City of Glass - Discussion

sao

@Tributary honestly what this recitation makes me feel is proud of you for doing your thing and having a fun time with Raphael even while this bozo was being a shit to you in pages. So, GET IT.

Pavel

@Tributary Huh. Gross.

helvetica

@Tributary drop rose

Meg

@Tributary I will never get over WoD names for things. Sorry. What is a flowering fairest??? I need it to really contextualize this.

Also sorry you had to deal with annoying people who don’t have a grasp on reality of situations.

Pyrephox

@Meg said in City of Glass - Discussion:

@Tributary I will never get over WoD names for things. Sorry. What is a flowering fairest??? I need it to really contextualize this.

Also sorry you had to deal with annoying people who don’t have a grasp on reality of situations.

A very pretty person-abducted-by-evil-fairies who also has a ‘flowers/greenery’ motif.

And this kind of stuff is so fucking skeevy. So OOCly manipulative, trying to control a player in such passive aggressive ways. I’m glad he’s gone.

Pavel

“Flowering is a sub-type of the Fairest seeming. Flowers blossom on bare earth where these changelings have stood (although they take months to appear in the human world rather than seconds, as they did in Faerie). Their skin is soft like the petal of a rose or a chrysanthemum and bright with a bloom of health.”

They’re the hot ones who smell like flowers.

Tributary

@Meg Essentially, they’re dryads.
Seeming:
Fairest
Regalia: Crown
Bonus Attribute: Power
Sovereigns and Muses touched by the heights of Faerie’s glory, beauty, and cruelty.
Blessing: While in harmony or for Glamour, you may spend Willpower on another character’s behalf.
Curse: Risk Clarity damage at half Wyrd when your actions are responsible for harming your allies.

Kith:
Flowering (Socialize)
These Lost lived amid Arcadian flora and adopted their passive allure. Spend Glamour and roll Presence + Empathy to release a perfumed scent. Those present must contest with Composure + Tolerance or fall vulnerable to your sway.

Meg

@Pavel im hot and smell like flowers and Chanel, so I’m glad you guys explained.

im gonna go around calling myself a flowering fairest. New fun thing unlocked.

Pavel

@Tributary said in City of Glass - Discussion:

Essentially, they’re dryads.

More like tryhards.

GF

EDIT: Killing this post because I misread something very badly, and in so doing the insult I was so proud of now targets the people who should not be targeted. Thanks for correcting me, @hellfrog .

hellfrog

@GF oh no, he was playing a Mind focused mage. The people he was skeeving on were playing flowerings!

Pyrephox

@hellfrog Which, hey, I think his concept was cult leader, so right in the general if not the specific.

Rinel

@Meg said in City of Glass - Discussion:

@Tributary I will never get over WoD names for things. Sorry. What is a flowering fairest??? I need it to really contextualize this.

Also sorry you had to deal with annoying people who don’t have a grasp on reality of situations.

just wait until you get to the darkling swimmerskins

dvoraen

@Meg mirror mirror

helvetica

@Rinel said in City of Glass - Discussion:

@Meg said in City of Glass - Discussion:

@Tributary I will never get over WoD names for things. Sorry. What is a flowering fairest??? I need it to really contextualize this.

Also sorry you had to deal with annoying people who don’t have a grasp on reality of situations.

just wait until you get to the darkling swimmerskins

darkling swimmerskins.jpeg

cut to @Meg the very next day

Kay

Re: “Royal”, the dude’s name sent bells ringing in my head when he first showed up, but I couldn’t pin it down and just let it be because don’t want to accuse innocent people over nothing.

But now since he’s banned and the alarms in my head were proven valid, I’m wondering – does anyone else remember there being a well known bad player creeper type who frequently went by those kinds of names? I.e Royal/Regal/King/Duke/Earl/bladiblabla? I tried to search both on here and the soapbox but couldn’t find anything. I don’t know if the name match is just a coincidence or not, nor can I remember where I remember it from.

Snackness

@Kay Sovereign?

I have absolutely no frame of reference as to whether or not this was him, but that’s who I thought of from your description.

Kay

@Snackness said in City of Glass - Discussion:

@Kay Sovereign?

I have absolutely no frame of reference as to whether or not this was him, but that’s who I thought of from your description.

That’s it! Rex/Sovereign/et al, that’s who the name sent off an alarm in my head over, and possibly something about the writing style. No idea if it is that person but thank you so much, that’s what was sending off the alarm! It was driving me a little batty to have that nagging sense but not being able to pin down where it was coming from, only that it had to do with the name.

devu

I’ve heard that he probably drove pLucene off the game, so if anyone knows them, maybe reach out with the info that pRoyal’s gone? It’d suck if they were driven away forever.

Tributary

@Snackness So I was curious about some of the time stamps, and it starts spinning hilarious. Me all not looking for a relationship. Me not being clingy or pushy. Me treating it all casual. Him insisting he won’t go to the event. Him informing me that it’s just not his thing. Him ‘relenting’ to the alleged torrent of pages inviting him. Me oblivious because I haven’t said anything to him for over an hour.

268. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:26pm] Royal says, "Would you be looking for a rave date? "
269. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:33pm] Aubrey says, "Nah, but if we end up at the rave together, fun."
270. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:35pm] Royal says, "Nah?  Mm.  Alright."
271. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:36pm] Aubrey says, "I mean, we're having a good time, sure."
272. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:37pm] Royal says, "But?  😛"
273. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:41pm] Aubrey says, "I don't think we've established any sort of relationship..."
274. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:41pm] Aubrey says, "Well. Pending relationship. That's established."
275. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:41pm] Aubrey says, "But it's all brand new!"
276. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:41pm] Royal says, "Ah.  "
277. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:42pm] Aubrey says, "I think we ICly need time to figure out where we want to go."
278. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:43pm] Royal says, "No worries, didn't mean to seem pushy.  Whatever you like!"
279. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:49pm] Royal hopes you have a blast!  It's definitely gonna be a-buzzin'
280. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:49pm] Aubrey says, "You're not going?"
281. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:50pm] Royal says, "Hell no lmao.  It's significantly larger than my preferences, I was only going to attend to hang out with you or Lucene."
282. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:54pm] Royal says, "I ain't even gonna pretend I got the bandwidth to feign interest in ~20 strangers"
283. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  3:59pm] Royal says, "Kudos to people who can manage that, but I just completely brain-off when scenes reach a spam threshold."
284. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  4:42pm] Royal keeps getting invited now through pages.  "Jesus, I get stood up and it's like an echo through the Force."
285. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  4:44pm] Royal says, "Whatever, fine, I don't have the heart to tell people no when they say they want me lmao.  I'll peek in for a bit, at least.  There's a confessional, I can do a fancy priest outfit."
286. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  4:53pm] Aubrey says, "Sorry, I was trying to pose in between doing cargo in Star Citizen."

Note: it is approximately 15 minutes later by timestamps when Aubrey tells Raphael that he is hot and they start flirting.

9 minutes after that, Royal poses in, a day late and a dollar short.

He then snubs her ICly and starts paging me to complain that I’m RPing with someone else. At that point, I internally debate whether to explain normal human interactions, and how the only healthy response Aubrey could have to being snubbed was to write Royal off completely as an asshole not worth her time, and decide, nah, the player is supposedly an adult and surely this reaction is obvious. Also ain’t nobody got time for that.

He dropped himself from the scene but was clearly stewing on it, because about 20 minutes after leaving, he started paging me again about how the scene was too big and how he didn’t understand how anyone liked that sort of thing, etc. And I don’t respond. Because I am liking that sort of thing and having a good time.

And then this:

304. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  6:35pm] Royal says, "BTW -- nothing personal, but I think I'd prefer Aubrey and Royal not get closer.  I'm feeling a little slighted, tbh.  Not gonna make that your problem, it's mine, but wanted to be frank."
305. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  6:36pm] Aubrey says, "That's cool. I just didn't want to rush into anything. I'm still feeling out the game, you know?"
306. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  6:37pm] Royal says, "Totally fair.  But I'm still pretty put off by this whole thing tonight.  Getting invited only to have Aubrey throw herself at Raph was pretty much an instant killer for seeing where they might go."
307. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  6:37pm] Royal says, "I wish you the best, though!  Like I said, it's my problem, not yours."
308. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  6:39pm] Aubrey says, "You said you weren't coming, and I just continued the IC interaction. It's not like she's his girlfriend or anything. They had good chemistry. It was fun.  But he also seemed to make a point of snubbing her, so whatever."
309. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  6:39pm] Royal says, "Yes, he snubbed her because she was with another man."
310. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  6:40pm] Aubrey says, "Cool. Guess girl dodged a bullet IC, eh?"
311. [Sun Feb 25, 2024  6:41pm] Royal says, "That's for you to decide!  I don't think I'm being unreasonable.  I'm also trying to be polite about it."

Hoo, boy! Look at me chase him! Look at me demand that IC relationship! Look at me get big mad!

%% Thank you.  The conversation has been reported to the admins.
<PM> (to Aubrey) Royal says, "I am genuinely sorry if it upsets you.  It's just not a vibe I'm into.  "

Note: here I am puzzled that he thinks I am upset and also unsure what vibe he is talking about, as I am fairly certain his character has plenty of attention.

It took me 3 minutes, give or take, to submit the PM log, and then it took @Tez approximately 8 minutes to ban the manipulative asshole.

I am amused that I was largely oblivious to his manipulation efforts until I went back and looked at them all together with helpful timestamps. Also, don’t creep on me because I will post receipts.

More thanks to @Faraday for making it so easy to submit PM logs on Ares to admins!

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