[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] The Player with No Name

["Baron von Skippy" <bvs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>{{ _The Player with No Name_
>
>[[
>
>My name is not important.
>
>You know who I am.  Perhaps not my specific identity, my particular status, my exact 
>score, but you know me.  Because I am like you.
>
>I am like you, but I am not like you.  The Administrator knows who I am...he has to.  
>But you do not.  All you need to know is that I am not you.
>
>My ideas are not your ideas.  But they become your ideas.  They infect your mind, 
>they react to your reasoning processes, and they result in action on your part, 
>whether embracing or rejecting them.  And thus do you become a part of them.
>
>My motives are not your motives, and yet they are.  I want to play, I want to gain, I 
>want to win.  As do you.  You may not want me to win, but you want there to be a 
>winner.  And that which makes a winner potentially makes you one.
>
>So what I do that makes a winner is something you may want, since you may be the 
>one to win.  My idea of what makes a winner becomes part of your idea of winning.  
>Even though we both want to win.  You thus know me, even if you do not know me.
>
>You know there is a game.  But I am a player in that game.
>
>You know there are rules.  But I make the rules.
>
>You know me.  You know I am one who can and will affect your world.  And you may 
>well decide that that's what you want to happen.
>
>I am a player.
>
>And I bear a proposal.
>
>]]
>
>In Rule 19, before the paragraph that begins with "An Unauthored Proposal", insert 
>the following paragraph:
>
>"An Anonymous Proposal is submitted by a proposing entity privately to the 
>Administrator.  The identity of the proposing entity is not revealed until the conclusion 
>of voting on the proposal.  Anonymous Proposals have a proposal cost of 2BW, a 
>passage bonus of (3d6)/2 points and one charm, and a failure penalty of 1d6 points 
>and one charm."
>
>}}
>
>(Thought about submitting this anonymously, but that didn't fit in the same room as 
>my ego.)
>
-Does anything? (Sorry, it was too easy, I had to take it...)-

[[BvS]]
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