Re: FIRED!!!

["ShrineGuard" <shrineguard@shrineguard.com>]

So sorry to see you go...Sounds to me as if the Admins were a little out of line...After all, how fun is it to play a role that is shaped by the admins?  And not being able to say anything at your own trial is horrible...I sympthaize with you fully, and wish you luck in whatever you choose to do.

  --Baroness Cathyn Venhei

>Greetings and salutations my fellow RPers on DuneIII.
>I am Jeon, once Emperor of the Known Universe. or more
>precisely I played him. Unfortunately, I have been
>sacked from that role. 
>
>This missive is very difficult to write, as I intend
>to avoid a personal attack on any individual. Instead,
>I should state the reason for this sacking, the admins
>dislike communicating with me, and feel that I have
>not sufficiently changed the character of Jeon to meet
>their needs. To be fair to them, their needs would, in
>their minds, be the same as the MUSH's. Some may
>agree, and others chose not to. 
>
>The reason for my sacking has nothing to do with my
>running of a faction, or for going out of my way to
>discourage RP. No, they dislike talking to me. They
>dislike my opposition to their attempts to script the
>character of Jeon. This is part of the necessity of
>removing a thinking human being from the character.
>You cannot script someone, when their consent is
>needed. So, bye bye.
>
>Now, I did offer to come up with a solution that
>allowed me to keep Jeon, and make it easier for them
>to communicate with me. But they had already met in
>secret, and already decided to axe me. Now, the admins
>didn't do so necessarily out of malice. Noone is
>saying they were out to get me, but their plans work
>better when the Emperor is controlled by the admins
>and by the admins alone.
>
>My concern is that a) they voted in secret without
>giving me an opportunity to make things right. To be
>fair to them, they'll say they tried for months to
>compromise with me, b) they want to script a
>character, any character. Many of us came here for the
>consent basis of the MUSH. And whether it works or not
>is not the question, it was the rule. Consent has
>steadily proven a problem for them. And they have been
>steadily eroding it. Now, consider for a moment what
>this means. I was told repeatedly this is not a
>democracy, the admin have ultimate control. Is this
>why you joined Dune? I am not saying it has come to it
>yet, but I see frightening parrallels. Whenever a
>government, of a game or a nation, relies upon the
>finality of their judgement, even against reasonable
>appeals, there is something frighteningly wrong.
>Imagine, if in the middle of RP, you got a page, a
>little tap on the shoulder, 'We have taken a vote, you
>no longer fit our vision for the MUSH, please select
>another character promptly, this one will be killed.'
>And remember, they already did it to a player.
>Remember Lichinvar. Perhaps they have done it to
>others? They are awfully secretive, it's hard to know.
>They even said they'd keep my sacking a hush hush 'to
>protect my privacy' in all fairness to them.
>
>I cannot ask you to leave for me. Some of you don't
>know me, and some of you have made commitments to your
>facheads you should keep. But perhaps, they can be
>persuaded by your words. Am I asking for you to demand
>my reinstatement? No, I am asking you to express how
>you feel about this, in your own words. Maybe you
>agree, by all means tell them. Maybe you disagree,
>again tell them. I am asking for you to take control
>and make the MUSH your own, what you want it to be,
>not what your paternalistic admin (who know what's
>best for you) have decided for you.
>
>Yours ever and always,
>Jeon
>
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