On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > I'm still sorting it out, but I must say I wholly disagree with this bit. > The Fora rule allows any player to make an announcement by sending a message > via a public forum. It is a simple inference from slave golem mechanisms to > say that the slave's Master is part of the sending mechanism, i.e., a slave > sends a message "via" the mechanism of eir master, which is no more strange > that saying it happens "via" wires or "via" an email client.
That's my only argument, but I don't think your leap from a rule with a condition (actions that are not otherwise IMPOSSIBLE) and a mechanism (directly causing the Golem to take the action through a rule effect) to a different mechanism (causing the Golem to send a message) makes sense. A rule saying you can cause the Golem to send a message (like the Promises rule) would make (more) sense, but that's not what this rule says. Unless you're arguing that the "action" in question is sending a message.
