Darth Tang's "A Strange and Incomplete Tale"

[theunshaven]

I wish to archive a story put up by a poster going by 'Darth Tang' on RPGnet from 2003. It is well written and entirely creepy for a wide variety of reasons.

The above link does go to it, but it's on a section of RPGnet which is inaccessible without an account... although accounts are Entirely Free.

So here goes.

Comments

[cat_i_th_adage]

Eh, did you get permission to archive it, dude?

[theunshaven]

Nope, but considering it was put up for public discussion in a public forum and all-credit goes to the author's handle, I hadn't considered it an issue.

[vektortgecko]

I'm of the opinion that unless otherwise stated, if it's put up in public on the internet with no explicit restrictions put on its use, noncommercial reposting, linking (or making-a-local-copy-for-yourself-in-case-it-disappears) w/ citation or otherwise appropriate attribution is essentially fair game

[theunshaven]

Yah, I'd link back to it if it were possible. In fact, I'll put a link up anyway - people just need to get an RPGnet profile to use it.

If Darth Tang asked, I'd pull it in a hot second for basic politeness-sake.

This is something I'd link to on Twitter... if again I could do that.

[cat_i_th_adage]

Oh, sorry, I'd gotten the impression the forum was password-locked. My bad. Might be an idea to drop the author a line, though - it always makes me feel happy.