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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[comebewe]

[Matthew knew this would be coming. And he would be lying, really, if he didn’t admit that he was enjoying this]

See, there’s this little thing called consequences...

You had this coming.

[awitchdidit]

Ahahahaha, they're learning!

[whydoyoushine]

You people need to make up your mind--you get pissy if I don't do what my overlay would do, and you get pissy when I do exactly what the overlay would do.

[whydoyoushine]

They're learning they're making a powerful enemy, that's what they're learning.

[comebewe]

Or, we get pissy when some idiot decides that conjuring glitter is a good idea!

Do you know how many hours Matty had to spend each week cleaning up your shit? Do you?

[comebewe]

[They see this response. And he’s just...quietly going to not respond at all...]

[awitchdidit]

Well, I put the Angels in the same sort of timeout once. They haven't burnt me to death in revenge yet so perhaps it's best to leave this as the maximum level of escalation for now...

[awitchdidit]

[whydoyoushine]

What, a job's a job. He'd be working anyway.

[Spoken like someone who's never had any sort of service-oriented job or any job and never will.]

[whydoyoushine]

I dunno, I can escalate quite a bit.

[He sounds more exasperated than anything else, not like he's actually planning on doing anything. Yet.]

[awitchdidit]

I'm serious, by the way. I invented this punishment, I can come up with something more creative if it means averting awkward conversations about the floor. Stick to your usual aesthetic techniques, please.

[whydoyoushine]

The usual aesthetic techniques are what set him off, I'm just saying.

It's not even like he'd have to clean anything up here! It just disappears!

[comebewe]

[there's a short, furious pause]

We are going to come and remove all your air.

[whydoyoushine]

I'm not sure I actually need it, but okay, fine.

...you know coming at me all pissed off and full of darkness is only going to make me stronger, right?

[photonicfighter]

Umm.

[You are probably being locked in a room for a perfectly good reason, Zed. Still, she feels she should contribute something...]

What did you 'didn't do', Zed?

[whydoyoushine]

All that overlay wanted to do was just spread glitter around, so I just spread glitter around!

And if I hadn't done what the overlay would have done anyway, then everyone would have gotten mad at me like that whole thing with the island and not pulling off that Most Humble Holiness act.

[shiromadoushi]

Wouldn't that just help him get out of the room faster? Since people respawn here.

[photonicfighter]

Zed. You do realize that not everyone likes glitter as much as you do?

[She pauses briefly for a 'yes' or 'no' or at least a flippant comment.]

Even if it was what your overlay was going to do anyway, if it was a bad thing that bothers people, when you're done? You should apologize.

[whydoyoushine]

[Zed just bursts out laughing.]

What, I've died before, I guess that's one way out of this hellhole.

[whydoyoushine]

So not everyone's taste is as refined as mine.

[Avoiding the yes/no like the politician an Emperor must be sometimes.]

It wasn't a bad thing, it was just youthful mischief. And isn't locking me in a room with no windows or doors kind of an overreaction to a little bit of glitter?

[comebewe]

[There is...no response. Nothing. Just Matthew going completely and utterly silent.]

[shiromadoushi]

As long as your respawn spot isn't set to the same place you died at! Then you might get stuck in a loop!

...what is the penalty for dying here anyway? Since we don't exactly have experience points to lose...

[photonicfighter]

Youthful mischief can still hurt or bother people!

And maybe it's an overreaction... [And she may have to say some scolding things to Matthew, too...] But would he have overreacted if you had apologized? Do you think?

Private to Bakura

[photonicfighter]

Aah... please don't talk about dying here in front of Matthew? He's... he's sensitive to it. It's very unpleasant to die, while in liminal space. He's one of the first of us to find that out.

Riding on Dakki's Private level

[shiromadoushi]

Eh? Really?

[[Bakura sounds... actually pretty surprised.]]

Even though you respawn?