Panopticon: A Game of Posthumans, Perniciousness, Paranoia, Politics, and Plasmaguns

[foamy]

alert @Xon: I think you need to take a breather here. Whether or not MJ is railroading people or whatever, I don't know and have no intention of trying to find out, but it sure ain't worth flexing your admin muscles over.

 

[Squishy]

the sleeper has awakened Okay okay stop reporting I get it.

I don't know what to say.

I really don't.

I ask a question and give a choice which has been what I feel-and I'm not alone here-is a culmination of a lot of Donald's themes and questions...

And what I get is multiple spite votes because people don't like where things are going despite having had chances over the years to choose another route.

Donald chose this when he chose to surrender to Yinzheng and talk. If he had chosen to run or to stall things would be different.

But people were okay with trying to flip her and now... the consequences of that are that you flipped her. Through her backers. The question about trust has resolved here.

Oh Donald doesn't trust the Abjad any farther than he can throw Gimel on most things but he is reasonably confident that he can trust them to be opposed to Control.

Mainly because if they weren't this is a lot of trouble to go through for no reason he can see, which admittedly when dealing with Threat Null isn't always a guarantee but you can take what you get.

And these men and women coming down to ask his help in a run-down abandoned construct isn't something Control's cronies would do.

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Look, MJ12, you decided to write a quest. The whole point of writing a quest - other than the ego boost, of course - is that other people are going to have opinions, they're going to express those opinions, and at least theoretically, those opinions are going to matter.

If you didn't want that to be the case, well, you could just have written a story. This level of salt isn't warranted, either from you or from @EarthScorpion.

It isn't a spite vote, it is being exasperated at the player agency interupting powers you've assigned to a bunch of NPCs to keep the status quo. Repeatedly.

A spite vote from me would be editing every vote in this thread to be the same thing.

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Slap on the wrist, bad Xon, you've failed Oppression 101, you're supposed to carry them off in the dead of night not roll up to their front door in broad daylight in a tank and go "SEND OUT THE DISSIDENTS PLEASE".

No, Xon is not going to change people's votes, yes, he shouldn't have gone on about it, let's move on.