August Catch All

[insinning]

Who • Vogel (Emil Sinclair) and YOU
What • Catch all for August - any dungeon runs, misc. stuff happens here. I'll toss up open TL from now and then that don't fit with event posts.
When •All Throughout August
Where • Mac Anu and Lumina Cloth.
Content Warnings • none, will add if any pop up later

Comments

[userunfriendly]

[ Winter is a man of sense*. When he'd loaded into Mac Anu and seen, in the distance, a writhing mass of player katamari... he'd simply turned around and ported to Lumina Cloth. Being a beta tester doesn't mean he's obligated to inspect and report every single bug especially when so many others were — ha — inextricably tied up in it already.

He ports back later to take a skeptical glance around. No hell katamari. Only Vogel, but... smaller? He's approaching with some trepidation. ]

[insinning]

[Thankfully Sinclair is all on his own but not so out of it that he doesn't notice someone approaching. Glancing up]

Ah. Winter?

[userunfriendly]

[ Is it rude to point out that someone shrunk? It's only his avatar, but there shouldn't have been a way to remake those, should there? Winter can't help raising an eyebrow slowly. ]

It may not be the best day for taking in the sights. Mac Anu was looking glitchier than usual earlier.

[insinning]

[FIDGETING. Trying not to think about the chaos that he had been a participant in not too long ago]

I guess that's the problem with beta testing, right? We need to help them work out all the bugs.

[userunfriendly]

[ Yeah, he may be taking in the new title and drawing some conclusions... ]

Is that what happened to your avatar? Did you file a report?

[insinning]

[Glancing. Away. Well ]

Um. The admins found out on their own so...

[userunfriendly]

So they aren't completely asleep on their jobs.

[ What's with that glance... ]

[insinning]

They seem pretty present when it's important.

[ The look of guilt from someone who accidentally PK'd an admin]

[userunfriendly]

"Important"? Was it more game-breaking than it looked?

[ His nebulously/formerly Catholic guilt sensors are going into overdrive here. ]

[insinning]

Um. I broke level cap.

[ Why does Michel look like a confessional priest he must confess his sins to]

After I accidentally pk'd the forum mod.

[userunfriendly]

...He's bonus experience? One of the programmers put a target on his back on purpose.

[ JUST SAYING. Vogel is hereby absolved of responsibility etc. ]

How do you PK someone "on accident"?

[insinning]

[WELL]

Um. I might have...miscalculated the multiplier of three people equipped against a macabre dancer.

[userunfriendly]

Three people.

[ "Equipped."

...So Vogel meant to stab someone with other players and just didn't intend it to be a critical hit. Well. ]

[insinning]

Mithrun hit me with two people so I thought it'd be okay since I survived.

[But he is a tank and not as fragile as he is in real life. The wonders of armor]

[userunfriendly]

[ Heh. ]

...Someone had to test PvP, after all.

[insinning]

...you're happy.

[WINTER??]

[userunfriendly]

You don't think it's a little absurd?

[ SORRY VOGEL he wasn't there for The Horrors. ]

[insinning]

[Covering his face]

I mean. Mithrun had a chicken head, but that's not the point. It was such a realistic death!

...except for the sparkles.

[userunfriendly]

Realistic?

[ Like... a movie, he supposes? With a chicken head. And sparkles. ]

Their tone and graphical choices seem a little half-baked...

[insinning]

Aha...it's a little like that, yeah. It seems to be whatever they want.

[When Michel puts it like that]

[userunfriendly]

[ Anyway, what's important here is: ]

Did the admin resolve the problem? ...And your height?

[insinning]

...I think so. The height...the reset is my punishment, I guess.

[Maybe Winter will notice that he's a lot more graceful without the extra ten cm]

[userunfriendly]

[ "Reset," hm? Maybe Michel can look forward to finding himself suddenly skinnier again if he ever manages to irritate an admin. ]

Does it bother you?

[insinning]

Hm. Not really. It's actually easier to move now that I'm back to my normal height.

[ Bemused]

It was nice to see what it looked like from the other side of things.

[userunfriendly]

[ Having seen both sides of things... that almost gets another smile from Michel. ]

You might still grow. ...And then you'll likely trip over a few tables in real life as well.