Re: [spoon-discuss] Mentor request?

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 12, 2004, at 1:17 AM, SkArcher wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:06:23 -0500, Michael Caricofe 
> <mcaricofe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I understand that the next mentor from the pool would be Glotmorf. 
> > How does one request a Mentor?
>
> Mentors are theoretically automatically assigned. I'm not sure that 
> the roster is up-to-date though (especially seeing as Zarpint has 
> recently joined/returned... but then Zarpint may or may not be 
> requiring a mentor, i'm unsure)
>
> which begs some questions. As Zarpint the Incomplete joined as Zarpint 
> the Incomplete, is there still a Lost Soul called Athena, or not? Are 
> there 3 lost souls called The Voice? And do Lost Souls who rejoin 
> (under eir formar name) get mentored or not?

The name is irrelevant. There is a unique human being who is, under 
r13, an External Force. This External Force was a player, then it 
became a Lost Soul. It is now a player again. However, due to a slight 
miswording in the rules, it is arguable that this External Force is 
also a Lost Soul.

I would interpret the wording of r14 to imply that the declaration of 
the name Zarpint the Incomplete counts as a self renaming under r151, 
so there is no longer any object named 'Athena'.

Unless Glotmorf's Athena today.

> Anyhow, as it happens, your mentor will be assigned at some point, 
> once you are actually a player, which at the moment you aren't;
>
> Technical reasoning here: The clock is off. To become a player you 
> have to post in a public forum, and as per r3, nothing happens in a 
> public forum until the clock turns back on, at which point the 
> following happen in order

This is actually not true. r3 only delays the implementation of actions 
*taken by players*. As Mikie was not a player at the time of the 
request, it was a legal action for an External Force to take, and it 
happened immediately.

Now e's in Clock Downtime with the rest of us.

> so, at the moment, you aren't a player, because ntime isn't passing. 
> You may think things are happening, and people may talk about them in 
> the past tense, but they haven't actually occured yet.

So in fact Mikie is the only thing that's happening now, and e's 
preempted everything that's going to happen soon.

> you'll get used to this, it happens all the time. The really wierd 
> thing is when you realise that nday 10 is an illusion and that ntime 
> is all out by 1. I treat this a bit like daylight saving time, except 
> without the daylight. or the savings.

Hey, I wanted the zero-based clock. I could never understand why we 
kept this stupid one-based system.



Welcome to the game, Mikie.

--
Wonko
Award Wonko a Win.
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