The recent alarm seems like the general slowness that happens this time of year. To compare, I only ran about 3 events during the entire holiday season on Silent Heaven, when I usually do at least 2 per week. I suspect things will gradually pick up as the solstice grows further behind us.

Memories, they are made to this.

@Warma-Sheen Oh, I remember. Just seems weird to wait so long.

I actually don’t think its that weird. There’s a lot of reasons to wait. As the above posts show there are a lot of different people that have a grudge against the game and the people involved in it. So it could be any number of things. People take their funtimes very seriously. Here’s just a few reasons I can think of.

1. There’s the obvious idea that if it something like this happens right after an incident, everyone will be pointing the finger at the person involved in that incident. Since this is an actual crime, something you can go to jail for, you don’t want to go in hot and be the prime suspect. At least if you wait there’s time for other suspects to be viable.

2. Sometimes you leave off a situation feeling one way about, then later on realize that you view it differently in hindsight and have different feelings about it and what you want to do about it. Like, if you leave the situation feeling righteously justified and then find out that no one agrees with you, everyone wanted you gone for a long time, and everyone you thought were friendly with you come out to say you were the problem and that this is actually to everyone’s benefit, then your illusions might start to break down, especially about taking the high road. You might decide to try to ‘get even’ after taking months to realize you weren’t the hero in that story.

3. Sometimes other things happen in the intervening time that compounds the problem and triggers other reactions. Like, if you got kicked out of that game, but your behavior in that incident causes you to get you banned and booted from any other games you might want to play, but this world was basically your whole world and you spent 24/7 in it, but now you’re not allowed in any of those worlds and you can’t do the thing you really liked doing and instead have to fill your time with lesser fulfillments, then that could build up some serious angst over time until you do something silly and illegal, months after the initial incident.

4. It could not be targeted at all. It could be random. I mean, its not likely, but its always a possibility.

I know people DDOS websites for incredibly stupid grudges (I remember an internet reviewer whose site got attacked for not giving a video game a high enough score), so I wonder what imagined or real slight the attacker has against the game.

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I know people DDOS websites for incredibly stupid grudges (I remember an internet reviewer whose site got attacked for not giving a video game a high enough score), so I wonder what imagined or real slight the attacker has against the game.

I have my own suspicions on who it would be, but I don’t have the facts and I’m not going to accuse someone of a crime simply because I think th

Arise chicken, etc, etc.

It seems that, of late, the game’s website has been under some kind of DDOS attack (according to bbposts to that effect). So if you’ve tried looking at the site and it hasn’t loaded that’s likely the cause.

Can’t say I’m not excited to see them flare out dramatically when the game refuses to kneel to their higher wisdom, as it’s cheaper than cable TV and less fattening than donuts.

@OnceWas said in Liberation MUSH:

It’s a guy with a mall wakizashi, his elder brother’s castoff trenchcoat one size either too big or too small, and faux-Lennon sunglasses with a red tint, trying to use a “demonic” voice to pick up girls.

Yeah, we’ve all met Josh the Obtenebrous.

I feel so attacked right now.

broods on a rooftop

@Pavel You’re shitting me right?

Seemingly not. It’s entirely likely that the salesman was fabricating that particular sword’s provenance, however.

Note: I am no sword except. If Mr. Chin is everything the salesman says. I am sorry.

You might mean Paul Chen, who is a rather well-known name in the sword-collecting community. Expensive, too.

Once had a friend that was obsessed with mall swords. He had a Umbrella holder full.

He went to the mall with another buddy one time, and after ten minutes of salesman Bs about how some guy named Paul Chen was the second coming of one of ancient Japanese sword masters. He had to have a Paul Chen Katana for the low low price of $250.00. Then wouldn’t shut up about it. Never heard about Mr. Chen again from another source.

Note: I am no sword except. If Mr. Chen is everything the salesman says. I am sorry.

*Edited to spell Chen properly. I’m a Jackass but try not to be

@OnceWas said in Liberation MUSH:

It’s a guy with a mall wakizashi, his elder brother’s castoff trenchcoat one size either too big or too small, and faux-Lennon sunglasses with a red tint, trying to use a “demonic” voice to pick up girls.

Yeah, we’ve all met Josh the Obtenebrous.

It’s a guy with a mall wakizashi, his elder brother’s castoff trenchcoat one size either too big or too small, and faux-Lennon sunglasses with a red tint, trying to use a “demonic” voice to pick up girls.

Yeah, we’ve all met Josh the Obtenebrous.

@OnceWas The question would be what would a personification of a mush look like?

Would a Star Wars mu be some dude in a terry cloth, some docker’s with a fx saber making sound effects?

My vote is someone who is badly cosplaying as a lesser character from the original saga, with a Spencers Gifts mask, dressed in handmade “Jedi robes” which look a lot like badly-dyed hotel-style terrycloth beach towels in a vague outline.

A vampire mu would be some lady that raided a Spirit Halloween Store and a Hot Topic?

It’s a guy with a mall wakizashi, his elder brother’s castoff trenchcoat one size either too big or too small, and faux-Lennon sunglasses with a red tint, trying to use a “demonic” voice to pick up girls.

The question would be what would a personification of a mush look like?

Mr. E. Musk.

Would a Star Wars mu be some dude in a terry cloth robe, some docker’s with a fx saber making sound effects?

A vampire mu would be some lady that raided a Spirit Halloween Store and a Hot Topic?