[Siegmund]

As far as the other thread goes... who knows. Maybe someone is, maybe not.

I think a lot of us learned the first day that things we said 'in confidence' to someone had a way of getting repeated. On one level this is a good thing; it means that if you tell two people two different stories, they are probably gonna catch you out and both hate you for it. (Nez's guarantee that mets was gonna make the final four if they stuck together, anyone?) On the other hand, if two or three people make a deal and swear each other to secrecy about it, we expect it to stay a secret.

As it happens, just about every "secret" deal I was ever a part of was all over my PMs from everybody the next day. One easy way for that to happen is for someone to put it in a confessional, and someone who wasnt supposed to read the confessional reading it. Lots of other ways too: the anonymized confessional snippets that were put in this thread; people from the readers thread talking to outsiders who talked to game players; friends just going back on their word to keep things secret.

SOMEthing causes this game to leak "secret" information like a sieve. I don't think this means you need to change rules in midstream, zurvan - but it DOES mean that we in the game are learning the hard way to be a whole lot more careful who we say stuff to. Part of the game, I guess, that the way you keep a secret is by not telling ANYBODY about it.