Decommissioned But Clever Anti-Phantom Rant

[BaconSoda]

You know, I would have thought that after you talked to Zelot about this, like he said he was doing so that you could get this out, you would have at least had the courtesy to pm something further like this about our interaction to me instead of bringing it into open light.

Simply put, to explain what happened, I caught Epyon the Bored in Munich on my Phantom. He attempted to run. I killed him.

I certainly do not indulge in Ethical Hedonism, as you technically put it. If you believe so, then I do think you should take another look at our interaction. If I had only wanted to enjoy my own RP for my own benefit, I would have given you the bare minimum required to destroy your ship. If you would be so kind to notice, I gave you several lines of RP (by my mistake I did not screenshot it). When you did not respond to any of them, I lobbed a Supernova into your shields. When you responded with "Playing like that is not encouraged" you issued an in-RP challenge to me: one to challenge the strength of your ship and captain.

I did challenge your ship and captain. I lobbed another Supernova into your shields, dropping them, and responded to your challenge with a verbal rebuttal to your challenge. This is where your RP stopped. This is where you chose to run and dock with the Frankfurt Jump Game.

You chose not to continue RP. You chose to run. I find it funny to say that you encountered minimal textual interaction when you chose the path to discontinue that. There were a plethora of ways you could have responded which would not have resulted in the outcome of our interaction. Instead, you chose the challenging path, and faced the consequences of it.

Of course, that is how it is. Pirates always have to write the novel. Traders are only there to run and make basic decisions. You were right, to a degree, when I talked to you ingame. There is no way for anyone to see our characters develop if there is little textual interaction. There was no way for you to see that Pitchfork has adopted Dark Blossom as her role model because there was no way for me to bring that light to your character. This is not necessarily anyone's fault; it's the fault of the mentality currently on the server. That is, the mentality that traders only have two options: run or die.

Had you not ran, we could have engaged in much more meaningful RP and your character may not have had to play "Kittes and vacuum," as its been dubbed by my character's role model. There is nothing really more to say. Had you not ran, the encounter would have been different. I'm sorry that you feel so wronged by our engagement, but, what has happened happened. I really wanted to write more, but, I have to leave the computer for a bit. I did mean it when I said have a nice night. Please do.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.