Rude, Matthew

[whydoyoushine]

Oi, I need someone to get me out of a room. I didn't do anything this time, and here you go, locking me up for absolutely no reason. This is a violation of my civil rights.

[Zed is referring to the end results of a certain throw down with Matthew, which did not go the way he'd anticipated. But hey, at least he's proven he's learned something from Traveling, like the phrase "civil rights."]

You really want to fight over this, Matthew? Just get it all out there?

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[tookashirototheknee]

I'm just stunned. That is needlessly cruel over something so damn benign.

Like, I don't care what's happened before. No one deserves that at all, let alone for something as stupidly inane as glitter.

... did you glitter him or something?

[whydoyoushine]

My overlay got it everywhere during the Jaunt to really impressive degrees.

Matthew was the janitor.

There may have been friction.

[tookashirototheknee]

... so? That was overlays on the Jaunt.

And besides. It's fucking glitter. We're not dealing with Agent Orange or tear gas or deadly neurotoxin or something similar.

I'm sorry, dude. I can't get you out, but I can be pissed off on your behalf.

[whydoyoushine]

I know, right? It could be so much worse!

But you could find Matthew...and give him a massive wedgie. From me.

[tookashirototheknee]

[There's some bright laughter over the network.]

A wedgie is too... boring. I'd have to think of something that is both suitable to the crime and not on his level of cruel.

[whydoyoushine]

I'd suggest a glitter bomb, but he'd probably set you on fire.

[vrepit_no]

Easy, Matt... There's a lot here we don't know about. This sounds like the culmination of a lot of things in the past. We don't have all the information. I'm not saying this is a rational or measured reaction, starshine, but there's no reason to believe this guy would do this to anyone and everyone.

[whydoyoushine]

No, really, it's just the glitter. I don't think I've done anything else that might have pissed him off in particular.

[But there's a long list of people he's pissed off, so he could be wrong, who knows.]

[vrepit_no]

...In particular?

[whydoyoushine]

I've pissed off a lot of people.

[He doesn't sound particularly regretful about that.]

[vrepit_no]

I was kind of getting that idea, yeah. It's hard to separate rumor from truth about you. If you want to set the record straight, I'm listening.

[whydoyoushine]

So I tried to cover Earth in darkness once, long story, I didn't actually want to, but then the ToQGers stopped me, and I died, and I got better, and I'm kind of retired from that whole being evil thing, you know?

[He's strictly freelance now.]

And on other Jaunts I may have destabilized an economy (well, my infiltration did) or upturned an entire religion, but in my defense, the religion was just generating darkness and making people miserable anyway.

[At least he's honest?]