The strangest places

[edg]

Today, the Toronto Star's website (I don't get the Star, so I don't know if it's in the print edition) ran an article on flattery, toadies, and sycophants in the workplace. Now, naturally, you'd want a good pull-quote for an article like this, something that captures the essence of what you're writing about neatly and concisely.

So, of course, you go to fan-created material for a role-playing game with relatively little market presence:

"A Sycophant's resonance is for flattery. They have the ability to know what a given person wants to hear and what the person doesn't want to hear. Given enough time, the demon may stroke a human's ego, play to his fears and slowly but inexorably isolate him from anything that might possibly contradict his increasingly incorrect view of the universe. Once a Sycophant has his hooks in a mortal, it's only a matter of time before the victim is effectively useless."

— from the fantasy game
In Nomine

(Hat tip: cythraul.)

Comments

[solaas.livejournal.com]

*snickers madly* Can it be as simple as that the journalist googled the word "sycophants"? Because when I did that just now, Moe's writeup came in second on the list. ^_^

Hooray for the Star!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Wins awards all the time for investigative reporting. Maybe that's why-- good google-fu.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

That is just cool beyond belief.

Sycophants

[(Anonymous)]

Stranger things have happened... and speaking of In Nomine... does anyone remember a playtester from about seven years back, Owen S. Kerr? If you do, drop a line to ochre24@gmail.com He's looking to touch base, and for information.