An Arx Peeve Thread

[Jennkryst]

Less a peeve with Arx, and more a peeve with this guy I know…

THIS GUY I KNOW graduated from his Law School in 2.5 years instead of the usual 3 because he’s insane, and despite this fact, he was the only graduate from his school that passed the bar exam for that session.

And I’ve been trying to get him into MUSHing for a while, and my latest attempt has been to point him at Arx and say ‘you cannot be The Wizard Lawyer YET, but you might be able to be a Lawyer whomst learns majikz at some point in the future.’

The Wizard Lawyer - Lawyer who is also a Wizard, but nobody can actually prove definitively if he is or not. Defends a vampire in court because they’re on trial for eating a baby, and the defense is ‘No, your honor, I did not eat THAT baby’. Of course they eventually win because Habeas Corpus pun (literally means ‘produce the body’), and all of the things involve stalling for time while they search for proof the baby is still alive (including ‘the defendant is an ancient vampire, he must be tried by a jury of his peers!’ and ‘I am a wizard, you must have a neutral wizard to oversee the trial to make sure that I do not cast spells to sway the court’s opinion!’ and all sorts of zany shit.)

… I’m not sure how the other lawyers (IC or OOC) on Arx would respond, but it’d be hilarious to watch the chaos play out. BUT IT LIKELY NEVER WILL, AND THAT ANNOYS ME.

[crawfish]

[Testament]

@Jennkryst

[dvoraen]

@Jennkryst Paging @Herja as to whether exactly this happens in Cardia or not.

[sao]

@Jennkryst the longstanding plaint of the IC lawyers is that there’s not enough stuff to do but if you do law stuff they roster or idle out so it’s a lot like being a real lawyer in that working sucks but if you don’t work that sucks too.

[crawfish]

@sao This just makes me want to draft the Arx version of Legally Blonde.

[IoleRae]

@crawfish

I think the casual sexism that drives the Legally Blonde story probably would make it hard to adapt, wouldn’t it?

[Jennkryst]

@IoleRae Lords and Ladies game, replace sexism with classicm.

[crawfish]

@IoleRae I was mostly joking but I like the classicism idea.

STILL MOSTLY JOKING, I have enough pots and pies atm

[sao]

@crawfish now I want pot pie

[Snackness]

@crawfish now i want pie pot

[Jennkryst]

@crawfish Well I HAD decided to not pick up that one Lawyer in favor of a crafter, but now I am not so sure.

…

Also ‘lawyers are bored’ makes me want to start breaking minor laws to give them things to do.

[Herja]

If the rest of this season of the metaplot had a theme song:

Loyalties

[tsar]

so excited

[Birdie]

@Herja said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

If the rest of this season of the metaplot had a theme song:

Loyalties

Is it ironic that when I click the link the next suggest of music is titled “Traitor”

[Herja]

@Birdie

Yes. ‘Ironic.’ Not purposeful at all.

[Jennkryst]

My loyalty can be bought with sweet eldritch power and copious amounts of XP.

[sao]

If you are a prodigal, you had to accept the Faith of the Pantheon in order to bend the knee, it was a condition of you and your people not getting brutally killed.

That means that publicly professing that you don’t understand the religion is probably not a great idea politically since it’s the only thing separating you from being a dirty shav.

SIGH.

[farfalla]

@sao Also don’t say you don’t believe in the Pantheon. Saying you don’t believe in the Pantheon is saying you don’t believe in the concept of fidelity, etc. For most people it’s literally just virtues not actual beings.

“I don’t believe in the Pantheon gods.” “You don’t believe in HONOR???”

[Testament]

@farfalla I once played with someone who played a rather high level character within the nobility that stated that the character was ‘an atheist’ because so far, the concept of honor and fidelity only seemed to be followed by the peerage only when it was convenient for them.

At the time, and if I recall, this was literal years ago, that it was some kind of observation or dig at Christianity only being followed by it’s believers when again, doctrine lined up with their opinions to allow them to do so.

I understood the sentiment, even if I don’t think it was rather appropriate for the theme of the game.