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<blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6870303" data-attributes="member: 6777052">You're describing latter-day America and saying he doesn't live there. That's okay. Threbes isn't in America. Threbes is in a completely different world where the social mores are utterly different. They are whatever I choose to make up.So far, you know that it's a world where a retired adventurer who has survived to reach 18th level despite having an Int of 5 has accumulated sufficient money and contacts to set up a university and make his own rules.Rules like, all ideas and discoveries made by students and staff are the property of the university and claiming personal credit for them is fraud.Rules like, secretaries don't answer the door. That's the receptionists' job.And so on.You see, I can just go on making stuff up about this gnome guy and the more you tell me I'm not allowed to make it up my way because the world I'm making up is not the same as the world you live in, the more interesting and amusing it becomes.Acknowledgements&quot;We would like to thank [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION] for his stimulating and thought-provoking contribution to the development of this fiction.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BoldItalic, post: 6870303, member: 6777052"] You're describing latter-day America and saying he doesn't live there. That's okay. Threbes isn't in America. Threbes is in a completely different [i]world[/i] where the social mores are utterly different. They are whatever I choose to make up. So far, you know that it's a world where a retired adventurer who has survived to reach 18th level [i]despite having an Int of 5[/i] has accumulated sufficient money and contacts to set up a university and make his own rules. Rules like, all ideas and discoveries made by students and staff are the property of the university and claiming personal credit for them is fraud. Rules like, secretaries don't answer the door. That's the receptionists' job. And so on. You see, I can just go on making stuff up about this gnome guy and the more you tell me I'm not allowed to make it up my way because the world I'm making up is not the same as the world [i]you[/i] live in, the more interesting and amusing it becomes. [U]Acknowledgements[/U] "We would like to thank [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION] for his stimulating and thought-provoking contribution to the development of this fiction." [/QUOTE]

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