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<blockquote data-quote="The Lone Corndog" data-source="post: 75283" data-attributes="member: 3153"><p><strong>The secret plan...</strong></p><p></p><p>To the casual reader, it may appear that Speaks and I may have erred in not telling Raven that the Plan was hush-hush. The casual reader would be incorrect. Those of you who have already passed through the hallowed halls of higher education, or some other similar establishment, may recall those asinine little ice-breaker games some 'genius' in the realm of 'student development' decided would be a Good Thing to inflict on new students (or new members of any similar group).</p><p> </p><p> One such game goes like this: put a group of people in a circle, say twenty folks, and have one person whisper a message to the person next to them. Nothing short and memorable, nothing too long - maybe two or three sentences. Each person in turn whispers the message to the person next to them, til the message works back around to the initial whisperer. Then, the last message is compared to the original. The chances of the message actually being vaguely like the original are roughly the same as seeing flying pigs without outside chemical aid. This is more or less amusing, depending on how low your tolerance for idiocy is, how faithfully the participants try to pass the message along, how often a butterfly flaps its wings over the poppy fields of the Golden Triangle, whatever. </p><p></p><p> Now, to bring this back to our situation, imagine that Speaks is the originator of the message, that Rel is the ultimate recipient, and Raven is the group of eighteen people in between the two. We haven't figured out why, exactly, but Raven's player has an absolute gift for creative interpretation and recitation of such things. He assures us it is unintentional, but I'm not...totally...convinced. Apparently, our little ploy to feed disinformation to the opposition has not succeeded as well as we'd like. Guess we'll just have to kill 'em the hard way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Lone Corndog, post: 75283, member: 3153"] [b]The secret plan...[/b] To the casual reader, it may appear that Speaks and I may have erred in not telling Raven that the Plan was hush-hush. The casual reader would be incorrect. Those of you who have already passed through the hallowed halls of higher education, or some other similar establishment, may recall those asinine little ice-breaker games some 'genius' in the realm of 'student development' decided would be a Good Thing to inflict on new students (or new members of any similar group). One such game goes like this: put a group of people in a circle, say twenty folks, and have one person whisper a message to the person next to them. Nothing short and memorable, nothing too long - maybe two or three sentences. Each person in turn whispers the message to the person next to them, til the message works back around to the initial whisperer. Then, the last message is compared to the original. The chances of the message actually being vaguely like the original are roughly the same as seeing flying pigs without outside chemical aid. This is more or less amusing, depending on how low your tolerance for idiocy is, how faithfully the participants try to pass the message along, how often a butterfly flaps its wings over the poppy fields of the Golden Triangle, whatever. Now, to bring this back to our situation, imagine that Speaks is the originator of the message, that Rel is the ultimate recipient, and Raven is the group of eighteen people in between the two. We haven't figured out why, exactly, but Raven's player has an absolute gift for creative interpretation and recitation of such things. He assures us it is unintentional, but I'm not...totally...convinced. Apparently, our little ploy to feed disinformation to the opposition has not succeeded as well as we'd like. Guess we'll just have to kill 'em the hard way. [/QUOTE]
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