Drawn from the Undertow

Private message from xXx[FinDom]xXx to Heartbreaker2196 (2:40a LST):

both to preserve the ideals of free speech on this forum and in the vain hope that you and the rest of your clique might one day develop a modicum of media literacy, i have consistently chosen to debate you in full view of the rest of thread's participants. however, that shit you said about Kia Soul in your last post went way too far. if you want to be wrong about Starelia then fine, go for it. if loving a ship that's the literary equivalent of a soylent cube makes you happy, who am i to tell you to seek out something more exciting and emotionally complex. but you do not insult Aurelia's actress. she has fewer lines compared to the other major characters because the writers and directors know she's actually capable of using body language and tone of voice to show instead of tell. she has subtlety and range. she's done stageplays. she is quite simply objectively better at her job than anyone else.

you know what John Deere was doing before he got the role for Rembrandt?

"starring" in commercials for hot pockets where they recorded slow-mo footage of a microwave being shot with an anti-materiel rifle. he wasn't even firing the rifle. he just said "whoa" a lot.

i'll expect your apology and correction in the thread shortly.

CREDITS:
Iris Christianson as Trace Vector
Tyberius Wilson as Bridgerton Larch
Crystal Zaslavchik as Leila Marino
Zoe Tunnell as Genevieves St. Cloud
Luke Varner as The GM
Additional Voices by Fabby Garza, Molly Rhinebeck, Lexi Waltner, and Mike Painter

MUSIC BY MAXIE KNIGHTLEY
EDITED BY LUKE VARNER

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussions of animal cruelty and gender dysphoria, as well as depictions of existential horror, unethical therapeutic treatment, and toxic sexual dynamics.

Heartbreaker2196 wrote (2:28a LST): Every single day you keep logging on to these forums making these stupid posts. Tool-moded? What the hell do you think you're posting from, moron? Just because you're a dolphin scalie(? What the hell do they even call this I don't think dophins have scales??) doesn't mean you're suddenly excluded from the group! But either way? I'm glad you recognize me as the royalty I so obviously am! Anyway, for the rest of you civilized users: I'm glad most of you recognize that Aurelia is obviously a bad influence on anyone she comes into contact with. She's brash, she's foolish, and she's never willing to leave good enough alone. Her ideals are stupid and anyone who likes her is a M O R O N. As far as I'm concerned, she should be written off the show permanently for the good of the rest of the cast. Kia Soul isn't even a good actress.

CREDITS:
Mike Painter as Hercule Heavensward
Molly Rhinebeck as L.E. Booktok
Lexi Waltner as Marci Campbell
Fabby Garza as Alpha AKA Anna
Max Knightley as Lavender Spadeheart and Flip.exe
Luke Varner as The GM

MUSIC BY MAX KNIGHTLEY
EDITED BY LUKE VARNER

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains allusions to dubiously consensual sex work.

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Heartbreaker2196 wrote (2:28a LST): Every single day you keep logging on to these forums making these stupid posts. Tool-moded? What the hell do you think you're posting from, moron? Just because you're a dolphin scalie(? What the hell do they even call this I don't think dophins have scales??) doesn't mean you're suddenly excluded from the group! But either way? I'm glad you recognize me as the royalty I so obviously am! Anyway, for the rest of you civilized users: I'm glad most of you recognize that Aurelia is obviously a bad influence on anyone she comes into contact with. She's brash, she's foolish, and she's never willing to leave good enough alone. Her ideals are stupid and anyone who likes her is a M O R O N. As far as I'm concerned, she should be written off the show permanently for the good of the rest of the cast. Kia Soul isn't even a good actress.

CREDITS:
Mike Painter as Hercule Heavensward
Molly Rhinebeck as L.E. Booktok
Lexi Waltner as Marci Campbell
Fabby Garza as Alpha AKA Anna
Max Knightley as Lavender Spadeheart and Flip.exe
Luke Varner as The GM

MUSIC BY MAX KNIGHTLEY
EDITED BY LUKE VARNER

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains allusions to dubiously consensual sex work.

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xXx[FinDom]xXx wrote (02:19a LST): oh wow what a surprise that this board's queen of comphet would think starcadia's argument held any fucking water. "but the solar empire has been safeguarding that star system for centuries!" says the dumbass who apparently doesn't know what refugees are. this shit is why no one likes humanity. you can't even fucking stand being around each other! bunch of apes have their dna take a wrong turn and become tool-moded land-cucks who make up nonsense words like "de jure" to dress up their insatiable bloodlust. fucking evolutionary dead-end is what you are.

it's a shame Aurelia's attempts to assassinate rembrandt in the first season didn't work. mark my words, she's gonna return in an episode or two to commit even worse atrocities against the crown. it'll be so funny.

CREDITS:
Zoe Tunnell as Genevieve St. Cloud
Tyberius Wilson as Bridgerton Larch
Iris Christianson as Trace Vector
Crystal Zaslavchik as Leila Marino
Luke Varner as The GM

MUSIC BY MAX KNIGHTLEY
EDITED BY CRYSTAL ZASLAVCHIK

CONTENT WARNING: This episode depicts bloody violence, drug overdose, a heart attack, and existential horror.

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I have been referred to as a terrorist. What an absolutely pointless word. If you really press someone on what it means, it’s just a person they dislike using methods they don’t approve of. If they liked my goals then I’d be a hero who’s willing to make the difficult decisions. If they approved of my methods then I’d be a respectable opponent, and more importantly, I wouldn’t get very much done; people rarely respect an opponent’s methods if those methods are successful.

But yes, I won’t deny it. I’ve killed, and I’ve ordered others to kill. I’ve stolen, I’ve beaten, I’ve hacked, I’ve committed dreaded “political violence.” And I will gladly do it all again, because I am fighting a just war against the parasites that seek to smother us. Parasites who will never be as honest with you as I’m being now.

Consider: if I pull out a gun and shoot a man in the heart, I am a murderer. But suppose instead I simply deprive that man of clean water. I sell the fresh rainwater he lives off of to a corporation and let him drink what’s left, runoff poisoned by the mining operations of that same corporation. And I make grand overtures about how something must be done about the poor man’s drinking water, I deliver speech after speech showing my respect and sorrow for this man. I run for public office and win on the promise that I will solve this man’s problem, reducing him in the public eye from a human being to a talking point, a symbol of my noblesse oblige. Ah but even after I’m elected it’s just too hard to do anything, there are far too many difficult political realities that preclude me from saving the man, the one who, you’ll remember, I endangered in the first place. In a decade or two his unclean drinking water leads to health problems and he dies. And not just him, but his family, his neighborhood. And all the while I roll in the money and power his story has granted me like a pig in shit.

If you ask me, that’s a much more heinous crime than simply shooting someone. But we don’t talk about it that way, do we? Many would question whether I’ve done anything wrong at all, and while many more might have ethical quibbles with my behavior, they wouldn’t bray for my blood the way they do for a humble shooter. The rules as they’re written are quite clear: mass slaughter is perfectly acceptable, encouraged, even, so long as you do it over a long enough time, and keep a smile on your face all the while.

So forgive me if I don’t care very much when the writers and enforcers of those rules call me a terrorist.

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In the lead-up to recording the episode, I decided to pivot a little off of what the VGM team gave me. I got hit with the idea that it would be very funny to have a cop that was just Columbo, in part because it was funny to me to imagine Columbo at a rave. Instead of just making HYPERPARASITE HYPE TRAIN about making people party, I decided to make it more about “having a good time,” and the effects would sort of escalate off of the general stress and tension of being interrogated by Columbo. After all, making a culprit sweat is the most fun thing in the world for Columbo.

The episode will take place at a bar that Mongrel Myxolidian takes everyone to, to allow for some hangouts and pseudo-downtime; we didn’t establish initial ties for EDM, so this will be a good opportunity to do so before they are interrupted by Detective Sandworm Arpeggio, who’s investigating the electrical fire at the Starscape Resort.

DETECTIVE SANDWORM ARPEGGIO & HYPERPARASITE HYPE TRAIN

CRASH 0: Arpeggio will casually implicate the crew in the crimes he’s been investigating; the team will need to establish their innocence.

CRASH 1: HHT will kick in, gradually making them sweat and hyperventilate. Arpeggio will play it off as them being nervous about his questioning, but it will slowly become clear that it’s supernatural; the team will need to figure out what’s happening and play by HHT’s rules to keep themselves from overdosing on amphetamine.

CRASH 2: Arpeggio will actively try to interfere with the team from having a good time to get HHT to break them; they will need to figure out how to stop his influence over them once and for all.

CRASH 3: Defeat.

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In my head, the plan here was for the team to “yes and” me a little bit more and take on the role of traditional Columbo culprits. That sort of went right out the window and was a good reminder that Maxie is probably the only member of the cast I can rely on to respond in that way to this type of threat. That’s okay though; Genevieve and Bridgerton just jumping him and murdering him was very funny, and does a lot to characterize this crew. It’s also a funny counterpoint to the Defrag monologue that kicks off the episode.

But, that said, I obviously had to make a hard pivot from my plans and build a new encounter on the fly, making it about finding the lost cigar instead of more of a social battle like I had in mind. Fumbling through the dark for a vape pen is not the most exciting RPG encounter, but I think it works because it just allowed room for the crew to continue bouncing off each other, which was the point of this episode anyway.

Pushing Zoe to let me make a Cyber Genevieve might’ve come off as a little forced, but I saw the opportunity and did not want to let it slide. The idea of one of Genevieve’s “possessions” now being a duplicate of herself was too juicy not to follow through on, and even as of the next episode, it’s already paying dividends.

We're back with more Fiasco! This time, Mike, Maxie, Molly and Fabby sit down with a wacky new invention that fucks everything up!

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Heartbreaker2196 wrote (01:37a LST): I love Starcadia so much. Now there's a girl who knows what it takes to get out there and GET THINGS DONE. I knew she'd be able to swoop in and prove that Rembrandt's claim to the throne is real. What does it matter if some stupid old elves happened to be in this part of space thousands of years ago anyway. What matters is who is here NOW, not who USED to be here. And huh. No sign of Aurelia anywhere this week, Finny? It must be so difficult rooting for a sinking ship.

CREDITS:

Mike Painter as Hercule Heavensward
Lexi Waltner as Marci Campbell
Fabby Garza as Alpha AKA Anna
Molly Rhinebeck as L.E. Booktok
Max Knightley as Lavender Spadeheart & Flip.exe
Luke Varner as The GM
Additional Voices by Crystal Zaslavchik

MUSIC BY MAX KNIGHTLEY

EDITED BY LUKE VARNER AND MOLLY RHINEBECK

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains body horror, mind control, and bloody violence.

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xXx[FinDom]xXx wrote (02:19a LST): oh wow what a surprise that this board's queen of comphet would think starcadia's argument held any fucking water. "but the solar empire has been safeguarding that star system for centuries!" says the dumbass who apparently doesn't know what refugees are. this shit is why no one likes humanity. you can't even fucking stand being around each other! bunch of apes have their dna take a wrong turn and become tool-moded land-cucks who make up nonsense words like "de jure" to dress up their insatiable bloodlust. fucking evolutionary dead-end is what you are.

it's a shame Aurelia's attempts to assassinate rembrandt in the first season didn't work. mark my words, she's gonna return in an episode or two to commit even worse atrocities against the crown. it'll be so funny.

CREDITS:
Zoe Tunnell as Genevieve St. Cloud
Tyberius Wilson as Bridgerton Larch
Iris Christianson as Trace Vector
Crystal Zaslavchik as Leila Marino
Luke Varner as The GM

MUSIC BY MAX KNIGHTLEY
EDITED BY CRYSTAL ZASLAVCHIK

CONTENT WARNING: This episode depicts bloody violence, drug overdose, a heart attack, and existential horror.

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