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[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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Like what Ariana says, I have, in the past, felt the need to make all my bookshelves "friends only" because way too many roleplayers would walk in and "study", then try to use it against us. Sorry, that's bad sportsmanship and bad rp.

In general think of it like this Bishimi, it's your personal library, do you keep it locked up Rp-wise? I would think so. You wouldn't want people getting in and learning your darkest secrets.

Anything you read in private halls is for OOC flavor text. Not to be used IC unless you ask permission.

Consider the following:

You are out wandering, and end up walking through someone's decorated house. You wander a bit and end up in their bedroom. This person's private diary is locked on their bed stand, but you have access game mechanics wise. You can read the book in game, and enjoy it OOC, but you can not use that for your roleplay. It would be metagaming, or the using of knowledge learned OOC that your character generally would not otherwise know IC.

The only way your character would have known what's in the book is:

1. Via a plot with ooc consent ahead of time, you rp "sneaking" in their house and come across it.

2. You are Rp with the person in game in their house and you read it.

3. The book was left in your house.. mysteriously, by some unknown person. Again that would be part of some plot, most likely.

All of the above you would have to assume the books aren't locked or magically trapped to do something ill to you if you open them. A personal diary? Hell yeah people take measures to protect important stuff.

It's mostly a courtesy, but it should be common sense that a vampire would NOT allow a random passer by to just wander into their house and learn secrets that would kill them. Same goes with anyone.

[Nh'bdy]

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If it's unlocked and you've found it, pending permission from the owner or proprietor, I'd like to assume you know it. Securing doors, containers, or what have you isn't so much of an inconvenience that it should impede role play. Further more, knowledge and practice are very different things. I've spent more than a few nights perusing knowledge in that forsaken faucet, maybe you ancient seekrit society types shouldn't leave your arcane badassery laying around eh?
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[Morio_Kitsune]

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i have always found that it is the height of bad manners to walk into someone's house even if it does say open to the public, the only ones i walk into are say taverns, the sep and my own unless invited...

but that is just me
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[Jonathan Strathmore]

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My take is, if I can access it, then it is public domain. I feel like if my character walks up to a book, and can open it not baring a lock or some magic binding it, then my character knows the contents of the book.

[Bishimi]

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[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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I usually used to leave my doors open for random non rpers to find and get interested in. I don't do it anymore, like I said, because there are those who feel game mechanics justify RP. Neither side is right or wrong, just differing view points that have always existed.

[Ronin]

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