==> Lyndis: Be productive.

[artful_transgressor]

Well, it took awhile, but once you stopped FLIPPING BULGES and distracting yourself from your WEIRD TIME SHIT with a lot of GRIST GRINDING and ALCHEMIZING WAY TOO MUCH STUFF, you finally started actually BEING PRODUCTIVE. The grinding allowed you to GAIN SOME LEVELS, which as far as you can tell is just a DUMB NICKNAME SYSTEM that gives you periodic infusions of BOONDOLLARS, but you assume it will be useful at some point. (What kind of game doesn't require you to get ALL THE LEVELS? But REAL LIFE doesn't have ABILITIES measured in NUMERIC STATISTICS that are increased upon LEVEL UP, so you're not actually sure how this is helping you.) More to the point, YOUR SERVER PLAYER has had enough grist to build up your CLIFF to the FIRST GATE - which was EASIER THAN IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, since, you know, cliffs tend to be NATURALLY HIGH TO START WITH.

You went through it A LITTLE WHILE AGO, which accomplished NOTHING OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE except getting you kind of LOST. It's just as well there are plenty of CAVES on your planet, and also that you ALWAYS CAPTCHALOGUE YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS before you go anywhere; you haven't left ANYTHING back at your CAVE except, well, MEMORIES OF A SENTIMENTAL NATURE you would NEVER ADMIT to having. You're pretty sure you can ACTUALLY SEE THE FIRST GATE way off in the distance whenever you are AT THE TOP OF ANOTHER CLIFF, since there is A HUGE AND EASILY VISIBLE STRUCTURE leading up to it; part of you wants to head RIGHT BACK THERE, but as of yet you HAVEN'T GIVEN INTO THE TEMPTATION. You swore you were going to PROGRESS in this game, dammit, you can't just go RUNNING HOME LIKE A HIVESICK WIGGLER.

That, and you CAN'T ACTUALLY SEE IT ANYMORE, thanks to a bunch of FUCKING INEXPLICABLE STATIC that seems to be LOCALIZED TO YOU; no matter where you go, your FIELD OF VISION seems to cut off into A BUNCH OF SHITTY STATIC WHITE NOISE about THIRTY FEET AWAY in every direction. It is SO FUCKING ANNOYING and it honestly makes wandering around KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE AND DANGEROUS.

You are currently holed up in ANOTHER CAVE; it beats FRYING under your planet's godforsaken SUN(the light of which is COMPLETELY UNAFFECTED BY THE STATIC, dammit). It isn't as fierce as the sun on ALTERNIA, at least in that it doesn't CAUSE YOU ACTUAL BODILY HARM to be out in it, but it's still FUCKING UNPLEASANT. No wonder your quest involves BRINGING SOME GODDAMN SHADE in ways you are still COMPLETELY UNCLEAR ON. From what you've gathered, you're supposed to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SUN ITSELF - but that's COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS. How the fuck could you do something like that?

But you're getting DISTRACTED. You've got a PURPOSE right now, as much because you're not sure HOW TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR PLANET QUEST and whether or not you should be working toward your SECOND GATE or STAYING PUT to meet up with other players as because THIS IS IMPORTANT SHIT THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN NAILED DOWN A LONG TIME AGO.

To that end, you OPEN A MEMO.

-- artfulTransgressor [AT] RIGHT NOW opened memo on board so done with playing blind. --

AT: alright so
AT: dunno how many of you actually open your sponge clots when cs is talking
AT: i wouldnt really blame you if you just sort of let that shit wash oVer you without bothering to process any of it
AT: but belieVe it or not he actually had something important to say about sequences a memo or two back
AT: specifically that all our planets may be connected through our gates
AT: probably just through our own indiVidual sessions but honestly who the fuck knows at this point
AT: but he also said that despite working out there is a sequence
AT: he has no fucking idea what the sequence is
AT: or eVen who is in what session
AT: and you know who else doesnt know
AT: me
AT: i kinda wonder if ANYBODY fucking knows
AT: this memo is to remedy that shit right now
AT: so
AT: lets get this shit sorted out
AT: i want you
AT: no matter who the fuck you are eVen if weVe neVer talked
AT: or eVen if you cannot fucking stand me
AT: put your hands down kids
AT: to sound off here
AT: i want you to giVe your name
AT: along with who your serVer and client players are
AT: i dont care if your serVer and client haVe already spoken up by the way
AT: you damn well sound off anyway
AT: this is as much to get people straight as sequences
AT: and it gets eVeryone checking in
AT: if we get eVeryone to do this then we should be able to figure out the sequences
AT: along with how many sessions weVe got here
AT: and once weVe got the sequences and sessions straight maybe we can come up with some kinda plan
AT: ill eVen set up a format
AT: its gonna be serVer - you - client
AT: so in my case kaprao - lyn - zirreh
AT: as far as i know the three of us are all part of the original session phaest started
AT: were gonna call that the alpha session for claritys sake
AT: i know theres another troll session that sorta squeezed in
AT: well call that beta
AT: and so on down the line if theres more i honestly dont know at this point
AT: theres a human session as well i know that much
AT: theyre just gonna be the human session
AT: if theres more than one of their sessions too i guess well figure out names
AT: but does eVeryone get the idea of what were trying to figure out here
AT: good
AT: now sound off

Comments

[artful_transgressor]

okay
if you cant be bothered to read a detailed point by point address of yknow
all the questions you asked me
which i assumed you wanted answers to
ill keep this concise for your conVenience

right back at you princess

[soundtricks]

if you could see how high my eyebrows are going right now
I mean seriously
just

fucking seriously kid

[artful_transgressor]

hey
just saying youre the person whos been bitching about other players being weak
or who has the audacity to talk to who
or who isnt progressing fast enough
just curious if youVe seen any actual changes happening cause of it
i mean i bitch all the time
the difference is i dont actually expect it to help or change anything
i just do it for my own satisfaction
YOU seem to bitch and think its gonna get stuff done
aside from pissing people off at you
which iVe been telling you literally from the start
does not work

so it was pretty fucking hilariously ironic to haVe YOU tell ME that

[soundtricks]

seemed to work on Alternia just fine
if it don't work here, then it ain't really my fault
all this fuckin' ~sensitivity~ or what the fuck ever
like seriously
how do you guys even♫


but I have a point and you know it
so
dwi

[artful_transgressor]

whoa hey
dont lump me in with that shit
do i honestly strike you as any kind of sensitiVe indiVidual
im not telling you not to bitch at people
fuck i do that all the time
im telling you not to expect it to get results
cause it really has neVer worked
belieVe me iVe been doing it my whole life

maybe it worked for you on alternia cause alternia was a lot more casually cull-happy
but we cant afford to just cull people who mouth off or dont listen to us here
unless we wanna set off some kind of domino death chain that kills eVeryone
so here yelling at people doesnt actually serVe any useful purpose aside from Venting rage
which means youVe gotta learn some new tactics
not saying you haVe to like it
belieVe me trying to be helpful and get teamwork going hasnt exactly made my life any more joyful or fulfilling
but its better than failing and dying cause we just kept hammering at the same old things that no longer work

yeah and
so do i
the point is you neVer actually acknowledge anyone but you could be eVen partially right
whereas thats something im actually capable of and do more regularly than id like to admit
and im not saying that cause im trying to proVe im better
im saying that cause this is literally your biggest problem and you need to fix it
cause you haVe actual things going for you but this stupid goddamn refusal to eVer listen to anyone or actually THINK about what they fucking say is standing so much in your way that its gonna fuck you up completely
along with eVerything youVe got going for you and eVerything you eVer try to accomplish here
were not on alternia anymore
the things that worked for us on alternia arent working anymore
i dont eVen think we can still be the people we were on alternia anymore unless we want to die as them
you want the soft weak trolls to toughen up for the game
well angry vicious trolls have got to blunt some of their edges
at least enough to learn how to work together
eVeryones got detrimental shit theyVe gotta get rid of to win at this game
and this is yours

so for fucks sake
stop acting like im trying to show you up by pointing out youre doing shit wrong
and it sure as fuck doesnt matter whose FAULT it is that strategies from alternia dont work here
thats not the point
none of that has eVer been the point
the point is that none of us can afford to keep doing what doesnt work anymore
im trying to help you
and myself by extension

[soundtricks]

look, I get what you're saying
but honestly, I couldn't care less about culling anybody or not
honestly if they don't listen, they'll probably just wind up dying anyway
so it's their own damn fault for not listening

but my problem is
why should I have to change just because they don't like it♫
if they'd just listen, I wouldn't ~have~ to be such an ass about everything
but nooooooo
no one fucking listens until it's too damn late
and then they have the nerve to act like I didn't warn them in the first place
it's like it goes in one fucking auricular sponge clot and out the other
completely stupid

and I can't ~stand~ stupid
I mean I'm not the brightest phosphorescent lighting device in the fucking world
but even ~I~ have more sense than most of these losers
and that's really not conducive to surviving
especially when they won't listen when I tell them shit for their own good
just because I don't do it ~nicely~ or whatever doesn't mean I'm doing it to be a jerk
I mean fuck's sake, Avispa and Phylus handle me just fine
and you've ~seen~ how they are
so what the fuck is everyone else's problem♫

I mean for fuck's sake
it's not like I'm yelling at them to get better at the game so they'll fucking ~die~
it's pretty much the exact opposite♪

[artful_transgressor]

youre not changing for them or their delicate sensibilities though
youre changing for the game itself
like
alternia was basically fatal konflict
and this is penultimate delusion
you cant play one like you play the other
you gotta completely change your play style
and like i said youre not the only one whos gotta make the transition
eVerybody has to
so youre essentially doing it for your own sake

and be fair here
its not like all your screaming has been instructiVe
or meant to help the person youre screaming at
just gonna cite kappy here and leaVe it at that
thats the kind of shit you haVe to stop doing
not the being generally abrasiVe
cause yeah abrasiVeness to some degree is something people should learn to handle
especially if its taking the form of oVerall helpfulness
like im trying my hardest to be helpful and i can still only be so patient

[soundtricks]

yeah, still not likely to happen
maybe if I had a reason to actually care about anyone else
or, you know, they didn't keep giving me reasons to want to ram my face against th' nearest cliff
I'd be a little more reasonable about things
but they all piss me off something awful
and to make it worse, most of them aren't even the trolls I was SUPPOSED to play with to begin with


okay no, that guy's just a liability, don't care what you say
poisoned imps, yeah♫
besides, I wasn't screaming at him
I was informing him that needed to back away from my team
his own fault things escalated like they did

but I mean really
have you seen what I have to deal with on my team♫
it's the rough equivalent of having a team comprised
of a two-sweep-old, a fuckin' tuber, a piranha and a woolbeast
I mean what th' fuck am I even supposed to do with that♫
the fucking fish actually tried to KILL ME during entry by dropping shit on me
and DS is the only one who seems like he has any sense
when he isn't DISAPPEARING for days on end
and don't
even get me started
on Mandya



I am not built to handle this much genetic predisposition for TOTAL FAILURE♪♪♪

[artful_transgressor]

is this seriously flying right oVer your head
i just spent like two paragraphs listing all the reasons you haVe to care about other people
which ill summarize here as 'their fates are Very likely to both directly and indirectly affect your own'
how much they do or dont piss you off doesnt change that fact
so either you resign yourself to working with them regardless or you might as well just cull yourself now

are you honestly complaining about his prototyping
okay first of all its not like eVeryone knew exactly what prototyping would do before we got into the game
im betting this is the moment where you raise your hand and go 'i did'
cause somehow you always seem to be ahead of eVeryone else in eVerything
well good for you but i know i at least had no fucking clue
and i doubt kappy did either
but lets stop for a second and talk about how kappys prototyping is probably the only goddamn one that has been ENTIRELY NEGATED
cause of the antidotes hes proVided for eVeryone in alpha
so frankly his prototyping is the only one in our session that i know of to haVe a completely NULL effect
now lets talk about mine
which my ancestor frankly hijacked and i didnt get any say in the process but regardless
our imps can turn fucking inVisible cause of him
thats a lot more problematic than a poison eVeryones kitted out with antidotes against anyway
plus the poison on the imps was so fucking localized to blatantly obVious flowers on their backs that unless you were fucking trying to light imp farts or something its not like the risk was eVer huge eVen before the antidotes got handed out
you are Vastly oVerexaggerating how much of a liability hes eVer actually been
and ignoring the fact that theres plenty of problematic prototypings you could be more justifiably raging oVer
so im gonna chalk this up to illogical grudge cause you haVe zero appendages to stand on here

also dont eVen kid yourself
yelling or not you jumped into that conVersation uninVited and both guns blazing
telling him off like hed broken some law rather than Violated an arbitrary demand youd created in your head that not eVen the rest of your session wanted any part of
you fucking demanded he apologize for existing or something along those lines if i recall correctly
you werent exactly a leVel-headed Voice of caution and concern
you were the fucking catalyst of ALL of that mess
the second you walked in is the second eVerything went south
how can you seriously be foisting the blame on kappy
eVen if hed literally gone 'okay' and turned off his husktop THEN AND THERE
youd haVe been no less out of line
and eVeryone who told you so would haVe said the exact same shit
fuck i wouldVe been eVen more pissed cause you had no right to be giVing him orders and he had no obligation to follow em
so him giVing in to your ridiculous demands wouldVe made what you did eVen worse than it already was
but seriously i dont giVe a shit who escalated the situation
you CREATED the goddamn situation
you basically WERE the situation
and you dont get to be the situation and then go 'well its eVeryone elses fault cause they didnt react to me right'

ugh
im getting pissed again
in the interests of diplomacy i Vote we drop this subject
but seriously
if you wanna continue it without me completely blowing my stack
cause i fucking will
youd better take some fucking responsibility for your own part in that mess
cause eVeryone but yous already owned up to their part in making it messy
so unless you can get on the same leVel as eVeryone else youVe got no RIGHT to talk about something that far beyond your grasp

as for being built for that much total failure
actually i think you were
youVe been going on and on foreVer about how badass you are
and youVe demonstrated it on occasion too
you eVer think maybe youVe been saddled with exactly the amount of handicap someone like you needs
cause it sounds like itd take a hell of a lot to slow your roll
and look at the cards youVe been dealt
maybe its time for you to learn what its like for the rest of us
with obstacles you cant just smash through

[soundtricks]

y' seem to be confusing
'caring about someone'
with 'needing them to survive'
completely different things, those
so don't tell me I've got to ~care~ about 'em in order to know I need 'em alive
m' not ~entirely~ stupid


and oh no, you brought it up, so we're going t' finish this one way or another
so look here

I know you think I have some weird grudge against your friend
and I do
now, at least
because I mean really, things would've probably been alright
if he could pick a fight and finish it himself
but he can't
and that's the ~first~ thing that pisses me off
second is the fact that everyone's acting like me telling him to stay away from my teammates
when my team's been told to lay down and die by yours
is a capital fucking offense
whatever you think I need to own up to♫
it better be more than 'you don't have the right to tell someone who to talk to'
because like it or not, he really ~could~ have just ignored me if he wasn't going to back up that attitude of his
like he did when he just stopped responding
or is that my fault too♫
you'd think I was the first troll to ever tell someone to fuck off
and oh look 'told him to apologize for existing'♫
do I look like I want to be listening to him all day♫
proof positive you didn't actually ~read anything~ before jumping to his defense like some knight in shining armor or some hoofbeastshit like that
tell me, have you read it all even now♫
or are you going entirely on your little boyfriend's account of what happened♫
because if you want to talk about someone who's a 'situation', you better take a good long look at your ~friend~


but hey, ~good for you~ lot that he had a way to fix a problem ~he caused~
one would only hope he would, all things considered

though that shit about ancestors♫
not even touching that with a ten foot pole
because how did he even live long enough if that even happened♫
I mean ~fucking seriously~


and last
I don't go 'on and on'
actually, I've made ~one fucking post~ 'bout it
and that was when the game ~started~
but maybe I shouldn't ~have~ to slow my roll
I know I sure wouldn't ~have~ to if half the trolls I'm playing with weren't pretty much ~cullbait~
and even ~that~ wouldn't be so bad if any of them wanted to try and ~change~
but they ~don't~ and it's fucking ~INFURIATING~

After all, YOU changed. Why shouldn't THEY?

[artful_transgressor]

im not confusing it
needing them to surViVe inVolves caring if they liVe or die
eVen if thats as far as the caring goes
although it seems like your concern goes a little further than that with at least a couple trolls
but fine
if youVe already grasped that point regardless of how you label it ill stop harping on it

he wasnt picking a fight there though
there was literally no altercation happening until you walked in and threw the gauntlet at his feet
regardless of what he did with it from that moment on
it was only there cause you put it there
also i dont get how you can blame him for it 'escalating'
and complain how he didnt stay to fight it out with you at the same time
either you dont think it shouldVe escalated at all or you wanted him to take it eVen further than it went
i mean i dont eVen care which it was you wanted but youre doing a weird thing where youre blaming him for it being bad while saying you wished hed made it worse?
like what the hell are you eVen talking about at this point

also there is really no comparing you and phaest
iVe been oVer this before
it was super fucking obVious that phaest hated what she was telling you guys for one thing
plus it was literally a case of her thinking she had zero choice in the matter
and that if you guys hacked into the game we would ALL die
you included
so letting you in would not haVe improVed your chances in any way
let me underline the main thing you should be taking away here SHE LITERALLY THOUGHT YOU GUYS WOULD DIE NO MATTER WHAT THE FUCK SHE DID
it was not a choice between save them or leave them to die cause as far as she knew 'save them' was not eVen on the table
so it was not her telling you guys to lay down and fucking die
it was her saying 'if i leaVe you guys yes youll die
but if you hack in youll still die AND so will the people i might actually haVe been able to saVe
you guys will die no matter what and im sorry about that but please let me do what little good i can or all my work will be for nothing'
obViously she was incorrect about what the game could actually handle but she didnt know that at the time
and to be fair the game is pretty fucking buggy so she wasnt entirely wrong either
but the point is she didnt fucking want to haVe to turn you guys down
she just literally thought it was that or nothing based on her work on the game
and im not the most emotionally perceptiVe guy in the world but eVen i could tell she was pretty torn up about it
eVen when she was pissed thinking that you guys were gonna wreck her ability to saVe anyone at all
that is not actually similar in any way to you making an arbitrary judgment call about one troll being a liability and somehow deciding he might infect your team with failure though some kind of preViously undiscoVered Verbal osmosis
and then telling him to gtfo in the most insulting way possible
without eVen giVing the teammates youd decided he shouldnt be talking to a say in whether or not they WANTED to talk to him
those things are literally not eVen on the same PLANET as each other much less the same ballpark

and yeah i read all of it
it was awhile back though so if i got some minor details wrong sue me
i know you wanted him to apologize for something super fucking insulting
if not him existing then maybe him being worthless
something along those lines anyway
but does it really fucking matter what the exact wording was cause it sure as fuck doesnt change my point
that being you were going at him in a ridiculously fucking combatiVe way and id almost consider him not rising to such obVious bait as a point in his faVor
cause pretty much any other troll would haVe
you can say you werent looking for a fight or for it to 'escalate'
and maybe you eVen belieVe it
but that sure as fuck wasnt how you were actually acting
and considering youre pissed at him for not staying and fighting it out with you i think youre fucking kidding yourself that a fight wasnt exactly what you were aiming and hoping for cause youre sure pissed you didnt get one with him

also for fucks sake stop calling him my boyfriend
id barely eVen been talking to him much before that happened
aside from serVer stuff that is
i only got inVolVed cause you were trying to start shit so hard that you hooked entirely the wrong finbeast with your bait
yeah weVe become friends since but a) still nothing to do with quadrants of any sort
and b) nothing to do with me jumping in there

yeah apparently my ancestors kismesis from way back extended his lifespan somehow?
thats all hes really explained
i dunno if its him being cagey or if he literally doesnt fucking remember
honestly on any non-game subjects his pan seems pretty fucked up
i get the impression hes been aliVe way too long

cullbait how?
as in just trolls who are likely to get killed off in general
or trolls whod be likely to get culled by alternian standards
cause the latter thing really doesnt exist anymore
im with you in that i haVe no fucking idea how trolls like nikkal liVed long enough eVen to make it to the game
but whether youd expect them to be culled in fiVe minutes back on alternia is no longer actually releVant to anything
so long as they gain leVels and shit and are strong enough to handle the game thats really all they need to do
or are they not handling their shit in the game well

[soundtricks]

well that's one thing settled at least
so now to points two and three

number two:

if you think that was me throwing down a gauntlet
I question how much attention you've been paying to how I do things
because if I wanted to challenge him
and it wouldn't be much of one I'll tell you that
then I'd do it
not just insult him and hope he picked a fight
and what I'm saying is that he should have either done one or the other
so either pick a fight and then finish it
or don't start at all
that's pretty much it

P.S. I will stop calling him your boyfriend when you stop defending him like he is
you want to do him a favor♫
tell him not to start something he's not going to finish
or better yet, to finish what he DOES get into
instead of crying to whoever will listen


three:

whoa there bro
calm that bulge you've got going for Algfri, alright
because one: she's dead
and two: you're not doing her any favors

look, all that junk about the game and blah blah blah aside
don't you think it should probably have been a little smarter
for her to do a lot more research on some crazy lifesaving game than she did♫
I mean really, at this point I'm wondering if she was sure ~any~ of this was real
and wasn't just reeling trolls in as guinea pigs
hurrah if it works, at least we tried if it didn't, get what I mean♫
but even if she didn't know what us playing would do to the game
it was kind of a dick move just ignoring the fact that if she was building it from the ground up, then she should have
you know
probably set the player cap a little higher

but too late now, I guess
we're all here, and we ain't going nowhere
unless more of my teammates die, I mean


also: both, in most cases
Nikkal probably wouldn't have made it past the drones to get offplanet
and I don't think Mandya would've lasted to an age to make it offplanet with how ~she~ lives
Serala might have made it offplanet out of sheer, infuriating dumb luck
and I don't know what the hell the rules are for seadwellers, so fuck princess Komesh
at the moment though, gamewise♫
except for Mandya, I'm not even sure
and I think ~she's~ only moving because I'm her server now
I haven't heard shit from Nikkal or Komesh in fuckin' ~ages~
so they might be dead somewhere for all I know
and I dunno about Serala but I'm pretty sure his lusus might give him more trouble than the imps
so as far as I know♫
the only one who's got everything but their Big Ass Planet Quest done is me