[OOC] Create-A-Hero: A Superhero RPG (Closed)

[Fallenreaper]

Those are some possibilities, I’ll wait for a few more options (waiting 2 days max for this so it’s not an issue) to be put forward then I’ll have the people involved each vote on one best liked. No one can vote on their own because that's cheating! XD

*makes a list and tacks the options up* So far we have these titles.

• Attack on Gene.Co
• Gene Therapy
• Natural Selection

[NeutralNexus]

My vote's for Gene therapy.

Or the Viral arc, as this does revolve around a virus.

[nitemare shape]

OK, so I'm sure you've all be curious about what this announcement is, so I won't keep you waiting any longer. Last night I received a PM from the GM of another game on the Guild with...let's just say some disturbing news about a mutual player. This player, Raptorman, was confronted by this GM with evidence that he has been playing with multiple alt accounts. The GM in question went to one of the Guild Mods, Sherlock, and had asked him to check the IPs of Raptorman against two other players.

The 3 IPs came back as a match. Raptorman was also playing under the alternate accounts of Marra Mistborn and Paper Angel. When Raptorman was confronted with this, he fully admitted to it.

I was pretty shocked, as I'm sure you can imagine. But then I remembered a conversation that I had with another one of our players that struck me odd at one point, and made me question whether this player had been an alt account. At the time I said "nah, who does that?" and shrugged it off. But I couldn't shake this hunch, so in the wee hours of the morning, I sent Sherlock a message and asked him to compare Raptorman's IP with this other players.

Earlier this afternoon, Sherlock responded and confirmed that yes, Raptorman and The Fair Lady, aka Emy, are also one in the same.

I had every intention of booting Raptorman from the game tonight, however, The Guild beat me to it by banning Raptorman from the site.

So long story short, Raptorman, Paper Angel, Marra Mistborn, and The Fair Lady were all the same player. They are all out of the game and their characters will NOT just go away, but they will be written out of the game, in continuity.

I'm sorry that this happened, and I feel that I should have seen this way back when, however, I do feel better knowing that I'm not the only GM that was fooled by this egregious violation of the rules. But hell, we'll do what we have always done, we'll pick up the pieces and this game will be better for it. Any ongoing arcs (such as the Nightmare Arc) will be be finished by us, we're not going to have a bunch of unresolved storyarcs screwing everything up.

So anyone who had plans with any of "these players," I am sorry that those plans won't be seeing the light of day. But we'll move on.

[NeutralNexus]

Wait what? That makes no sense, why would a person use multiple accounts? I mean I didn't even know that was a rule. I'm genuinely confused by that, do you make different accounts so you can play by yourself or what?

So let's see...raptorman...marra mistborn...fair lady...

Welp, there's half the collabs I was writing up. Bad news is that was a lot of writing that's never going to be used now.

Good news is guess who is free for more collabs? Also this means an Umbraxis post is coming soon so watch out, world!

[Dedonus]

@NeutralNexus We were all shocked. Good news, we don't have to deal with that Archangel/War-Pulse dilemma anymore. ;)

[nitemare shape]

Tell me about it. As he explained it to the other GM, he did it due to his love for world building and things like that. Personally, after some of the interactions that I've had with some of these alt accounts on Skype Messenger and such, I think he's just a damned psycho.

I also fixed my initial announcement to include probably the most important part...that he did admit to it.

[NeutralNexus]

@Dedonus I'm actually kind of bummed about that. I had a solution for the dilemma but it was going to open into a manhunt for War-Pulse after the current arc, which I was kind of excited for.

Oh well, no big whup, I'll just hope someone picks up that slack and make some other plans in that wake.

[Dedonus]

[FacePunch]

Did not see that coming. Like, at all. He had separate personalities for all the accounts too, which is honestly the weirdest part about this.

[nitemare shape]

Did not see that coming. Like, at all. He had separate personalities for all the accounts too, which is honestly the weirdest part about this.

@FacePunch

Oh, I know. It's really mindblowing.

[Dedonus]

@FacePunch: Who has the freaking time to do that, anyways? I sure don't!

[NeutralNexus]

Makes sense, would provide the least amount of suspicion if none of his accounts had similar personalities. I think what caught him was the same three accounts probably went to all the same RPs.

Still...why make three accounts in the first place?

[Gowi]

Had my co-GM in Glided Throne not found out, how long would he had continued to fool the site?

[VATROU]

Did not see that coming. Like, at all. He had separate personalities for all the accounts too, which is honestly the weirdest part about this.

@FacePunch

I know. Like the Fuc!! I loved Paper Angel, I had colab plans for Maev and him/her. Was Raptor a guy? God. You know I can understand having multiple characters, Heck I have a ton of side characters who may just be one shots. But still separate personalities? Welp. Now I have to go back to the drawing board and figure out a way into the Pax Metahumana arch. So. Yeah.

[Dedonus]

Makes sense, would provide the least amount of suspicion if none of his accounts had similar personalities. I think what caught him was the same three accounts probably went to all the same RPs.

Still...why make three accounts in the first place?

@NeutralNexus

Some people just want to feel special.

[Hound55]

The less I say about Raptorman the better.

In all my time RPing I can't think of any person who gave me more headaches... prior to this even happening.

Probably dickish for me to say this after he's banned and can't respond, but I don't care. I know I'd have said it even if he could.

We'd always run a very open sandbox styled game that gave players freedom f expression. This guy pushed us to the brink of having to alter those rules and crack down in ways that generally contradict the way this game flows.

Dickish as it may be, in many respects I feel the game could be stronger despite the loss of quite a few PCs.

There will be no shortage of arcs. Which generally get filtered in at an organic pace dependant on general game activity and the arcs of the players.

[Dedonus]

Had my co-GM in Glided Throne not found out, how long would he had continued to fool the site?

@Gowi

Who knows. Let's just be thankful that your co-GM caught him.

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I know. Like the Fuc!! I loved Paper Angel, I had colab plans for Maev and him/her. Was Raptor a guy? God. You know I can understand having multiple characters, Heck I have a ton of side characters who may just be one shots. But still separate personalities? Welp. Now I have to go back to the drawing board and figure out a way into the Pax Metahumana arch. So. Yeah.

@VATROU

That sucks, man. Hope you can figure something out. :)

[Gowi]

The weirdest part about it is that him, as Raptorman, seemed like a nice (albeit obtuse) guy. So it is unsettling that this had to happen.

[Fallenreaper]

Wait what? That makes no sense, why would a person use multiple accounts? I mean I didn't even know that was a rule. I'm genuinely confused by that, do you make different accounts so you can play by yourself or what?

@NeutralNexus

Well, there's only a few cases I can see an alt account being needed and actually make sense, though it isn't excusable on RPG because the mods are pretty much on top of things they are called for save the last one.

1. Is to make a new start, but you often never return to that old account and have it deleted.
2. Escape someone's who has been harassing you on every OoC you've posted and the mods won't do squat about it.
3. Making an alter account for a rp with more than 1 GM and allow the others access to update and maintain the OP. (Trust me, this surprisingly has it's perks with the right GMs)

However, right now I feel completely... odd. Like a mixture of disappointment and slight sorrow as I have a pm with Paper Angel which I shared information (not too personal mind you that would help a stalker), namely due to the judgement I've receive when people learn about it. Learning this... I'm actually not sure what I should feel really.

[VATROU]

You know what, I want Raptorman's free time!! I can barely be one person let alone five.