HarpyNet does NOT exist IC

[Kenneth Ashland]

Ok, this has been said previously, but:

HARPYNET DOES NOT EXIST IN-CHARACTER

I have had happen, on several occasions recently, characters approaching The Harpy IC with things like:

"Are you dumb? Arlo isn't a Tremere!"

See, the WIKI (the program that generates the Status page) has the ability, from time to time, to read things in error, and the script can produce said errors without my knowledge.

Even so, this is NOT INFORMATION YOU KNOW IC

Additionally, Ross is human (I know, hard to believe). Ross can make spelling errors (especially for intensely exotic character names). Ross can forget certain status details over the week. Ross can leave off ST NPCs who are only occasionally present IC.

Just because you see something wrong on HarpyNet does not mean it is true IC information. If you have an issue, talk to or email me OOC and ask first.

HarpyNet is a tool for record-keeping. That is all. It is not gospel, and is not something your character can see, or access, or have any idea about IC.

If HarpyNet must have an IC Avatar, it is that big, white notebook I occasionally carry around, or the small notebook I keep in my pocket.

THAT'S IT

So please, please, PRETTY please keep these things in mind before you mouth-off to me IC, or complain to me OOC, about something dealing with HarpyNet. I put a lot of my free time, both IC and OOC, in recording your names, status, boons, and information, and when I get zapped for something that is either human error, or something your character would not know to complain about anyway, it causes me all sorts of frustration.

Thank you.

[Paige Fairchild]

I was also under the impression when I was a lesser harpy, that some of the rumors in HarpyNet can be used as "stuff I heard because I hang out with the Harpy and he knows all the good gossip", which is also part of the reason I would post things in the rumors section at that time. That's how the whole "Miesha's the whip? She's not even Cam!" "What? She's not Cam?" "Wait, she is Cam!" minor storyline managed to happened.

[Kenneth Ashland]

That was another of those awkward "gray" areas when it came to information found on HarpyNet. When I came in, it was a veritable messageboard for rumors and gossip.

But when info on there, correct or otherwise, began to be used (yes, even by yours truly) in-character, when there was no "logical" way for mine or other characters to truly know certain facts, I locked it down to Harpies only, and all but ceased inputting anything but Status and Boons into it.

For the most part, rumors and innuendo should last only as long as people are able or willing to remember them IC.

Some allowances are made on HNet for Harpy characters who "would" be chatting with each other, since Harpy players often cannot, but for the most part it is just a Status/Boon database, now.