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Ah, cheating. A gentleman's sport. I will admit, going into this, that I'm not usually that into SF0 cheating. It usually doesn't work too well and I've been largely unimpressed. Not something I'm usually that into. But due to a series of unconnected events, I was provided with both means and motive to perform an act of cheating. And I could not resist.

Means - I have recently moved in with a certain Doktor Harmon. Living within the same house as him, I was given the opportunity to subtly and secretly access his computer whenever he wasn't home or was distracted.

Motive - After the Doktor cast a hoodoo spell on me for the Practical, some sort of response was required. I felt a little bad about parasiting his points. But on the other hand, I felt a little bad about having a hot foot spell cast on me. So there.

All that remained was Opportunity. And opportunity was also plentiful. I first added myself to a set of tasks the morning of July 19th, while printing out copies of the C2BK rules. This was a little risky, as he was just in the other room, although otherwise engaged with dying his hair. The second set of alterations that I made was much safer, as I did that night, while the Doktor was away playing DnD.

Tasks I Added Myself too:
-The Death of Public Life in Insatiability
-Sundial
-Art Burglar
-Spectrality
-Not The Intended Use
-Night Photography
-Reversed Polarity Dérive
-Canon

When making the changes, I intended to add myself only to the second two pages of his tasks and to try and avoid tasks which he had a help with on the second page, to avoid being detected. A few tasks I had to skip, as I either already had completed that task, I was currently working on it, or it had only one player. When I did add myself to collaborated tasks, I chose ones with Help I'm a Bear, since he doesn't check his account very often. Then I'd sit back, and wait to see how long it took anyone to notice.

That was the plan anyone. But then I started thinking. Thinking about all of those points, right there in the Doktor's account. Points that could be mine. Over a thousand of them.

At this point, it's worth making a confession: I love points. I love them. I love getting points, I love having points. A lot of people are down on playing for points, but not I. I deeply, deeply enjoy getting points.

So those points in the Doktor's account called to me. I'd be powerful. Unstoppable. Hell, with that many points I'd have the third most points of anyone. I might even beat Lincoln. It'd be incredible. All would bow before me. I'd destroy my enemies and see drive their woman driven before me. I simply couldn't resist.

Now, this would require some subtlety. People might not notice my jump to eight level, but somebody would have to notice that I jumped to third place. That's a little noticeable. For the first jump, I was planning on brushing off by commenting "Yah, some people have been voting for my old tasks" (which is true). But I'd need something larger for an excuse if I was to get away with this.

It went like this: After the epic barbecue duel between the Doktor and Burn Unit, I got back to the apartment before the Doktor. I quickly went onto his computer and added myself to
Public Surface
Manual Fractal Art
Freeway Excursion
Qualia Feast
The Wily Old Farmer
Once done, I quickly went back and worked to finish up my Dream Boxes praxis. I was now in fourth, and the Dream Box praxis would push me too 3rd. If asked, I'd combine the two excuses and say that people had been voting for my old tasks, plus the dream box points pushed me into 3rd. Any other suspicion I would dismiss to poor memory and mistaken impressions. If two weeks went by without anyone noticing, I would own up.

So the wait began. Who would notice? A few hours after my work was done, the Doktor commented on me reaching level 8, but no clue that he suspected foul play. The next day GY0 Adam remarked on my displacing him in third, but again - no sign that anyone suspected my methods.

But by the evening of the second day, I returned to find my ill gotten points missing. From what I was able to tell, the Help I'm A Bear noticed my changes and pointed them out to the Doktor, who removed the points. He seemed not to be amused, what can you do? What's done is done.