City of Glass - Discussion

[Tez]

@Smile PROMISE YOU AREN’T.

Besides, the books are such a poorly edited hodge-podge of contradictory information that we are trying to implement in an imperfect at best online many-player rendition of tabletop small-group mechanics. There are always going to be gaps and things we have to clarify as we go.

[Pavel]

omg it lags harder than my brain first thing in the morning literally unplayable plz fix

[Tez]

@Pavel no

[ten]

haven’t had the energy to play, but, uuuuuh I saw that one coming.

[Rinel]

@ten said in City of Glass - Discussion:

haven’t had the energy to play, but, uuuuuh I saw that one coming.

Oh no

What did I miss

[ten]

@Rinel

[Rinel]

@ten

PITA INFLATION FETISH MUDSEX?!

while I am here with the emojis WHO DECIDED THIS WAS THE COLDSWEAT EMOJI

THIS IS NOT A COLDSWEAT EMOJI

THIS IS BANNED IN SEVERAL STATES

[Pavel]

help how to turn off emoji again

[Jennkryst]

@Rinel This is why you should GIF, for great justice.

[junipersky]

NO ONE HAS SAID WHAT HAPPENED I DEMAND DRAMA.

[Pavel]

@junipersky I presume this is about the most recent ban. Some dude got banned for being generally unkind and failing all the vibe checks. There might be more than is said here given what he also said on the public channel (1), but I don’t know.

https://cityofglass.aresmush.com/forum/1/285

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1. I don’t remember what he said precisely, and I’d have to be bothered to go check my logs.

[sao]

@Pavel He said he was being banned for asking not to interact with someone and that staff was real sleazy.

I agree that it’s not worth looking up for exactitude. So I won’t.

[Tez]

@sao said in City of Glass - Discussion:

@Pavel …staff was real sleazy.

We got Dominos last night to keep it sleazy.

[Meg]

@Tez wait is dominos sleazy??? This is a serious question. I like dominos. I order it despite living in Chicago and the fact that all my friends keep trying to kick me out for not adopting to the culture.

[GF]

@Meg I dunno about sleazy exactly, but where I live, Domino’s is looked down on for being greasy, low-quality, and tied to a really creepy “community” program that pushed virginity on high school students.

[Tez]

@GF lmfao WHAT. we just got it for cheap and greasy. VIRGINITY PROGRAM?

[Pavel]

@Tez said in City of Glass - Discussion:

VIRGINITY PROGRAM?

Buy 2 large pizzas and a garlic bread and we’ll give you a voucher for one virginity absolutely free.

[sao]

i like to get their spinach feta cheesebread and a lava cake and then go to bed with a belly full of regret

[GF]

@Tez It could be an urban legend (I never bothered checking it), but the story I heard is that Domino’s partnered with some high schools to replace their sex ed classes with virginity cards that doubled as coupons for “free” pizzas, where by “free” they meant BOGO.

[Tributary]

@Pavel He slut shamed me! And apparently treated other people like crap, too. Because I definitely wasn’t the only one who was having a bad time with him.

<Chat> Royal says, "Haha.  Banned for telling someone I don't want to engage them.  What sleazy, nasty staff, gross.  Peace out, folks."
<Chat> Royal says, "And fuck you, Falco."
<Chat> (Staff) Falconet (@Tez) says, "Okay. Good luck out there."

So like, this is not at all what happened.

First of all, his character Royal had a roommate who was also a Flowering Fairest, Lucene. And since my character Aubrey is also a Flowering Fairest, Lucene and I were talking about coming up with some backstory, as you do when you’re still pretty new (and the game is too, all fresh and shiny). So anyway, while Lucene’s RL was keeping her from RP, I RPed a bit with Royal.

And Royal and Aubrey hit it off just fine, and their chemistry was pretty fun, and she slept with him because she’s young and unattached and it’s fun to make bad decisions about fictional men sometimes.

So then, on Sunday, there was to be a Changeling rave. He was signed up for the event as a +1. And I asked him who his date was. Lucene, he tells me, but she stood him up. I was like, oh, no, I’m sure it’s just her RL eating up her RP time. And he’s like, nah, she blocked me on Discord, too. But I’m not taking it personally.

And I’m thinking, dude, you should probably be taking that personally. I bet she meant it personally.

So he asks if Aubrey wants to be his date via pages. And I say, no, but I’d be happy to play with you if you go. And he gripes about it, then says he’s not going to go. It’s like 20+ people and that’s too much for a scene. That’s fine by me. I want to meet new people anyway, and I’m going to brave the big event scene.

I go. Aubrey flirts with people. She’s generally having a fun time, imbibing and making poor life decisions. She tells Raphael that he is hot, which is objectively true, and he invites her to dance.

Meanwhile, Royal pages me to let him know that people have been bugging him to attend and that he’s going to capitulate. Mind you, I have not done this. I have been too busy keeping track of the scene to worry about people who are not there. So I’m just like, cool. And he’s like, at least some people are interested in me. And I respond, nah, I just didn’t want to be your date. So he waits awhile, perhaps for me to beg him to show up? And then he shows up as dramatically as possible.

Mind you, I wasn’t wallflowering for him, and Aubrey and Raphael are flirting. It’s been an hour and a half since the scene started. And when Aubrey sees him, she smiles and winks. And Royal snubs her ICly. So she cuts her losses and goes to enjoy Raphael’s company.

And Royal pages me, annoyed that I’m RPing with someone else. And I’m like, whatever dude! And then he sends me half a dozen sour grapes pages, none of which I reply to. I don’t beg him to come back. I just keep on enjoying myself.

And then, after no reply to his sour grapes, the scene too big, big scenes no fun, etc, he pages me to let me know that Royal won’t be pursuing anything with Aubrey. I say, okay, cool, I didn’t want to rush into anything. And then he tells me that he wishes me the best. And I remind him that I’m good with it, especially because he ICly snubbed her.

At which point he was like, he snubbed her because she was with another man! And I’m like, cool, sounds like girl dodged a bullet IC.

At which point he tells me that he’s not being unreasonable, he’s just being polite, and he’s sorry if it upsets me.

Now nothing I’ve said has indicated that I was upset. But I also said nothing that he wanted to hear. And I also took advantage of the ease with which Ares allows me to turn over logs of pages to staffers.

Next thing I know, our boy is banned! Thank you, staff!

A few hours later that evening, I get a Discord PM out of nowhere from someone I used to play Ithir with years ago. She says she’s his girlfriend and that he was super upset about being banned from CoG because he told me no to a relationship. (The relationship that I’d made a point of clearly stating I didn’t want earlier. I note). He also assumed I was a staff alt, even though I’ve got my character linked to my Ares handle. He literally told his girlfriend that he’d been banned because I felt I was entitled to Royal pursuing Aubrey IC. Which is bonkers.

The girlfriend also said that none of this sounded like me, and she sounded perplexed.

Not that I appreciated her contacting me, but she didn’t really defend him, to give her credit. I assured her that it was about nothing that happened IC and that I am not staff on CoG and that it wasn’t my decision. This is all true.

But damn, it was weird. And dramatic. So there’s the tea.