Wheel of Time MUD

I'm drunk. Feel free to delete this if it isn't adequately couched in legitimacy.

I think I'm done. Got killed AFK tonight. Rather obviously so. After several attempts to avoid PK. Not naming because I will holler at the player myself if I ever decide to login again. Wasn't entirely unreasonable, but was obvious I wasn't there. The missed stab and only autofleeing at crit should have been an indication.

Blah blah blah. PK mud, dangerous world, don't go AFK. Agreed.

and yet... I logged in to distract myself from the the fact that a friend had a postpartum induced psychotic break, lost her newborn to CPS, is in the mental hospital until she gets stabilized, and I don't know what the firetruck to do about it. Ergo, kill some mobs, drink some wine, think about dung until my idiot self can process the surprising turns life has around every corner. I wanted an amusing distraction.

I didn't want to PK. I did what I could to avoid it. I wandered off in the game and from the computer. Come back to do the things and such only to find every bit of my desire to do them died AFK.

The player base is too small to have people utterly incapable of 'reading the room' or something akin to that. I'm pretty sure it just got smaller. I got other dung to do.

My thanks to the volunteers that have kept the game going. I don't entirely understand why you do, but I admire it none the less. I hope you continue to to find the enjoyment here that you're seeking. When the game is good it is astonishingly cool, and that's worthwhile.

To those of you that aren't wankers, its been fun. keep it up. Peace.

The rest of you wankers, Do better.

(lest you don't get to do anything at all. And yeah, I expect every one of you is intelligent enough to sort out exactly what I mean. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Remember you depend on other people having fun playing the game and volunteers finding enjoyment from facilitating you playing the game. Ruin that at your peril.)

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Many condolences on the current situation

To be transparent I narrated at the time that he'd been tracking you nonstop direct from pk (we were still hagg chasing tracks) and of course it was legit.

I am really sorry to hear about what you and your friend are going through. I hope she makes a quick recovery. Had a loved one go through something similar.

Name and shame.

It was me.

Chased him from secret near TT at Cair he inexplicably ran into aiel waste instead of just going to KK

Tracks were never older than obvious fresh. I found him resting and vialless in the very furthest NE corner of aiel waste. Looked like he wanted to idle out cause there was no chance he was walking home.

Narrated he was clearly afk. Response was a resounding “lol it’s legit”

There’s emergency afk and then there’s shitters using it as a safety blanket. I’m tired of it personally.

For the rooms he covered he could have easily go to KK, he could have turned south at secret and gone to Blodfest. He could have dropped link in cslab. He could have dropped link anywhere if it were that big of an emergency.

Weaponizing your friend's personal tragedy because you died on a game is gross. Maybe take your own advice and do better.

Sorry your friend isn't doing well. Life can be dung at times

Hope she feels better soon and you all have good times ahead.

erulak wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:28 pm

Weaponizing your friend's personal tragedy because you died on a game is gross. Maybe take your own advice and do better.

Some cope differently. I took it more as an expression of his feeling for an escape and not knowing how to cope with what he was dealing with personally and how to be there for his friend. He chose something he was familiar with but even with that still too distracted by the outside world to fully escape.

Jaster wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:29 pm

erulak wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:28 pm

Weaponizing your friend's personal tragedy because you died on a game is gross. Maybe take your own advice and do better.

Some cope differently. I took it more as an expression of his feeling for an escape and not knowing how to cope with what he was dealing with personally and how to be there for his friend. He chose something he was familiar with but even with that still too distracted by the outside world to fully escape.

Yeah, my comment was not with reference to any of that.

Well said Jaster. We should all cut each other a little more slack. Suern is a good dude who made a judgement call not knowing Sqwak actually just needed some down time to process his friends situation. My hope is that things improve for Sqwaks friend and he logs back on to kill Suern and posts about it.