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[djsampson]

[META] Why Pretend?

[Bluefire]

I have some feeling that a division may occur somewhere along the line in the story, and your introduction will decide which side you get 'put' on.

Besides, those of us pretending to be pre-crash (well, at least me) are willing to sacrifice the sentries' trust for us to improve their trust for you.

[djsampson]

Good enough reasoning for me!

[konamouse]

Yeah, I didn't understand that either. I recognized two nicks with join dates after the site was found, and both pretending to be pre-crash folks. Interesting choice to be made. I wonder how the PMs will handle it. Cause there is no way the player can know pre-crash stuff if push comes to shove.

I roleplay all the time in games (never admit to being married, younger than my real age, etc) but never beyond my knowledge base.

So, on that note: Hmmmm...which character should I try flirting with to get more information (since that is my usual MO)?

[Rogi Ocnorb]

I always wondered how you were going to explain making yourself the daughter of two characters, if the PM wanted to mess with you.

[Xestrix]

Just to make sure we're all on the same page, I never intended to portray myself as pre-crash. My post said "... this community that you've built ..."

Though I was addressed in an abiguous manner by Mkaos, so I responded in an equally ambiguos manner. I guess that turned out to mean that I was 'one of them' though that was never my intention. ^^;

In anycase, I'll continue doing all that I can given my current position.

[djsampson]

[Xestrix]

I completely agree. The shear normality of this entire thing, and the depth of real-life personality these characters have makes it very easy to forget we're playing an ARG, even knowing the information we have, it still feels like this is all real. I love how smoothly put together all of this is!

[Phaedra]

Heh, that's actually something that's come up for me in other contexts -- it's really hard for PMs to clearly communicate to players when it's "safe" for them to do something like role-play being part of the in-game world (i.e. having background knowledge of it), or, say, writing about it, or in any way inserting themselves into the story in a way beyond the roles explicitly laid out for them.

I think if you want your players to feel they can do that, you have to communicate very clearly that you're not then going to undermine them.

So far I'm getting a lot of mixed signals.

[Lysithea]

I thought that the PMs had essentially invited players to pretend to be pre-crash forum members.

link to complete blog post

[Phaedra]

Seems like, but Marie's pointed out that at least one of the people claiming to be a pre-crash Sentry has the same IP as a newcomer, which sounds like they're threatening us to call the bluff it seems like they seemed to invite us to make elsewhere.

[aisforapple]

I never meant to cause any trouble..

I simply was roleplaying as if I had been a precrash lurker... Only because on the site they stated that old members needed to re register... so I thought that was inviting the roleplay....

[Phaedra]

[danteIL]

Yes, well hindsight is 20/20, but I think the hints on the blog about this were ambiguous. From the April 13 post:

[EGo]

They could be stalling and waiting for all the packages to arrive and come together.