KMC Forums - USH'S MATRIX GAME: THIRD ASSIGNMENT- 'Eliminate'- PHILOSOPHY PATH

Welcome to the Philosophy Section of my on-line Matrix RP! Whether you are very apprehensive or very keen, one way or another you are here now, so you had better get used to it!

I�ve spoken a lot about this in the past already so I won�t go over everything again now. However, I will provide some basic rules for this section as a reference guide for you.

- Communication with your combat path counterparts, via phone, is normally but not always allowed. Technically speaking you guys may even run into each other, in either case it works like in my Star Wars game, me copy/pasting your words into the other thread and awaiting reply.

- The game carries on as normal. Please don�t try looking for stuff that is not there. Just carry on and keep playing now just as you were before. As I said in the preludes to all this, this section is not just one big convo with a French guy; it is the same game, same setting, same system.

- Each Path has an objective to be scored, which, aside from the plot differences, is worth experience points. For you guys, this scoring is individual. Your success or failure in the Philosophy section will be down to your own words and actions, and no-one else�s. Some of you may fail, some of you may succeed. The Philosophy section objective is not specifically definable in a clear cut way. However, you will be informed when you reach the final point after which I decide who does and does not score.

- To re-iterate this warning; due to the way this section works, and in that you score individually, you must remember that if you do not engage with what is presented to you, you will not score (and may even be in danger). It is very easy to take a back seat in the crucial part of this section, and let others do the talking and the work, but if you were going to do that, what was the point of choosing this? You would have been far better employed on the Combat Path. As also said before, this does not involve you having to have a Philosophy degree, or even to have any philosophical education, or even any education at all beyond having a certain modicum of intelligence and common sense. A philosophical grounding should help make you more sure of yourself before you go in but the section has been calibrated, specifically, so that first timers to anything of this sort will get on just fine. This is absolutely not part of a Philosophical education! Remember my Neo example. He�s not the smartest guy on the block but he gave his Philosophy plot his best shot, just by thinking about everything he got thrown at him, and he succeeded.

- Finally, remember why you are here. It is because there is more to the Matrix, and this game, than simply overcoming enemies by force. The Oracle made it very clear to you that understanding was an important thing with all this. You are fulfilling that vital part of things. In the context of the films, without people like you the war would only be so much pointless violence with no hope or end. You are needed to achieve. But, whilst appreciating your importance, remember two things. First of all, this IS a war, and no matter how hard you want to you will not defeat your enemies with words. Do not expect your achievements to be in the easily quantifiable sense, like a military victory. Like I say, this is individual, it kinda has its own reward. And secondly, on the same subject� never, EVER under estimate the value of your combat team counterparts. And do not worry, I am telling them the same thing about you.

Ok, on you go, good luck.

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