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Jun-18-2007 17:17

"To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source." (Source: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary)

People who copy and paste holus bolus other people's already approved Random Mystery intro's into their own and then claim them as their own...

SUCK!

I can't make it any clearer than that :)

Sep-11-2007 19:19

I understand your concerns with the time period thing. I was thinking about quoting from works prior to 1920. This should help with keeping in the time period.

Quoting from works within that time period (1920 - 1940) would probably be ok as well. But I was thinking on playing it a bit safe and just sticking to earlier works. Anything later than 1940 would not be appropriate for this game, so those works should definately not be quoted from.

- Cali

Aug-8-2008 15:46

BATS!
I had been hearing some sounds from my chimney and the ashdump door, so I had opened it up in case there was a bird that had fallen down the chimney.
Now I stood in the kitchen looking at the bats flying around, wondering what to do next, and regretting that I had such a soft heart.

..............

May be this could be an useable start for an intro? - but unfortunately I can't figure out how to continue from here...
- so I thought that I would just leave the idea out for free. If anyone wants to make a complete intro out of this "start", please feel free. You don't even have to quote me ;-)
It was just something that recently happened to me, and I came to think that is might become an intro in some way. :-)
Good luck :-)