As someone who is completely nonconfrontational, I sat down with my boss and discussed my personal frustrations with having to train the brand new hire with absolutely no experience who was starting at a higher salary than I currently am getting paid. Today she pulled me aside and told me she took my concerns higher and my salary has been adjusted.

Not everything is perfect but I feel great for having said something where normally I wouldn’t have. Yay small life victory and self advocating!

I don’t know you and don’t actually believe we interacted very much while you were on Arx.

I do know VK and her constant manipulative behavior when she did not get her way. Her constantly going above and around character’s heads when she thought she could get her way with them over others, and then the huge meltdowns and temper tantrums when it didn’t work as she thought it would.

How during her last stint on the game she specifically reached out to my character on multiple occasions through multiple alts via pages and messages when she knew that we were not friends OOC and we avoided one another IC. How after she implanted herself into my character’s life it caused a large amount of stress for me, because I did everything in my power to avoid conflict with a brand new player and gave her the benefit of doubt because THE NEW PLAYER asked OOC if the past could be smoothed over because she was NEW and per the game rules its better for all to not hold the sins of past players on the heads of the new player. How I ignored my gut feeling, and everyone saying ‘Its amazing how much like the old player she plays Monqiue and how true to sheet she is’ to give her the benefit of the doubt. And you know, I felt validated when it turned out true to sheet meant being the same fucking player. I also could not take my very social character into public for 4 months afterward her ban because of how terrible I felt about the entire situation she forced me into just because I am nothing like her and wanted to make the game fun for a new player.

So fuck you if you think her interactions with Apostate is the only thing that matters and everything else she did to screw with everyone else should be forgotten and forgiven. If someone was shitty to you it doesnt give you total justification to then be shitty to EVERYONE ELSE.

@Herja said in Beware: 'Hella" aka Vulgarkitten aka poMonique@arx:

So, say she was involved with a married PC (something that is a-okay in Arx lore and culture) but the PC involved would say something like “I will be going to the following events with my IC spouse” and then she would deliberately set up situations and send long series of messengers trying to argue the boundary and make the situation uncomfortable. I never stepped in in those instances because it looked like the players were handling the IC conflict fine but there was at least once incident done at a public event that made a bunch of others outside the situation uncomfortable.

I 100% was not comfortable and I 100% had a large panic attack and could not log in for weeks afterwards. Not because I was upset over any IC relationships (no jealousy, no drama, no OOC bad feelings /at all/ over), but because I literally felt like I was going insane and it is the worst possible feeling in the world to force yourself to accept something and keep it totally IC when you are being gaslit OOC in extreme ways from the “new” player who is exactly like the old player. I was so mean to myself over this, and I didnt deserve to be as terrible to myself as I was over this whole thing.

In the immortal words of Dara O’Briain, if someone says “We need to talk” you immediately respond with “I fucked your brother”, and now it changes the entire conversation on your terms.

So to understand Jaenelle’s original roster secret you have to know what her original personality was!

Jaenelle Personality: There are the wise, there are the intelligent, and there are the savvy. And then there is Jaenelle. She may be the sweetest woman, the most sincere, but there are some quarries full of rocks with more brain power than the noblewoman. Quick to giggle, and to stare vacantly at any sort of conversation, she often laughs at jokes days later or is certain birds are secret spies for the animal overlords. The one thing that stands out, is that matters of running a household - the numbers, supplying, organizing the servants… Jaenelle seems to be a complete savant. Math and numbers are as easy to her, as everything else is completely beyond her reach, almost eerily so.

Secret #1 of Jaenelle: Jaenelle had her husband killed. She even said ‘Yay!’ after the deed was done, too. She’s always been a quietly brilliant woman, but learned very early on that most of the men of House Thrax were not particularly interested in what a woman had to say, so she found it far easier to feign ignorance while manipulating matters. She decided she wanted to be married into Velenosa, due to the far more freedom it would grant her, and a few choice words to her grandfather had him begging his beloved cousin Prince Donrai Thrax, the Prince of Maelstrom, for the opportunity to give you away as his dying wish. Unfortunately, House Velenosa was only too happy to marry Jaenelle to Gersard because the man had already courted two scandals by not being able to stay away from women and they knew it was only a matter of time before the imbecile did something truly stupid. Jaenelle was married in a lovely ceremony (Yay!) but he couldn’t stay away from the Queen Genevieve, and if they became known as lovers it would have ruined everything. Fortunately, Duchess Esera was just as sick of her brother as Jaenelle could have hoped and agreed that it needed to be done. Jaenelle understands Esera gave Talen the nod to take care of it, who made certain it seemed like Prince Gersard was drunkenly walking along the walls while mourning the death of Queen Genevieve and had an ‘accident’. Yay!

This is the reason most of my requests handled by Apostate in the last almost 8 years ended in ‘Yay!’. He is the best cheerleader a petty manipulative girl could have!

Her second secret came about through natural RP relationships and was her Deathspeaker and Soul healing abilities that I stopped hiding in the last few months.

I have a Pinterest board of outfits (six years old and going strong), and an entire google folder of pretty borders I’ve made to describe the huge amount of saved pictures. I wish I had the energy to see them all created, but it just isnt happening. One day I shall finish them all, and all the other things I want to make for other people while im at it. Until then, Jaenelle will just glue spidersilk to herself in creative places.

Orgstancing on the wrong proclamation.

@Arik said in The Arx Secrets Thread:

How he died basically shunted him out of the wheel / queen of death. So if he died prior to fixing his soul he would just end no reincarnation no shining lands no nothing just void.

You’re welcome for making you into a bard!

Could someone please go through Lucita’s truesong’s The Final Verse and tell me what “Cloak, crystal, sorrowed, shadow’s glee
And old gray fox makes two sides three” and down means!

In the immortal words of Dara O’Briain, if someone says “We need to talk” you immediately respond with “I fucked your brother”, and now it changes the entire conversation on your terms.

So to understand Jaenelle’s original roster secret you have to know what her original personality was!

Jaenelle Personality: There are the wise, there are the intelligent, and there are the savvy. And then there is Jaenelle. She may be the sweetest woman, the most sincere, but there are some quarries full of rocks with more brain power than the noblewoman. Quick to giggle, and to stare vacantly at any sort of conversation, she often laughs at jokes days later or is certain birds are secret spies for the animal overlords. The one thing that stands out, is that matters of running a household - the numbers, supplying, organizing the servants… Jaenelle seems to be a complete savant. Math and numbers are as easy to her, as everything else is completely beyond her reach, almost eerily so.

Secret #1 of Jaenelle: Jaenelle had her husband killed. She even said ‘Yay!’ after the deed was done, too. She’s always been a quietly brilliant woman, but learned very early on that most of the men of House Thrax were not particularly interested in what a woman had to say, so she found it far easier to feign ignorance while manipulating matters. She decided she wanted to be married into Velenosa, due to the far more freedom it would grant her, and a few choice words to her grandfather had him begging his beloved cousin Prince Donrai Thrax, the Prince of Maelstrom, for the opportunity to give you away as his dying wish. Unfortunately, House Velenosa was only too happy to marry Jaenelle to Gersard because the man had already courted two scandals by not being able to stay away from women and they knew it was only a matter of time before the imbecile did something truly stupid. Jaenelle was married in a lovely ceremony (Yay!) but he couldn’t stay away from the Queen Genevieve, and if they became known as lovers it would have ruined everything. Fortunately, Duchess Esera was just as sick of her brother as Jaenelle could have hoped and agreed that it needed to be done. Jaenelle understands Esera gave Talen the nod to take care of it, who made certain it seemed like Prince Gersard was drunkenly walking along the walls while mourning the death of Queen Genevieve and had an ‘accident’. Yay!

This is the reason most of my requests handled by Apostate in the last almost 8 years ended in ‘Yay!’. He is the best cheerleader a petty manipulative girl could have!

Her second secret came about through natural RP relationships and was her Deathspeaker and Soul healing abilities that I stopped hiding in the last few months.

Orgstancing on the wrong proclamation.

@Herja said in Beware: 'Hella" aka Vulgarkitten aka poMonique@arx:

So, say she was involved with a married PC (something that is a-okay in Arx lore and culture) but the PC involved would say something like “I will be going to the following events with my IC spouse” and then she would deliberately set up situations and send long series of messengers trying to argue the boundary and make the situation uncomfortable. I never stepped in in those instances because it looked like the players were handling the IC conflict fine but there was at least once incident done at a public event that made a bunch of others outside the situation uncomfortable.

I 100% was not comfortable and I 100% had a large panic attack and could not log in for weeks afterwards. Not because I was upset over any IC relationships (no jealousy, no drama, no OOC bad feelings /at all/ over), but because I literally felt like I was going insane and it is the worst possible feeling in the world to force yourself to accept something and keep it totally IC when you are being gaslit OOC in extreme ways from the “new” player who is exactly like the old player. I was so mean to myself over this, and I didnt deserve to be as terrible to myself as I was over this whole thing.

I don’t know you and don’t actually believe we interacted very much while you were on Arx.

I do know VK and her constant manipulative behavior when she did not get her way. Her constantly going above and around character’s heads when she thought she could get her way with them over others, and then the huge meltdowns and temper tantrums when it didn’t work as she thought it would.

How during her last stint on the game she specifically reached out to my character on multiple occasions through multiple alts via pages and messages when she knew that we were not friends OOC and we avoided one another IC. How after she implanted herself into my character’s life it caused a large amount of stress for me, because I did everything in my power to avoid conflict with a brand new player and gave her the benefit of doubt because THE NEW PLAYER asked OOC if the past could be smoothed over because she was NEW and per the game rules its better for all to not hold the sins of past players on the heads of the new player. How I ignored my gut feeling, and everyone saying ‘Its amazing how much like the old player she plays Monqiue and how true to sheet she is’ to give her the benefit of the doubt. And you know, I felt validated when it turned out true to sheet meant being the same fucking player. I also could not take my very social character into public for 4 months afterward her ban because of how terrible I felt about the entire situation she forced me into just because I am nothing like her and wanted to make the game fun for a new player.

So fuck you if you think her interactions with Apostate is the only thing that matters and everything else she did to screw with everyone else should be forgotten and forgiven. If someone was shitty to you it doesnt give you total justification to then be shitty to EVERYONE ELSE.

As someone who is completely nonconfrontational, I sat down with my boss and discussed my personal frustrations with having to train the brand new hire with absolutely no experience who was starting at a higher salary than I currently am getting paid. Today she pulled me aside and told me she took my concerns higher and my salary has been adjusted.

Not everything is perfect but I feel great for having said something where normally I wouldn’t have. Yay small life victory and self advocating!

I have a Pinterest board of outfits (six years old and going strong), and an entire google folder of pretty borders I’ve made to describe the huge amount of saved pictures. I wish I had the energy to see them all created, but it just isnt happening. One day I shall finish them all, and all the other things I want to make for other people while im at it. Until then, Jaenelle will just glue spidersilk to herself in creative places.