Some people don’t bother to check facts, do they?
A couple of years ago I put up a web page about the ficticious death metal band Ümläüt as part of an on-line Call of Cthulhu game in which I was playing at the time. Part of the back-story featured the gruesome murder of one member of the band.
Looking at my web site access statistics recently I found references to my site from something other than the usual phoenyxs, googles and yahoos, so I investigate the site. It turns out my spoof web page had been taken as genuine, and my dead NPC is listed on a The Dead Rock Stars page alongside Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain – See it at users.efortress.com/doc-rock/1995.html
Of course, the band have been recyled into a different game, the said member is not due to die until some time in 2003, and I updated the page to reflect this.
