==> Avispa: Make an announcement

[apiarycryptonaut]

--apiaryCryptonaut [AC] started memo stop it stop it stop it stop it--

You open the memo with determination. There are a lot of things wrong and you have a few you want to address. It has to be you.

Um, everyone, your 4ttention!
Ple4se, I think, yes?
Just um, re4d this!
You need to re4d... this, it's import4nt, yes!

Um so, Zur4he, yes!
You 4ll need to... know something, you do!
Remember um, qu4dr4nts, yes?
They're very very very... very import4nt to h4ve!
4nd you don't w4nt... to lose them, no.

Zur4he lost her qu4dr4nts.
More th4n one, too.

Think 4bout how she... feels bec4use of th4t!
She doesn't need to... be more 4lone, no!
Th4t's not how we... win this g4me, no!
4ll of you, stop!

You pause, staring at the memo before you send it. That's what you wanted to say! A certain other memo with talk of losing a quadrant had made you aware of just how important this was. And now everyone would know.

Comments

[soundtricks]

there's only five of us on my team now
dunno for sure how many on yours, but it's not much more
either way though- have you ~seen~ the shit some of them say♫
or talked to them yourself♫
I'd put caegars on a lot of them being completely hopeless at actually getting up the globes to tell someone how they feel


he's not playing with us though
and neither are you
in fact, your session's old leader tried to get us all to sit back and die while you all played
so don't tell me 'we all have to work together'
it might not be every troll for themselves anymore
but it's close enough

and fucking seriously♫
I'm not playing any fucking comparison games
but the only other troll who'd even get a chance to play that I know for sure is rM and ~you~ know why that is

those are the facts that I know
and they're the ones that matter
because no matter how much you want to act like everyone here's just gonna
I dunno
have a great big feelings jam and start singing fucking campfire songs or something
it's not gonna happen
we're still trolls, and we're still gonna fight
it's hard-fucking wired
so the best I can do is make sure that when it comes down to that
my team has a fighting chance
whether they like it or not

[artful_transgressor]

i dont honestly fucking know how many there are
iVe been outta the fucking loop since we got in
which is my own fault and ill admit that right now
but all i know is eVery time i turn around i see somebody talking or putting up a memo iVe neVer eVen seen before
much less talked to
so it FEELS like weVe got a lot of people in the sessions
but like i said iVe been outta the loop what the hell do i know

also im not saying her ideas were exactly fucking great
or that letting you all die wouldVe been at all okay
fuck i dont eVen know what the alternatiVe was that somehow managed to get you all into the session anyway
but considering she thought you entering meant wed all die
your session and ours together
its kinda hard to fault her for wanting SOME trolls to liVe as opposed to none whatsoeVer
especially if she thought you all would be fucked regardless
and im pretty fucking sure that if youd been the leader
and it had been our session trying to get in and theoretically threatening the surViVal of eVeryone inVolVed
you wouldnt eVen haVe looked back as you blew past us
i dont think most people wouldVe eVen had the obVious misgiVings she did
but its kinda pointless to talk about that shit now
shes dead and you guys are here
forget the theoretical back thens weVe got plenty of actual right nows on our nutrition plateaus

ugh
the one thing other than scalebeasts i ask people to not talk about
and you go right the fuck for it
but you know what fine
whateVer
go ahead and rub that in
but hes the one in the comparable situation to you
and hes the one who may not want you flaunting that shit all oVer the memo to get digs at me

also dear fucking god
do you actually think i haVe anywhere near that optimistic a Viewpoint
im a goddamn realist
i think the most i can ask for
and all i AM really asking for
is that we dont actually work against our own chances at surViVing
or things that could contribute to it
which means some attempts at communication
maybe no stupid counterproductiVe death threats
people not going off on their own and getting killed
just the most basic shit we can manage
and im only thinking we can manage that at all
cause im thinking and hoping that wed all prefer to keep on liVing

[soundtricks]

anyone ever tell you that you talk too damn much♫
like in all fuckin' seriousness for a second you could have only said about
a third
no wait, half
half that much
and still got the point across plenty
like just
really dude
~really~


what's your problem with scalebeasts anyway♫
those things are cool as fuck
when they're not trying to eat me, I mean
but yeah I'm not even going to consider thinking to apologize for that one
because frankly with how you let your mouth run before, you deserve it


thing is, I'm not inclined to believe anyone's got any interest but their own at heart
unless I've known them for a good long time
because frankly, our race is a bunch of assholes
whether they think they are or not
but really in the grand scheme of this game and the people playing it
I'm the last one anybody needs to worry about getting killed
just
believe me about that one
I might not be much of a team player but I don't fucking die easy

[artful_transgressor]

frankly
i think my paragraph breaks make it seem like im talking a lot more than i actually am
cause not gonna lie i jump to the next line like the ones before it are all catching goddamn fire
but eVen so
its just a thing i do
call it a quirk if it helps you deal with it better
its not eVen nearly the most annoying one in the session

not that its really any of your business
but fuck it this memo seems to be all about airing eVeryones dirty laundry
so ill show willing i guess
a scalebeast killed my lusus
with extreme graphic prejudice
so the topic makes me a little fucking punchy
especially when people talk about how cool they are
theyre not fucking cool theyre huge scaly murder machines
thats only cool as long as youVe neVer actually had one go to work on you or anything you care about
its like watching squeakbeasts form a purrbeast fanclub

anyway
none of this is me encouraging eVeryone to just work together on blind faith
cause youre right
were trolls
were not fucking designed for cooperation
especially across the hemospectrum like this
like i said this is about MUTUAL SELF INTEREST
which is something i think each of us indiVidually can get behind right
the only ones of you id trust not to fuck me oVer under normal circumstances are the ones i dont think are smart enough to actually successfully pull one oVer on me
but these arent normal circumstances
i dont think anyone heres that fucking committed to wrecking someone elses shit that theyre gonna sabotage their own chances for surViVal at the same time
which is the only reason this could eVer really work

also
seriously
real talk here
this isnt about whether or not youre competent
belieVe it or not i buy that youre good
maybe not as good as you say you are cause lets face it who the fuck wouldnt embellish the hell out of that shit
but still plenty good
but this game isnt built for solo shit
if you go off on your own youre gonna get ripped to shreds
not cause youre not skilled
but cause youre playing the wrong fucking game
truth is in some ways you remind me of me
(try to control your Vomiting)
cause i dont die easy either
surViVal is basically all my lifes consisted of for sweeps
which is exactly why im doing this
im not doing it cause i LIKE it fuck knows
but cause more and more i think this is what we haVe to do
that and yelling at you about not shitting on people who we haVe to work with to liVe through this made me realize id better start at least TRYING to practice what im goddamn preaching
cause lets face it im similar to you in that too
iVe been a jackass to a lot of people justified or otherwise
you included
and now i haVe the fun job of eating eVerything iVe eVer said
but im fucking serious
im not gonna die here just cause we all failed to get our shit together

[soundtricks]

if you say so, but I gotta say, it's a weird kind of fucking quirk to have

oh
coulda just said so
though really all you gotta do to get one to fuck right off is grab it 'round the tail and slam it into a few things
or something like that, I guess

Sometimes, of course, you forget that not everyone's psionics are as handy as yours.

p.s. if you think I totally wouldn't fuck this whole place over just to watch that stupid princess komesh cry
you got another thing coming
but I kinda see where you're going with that, though frankly it's not so much about smarts as
I don't know what part of bulgefuck nowhere some of these guys grew up
but they are not equipped to actually wreck anyone's shit
like seriously
how do you ~survive~ being like that♫


and okay, as far as your real talk goes
I don't embellish
like seriously I don't
I lack the creative capacity to make th' shit I can do any crazier
the only reason I made it in♫
is cause I ~literally~ punched meteors the fuck away from my hive
when I say I am hard as fuck to kill, I mean it pretty seriously
like
okay hold on

You switch on your camera for a second and aim it at your neck, reaching up to first unsnap your choker and then with a twist and a rasp, pulling your false voicebox out from the neat, circular metal hole in the front of your throat. Extending most of the way around is a scar, and not a nice one- the patch job that happened there was... messy at best. You give a slight rise of your eyebrows as if to say 'see?' and then promptly turn the video off, returning to text.

I reiterate
I don't
die
easy

...but I guess the same doesn't technically go for everyone else

It's really the most he's likely to get out of you on that front.

but even if I wasn't playing nice with everyone else
what makes you think some of these tools can even get their shit together well enough to not die♫
honest to god fucking question
do you ~really think~ some of them could actually step up♫

==> Lyn: Step up.

[artful_transgressor]

again
still not the weirdest or most annoying eVen just out of our sessions

uh
what
i dunno if youre suggesting i do this with psionics or my fucking bare hands but
either way
not eVen remotely an option for me
i dont haVe crazy strength and my psionics are purely defensiVe shit
besides i was like two sweeps old at the time

to be fair
it sounds like the games gonna help us get further than we eVer wouldVe on alternia
like weVe got new powers and shit that are entirely game constructs so
eVen if we were weaksauce back home being in the game could change that
and giVen that its leaning really fucking heaVy on the 'step the fuck up or die' idea
i dont think anyones gonna be able to aVoid it
especially since weVe got time players like me working to aVoid any deaths
so if no one actually dies that means eVeryone steps up to the fucking plate eVentually

At the sudden video, and the rather more graphic illustration than you'd ever wanted, you actually push yourself back from your husktop a bit for a moment in alarmed revulsion.

holy shit
that was honestly more than i eVer needed to see

i wasnt kidding about my own shit either though
my lusus has been dead since i was two
which means iVe been up for culling eVer since
and i had to liVe entirely on my own without any help or supplies or super strength or badass psionics without being caught by anybody
drones or trolls
almost nine sweeps now and im still fucking here
so trust me i dont go down easy either

as for stepping up
i honestly haVe no fucking idea
and im not exactly an optimist by nature either so its not like im honestly thinking eVerythings gonna turn out fine
we could all fucking die really easy
all of this could be fucking impossible

but the only reason im here playing this fucking game now
is cause i fucking buckled down and tried like hell to liVe eVen when it seemed like i had no chance
so i dont giVe a shit how unlikely it is
if were fucked then were fucked and nothings gonna change that
but if weVe got any kind of a shot
im gonna goddamn find it
and i will drag each and eVery one of you kicking and screaming with me if you try and stand in my way cause iVe already come too far to fall down now
my jobs apparently to keep all you fuckers aliVe
it neVer said shit about dying with you

[soundtricks]

no, that's definitely the fishbitch who can't decide which or how many vowels she wants to abuse in any given word
talk about irritating


and yeah, pretty much
forget some trolls don't really get much in the way of offensive psionics sometimes
whoops

and again I say
it's the 'put up or shut up and die' part that I'm havin' a problem with them managing
honestly, if you'd seen some of the shit that's been said in these memos
or hell, even knew a couple of these jerks back on Alternia
you wouldn't be so sure about the game making much of a difference
if one life or death kinda lifestyle can't do it
why should another♫
it ain't even that some of them ~couldn't~ if they tried
it's that I'm not sure they'd even try to begin with


You blink at the somewhat squeamish reaction. Your scar is by no means the worst thing you've seen, even in passing- it can't be the worst thing he's seen in the flesh, so to speak.

...can it?


almost ~nine~♫
fuck's sake, shouldn't you have been on a transport off-planet or something already♫
only reason I wasn't is cause I didn't turn eight until after the latest Conscription

hey, no one said anybody had to die with me
if I fuck up and die, it's my own fault
but it sure isn't gonna be because I sat around waiting for everyone else to stop fucking around and ~fucking listen~ to what I've been saying since the game started
but hey, if you wanna waste your time trying to drag the rest of these guys into doing something, go nuts
in the meantime, I'll probably just be getting shit done myself

[artful_transgressor]

say whateVer you want about the people in these sessions
fuck knows i haVe
but theyVe all liVed long enough to get here
so they cant be complete failures
and they probably want to keep on liVing
so if that requires them to do more shit and be more competent than theyVe eVer had to be before im hoping theyll do it

we can argue this shit back and forth all night in theory yknow
but the only way to actually find out what happens is to try it and see
what i dont get is why youre still determined not to eVen giVe it a shot
youVe got the least to lose trying haVent you
its not like if it all goes horribly wrong you cant handle it right
youll be fine either way

also no ones asking you to wait for shit
weVe got our own individual leVels and quests and shit so its not like theres NO solo aspect of the game whatsoeVer
you can still do your own shit and just do team stuff when its called for
all im saying is dont fuck off completely

though im curious
whatVe you been telling people to do that they haVent been doing exactly

[soundtricks]

fuck only knows how though
honestly
I don't actually know
how some of them made it this long

oh gee thanks
good to know my lack of fucks is working so well for me
not to mention bringing up the fact that there is literally nothing left for me to care about
you should do recruiting
I'd bet you'd do great

there's only so high I can get before other trolls not doing their quests gets in my way
that's all I'm gonna say on that part

to man up, stop being a simpering bunch of wrigglers and actually do some work♫
like I seriously have been trying to make my team ~do something~, period
not to mention the trolls I even know in person♫
both on your team, and you're welcome for keeping them from flipping into the aether with their respective neuroses

[artful_transgressor]

i dunno how either
but all things considered
seems like theres too many of em
and the odds of their being picked for this game way too fucking slim
for it to just be coincidence theyre here now
so it might be worth giVing em the benefit of the doubt
like get their asses in gear if thats what you think they need
but dont giVe up on em
or write em off based on how they are right now cause thats subject to change

what
no
that wasnt what i was fucking saying at all damn
eVen im not that much of an asshole
what i meant was that you can take care of yourself
with or without them
or at least thats what youre insisting
so if you help them out and they all fail and die or something
youll still be fine either way
so youVe got nothing to lose by working with them cause either way you can handle whateVer gets thrown at you
and frankly
i think eVen if they were an actiVe handicap youd still say you could take it
so i say why dont you

thats honestly eVen more reason to work with people
if youre openly admitting you need them to do shit for you to get anywhere
more and more it seems like you fucking off isnt just a thing that was neVer actually gonna happen
but like a thing that literally could not happen if you wanted it to

implying they arent already flipping all oVer the place with their neuroses
we are team batshit neurotic crazytown
iVe pretty much established this
like im not eVen entirely clear who is in which session exactly right yet but i can safely call this right now
still if youre suggesting they could be WORSE than they are right now
belieVe me ill send you a basket of fruit or something

honestly though
i kinda get the feeling that youre wasting your time giVing them kicks in the asses yourself
i think the games gonna nudge shit along on its own
probably more effectiVely than we could
it threw meteors at us just to get us into the game
and eVeryone here stepped up to the plate when that happened
im personally hoping theres no more meteors but
the games clearly got its ways of getting people to knuckle the fuck down and moVe their shit along
if you wanna try to speed up the process knock yourself out
but dont spin your wheels too hard if youre not getting anywhere