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

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Stacy Stroud <sstroud at uky.campuscwix.net>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA] A reading suggestion, and two totally unrelated
questions
> Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 3:11 PM
> 
> >  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?

	Well, the first clue that he might have been innocent is that there are
two different stories circulating on how she died.  One is that a bottle,
either already broken or broken as events progressed, was used in a sex
act.  The other is that she was crushed by the aptly-named Fatty until her
internal organs ruptured.  I wish I could remember where I read this, but a
likelier story than the usual stories of it I read (which usually end with
a play on the name "Virginia Rappe" as "Virgin Rape" and a dark hint about
the occult significance of the whole thing), is that Ms. Rappe was the
victim of a botched abortion and it was just Fatty's bad luck to be with
her when she bled out.	

Kevin "Professor Bobo" Mowery _____________________ profbobo at io.com
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deep that I begin to question whether the author does, indeed, have a
body."
                       --ratmm's Norb on the "Seven Stars MSTing"
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> 
> 
> >	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
>