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[Mikeyj]

Plus if someone who was kidnapped or "kidnapped" stopped posting, wouldn't that make UF in-game by default?

[Giskard]

[Phaedra]

[Giskard]

Well, ofcourse they do, but they only affect them indirectly. The PMs read these boards and tweak or steer their game according to what the players are doing here, yet a game's reality, plot or characters cannot be directly influenced by what happens here.

uF is here so we can discuss stuff happening with characters or opinions on characters without the characters actually knowing we are discussing anything. If stuff we say here was to be used in the game's reality, that would pose all sorts of very complex and annoying problems. That the PMs read it and use it to their benefit or the benefit of the players is something else ofcourse.

[Mikeyj]

[imbri]

There's also the Art of the Heist / HitsHerMark example. At the end of the game, HHM was killed *gasp* in game. She was quite active on the board before her in-game death which was discovered, iirc, by a photo of her dead.

[MageSteff]

[Cooler_King]

I think we may be discussing several concepts as one..

[Phaedra]

Re: I think we may be discussing several concepts as one..

[sixsidedsquare]

Another common reality buffer that fits with the real word concepts you were talking about Cooler_King is the inclusion of or reference to business/newspapers/new events that obviously don't exist. If your story centers around a large company or has a 'high profile' art theft, it is normally quite apparent to argers that these places and things don't actually exist.

[Cooler_King]

[Cooler_King]

That's it.. you have woke the beast lol. Await my upcoming esay on

The use of realistic plot devices in the further expansion of Alternate Reality Gaming including the possible effects of uber-realism on the public psyche

Or I may just call it To feel, get real!

I may just be preaching to the minority here, it certainly feels so, but none the less there may be a market out there for gamers like myself.

[Phaedra]

[konamouse]

[Lovek]

Honestly I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, but I think one could argue that while Who Is Benjamin Stove undoubtedly had a sci-fi element, that wasn't really what contributed to the players' attachment to Tucker and Debunkette.

What I'm saying is, I think that's a case where you could have actually done away with the possible aliens/crop circles, put those characters in any story, and there would still be a very high level of attachment. And I would argue that the reason for that is that those characters were very "real."

On the other hand, I didn't play any of the games Phaedra mentioned, so I assume I will be pounded into submission shortly