Zombie Story gets student thrown in jail

[Jeff Wilder]

-Tewligan
Former Kentuckian

Are you named after a tavern, by any chance?


Jeff, Kentuckian from birth through '98

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

You've obviously never read The King in Yellow. <Painfull shiver>

Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!

But what if this kid has a history of behavior like this? What if he has a history of violence or of being a "problem kid?"

Good point, and one of the reasons it's a bad idea to make judgments based on soundbites.

 

[Tewligan]

Heh - yep! I saw many a band of questionable skill at good ol' Tewligan's while attending UofL.

 

[Hammerhead]

What's the King in Yellow? I played in a game where some psychos were trying to re-enact it, but I never found out what it was.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I can point out one. Actually it was a movie, not a book, but anyway. Right about the same time The Day After hit American airwaves, a similar movie showed in the Soviet Union. It depicted the afteraffects of a nuclear war that included radioactive fallout and a horrendous nuclear winter. This changed public sentiment about nukes, which contributed to the arms control talks with Reagan back in the mid-80's.

"The Day After" scared the out of me! At that time, ANYTHING regarding nukes scared the out of me.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

This was another reason that V:TM wasn't working for us - I'm Torm the True, and I'm not sure I could play a BAD guy even if I wanted to. My vampire was in life a wealthy, already eccentric muti-millionaire who was brought over for the resources he could bring to Clan Ventrue. Just before his sire was destroyed (by werewolves, I believe) and thus unable to explain anything to my character or tell other members of the Clan that he was successful. So, suddenly possessed of incredible powers and an inability to go outside during the day, my guy, of course, sets about becoming ... dum dum dum ... Batman!

The other vampires were, needless to say, not amused.

Despite my liking of various villians in movies and such, I don't think I could play a bad guy either...... I'm usually around the NG in alignment... as it's a "happy medium" between chaotic and lawful... I seem to do better with NG-aligned characters, paladins being a bit of a stretch for me.

Vampiric Batman: That's funny!

 

[Desdichado]

What's the King in Yellow? I played in a game where some psychos were trying to re-enact it, but I never found out what it was.

It's a novel by R. W. Chambers, which -- although seperate from -- is often considered a part of the Cthulhu mythos. In that novel, there is a play called "The King in Yellow" which, if you read (or worse, watch) you lose bookoos of sanity, and it summons Hastur from Carcosa, or something similarly nasty (can't remember the exact specifics; but the point is, it's certainly a dangerous piece of fiction! Err, the fictional "King in Yellow" is dangerous to the characters in the real King in Yellow, that is.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

It may seem harsh to crack down on the kid for his story, but here locally, there was a rash of "hit lists" being sent to various schools with names of principals, teachers and students on them. The school system and the police don't know if they were actually serious or not but they took them seriously. There were several kids arrested and charged for sending these "hit lists". Sure, the later ones were most likely copycats cashing in on the "real ones" but since the officials can't be sure if it's a joke, they take the more extreme path to err on the side of safety for all children. Frankly, I don't blame them, especially after Columbine and 9/11....

I remember a time when I was in school where they didn't say much if you had pocketknives in your possession but they cracked down on the kids who carried hunting rifles to hunt either before or after school from bringing those onto campus and having them in the gun rack in their pickup trucks. Ahhh... the simpler times..... Makes me glad I'm out of school.....

 

[Jesus_marley]

There is a world of difference between a "hit list" containing names of school officials and students, and a story about zombies.

 

[Xath]

Here's some more info, including the article published in the Kentucky papers.

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1491