From: Members-l-admin@fzaoint.org on behalf of NickWarren [NickWarren@tinyworld.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 03:24
To: Members-l@fzaoint.org
Subject: [FZAOINT] SS

I finally figured a way to post a success story to this list that says
enough to have some of the more OT among you able to nod sagely and without
necessarily putting the rest of you in over your heads.

Imagine this if you will.  You're locked in a room.  Actually you've been
there a devil of a long time, but you were not aware of this up to now.  You
have several other inmates in the room with you.  One of them holds the key
to getting out, but you don't know which one.  In fact no-one in the room
knows who has the key or even what it would look like if it leapt out and
bit them on the nose.

To make matters worse about half of the inmates in the room are there for
quite other purposes than to help either you or anyone else get out.
Indeed, they alone have some not so pleasant comm lines out of the room and
the answer could lie down there.  The rest of the occupants are as good as
dead.  Except maybe one - but this one won't speak to you or co-operate in
any way.  Indeed this one has been absolutely and utterly successful at not
communicating to anyone else in the room for eons and, since the only others
in the room who can communicate are of evil intent, believes, as if the
future of the entire universe depended on it, that any and all communication
from you must, therefore, be of further evil intent.

Oh, and you have about 2 hours tops to find this key before your body
becomes completely an utterly knackered.  You're already sweating and it's
your move.  Do you try to resurrect the dead?  Do you try to deal with those
whose mission is to make sure you never get out?  Do you deal with their
masters?  Do you work on the one who won't talk?  Or maybe you have to do
several of these options!  The clock is ticking.

Well, I'll not answer the questions posed by this hypothetical riddle.  But
I will say this:

YEE HAH :-)  And that moment of release is oh so sweet.

Nick


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