Murphy's Role-Playing by Internet Message Board Laws

• Nobody knows whose fault it is that the story isn't moving.
• Corollary 1: Everyone has a theory.
• Corollary 2: Every theory is different.
• The Game Master is never on ICQ.
• Neither are any of the other players.
• The impossibility of slapping someone silly over the net is not recognized as a potential weakness that requires careful consideration, but is abused as if there were no tomorrow.
• Corollary 1: After you spend a few hours trying to modify the text so that you get a coherent string of events from the garbled message of a player, he'll announce that you suck and quit the game.
• Corollary 2: Just when you've written a convincing message detailing how the now inactive character is disposed of, the player will come back and bitch at you for forcing him out.