Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 11:15:57 CDT

From: Mike Picone MPICONE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UA1VM.BITNET

Subject: Re: Ringaleavio/Capture the Flag



As was pointed out by someone earlier, Capture the Flag might indeed

include jails and prisoners. Whether or not decoy bases and jails could

be set up and manned depended, of course, on available personnel. One

way of freeing up personnel was to hide the flag in the secret base so

well that it could go virtually unguarded. Of course, when prisoners

were caught, they could be induced to `talk'. This was always accomplished

through friendly persuasion in those `innocent times', to the best of my

recollection at least.



It occurs to me now that a more modern (less innocent?) version of this

came into being in the form of sophisticated enacting of "Dungeons &

Dragons."



Mike Picone

University of Alabama