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On the rule about never ascribing actions to anothers character, can this be bent in cases where the action has no relevance to the continuity of the thread, but is simply a reaction required to clarify the extent of one of your own actions... That's not phrased too well, so here's an example:

Player posts " snaps a large cookie. flicks a few crumbs out of his hair."

Where is ascribing a (probably) insignificant action to , simply as a narrative device to emphasise the force with which he snapped the cookie...?

I see what you're saying. In that specific example, it may work better to say:

snaps a large cookie. Crumbs land in 's hair.

Then Y could choose to either go around with crumbs in his or her hair, or flicking them out.

If it is absolutely necissary, and completely "harmless", it's not a problem. What I want to avoid is a situation similar to when MikeA was being treated as though he had swallowed a laxative in a thread. It eventually lead to Mike's temporary absence from the site, and permanent removal from the ACEs.