[Loyal]

>This is taking forever. Be someone else. PLEASE.

You are now a slightly less busy Burgun. Which is to say, exactly as busy as before, but a bit more bored and more willing to obey commands.

>Wonder about your sparse furnishings.

There's nothing to wonder about. Most of the furniture you acquire never lasts more than a couple of weeks before your lusus destroys it for whatever reason. It's taken a great deal of effort on your part just to preserve your computer and the crate it sits on.

She's getting old these days, however, and isn't nearly so active as she used to be, so you guess you could redecorate. You suppose you've just gotten used to living minimally.

>Examine this homewrecker.


Sylvia Hops is not a homewrecker!!!

She is your lusus and she's taught you everything you know about fighting, faithfully protecting you from those who would do you harm. Nowadays it's more like you're the one keeping her out of trouble, but you don't mind.


She's a good lusus.

>Review plans for the night.

You had applied for the ALTERNIAN MILITARY not long ago and had been eagerly awaiting the arrival of an officer, who would gauge your ability and, if he found you lacking, kill you on the spot for wasting his time. Naturally, you passed inspection and are now waiting only for the shuttle that will take you to basic training, which basically amounts to being given a uniform and being sent to the front-lines of some low-priority assignment.

Trolls do not care for weakness and have no interest in coddling.

You've been spending the last couple of weeks looking for any opportunity to get into a good fight to sharpen your skills while you wait, but there hasn't been very many takers. Maybe tonight you'll get lucky?

>Get pestered.

Doin' a good enough job of that already, thanks.

>Get trolled.

Not seeing the difference, here...?

>LOOK AT YOUR COMPUTER.



Oh! Now who would that be?

>Answer.

absentPsychologist [AP] started trolling brutalTrifecta [BT]
AP: Hey...BT, you there?
BT: heeey kid, what's up?
AP: Have...you ever, met a. Troll who, seemed. Born, not...to contribute. To the genetic...pool?
BT: i think weee'veee ALL MEEET trolls likeee that!!!
BT: theee droneee takeees careee of theem EEEVEEENTUALLY.
AP: Kay, just making...sure I'm. Not...incompetant. Sometimes. Quadrants, are so hard. To fill, for some people. Like...they cannot. Hate right...or something.
BT: weeell, the thing about HATING someeeoneee is that you can't reeeally forceee it.
BT: hateee comes naturally, but someeetimeees it takeees awhileee to find theee right oneee.
AP: I can, see. That. It just...seems like. Some people, are beyond. It. Others, even seem...set on infidelity. Even knowing, the cost.
BT: i can't reeeally say anything about thoseee wierdoeees.
BT: things areee hard eeenough without making EEENEEEMIEEES of EEEVEEERYONEEE you meeet!!!
BT: but maybeee theeey'ree just deeespeeerateee for someeeoneee to hateee and can't MAKEEE UP theeeir minds.
AP: That's what...I said! But, meh. Some people...are difficult. To reach.
BT: "someee peeeopleee"?
AP: hmm...I haven't. Ever introduced, you to my...friends have I?
BT: theeereee hasn't beeen much opportunity for that sort of thing.
BT: i'veee told you beeeforeee, i'm shipping out for the greeeat beeeyond in half a sweeep!!!
AP: Then I'll have to. Do it soon...so I can get. All the help, I can get with. These. Degenerates.
AP: We, are supposed. To be playing, a game. Soon. I know FLARPING with. A bunch of kids, might seem. Odd...but would you like to be. A part of, it?
BT: weeell.
BT: it is VEEERY odd.
BT: but it might beee fun. i haveeen't gotteeen into a good BRAWL in quiteee awhileee.
BT: just reeemeeembeer i can't commit to anything for veeery long!!!
AP: Fine, by. Me. I was...worried I'd. Have to, poke at. Your, weakness. To get you. Going.
BT: what WEEEAKNEEESS?
AP: You know. You can't. Resist, a fight. Based on. BLOOD.
BT: you'reee a wieeerd kid, ap. i could turn you into a purpleee smeeear if you madeee meee REEEALLY angry.
AP: It, might. Be worth. It to, see you. In action.
AP: Besides, I ain't. No. Punk.
BT: haha!!! if you say so!!!
AP: Better, have your. Fists, ready, because...I know. When we get together. It is going to get. REAL. But, I still don't know. A lot, about the game...so...bluh.
BT: just keeep meee in theee loop and leeet meee know wheeen this thing will geeet STARTEEED!!!
brutalTrifecta [BT] ceased trolling absentPsychologist [AP]

Well, that was convenient! It's been a long time since you played FLARP, but now that you think of it, it WOULD be a good way to practice.

It's not like there's any real risk to someone as skilled as yourself.

>Be someone else.