Posted by Drinks with Evil. on November 3, 2000 at 15:31:18:
In Reply to: Bwahahahahahaha! Muahahahahahahahahha! posted by Addicted and laughing on November 3, 2000 at 08:58:49:
> In fact, wasn't it Nepenthe 1) Yep, but I think it was more to make a point about
> who said something to the effect that if he knew a person
> had a trigger to quaff when summoned, he *would* emote
> "has summoned you" to take advantage of it? Isn't this
> a use/abuse of game mechanics? Doesn't it qualify as
> use of OOC knowledge?
triggers and using a situation easily recognized.
2) Situationally dependent maybe.
a) emote has summoned you.
b) emote suggests Fate has summoned you.
c) emote leaves east.
I would guess a. hits more triggers than b. and
would be considered more questionable. c. is
something I see every now and then and is usually
dismissed as a head fake kind of thing but really
falls into the same sort of category as a). There
are a ton of things to do with emotes. If you are
going to use triggers, be aware that you can get
screwed. I think you've seen the pity factor the
Pantheon has for people who get screwed by triggers.
On the other hand, you probably don't want to keep
emoting 'has summoned you.' during raids for fun.
3) If you learn it IC, it ain't OOC. For example, if
I suspect player X has a trigger to get things from
his sleeves, I know giving him another pair of 'em
might hose that trigger. "It's not my fault he can't
tell his sleeves apart", if you want to rationalize.
This really isn't much different from slipping a
sleeping character a potion, and hope they go for a
'quaff potion' instead of 'quaff return'.