I am getting distracted. Yesterday I began working on a second playlist for my characters which are songs my characters would listen too and today I randomly began adding more covers/icons to a tray for a wanted ad I have. >.>

Birds chirped happily from their positions in the sky, swooping and flapping through Lorsette. Spring recently returned to Newfoundland, leaving people content with the changes in weather. Sunlight filtered through wispy clouds, maintaining a pleasant temperature to the air around them. It brought people outside and to the spring festivities. On the shores of Starlight Beach perched a carnival that occasionally arrived during the spring months. In these times, people would flock towards the enjoyable Spring Carnival.

Sounds of laughter from children and adults echoed from the carnival as people enjoyed themselves. They scurried about, playing games, celebrating victories and consoling loses. There seemed to be endless happiness among them, as though everything which happened in the pass was forgotten. Yet, it was remembered in the mind of one individual who attended the carnival. Years ago blood-curdling screams echoed into the air, shrill as people were slaughtered on the beaches. Terrors murdered people in the area, only dissipating to dust when hunters defeated them.

Blood splattered across shores, lapped by hungry waves, tainting the waters. Two separate groups of people dueled on their respective sides, casualties being dealt on each. The Assembly of Phantoms and Terror Response Syndicate went fought during that haunting spring day. This individual remembered his involvement, the dolls which followed him, the flames that consumed a warehouse he stored himself in... the golem who saved him. As he walked the sandy shores, he remembered the smell of flames as a fire manipulator attempted to murder his persona, the infamous Puppet Master, but met a grisly death.


[ I liked my paragraphs for my opener. Soooo double post with lots to read cause I feel proud. c: ]

Mar 15, 2020 20:02:43 GMT 𝓛𝓪𝓭𝔂 𝓐𝓭𝓲𝓻𝓪 said:

The problem is caring too much. It's just such a heavy emotion that always seems to leave you with nothing when it all ends.

Awwwww, I hope things get better for you. *hugs*

Mar 15, 2020 15:55:42 GMT @iota said:

Mar 15, 2020 15:19:23 GMT Chibi Magician said:

I want to go get groceries at some point, but the sheer amount of craziness occurring right now makes me hesitant. Especially since people are buy-crazy at the moment and there is a chance I could not get what I want anyways.

We went again yesterday and it had calmed significantly since the day before. People were still stocking up but not as bad as the da y before. TP was still 100% gone, most frozen veggies were gone, but most of what else we wanted/needed was available where it hadn't been the day before. Might depend on the store/area, though, but it's probably worth a shot. Whatever you can't find, you could probably find online.

Unfortunately, we got our first case in my province on Thursday. x.x So it is hard to say. Luckily I am good on TP and Kleenex, but still want to give it a few days since I am not desperate for stuff. The town I live in is pretty chill, but I would rather make sure I can get what I need/want. We have had conferences at work and have heard all about the shortages already.

I want to go get groceries at some point, but the sheer amount of craziness occurring right now makes me hesitant. Especially since people are buy-crazy at the moment and there is a chance I could not get what I want anyways.

The sorrow that afflicted him from the horrible memories of his village being burned would never leave. The incident inspired his vows, strengthened his determination and manifested an steely resolve to help others. Those days years ago, he lost his family, friends and later his life and afterlife... Now? He refused to allow anybody else push through the ordeals he was forced into, if he could help it. A hero was forged from the ashes of his home, rebuilt from an untimely death and proven when he rose his sword against the injustice. He would never let that incident go.

After a rough day at work, I decided watching YouTube videos about MineCraft was good therapy. It was, I am watching server owners catch hackers cause for some reason my brain decided this amuses me.

Mar 11, 2020 5:54:04 GMT @iota said:

Mar 11, 2020 0:08:31 GMT Chibi Magician said:

Omg... this is more ironic than you know... So first off, the member I referred to was somebody who did nothing too bad off. Just one thing that irked me as a not cool. They did not enter the degree yours did, but enough to for me to give them the "Really?" stare.

HOWEVER, based on the information this could potentially be a former member. I will not confirm or deny for their sake, but this is a familiar attitude you mentioned. So I may know this problem child. XD I will say good luck in regards to that, nonetheless. Whether they are the same person or not, I understand those behaviours can be frustrating the handle. I am holding out in hope they change and improve themselves, but you can never know with people.

As for the immediately staff hostile, I have not had that yet. This being said the most awkward situation I had in regards to this was somebody who treated everyone, but myself and another admin like dirt. It reached the intensity in a mere week that my other admin told me they feared them because they displayed stalker-ish behaviours. x.x It... was not a fun situation. That was long ago and I pre-banned their IP on my current site for my one admin's safety and reassurance.

Yeah, at first it was the same for us. They didn't necessarily break any rules at first, they just... were very provoking. xD But after a few minutes, they probably broke every rule we had. They're not a member at KD, the situation really escalated after I suspended them for linking porn. Contacted Jcink and everything; Jcink called it a "forum raid" and their only solution (because they had no better tools than we did) was to lock the board indefinitely and manually approve accounts because the "raider" had a VPN with an impossibly large range with an almost seemingly indefinite amount of proxy IPs at their disposal with no relations to each other (so, wildcarding their IPs didn't work). We could just block every IP they come in with, but one never knows just how many IPs they have. We opted not to lock the board and wait it out because locking the board would hurt, and trolls almost always run out of steam and lose interest anyway. It was probably the second worse issue we've had. Worse in that it was the hardest one to "contain," but the individual wasn't the worst one we've had.

I've had - at two forums - at least one person who became very obsessed with me the way you're talking about. xD The first time, they mistook me as a staff member. The second time, I was an actual staffer. It was... flattering at first in both scenarios, but after a while it started to cause issues. So, I totally get what you and your teammate mean.

Hopefully things calm down for you and your team soon!

P.S. Foxxy, the best mod I've ever had basically acted as my brain secretary. As an admin, there's just so much going on what with posts, revising info, plans/projects/events, answering questions, going over apps/claims, blahblahblah, that I get really scatterbrained. I think I am a lot less productive now that I don't really have someone asking me/reminding me of things. It probably depends on the individual staff and/or team, but I find it very useful and and appreciate it; it sounds like your fellow staffer does too. :)

Okay, I am rolling out of this discussion. /Rambled too long and too much

I hope staff do not mind this, I just want to reference what @spiritfoxxy said and kinda give some suggestions in case this is the same person. I hope you do not mind, I am sure you can handle this, but I have an addiction to trying to help. >.>

The person we handled had multiple IP addresses, and as a disclaimer, my site is ProBoards. I am not sure how Jcink works. Anyways, I recommend sorting through their posts if you still have them. I went through all their posts and applications on my site and banned IPs linked to those posts to thoroughly ban them. As Foxxy said, if this is the same individual, they did have multiple e-mails, so I recommend banning each of their accounts individually if your goal is to thoroughly ban them.

If you really suspect this is the same person and/or it is getting out of hand/more extreme, you are welcomed to PM me here and I can provide my Discord if you need things like bannable e-mails and IPs; I will likely only provide if they are proven as the same person, since anybody I ban, I believe deserves a second chance should they enter another site. Since they have already broken your rules to that extent, I am willing to provide to help with lowering their ability on sneaking back on your site. Naturally, this is up to you, I just wanted to offer since I know my staff team and I were frustrated with the situation. Heck, I was placed as staff to member interaction while another admin of mine, Dremulf, played devil's advocate for an unbiased view of the situation. So as somebody who was deeply involved in similar problems, I can definitely sympathize.

anyways, I will stop on this topic now, I just hoped my little suggestion may help other members going through a similar situation.

I tend to dislike when people who join my site act as though they are the best thing since sliced bread to happen to my site... I have had these types of people essentially insult my plot and with that my member base by telling me it is boring before saying something along the lines of "But don't worry, I'll make the plot fun." I always sit there thinking 'Um... excuse me?' If there is a problem with the plot, you should not be the only one fixing it. Considering you just joined, you are not automatically top role-player, because there isn't one. We work together and have fun together, so if there is a problem with the plot, we work with one another. You are not some saviour arriving to rescue our plot. We had fun without you and if you treat us nicely, we can have fun with you.

Happy Leap Year!