Gain Leverage Against Another Organization by Oliver X
May 31st, 2006 1:21 AMI originally set out on this task with a different goal. Warring with
pirateymonkey is fun, but not nearly as compelling as taking on an
entire team (or city!).
We in Minneapolis are currently at a disadvantage for having no
players in BARTpa territory, as it's the most SF-centric of the
groups. This makes them an obvious target for my infiltration. The
goal, as jaschu put it:
"The escalating war facade and debate surrounding it is only to
distract us from the fact that it's driving Aesthematics to stockpile
more Score, expanding the lead they had over any other team."
Enter "mean jeannine". Her mission: become a plausible member of the
blue team, giving me enough access to their territory to perform
"Urban Exploration 1", use the points thus acquired to break through
to level 6, and thus score a major blow against all the other
teams.
But that wasn't quite how it worked out. My hardcore urban exploration
agents were out of town. I'd already hit level 6 (twice!). And
pirateymonkey's gang was still spoiling for a fight, recruiting new agents
and attempting to recruit my mole as a double agent:
---- mean jeannine on May 17 10:44 am----
is your feud with oliver for real or is it a big joke? i can't tell!
he asked me to collaborate with him but i don't want to take sides. at
least not yet!
---- piratey monkey on May 25 7:12 pm----
oh its real enough! and as long as you are choosing sides... i'd love
to have a secret 'inside man" in the minneapolis contingent! its not
about where you live, its about good versus evil. (i'm good!)
---- mean jeannine on May 26 3:20 pm----
haha, just logged in, those icons are too funny!
i'm not sure i'd be much help, i haven't actually met these folks yet.
maybe next week. i actually might have met oliver before, not sure.
but i'm game for a good prank!
---- piratey monkey on May 26 3:28 pm----
ideal! if you don't actually know them you have the opportunity for
much mischief making! wanna be a double agent?
Sure enough, an appropriate solution soon presented itself. I'd get
pirateymonkey to reveal the location of her secret base. And then I'd
blow her up. Like so:
---- mean jeannine on May 30 11:26 am----
hey san francisco, want to collaborate on [city penpal]?
---- piratey monkey on May 30 11:29 am----
i'm not exactly in san fran, but you bet!
---- mean jeannine on May 30 12:38 pm----
ok, i'm at
jeannine jones
2405 hennepin ave s #203
mpls mn 55405
where are you? i already started writing a letter, i've got a new temp
job and they've got nothing for me to do today! arg!
---- piratey monkey on May 30 6:13 pm----
i just wrote you a letter, which i will mail tommorow.
my address is
piratey monkey
25xx xxxxxxxxx xxxxx xx
Berkeley, CA 947xx
please don't use this knowledge for evil! :-)
---- piratey monkey on May 30 6:29pm----
heh. oliver thinks i put you up to the "pursit". (which is awesome,
you rock!) and i'm perfectly happy to let him keep on thinking that.
and i doubt that he would belive me if i denied it. heaven knows i'm
paranoid about him. anyone who can secretely spy on oliver is a friend
of mine! well done!
See? Never trust a double agent. Even if they pass your loyalty test.
Now all I needed was an agent with demolitions expertise who could
drop by Berkeley on short notice. Several immediately sprung to mind,
but Agent Apricot topped the list. Within minutes of me obtaining the
coordinates, Apricot was devising an improvised incendiary device at
her workbench, having already planned a delivery route and timetable.
Note the hearts and balloons.
---- piratey monkey on May 30 11:05pm----
you guys are good. but i'm not opening this.
Awww. Darn.
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meanjeannine9 comment(s)
really, i should get bonus points for this. for spoting your eloborate plot. which was rather brilliant. hooray for paronoia!
Interesting to see you complete this task, with the aid of others on your side, yet you happen to take all the credit.
I award zero vote bonus points, as I don't think you've fulfilled this task 100%.
no, he definately had help. unless he secretly lives in the bay area.
No other SF0 players, Minneapolis or otherwise, were involved or aware of my scheme in any way except the fictional "mean jeannine". So sure, I could add her, but that'd be taking things a bit far.
(Bear in mind that most of the Minneapolis players were victims of the mean jeannine hoax.)
I'm not really concerned about the votes, as I think that should be mostly about style and I can understand if blowing people up is not your style.
But if you think I'm missing something particular, let me know what it is.
"Under a false name [mean jeannine], attempt to infiltrate another group [invited as a double agent to pirateymonkey's army] and steal sensitive documents [the location of the rebel base directly from the leader] that will [future tense] give you and your organization [those troublesome Minneapolis kids] leverage when negotiating a territory swap [or just repeatedly attempting to blow them up, as there's not much point negotiating with pirates]."
(As my agent hand-delivered the first letter bomb and was instructed to find pirateymonkey's name on the mailboxes before delivery, I don't think there's much to her objection about apartment numbers. Especially as we made sure we wrote "BOOM!" large enough to take out the whole building.)
Ha!
its like getting a letter from the old Batman TV show
i knew it. all my people said "don't give her your real address" and i was all "but oliver even thinks she is a spy". Christ you play a deep game. good thing i'm deeply paranoid. I was vaguely curious what you would do with my address. you are very, very carefull. but you are not the only one playing for keeps.