Kevin's Watch

Damned if I know...the fact that he's working for Hashi? Davies? Can't remember...

--A

No, it's something tangible, that belonged to Morn.

The zone implant control? Her ID tag?

--A

Her ID tag is the correct answer!

Good going, Avatar! Your question!

Hahaha, those were the only two possessions she had really.

Ok...how did Dolph cure his crew's "space sickness?"

--A

No point in dangling that bait in front of Cord Hurn. He's recently done a retrospective on just that scene.

I'd answer...but I am hopeless at posing questions in these threads. That, and being a consistent hand-raiser got tiresome almost half a century ago.

Hahaha, that must have been what made me think of it. And it's not like you have been consistently raising your hand in here is it?

--A

I want to play by the rules...but yes, there are questions to which I know the answer, but do not respond because I am choosing not to commit to posing the next query.

Hand-raising is a separate matter, baggage from being asked (yes, back when dinosaurs roamed the planet) by too many instructors to back off and let others offer answers. Let's not go there; I think I have the discretion now to not over-answer...he said as he wrote a way-too-detailed explanation.

I have not read The Gap cycle in quite a few years (overtime for a re-read!), so I don't remember everything...not by a long measure! Still, there is a fair amount of Gap trivia that I retain.

Also, I fully admit that scholarly projects like Cord Hurn's character-wise dissection of the last two Gap books via the Dolph thread are fantastic aids to memory!

So...what is the will of the Watch? May a player in these trivia threads answer and then defer to whomever may offer a next question? Or do we want to ensure continuity by knowing that whoever provided the last correct answer is on the hook for the next question?

I'm willing to it any way you and Av and anybody else who's watching & has an opinion on the matter want to play it, Savor Dam (wow, what a convoluted sentence )!

As you say, we both know the answer to Avatar's question. And I can always come up with another Gap question.

SO, I guess I'll avoid a bending of the rules by answering Avatar's question and posting another.
Dolph told his crew the story of how he fouled his spacesuit during a high-pressure situation, to get them to accept their current situation in mental/emotional terms.

New question: In reform school, Angus had a roommate named Scarl that was supposed to reform him. Angus got Scarl out of his life by framing him.
How did Angus frame Scarl??

Wow. I don't even have a recollection of Scarl as a backstory character. Short of cracking the books, I have nothing...except a "Scarl?" scribble on my reread notes to remind me to notice this offstage story when it is told.

You gotta love the depth of an SRD tale...and those Watchers whose knowledge of and passion for this material keep finding these hidden gems.

wayfriend wrote:Where's Scarl?

Scarl is mentioned in The Real Story, in an anecdote Angus recounts to Morn.

Well, then it will get resolved early in my re-read...but since I'll have to look it up based on a clue from another player, answering here doesn't count for the purposes of this thread.

As I demonstrated in Win Wayfriend's Money a while back, in some games I have been willing to cross that line. Not here and now.

As you wish, Savor Dam. There's really only one stated rule for this game, and it puts no restrictions on how a question is answered.

Loremaster wrote:Here is the rule: Whoever answers a question correctly gets to ask the next question.

That's it, really. Nothing that requires this to be a "closed-book quiz". So, a question can be answered strictly from memory, or from doing research.
I figure that if someone wanted to go to the trouble of looking something up, then that person worked for the answer, and therefore earned it. And of course, there's no penalties whatsoever for guessing a wrong answer.

(Also, I notice that a person that correctly answers a question "gets to" ask the next question, rather than "has to" ask the next question. Interesting.)

Above, I wrote:SO, I guess I'll avoid a bending of the rules by answering Avatar's question and posting another.
Dolph told his crew the story of how he fouled his spacesuit during a high-pressure situation, to get them to accept their current situation in mental/emotional terms.

New question: In reform school, Angus had a roommate named Scarl that was supposed to reform him. Angus got Scarl out of his life by framing him.
How did Angus frame Scarl??

Hopefully Avatar doesn't mind that I didn't wait for confirmation this time, because this is a special case where we already know I knew the answer, having recently written about it.

Hahaha, yeah, no worries. As for the rules, I think we should make SD answer a question, and ask the next one.

As for Scarl, IIRC, Angus stole something and hid it in his locker.

--A

Avatar wrote:As for Scarl, IIRC, Angus stole something and hid it in his locker.

That's basically it. Do you remember who Angus stole the stuff from?

One of the teachers? Somebody who had supported Scarl in the past? Not really sure.

--A

Okay, good enough!
Angus resented Scarl's trying to make him be a better person.
So Angus stole Scarl's locker key, then stole pens, nerve juice, and dirty pictures from the cops running the reform school, and put all that stuff in Scarl's locker. Then Angus put Scarl's key right back where he found it. Scarl was busted and shipped off elsewhere shortly thereafter.

But you guessed the gist of it, so YOUR QUESTION!