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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2734665" data-attributes="member: 29014">[SBLOCK=BS]Well, it looks like we are coming to an amicable agreement, which is good.  A few minor things:I find this a little bit odd (and a bit ironic) because I just received an e-mail a few minutes ago that said:Perfectly acceptable--makes sense to me.That's because you are getting the wrong idea.  What this really is "I, the DM who wrote that text, know what I said better than you and you may not have been reading clearly.  This is what it really means, so have your character react for that."  This is not the first time you misread something I wrote to say something it seemed like you preferred--The weirdest and most unusual was where I sent you an e-mail that only said 'No' and you thought it said 'Yes'.  That one was particularly hard for me to fathom, but at least afterwards I expected you would take me at my word about things like this in the future.You actually didn't want an edit for IC clarification--you wanted a total rewrite that changed the entire meaning.  My reason for believing this is that when I gave an edit for clarification, you declared it not enough--you deleted the post where you said this, but it was basically "I still see no reason to edit my post."  Let's not talk about this matter though--we're over it.Let's take a look at the quote in question--To my mind, this is clearly untrue.  I let you know it was bothering me right away, and you didn't edit it until now.  If you had, everything would have been fine.Thank you.  I am honestly glad you agree because this is the root of your more recent problems, particularly The secret is that if I had done exactly the same thing with my original post, it would have looked almost entirely as silly.  I think if you approach the next time I call for an edit remembering that I generally know what I'm talking about when I say that a sequence of responses make sense logically, that this will work better.  It's a bit of variation of this:  and this:  that is your problem:  You think that you understand what is going on in the gameworld better than the GM.  What's more, you think of your opinion as being objectively correct and the be-all-end-all, particularly if it involves your character.  In fact, it seems to me from your last few posts that you *still* think that way, but that out of respect for the fact that it is frustrating me you are willing to do what I say in the future despite the fact that you find it to be wrong to do so.  This will work for keeping the game from being disruptive, but I'm not sure that you will be happy that way.  My suggestion to you if we want to keep everyone happy is that you learn to get over this perception, so that doing the things I suggest becomes normal instead of a painful thing you do only because I told you you had to.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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