but Astein's suave in his roleplay of disciplined/strict/evil character. Bria just doesn't give a shit most of the time, IMHO.