It depends on how it was 'found out'. If it was found out legitimately ICly, I'd have to roll with it. OOCly, if it was something I didn't want found out quite yet I'd be a little peeved.. mostly at myself, because I obviously didn't do a good job keeping the information hidden. If I suspected metagaming/Batman Logic, it'd be a major problem OOCly. Especially if the information was being spread around. I've never had it happen before where I wasn't able to perform some sort of immediate damage control.Â
There's a person with my RP group in another game... he's about as sharp as a cotton ball and he's got a bad habit of lurking nearby and saying he's not IC, then turning around and using information he picked up during his lurking. Thankfully the rest of the group is quick to discard when someone calls him out on it, but it's still a distraction/disruption to have to stop and explain to him every time that he's using information that he shouldn't have. We're a small group, so even if we don't catch right away what he's doing, damage control is very quick... I'd hate to have to watch out for that sort of behaviour in a larger community setting.
There's a person with my RP group in another game... he's about as sharp as a cotton ball and he's got a bad habit of lurking nearby and saying he's not IC, then turning around and using information he picked up during his lurking. Thankfully the rest of the group is quick to discard when someone calls him out on it, but it's still a distraction/disruption to have to stop and explain to him every time that he's using information that he shouldn't have. We're a small group, so even if we don't catch right away what he's doing, damage control is very quick... I'd hate to have to watch out for that sort of behaviour in a larger community setting.
