Not to derail this thread, but it's an interesting topic that's come up re: trust and game-generated event messages. Scout reports (even when they're copy/pasted, as from a priest/ess), bank transaction records, failed report of assassination attempts, spel castings, market reports, etc., are all usually taken as articles of faith. We do this in part subconsciously, because a game needs a few points of stability that everyone can reference if the whole thing is going to work.
I came to see things this way because I noticed that, when one of these event messages appears, people almost always copy and paste the
whole thing. Timestamp, heading, and all. They even do it when copy/pasting letters. It's already understood that these kinds of messages are important, and those little details add to the weight of the evidence. They're like seals of authenticity. Have people forged these? Yep. Is it allowed? Of course. Does it probably do more harm to the player community than it benefits any single individual? I think so. It's a sportsmanship question.
If we want to continue this discussion, I think it'd be a really interesting thread. It could even run through a series of questions like these. Now, back to the Odd Family that is Bowie and Sevastian.
