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14 JUN 1994
Funny act
Being one-down and secretly ahead is a humorous position. Energy emanates from such a person as humor rather than love. Actual jokes will then release the energy and seem very funny.

Fun and funny have the same root. Rule one has always been fun rather than love, with the fun test as supreme arbiter of yang plans. Fun seems more down to earth than love, more accessible, more established in the culture. Now we link fun to humor. Humor is the most immediate and universal kind of fun available.

I'll be asking for help from one-down by making the other divine. I will make an extravagant appeal for the great powers of this illustrious divinity to do something apparently trivial: play a game.

This will make the players curious about what's behind this game, what I'm not telling them. I'll have created a demand for information. A treasure-hunt.
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