In which Mike and Faerzen chat and Twelve appears offscreen

May 14 01:31:38 <Mike_Sardon>   --start--
May 14 01:31:55 <Mike_Sardon>   awaitingArmageddon [AA] began pestering visceralVanguard [VV]
May 14 01:32:00 <Mike_Sardon>   ((please tell me i got that right))
May 14 01:32:27 *   You are now known as AA
May 14 01:32:46 <AA>    Someone told me you would be "helpful".
May 14 01:33:02 <AA>    Hell is usually other people, but I guess I can make an exception.
May 14 01:33:24 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Pardon?
May 14 01:33:32 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Who might this be?
May 14 01:33:39 <AA>    I'm as confused as much as you are.
May 14 01:33:48 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I do not believe I have made your acquaintence before.
May 14 01:34:19 <AA>    Michael Sardon, last in line of the Sardon clan, trapped in a game about chess and universe sex I guess.
May 14 01:34:48 <AA>    Mathematician, philosopher, Agonocratic revolutionary blah blah blah does any of it even matter anymore?
May 14 01:35:01 <Faerzen_Norstov>   That depends on who you ask.
May 14 01:35:24 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I would say the most accurate answer is most probably to be "If you want it to matter."
May 14 01:35:35 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((*probable))
May 14 01:36:06 <AA>    That's deep. Why didn't I come up with that.
May 14 01:36:58 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I do not have the answer to that inquiry.
May 14 01:37:06 <AA>    Me neither.
May 14 01:37:09 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I take it based on your exposition that you are also located inside this game?
May 14 01:37:23 <Faerzen_Norstov>   SABATH or SBURB or a similar entirely capitalized name?
May 14 01:37:23 <AA>    By "this game" you mean Sburb, yes.
May 14 01:37:35 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I see.
May 14 01:37:52 <AA>    I got a sword and a magic pen from it.
May 14 01:38:10 <AA>    Also something about mind powers that I'm starting to question the existence of.
May 14 01:38:27 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I understand you may have a very poor grasp on the context of your current situations to be able to sufficiently and accurately answer this question, but "how far" would you say you and your group are in your instance of the game?
May 14 01:38:57 <AA>    I'm supposed to get my house built up to gates above them. My client player has hers up to the first gate.
May 14 01:39:07 <AA>    I'm still stuck here.
May 14 01:39:15 <Faerzen_Norstov>   And... where is "here"?
May 14 01:39:21 <AA>    On my planet.
May 14 01:39:29 <AA>    It's like a green Apocrypha, from Skyrim.
May 14 01:39:52 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Skyrim?
May 14 01:40:02 <AA>    That game that came out a few years back?
May 14 01:40:08 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Ah.
May 14 01:40:21 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I suppose it slipped my mind to inquire this rather foundational question.
May 14 01:40:46 <Faerzen_Norstov>   It may sounds rather unnecessary or absurd, but if it does I would ask you to consider what you classify as "absurd" given the game around you.
May 14 01:40:56 <AA>    It's about a character you make and play as who is related to dragons somehow, and can shout at people and make cool things happen.
May 14 01:40:56 <Faerzen_Norstov>   When and where are you from?
May 14 01:41:09 <AA>    When? I'm from the here and now.
May 14 01:41:21 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Thank you, that is really quite helpful.
May 14 01:41:29 <AA>    Where? Upper-East Side, Manhattan. Now destroyed by meteor.
May 14 01:41:30 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I know entirely understand your origins as a sentient entity.
May 14 01:41:44 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Ah.
May 14 01:41:50 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Thank you for being at least somewhat more specific.
May 14 01:42:11 <Faerzen_Norstov>   You are fortunate I am well-versed in world geography and that I am also from the same planet as you.
May 14 01:42:22 <AA>    Is this a prank?
May 14 01:42:28 <AA>    From the same planet?
May 14 01:43:00 <AA>    The chance of sentient lifeforms existing on other planets is very slim.
May 14 01:43:07 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I take it that since that is your location of origin that you were born in at least the nineteenth century. Is that correct?
May 14 01:43:18 <AA>    We've tried to contact them, but now the earth is destroyed and we can't do that anymore.
May 14 01:43:35 <Faerzen_Norstov>   You need not worry about that anymore. Their world is destroyed as well.
May 14 01:43:45 <AA>    No, Mr. Vanguard. I am an American-Indian from 15,000 BC.
May 14 01:43:55 <AA>    I'm wearing deer-skin which is the coolest fashion right now.
May 14 01:44:01 <AA>    I'm typing on a rock.
May 14 01:44:16 <Faerzen_Norstov>   That seems highly probable, based on your previous statements, to be entirely sarcasm.
May 14 01:44:28 <Faerzen_Norstov>   You may jest, but such a scenario is entirely possible.
May 14 01:44:56 <Faerzen_Norstov>   One of the players I am connected to is from the ninth century and had never even conceived of a computing device before now.
May 14 01:45:05 <AA>    Does he type on a rock?
May 14 01:45:08 <Faerzen_Norstov>   And yet, here they are, attempting to grapple with post-modern technology.
May 14 01:45:22 *   AA snickers behind the keyboard
May 14 01:45:28 <Faerzen_Norstov>   No, I provided him with a rudimentary personal computer.
May 14 01:45:44 <AA>    Oh, I get it.
May 14 01:46:07 <AA>    So was it schizt? Marble? Gneiss?
May 14 01:46:58 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Considering this game quite literally transports you and your house off of the planet, obliterates it with meteors seemingly from nowhere, is able to create fantastical devices out of nothing, and allows for the entire creation of a universe, is it so hard to consider that it may be capable of taking players from across time and space?
May 14 01:47:22 <AA>    Good point.
May 14 01:47:24 <AA>    I'll consider it.
May 14 01:47:47 <AA>    Everybody I've seen here seems to be human and from the present time, though.
May 14 01:47:58 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Yes, but what is that "present" time?
May 14 01:48:14 <AA>    That's a deep question I need to think about.
May 14 01:48:31 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I believe you know what I am intending to ask.
May 14 01:48:51 <AA>    Sometimes I think I'm in the present, ,but then a split-second later it's the past and whatever I did fades away into memory.
May 14 01:49:04 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ...
May 14 01:49:19 <AA>    What if it's the end of time and this is all just one big memory?
May 14 01:49:31 <AA>    What if I'm actually dying and this is just my life flashing before my eyes?
May 14 01:49:45 <AA>    But yes, it's 2015.
May 14 01:50:01 <AA>    Somewhere in April, or May, I lost track.
May 14 01:50:23 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I see.
May 14 01:50:23 <AA>    ((c2 has been going on for about a year))
May 14 01:50:46 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I was born approximately 100 years in your future, also on Earth.
May 14 01:51:19 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Do not ask me how I was born when the planet was obliterated in 2015, in addition to also being annihilated in 1200 and 800 and 2150.
May 14 01:51:45 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I do not know the answer to that question, and I have resigned it to the collection of quandries that I may never successfully unravel.
May 14 01:51:57 <AA>    How were you born when the planet was obliterated in 2015, in addition to also being annihilated in 1200 and 800 and 2150?
May 14 01:54:20 <AA>    ...ok.
May 14 01:54:41 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Sometimes this game escapes comprehension.
May 14 01:54:56 <Faerzen_Norstov>   And there is nothing that can be done but simply accept that fact and move forwards.
May 14 01:55:15 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Can you explain to me how it is that the Alchemiter is capable of producing fantastical objects seemingly out of nothing?
May 14 01:55:16 <AA>    ((did oyu get the "how were you born when the planet..." message))
May 14 01:55:23 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((yes))
May 14 01:55:28 <AA>    ((https://youtu.be/WxuhISNpZFk?t=1m)
May 14 01:55:29 <AA>    )
May 14 01:55:54 <AA>    No.
May 14 01:57:02 <AA>    If you're from the future, did the ice caps melt creating a global catastrophe with collapses of government that eventually reformed into fascist dictatorships that send 2 representatives from each political zone to the capital to fight to the death?
May 14 01:57:17 <AA>    Wait. Nevermind that book reference.
May 14 01:57:20 <AA>    Forget all about it.
May 14 01:57:23 <AA>    A real question.
May 14 01:57:28 <AA>    Does the Agonocracy exist?
May 14 01:58:59 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Perhaps under a different name. The ice caps did continue to melt, there was global catastrophe of a different sort, governments are generally ineffective or puppets, and a sizeable portion of the world resides under corporate dictatorships of some form or another.
May 14 01:59:08 <Faerzen_Norstov>   What is this Agonocracy you refer to?
May 14 01:59:57 <AA>    The greatest form of government, conceived by the great Mackonia, the founder and revolutionary.
May 14 02:00:08 <AA>    Sadly, his revolution was stopped before it caught on.
May 14 02:00:11 <AA>    By meteors.
May 14 02:00:13 <AA>    From the sky.
May 14 02:01:05 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I cannot say I am thoroughly knowledgeable enough on the origins of the many corporation-states that controlled the world in my time, but I would find it probable that at least one of them originated from your aforementioned political movement.
May 14 02:01:13 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I do not know though.
May 14 02:02:01 <AA>    I'm about to send you a text file of the founder's doctrine, and of the principles of the government.
May 14 02:02:42 *   AA sent manual_for_world_domination.txt
May 14 02:02:45 <AA>    https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?t=331472&f=23&view=unread
May 14 02:03:03 <AA>    ((you don't have to read all that i'll sum it up))
May 14 02:03:43 <AA>    ((first section rips on other forms of government and talks about why herd rule is bad etc))
May 14 02:04:18 <AA>    ((also about some lizard person going insane but just ignore that i guess))
May 14 02:05:20 <AA>    ((second section talks about how the best of the best officials in their field are chosen to be brought together for specific functions of the state, instead of elected representatives there are top scientists etc))
May 14 02:05:55 <AA>    ((how with education people take a test to determine their place in the government, also to weed out "inferior" people))
May 14 02:08:32 <AA>    ((how there shouldn't be any formal offices but through exerting wealth and knowledge people should have power))
May 14 02:08:43 <AA>    ((basically a bunch of stuff written by an edgy 16-year-old))
May 14 02:08:53 <AA>    ((did you know someone actually believed this))
May 14 02:09:22 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((what do you mean))
May 14 02:09:28 <AA>    ((by?))
May 14 02:10:06 <AA>    ((by someone actually believing this i mean someone out there actually takes this as a serious political ideology that would actually work and actually be a great long-term idea))
May 14 02:10:28 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((oh i see))
May 14 02:10:36 <AA>    ((unless you're asking me why i think it's bad, in which case oh no i made a convert whoops))
May 14 02:10:48 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((no thats what i was asking))
May 14 02:11:08 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((asking what you meant by someone believing it))
May 14 02:11:18 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I see.
May 14 02:11:40 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I gave this document a preliminary perusal.
May 14 02:12:04 <AA>    Officials must be forged in the fires of competition, not elected by an unintelligent herd or put into place by a predecessor.
May 14 02:12:04 <Faerzen_Norstov>   In many ways, this is effectively what many governing bodies were like in the twenty-second century.
May 14 02:12:39 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Corporations are forged through competition and that is what a substantial portion of the political scene was dominated by.
May 14 02:12:53 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Only those with intelligence and influence could rise inside the ranks of the corporations.
May 14 02:13:03 <AA>    It...happened?
May 14 02:13:06 <AA>    Was it great?
May 14 02:13:19 <AA>    Were there portraits of the great Mackonia hung along the walls?
May 14 02:13:23 <Faerzen_Norstov>   They had no formal arrangement with the government or established political bodies, and yet used their economic power to dominate the global political scene.
May 14 02:13:26 <AA>    Did I help? Was I famous?
May 14 02:13:43 <AA>    Any mention of a Michael Zarathustra Sardon?
May 14 02:13:53 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I cannot say I recognize your name, or that of Mackonia.
May 14 02:13:53 <AA>    I've always wanted to change my middle name to Zarathustra.
May 14 02:14:00 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Most of the corporations are quite secretive on their origins.
May 14 02:14:31 <Faerzen_Norstov>   As to answer your inquiry on the quality of live, my response is "it depends on who you ask".
May 14 02:15:13 <Faerzen_Norstov>   The predominant commercial power in my area of the globe was NorwayNet, and it had strong ties to the universities of Siberoscandinavia.
May 14 02:15:35 <Faerzen_Norstov>   In general, the standard of living was quite high and society quite equitable.
May 14 02:16:01 <Faerzen_Norstov>   We had little direct influence over the political or commercial structure, but we needed very little as our lives were satisfactory.
May 14 02:16:42 <Faerzen_Norstov>   However, that was certainly not the case everywhere.
May 14 02:17:01 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Commercial and electronic hacking wars wracked many areas of the globe.
May 14 02:17:18 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Some corporations exerted their economic influence to gain more economic influence at the expense of others.
May 14 02:17:41 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Many resulted in incredibly corrupt organizations, but by the time this fact was discovered it was too late.
May 14 02:18:03 <AA>    It's beautiful. It's Agonocracy in a monetarily-driven form.
May 14 02:18:14 <AA>    Impure Agonocracy.
May 14 02:18:22 <AA>    But Agonocracy none the less.
May 14 02:18:27 <AA>    Maybe a little bit less though./
May 14 02:18:53 <AA>    So, are you sure you've enver heard of the name Michael Zarathustra Sardon?
May 14 02:19:14 <AA>    Maybe just Michael Sardon, if I decided that I didn't want to adopt Zarathustra as a middle name?
May 14 02:19:18 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Constructing "true" economic, social, and political structures that would fit this code and be immune to this tainting corruption seems incredibly difficult to me.
May 14 02:19:24 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I am quite sure that name is unfamiliar to me.
May 14 02:20:17 <AA>    Darn it.
May 14 02:20:28 <AA>    Try looking me up.
May 14 02:20:40 <AA>    There has to be a Wikipedia article or something.
May 14 02:21:46 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Since the beginning of recorded human history, there have been many Michael Sardons, and I do not know which is you.
May 14 02:22:00 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I see nothing about political revolutions in my preliminary search results.
May 14 02:22:13 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I do not have access to a database of every person who ever lived and when they lived, unfortunately.
May 14 02:22:25 <AA>    Does Wikipedia still exist?
May 14 02:22:53 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Sort of.
May 14 02:23:12 <AA>    If so, use it. If there are too many people who happen to share my noble name, then find one from the 2000's.
May 14 02:23:20 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Believe me, I have.
May 14 02:23:34 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I am no stranger to searching for information.
May 14 02:24:08 <Faerzen_Norstov>   What used to be known as Wikipedia was acquired by one of the corporations named Faucet, and ever since then I have severely doubted the integrity of many of their resources and articles.
May 14 02:24:13 <AA>    ((watch as it turns out Mike died because he went into the hood and started preaching Agonocracy))
May 14 02:24:43 <Faerzen_Norstov>   The site is already freely editable by anyone in the world, so if you give under-the-hood control of the database to a corporation with their own agendas, there is bound to be quite a bit of data manipulation.
May 14 02:25:50 <Faerzen_Norstov>   The world was home to billions upon billions of people, and I am going to have a great deal of difficulty finding the precise information on one specific individual who lived over a hundred years ago.
May 14 02:25:59 <AA>    Yes, but there has to be me somewhere in there.
May 14 02:26:15 <AA>    And I doubt they made an article on every single person.
May 14 02:26:20 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I see nothing in Faucetpedia on a Michael Sardon related to political activism.
May 14 02:26:25 <AA>    Much elss every single Mike Sardon.
May 14 02:26:34 <AA>    Michael Sardon from the 2000's related to anything.
May 14 02:26:46 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Yes, that is precisely why it is entirely possible you will not be in here.
May 14 02:26:46 <AA>    I probably did something great with my life.
May 14 02:27:25 <AA>    Oh no, I'm different because I'm a motherflipping genius. These huge math books I have and the classes I take on weekends aren't just for nothing.
May 14 02:27:50 <AA>    Say my name out loud.
May 14 02:27:52 <AA>    It's majestic.
May 14 02:28:01 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I see a Michael Sardon who was born in 2035 in Austria who was an artist. That is the only Faucetpedia article in that timeframe.
May 14 02:28:07 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I beg your pardon
May 14 02:28:16 <Faerzen_Norstov>   But everything you just said was incredibly arrogant.
May 14 02:28:28 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Somehow, you have managed to put even my own egomania to shame!
May 14 02:28:28 <AA>    What can I say, it's who I am.
May 14 02:28:31 <Faerzen_Norstov>   That is quite a feat.
May 14 02:28:57 *   You are now known as Twelveyztwelveab
May 14 02:29:12 <Twelveyztwelveab>  Whoa, whoa, whoa! Can't have an egomania party without me!
May 14 02:29:28 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I beg your pardon?
May 14 02:29:29 <Twelveyztwelveab>  ((ok i'm going now))
May 14 02:29:48 <Faerzen_Norstov>   This is a private conversation.
May 14 02:29:52 <AA>    ((by going i mean that one-off line doesn't matter))
May 14 02:29:57 <AA>    ((unless it does))
May 14 02:30:00 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((oh))
May 14 02:30:02 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((okay cool))
May 14 02:30:04 <AA>    ((probably not))
May 14 02:30:12 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I must congratulate you then.
May 14 02:30:19 <AA>    Why thank you.
May 14 02:30:45 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Congratulations on considering yourself a budding expert in knowledge that either became commonplace or obsolete within 100 years. You truly are a wonder to behold.
May 14 02:31:07 <AA>    ...commonplace?
May 14 02:31:35 <AA>    So integral calculus is just something that you learn in middle school?
May 14 02:31:57 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Calculus is a standard mathematical education construct that typically takes place between the ages of 13 and 17, depending on the person.
May 14 02:32:09 <AA>    The nuances of set theory are just a trivial matter taught to kindergarteners?
May 14 02:32:18 <Faerzen_Norstov>   There is an optional track of learning which focuses on a branch of calculus that wasn't even invented yet in your time.
May 14 02:32:50 <AA>    Tell me more!
May 14 02:32:58 <Faerzen_Norstov>   The true sign of knowledge is acknowledgement of the vast amount one does not know, not the trivial set of information contained inside one's brain.
May 14 02:33:48 <AA>    Sure, I don't know a ton, but what does matter is I certainly know more than the ingrates I was forced to spend my school years with crowded in classrooms sitting in desks.
May 14 02:35:02 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I must apologize, as tempting as it is, I do not wish to delve into a lesson on hypertensor calculus. What I mean to say is not that it is not a valuable trait to have learned more than your average peer. What I mean to say is that you are choosing to brag about something not worth bragging about, and by doing so you are devaluing that which you seek to promote for all to see.
May 14 02:35:19 <AA>    I was about to achieve great things, I got accepted into Stuyvesant, a prestigious high school run by the state of New York specifically designed to cater to the best and brightest.
May 14 02:36:05 <AA>    I was second top of my class in 9th grade. So far. The top was some robot who doesn't even know what nihilism is.
May 14 02:37:12 <AA>    Aside from my academic achievements inside of school, I have also been tested into numerous programs designed for the best and brightest of our country's youth. Which I was part of.
May 14 02:37:25 <AA>    And still am, technically, until said country collapsed.
May 14 02:37:26 <AA>    By meteors.
May 14 02:37:43 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Your point?
May 14 02:37:55 <AA>    My point is I'm a motherflipping genius.
May 14 02:38:01 <Faerzen_Norstov>   So?
May 14 02:38:08 <AA>    99.9th percentile material right here.
May 14 02:38:14 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Your point?
May 14 02:38:29 <AA>    (insert longer than usual pause here)
May 14 02:39:57 <AA>    That I am destined to do great things, and there's no way they can't have a Wikipedia article about me?
May 14 02:43:21 <Faerzen_Norstov>   It appears as though that statement may--although not certainly--be false. Simply possession mental prowess is not guarantee of greatness. It is certainly an excellent tool to be used for such, but in the end is just that. An instrument. A tool. Just because you possess a fantastic tool does not guarantee you will make the world's finest products with it. It does not guarantee that the world will see
May 14 02:43:21 <Faerzen_Norstov>   your products as fine. It does not guarantee that you will have the raw materials to make product. It does not guarantee anything.
May 14 02:43:44 <Faerzen_Norstov>   There are many aspects of the world that are uncertain, improbable, unfortunate, or out of our control.
May 14 02:43:51 <AA>    You are indeed right. I do possess a fantastic tool.
May 14 02:43:58 *   AA is laughing behind the keyboard.
May 14 02:44:43 <AA>    This is a display of humor. Refrain form taking it seriously.
May 14 02:44:45 <AA>    from*
May 14 02:45:00 <AA>    Well, that was. I'm still a genius, though. Now let's see here....
May 14 02:45:08 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I already chose to not take it seriously.
May 14 02:45:15 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Your joke, that is.
May 14 02:46:18 <AA>    ((help i can't stop laughing i'm going to wake someone up))
May 14 02:47:17 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((lol))
May 14 02:49:10 <AA>    After rereading your message proceeding a burst of laughter, I must conclude you're right. There are things out of our control. And definitely unfortunate.
May 14 02:49:18 <AA>    Like me not having a Wikipedia.
May 14 02:49:35 <AA>    I might just be an underground celebrity, one known in circles where only the great hang out.
May 14 02:49:56 <Faerzen_Norstov>   That is entirely possible.
May 14 02:50:22 <AA>    The secret meetings in a metaphorical forest in the middle of the night, where people gather to discuss ideas the commoners could never grasp!
May 14 02:50:58 <Faerzen_Norstov>   It is likely we will never know for sure, and it is erroneous to presume that one knows for certain. Regardless, what I would venture to say is more important is not what an alternate version of you did who is now long gone, but what *you* will do in the here and now.
May 14 02:51:07 <Faerzen_Norstov>   You have a game set before you, rife with obstacles.
May 14 02:51:09 <AA>    Great idea!
May 14 02:51:22 <AA>    I already like your attitude and manner of thought.
May 14 02:51:44 <Faerzen_Norstov>   You have fellow players who likely could use your assistance and friendship, as well as a game to win.
May 14 02:51:52 <AA>    When this whole game business is over, we should talk again. Decide what you'll do in the New Agonocratic order.
May 14 02:52:06 <AA>    Which is totally going to be a thing.
May 14 02:52:33 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I would venture a guess that we will not be residing in the same world post-game, assuming we both survive and win.
May 14 02:52:59 <Faerzen_Norstov>   If you so desire to establish your order after this game, that is for you to discuss with your fellow players and then decide.
May 14 02:53:12 <AA>    Well then you should read that manifesto a few times over, it's going to be useful.
May 14 02:53:49 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I shall consider it.
May 14 02:54:37 <AA>    And I've provided lots of assistance and friendship. Once I saved someone from death by meteors. Then I helped the Queen of Prospit find out who stole her ring, and we're attempting to get it back.
May 14 02:55:04 <AA>    Apparently everybody's done that first thing.
May 14 02:55:22 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I wish you luck in your endeavor then. It sounds both challenging and rewarding.
May 14 02:56:25 <AA>    It is.
May 14 02:56:40 <AA>    But we'll finish it, I have hope in my teammates.
May 14 02:56:48 <AA>    They seem like respectable people.
May 14 02:57:14 <Faerzen_Norstov>   That is good.
May 14 02:57:25 <AA>    How's the game been going for you so far?
May 14 02:58:45 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Hmmm.
May 14 02:58:54 <Faerzen_Norstov>   How best to describe that particular notion?
May 14 02:59:41 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I suppose the most concise answer that is still accurate would be "interesting".
May 14 03:00:32 <AA>    The game certainly is.
May 14 03:00:38 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Amongst many other situations, there is currently a time traveling invincible insane serial killer from an alternate reality hopping around our timeline murdering people.
May 14 03:00:48 <AA>    That sounds fun.
May 14 03:00:49 <Faerzen_Norstov>   We also have a player who has died upwards of five times.
May 14 03:00:59 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Several of us were forced to murder our parents in cold blood.
May 14 03:00:59 <AA>    That also sounds fun.
May 14 03:01:24 <AA>    That last one hits a bit close to home, considering my father mysteriously disappeared upon entry to this strange land.
May 14 03:01:34 <Faerzen_Norstov>   One of my best friends went insane and I held a version of myself from an alternate reality in my arms as they slowly bled to death.
May 14 03:02:20 <Faerzen_Norstov>   This is only the tip of the enormous iceberg that is our instance of this game, and would prefer to not delve into the details as they are frequently both arduous to recount and unpleasant to re-experience.
May 14 03:02:44 <Faerzen_Norstov>   It has certainly been challenging, but I have been doing all that I can to engineer a successful outcome for my team.
May 14 03:02:52 <AA>    One of your best friends went insane. I cannot say I have experienced this, as friends are not a thing I have many of.
May 14 03:03:02 <Faerzen_Norstov>   That has required me resort to several unorthodox or perhaps even unacceptable or extreme measures, but they were necessary.
May 14 03:03:15 <AA>    By choice. I shall not tolerate yes-men wishing to ride on my coattails.
May 14 03:03:28 <AA>    Unless said yes-men are in positions of power.
May 14 03:03:43 <AA>    And maybe just a bit of friends are a good thing.
May 14 03:03:47 <AA>    Maybe.
May 14 03:04:53 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I cannot say I have many friends aside from that one, but I can confidently say that friends are quite beneficial for many other goals other than as a means for additional power acquisition.
May 14 03:06:19 <AA>    Why don't you go check up on that friend soon. He sounds like someone you should talk to soon
May 14 03:06:34 <AA>    ((and then he finds out that he went into a coma, top kek))
May 14 03:06:39 <AA>    ((a very morbid top kek))
May 14 03:06:45 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I already have.
May 14 03:06:54 <AA>    ((darn))
May 14 03:07:07 <Faerzen_Norstov>   He is currently at home recovering from some wounds he obtained from an erupting volcano.
May 14 03:08:27 <AA>    This game just has very pleasant surprises around every corner.
May 14 03:08:44 <Faerzen_Norstov>   For some definition of "very pleasant", I suppose yes, it does.
May 14 03:09:08 <AA>    It's sarcasm.
May 14 03:09:21 <AA>    Some say I live up to my last name.
May 14 03:11:02 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Who else are you aware of in your game instance anyways?
May 14 03:11:08 <Faerzen_Norstov>   How many of you are there>
May 14 03:11:12 <Faerzen_Norstov>   ((*?))
May 14 03:11:17 <AA>    I'm not sure. Ten or less.
May 14 03:11:31 <AA>    There's me, Thom, Alex....
May 14 03:11:38 <AA>    I think in total there were 7.
May 14 03:13:30 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Would you mind telling me about them?
May 14 03:13:42 <AA>    I don't know much about them.
May 14 03:13:47 <AA>    Maybe I should try talking to them.
May 14 03:13:53 <Faerzen_Norstov>   I am curious to hear more about the few that were able to escape Earth.
May 14 03:13:58 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Ah.
May 14 03:14:02 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Well then, perhaps you should.
May 14 03:14:35 <Faerzen_Norstov>   It is going to be much more difficult to draw up and effectively execute a plan if you do not have any other players as resources and are unaware of what actions they have and are going to already carry out.
May 14 03:14:59 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Let alone meeting the few remaining humans you are capable of physically interacting with.
May 14 03:16:12 <AA>    Good points.
May 14 03:17:06 <Faerzen_Norstov>   When you first contacted me, you said you were informed that I could be of assistance.
May 14 03:17:14 <Faerzen_Norstov>   Who was it that informed you of this, and what is it that you need?
May 14 03:17:53 <AA>    What as ti that I needed, I'm not really sure. He just said that you would be "helpful" to me.
May 14 03:18:01 <AA>    As for who he is,
May 14 03:18:06 <Twelveyztwelveab>  IT'S ME!