The Parable of the Thief

The son of a thief saw that his aging father was becoming too feeble to carry out his profession and thought, "If we is too old to work who will carry out the profession? Who will earn the money our family needs to survive? I must learn the trade."

One night the father took the young man and broke into a small house near the river. Upon entering the abode, they searched the house and found a large chest. The father carefully opened the chest and told his son to get in. The boy was confused but did as his father said. Upon entering the box, the father, quickly closed and locked it. The father left the house and crept to the front door of his same house, and knocked loudly upon it, whereas he quietly slipped into the night.

The residents got up and lit candles. Finding that burglars had entered their home they quickly searched it but found nothing. The whole time, however, the young bot was within the chest thinking of his cruel father, when an idea flashed upon him. He made the noise of a gnawing rat. When the lid was unlocked the youth jumped up and ran. Outside he took a large stone and threw it into the river. His pursuers thought the boy was in the river and quickly gathered to it. By this time the boy had reached the safety of his house and his father, whom he blamed for his narrow escape. When the son told his father of his adventure, the father remarked, "There! You have learned the art!"

I suggest that in that order for role-playing to become more prominent in our world we need to teach the young while they are young. While some have no desire to do so, it is something that can be slowly cultivated with most with a few simple steps. While I think we can all think of quite a few and I hate to bore people for too much time, here is one that bothers me, personally, quite a bit.

1. Make people write a description for there character, before they can be inguilded. There are so many characters out there without descriptions. It is a simple thing that will start the player on creating a deeper character.

2. Oh and one more... Enforce roleplaying within your guilds. Tell people when they are inguilded about it, give favors for good roleplaying, etc... ramble..ramble..ramble


At any rate, even this post shows a bit of the OCC plague that sweeps our continent. And I apoligize.

Valor

Penned by my hand on the 13th of Daedalan, in the year 237 AF.