Well we haven't had one of these in a long time, so now is the perfect excuse to have a round of Overlord's Orders.
What is Overlord's Orders? To quote from the rules below:
Quote
We will have an overlord (or overlady), who will be all powerful and control the game.
Everyone else will be a servant of theirs to do his or her bidding, which will be a new assignment at the beginning of each phase.
The game begins by the Overlord issuing a task, sending out their servants, and then summoning everyone before them and questioning them about whether they got the thing they wanted.
Any given round may have anywhere from a developing storyline and plot to pure and simple tasking. At times, the gamemaster (Overlord) may deviate from the general pattern and do something different at the end than just another task.
The main concept is to have everyone fail in
hilarious ways, and the Overlord punishes (eliminates) the weakest player at the end of each phase. You win (or at least avoid losing) by shifting the blame onto someone else, and odds are you will have blame placed on you. Who will win? That's for me to decide (and by decide, I mean I will determine who failed the least at the end of the game.
This is a whole ton of fun, as I'm sure
@DanielofRedwall will attest. This round will be a tad different from previous rounds, as it is intended to be a one off, though I wouldn't be surprised if this caught on again. The way this will work is that starting now, anyone can sign up to play. I will close the game to new players signing up and post the starting phase on Saturday, June 12th. I will be
STRICTLY ending each phase and starting the next one on Tuesdays and Saturdays, sometime in the late afternoon/early evening US EST. The game should (hopefully) run through the end of the month.
I am also giving this round a special theme. In honor of our 10th anniversary, we will be playing in an alternate universe version of the forum. The players will be the forum "staff" and I will be the evil Overlord. ... Admin? ... Overmin? ... Adlord? I'll work on it. Anyway, please treat this like a meta RP about the forum. It'll make sense once the game starts. Please reply stating your intention to participate. Again, sign-up will only last until June 12th, so join in the fun ASAP!
I've listed the rules below, sourced from a previous round, along with a list of previous rounds. If you are unfamiliar with Overlord's Orders, I'd highly recommend reading through at least 2 different rounds to get a feel for how things work. I will be keeping to the forum theme though, so please avoid from in-person style shenanigans unless you are RPing living in the same location as another player.
I look forward to playing with all of you! ^_^ And once again, Happy Anniversary!
The Rules
Quote from: The Rules of Overlord's Orders
The Rules
We will have an overlord (or overlady), who will be all powerful and control the game.
Everyone else will be a servant of theirs to do his or her bidding, which will be a new assignment at the beginning of each phase.
The game begins by the Overlord issuing a task, sending out their servants, and then summoning everyone before them and questioning them about whether they got the thing they wanted.
Any given round may have anywhere from a developing storyline and plot to pure and simple tasking. At times, the gamemaster (Overlord) may deviate from the general pattern and do something different at the end than just another task.
Game terminology:
"Game" or "round" refers to each individual, distinct game (OO I, OO II, etc.).
"Phase" refers to an individual segment of the game.
So: Each round consists of several phases, with a diminishing count of player from phase to phase.
Example Phase:
Let%u2019s say the Overlord might have wanted a jeep to use.
Stage 1: Introduction
The Overlord sends out their servants on a task and they return, and the Overlord will question their servants and ask them why they failed to bring them the thing they wanted (which will happen; no one succeeds).
Stage 2: Defenses
Players can then blame their failure on some random thing (like maybe an elephant destroying the jeep) or someone else in the game; anything to shrug themselves off from fault.
Everyone can then blame someone, themselves, keep silent, or introduce some sort of new feature that happened while acquiring the item (in this case, a jeep). Eventually, the Overlord will process the information and decide who failed.
Stage 3: Punishment
The person chosen to have failed by the Overlord is then thrown out, vaporized, or something creative, by the Overlord%u2019s orders. The idea is to not be this person, and to survive as long as possible.
Don't overflow the phase. Player defenses will be judged on quality, not length or frequency.
Inter-game rules: The winner of any round is given host-ship of the next game. This can tie in with them going from servant to overlord, or it can be original.
General Guidelines:
Free roleplaying, or game spam, is fine. This means having yourself eat a banana, talk about the weather or river dance.
Whenever someone says something about an event, it becomes fact. It is what happened. If someone says an elephant destroyed a jeep, then anyone calling that person a liar is for certain lying; the jeep was destroyed by an elephant. What's up for telling by someone else is, for example, who set the elephant on the jeep. Also, a character doesn't know what someone else's motives were in doing or saying something -- they can speculate on those motives, but saying about someone, for instance, that "they meant to kill the Overlord" is not automatically factual.
Godmoding pertaining to persons should be restricted to some extent, just try to keep things with at least a hand in plausibility. Powerplaying is allowed. However, it cannot affect players between tasks. For instance, you cannot have a servants contract a disease and be unable to speak, or even die. You can have them be sick during the task, but you cannot impede them during the Sessions before the Overlord.
Normally, the Gamemaster will have technology restricting servants to a base during the game to prevent physically roleplaying and keep the game focused on its purpose. Overlords can power play.
The servants are not aware of the Overlord's personal name, or of events that took place in previous rounds, unless the Overlord states otherwise.
You cannot use an excuse like being brainwashed or cloned during the task. You are you - and you are responsible for what you did wrong.
All posts after the game begins should contain IC text; there should be no posts that are only OOC chatter.
No "backseat moderating". You may ask the Overlord whether someone else's post violates the rules, but do not tell that person, whether by making an OOC comment or PMing them, that they are in the wrong. The Overlord is responsible for managing the game.
Remember to keep things civil, stay inside the board rules, keep all hands and legs inside the game until it comes to a complete stop.
Previous Rounds
Past Overlords:
Overlord's Orders I (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=722.0) - Taggerung_of_Redwall
Overlord's Orders II (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=888.0) - James Gryphon
Overlord's Orders III (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=948.0) - DanielofRedwall
Overlord's Orders IV (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=1088.0) - Matthias720
Overlord's Orders V (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=1246.0) - Redwall Musician
Overlord's Orders VI (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=1549.0) - Tiria Wildlough
Special Holiday Round 2012 (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=3022.0) - Taggerung_of_Redwall
Overlord's Orders VII (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=3361.0) - Matthias720
Overlord's Orders VIII (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=4241.0) - Romsca
Overlord%u2019s Orders IX (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=6441.0) - rusvulthesaber, James Gryphon/Tiria Wildlough
Overlord's Orders X (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=6679.0) - Taggerung_of_Redwall
Overlord's Orders XI (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=7007.0) - James Gryphon
Overlord's Orders XII (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=7133.0) - Jasper
Overlord's Orders XIII (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=7350.0) - LT Sandpaw
Overlord's Orders XIV (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=7604.0) - Delthion
Overlord's Orders XV (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=7707.0) - Soren the Warrior
Overlord's Orders XVI (http://redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=8110.0) - Mhera, James Gryphon
Overlord's Orders XVII (http://www.redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=8475) - Izeroth
Overlord's Orders Special Round II (http://www.redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=9438.0) - James Gryphon
(http://www.redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=10117.0) Overlord's Orders XVIII - James Gryphon
(http://www.redwallabbey.com/forum/index.php?topic=10408.0) Overlord's Order XIX - Jasper
--Sign-up Closed--
I've started phase 1. It will run until June 15th.
Phase 1 has finished. Phase 2 will run until June 19th.
Phase 2 has finished. Phase 3 will run until June 22nd.
Phase 3 has finished. Phase 4 will run until June 26th.
Phase 4 has finished. Phase 5 will run until June 29th.
Phase 5 has finished. Phase 6 will run until July 3rd.
Kewl, sign me up!
I'll join too!
Unless staff are prohibited.
Quote from: Verdauga on June 09, 2021, 01:59:42 AM
I'll join too!
Unless staff are prohibited.
Staff are actively encouraged to join. I'm especially talking about you,
@DanielofRedwall
Lol
(https://media.tenor.com/images/1018a31c514e88aa46823a4eb9f23592/tenor.gif)
Sign me up...
Quote from: Matthias720 on June 09, 2021, 02:01:36 AM
Quote from: Verdauga on June 09, 2021, 01:59:42 AM
I'll join too!
Unless staff are prohibited.
Staff are actively encouraged to join. I'm especially talking about you, @DanielofRedwall
You know me too well. I am absolutely in.
Sounds interesting. I think I'll join.
I might just read this one, but this seems like a really fun idea. *Thumbs up*
I'll join!
I will... accept your offer.
This was a lot of fun back in the day. I'm in.
Jukka is still married to Matt Damon.
We are at eight player, currently. Anyone else joining? The game starts in less than 24 hours...
*Raises hand* I shall fail spectacularly!
Quote from: Cornflower MM on June 11, 2021, 10:55:06 PM
*Raises hand* I shall fail spectacularly!
Wonderful! It shall be as magnificent as an eagle skating on a buttered sidewalk!
(My mind is a strange place. Don't question the odd metaphors.)
I'm about 6 hours later than I wanted to be, but oh well. Let's get this party started!
It was an auspicious day on the Redwall Community Fan Forums! Head Overstrator Matthias720 had called a meeting of his staff, to plan out a celebration of 10 years under his mandatory rule. The forum was the only place that Redwall fans had online, so they had little say in the matter. Staff members were appointed more for loyalty and deference than their individual skills or personality. The Overstrator ruled without mercy or compassion, leaving his lackeys to clean up whatever messes he created on a whim. One by one, staff members joined the private staff chat, waiting to hear what new orders their leader had for them this time. Once they had all assembled, their leader began to outline his wishes.
"All of you will form into teams of three. You are to come up with two special events per team, with each event extolling why this forum is the best, and why I am the best leader. You have 72 hours to brainstorm your ideas and implement them. Failure will result in the expulsion of the staff member who performed most poorly. I will return at the end of that time. I expect great things from you all. Dismissed!"
----------
A mere 72 hours later, the staff has reconvened in the staff chat, waiting for the Overstrator to arrive. His names appears, and he begins to type:
"I do not know what has transpired over the past three days, but your results are abysmal! There are unflattering pictures of me in the Gallery, everyone has kittens for their profile pictures (and I hate kittens), and worst of all, the forum theme is now magenta and cyan! WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!? Well!? Speak up!"
OOC: And thus begins round/phase 1. As all of you (hopefully) know, I am a pretty chill guy, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to roleplay an absolutely terrible administrator, or rather an Overstrator (Overlord + administrator). Please keep things within the context of a forum environment, but you are otherwise free to do as you please. Remember that anything that gets stated by another player becomes true, so you will have to weave a creative narrative to get out of being blamed for everything going wrong, and posting excuses early might help you establish a quick lead. I hope you all have as much fun playing this as much as I have fun writing it. Cheers!
PS: I love kittens. Cats are adorable. I do not hate them in any way, shape, or form.
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
"Sorry that I haven't been able to respond for the last few days, but let me start off O Great Overstrator, by saying I had no part in any of this.
As many of you may have heard, Typhoon De Fformelo caused a mass power outage last week here in the Pacific Northwest where I am located, resulting in me (and many other people) losing power to my computer, wifi and phone service in one go.
It was so bad over here, not even a single McDlanods joint had service, people can't heat up their macrowave dinners and all the big tech corps were in a state of mass panic.
But back to the topic at hand, in order to try to reconnect with the group, I was forced to pack up my entire computer setup, desktop, speakers and all, and take an impromptu cross country trip to find the closest (working) electric socket and wifi signal.
Of course it didn't help that my tires popped and I ran out of gas halfway even though I just filled up and had to be towed by a group of Hillbilly-Shrews to the nearest service station which also lost all energy.
The Typhoon was so bad, it even knocked the power out of most of the Mountain States forcing me to drive on to the east which was being ravaged by Typhoon Mortimer at the time.
Right now, my Computer is plugged into a solar powered house in the middle of Canada and the first thing I find when I finally have access to the internet is a cartload of missed messages and the forum gone haywire..."
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
"Also, I hate kittens too"
(OOC: No, kittens are actually cute)
Ally begins typing timidly. "Oh, great and mighty overstrator Matthias, I must admit to noticing Lass' group mentioning adding pictures of you to the gallery."
"However, I must point out that you look handsome in any picture, it is impossible for you to look bad in a photo, you don't even have any bad angles!"
*Lass is typing angrily*
"I told them to draw you ending kitten kind! How was I suppose to know Scott would draw that! As for the kitten profile pictures, well, that was all Dan's idea, we all know how he loves kittens!"
"PS: I was NOT responsible for the rampant infants, that was Ally's fault! She was meant to be looking out for them! Plus the Front Lawns is her board, not mine!
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
Sorry, but the 3rd photo made me laugh so hard, I snorted my chocolate milk out of my nose...
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
Alright, who spammed my RP thread with Nyan Cat pics?
*Ally is typing*
"Yeah, I do remember Dan boasting about how he was able to convince everybeast to change their pfp to kittens..."
Quote from: Captain Wortshire on June 13, 2021, 05:02:11 AM
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
Sorry, but the 3rd photo made me laugh so hard, I snorted my chocolate milk out of my nose...
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
Alright, who spammed my RP thread with Nyan Cat pics?
*Lass is typing*
"That would be Russa.. Said something about accidentally drinking spiked orange juice..."
*Ally is typing*
"Who spiked it though?"
Quote from: lass of something much on June 13, 2021, 05:06:59 AM
Quote from: Captain Wortshire on June 13, 2021, 05:02:11 AM
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
Sorry, but the 3rd photo made me laugh so hard, I snorted my chocolate milk out of my nose...
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
Alright, who spammed my RP thread with Nyan Cat pics?
*Lass is typing*
"That would be Russa.. Said something about accidentally drinking spiked orange juice..."
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'"But why Nyan Cat?"
*Lass is typing*
"Uhhhhh, lemmie go back and check... Oh! Right! It was Scott, he was gonna feed it to the admins so they'd give him their guns.."
*Typing continues*
"Ummm....I have no idea.. She probably got the idea from that drawing of Matt you did as nyan cat.. Scott posted it"
(OOC:Cap, you should get Scott on here so he can defend himself)
Quote from: lass of something much on June 13, 2021, 04:59:34 AM
*Lass is typing angrily*
"I told them to draw you ending kitten kind! How was I suppose to know Scott would draw that! As for the kitten profile pictures, well, that was all Dan's idea, we all know how he loves kittens!"
"PS: I was NOT responsible for the rampant infants, that was Ally's fault! She was meant to be looking out for them! Plus the Front Lawns is her board, not mine!
*Scott is typing/smashing the keyboard*
"The drawing commission was from an anonymous and sketchy number, who asked me to draw it with very specific details, he or she offered me 2 bucks so I took it, money is money and I have a no questions asked policy."
*Lass is typing*
"The same person who asked me to draw that one.....PG13 drawing??! I warned you about them!! Why do you never listen!"
Quote from: lass
"PS: I was NOT responsible for the rampant infants, that was Ally's fault! She was meant to be looking out for them! Plus the Front Lawns is her board, not mine!
*Ally is typing*
"I know not of any rampant dibbuns!"
"Are you trying to confuse our mighty overstrator with extra, false details so that he doesn't see that the true fault is on you?!?!?!"
"You self-imposed yourself as the leader of your group! And as such, you should've overseen all your groups progress, and results!"
"Had you caught the misdeeds of your group, or overseen them well enough, you could have stopped these things from being published, or at least reverted them!"
*Lass is typing*
"I'm not the leader! Wortshire is! I'm only in charge of the fanart board!"
"I only took over after you and Wortshire went offline, leaving me to deal with all your messes!!"
"It was only Scott, Russa and I! And we all know how that turned out..."
*Ally is typing*
Quote from: lass"I'm not the leader! Wortshire is! I'm only in charge of the fanart board!"
No, we were split into three groups! You were the self-imposed leader of your group!
Quote"I only took over after you and Wortshire went offline, leaving me to deal with all your messes!!!
What messes!?!? I'm in a group with Bookie and Russa!
Quote"It was only Scott, Russa and I! And we all know how that turned out..."
Yes, we all know how that turned out...
Teams?
Scott McLamok
Lass
Verd
Ally
Bookie
Russa
Worty
Daniel
Corn
*Lass is typing*
"The rampant dibbuns for a start...As I said, I imposed nothing!"
Quote from: Ally046 on June 13, 2021, 05:41:16 AM
Quote from: lass
"PS: I was NOT responsible for the rampant infants, that was Ally's fault! She was meant to be looking out for them! Plus the Front Lawns is her board, not mine!
*Ally is typing*
"I know not of any rampant dibbuns!"
"Are you trying to confuse our mighty overstrator with extra, false details so that he doesn't see that the true fault is on you?!?!?!"
"You self-imposed yourself as the leader of your group! And as such, you should've overseen all your groups progress, and results!"
"Had you caught the misdeeds of your group, or overseen them well enough, you could have stopped these things from being published, or at least reverted them!"
OOC: Okay guys, maybe back off a little. There are a bunch of players who haven't had a chance to even touch round 1. Maybe wait until a few of them have posted.
*Dan has entered the chat*
*Dan is typing*
You're all speaking utter nonsense. Yes, I raised the idea of changing our profile pictures to kittens, but that was taken completely out of context. In our group, Corn thought it would be a good idea to talk about what was completely off the table in terms of ideas, just to narrow down our thinking to the good ones. It was in that context that I mentioned the idea of changing profile pictures to kittens, knowing how much you'd hate that. I never would have thought that would eventuate. Of course, how was I to know Lass would be snooping around trying to steal ideas from other groups? She saw me type the idea out, screenshotted it out of context, and spread it around as 'my idea' to make me look bad. She then told everyone to go through with the idea to humiliate me. I bet it's because she's insecure about being a Kiwi and just had to take it out on the superior Australian. ::) Also, Verdauga really latched onto that idea too, he was a big culprit.
My actually really good idea for a forum event was that we would write to Netflix about making a Redwall movie, which would lead to more people reading the books, joining the forum, and inevitably worshipping you. Well, that idea was pretty successful, I must say. I'm sure you've heard the news. Oh, also, I mentioned to Netflix that you'd be a great candidate for voice-acting as Matthias, so expect a call soon, oh great Overstrator.
Also, I don't know what the Captain's talking about in terms of apparently being offline for the whole ordeal. Yeah, he's been pretty quiet for the past few days. However, I definitely remember him being online for about 10 minutes, typing 'Turn everything blue', and then disappear. I thought it was weird at the time, but forgot about it until now. I don't know how that turned into everything becoming cyan and magenta, someone else must be responsible for that. I have a hunch Booklover had something to do with that.
Quote from: Matthias720 on June 13, 2021, 06:17:48 AM
OOC: Okay guys, maybe back off a little. There are a bunch of players who haven't had a chance to even touch round 1. Maybe wait until a few of them have posted.
OOC: Oh...Sorry about that.. :-[
*Lass is typing*
"Oh shoot, my nephew's got my phone!! BRB!"
*Lass has gone offline*
*Booklover is typing*
As is evident from the one and a half pages while I was asleep (which would likely have been more if I'd come on twelve hours later as I usually do, however I heard in the Discord that I was needed to explain things, and so I took time out of my very busy schedule to do so), I am not often on when most people are, so I was unable to participate in much of the discussion. By the time I attempted to veto any of the terrible ideas, they had already been decided and often enacted.
Quote from: lass of something much on June 13, 2021, 05:06:59 AM
Quote from: Captain Wortshire on June 13, 2021, 05:02:11 AM
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
Alright, who spammed my RP thread with Nyan Cat pics?
*Lass is typing*
"That would be Russa.. Said something about accidentally drinking spiked orange juice..."
*Russa is typing*Dearest Overstrator, I am quite distressed. I recently received a package from Scott. He claimed it was an early birthday present and said I should open it right away. Inside I found a large poster of Nyan Cat and a single juicebox labeled "Ordinary Orange Juice". I'm very fond of orange juice and drank it immediately. The rest is a little fuzzy... I'm told the juice was spiked with an unknown substance and that I spammed Wort's RP thread with Nyan Cat pics while intoxicated. Under normal circumstances, I would never have done something so impolite and morally wrong.
The fact that Scott sent me drugged juice is quite concerning to me. I hope there's a good reason for his questionable actions.
Yes, I latched onto the idea of kitten profile pics, but that was supposed to be an April Fools Joke on the members, because they'd be scared to be under your wrath.
I was planning renaming the forum the Matthias720 Community Fan Forum, but I was too busy gagging contentbots to keep that stuff off the site!
(That, and my permissions were never granted to change forum layout, but I was gonna enlist Daniel in that I swear!)
OOC:
@Cornflower MM You need to post something with the next 24 hours or else you may be dropped from the game by default. :(
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
"Seeing that most of these erroneous changes were all out of my jurisdiction as the head of the RP threads, I can't really have a say on what happened recently. (That, and I was not really active at the time)"
"Speaking of which, is anybody still open for ideas for the forum anniversary?"
*Corn has entered the chat*
*Corn is typing*
So sorry I'm late, oh great Overstrator! I was trying to pack up those Dibbuns in the Front Lawns before they caused too much havoc and attracted your attention, sir! Daniel is correct, I did think that it was a good idea to have a discussion about what was off-limits but that's only because I was trying to things rolling in our group. You see, Wortshire wasn't answering to any of my messages and Daniel was proposing that we make all the theme backgrounds a truly terrible image of you from years part, Overstrator, so I thought it would be good to draw some lines so we could start moving in a productive direction. Booklover seemed to really like that idea - Maybe she tried to do it herself and broke the software, resulting in the terrible magenta and cyan problem? I bet Verdauga tried to help, since he wanted to change the forum name anyway.
'TheCaptain is typing a reply'
"I would have replied if I had internet service at the time."
"I am still sorting through my private messages"
"While I was gone, for some reason, the forum users spammed my PMs with cabbage stock photos with our glorious Overstrator's magnificent head pasted on top..."
"And he appears to be radiating... Or are those stench lines?"
'TheCaptain glares at two specific mods with specific pics...
"I'll be back after I clear up my message box."
*Lassie Fish has joined the chat*
*Angry typing*
"Daniel I swear if you kick me from the chat one more time I'll hunt you down and eat your gu-....Anyway..."
"Dear Overstrator, I would like to explain that, despite what Russa says, I was NOT the one who hacked into your account and changed your profile picture to a turnip, and your name to 'Smelly poo-poo fartmin', that was Wortshire."
OOC: Only a few hours left... Post any remaining arguments you have and prepare for round 2.
*Ally the Lettuce is typing*
"Yes as most of us have already pointed out, Wortshire was often offline, but when he was online, he caused much destruction to you, and the forum."
*Booklover is typing*
I wasn't even in the same group as Corn or Verd, and besides, if I was attempting to do something, I'd do it right or at the very least get it back to normal. Suggesting otherwise is almost as bad as saying that our beloved Overstrator is imperfect!
*The lettuce cultgang leader is typing*
"Agreed, also, I don't know of any cabbage gang, but you have full support from the lettuce gang."
As the staff chat erupts into chaos, the typing of their Overstrator quickly quells the quarreling into quietness. Over the course of several minutes, the staff hang on every second, awaiting their impending fate.
"Why must you try my patience so? Am I not benevolent in providing you this place? For giving each of you your authority? Yet you behave as though my generosity mean NOTHING! Therefore, I must make an example of one of you. Someone must take the blame for this debacle. And that person is..."
"Scott McLamok"
"It is by your actions, both sending Russa spiked orange juice and creating unbecoming drawings of me for a suspicious anonymous source, that are responsible for the lion's share of the blame. I strip you of your rank, and you are now only allowed to communicate via smileys for the next year. Begone!"
With that proclamation, Scott was disconnected from the staff chat, never to return.
"Now, as for the rest of you. I am thoroughly dissatisfied with your results too, but I am willing to give you a
little more time. Clean up the mess you made! And then, by working together, bring me
two ideas for events, and this time they better be GOOD ones! I hope that the eight of you can count that high! I will be most displeased with any further failings. DISMISSED!"
Four days later...
"GET IN HERE NOW! Why am I getting complaints about spambots posting 'RP mods stink' everywhere!? Why are my precious forums being trashed by people from lesser fandoms!? AND WHY ARE PROFILE PICTURES ALL BUNNIES NOW!? Who's responsible for this!? Answers, NOW!!!"
OOC: Round 1 is officially over. Sorry, Scott McLamok, but your defense needed to be a little more substantial. There's always next time though. Thanks for playing!
As for everyone else, a few quick reminders:
- If someone says something happened, it happened. Denying it is against the rules. If you don't like what someone said you have done, try re-contextualizing it instead. For example, if someone said you attacked someone else with a knife, you could offer more information about the knife itself (maybe it's less harmful than it appears), your reason for attacking (that person is bad because...), or even why what your accuser saw was a misunderstanding (it was all faked). Remember that the challenge isn't all about blaming someone else, it's about not getting blamed yourself.
- I know it's not easy to be around when a new round goes live, but even a minor post can go a long way in helping you do better later in the round. You can always pass the blame later if you need to, and a post is still a post.
- On the other side, I know it's exciting to post a response to your latest accuser, but try and show a little restraint. I don't want to say "Stop having fun" (because that's no fun at all), but I also don't want to have to post a reminder to post. If you're pushing half a dozen post on the first day, maybe trying to consolidate your posts into one longer post instead of 5-6 short one. Quality over quantity.
All in all, this was a great first round! I'm looking forward to what shenanigans you get up to this time. Good luck everyone!
OOC: UUGGHH!!! Matt whyyyyy!! Don't you know him well enough to know that he will actually only post in emojis?? He is the most stubborn, persistent, adorable guy I've ever met.. If he sees that, he will actually do it! I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO TALK TO HIM AGAIN AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!
*Booklover is typing*
I don't know who confused the forum anniversary with the Easter event, but last time Verdie wanted the kitten profile pics, so maybe he knows something.
The blame for the people from lesser fandoms lies partially with me. I invited a few trusted people who I knew had read and loved Redwall, in order to have more subjects to worship you. However, that doesn't account for anyone else who joined. I'm suspect Lass invited some people from other fandoms, as she's the most likely to be involved in anime fandoms.
I was unaware that the spambots existed as I was, at the time, trying to stop certain new members breaking the rules, and the spambots were only in the roleplay thread, apparently, which is somewhere the new members weren't going.
*Lass is typing*
"I invited two friends, but they were massive redwall nerds! One of them even has a Martin poster, signed by The Great Overstrator..
Also, it was your friend who wrote an essay on why the Overstator is a horrible person! It was full of lies! I was the one who deleted it!"
PS: Corn what on earth did you do to the forum emojis?? And WHY are they all butts?!?!
Yet again, everyone was letting me down. Right off the bat, I came up with two awesome ideas for the events. The first was, logically, going to be Matthias720 day, to be celebrated on the day of your joining the forum, which of course closely aligns with the anniversary of the forum itself. All the board names would be renamed to be Matthias720-themed, we would all change profile pictures to something celebrating you, and of course there would be a toasting topic for us all to celebrate your great successes. I figured, after shooting out such an excellent idea, I could delegate some of the planning. I put Verd in charge of the profile picture swap, which I guess confirms Booklover's suspicions.
The other great idea would be a roleplaying tournament. Unfortunately, I thought Corn and Wort would be capable of handling that. Next thing I know, Wort changed all the security settings to open up the forum to spammers, and then momentarily closed posting to all topics except roleplaying so it was the only place for spammers to post. I guess they thought participation numbers would mean everything. By the time I worked out what happened and re-opened the other boards, the spambots had run rampant and cleaning up the mess became hopeless, although of course I am doing my best to delete all the posts. Would be nice to get some help, of course, but the rest of this crowd are pretty useless.
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Don't worry, I'm not going to blame a typhoon this time"
"Yes, I was trying to gain traction for the RP tournament, done is the style of Roman Gladiatorial fights in honor and for the entertainment of our glorious (Emperor) Overstrator. Corn pointed out to me hardly anybody was applying, and she suggested that I lock all the other topics in order to gain some sot of traction and attention."
"I found it strange that she told me to do it instead of doing it herself, and being clueless, (as I am, as you know, the newest mod in the forum, O Great Overstrator, and still learning the ropes), asked her how to do it."
"Instead of giving me specifics, Corn gave me very obscure instructions. And trusting her, I did it."
"Suddenly, there was a flood en masse of spam posters, so I tried to contact Corn, but she was offline."
"When I tried to fix the problem myself, I found somebody limited my moderator abilities, so I was unable to undo the problem."
"Fortunately, I was able to contact Verd, who helped reinstated my mod abilities, but the damage was already done."
"What I found curious, was that little to no one was posting at the time, and as soon as the topics were locked, suddenly everyone started posting in the RP thread."
"Scanning through the RP topics, most of the posts were memes from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Boku No Hero Academia and My Little Pony. That and also the Stinky Cabbage Matt picture that spammed my PM box last time."
"Also, there was another thing prominent throughout all the spammers that posted, all their signatures had lettuce in it..."
"I believe that this entire situation had been planned for some time."
"I don't like pointing fingers, but I believe that Ally and Lass have something to do about it. (And to some extent Corn, but I'm not going to blame her.)"
*Booklover is typing*
Ah, so that's why they pmed me afterward and asked why a purely sarcastic, completely untrue on purpose essay they wrote to show why doing anything other than worshipping the Overstrator was a ridiculous idea. You must have forgotten to read the small print. Though of course if there was any confusion you were right to delete it (we don't want anyone getting the wrong impression of our benevolent, most wonderful Overstrator, do we?). I will of course make sure that they are clear on what is acceptable on our forum, and why they must be certain to obey the rules at all times.
Prior to the spammers arriving, I received the same cryptic message from Verdauga, Lass, and Ally. It said:
QuoteThe lettuce people are coming. This forum must die. Matthias720 looks like a dumpster with a face.
I was both disturbed and offended on your behalf. I immediately warned the others, but they wouldn't listen to me.
*Lass is typing*
"Corn told me to PM that to all the mods and active members! I did question it, but she claimed it was from the Great Overstrator himself! How could I refuse? I would never ignore The Great Overstrator's orders. That's why I did it.. How was I supposed to know that he didn't?? "
Sowwry, I didn't see Lass response before submitting, soooooo...idk...
*Ally is typing*
"Ah, you received these messages from a mysterious hacker group that has been messing with the forum more noticeably recently.
We all remember the unknown number that contacted Scott? We have reports that suggest this message was from the hacker group.
The hackers slipped up when they mentioned Verd, as he is not in any way a 'lettuce person'.
Further reports have shown that the main goal of the group is to drag down the regal overstrator, dirty his name, and bring ruin to all that is his.
The hacker group gained rather dangerous footing in the forum while it was defenseless, and evidence points to the fact that the hackers may have introduced many, if not all, of the bots into the forum.
I doubt we have seen the last of this group and their destruction, I will not let them succeed, and will continue collecting intelligence."
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Oh, is that why you started a topic last week asking people to join your 'exclusive' discord server called 'MatT sTiNKs' with the 'Stinky Cabbage Matt' photo as the icon?"
"Of course my account was blocked from entering it."
*Corn is typing*
Wort and I did start working on the RP tournament, however, I quickly grew busy trying to keep the hacker group that Ally mentioned out of my account. Wort ignored this when I told him and kept bugging me about what to do - I was very short tempered and very sarcastically suggested that he lock down every other topic - I assumed that he would see how sarcastic I was being and how stupid of an idea that was. I was still very distracted when he pressed me about how one would do that and I never thought that he was asking so he could actually lock most of the forum, and I was so irritated I didn't put much thought into it and gave him the basics.
After that, I was kicked out of my account for a few hours by the hacker group - during this time Wort broke everything and couldn't fix it AND they used my account to PM Lass, Verd, and Ally and tell them to spread the message that Russa received, as well as messing with the forum emojis.
Quote from: Captain Wortshire on June 17, 2021, 12:57:06 PM
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Oh, is that why you started a topic last week asking people to join your 'exclusive' discord server called 'MatT sTiNKs' with the 'Stinky Cabbage Matt' photo as the icon?"
"Of course my account was blocked from entering it."
*Lass is typing a reply*
"I
was making a server about teapots, but I gave Daniel admin powers on accident, and he changed everything. He deleted everything but the cricket channel, and replaced them all with "Matt sucks" channels, the server name and pic too.."
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"I find it very convenient that there happens to be a hacker group targeting our forum now."
"I'm pretty sure that somebody would have reported the suspicious behavior by now."
"So if there is a 'hacker group', I believe one of the mods is involved."
"I can probably vouch for Myself, Corn, Dan, and maybe Verd."
"The other three however, not so sure..."
*Ally is typing*
"Didn't you notice me mention those reports multiple times?
And why would a mod be involved?
The hackers access was through the drop of security measure earlier."
Quote from: Captain Wortshire on June 18, 2021, 01:09:09 AM
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"I find it very convenient that there happens to be a hacker group targeting our forum now."
"I'm pretty sure that somebody would have reported the suspicious behavior by now."
"So if there is a 'hacker group', I believe one of the mods is involved."
"I can probably vouch for Myself, Corn, Dan, and maybe Verd."
"The other three however, not so sure..."
*Lass is typing*
"May I point out that I was the one who, in the hour of need (5:34 AM) went through and deleted the massed amounts of bots and disloyal members, despite it being Corn's job?? Plus I fixed the default theme when you accidentally turned it into a Pokémon poster! I too have fallen victim to the spambots! The kept spamming cricket balls in my DMs.. "
Quote from: lass of something much on June 18, 2021, 10:38:55 AM
Quote from: Captain Wortshire on June 18, 2021, 01:09:09 AM
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"I find it very convenient that there happens to be a hacker group targeting our forum now."
"I'm pretty sure that somebody would have reported the suspicious behavior by now."
"So if there is a 'hacker group', I believe one of the mods is involved."
"I can probably vouch for Myself, Corn, Dan, and maybe Verd."
"The other three however, not so sure..."
*Lass is typing*
"May I point out that I was the one who, in the hour of need (5:34 AM) went through and deleted the massed amounts of bots and disloyal members, despite it being Corn's job?? Plus I fixed the default theme when you accidentally turned it into a Pokémon poster! I too have fallen victim to the spambots! The kept spamming cricket balls in my DMs.. "
"TheCaptain is typing a reply""It was supposed to be a poster of the Redwall Tapestry."
"I clicked on the wrong file on accident."
"I was going to change it back, but that was when my mod abilities were nullified."
Quote from: Ally046 on June 18, 2021, 06:49:00 AM
*Ally is typing*
"Didn't you notice me mention those reports multiple times?
And why would a mod be involved?
The hackers access was through the drop of security measure earlier."
"TheCaptain is typing a reply""Oh I don't know..."
"Maybe it's because I (and
only I) was the only one to receive all the 'Stinky Matt Cabbages' in my PM's?"
"Just throwing the idea out there. Because I find this situation WAY too convenient..."
*Lass is typing*
"Yeah, it really is...Like how you disappeared when the spambots joined and started spamming, then you took out Scott, who was the only one who could tell us all the dirt on you.. And now you're blaming Ally and I... And funnily enough, you were the only one who got that message, even though we all got the other ones....It's far too convenient, but not for us, for you! You set everything up to cover up your embarrassing cabbage allergy!"
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"You know, you probably would have gotten away with it..."
"Except you mentioned one thing that gave your whole game away."
"Scott."
"You said I was responsible for his elimination."
"Except, I was in no way, shape, or form involved in his expulsion, nor even mentioned his name once."
"If I recall, you were the one who mentioned his drawings and Russa was the one who was given 'drugged' juice."
And everything he did happened while I was unable to contact him, (Stupid Typhoon).
It is also convenient that Scott was the one in charge of checking accounts, making sure they were bot's, spammers or whatnot.
When he got removed from his post, who asked our Glorious Overstrator for the position? Ally.
Also, what topic did Russa spam when she was 'drugged by Scott'? One of my RP's.
The thing is, I know Scott more than all of you put together.
If Scott were to drug a drink, he would have spiked a 'stronger drink' (cough, cough).
Also, Scott doesn't hold back when he drugs drinks. If the juice was drugged by Scott, Russa would have had a one-way-ticket to Heaven (or the other place).
Meaning, Russa was drugged before she drank the juice from Scott.
Ok, I need to jump in on that accusation Lass has made. I did temporarily delete every channel but the cricket channel, but that's because so much damage had been caused by everyone mucking around with the settings that the cricket channel was the only one that actually worked properly for a few minutes. Probably because I'm the only one that ever posts there. Anyway, I momentarily deleted every other channel, for only about 10 minutes though while I fixed all the bugs in the other boards. Once those were fixed, I put the board back up. Of course, I hadn't realised that these hackers had messed with all the coding so that ordinary commands would result in 'Matt sucks' being displayed everywhere. I was absolutely mortified when I realised this, and did everything I could do undo the damage. That took a lot longer to fix, but we got there eventually.
"ENOUGH!"
"You all are trying my patience! I cannot abide your squabbling any more! Verdauga, you have done nothing to defend yourself from any of the accusations leveled against you. Therefore, I will hold you responsible for everything that has happened in the past four days! I summarily remove all of your staff privileges, and I sentence you to only post in Redwall quotes for the next 6 months! And I will be assigning someone to check every single quote for accuracy, because getting even a single quote wrong will lengthen your punishment by another month per mistake."
With that, Verdauga was disconnected from the staff chat, never to be seen on the staff board again.
"Now back to business. Perhaps the lot of you are incapable of creating and carrying out such a basic task as brainstorming and cooperation. So it falls to me to create the circumstances of my own celebration! Everyone on the forum will use one of my previous profile pictures for the duration of this event. Those who are artistically inclined may create an profile picture portraying me instead, if they so choose. I expect to see a sea of me when I return in three days. Do NOT fail me!"
THREE DAYS LATER
"I have not words. If I could express myself at this moment, have no doubt that I would be listing each and every failure I have seen. But, since that would take WEEKS to verbalize, why don't each of you just tell me why I shouldn't punish all of you RIGHT NOW!"
OOC: Round 2 is over! Verd wasn't feeling it this round and offered to be the scapegoat. Thanks for playing, Verd! Here's hoping you do better next time.
Now as for round 3, I wanted to try something a little different. I've kept my response to the "mistakes" of the players intentionally vague, allowing all of you the opportunity to imagine how the enforced profile picture mandate went wrong. I will add a few notes that may help improve the quality of your responses.
One, being at a high enough level, admins can change the profile pictures of a user's account. Let's assume for the sake of this round, the Overstrator has given all of you this ability for the duration of the event.
Two, I have seen a lot of good blame shifting, creatively avoiding incoming responsibility. This is best accomplished by not assigning 100% of the blame you have received onto someone else, but instead dividing it between other players, giving everyone a bit of chaos to juggle and an opportunity to defend themselves.
And finally three, try and keep any blame within the circle of current players. Passing blame to outside forces lowers the amount of blame that is actively in play and lowers the amount of fun to be had. Yes, I know hackers are consistent with forums and the internet, but as a narrative tool they do take a bit of the challenge away from the game. But, that being said, I did enjoy it in round 2, and I liked what was done with the concept.
Alright, I think that's about it. ON TO ROUND 3! BEGIN!
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Wow, I leave to check on the health of my grandparents, and this is what I return to."
"Fat Matts, Matt-chsticks, and of course, the SCM (Stinky-Cabbage-Matt)."
"Though I must say, the quality of some of the pics are pretty good."
"At least the spammers/hackers/bots were dealt with. (I hope)"
"BTW, which one of you changed my pic to Our Glorious Overstrator eating a turkey leg?"
*Ally is typing*
"Alright, who did it!
Who started changing pfps to the 'Stinky cabbage Overstrator'!
This is disrespectful, childish, and disgusting!
Why be a staff member if you have no respect for the overstrator?!?!?!
Just speak up now, and your staff abilities and title will be stripped ...we can move forward, and you can too."
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Wasn't me."
"I haven't even been active for the last three days."
"If I was active, this whole debacle probably wouldn't have happened..."
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Alright, who's messing with the RP threads again?"
"I made the announcement in the art board, and it was perfect and everything, I said how everyone was to draw the great overstator and use his wonderful face as their profile pictures, everything was going well, Corn started a 'Great Overstator's leaf collection Roleplay' but then Scott tried to join, but he could only post in emojis, which triggered spambots. And then, while I was dealing with that (Cause Wortshire wasn't doing his job) Dan came over to my art challenge announcement and edited to the following:
"Welcome to this years art challenge,
By order of the Sticky Cabbage Overstator, you are all to meme his face and draw it in the most unflattering way, with lots of kittens, and silly legs!
Have fun drawing, if you don't, you'll be banned. "
I tried to edit it back to the respectful and good post Ally and I had come up with on discord (Corn came up with the bit about editing drawings of the great overstator into the past profile pics) but by then it was too late."
OOC: HAH! I KNEW YOU AND SCOTT WERE BROTHERS! YOUR VAGUE RESPONSES COULDN'T FOOL MEEEE!!! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-*Cough cough cough*
*Ally is typing*
Yeah, me and Lass had that post put together on discord, and all went well until...Dan.
I also get the distinct feeling that he's the one who's been replacing the suitable pfps with SCM."
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"I remember I specifically told Bookie take care of the RP thread while I was gone."
"Anyhow, I can't really have a say in what's been going on."
*Ally is typing*
"How convenient for you..."
*Booklover is typing*
And I pointed out that as I'm looking after both mine and Verdie's old board, I cannot be responsible for another board. Also, in all the time you've been gone, I don't recall you giving a good reason (the typhoon, fine, but I find it an odd coincidence that you happen to be away when we're meant to be running events and can't even take five minutes to check the forum despite your grandparents being in good health yet you spend hours on the forum as soon as it ends), nor did we have any prior notice. You cannot expect someone who's already in charge of two of the most active boards to take over yours without giving any warning or at the very least doing what is standard practice and informing everyone in the staff chat if you're going to be away (then the usual decision is to divide the duties up, unless someone volunteers, or the Overstrator advises otherwise), especially during an event. I was lucky that Corn was kind enough to volunteer to take over the roleplay board.
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"You mean they were in good health. Things happen okay>"
(OOC: In all reality, my family is keeping an eye on the health of my grandparents right now... :-\)
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Now that I think about it, I did post a heads up that I would be off for a day or two, but when I returned, somebody deleted/edited my post."
*Ally is typing*
"Even if someone deleted it, shouldn't it still be recorded somewheres?"
*Lass is typing*
"Yeah, and I though we were meant to ask the great overstrator before leaving to do family stuff. If your post was deleted, he was probably saying no.."
"TheCaptain is typing a reply""Except our Glorious Magnanimous Overstrator would have sent a PM informing me if he rejected my notice."
"Besides, if he was on the forum, we probably would have noticed what's going on and put a stop to it sooner."
"Meaning, somebody removed/edited/deleted the post before he saw it."
"Also, I don't remember there being a post record anywhere."
"For those who would like to know, here's my original post:"
QuoteThe Captain, to my Glorious and Benevolent Overstrator and fellow moderators, greetings.
Si Vales, Bene Est; Ego Valeo:
I wish to give notice that I would be taking short leave of the forum for several days, as I will be unavailable, as I am leaving with my family as the health of my esteemed grandparents has taken a downward turn.
Let Bookie take charge of the RP threads in my absence and give my regards to Verd.
Also, someone keep an eye on Lass and Ally, as their behavior has been strange recently.
*Lass is typing*
"Pfft, we've been acting strange? You're the one who's been leaving, deleting random threads, posts, and members without checking with anyone..
Plus you kept PMing us that creepy gif.
Strangest thing I've done is sleep."
Just want to clarify the accusations Lass and Ally have made against me, which leave out one pretty important detail. Yes, I made the edit, but by that stage the announcement was already in the deleted thread storage facility. See, Scott had already started ruining that board with emojis, and we needed to start afresh at that point (with Scott banned from posting). I was just having a bit of fun with the deleted topic, no harm done. Of course, when the actual, for real replacement thread was posted with the intact announcement, Russa must have got confused and decided to merge the deleted thread with the fresh-start thread, which made things utterly chaotic and of course meant my joke announcement was now public. I of course now regret making that edit, but how I was I supposed to know that would happen?
"TheCaptain is typing a reply""I still have a life outside of the forum, thinks happen, okay?"
"Besides, How can I delete anything when I haven't been active for the last three days?"
"I don't even know how to delete anything."
"I just learned how to lock (and unlock) topics."
"You also forgot to mention that you started with the GIF-PM wars"
"(Anybody who want's to know, this was the gif:)"
Spoiler
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/249/458/044.gif)
*Ally is typing*
"'Having some fun'? How is that, having fun? Even as a joke, that you thought would never see the light of day, how could you you think that funny, or a joke! Is that what you think about? Ways to humiliate, and undermine the great overstrator?!?!?!
And, Russa, are you feeling alright? Your still acting strange...you haven't had any contact with Scott, have you?
What Gif war? I know nothing of the sort. Do you have evidence? Where did you hear about this war?"
Quote from: DanielofRedwall on June 21, 2021, 06:06:25 AM
Just want to clarify the accusations Lass and Ally have made against me, which leave out one pretty important detail. Yes, I made the edit, but by that stage the announcement was already in the deleted thread storage facility. See, Scott had already started ruining that board with emojis, and we needed to start afresh at that point (with Scott banned from posting). I was just having a bit of fun with the deleted topic, no harm done. Of course, when the actual, for real replacement thread was posted with the intact announcement, Russa must have got confused and decided to merge the deleted thread with the fresh-start thread, which made things utterly chaotic and of course meant my joke announcement was now public. I of course now regret making that edit, but how I was I supposed to know that would happen?
First off, how could you joke about our dear Overstrator in such a disrespectful way? I'm genuinely horrified. Second, I was attempting to completely eradicate your "joke" thread from the deleted thread storage facility so that there was no possibility of our Overstrator ever having to see the vile thing. As you are probably aware, I'm new to my job. I asked Corn for directions on how to do this and she willingly provided them. Perhaps she made an honest mistake. However, there is a chance she intentionally gave me the wrong directions.
Quote from: Ally046 on June 21, 2021, 06:22:51 AM
*Ally is typing*
What Gif war? I know nothing of the sort. Do you have evidence? Where did you hear about this war?"
"TheCaptain is typing a reply""I don't know, ask my PM box."
"You two stuffed it to the brim last time I was on,"
"Also. three days ago I has 1320 messages. Now I have 3203,,."
"I seriously don't even know whether I got any important messages while I was gone..."
*Booklover is typing*
So if the Overstrator had sent you a pm, you wouldn't even have seen it. That also explains why you didn't seem to read the explanation I sent you on why I couldn't take over yet another thread, I suppose.
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Let me check..."
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Okay, using the CTRL-F function, I managed to find your message amidst a sea of GIF's."
"However, between the time I posted my notice to now, I haven't received any messages from our Glorious Overstrator."
*Lass is typing*
"Excuse you! I only replied to you with a gif, you gifed back, and then it started! It was not a one sided war.
Also, the other PM I sent you was asking about your RP character, and had nothing to do with gifs."
"TheCaptain is typing a reply"
"Lemme... Okay found it..."
"By the way... I just realized something... What does all this have to do with all of the Fat-Matts, Matt-chsticks, and SCMs?"
I do recall Russa asking me something about deleting threads from our storage... As well as asking how merge, lock, and pin topics in the same message. I had my hands full with the craziness in the RP boards from Scott's emoji posting and how that was breaking the forum as well as trying to stay on top of the rest of the RP board modding since Booklover messaged me and ordered me to take over everything in the RP boards (including running the magnificent and massive participation mandatory RP tournament three of us put together in your honor, Lord Overstrator) by myself, including scoring for said tournament, so I had NO idea what was going on with the announcements. I took the time to write out a very clear and detailed jow-to for Russa - including pictures! - so I don't have any idea how she messed up and merged the topics instead of deleting the one permanently.
OOC: I'm about 6 hours later on this than I wanted to be, but we'll manage. Here we go...
The Overstrator is typing...
"So there are some of you that think that making jokes at my expense is FUNNY!? That I am a JOKE of some kind? You would best keep in mind that I do NOT tolerate that sort of insubordination. But I also do not tolerate the dereliction of my staff, as I expect them to do their JOBS like responsible individuals. Captain Wortshire, for the past three staff meetings, you have plead ignorance due to your 'coincidental" unavailability, but your fellow staff have repeatedly insisted they saw you around the forum anyway. I do not know, nor do I care, if either they or you are telling me the truth, because here's the bigger truth you seem to have forgotten; I am in charge here, I make the rules, and I'm declaring that you have shirked your duty one too many times! I remove all of your staff privileges and sentence you to only post in Pig Latin molespeech for the space of two years! If HeadInAnotherGalaxy can post in Highlander Lizard for 10 years, you can manage this for a measly two. Now BEGONE!"
"As for the rest of you, I warn you now that I do not tolerate mockery of myself on this forum! Do not push me on this! In fact, I believe I may have been a little too lenient and permissive with all of you!"
The Overstrator is typing...
"There. I have removed your ability to change avatars, and I have changed every profile picture to match my own. Now that I have had to do YOUR JOBS, I think it is time for your next assignment. Maybe I should give you all something more suited towards your apparently nonexistent skill sets. I want you to each write three sentences on why this forum is the greatest. I will use these glowing reviews to advertise our presence to the wider internet and let the other fandoms weep at their inferiority! You have 84 hours to complete this task. Now go!"
"You know? I didn't like writing as a kid. It was slow and tedious, but I outgrew that lethargy. I suppose they same cannot be said for any of you! Three sentences! THREE! YOU WRITE MORE THAN THAT WHILE YOU ARGUE ABOUT WHICH OF YOU IS TO BLAME FOR YOUR LATEST FUMBLING MISTAKE!'
"..."
"I received only two submissions. I will not name names, but one said "This forum is pretty good I guess" and the other simply said "I like it. I like being a moderator". HOW IS THIS EVEN REMOTELY WHAT I ASKED FOR!? And I received NOTHING from the other four of you. What happened? WELL? SPEAK UP!!"
And with that, round 3 is over, and round 4 has begun! Sorry, Captain Wortshire, but repeatedly trying to duck out of responsibility doesn't remove you responsibility. You're still blameable for not being around. Next time, perhaps try limiting yourself to that trick once (maybe twice, in a pinch), because engaging in the narrative is really the most fun way to play Overlord's Orders. I hope you try again next time. Thanks for playing!
I have no overall advice to give this round. I hope the remaining players are enjoying themselves, and I hope that the audience is enjoying themselves as well. When the game is complete, I will open the topic to everyone, so the whole game can be discussed. Good luck to the remaining six players, and I hope you continue to have as much fun playing this game as I have writing it!
*Lass is typing*
"I was typing one, my Greatest, kindest, most handsome lord.. But I could not limit it to simply three sentences. Here! I'll even show you one!
Our forum- recently renamed The Great Mattias Forum- is the greatest, most wonderful forum ever made.
We have the most beautiful dark mode ever made, with stylish colours, and lovely combinations.
Our community is the greatest, most fair, and friendliest.
We have the most wonderful, and efficient Overstator.
Our rules are the most well thought out, fairest, greatest, and kindest rules ever written.
Surely no forum, old or new, past or future, could ever so much as compare to our Great Matthias Forum.
Nay, only this forum is worthy of the word "good"-
And I didn't know what to say next... There's so much!"
*Russa is typing*It was incredibly difficult for me to condense my thoughts on this forum into just three sentences, but I managed after several hours. I posted the following:
QuoteThe greatest thing about The Great Matthias Forum is Great Matthias. He's always kind, good-looking, merciful, charitable, openhearted, considerate, and much more. Everyone who has the honor of knowing him feels the same way I do.
If it weren't for the limit placed on length, I would have gone on for many pages. Anyway, after posting the above, I went to put the finishing touches on a mural of our Overstrator I was painting on a blank wall in my kitchen. When I returned, I found my post had been deleted. I was shocked and confused. I reposted it, but only an hour later it was deleted again. I ended up reposting it twenty times, but always with the same upsetting result.
I noticed Dan was always the only one online when my post was deleted. I sent him a PM asking for an explanation, but he has yet to respond.
*Ally is typing*
"I to, experienced a similar problem as Russa!
However, when I checked who was online, Flib, Dan, and Bookie were all online.
I noticed Russa hop on multiple time throughout the day, posting in a few threads, then leaving.
I cannot be sure who was deleting my posts..."
*Booklover is typing*
I know nothing about anyone else, but I wrote an entire essay on why this forum is the best. However, my laptop crashed and my backups disappeared. By that point, I did not have time to come up with anything that even came near to describing the glorious majesty of our wonderful Overstrator and therefore did not end up submitting anything. I planned to send one in later, but I had to deal with the constant deletion of posts. As far as I can tell, somebody attempted to program a filter that would automatically remove posts with certain phrases in order to counter the spambots but it went horribly wrong and ended up deleting many innocent messages (unless Russa and Ally were saying rude, untrue, stupid things about the forum and Overstrator, but I will assume they didn't). I do not know who it was, however I too noticed Dan on a lot and I know he has the technical knowledge.
So many accusations, so little context.
First thing's first, my submission was, 'I like it. I like being a moderator.' However, that was not what I originally intended to send in. This was my initial full submission:
QuoteI like it when our Great Overstator demonstrates his vast knowledge and experience and makes meaningful changes to the forum to improve the experience. I like being able to learn and grow as a moderator under his tutelage. I believe this forum serves a vital purpose in society in not only celebrating Redwall, but in celebrating Matthias720.
I wanted my submission to be perfect, so I asked Ally to give it a quick edit for me. Then, something pretty urgent came up IRL. I asked Ally to just submit it on my behalf after she gave it a quick look-over. I have now learnt I should not have trusted her, as she jeopardised me by editing it down to look bad.
Now, about those times I was online. Yes, I did indeed make the filter program responsible for deleting many of these posts. I created an artificial intelligence program which I named 'Jukka' for this purpose. As with any such program, I started it simple, teaching it to filter for certain bad words. Unfortunately, I could not have anticipated how quickly Jukka would learn, and it quickly got out of control. It deleted many, many posts, and for that I apologise. Jukka gave itself admin powers and wrecked havoc on the forum. It soon decided one forum wasn't enough, and wanted to spread to the entire Redwall Online Community. The Redwall Wiki will never be the same again, alas.
I spent hours in battle with Jukka, trying not only to paper over the damage but trying to defeat it once and for all. I apologise profusely for my oversight in bringing Jukka into the world, I should never have messed around with creating intelligent life beyond my powers. I am, however, proud to report that as of the time of me sending this message, Jukka has finally been defeated, and I am starting to do the hard yards undoing the damage Jukka caused by reposting many of the deleted messages.
That said, Russa's post will not be reinstated. She neglected to mention one key fact: the post not only contained the message of which she informed us, but also a secret link to a rival Forum where she planned a coup against you. Obviously, I cannot bring such awful messages into this community, so her post will not be returned to its original place.
*Lass is typing*
"All very well and good, but....One of your posts you brought back... I only just saw it now, as I was too busy drawing up the latest poster for the Great Matthias Feast I was planning.. But...It's a little NSFW, don't you think?.....I mean, admiring The Overstator's looks is one thing, but..."
Quote from: DanielofRedwall on June 24, 2021, 06:00:04 AM
That said, Russa's post will not be reinstated. She neglected to mention one key fact: the post not only contained the message of which she informed us, but also a secret link to a rival Forum where she planned a coup against you. Obviously, I cannot bring such awful messages into this community, so her post will not be returned to its original place.
The forum I linked to was hardly a rival. It was almost entirely dead. Forums that are almost entirely dead make me sad. I knew that if our Overstrator was in charge of that forum, his charming personality and kindly demeanor would draw new members from far and wide. With this in mind, I contacted a friend of mine who was an admin there. I told him all about our Overstrator and he agreed to have Matthias immediately put in charge. The other unjust and neglectful mods would be ousted from their positions. So you see, it
was a coup, but in favor of our beloved Overstrator.
I recall vaguely mentioning to Dan that I was planning a coup involving our Overstrator, so his confusion is quite understandable.
I'm afraid that my submission was probably the other one that fell short, Great Overstrator. "This forum is pretty good I guess." was NOT what I wanted to say. I had the most MARVELOUS eloquent three sentences that I wished to send in that I spent hours crafting. . .
And then I tried to actually send those in. Dear Overstrator, I, like Ally and Russa, got caught up in the mess of Daniel's Jukka bot but quickly figured out that something was going on that was deleting my posts. I wasn't about to let that stop me, however! I went to message you my sentences but to my horror something was wrong with my messages! The only person I could PM without all my messages getting scrambled into gobbedegook was Lass! I sent her a quick message explaining what was going on and asking if she could send mine in with hers. All the words in what was submitted were pulled from my sentences, but that wasn't what I said AT ALL. And curiously enough, I can send messages again now. . . . Part of me almost wonders if Lass took advantage of the Jukka Chaos and did it on purpose, but of course I know better.
*Lass is typing*
"Didn't you get my DM on discord? I couldn't send PMs to anyone...Still can't. I asked Daniel to send it to the
great overstator, but sadly he was too busy fixing the Jukka problem.. I can only assume what happened.."
No, I never got any Discord DMs from you about this. Weeeeeiiiiiird. I wonder what happened to the PM system - Has anyone been messing with it lately?
*Ally is typing*
Quote from: DanI wanted my submission to be perfect, so I asked Ally to give it a quick edit for me. Then, something pretty urgent came up IRL. I asked Ally to just submit it on my behalf after she gave it a quick look-over. I have now learnt I should not have trusted her, as she jeopardised me by editing it down to look bad.
"Awfully vague on the urgent irl incident, Dan...
I never received a request of that nature from you? Was it here, or on discord? My PMs here are down, every time I try to open them, it goes to '404 page not found' or, just closes the search engine.
The only request I received from you was on discord:
QuoteHey, I'm having trouble accessing the forum at the moment, could you get on quick and edit my submission post to blank? I just was thinking, and my post seems a bit long and tedious. I dont want my current post to be counted as my final input. Thanks!🙂😉😄
I had the thought that the emojis were a bit over the top for Dan, but agreed anyway, as I've never gotten any private messages from him before, so I can't really know that he doesn't use emojis like that.
Later, It said that you were online, and editing your post. I was interested on what edits you would make, as your original post was nice, so I clicked the link, and waited for you to finish. I had nothing better to do after all. However, I got quite the shock when you updated the edit, and saw the aforementioned measly post.
I'm deeply sowwry for any inconvenience I may have somehow caused you."
OOC: Quick update. I'm experiencing a bit of a heat wave locally, and it must have melted my brain because I completely forgot to wrap up this round last night. Give me a couple hours and I'll get that taken care of. Sorry!
"I believe I have heard enough. While I find most of your groveling quite flattering, it doesn't convey a depth of sincerety that truly resonates with me. I am reading quite a bit about what you intended to do and very little about what you actually did right. Most of all, I find it distressing that one of my staff is willing to tamper with methods that are beyond their means to control. DanielofRedwall! I will not have an untested AI wreaking havoc on my forum! Your actions, no matter how well meaning, have cost me dearly! I will be spending the next several days undoing the damage you caused! I hereby revoke all your staff privileges and role, and I sentence you to be shackled to your own creation! For the next year, whenever you post, "Jukka" will be automatically and randomly removing whatever words or phrases it deems unacceptable. The word filter will change daily, and it could be ANYTHING! Take this year to reconsider what you have done, and then perhaps I MIGHT think about listening to an apology. Now go!"
"As for the rest of you, while I am cleaning up Daniel's mess, I want the five of you to put together an announcement explaining what went wrong and why the forum isn't fully operational. Time is limited, so you only have 48 hours to put this together. I will be online, but unavailable, while I fix Daniel's...ill-conceived experiment. Dismissed!"
"Well, compared to the last several assignments I've handed out, this wasn't a complete failure. I see an announcement post, with full, coherent sentences, that convey exactly what the members need to know. But for some UNEXPLAINED reason, there are also excerpts from the PRIVATE staff chat logs included! WHY ARE THOSE LOGS THERE!? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPROMISING THE SANCTITY OF OUR PRIVATE CHAT MEETINGS!? Start talking! NOW!!!"
OOC: Once again, apologies this took so long to get out. And sorry Dan for having to remove you from the game; I know this is one of your forum favorites. Your writing was excellent, but it didn't do enough to convince me that the fault wasn't still on your shoulders. And I have to say I LOVED the Jukka as an AI bit! Hilarious! Literally laughed out loud. I hope you enjoyed playing and thank you very much for participating!
As a side note, I have somehow inadvertently been removing players in the order they signed up to play. This is weirding me out, and I am not doing it intentionally. I will say that Booklover, please help me! I don't want to feel cursed by the sign-up order! So please do your best in the upcoming round.
Round 5 will last until June 29th. Good luck everyone!
*Russa is typing*With input from the others, I wrote up the announcement and posted it. At this point, I was feeling pretty good. We'd accomplished our goal and all was well. I scooted over to the staff chat to tell the others that I'd completed the post, and Booklover quickly responded.
Quote from: BookloverAlright, whatever. Wouldn't it be hilarious if I edited your announcement post to include that argument that Corn, Lass, and Ally had last week!
I replied:
Quote from: Russa NodreyThat's not a good idea. Please don't do that.
Apparently she didn't take my advice.
*Lass is typing*
"Hey guys, I have an idea!
For this weeks Mattias day, lets post an announcement that everyone most speak in puns! since our dear Lord Overstator likes puns so much it would be the perfect opportunity! And I think it would be a really fun event. What do you guys think?"
*Ally is typing*
"Didn't you go back and look at your announcement at all?!?!
That argument isn't what's on it!
While, yes, Bookie
did post that in staff chat, she either followed your advice, or her edits been replaced.
The exposed quotes are from you, Russa. Here, these are the quotes in the announcement:
Quote from: RussaThat's not a good idea. Please don't do that.
Quote from: RussaI don't agree, no offense, Lass.
Quote from: RussaLass, I don't mean to sound harsh, but can you please let the experienced people handled this one? :-\
Quote from: RussaSeriously? Have you no sense at all?
Quote from: RussaPlease, Lass? *Pat, pat*
Quote from: RussaLass! We've been over this! And unless you want me to petition against your ability to mod while having the extremely childish and impulsive tendencies you have, I suggest you go take a break from this one. ...please!
While I said 'exposed' I'm not sure of the validity of these quotes...
I recognize very few, and even those seem to be slightly...
adjusted.
By this, of course I'm referencing the minor changes in word choice, punctuation, and emphasis(italics).
It is also strange that the link for the quotes was removed...
Another obvious, yet important point is that most of these 'quotes' seem to specifically target Lass...
The whole scheme seems to be in pourpose to make our own, beloved, Russa Nodrey appear negative, black-mailing, and cruel.
This would forever mar the reputation of our great overstrator, a black mark, association with those of foul notoriety!
However, upon viewing the announcement, I received a small shock, the 'last edited by' line said that Bookie was the last to edit the aforementioned announcement.
While there is no
solid proof that Bookie posted these questionable 'quotes', she
certainly didn't edit them
out.
——————————
So, who is to know...who deserves blame?
Upon viewing this post,as I hope you can find a spare moment to do, noble overstrator, let me warn you...not all may be as it seems.
Was Lass upset by the exposure of the argument, and decide to post something to shift the peasant view?
Was her post edited?
Did Bookie, or... I suppose
me... cause the mystery by making seem as though we were uninvolved?
Did Russa edit the exposures in, making it seem she was a victim?"
*Russa is typing*
The first quote is real, but I'm not sure why one word has been italicized. All the others are either fake or lack context. Perhaps Booklover was upset after I told her not to edit my post to include the argument, and instead decided to add fake quotes to try and make me look bad. If this is true, it's very upsetting.
OOC: No worries Matthias, happy to watch on!
(I will do my best, though I can't promise anything. Doesn't help that I came in late.)
*Booklover is typing*
After all the years I've known you, I'm amazed that you could have thought that post was me. I allowed Corn to temporarily log in to my account as she was having problems with her own (apparently Ally had done something to restrict her mod powers) and was too embarrassed to ask anyone else for help. Or so she claimed, and I would never have allowed her access to my account had I known what she'd do. I didn't realise anything had happened - any messages she sent while one my account were edited or deleted on my end - so I assumed everything was fine and Russa was doing a great job writing out the message. A few days later, Corn told me she'd been having problems again. As nothing had gone wrong the first time as far as I knew, I allowed it. She must have edited the post then. Afterwards, when checking again, I discovered that the message had been sabotaged, so I went in to edit it, and discovered that I was unable to. I asked Corn how to fix it, as it sounded exactly like the problems she'd had, but she just responded with a laughing emoji. I did my best to inform other people, but no one was on at the time. I was unable to do anything and the Overstrator discovered the message only a few hours later.
*Lass is typing*
"On the log it says that Corn took your perms.."
*Ally is typing*
"This is rather disturbing, I'd have never thought Corn to be the type for all of this back-stabbing and lying business...rather sad.
However, I can tell you with certainty and truthfulness, that I did not do anything to sabotage or edit Corn's ability to mod, or otherwise function on the forum."
Bookie's right - I was having trouble with my account after an argument with Ally. She says she didn't do anything but the timing is REALLY suspicious, although Lass was also on. we were the only three on at the time, plus if you look at the mod logs something got deleted around the time my permissions got all messed up.
So I did message Booklover and ask if I could borrow her account to check into the changes and fix everything, since I was blocked from doing anything on my account and I knew that she was busy and didn't really have the time to check for me. I
was too embarrassed to ask anyone else - I was thinking about Lass, but her and Ally are such good friends, you see, I didn't want to accidentally start any squabbles especially after the drama last week. I was able to fix everything after an hour or two untangling the damage and that was all I did on Bookie's account that first time. Fast forward a few days, I said something that apparently offended Ally somehow because she sent me a message asking why on Earth I said the awful thing I did, and when I asked her what she meant (because I truly had no idea what I did) all I received was "YOU know!" and then my account went all haywire again. . . Except this time Lass and I were the only two on.
I once again reached out to Bookie for help and she obliged (such a wonderful person, Bookie, really can't thank her enough). It was while I was busy figuring out what had been done to my account that Russa's announcement had been posted and the subsequent editing done. I forgot that I wasn't on my own account and went to quickly attempt editing everything out. Note the keyword: Attempt. For some reason, none of the edits I tried (even correcting a typo!) saved at ALL but it showed that I (as Booklover) last edited the post. I'm still trying to figure out what happened with that, but I think it was my Internet - I was having troubles at the time because it was storming, you see.
Quote from: lass of something much on June 29, 2021, 01:01:43 AM
*Lass is typing*
"On the log it says that Corn took your perms.."
Now, to address this and the laughing emoji.
What Lass has OH-SO-CONVENIENTLY left out here is that I took away Booklover's permissions and RESTORED THEM, which clearly shows in the mod log. After she messaged me for help, I immediately answered back. It was raining again - I think my message got a bit chopped up from my internet because it DID have a laughing emoji in it, yes, but there was way more and I tried to tell Bookie I would take a look for her. Unfortunately, part of the process of fixing whatever it is Lass and/or Ally have been doing in the backend with our permissions involves taking them all off and putting them back on in a complicated manner, so that's what Lass saw.
*Lass is typing*
"I think there's a bit of a hole in your story there, mom.. For one, I knew nothing of you and Ally's argument, secondly, I am closer to you than just about any other member short of Teer Rosie and Scott... So I dunno, man, doesn't make much sense why I would do that.. And there's more.. I haven't been on.. I got a drawing request from the great overstrator, and, naturally, I was thrilled. I then proceeded to pour all my time and energy into making it, only coming on to post in aches and pains.. I wasn't on and I didn't do it.. I don't know what went on, but the overstator comes first, so I had to get it done.. I an only assume someone hacked into my account.."
"I am getting a headache from listening to the squabbling of my staff. This must be because I have such wonderfully incompetent lackeys! Only the most dedicated failures for me! Aren't I lucky?"
"HAHAHAHA...no."
"Must I go over the basic staff rules AGAIN!? Rule #1: I'm in charge and you do as I say. Rule #2: If you have a problem, I can fix it. Rule #3: Failure to follow Rules #1 and #2 are grounds for immediate punishment."
"Now let's take a look at who had the most problems over the last few days, shall we? Account issues? Check. Breaking Rule #2? Check. Improper borrowing of another staff member's account? Check. Using said account to attempt to fix the issue without my knowledge? Check. Possible abuse of that account's abilities for possibly personal gain? Check. I think it's clear who holds the most responsibility here."
"Cornflower! You have failed to bring to my attention the issues you were experiencing. Your use of another staff member's account provided you the opportunity to carry out the crimes you are accused of, and, by doing so, you are unable to disprove any of them. I have no choice but to remove your role and demote you back to a basic member. As for your punishment, for the next 720 days, you may only post in acronyms of my name, or in acronyms that are compliments of the forum. May it remind you to never cross me again."
"Now, with that out of the way, let's get back to business. The celebration needs a bit more...something...to make it work. I want the four of you make a special set of celebration boards for the anniversary. We need to make more room for the party, so I want each of you to make one board that you feel will make the forum members more inclined to party. You have four day, starting...now!"
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Why is my forum a broken, shambling mess? Why are there ONLY the four party boards? Where is the rest of the forum? AND WHOSE THE POOR EXCUSE FOR A MOD THAT IS FORCING ME INTO ANOTHER WEEK OF EXCRUCIATING BACKUP RESTORATION!!??!? I want answers! NOW!!!!"
OOC: And with that, we wrap up round 5 and begin round 6. Sorry Corn, but you were written into a particularly rough corner and you couldn't get yourself out. Thank you for playing, and better luck next time!
Things are getting down to the wire! Only four players left, meaning we only have a few rounds to go before a winner is declared. I haven't decided on whether or not the final round will be at three players or two players, but this next round will be very important in drawing this game towards a conclusion. Good luck everyone! I look forward to reading whatever you come up with! Round 6 will run through July 3rd.
*Lass is typing*
"Didn't Russa say something about hiding other boards cause no one was using the party boards? Now we have angry members spamming horrible things like: End the overstator, death to Mattias, and worst of all: Overstator's are worse than even Lass herself.
All of these are HORRIBLE things, and I was going to ask if I could ban them all for saying such awful things, but then I realized....Bookie was among the spammers...In fact, she was the worst of them all... I'm trying to delete the posts, but I can't keep up.. Ally, could you help?"
*Ally is typing*
"Way ahead of you, I already started on my own party board. But yeah, I'll help when I'm done.
And actually no, it was Bookie who suggested that, and she mustve followed her own advice..."
*Booklover is typing*
I suggested reducing our own posts in other boards and increasing them in the party boards in order to encourage people to post in them. Russa then went the extra step of suggesting that all other boards should be hidden, which I objected to.
I was the mod who deleted the most spam posts and banned the accounts doing it (I'm not certain, but there were times when another mod was on and not doing anything). The account you're referring to was actually called BookIover (note the capital i), and according to Russa, Lass was the one who made it. As for the other spammers, I regret to inform you that I was informed by a trustworthy member that they had been told to spam certain boards by a mod but they refused to say which one. As I didn't want to alert the perpetrator that I knew what they were doing, I immediately informed the Overstrator. Despite attempts to investigate (which took up the time not spent deleting the posts and banning the spammers), all I could discover was that whoever it was had attempted to bribe some members with art.
Quote from: lass of something much on June 30, 2021, 01:54:32 PM
"Didn't Russa say something about hiding other boards cause no one was using the party boards?
Quote from: Booklover on June 30, 2021, 04:35:25 PM
Russa then went the extra step of suggesting that all other boards should be hidden, which I objected to.
*Russa is typing*I made a pretty awesome celebration board and was happy that I'd been able to fulfill your orders without any problems. I noticed all our new celebration boards were somewhat lost amongst the other boards, though. Some people hadn't even noticed they were there. With this in mind, I proposed the following:
Quote from: Russa NodreyHow do y'all feel about hiding all the boards except the celebration ones for about twenty minutes? That way everyone will know they're there and we can really start celebrating. What do you guys think? Also, if we decide to do this I'm gonna need some directions because I have no idea how to do anything.
Booklover objected, but Lass and Ally said it was a good idea. Ally even said she knew how to do it and would give me the directions I needed. With Ally's assistance I hid the other boards, and then left for about ten minutes.
When I got back I found that spammers had begun posting horrible things about our Overstrator. I assisted in deleting these posts and gagging the spammers. The worst of them all was an account called "BookIover". Just before I gagged this person they sent me this message:
Quote from: BookIoverIt's your good friend Lass!
I'm so very disappointed...
I was unsure how to bring the other boards back so I asked Ally for help. She refused, citing "personal reasons". I'm genuinely confused. How could she have any reason to not assist me in restoring the boards that she helped me temporarily hide?
*Lass is typing*
"Yes, I made the account, but it wasn't for me, it was for my little sister.
As for any accusations of me being behind the spammers, that is physically imposable, as at the time, I was getting the posts in my party board cleaned (There were a lot of swears)"
Quote from: Russa Nodrey on July 01, 2021, 12:54:32 AM
*Russa is typing*
I made a pretty awesome celebration board and was happy that I'd been able to fulfill your orders without any problems. I noticed all our new celebration boards were somewhat lost amongst the other boards, though. Some people hadn't even noticed they were there. With this in mind, I proposed the following:
Quote from: Russa NodreyHow do y'all feel about hiding all the boards except the celebration ones for about twenty minutes? That way everyone will know they're there and we can really start celebrating. What do you guys think? Also, if we decide to do this I'm gonna need some directions because I have no idea how to do anything.
Booklover objected, but Lass and Ally said it was a good idea. Ally even said she knew how to do it and would give me the directions I needed. With Ally's assistance I hid the other boards, and then left for about ten minutes.
When I got back I found that spammers had begun posting horrible things about our Overstrator. I assisted in deleting these posts and gagging the spammers. The worst of them all was an account called "BookIover". Just before I gagged this person they sent me this message:
Quote from: BookIoverIt's your good friend Lass!
I'm so very disappointed...
I was unsure how to bring the other boards back so I asked Ally for help. She refused, citing "personal reasons". I'm genuinely confused. How could she have any reason to not assist me in restoring the boards that she helped me temporarily hide?
"Also, you didn't read my full post, I said:
QuoteIt might be a good idea, but we need to ask the Overstator, and I have no idea how to do it for only a short amount of time, so I don't think we should do it.. Also, banning members is something you have to ask the Overstator about, Bookie.
ALLY STOP EATING THE FAKE FLOWERS!!!
"
*Booklover is typing*
According to rule 4b of the Moderators' Handbook kindly provided by our benevolent Overstrator, it's allowed for accounts that have joined within the past month, would continue being disruptive if not banned, and have very clearly broken the forum rules. In the case of the spammers, all of this applies. Therefore, I was well within my rights to ban them, and the rest of you should have been doing the same, or at least something.
It is also against the forum rules to impersonate another member, let alone a mod (and I hope no one has ever even considered impersonating the Overstrator, though his perfection cannot be mimicked). You may not have used the account, but you made it so you named it.
*Lass is typing*
"My little sister wanted the name booklover, but I told her you had that name so she improvised. Plus, she wasn't impersonating you, she her pet dog Lima as a profile pic. As for the hand book, I was never sent one, I've never even heard of it, I think you just made it up to cover your crimes. Also, I might just note that quickly deleted post of yours in the forum discord. How id it go again... Oh, I remember, I quoted it.
Quote from: BlueFin42Russa, are you ready for tomorrow? If we get there early they'll never see it coming.
What exactly won't we see coming, hmm? Seems awfully suspicious that you jump on Ally and I so quickly, doesn't it? Considering I was hardly on.. I posted in my party board, and help delete spammer's posts, but that's it. "
OOc: I actually wanna read the handbook now XD
*Booklover is typing*
Actually, I did see her having a profile pic exactly the same as mine at the time. And besides, clearly it was a good enough impersonation to fool even you, who made the account and knew it existed:
Quote from: lass of something much on June 30, 2021, 01:54:32 PM
*Lass is typing*
"Didn't Russa say something about hiding other boards cause no one was using the party boards? Now we have angry members spamming horrible things like: End the overstator, death to Mattias, and worst of all: Overstator's are worse than even Lass herself.
All of these are HORRIBLE things, and I was going to ask if I could ban them all for saying such awful things, but then I realized....Bookie was among the spammers...In fact, she was the worst of them all... I'm trying to delete the posts, but I can't keep up.. Ally, could you help?"
I find it interesting that you tried to accuse someone else despite knowing they couldn't be guilty and that, even though you think that the things were 'horrible' (they were, actually), you didn't just tell your sister to stop.
Also, I would like to point out that you were the one who started accusing people first (baselessly, might I add), whereas, until now, I've just stated the facts (instead of lying).
As for your other accusation, that was for a discord specific prank that wasn't even for the forum discord. It was deleted because I'd intended to dm it and I knew there were a couple of people on the forum discord also on the discord the prank was planned for (if you must know, it's a discord dedicated to fun games and writing that Russa and I happen to share).
The handbook is among the information all mods are sent when they become mods. It is also a pinned topic in one of the staff-only boards. There is no excuse for not knowing about it.
OOC: I mean, I did make it up, but anything we say happened, happened, right? Russa and I only share forum or forum adjacent discords irl (well, you know what I mean), that's something else I made up.
*Lass is typing*
"You just contradicted yourself there, you said it tricked even me, and then you said I could just tell her to stop. Even if I did know, do you honestly think I'd be able to stop her even if I did know? No one listens to older sisters.
I did honestly think it was you. I didn't think it was my sister because I remembered helping her set up her put up her profile pic and status and everything. (If you want to know, everything was about dogs.)
At the time of that post, you hadn't posted the hand book anywhere, and if you needed help gagging people, you should've just told me about the new rules rather than blaming me for not knowing."
(OOC: I mean, yes, but actually no... People only ever use it when it is on their side.. Also, you said I was lying despite that rule, and claimed my part about you making them up was untrue as well, it's an easty mistake to make.. (An other way you could've done it without breaking that rule would be saying something like: "Yes I made them up, but it was with the Overstator's full permission"))
*Booklover is typing*
Actually, I was pointing out your contradictions. You made the account, it shouldn't have fooled you, so you had no reason to blame me. As both a mod and an older sister, you also had a responsibility to do your best to stop her breaking any rules (including impersonation of a mod, which happened from the time the account was made). If you really were mistaken, then that just shows that an account with a similar name to another account shouldn't be done.
I did not post the handbook. Our benevolent Overstrator did. I assumed that, as it is sent to every mod and in a pinned thread mods are told to read, that you knew. These rules aren't new, they've existed for years. For that matter, I did in fact inform the Overstrator of the spammers and the possibility of it being a mod, and as I would not have told the other mods anything for fear of alerting the spammer, I wouldn't have said either way.
Also, did Ally ever give an explanation for locking the boards? And was the art bribery ever explained sufficiently?
OOC: I said you were mistaken, and later implied that you were either lying or you hadn't done something you should have. I also heavily implied you were lying when it contradicted events during the blaming. And just because something doesn't exist in real life doesn't mean it can't in game (an evil Overstrator would probably have a set of rules his minions have to follow, anyway). It's possible I went against the clone rule, though that rule also includes brainwashing, which was somewhat broken with Russa's orange juice in an earlier round. In the end, it's the Overstrator's judgement.
OOC: Since
@lass of something much and
@Booklover have posted quite a bit, and
@Ally046 and
@Russa Nodrey have only posted once each, I'd like Ally and Russa to each post once more to help balance out the round a bit more. After they have both posted, I will post the round conclusion.
OOC: Very, very sorry about my minimal participation. I've been unusually busy the last two days.
Quote from: lass of something much on July 02, 2021, 12:33:35 AM"Also, you didn't read my full post, I said:
Quote
It might be a good idea, but we need to ask the Overstator, and I have no idea how to do it for only a short amount of time, so I don't think we should do it.. Also, banning members is something you have to ask the Overstator about, Bookie.
"
*Russa Nodrey is typing*I only remember seeing the "it might be a good idea" part. I checked just now and it says your post was edited. Odd.
Also, Ally said she knew how to hide the boards for a short length of time, so I was confident that this would be alright and that the Overstrator would approve. Like I said, after she showed me how to hide the boards she wouldn't show me how to unhide them. Very confusing.
OOC: Same though, sowrry.*Ally is typing*Russa, I tried to warn you...
When Russ PM'd me asking how to suspend many boards at once, then release them all at the same time, I messaged back:
Quote from: Ally046Well...I of course know how to suspend one board at a time, but Russa...even If I did know, I wouldn't tell you. Not to be rude or unhelpful but, as you may remember, something like this has been attempted before.
I short...It didn't end well. The overstrator spent many long, tedious days repairing as much damage as possible, and us Mods handled all of the consequential complaints about glitches, missing topics, and lag, among other resulting issues.
Apparently, even our great forum can't handle such changes. And, while this may have been the result of somebeast's mistakes I hope you can understand why I won't be helping you with this any further.
However, Russa just wouldn't drop it. She asked
two more times if I had even the
slightest notion how to accomplish such a task. I eventually messaged back:
Quote from: Ally046Russa, I stand by my statement that I advise strongly against this.
When she PM'd me yet again, I caved. I now regret this fully.
I gave her the instructions as best I could on how to suspend them all at once, and told her to PM me back when she wanted to attempt to release them.
I of course saw that my first instructions were fruitful, and two days later, she PM'd back asking for the next instructions.
But, by that time, my doubts about telling her any of this had grown. I had the thought that if we could inform the great Overstrator of the issue, he may be merciful and help us solve the matter without causing as much damage as the last time this was attempted.
My PM to the Overstrator was unanswered, so I assume he was still very busy with repairs. So I guiltily PM'd Russa trying to explain some of my dilemma, and why I couldn't give her the instructions she wanted.
I do believe that I did the best I could do with the situating from that point.
"ENOUGH! My head hurts so much from trying to figure out which of you is the least competent, that I feel like my skull is about to crack open like an egg! I can not and will not let your fumbling cause me any more pain! Instead, you will solve my problem for me. With four of you left, you will split into teams. Convince me that the other team is worse and they'll get axed. You have until July 10th to sway me to your side. I don't care who you team up with, just do it! BEGIN!"
OOC: I'm really not sure who to pick this round, so I'm trying something different. Y'all made my job mighty difficult, but that lead me to a more creative solution. You have six days to pick who you will team up with and compete to get in to the FINAL ROUND. I don't have any particular guidelines for this round. As long as you can convince me that your team is the best (or that the other team is the worst), and you stay within the established theme and rules, anything goes. Good luck!
EDIT: OOC: I don't actually have a headache.
*Lass is typing*
"Deepest of apologies Great and Wise Overstator! Please, take care of yourself, we can't have our namesake unhappy! Have some peppermint tea, it'll help you relax, and heal. "
(OOC: Peppermint tea isn't just good for headaches.)
That Lass and I are always here (and posting within minutes of your announcement) shows how much better we are than Ally and Russa, who show no concern for their benevolent, most brilliant Overstrator (may he live forever).
*Ally is typing*
Actually, you just set yourself up, as, the fact of you being active more often means that you had more time to make mistakes and cause issues, as well as work behind other's backs and privately tamper with the well-being of our great forum, however your intentions.
*Booklover is typing*
Except we do not make mistakes even during the many hours of being on, whereas you and Russa make mistakes even when you're only on for five minutes.
*Ally is typing*
Me and Russa will consolidate a list to prove just how wrong you are.
It may take a while, as there are so many that we have to compact it.
Indeed. Top of the list is that time Booklover and Lass permanently deleted several hundred posts (that were not spam or objectionable in any way) from the character discussion board and replaced the forum logo with a picture of Jar Jar Binks.
*Lass is typing*
"Yes, we did, but that wasn't on this forum, and thus is not relevant to the matter at paw. As for listing wrongs...You alone carry a list far longer than all of us combined. That's not even counting from the past week"
*Ally is typing*
Awful vague there Lass...
*Booklover is typing*
I seem to recall that Lass and I had to temporarily delete them because the forum was malfunctioning as someone (well, we narrowed it down to Ally or Russa, so one of you two) had messed with the code because they were attempting to graffiti the forum. The only reason they were permanently deleted was because someone changed the logo to Jar Jar Binks at the same time, which broke the forum temporarily. Even if that wasn't on this forum, it shows that you two aren't responsible enough and could easily do the same here.
I have to be vague because there are too many examples. Such as the time you and Russa attempted to spread rumours that the Overstrator (may he live forever) was... what was the exact wording? Something along the lines of "an evil, selfish tyrant". I, of course, deleted the posts immediately though I could do little about the pms you sent. Of course, there was also the time you were suspended as a mod for two months, though I never learnt why that was. Not forgetting the time you sabotaged our dear friend Teer's attempt to create a writing board (Lass was helping, as she'd suggested a competition to write poems in honour of our wonderful Overstrator (may he live forever)). I could go on further, but I have important mod duties to attend to, as I have not yet managed to sort out the roleplay board after certain people (Ally and Russa) began a satirical roleplay that depicted the Overstrator (may he live forever) as a donkey wearing a clown nose. Whatever your claims about basing it off a reindeer named Rudolph, you actually named him Matthias, and he lived at an Abbey made of red sandstone, so I'd say it's obvious what your intentions were.
*Lass is typing*
"That isn't even the worst of it, too.
Russa's idea of ''turning on modmode is inviting the spammers to a tea party with panda suits. Which she still tries everytime, despite the fact it has never worked.'"
*Russa is typing*Quote from: Booklover on July 06, 2021, 05:32:49 PM
I have to be vague because there are too many examples. Such as the time you and Russa attempted to spread rumours that the Overstrator (may he live forever) was... what was the exact wording? Something along the lines of "an evil, selfish tyrant". I, of course, deleted the posts immediately though I could do little about the pms you sent. Of course, there was also the time you were suspended as a mod for two months, though I never learnt why that was.
First off, we both know that those posts were made during the time our accounts had been hacked. We were locked out and could do nothing, so I very much appreciate you deleting them. Second, my suspension was due to a glitch that occurred when you temporarily gagged my account after discovering it was hacked.
Quote from: Booklover on July 06, 2021, 05:32:49 PM
Not forgetting the time you sabotaged our dear friend Teer's attempt to create a writing board (Lass was helping, as she'd suggested a competition to write poems in honour of our wonderful Overstrator (may he live forever)).
Teer is not a mod and doesn't have the authority to go creating boards whenever she wants to. The fact that Lass decided to give her moderating powers without permission from our Overstrator doesn't make it any better. Also, Lass's personal contribution to the poem competition included some very offensive comments about our Overstrator's personality. I acted responsibly and deleted the illegally created board as well as Lass's libelous poetry.
Quote from: Booklover on July 06, 2021, 05:32:49 PM
I could go on further, but I have important mod duties to attend to, as I have not yet managed to sort out the roleplay board after certain people (Ally and Russa) began a satirical roleplay that depicted the Overstrator (may he live forever) as a donkey wearing a clown nose. Whatever your claims about basing it off a reindeer named Rudolph, you actually named him Matthias, and he lived at an Abbey made of red sandstone, so I'd say it's obvious what your intentions were.
It's strange that you assumed that a donkey with a red nose represented our Overstrator... To clarify, the humorous roleplay centered around a comical, dull-witted donkey named Max. Lass, who was involved, commented that Max was "high as" and it quickly became his title. Perhaps you misread "Max High As" as "Matthias", but it's still strange that you would immediately draw such a connection. It clearly says something about how you view our grand Overstrator.
Quote from: lass of something much on July 06, 2021, 09:19:28 PM
*Lass is typing*
"That isn't even the worst of it, too.
Russa's idea of ''turning on modmode is inviting the spammers to a tea party with panda suits. Which she still tries everytime, despite the fact it has never worked.'"
You'll notice this happens only on April 1st. It's an obvious joke and isn't supposed to work. I even mention that it's just a joke at the end of the posts.
What can't be explained is Lass and Booklover's repeated spamming of petty insults directed at our Overstrator. And what about the time they deleted one of our Overstrator's important announcements and replaced it with this image:
Very offensive
(https://previews.123rf.com/images/auremar/auremar1201/auremar120101787/11796576-grandmother-cooking.jpg)
I don't know what it's supposed to mean, but it can't be good.
*Lass is typing*
"I would like to point out both the date-the first of the 4th- and the fact that you suggested we make all the past season namers admins, I chose to make them mods instead, as to cause less damage. Furthermore; I was the one (Along with Scott and Bookie, but they were sorting other problems) to clean it all up after the fun was over. As for it being without the Overstator's- May he live forever- permission: He told us to "surprise him" as he- the wonderful pun master he is, wanted to enjoy it without knowing what was going to happen first.
Plus, you were the one who literally let HUNDREDS of spammers loose in the name of April fools. They continued to spam until Bookie and I FINALLY managed to fix it, after you had been messing with it in the name of a joke for three weeks!!! I don't mean to be harsh, but that is no way to treat the great overstator- may he live forever- forum. Joke or not.
As for the so called 'offensive comments', they were- very clearly not from me. There were eating noises. I HATE eating noises. I would never say anything of the sort, joke or no. And may I remind you that you also had some 'added comments' like the one which you reportedly said that: "The Overstator reminds me of a deformed kitten which was left of a sandal to burn for three weeks. " If the fake line that I apparently said was really me, then yours was really you too.
As for the last accusation. That so called important announcement wasn't from our overstator, it was an imposter user called the overstator. Our great and wonderful Overstator- may he live forever-s user name is Mattias720. Not overstator. And the 'spamming' was us explaining the situation to the loyal members. Not spam. The imposter was banned, the threads were deleted, and everything was right again in a matter of minutes. Strangely enough, you and Ally didn't help at all, despite being on."
*Booklover is typing*
Teer was a mod at the time, though has since stepped down for personal reasons (approved by the Overstrator (may he live forever)). The reason you deleted the board was (and I quote this from the pm you sent) "Teer is doing far too good a job, I want her to fail for once". Lass' poetry was very clearly labelled as an example of poetry that would not be permitted. She actually had an actual entry, which was full of praise for the Overstrator (may he live forever). Unlike yours, which compared him to a goat (what is it with your constant comparisons of our beloved Overstrator (may he live forever) to animals?).
Actually, Ally (along with a few others later on) did refer to the reindeer as Matthias, during some very insulting posts. Whatever your intention may have been originally, I was not involved in the roleplay until partway through, by which point everyone was using Matthias, except for Lass who consistently edited the offensive posts (though some were later edited over by none other than Ally and Russa).
(OOC: Seriously, what is it with the Great Overstrator Forum and hackers and spammers? And why are the mods so incompetent? You'd think we'd knuckle down under a dictator, but apparently not.)
(OOC: He only hired us cause we're loyal.. Said so ICDs)
*Ally is typing*
May I just point out the fact that I've noticed one specific member causing quite the ruckus around the forum...BookIover.
This account, supposedly is used only by Lass' little sister, provides an easy access point for Lass to create disruptions, as well as use her original account to solve them, thus giving herself credit in others eyes, including the great and mighty overstrator!
A cover to do all the backstabbing she wants, while only giving herself more good credit
*Lass is typing*
"Solid story. If not for the fact the account was deleted a day after its making. Making you, a liar."
*Ally is typing*
How does that make me a liar, I was just pointing out the possibility.
*Booklover is typing*
While Lass made a mistake in naming the account something so similar to a mod's, she did not use it at all, was not responsible her sister's actions, did not use it to create havoc, and it was deleted within a day. I cannot say the same for the destruction caused when Russa drank spiked orange juice.
For that matter, I recall you sending a pm yesterday that said this:
QuoteShould have thought of naming an account after someone else first. Can you help me change everyone's usernames to 'Matthias Sucks' and profile pictures to [an unflattering image of the Overstrator (may he live forever) on fire that I will not share because of its horrifying nature]?
I immediately forwarded the pm to the Overstrator (may he live forever), and temporarily restricted your mod powers (only so you couldn't change profile pictures and usernames, at least until the Overstrator (may he live forever) returned to pass judgement, the rest was left intact but carefully monitored).
(OOC: I was really tempted to start this post with 'we are forced, on pain of gruesome death, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth within staff chats', but obviously no one keeps to the whole truth and I thought it sounded a bit harsh.)
OOC: We are the worst mods.
Quote from: Booklover on July 08, 2021, 07:46:42 PM
*Booklover is typing*
For that matter, I recall you sending a pm yesterday that said this: QuoteShould have thought of naming an account after someone else first. Can you help me change everyone's usernames to 'Matthias Sucks' and profile pictures to [an unflattering image of the Overstrator (may he live forever) on fire that I will not share because of its horrifying nature]?
Yes, that was a quote from a pm I got from Lass. I sent it to you as proof that Lass couldn't be trusted. Here's the entire pm...
QuoteI just got this disturbing pm from Lass. DO NOT TRUST HER.
QuoteShould have thought of naming an account after someone else first. Can you help me change everyone's usernames to 'Matthias Sucks' and profile pictures to [an unflattering image of the Overstrator (may he live forever) on fire that I will not share because of its horrifying nature]?
Quote from: lass of something much on July 07, 2021, 02:55:39 PM
Plus, you were the one who literally let HUNDREDS of spammers loose in the name of April fools. They continued to spam until Bookie and I FINALLY managed to fix it, after you had been messing with it in the name of a joke for three weeks!!! I don't mean to be harsh, but that is no way to treat the great overstator- may he live forever- forum. Joke or not.
I did not let them in; they let themselves in. I wouldn't even know how to do that. Also, I couldn't assist in removing them because...
Quote from: Booklover on July 08, 2021, 07:46:42 PM
I immediately forwarded the pm to the Overstrator (may he live forever), and temporarily restricted your mod powers (only so you couldn't change profile pictures and usernames, at least until the Overstrator (may he live forever) returned to pass judgement, the rest was left intact but carefully monitored).
Also, y'all remember that time Booklover made an entire board dedicated to herself and commanded us to worship her? I was responsibly going to delete it, but my mod powers had been unjustly taken from me (as proven by the above quote) by Booklover herself. Thankfully, Ally was online and promptly deleted it.
*Booklover is typing*
I do not think that that could have been Lass, as it's pretty clearly referring to the BookIover case ('first' makes that obvious, as there have been no other supposed incidents of impersonation using a similar method). Besides, what you just quoted was the second pm you sent, presumably in an attempt to cover your tracks. Your first pm had as the subject 'Russa's plan to overthrow the Overstrator', and promised to be the first in a sequence of ideas to do so. The drawing was in a style suspiciously similar to yours, as well.
Actually, that cannot have been me. I only temporarily removed your ability to change profile pictures and usernames, as I said in the evidence you quoted. Someone else (Ally is the only other possibility as I know Lass was offline for the duration, unless the Overstrator (may he live forever) decided based on the evidence given to him (the forwarded pm) that you deserved to have all mod powers removed, in which case it is very obviously just) must have done it.
I created a board to worship the Overstrator (may he live forever). I wanted to counter the anti-Overstrator movement that I suspected would be started by Russa. I quoted from messages from the Overstrator (may he live forever), some of which included instructions on how to properly worship him (which would be in first person). That is perhaps where your confusion stems from. Ally made some insulting posts towards the Overstrator (may he live forever) and then deleted the whole board in an attempt to remove the posts, as the edit logs show.
Quote from: Russa Nodrey on July 09, 2021, 12:45:05 PM
OOC: We are the worst mods.
Quote from: Booklover on July 08, 2021, 07:46:42 PM
*Booklover is typing*
For that matter, I recall you sending a pm yesterday that said this: QuoteShould have thought of naming an account after someone else first. Can you help me change everyone's usernames to 'Matthias Sucks' and profile pictures to [an unflattering image of the Overstrat'or (may he live forever) on fire that I will not share because of its horrifying nature]?
Yes, that was a quote from a pm I got from Lass. I sent it to you as proof that Lass couldn't be trusted. Here's the entire pm...
QuoteI just got this disturbing pm from Lass. DO NOT TRUST HER.
QuoteShould have thought of naming an account after someone else first. Can you help me change everyone's usernames to 'Matthias Sucks' and profile pictures to [an unflattering image of the Overstrator (may he live forever) on fire that I will not share because of its horrifying nature]?
Funny thing that, because:
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/671315455750963220/863182594974941184/unknown.png)
These are the last PMs I've sent... And none of them are to you..
Also, why would
I say that I should've thought of naming someone after someone else first, when I very clearly told my little sister it was a bad idea when she picked the name? The only thing out of this that makes sense is that you're trying to frame me.... But what are you covering up...
OOC: Sorry for the double post, but it's been 5 days and no one has posted, not even Matt. What's going on? Hasn't the deadline past?
@Matthias720?
He hasn't been online since the 14th. I hope he's okay.
*Lass is typing*
"Yeah, I'm getting really worried... Everything on the forum is working fine, even the mods are behaving, but our Great and Wonderful Overstator isn't here to witness the glory of it all."
OOC: It's been over two weeks now. I'm pretty worried about
@Matthias720's disappearance.
OOC: Yeah, me too, I really hope he's okay.. Do you think it could be an internet or phone issue? He hasn't been on discord either...
OOC: Hey. Sorry for the involuntary silence. IRL stuff has basically taken all my attention for the past few weeks. I've been incredibly busy both with my job and my personal life. I didn't mean to worry anybody. My apologies. I'm still somewhat busy the next few days, but I'll be back soon to finish the round and the game. I promise. Thank you for you patience!
OOC: Yeah, I'm heading to Orlando tomorrow morning, and won't be back home till the next week.
We'll see how busy I am when I get there, but even if I post, it probably won't be here...
OOC: In that case, I'll delay until you return. Let me know when you are back, and we'll resume then.
OOC: Sounds good ... thnkz great overstrator! ;D
OOC: Everyone good to go now?
OOC: I suppose. Let's get this thang rolling' again!
OOC: Okay, here we go. Once again, sorry this took so long to happen, but hopefully we can finish the game within the next week.
BIC: "There seems to be no end to the arguments you create for each other, so I must step in and bring these squabbles to an end. While all of you have served me in the past, two of you have gone above and beyond to be the best of the best. I name
@Booklover and
@lass of something much as the winners. Your continued commitment to both myself and the forum is admirable, and for that I commend you.
@Russa Nodrey and
@Ally046 your services are no longer required. However, unlike those who have fallen before you, I will not punish you beyond removing your rank as moderator, as a gift to you both for your faithful service. I wish you the best."
With that, the Overstrator was left with only two staff members in the staff chat.
"Now then, what to do with the two of you? I find myself weary after all this time, and I think I shall be retiring soon. One of you will have to take my place and carry on in my stead. So I offer you this chance and choice: discuss between yourselves what sort of competition you would like for your final task, and return to me in 24 hours with your answer. That is all."
OOC: It's been a bit too long and I've run out of clever, meta ideas for this game, so I will give the choice to lass and Booklover. Post here with your discussion of what you want to do (in character or out, I don't mind either way), and post in character with your choice tomorrow. I'll then use that to make the final round and hopefully we can wrap this up by this weekend.
As for Ally and Russa, thank you both for playing (and putting up with the multi-week hiatus). You both played quite well, and I hope you join in the next game (if there is a next game). Congrats on making it as far as you did, because that's never easy.
OOC: Thnkz for letting us play! :laugh: It was a good game. ^-^
*Lass is typing*
"Come Bookie, let us rule together. You love this forum as much as I do, thusly should our fates collide in friendship, side by side, holding up the forum's pride. We must carry the forum's legacy, what better way than together?"
*Booklover is typing*
Well, I guess we could. (Like those pole vaulters/high jumpers (can't remember which) who shared a gold medal because they didn't want to do a tie-break jump. That was cool.)
In terms of possible ideas for a tie-breaker, my only idea is a chess game. Alternatively, I suppose we could redesign the forum or build a (metaphorical) monument to the wonderful Overstrator's (may he live forever) memory.
*Lass is typing*
One problem: I can't play chess to save my life
OOC: I am going to need more to go on. Take a bit more time to discuss and I'll see about posting the final round closer to the weekend.
OOC: That's the reason I think chess is a great idea.
BIC: Do you have any ideas? As I said earlier, I think we could redesign the forum (in order to highlight the Overstrator's (may he live forever) achievements and show his brilliance).
Or our task is coming up with ideas for things.
Quote from: Matthias720 on August 18, 2021, 03:03:39 PM
OOC: I am going to need more to go on. Take a bit more time to discuss and I'll see about posting the final round closer to the weekend.
OOC: I might have to just drop out then.. I can't play chess, and you didn't really give me much to work with there....Or not that I can see.
OOC: I was joking about the chess. The fact that we can't think of anything doesn't bode well for whichever of us has to host the next round, though.
BIC: Well, after the chaos of the previous rounds, fixing all the damage is probably something we have to do at some point. Or we organise some sort of event to commemorate the Overstrator's (may he live forever) many achievements. Something like that.
OOC: I have a good idea if you'll be so gracious as to let me interject?
OOC: Feel free.
(Did anybody win?)
(I don't know, I think they were waiting for my idea for a bit, but then I wasn't online for a while)
(Lol)
*pokes thread*
(Since nobody won I think I will proclaim myself winner for being the first to be booted out. ;D )
I don't think that's how that works lol
First out and still alive...at least I think I'm alive...
No it's all a lie
Matt is holding us in the Matrix???
*Walks in wearing an obviously fake mustache, trying to impersonate Matt*
"Sorry everyone, I'm back"
Oh, gawd. He's back. *Hides on box*
*pushes Scott off the box*
"All right, now where were we? It's been a while..." :giggle:
*No, because i wasn't ever loyal*
Since there seems to be renewed interest, and we never sorted out a winner, I'm declaring
@lass of something much the winner, as the more active of our two remaining players. Lass is free to start a new campaign as the new Overlord/Overlady/Supreme Monarch. Have fun!