The 90 Point Heist:

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Drive for Score

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First off, I suggest that anyone who decides to read this proof should probably read it all the way through.

Second off, I need to come clean: I'm sure there are those of you who suspected it, heck, there are almost certainly those of you, who, if you had seen it, would have known for sure. I faked the Mysterious Collaboration.

I'll take a moment to wallow in my shame.

There, that's better. If you'll go down to the images at the bottom of this proof, you'll see that the message I received was not in fact from the SF0 Daemon, but in fact, from myself. A minor complication, that. Whoops.

I took the message I sent myself, and then overlaid it with other messages that I'd received, changing the date, time, avatar, name, and so-forth. It looks good, if I do say so myself, in fact, there's really no way to tell it apart from a real one, because it's positioned perfectly (I think). The rest of the faking of the proof simply involved coming up with a good narrative and then creating the "proof" for my given task.


The astute reader, may, at this point, be saying to themselves, "But surely this is not a 90 point heist! At most, it is a 45 point heist! After all, once the Mysterious Collaboration is flagged and taken down, it will no longer be worth any points to Darkaardvark!" There may also be astute readers out there who don't talk to themselves. Well. A matter of personal preference, I suppose.

That, my friends, is where the fun comes in. I submit to you, the players of SF0, that my completion of the Mysterious Collaboration was BOTH:

1. Faked.

2. In the spirit of the task, and should be considered a legitimate completion.

Okay, I may have lost you on that last point. Allow me to explain in greater detail. The Mysterious Collaboration has been around for a long time now. Let's face it, if there was some sort of event, or massive collaboration, it would have happened by now. Almost certainly. As older players quit, even with newer players signing up for it, certainly the number of active players who have signed up for the Mysterious Collaboration has plateaued.

Now, I'm sure you might say that it's a simple matter of a forgotten task- someone had originally intended to do something with the Mysterious Collaboration, but for whatever reason, it fell through. I don't think so. Why? Because if they had, the Mysterious Collaboration would have been retired a long time ago. If it has been kept open, then clearly, it is not "finished."

So what, then, is the conclusion, if there is no plan for the Mysterious Collaboration and it is not finished? In fact, there may be a plan. The Mysterious Collaboration may have existed solely as a psychological experiment. "Given no real task, and no guidelines, and told not to do anything, how long would it take for SF0 players to create their own Mysterious Collaboration, and what form would it take?" I believe that that is either the original intention of the task, or if it is not, it is in line with the values of SF0.

My goal with the completion of the Mysterious Collaboration was simply to try to get it going. With the number of people completing tasks as the score reset approaches, though, I'm afraid it got kicked off the front page rather quickly. I'm sorry for that, but there's little I could've done about it. Still, the fact that multiple people have seen it is a good sign, anyhow. Sadly, no one picked up on my subtle hints and decided to continue it.

So that's part of my motivation for submitting this proof, now. If you truly believe that my completion was in the spirit of the task, then I say: "sign up" by commenting as such here or on the Mysterious Collaboration, and create the next chapter of the story. Use a different medium. Go crazy.

If you think I'm full of crap, only in it for the points, or am simply a delusional idiot, then by all means, go and flag my completion of the Mysterious Collaboration. I suppose. You meany-head. You should be ashamed of yourself. Or not, as the case might be. After all, you didn't try to fake a task. And then get points for it.