[Tana]

hey

a few days back, I approached a gm about blowing up a small bridge that led to an overlook which had no purpose other than to be a spot for people to hide their petkit pets to spy on us with no rp. i was told i would have to announce the action with a ping, put up an LFG, and wait for a response. i agreed this was fair, and decided to wait for proper rp to take place before going through with it. the other night, close to midnight in fact, a few geladynian characters had a similar idea with a much more strategically important bridge. by the time we found out ic, it was already down.

getting back to the pets, though. did you know they don't make trees see-through? when this was brought to gms, we were told to handle it ic. we did, rping killing the critters. multiple times, in fact, the things giving taunting rps that there would be more and more of them no matter how many were killed. when this was brought up to gms, we were again told to handle it ic, by catching the perpetrator. this was done after one of ours risked pushing deep into geladyne territory to confront the culprit. then more people started to do the same thing, leaving us unable to talk freely in our own rp hub without having to right click behind every tree tile.

i believed the claim some make that the sl2 community is far less grimy and far more accommodating than other byond games. but grime isn't just meta ganks or lolslays. it's doing things to fuck over characters and groups with as little actual interaction as possible. it's not showing respect to other players because of their current ic entanglements and allegiances. after the first unannounced tax raid, i approached the organizer in dms, respectfully. someone who was the first person i really met here since the korvara update started and is a good part of why i stuck around when so many other new players were leaving. they agreed to give us notice if something like that happened again. and then didn't, with the first thing they said when rolling up the second time being 'scene lock'. it really hurt.

i have the same dream as i feel many others do. to weave a narrative together with the cooperation of many different people, incorporating their viewpoints and unique stories together without ego or spite spoiling the experience. i enjoy the current plot. immensely, in fact. but when the build up has been so disrespectful, i dread thinking of how much worse it might be later on. henrik thinking the border issue was solved but then being informed that they weren't recognized since no in person meeting happened within a week span was heartbreaking. then being called out with less than a day's notice. from what i know, the player is a freshman in college. it's as though him and everyone else is being punished simply because of real world priorities. why only him, and not other leaders?

i just want everyone to respect each other's experiences. that's all.

Uh, as the only person who was using a pet kit at all, I have logs very clearly showing there were no 'taunting rps', and the one time it was actually taken out, I kept it down for a full real life hour and a half. Also only kept it to two places that were realistically visible from the watch tower I was at, but due to game mechanics, can't see that far. (The stairs north of the one Geladyne outpost, the cliff overlook by Beggar's Hole). Dunno where all of that is coming from?