# of sips ... Reason 1 ... Every time someone uses a Pernese curse IRL. 2 ... Every time a mundane gives you a blank look for it. 3 ... Every time you discover a fellow Pern fan with it. 1 ... Every time someone tells you, 'It's only a game.' 2 ... Every time you tell someone that. 1 ... Getting multiple golds on multiple M*s. 1 ... For having the same SO on all the M*s. 1 ... If you keep the anniversary of your first dragonride. 1 ... If you keep the anniversary of your impression. 1 ... For every time one of your characters has Stood. 1 ... For every time one of your chars was married, handfasted, or weyrmated. 2 ... For every time that person idles out or goes psycho. 1 ... For every time dinos come out and start reminiscing. 1 ... For every player-dragon or player-dolphin you have/are. 2 ... For every player-anything-else you have/are. 1 ... For every accident with a builder where you dest things you shouldn't have. 2 ... For every deliberate builder 'accident'. 1 ... Every time someone uses a firelizard to eavesdrop. 1 ... For every FL/puppet controller you have on a single char. 2 ... If you have more controllers than puppets. 1 ... For every couple who marries/weyrmates/handfasts, claiming it'll last forever. 2 ... For every couple who then breaks up for OOC reasons. 3 ... If it's because they tried to be a couple RL and it failed. 1 ... Every time someone narc'd to Anne on someone. 2 ... If it was you who narc'd. 1 ... Every time someone claims Anne told them to carry out Her Word. 2 ... Every time someone threatens to go to court over a M*. 1 ... For every alt you have. 2 ... For every builder you have. 3 ... For every wizbit you have. 1 ... Every time you're logged in more than 10 hours straight. 2 ... If it's more than 15 hours straight. Get a life ... If you were RPing the whole time. 1 ... Every bot you have at the same time. 1 ... Every time you mav TS into a public area. 1 ... Every time someone complains about a typo. 1 ... Every time you teleport into yourself and can't get out. 1 ... Every time someone teleports into your weyr/cot/room w/o asking. 1 ... Every time some mudder tries to pick everything up. 2 ... If they try to pick you up. 1 ... Every time someone creates objects for weapons or clothes. 1 ... Every time someone's desc says they smile at you. 2 ... If it's smile and wink. 3 ... Every time someone's desc forces an action upon you. 1 ... If all your chars have the same alias. 1 ... If you offer people positions as your sibs to introduce them. 2 ... If you regret it later when they turn out to be twinks. 1 ... Someone deciding that fun RP would be to get pregs by you w/o your OOC consent. 1 ... For every period of 10 mins that people sit in the LC or GH, drinking klah and doing nothing else. 2 ... If it's not finals week. 1 ... For every time someone poses dropping a pin. 1 ... For every time someone asks a question onchannel, and it interrupts RP as everyone else starts talking there. 1 ... For every time you get your hands/arms injured/broken and ignore doctor's orders to keep off the computer. 1 ... For every RL couple that creates ICSO chars and RPs online instead of interacting RL. 2 ... For every time one of couple gets upset when the other's char boinks/flirts with someone else's char. 3 ... For every time a net.relationship goes Rl and stays together. 1 ... For every time someone SCREAMS AT THEIR NET. 1 ... For every time someone waps/baps their typist. 1 ... For every time someone makes waps or baps into @waps or @baps. 1 ... For every time someone lag-tests. 1 ... For every time someone lag-tests when everyone's just idling. 1 ... For people who send lizards/dragons to flame the lagbeast. 1 ... For every time someone who needs to idle joins someone else in their idling so it won't look like they're just sitting alone in their room. 1 ... For every person who announce their connections/disconnections and why. 2 ... If the announcement is in a channel-message via @a(dis)connect. 1 ... If you've ever lived with anyone you've met on Pern. 2 ... If you successfully shared the computer setup. 1 ... If you go to a PernM* RL gathering and wind up sitting in the corner talking about the game while everyone else is partying. 1 ... If you've slept with someone at the RL gathering. 2 ... If you decide to dump your SO for someone you meet at the gathering. 3 ... If they dump you before the gathering is out. 4 ... If you catch them in bed with someone else. 1 ... If you gossip about someone at a gathering, and they hear about it from someone else. 2 ... If you spill who's going to impress at the next hatching. 3 ... If you really /do/ know. 4 ... If you tell it to the person getting gold/bronze. 5 ... If the Weyr changes its mind. 3 ... If you cry RL over a game. 1 ... If you draw a picture of your character. 2 ... If it's actually good. 3 ... If you commission Alisanda of NC to do it for you. 1 ... If you have a web page devoted to your char. 1 ... For every l-d phonecall you make to a M*er. 2 ... For every l-d phonecall you make to the net. 1 ... Every time you put aside RL for the net. 1 ... For every skipped class. 2 ... For every failed class. 3 ... For dropping out. 1 ... For bitching about call-waiting and parents. 2 ... For having a reference to call-waiting in your odisconnect. 1 ... For every player who gets kicked off the computer by sibs or parentals. 1 ... If you see CoP:FF and think of Magic:TG first. 2 ... If you've started a dragondeck. 3 ... if you've completed it. 4 ... If your friends want a copy. 1 ... If you make up Magic cards to suit your favorite characters. 1 ... If you've made bubblies or klah. 2 ... If it's actually any good. 3 ... If you had to have your mom do it for you. 4 ... If you're brave enough to serve it to your friends. 1 ... For every player that plays on non-Pern RP M*s (muds and chatters don't count). 1 ... For every time you curse and someone bitches at you and tells you that they have kids that could see it. 2 ... If you tell them to f*** off. 1 ... Every time someone complains about bad players or harassment. 2 ... If Kynn tells them not to log in if they can't take it. 3 ... If someone tells him off. 1 ... Every time the janitor comes into the lab and gives you a dirty look. 1 ... Every time you hide your M*ing window for privacy. 2 ... If it's cos you're TSing. 1 ... If you're sitting next to someone in a lab and glance at their screen and realize they're RPing on the same M* as you are. 2 ... If it's in the same room. 3 ... If you're TSing them and didn't know it. 4 ... If you get embarrassed. 5 ... If you actually go out and have sex RL instead. 6 ... If it's worse than the TS. 1 ... If your SO doesn't like games. 1 ... If someone's TSing in two diff chars at once. 2 ... If they mav and get both others pissed. 1 ... If someone is totally prim and prissy RL but TSes like a maniac. 2 ... If they're a religious fundamentalist. 1 ... If your .sig lists all of your public alts and it's 7 lines long (including other stuff). 1 ... Every time someone disses the DLG, AnneScience, or AnneContinuity. 1 ... Every time someone pages you with your alt's name. 1 ... If you own a stuffed FL RL. 1 ... If you use your char-name as your userID. 2 ... If you use a feature character's name as your userID. 1 ... Every time you mav. 2 ... Every time you put two chars into the same room and manage not to mav. 1 ... Every time you use a MUSH command on a MOO. 2 ... If it works. 1 ... Every time you're mistaken for a Pern Deity or dino (Amby, Marlena, MC, etc.). 1 ... For an @do war. 1 ... If you run across a long-time net.friend in a new alt. 2 ... If you don't recognize them for months. 1 ... Someone complains about lag. 1 ... Someone complains about Netcom. 1 ... If someone quotes something familiar in @do. 2 ... If it's something obscure. 1 ... If someone gossips about you on Too. 1 ... If you get on TIM and get lost cos you can't figure out why all the NC commands don't work. 1 ... If you're in someone's private cot/room/weyr and are accused of boinking. 2 ... If you're bored and do +where and make guesses about the activities of the pairs and trios. 1 ... If you play on less than 5 PernM*s. 2 ... If it's less than 10. 3 ... If it's less than 15. Find a shrink ... If it's more than 15. 1 ... If you play on TwoMoons. 1 ... If you play on Amber. 1 ... If someone mavs a nasty page to you that had something vicious about you. 2 ... If you thought they liked you. 3 ... If they hate you cos you didn't give them a gold/bronze.