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Bob Jonquet wrote:


I can only speak for myself and how I manage the Great Lakes. I would consider this an abuse of privaledge from the perspective that VC are empowered to manage their own areas of responsibility. It would be appropriate to use the session access to review the activities of their subordinate VL/VA and to review complaints that come up regarding players in their area. However, it would not be appropriate to investigate the VA/VL of another area/VC, or to investigate other VCs.

Bob, I appreciate that you are a well respected member of the community, and clearly for good reason: you have thought through policy and communicated clearly with your volunteers about what you think the policies are. And with all due respect, that's the exact opposite of what this issue is about.

It is clear from Michael Eshleman's somewhat limited comments that he did not, and does not, consider what he did to be an abuse of privilege. Your concept of how the tools available to a VC should or should not be used was not one that was established in this region by the RVC. It seems it was not communicated by the RVC. And as it's not written down anywhere, it's actually in no way a rule or policy that Eshleman could have broken.

Furthermore, as is pretty clear from comments from other VCs, there is debate on whether your interpretation is correct. Again, not saying you're wrong, but there's not even a general consensus which could have indicated to Eshleman that he should not have done what he did.

I completely appreciate that you're trying to broaden the view on the discussion, but the end result is that you're coloring the discussion with your comment that what Eshleman did would be wrong if he were VC under you. However, he's not, and he never had that guidance, so your region's interpretation is completely irrelevant to the case at hand.

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Yep, still wondering here, as well. I have a character that could really use a pooka as a familiar, just as a character-based counterbalance...but I'm loathe to do it if it can't use wands. Seems logical that it can, given everything listed above, but of course we're confined to the letter of the law...