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- From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
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- Subject: Re: MU* keeness
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- References: <1993Jan27.131527.4743@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:07:19 +0000
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- In article <1993Jan27.131527.4743@midway.uchicago.edu>
- rivk@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
-
- >Just a note on getting permission for non-riders to be allowed
- >to hear dragons on the MUSHes... for the cases of people who want
- >to say they hear all dragons, period, this seems like an obvious
- >requirement and I have no problem with it. I do know, though, that
- >on SouCon there've been a number of cases where an individual rider
- >chose, for plot reasons in a specific one-time circumstance, to use
- >a '*do w *' command to allow a nonrider to hear their dragon on the
- >given occasion -- usually startling the hell out of the nonrider,
- >which was part of the point. I've never heard of anyone complaining
- >as long as (a) it's the rider's choice, not the nonrider who hears,
- >(b) the riders use some discretion on how much they go around doing
- >this.
-
- This is where the *dragon* talks to a non-rider - it was stated earlier
- that this is quite permissible (Jaxom heard comments from (at least)
- Mnementh, other people (including of course Robinton) were spoken to on
- occasion, and as you say it startled the **** out of them <g>).
-
- The only objection that I've seen is to people who can 'overhear'
- dragons. In the books the only person to do that regularly was Aramina
- - she couldn't block them out. The others who could hear dragons seem
- to have had to want to do so (Lessa and Brekke), and then it seems (my
- impression) to have been more like a conversation (the human talks to
- the dragon first, and then the dragon replies explicitly to that
- human, or the dragon 'calls' to the human in an emergency).
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