Comment Re:Event motivation (Score 1) 758
Why, yes, I imagine it is acceptable for an author to kill off someone in his book. I never really thought about that before.
No, customers aren't puppets, but they aren't automatons either. They're meant to have emotions, and Teppy played to their emotions by giving them something they didn't expect. Some of them took it as an insult, some of them took it in stride. He did not break discrimination laws in this event, either...although female characters could not trade directly with Malaki, there is no reason why they could not have a male character do it on their behalf.
No, customers aren't puppets, but they aren't automatons either. They're meant to have emotions, and Teppy played to their emotions by giving them something they didn't expect. Some of them took it as an insult, some of them took it in stride. He did not break discrimination laws in this event, either...although female characters could not trade directly with Malaki, there is no reason why they could not have a male character do it on their behalf.
