[UA] A reading suggestion, and two totally unrelated questions

[Stacy Stroud]

>  Sadly, the book also keeps alive the myth that Fatty Arbuckle
>killed Virginia Rappe, but other than that it's top-notch.

I've read about this myself recently, in a couple of sources, but usually
it's presented as a maybe-he-did-and-maybe-he-didn't sort of thing.
(Granted, usually the authors are kind of pushing the juicier maybe-he-did
end.)  Are there elements of the story, perhaps usually left out or glossed
over in the sensationalized accounts, that make it very likely that
Arbuckle was innocent?


>	Okay, first question: Is anyone else getting their messages doubled-up?

Nope, not from UA.  Strangely, I did just get a friend's message doubled
up, but nothing from the list.

>	Next question: I know this will come up in my game sooner or later
>(knowing my group, within about 3 minutes of the time I start running).  If
>a good, relatively honest cop violates the law, what level of Self check
>should that be?  I'm thinking around a 4 or 5, myself.  Opinions?

Probably depends a lot on the circumstances.

Casual vigilantism, or breaking the law just because it's inconvenient,
would probably be a pretty high-level check for your honest cop.

But breaking the law in a situation that the law clearly was not designed
to handle -- say, when dealing with some mystical menace that could not be
arrested or incarcerated in the normal way -- would likely be a lower-rank
stress, one that the cop could pretty easily become hardened to if he's
going to continue as a part of the occult underground.

Another factor would be whether the cop actually buys the "claws of the
tiger" argument (and is thus willing to participate in the informal
conspiracy to keep the occult underground beneath the notice of the general
population), or whether he would prefer to *become* the tiger's proverbial
teeth, and drag magick out into the light where the normal legal system
*can* be adapted to deal with it.


Stacy Stroud
sstroud at uky.campuscwix.net