Haha okay, where to even start...? It's been a while so the details are a little fuzzy. Either way, she was grade A crazy. She used to be the head mod of a game we'll call Iggy, which was my first big RP. I learned a lot about how RP drama works at Iggy, and it's all thanks to her!
As a head mod, Murder was just plain terrible. She was always rude and condescending; I remember that a lot of the players were so uncomfortable with her that they'd always go to one of the other mods with a question first (usually 'Sunshine', who was a sweetheart). At one point for a Valentine's Day event she had condoms and lubrication ('IN PACKETS, YO' <- something she actually said in the plot information post) rain from the sky. The lube made anyone that touched it horny. There were also clouds that made you high. It was only after a lot of players complained that she changed the plot slightly to allow for opting out. She would hog the spotlight with her characters during plots and she tended to drive off castmates.
She played Edward Elric and she was alright with him at first. Then she had him get kidnapped as part of a plot and heavily insinuated that Ansem (the original Kingdom Hearts one) had raped Edward even though Ansem's player, who was also a mod, was really, really not okay with it. Then Murder suddenly had NPCs spread rumors that Edward had been turned gay as a result of the whole Ansem thing. The rumors started because he'd gone horseback riding with Tobias from Animorphs. I have no idea how the Tobias player felt about that but I don't remember the character sticking around for very long after that post. Murder herself got really defensive and passive aggressive any time someone brought up Tobias/Edward after that. She got steadily less and less IC as the game went on.
I can't entirely remember what eventually prompted the fight between Murder and the Hughes player, who was also a mod I'll call Arrow. I know it had to do with how OOC Edward was. I'm pretty sure Arrow had hit the point where she couldn't play Hughes ICly unless he started pointing out how weird Edward was acting. There was some behind-the-scenes fighting and Arrow quit as a mod but stayed on as a player. Her treatment pissed off a lot of players but nothing major happened right away, even though Murder was still being a bitch to Ansemmod and Sunshine. Eventually Murder's harassment of Ansemmod and Sunshine got to be too much. There was a fight, one of them quit (I think it was Ansemmod), then Murder threw a fit and quit. Ansemmod came back to keep the game from dying and things seemed like they were gonna be quiet for a while.
BUT THEN Murder found out Ansemmod wasn't gone for good and completely flipped her shit. She started screaming about how the game was hers and that we couldn't keep playing without her. She ending up giving the remaining mods an ultimatum; she said they had to either let her back as head mod with all of her head mod privileges restored, or they had nine months to run an endgame plot and close Iggy down forever. I remember her making some strange 'the game is my baby!' analogy to justify giving us nine months instead of a year.
She harassed the site administrator to put a lockdown on all the game's files (the game wasn't run on LJ and had it's own server). The site admin agreed-- I don't know why, but I suspect it had something to do with the fact that Murder really is crazy enough to sic the police or a lawyer on someone over an RP. Anyway, the remaining mods said nope, recovered the game's files, moved to a different site, and put the insanity behind them. The game happily ran for another 3ish years and didn't immediately crash and burn into obscurity like Murder's tiny posse said it was going to. She supposedly quit RP forever after she dropped from Iggy.
Fuck this got huge. That's all I can remember for now. Though hey, I could probably dredge up more if I really tried. Right now I need to sanitize my mind. The moral of the story is that Murder is fucking crazy and I don't envy anyone that has to play in a game with her.
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-12 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)As a head mod, Murder was just plain terrible. She was always rude and condescending; I remember that a lot of the players were so uncomfortable with her that they'd always go to one of the other mods with a question first (usually 'Sunshine', who was a sweetheart). At one point for a Valentine's Day event she had condoms and lubrication ('IN PACKETS, YO' <- something she actually said in the plot information post) rain from the sky. The lube made anyone that touched it horny. There were also clouds that made you high. It was only after a lot of players complained that she changed the plot slightly to allow for opting out. She would hog the spotlight with her characters during plots and she tended to drive off castmates.
She played Edward Elric and she was alright with him at first. Then she had him get kidnapped as part of a plot and heavily insinuated that Ansem (the original Kingdom Hearts one) had raped Edward even though Ansem's player, who was also a mod, was really, really not okay with it. Then Murder suddenly had NPCs spread rumors that Edward had been turned gay as a result of the whole Ansem thing. The rumors started because he'd gone horseback riding with Tobias from Animorphs. I have no idea how the Tobias player felt about that but I don't remember the character sticking around for very long after that post. Murder herself got really defensive and passive aggressive any time someone brought up Tobias/Edward after that. She got steadily less and less IC as the game went on.
I can't entirely remember what eventually prompted the fight between Murder and the Hughes player, who was also a mod I'll call Arrow. I know it had to do with how OOC Edward was. I'm pretty sure Arrow had hit the point where she couldn't play Hughes ICly unless he started pointing out how weird Edward was acting. There was some behind-the-scenes fighting and Arrow quit as a mod but stayed on as a player. Her treatment pissed off a lot of players but nothing major happened right away, even though Murder was still being a bitch to Ansemmod and Sunshine. Eventually Murder's harassment of Ansemmod and Sunshine got to be too much. There was a fight, one of them quit (I think it was Ansemmod), then Murder threw a fit and quit. Ansemmod came back to keep the game from dying and things seemed like they were gonna be quiet for a while.
BUT THEN Murder found out Ansemmod wasn't gone for good and completely flipped her shit. She started screaming about how the game was hers and that we couldn't keep playing without her. She ending up giving the remaining mods an ultimatum; she said they had to either let her back as head mod with all of her head mod privileges restored, or they had nine months to run an endgame plot and close Iggy down forever. I remember her making some strange 'the game is my baby!' analogy to justify giving us nine months instead of a year.
She harassed the site administrator to put a lockdown on all the game's files (the game wasn't run on LJ and had it's own server). The site admin agreed-- I don't know why, but I suspect it had something to do with the fact that Murder really is crazy enough to sic the police or a lawyer on someone over an RP. Anyway, the remaining mods said nope, recovered the game's files, moved to a different site, and put the insanity behind them. The game happily ran for another 3ish years and didn't immediately crash and burn into obscurity like Murder's tiny posse said it was going to. She supposedly quit RP forever after she dropped from Iggy.
Fuck this got huge. That's all I can remember for now. Though hey, I could probably dredge up more if I really tried. Right now I need to sanitize my mind. The moral of the story is that Murder is fucking crazy and I don't envy anyone that has to play in a game with her.
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