Re: FIRED!!!

["Puma PumaPuma" <daddypuma@hotmail.com>]

>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.

    However, Jeon was the Emperor, and therefore the most important 
character on the game. I question if said character should have even been a 
PC to begin with. Anyway, more about all that later.

>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.

    It _is_ their game. They built it, they run it, they listen to us whine. 
We're simply guests. Having been a wizard elsewhere before, I had to decide 
what side of the 'players or game' argument I was on. I have seen MUSHes 
come and go because a wizard had a clique of players and would defend them 
against all other admins and 'abuses' of their characters. That game fails. 
I've seen 'consent' based games where players shout that a wizard or staffer 
has 'abused' them, and the staffer is put on trial.. of course the game 
falls apart after that, because the players know that if they complain loud 
enough, someone will get fired from staff. The only way to have a 
long-running game is for the wiz-corps to put their collective foot down so 
the players know that staff is in charge. Period. If they decide something, 
that's it. There aren't layers and layers of appeals, there's not a 'trial'. 
We are guests on a game made by these people. They have graciously offered 
us a chance to play here.. they don't owe us anything. If they do something 
we don't like, we can leave. We shouldn't try to ruin their game by asking 
the other players to pressure their faction heads and admins.
      That being said, there is something to be said about not being so 
arbitrary.. and maybe things were handled badly, I don't know.. but fankly, 
it's not really my business.

>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

                                      Aurelia
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