Re: Dies Irae
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I wasn’t there for that so I won’t comment, but it strikes me how often people get just infuriated with Scylla and how she says things. Someone else mentioned above that there were people in the DC group who would get so mad they’d quit and never come back. She does this thing with weasel words where it always seems like she’s trying to get out of something and defending herself even if there’s nothing to be defensive about. I used to bring this up to her directly, considering we had been friends, and had met in person a few times, for something like 14 years prior to the daily slog of “Scylla said this about you” messages after I quit. I bet there could have been a way to ameliorate that situation to the conclusion of all parties had the right approach been made, and think about how often it seemed that Scylla would end up taking the exact opposite approach in similar situations.
edit: this isn’t me saying that you shouldn’t be mad at Scylla about this, more speculating on whether a more skillful discussion could have prevented this from escalating
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@Popes Poor Stan. He really made Garou shine. Convinced my Bastet interacting with them was worthwhile after all!
I’ve always thought Pure Breed was a creepy, eugenicist concept if left untreated tbh, but there are versions where it’s not tied to ‘blood purity’.
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Side tangent, it was so super fun to constantly point out to folks that links on the wiki being the same color as the rest of the text… or maybe #FFFFFF vs #CCCCCC… and not having underlines to indicate… you know, link. Like multiple people bring this up, and being told we’re wrong.
But Theno mentions it once and it gets fixed instantly.
That sure was great.
Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
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@labsunlimited Like, they made me write in a whole ass breeding program into my background. When, you know, for most tribes Pure Breed will often just happen. Normal ass, no pure breed kin can drop a pure breed 5 kid, because sometimes that just happens, and they did not understand this. Because it’s not just genetic, it’s fucking spiritual too.
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@Jennkryst said in Re: Dies Irae:
But Theno mentions it once and it gets fixed instantly.
I remember this! So Scylla is deeply reactive* about anything Theno says to the extent that there were often long conversations in the staff discord about how he was acting in the player channels. Additionally, Scylla often believed that he was directly attempting to goad her. This was probably true some of the time, but maybe in like 50% of the cases that were brought up. He did tend to latch on when Scylla started to do that thing I mentioned above about the weasel words.
@Popes said in Re: Dies Irae:
Because it’s not just genetic, it’s fucking spiritual too.
This is such a crucial part of the Pure Breed background that is even mentioned in the background’s write up, but I think is generally missed in favor of… I guess eugenics?
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*and if there was anything that got a policy change or a result on Dies Irae, it was a knee-jerk reaction"And the Fool says, pointing to the invertebrate fauna feeding in the graves: 'Here a monarchy reigns, mightier than you: His Majesty the Worm.'"
Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destines -
@Popes Yuck. I wish the whole Apoc line didn’t have so much fash in its DNA, but despite the proper and nuanced readings it winds up landing in so many minds as fashy. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen doing Werewolf LARP who play it straight, like ‘what if we were just all on board with the genocidal ecofascism’?
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@labsunlimited Somehow my Get Philodox, son of Golgol Fangs-First, who decided ‘You know, kicking ass and being physically strong isn’t bad, but what about strength of character, including empathy, folks?’ not only hit Elder in play, but also helped run the tribe for most of an org larp chronicle, understood this. But, hey. What do I know, I just read the book.
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oh he DEFINITELY needled at her, but i don’t think I saw him do it over anything that wasn’t a really obvious glaring issue that had already been brought up and ignored a dozen times.
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@Prototart It just goes to show that the best way to get results is to have someone the shadow headstaffer feels is out to get her telling her what needs to be changed.
