Demonic Gerbil

http://community.livejournal.com/bad_rpers_suck/5873029.html

Jade sent me that link... A game where the GMs (err Wizards) play favorites to their friends and neglect the rest of the population...

I know I've seen that before, I just can't quite recall where... hm...

Wow. Someone else is playing GP or a clone of it. Good Guys letting the Bad Guys out of jail? Totally GP all the way. Ugh

Thanks Jade.

You may notice that below, where I talk about Saanjun, I make it sound like he doesn't blame himself, or anyone else, for making Jade upset enough to leave, except for Jade. Well, it's true. He does say she's angry and ascribing wrong motives to him which is her "prerogative" right now, implying, without being too overt, that she's the one in the wrong. I fail to see how any of this is Jade's fault.

Fact: Saanjun ran away after she PMed him, after responding to one of her PMs.
Fact: Saanjun was not planning on running away - Lude had invited Pasha for a one-on-one chat sometime prior to his fleeing.
Fact: Moryssa said she was going to quit, then changed her mind when Saanjun fired me.
Fact: Moryssa told Jade how to play her character.
Fact: Moryssa told Jade how she was going to make the RE evil.
Fact: Moryssa plays in the Black Brigade.
Fact: Lude, the leader of the Black Brigade, just got tell everyone that he murders children, and likes it, and no one, not even the RE leader, batted an eye.
Fact: Moryssa and Saanjun have been screwing Jade and her character Pasha over for months in their attempt to keep anyone from challenging the superiority of the Black Brigade.
Fact: Until recently both Moryssa and Saanjun had characters in the Black Brigade.
Fact: Moryssa still has a character in the Black Brigade.
Fact: Jade was told that she could not run missions where the CFA did anything against the Black Brigade.
Fact: Saanjun pretended that this was a mistake during the period of time when Moryssa was gone.
Fact: As soon as Moryssa returned, Saanjun fired the two most dissident GMs: Me and Cala.
Fact: Cala and I did not toe the party line.
Fact: This firing isolated Jade and left her alone with no one to argue her case, or defend her against Moryssa.
Fact: Saanjun gives Moryssa everything she wants.
Fact: Vishanti, Moryssa's character, acquired Fenrir by having someone rub its belly while they killed it.
Fact: Vishanti is a main actor in multiple plotlines.
Fact: Vishanti now has no one that doesn't suck up to her left in the campaign.
Fact: I waited nearly a month to run Red Occultation because of Moryssa, and then she didn't even show up or let me know she couldn't be there.
Fact: Saanjun told me I had to wait for Moryssa.
Fact: The Northern Grass/Tech City is entirely deterministic, and unless Saanjun/Mory change it now, it ends with the Church of Shiva summoning Mateus and killing everyone, invalidating every effort the players have made. This also provides Aketanish with thousands and thousands of new corpses.
Fact: When pointing how the game is on rails, Saanjun at first denies it, then explains that rails are okay because the e-games have them.
Fact: You don't have 30+ players in an e-game.
Fact: Matthew White and Cadre Cola are a Winning Team (tm).

And yet, Saanjun somehow pins the blame for all of these actions on other people: me, Jade, Cala, etc., instead of on himself and on Moryssa. He drives away three active GMs to keep Moryssa around. Moryssa spent an entire month without running a single session. He must be getting some good sex from her, or is in some sort of clinical state of uber-denial about his actions.

In either case, he's hardly been acting in the manner of a good Christian, which he claims to be. More like a 14th Century Catholic, buying indulgences to absolve him of the crime of murdering his wives as many Frankish lords did.

So he's avoiding blame. Is it good, or is it bad?

So, Jade quit Guild Perilous as a player and a GM after the ridiculous results of Embassy Ball where all the non-Black Brigade guild leaders didn't bat an eye at Lude talking about killing babies and how awesome it is, even going so far as to tell her character Pasha to shut up when she dared raise an objection. Apparently during/after that there was a fight between Jade and Mory in /onotice where Mory told Jade how to play Pasha, and went on to talk about the long-coming "RE is evil too!" plot.

Yeah, I remember reading about that on the GM boards (and being told about it by GP GMs before that), and the concept is pretty stupid. The RE's members joined it because they want to be good guys, not bad guys. But you want to have your moral equivalences in a Final Fantasy-based campaign, you go right ahead.

It probably wouldn't have come to this, but Saanjun apparently ran away offline as soon as Jade PMed him in that argument. It's like I implied in a comment in this very livejournal after he fired me (before I could write my resignation), it's an act of cowardice. He'd rather drive people that work hard and do stuff away so he doesn't have to possibly, maybe make Moryssa upset.

So what's the damage? Saanjun fires me and Cala, Moryssa un-quits from her plan to quit, Moryssa then makes Jade so upset that she quits. Way to go Saanjun!

You're also totally abolishing my arguments that GP is rife with cronyism in its GM team by driving away GMs that don't agree with you. I just don't see how my arguments can even stack up to your actions, full of brave stands on important issues and integrity as they are.

That way I'd be part of the Winning Team (tm).

I totally splattered the party in my GP session early this morning. I liked it. >.>

So, I've got this totally awesome GP mission idea. And I just know Saanjun is going to yell at me after I run it. So should I run it or not? That is the question.

>.>

This is going to be a pretty busy day I think.

• Continue speed analysis - are the timers in the right places?


• Talk to Rein RE: GP stuff


• Run Concrete Battleground


• Run Imbroglio


• Play in OLAD


• Knock out one of those things for Reisma/Saylin.


• Write !dance script for Sugar.


• Write !geomancy script for Sugar.

...So for some reason they asked me to be a GM for Guild Perilous. I'm not sure what on earth they're smoking, but I want some. I also accepted so I could finish up Julian's dangling Count plot - since Julian had asked me once in the past if I'd possibly fill in for him, and I said yes.

< Moryssa> Question: If you know TC is being persecuted in the game, why would you play a character with ties to it and then complain that the story is going in that direction?
< WC_GM> Umm...Mory, that's not the best way to state that. >_>
< Mondo`> Because it's an interesting character?
< Mondo`> But I am glad you admit your bias against one faction.
< Moryssa> WC: Also, I don't have a bias against a faction. Tech City is not a guild. It's a location. And it's common knowledge that up until a few sessions ago that Mondo was obviously not privvy to, that TC was being portray as evil. We know that's not the case now, but still.
< Mondo`> And what does what my character is privy to have to do with what I, out of the game, am privy to? You've got a hate-on for the research guild, and you just admitted it. Don't try to weasel out of your words with semantics.
< Moryssa> Oh please. I said they're being persecuted as evil. You're the one deciding I have a bias when the plot hasn't even reached its climax yet. Also, OOC, you should know that a NG faction set the war up.

I've been saying that Moryssa is personally against Tech City in GP now for a long time now, and lookie there. I'm right, and after she let it slip, she tried to cover it up instead of owning up to it.

If I'd been there, I'd have asked, "So why are they being portrayed as evil in every log about the situation, post that reveal?" But then, I'm not British.

I guess an even-handed or matter of fact treatment isn't any good for Moryssa?

Oh, and have I mentioned her own character's personal involvement on the side of blaming everything on Tech City?

And we have to wait for the plot to climax before making judgements about the people controlling said plot? Does that mean we should wait until the end of a porno before declaring that it's a porno and not a 'real' movie? Does that mean that we have to wait until the very end of Gone With the Wind to be charmed by Rhett Butler? Or at least, does that mean we have to wait to the end of a comedy to laugh at the poop and fart jokes?

Not to mention your immediately combative tone, bringing out the might of yon GM inquisition, questioning HiroX's motivations, and then trying to somehow say he's acting improperly for having read the contents of the wiki and acting on them when he's totally out of character. And of course, you didn't ask him why he feels the way he does, or try to explain it from your side. Just an outright dismissal of him and his position. A player in your campaign, suddenly unworthy and voiceless against your majesty.

I mean, look. One of the things that I've said in the past was that Tech City was being portrayed as evil, while the other side wasn't. I was told "Oh no, that's not true!" And now Moryssa has, regardless of any other factors or comments in the past and this post, just admitted that in fact, my statement is 100% true.