SFZero Doppelgänger by SNORLAX, Malaysian Eddy, Fonne Tayne
December 1st, 2007 6:53 PMMae West
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This task is intentionally completed to agitate the exclusively aesthematical recipients of the macros. Their willing acceptance of the evil bandannas belies their gullible nature and weak stomachs.
We invoked the spirit of SNIDE and caused chaos while sitting back in our chairs, laughing...
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shenanigoat sez: zemaluco came to me with the idea of spreading villainy across SF. I'm still not sure what's with the many things that seem to be going on behind the scenes, but i suspect this was at one point part of a larger plot. Since this task was instigated by zemaluco, I'll let him speak to that. We very quickly and very sloppily made an "image macro."
zemaluco labeling envelopes:
We started delivering the evil bandanas. I was very excited to be a super sneaky sf0 ninja. but we had a low 60-75% ninja sneakiness rate. eddy caught us red-handed and joined us. i got back home at around midnight to discover that a few people had already put on the evil bandanas thus allowing the evil to infect their brain.
a comment by anna one and lank:
a comment by yellowbear:
a comment by bex:
i made this comment in an attempt to avert suspicion:
eddy did the same:
sparalacoberry mascarpone posted these on his player photo:
Orion posted this in the SF0 newsletter:
Eddy:
When walking home after photo editing one night, I saw Zemaluco standing outside my front door. I was surprised to see him and became even more curious when Lowteck exited his car with a huge grin erupting onto his face. Not wanting to go home, I decided to join them, and hopped in the car to help spread more evil!! Being slightly brain dead from starring at a computer screen for several hours, my only response to them after opening the letter was, "Dude...you spelt spreading wrong". At the Bex Lair, we were almost busted due to this annoying alarm that kept going off as we walked past. The following day I dropped off two of the remaining SFØ letters. The whole turn of events was funny more then sneaky, and I was glad to have the chance to help out!
Zemaluco:
due to the abrupt yet timely ending of the metanarrative concerning the villain (let it be known that looking at the big picture, i believe never in metanarratives, never have, never will) many players were communicating with one another, wondering why this had happened and what we should make of it. with the support of a number of foreign (read: non-californian) operatives, it was decided that the villain should live. and live he does.
this primarily arose from his sending of the 'broken bandanna' to players in san francisco, chicago, and london. it was clear that subconsciously, the keen artist formerly known as villain would not allow his spirit to slide into anonymity... rather he knew that by giving up his persona he would secure his place in history.
soon after the retirement of this vile character, i suggested to lowteck ("shenanigoat", if you will) that we should take advantage of this vacuum and create some chaos under the guise of the villain's image. we agreed that despite lack of a specific task as our objective, it would be worth our while. i outlined a basic plan, stipulating that by some means, the villain's presence would be felt in the city of st. francis.
arriving at lowteck's lair, we utilized the advanced and thoroughly licensed high technology to which he has access, including two turntables, a microphone or two, and
the order of attack was as follows: sam, sean, and ian >> orion >> anna 1 & lank >> yellowbear lair >> eddy & spar >> h. hatman >> hero & allies
the first two went pretty much without a hitch. next, we went mobile in the l.t. official party vehicle. this allowed us the agility to hit multiple neighborhoods within the hour. the yellow-lair was exciting; his extensive security system was daunting but did not stop our progress. in the beautiful tenderloin, we were foiled by eddy, who arrived home unexpectedly at the moment when we pulled up at the corner. lowteck had cynically planned to post the envelope on her door and escape via elevator, thus preventing eddy from engaging in pursuit due to her broken ligaments. unfortunately this plan, in the end, was moot.
in el distrito mision, we realized mr. hatman had deviously led us away from his actual abode. we decided one strike wasn't so bad, and moved on. la casa de la hero proved to be the most difficult operation. i rang the doorbell on multiple occasions to drag out some players from the apartment. they pursued, but were not able to spot us - despite recognizing eddy's ubiquitous red sweatshirt.
was the mission a success? perhaps not perfectly. nonetheless, the deep evil has infected multiple members of the university.
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That there was a macro posted in the bathroom of Gaylord's was especially thorough. The CG0 Ambassador cannot express in words how exciting this project was to observe from Chicagø!
Burn the University!
I've read this three times and it is still not apparent to me, which task were you completing as The Villain?
I was not apart of the original scheming and therefore can only speak on my behalf. But I feel this actually connects with several recent task completions even though none are mentioned.
I was initially under the impression that the Doppleganger task was, in part, taking place due to the impending CGØ Ambassador Event, which later turning into a unrelated task completion.
Also, the current wave of good deeds done had still not completely peaked leaving opportunity for the Doppleganger task completion to infect participants and encourage them into swaying sides and becoming evil.
I feel that this initially was or is still part of a larger plan. At least that was the impression I got from Lowteck.
I also didn't realize that this was going to be included in the ongoing battle for U of A.
I participated by dropping off bandanas to Bex, Spar and Herbie. I enjoyed participating in this but feel a better explanation should be given ( and not yours truly). I'm just impressed with the fact that I was able to keep my mouth shut cause I'm terrible at lying and holding back information.
I normally never write long winded comments.... apologies.
that this completion weirded me the funk out!
Nice job ya'll.
@Metatron... I would have to say they delivered a nice image macro to the heart of what is SF0.
it sounds like the only way to be legitimate in this task is to actually claim the points, in public, on the praxis for the task that you completed...
either some people have no patience or there is something else hidden.
Which task were they completing? As SPAR says, this one certainly seems like an obvious candidate. While they did not submit it to the praxis, it has often been argued (eg with respect to restrictions on the materials allowed for tasking) that the completion of a task is independent of its documentation. I subscribe to this view wholeheartedly, except when ignoring it makes for interesting tasking.
Now, one may ask whether the task in question was actually completed. If as assume they were in fact going For The Win, have they actually succeeded in "express[ing] [their] opinion to a large corporation or government in the form of an image macro?"
There are two valid defenses. The first is that completing the task as specified is sub-dominant to the demand that one impersonate another player. In the case of The Villain, excessively creative task interpretation is expected. Hell, this completion is quite a bit closer to the spirit of the task than the Villain's actual completion. (Lovely though it was.)
"But wait," you object, "the Villain already completed that task. He couldn't complete it again." This is true. And yet, we must not forget that the resubmit button exists! Any task can be re-completed at will. Just because the Villain completed a task doesn't mean he cannot re-complete it.
Furthermore, I've heard rumors that the human player behind the Villain character may in fact have returned to the game under a different name. If that were true, then he or she might not yet have completed the task in question, leaving open many possibilities for logically forbidden inter-narrative mixing.
Should that fail to persuade you, there is yet another defense. In light of the recent revolution - which was, I note, brought up for discussion in a small coffee house somewhere in Oakland in which *two* of the fake signs appeared, and therefore cannot be dismissed as unrelated - one could argue that the message presented here was intended for the University of Aesthematics. It's even true that the recipients are almost all Aesthematicians.
What is a University? Historically, the word itself once referred to a guild or a corporation. (Blast! Damned "online" OED ain't, so I can neither check my memory for errors nor offer proof at present.) When the Aesthematicians were underdogs, say back in Padua around the time some 13th century Bandit got fed up with the status quo in Bologna, the word was still used more generally to refer to institutions that, today, we could call corporations. If a university is a corporation, and the university is by far the largest group in the game, then I submit that any message intended for the UoA can be rightly referred to as a message to a large corporation.
Finally, in answer to the question, "did they succeed in impersonating another player?" I, for one, was absolutely convinced The Villain was orchestrating the distribution of images and bandannas. This, despite a credible sighting of a female delivery agent. (Presumably Eddy, or Zemaluco in drag.) The flyers at the ambassador event left no question in my mind that the episode originated in Chicago.
yrs truly was not in drag, but wearing a fedora. and all black clothing. i blent into the night like a jaguar in the jungle. and the inner mission is one scary jungle.
I, on the other hand, chose to wear a bright red hoodie. Not very sneaky attire...my bad.
Whether or not the completion follows the letter of the directions (based on Loki's explanation I believe it does, but believe potentiol for debate (one word - "FAILED" does not constitute a legitimate argument) is still possible) it does approach the epic in many ways and does not resemble a couple of half-or-less assed completions that have come in of late in the name of the Revolution.
Therefore it has my wholehearted vote!
BU-
Why not just hit the flag button? The whole "fail" thing is so insulting. I'm insulted and none of these are even my tasks.
To insult fast,
or to insult slow.
Either is crass,
don't you know.
HA!
That's more like it,
Creative, funny, and well rhymed!
Hats off, BU.
Burn, you're winning the 'make anna laugh' contest day in....
...day out.
Rubin Hates Your Task?? WTF......What happened to Rubin Hates It?? Hates Your Task???
A Doppelgänger commenting on a Doppelgänger style completion... how very strange and Meta
I think I know who this Rubin Starset is... how annoying indeed.
jesus rubin, WTF? this is the most annoying hate ever.
shut up you know this task is worthless. you can't even follow directions.
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still have never figured out what this effing means.
This may be the second actual sockpuppet in SFØ. Only slightly less annoying than those obnoxious pseudonyms that keep showing up. I am not going to name names. But someones watching a lot of 80's movies Jøsh
What's your problem, SPAR ? You like presidents, we like film. So what?!
Yeah what's your deal, sporto... you hate the 80's? What were you, born in the 70s? You dance disco?
Did someone slip something in my drink? WTF is going on here? Some sort of Sock Puppet Revolution!!!
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
I can't decide who you are.....I have two guesses.
yea i know what yer thinkin. no siree i didn't come up with that idea, tho i'll admit it's a perty good un.
ah, the back pages of history. dusty indeed they are.
Oh, to have played the game in these days. Sadly, EVIL and villainy is not really compatible with Everyday Life.
I'd assumed that this was something the CG0 ambassador was up to upon arriving in SF. Nicely done!