voice post

[elloran]

Dear Community,

Have you ever met someone incredibly good at getting under your skin? Someone whose every action seems so completely opposed to yours, whose philosophy is antithetical to yours, and who takes almost perverse pleasure in tormenting you?

My current sponsor is getting close to that level. He is the most arrogant, egotistical -

[In the background]

Speaking my name in vain again, Loreh? Sound like you didn't learn your lesson last time. History there is -

Damnit, Kaaree, I am not in the mood!

Oh? Did I interrupt your time with your imaginary friends? My apologies. History there is...

Leave my hobbies and companions out of this! As for -

- And No History. You have to play now~

Aaaaargggh!

[[ooc: Blue for Elloran, Red for a young Karakael.]]

Comments

[mightletyouknowme]

Ugg! I know somebody just like that!

[refinedvillian]

If there is, the worst thing you can do is show them.

[slowdown]

I know someone exactly like that, it's annoying because he's in the club I run and he thinks he can just order everyone around!

[elloran]

You do? How do you deal with them? Is there a way you can come to like them, despite their frustrating tendencies?

[elloran]

How frustrating! Are you forced to obey him? Kaaree has a tendency to do that to me, and it is beginning to get unbearable.

[mightletyouknowme]

Come to like her? No way! I'll just keep showing her how much better I am.

[elloran]

Unfortunately I have little choice in the matter. Even after a century of training to repress my emotions, my sponsor is damnably good at manipulating mine.

[refinedvillian]

Which he's more than likely aware. Are you a captive?

[elloran]

Not...exactly. He is my tutor for a year, thanks to a game I lost against him.

[elloran]

Ah. I see. I'm not sure how effective that is; no matter how many times I best him in makrugh he continues to taunt me.

[mightletyouknowme]

[Makrugh?] Then play something else. If you keep playing the same game, he's going to annoy you because he's bored.

[refinedvillian]

What is he supposed to be teaching you?

[slowdown]

No, I end up doing what I had planned to do at the start anyway. He's younger then me but he has no respect for his elders!

[elloran]

But what else could we do? We are both Inquestors, playing makrugh is what we do.

[elloran]

I...I'm not sure. It may just be a tactic to bring me under his control for a year, or one to protect me from someone else. Finding out might be the lesson itself.

[elloran]

So you simply ignored him?

[mightletyouknowme]

What kind of game is makrugh?

[refinedvillian]

Either way, it could make you stronger. If you're so valuable, it sounds like you'll have to face things worse than him.

Still, what would he get from it? What does controlling you lead to?

[number1112]

Imaginary friends...? Oh, you mean they can't see the community?

[slowdown]

Ignoring might not be the right term, more like out vote his ideas when he brings things up.

[elloran]

None of my companions can connect to the community.

[elloran]

So the others agree with you over him?

[elloran]

Well, I am well respected for a novice, yes.

I...I am not sure. It makes little sense, but then again, he revels in being an enigma despite being a rather simple man underneath it all.

[elloran]

A game which conceals war. Planets and lives are lost in the game, humanity is protected from stagnation as a result.

[number1112]

Like how all my friends lose access...