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Aug-27-2004 13:18

Ben, please help! It appears that one of our agency members took things from the locker, then promply quit our agency. She is still currently wearing the exact items we're missing, and she's brand new to the game, so she has had no chance to win the EXACT items we lost the day before she quit. Is there anything we can do, or should I send her a message myself? Please help!

Aug-27-2004 15:15

Well it is doubtful this happened by accident. You don't by accident sell first all of your own items, and then take 4 items out of a locker, all of which carefully picked.

I am not surprising that this happened. Like in real life, you sometimes think you are part of a community, and then someone stabs you in the back.

Then again, some of us truly look at this as a game, where there are no rules or borders. And cheating an agency out of equipment, is part of the game.

I am actually a trained lawyer, but refuse to practice my profession, because of the simple realization that I could not hide behind things like "everybody deserves to be defended." Other people, truly live and breath by this rule. And feel that a defendant should get off, if their lawyer plays the game well.

However, as in real life and in here. Game or not. Behind each detective, and each agency there are real people. This unfortunately in our agency, caused some distrust. A matter of "who has done it?", "who in the agency can not be trusted?"

Perhaps some of the agencies should get together, and create a black list. I for one, would answer a director of any agency who this detective was, if they would directly ask me.

There are many directors, whom help out directors of other agencies. I think this is really cool. When we have months of trying won our first treasure hunt, the first congratulations actually came in was from Bella Luna, she had been rooting for us to win one.

That's just really cool. This doesn't make her a cool detective, but a cool person behind the detective.

Aug-27-2004 15:28

yeah, my sypmpathies are with you since that happened to us a while ago,

Aug-27-2004 16:13

The problem is when our locker got full and there was a lot of stuff we didn't need we sold the cheap stuff because nobody used it anymore. so you really can't label your stuff.I mean you really don't want like a magnifying glass hanging around.

Aug-27-2004 16:14

Thanks Fonzie. I am just glad, that the directors are speaking up about it now.

Aug-27-2004 16:16

Yeah the pain is, some equipment you can buy new. But once you are already playing at incredibly hard favours, there is no way you can replace a white lab coat. Unless there is someone in your agency that is playing at lower level, and happens to get it.

Aug-27-2004 16:31

our locker was far from full, and the locker had some pretty nifty things in it, but when i got back, there was just a scarf and a switchblade or two, i do have my suspicions but i wont say who

Aug-27-2004 17:59

Ooooh man Fonzie, I feel so bad for you. At least we had a full locker, with doubles and everything. We did a lot of hard work to get it, and what if we one day showed up and found a scarf and switchblade.

The one that joined us, luckely left most of the equipment. She just sold her own, and took 4 items out of our good stuff. It is not the equipment really, it is the principle of it. Truly sad, that people have to play a game this way.

Aug-27-2004 18:18

jstkdn (how DO you pronounce that?) - I agree - and brings us back to the point of wanting a way to get some of the favors from earlier hunts.

Aug-27-2004 18:21

Thanks bigdoc. And it is spelled as JuSTKiDdiNg. :)

Aug-27-2004 18:23

another thought. When staff fall off, there tends to be a shark-like frenzy to recruit the new folks ASAP - but maybe we should ask for references. Or if someone has resigned from an agency, maybe it could say - so we could check up on them (John Doe, formerly of Overdogs).

If we were REAL sleuths, there would be a way we could uncover the past of our colleagues - THAT might be fun.