Overlord's Orders XI

[LT Sandpaw]

Milord you should know I knew none of this, after we had finished clearing out the starfish I was searching for my holographic projector that Soren hid from me. While I was searching they must have gotten bored and started messing around. I had no idea Sam would threaten a team member by gun point or that Delthion put a Flesh eating Starfish on Jaspers back. Please forgive me Lord.

[Delthion]

OOC: Hey, that means that if anyone tries to say that you had something to do with it then they'd be a liar! I like your strategy.

[LT Sandpaw]

OOC: Thank you,

[SilentSam]

   O great Overlord, it is true that I used the defense systems to clean out the base, and made Del put a flesh eating starfish on Jasper, but it was all because that Soren was very angry at me because I stole his favorite watch. I had to steal his watch because he kept dropping it, and that was our only way of checking the time. I eventually gave it back to him, but he said that he was VERY mad at me, but madder at Del. He said that Del kept annoying him all day long because he said that Soren would be next to disappear. Also Soren doesn't really like any of us. He even has a list of the order that he doesn't like us. But on to the point, he said that he would make sure I disappear before we get back if I didn't do these things. Being the weakling I am, I was honestly scared of him.  I am very sorry Overlord.

[Delthion]

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[LT Sandpaw]

Milord it must be true, Sam must be so scared of everything that he went to desperate measures to protect himself, even if it meant jeopardizing the mission.

[SilentSam]

What Soren said, is true, but I only was acting in this way because of Sam threatening me to say these things, he forced me into saying that I hated everyone, it was him who forced me into saying all of these things, I like all of my fellow servants.

OOC: Sorry Del, I meant that Soren doesn't like us. I'll revise it.
BIC: O great overlord, I must tell you that LT is clumsy, and he was touching many buttons, one could kill us all, and jeopardizing the mission. Luckily I stopped him, I wasn't going to bring it up, as he is embarrassed about it, but he is blaming the whole thing on me, causing me to tell you that this happened, and if you're wondering when this happened, it was after the little incident that I was forced to do.

[Delthion]

But that was only because Jasper threatened him that if he did not do what he asked, he would blow up the facility with several nuclear warheads. I tried to notify security but he noticed me and shot a gas tank, after this we were forced to evacuate the facility with no reward for our efforts.

[Jasper]

Overlord, consider what Delthion has just said. He claims that I threatened Sam to threaten Delthion so that he would put a flesh eating starfish on my own back?

Sorry. That just doesn't add up very well, I can attest that I positively would never desire to be bitten by a flesh eating star fish. Any servant that wanted something like that to happen would be absolutely mad.

Luckily, I have the extra information on the scenario so that it does add up well. As Delthion said, I did say this to Sam:
"If you do not do what I ask, I will blow up the facility with several nuclear warheads."

Taken out of context, that sounds horrible. However, in that conversation I was not asking Sam to threaten Delthion to force him to put a starfish on my back. I was asking him to signal the incoming submarine to stop before it crashed into us. His threatening of Delthion was entirely some scheme of his own, which I had no part in - again, why would I want to be bit by a flesh eating starfish?

Also "the facility" was referring, not to the underwater base, but to Sam's house. You see, he was panicking and doing rediculous things, so I thought an exaggerated threat might get his head straight. We cannot tolerate servants freaking out on the job, and the threat seemed to work, and he tried to stop the submarine. It was not my fault that Delthion took this statement so seriously. After all, why on earth would I want to detonate a nuclear bomb on a base that I was inside of? Sam did not take it so seriously, and actually thanked me later for getting him back on track.

As Delthion said, I did shoot a gas tank. I noticed him running toward security, but I didn't know he was trying to report me, I thought he was running from a particularly large group of flesh eating starfish. I shot the gas tank in hopes that it would explode, killing the dangerous starfish, whose bites I knew all to well, were very painful.

Ultimately, the fault is with Sam, who's nervousness and personal fear were not characteristic of a true servant of the Overlord. He attested to his insecurity only a minute ago, when he labeled himself as "a weakling." No proper and effective servant to such a powerful Overlord such as you could consider themselves weak.

[Delthion]

Overlord, consider what Delthion has just said. He claims that I threatened Sam to threaten Delthion so that he would put a flesh eating starfish on my own back?

Sorry. That just doesn't add up very well, I can attest that I positively would never desire to be bitten by a flesh eating star fish. Any servant that wanted something like that to happen would be absolutely mad.

Luckily, I have the extra information on the scenario so that it does add up well. As Delthion said, I did say this to Sam:
"If you do not do what I ask, I will blow up the facility with several nuclear warheads."

Taken out of context, that sounds horrible. However, in that conversation I was not asking Sam to threaten Delthion to force him to put a starfish on my back. I was asking him to signal the incoming submarine to stop before it crashed into us. His threatening of Delthion was entirely some scheme of his own, which I had no part in - again, why would I want to be bit by a flesh eating starfish?

Also "the facility" was referring, not to the underwater base, but to Sam's house. You see, he was panicking and doing rediculous things, so I thought an exaggerated threat might get his head straight. We cannot tolerate servants freaking out on the job, and the threat seemed to work, and he tried to stop the submarine. It was not my fault that Delthion took this statement so seriously. Sam did not, and actually thanked me later for getting him back on track.

As Delthion said, I did shoot a gas tank. I noticed him running toward security, but I didn't know he was trying to report me, I thought he was running from a particularly large group of flesh eating starfish. I shot the gas tank in hopes that it would explode, killing the dangerous starfish, whose bites I knew all to well, were very painful.

Ultimately, the fault is with Sam, who's nervousness and personal fear were not characteristic of a true servant of the Overlord. He attested to his insecurity only a minute ago, when he labeled himself as "a weakling." No proper and effective servant to such a powerful Overlord such as you could consider themselves weak.

OOC: But you said that I lied, therefore you lied!

[Jasper]

OOC: Please stop posting out of character in the thread. I did not say that you lied, I said that you misinterpreted my statement.  

Ultimately, I never changed or argued against your statement that I said:

"If you do not do as I ask I will blow up the facility with several nuclear warheads"

I merely said that "If you do not do as I ask" was referring to me telling Sam to signal the submarine, and "the facility" was referring to Sam's house, not the underwater base.

If you read through the previous rounds, there are several instances where this sort of thing is done, and there weren't problems with it then. A particularly nice one was when Matthias was accused of threatening someone with pickles, but he changed it saying that he intended it to be taken differently due to another factor. I can't remember the details exactly, but I can look back if you feel it is necessary. I hope this works everything out.  

[James Gryphon]

OOC: I know there isn't a strict rule against this, but please don't 'backseat moderate'. I'm running things here; if there is a problem with someone's post, I will take care of it. As it happens, Jasper is correct. There is plenty of room for interpretation in the sentence that you posted here, and his response was well within the rules.

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"I have nothing against any one of you that considers himself weak, because I have never adopted a policy of encouraging self-delusion in my servants. You are all weak, pitiful little creatures, and your constant failures make me want to squash you like the little bugs you are. I've spent so many years -- my entire life! -- planning all of this out, and I'm not going to have everything frittered away now because none of you can follow orders."

Electric current flowed through each of the glass capsules, giving each of the servants a good shock. The Overlord waited until they were done twitching before he continued to speak.

"Nevertheless, it is true that there is more room for improvement in one of you than in the others. I have just the solution to that problem. Observe."

The spotlight shone down, revealing a robotic arm as it reached down from the top of SilentSam's glass capsule, and quickly injected something into his back. A moment passed, then Sam smiled. He turned around, first to the left, then the right -- and started walking forward. He bumped into the desk where the glass bottle had previously sat, but didn't flinch... or seem to notice the impact at all.

Or seem to notice much of anything, for that matter.

The Overlord spoke.

"This is one of the few technologies in my possession that I can say, regretfully, that I did not invent. It is the product of years of work by the Death-Defying Beavers, spun off from a cancelled American black ops program. When I first started negotiations with the Beavers so many years ago, this was one of their accomplishments that they revealed to me, and I had to have it. I played with remote controlled cars all the time when I was a youngster, but I thought it would be a whole new kind of excitement to have a remote controlled person."

Sam continued walking, quite robotically, through the room. The other servants could hear the bumps and crashes as he hit various unseen items.

"Unfortunately I never was very good at R/C driving. He's probably going to have quite a few bruises before I'm done with him. I still expect he'll be quite useful, though, especially once I get it working so I can see through his eyes -- then I can use his body to go places and perform errands outside of the lab. Oh, and don't worry too much about him. He's safer here than any of you are likely to be, and anyway I'll let him think sometimes -- on lunch breaks and weekends."

The room went pitch-black. The Overlord sounded jovial.

"So now that's taken care of. I assume your morale is soaring after that little object lesson. That's good, because you have a big mission up ahead."

"I have a friend who has requested my help in a venture that he has going at the World Fair. Specifically, he asked if I had any "useless people I could spare to help sell some goats' milk". Naturally, I told him that I had some minions who were perfectly suited to the job. So, you have seven hundred goats, all the equipment needed to take care of them and obtain their milk, a large vat to store the milk in, plenty of cartons, and a hose that connects to the vat, to fill the cartons with. Sell as much milk at as expensive a price as you can to the visitors at the Fair. These are not your goats, so treat them accordingly, and don't let anything happen to them."

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About eight days later...

"Great job," the Overlord said, sarcastically. "In a week you managed to sell seven hundred goats. Truly a masterful work of salesmanship, except that you were supposed to sell their milk. But I can see from the headline that the bystanders got a special discount -- "Fair Flooded with 25 tons of goats' milk". That's a little much of a free sample, don't you think?"

"So, the goats are gone, the milk is gone, and my friend has every right to be very upset with you lot. I have promised him that one of you is going to get to enter his service, to work on repaying your great debt. Tell me which of you that ought to be."

[Søren]

My great overlord, I'll recount what I can say of the story to the best of my abilities. When we got the the Fair, we were informed that there was a possible buyer for the goat milk. Naturally, we went to discuss it with the man. His representative said because it was going to be such a large purchase, that we should meet at the Starbucks tent. Me and Jasper went to see the man at the tent. When we got there we were both promptly clubbed on the head, and passed out. When I awoke, Jasper was nowhere to be found. I was tied up in a hot air balloon that was 5000 feet off the ground. I was able to get my head over the railing to see a scuffle going on on the ground by some hot air balloons, and then one exploded. I as co seed as to maybe the members of my team were in trouble, so I got out of my ##:1162 and lower the hot air balloon down. When I got there, there was goat milk everywhere, and the man who was supposed to buy it trying to steal the cat that stored the milk. I attempted to stop him. But he had help. I was chocked from behind and those like a rag doll I to a Buy-In-Stock store. She I la red, I must have had brokent a bottle of Odorient, which produceced a smell that made me fell sick. I passed out and awoke to find my teammates standing over me, drenched in goat milk.

[LT Sandpaw]

 Milord what Soren, Jasper were doing was none of my business, but me and Delthion were collecting milk in the tent. It was going great and we had just finished on our two hundredth one when a massive explosion ripped though the tent. It was scary and loud and I couldn't  hear well for several hours. There was milk everywhere and it was soaking into the ground. Turns out it was really dry where the fair was taking place and it soaked up all the milk in seconds. Me and Delthion were desperate, we didn't even know if our team was still alive so we decided to whatever we could to make the money. The poor goats were very tired after making all that milk and were useless in that factor.
Then we noticed the butchers tent, they were supposed to have a massive barbecue but a ton of milk had ruined all their meat. Turns out the dude running the barbecue was a rich Texan oil worker, he bought every goat for the barbecue for twice it's actual worth. After selling the goats I left the money in Delthion's care for safe keeping something we should stop doing. We had just found Soren lying knocked out when someone snitched the money. I had never before seen the thief's and knew nothing about them, Jasper mentioned he had once known them a long time ago. We chased after the robber but were unable to catch the thief. Please forgive me lord I tried my best to finish the mission.

[Jasper]

OOC: Apologies, my mistake. It will not happen again.

BIC: As Soren said, we both went to this buyer to sell him the milk. When I entered the tent Soren was immediately clubbed and fell to the ground senseless. I was about to yell for help, when I felt the back of my head explode in pain and everything went black.

I awoke gagged and tied to the bottom of a hot air balloon 5000 feet off the ground. I heard Soren awake above, and break his bonds and begin to descend. I tried to tell him where I was, but the gag prevented me from saying anything legible. There was nothing left for me to do but observe in silence. It was none of our faults the milk was spilled: I saw someone dressed as a frog trip over the hose, and cause all of it to spill. I also saw the random explosion of another hot air balloon, which made me incredibly afraid that a similar thing would happen to ours.

What Sandpaw mentions must have happened while I was knocked out, because I missed them selling all the goats. When Soren got the balloon to the ground, he missed me lying underneath it, tied up and gagged. He ran off to stop someone before being knocked out or something - I couldn't quite see exactly what happened. After some further effort, I untied my bonds, and went in the direction Soren took in hopes of finding him.

When I did find him, he was knocked out, and already surrounded by the rest of our group. Apparently Delthion tagged along even though he was told not to, and to guard the money instead. We quickly grabbed Soren and went back to the money, only to find a snitch was taking it all! I couldn't believe my eyes! It was that bus driver from a few missions ago- I believe his name was Tim? I told them all who it was, and we immediately took off after the thief. Delthion got tired very quickly, and decided to break off from the rest of us to drink from the puddles of goat's milk so he could cool off. He never had been one for running. The rest of us caught up to the thief, and we encircled him, but there was gap in the circle where Delthion should have been, and he ran through it and got away.