Forum Overview :: Laurence Fishburne's Dance Dance Revolution :: a mistake, chapter 9: even later last week

[quote name="Noi Dau Don"](4:49:47 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> s-sofia get out of the shower and tell me what the damage is (5:29:13 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> w-well there's been no mention of it so far, but er, brb (5:49:07 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> <b>AQUA</b> 8:48 pm (8:48:10 PM): aaah. (8:48:19 PM): lol (8:48:22 PM): yeah, it's fine. (8:48:30 PM): i thought the writing style was familiar (5:49:10 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> there you go (6:04:23 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> OH GOD SHE'S FURIOUS WITH ME (6:04:32 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ... (6:05:22 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> i doubt it. (6:06:35 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ...a-are you still freaking out. (6:10:15 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> yes and no (6:10:35 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ..? (6:11:16 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> well i mean i am glad if there's no permanent damage (6:11:28 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> but i will probably never live down the whole thing as a faux pas in the abstract (6:11:42 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> I mean there's the damage to the person which was thankfully minimal (i hope) (6:12:23 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> then there's the damage to like - my entire internal system of laws of hospitality and revenge (6:12:35 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> which basically had a truck driven through it SO lol. (6:12:47 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> it really was the worst of all possible worlds (6:14:25 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> well, again, i reiterate (6:16:09 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> the only way you could have known (aside from my telling you) is through hardcore stalking, which i think is kind of really the worse option here, so. i don't really see the superior levels of wrongness here. (6:16:59 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ...and btw, that [OMITTED] is also aqua, jsyk. (6:18:49 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ......and i really should have told you sooner, fff. sorry. (6:19:49 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> this is still (6:19:52 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> like - five for five (6:20:00 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> maybe six fuck I don't even know by now (6:20:19 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ...what does that mean. (6:20:28 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> aqua is a giant fucking iceberg whose tip is a perfect sapphire let's just drive the boat over there and see what's up (6:20:41 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> oh look (6:20:44 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> we crashed again (6:20:47 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> high fives dudes (6:20:59 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> *ship's crew administers a round of high fives* (6:21:41 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> 8| (6:21:56 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> For someone like me, whose greatest pleasures in life are 1) being a good host, 2) being a subtle opponent, and 3) winning - I just cannot seem to stop striking out hard on this one person (6:22:23 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> and of course this one person is very important to this other person who is very important to me, so I can't just friggin pull out (6:22:26 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> I mean (6:22:33 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> in its own way the whole thing is spectacularly hilarious (6:22:49 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> a comedy of manners, and if it was presented on stage or in a movie I would be laughing my ass off and cringing every minute (6:23:28 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Sure you might have told me something sooner, and perhaps this particular incident would have been avoided, but haha you're not the NDD & Aqua Cops! (6:23:39 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> You're supposed to be having a good time, and instead: psychodrama. (6:23:47 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Fucking /kicks every can in the universe (6:24:15 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> No, the only thing for it - how to solve this problem (6:25:28 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Bear with me another minute or two and I'll pull something out of my ass on this one. (6:25:52 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> dude (6:27:07 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Don't worry, don't worry, it won't be anything ridiculous or dramatic or whatever. I just have to figure out a way to keep all my promises and obligations without making any for you or anyone else. (6:28:22 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> I'll have to go back to an invite only thing, where I do open posts but don't tag out spontaneously. Really it's not a big thing at all, fuck knows I am drowing in tags all the time anyway. And as well, what to do about Chang. I harbor the impression that that character is - important to her? a favorite or something? y/n? (6:31:01 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> look, can we just pause for a second. i'm just-- (6:31:31 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> /p-pauses (6:33:08 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> i'm not very eloquent right now, or ever, but really -- i realize it's really important to you to keep your word and everything, but honestly, it's rp in a fucking smut dressing room, and this is getting waaaaaay too... intense. (6:34:37 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Th....that's a problem I have. OTOH it's actually not just a smut dressing room, and there's a reason why it's important to keep my word and, as well, to go a little past the ordinary in keeping my word. (6:35:16 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> In maybe - a year and a half or two years, provided I manage the growth well and all my dumb schemes work out, all this dressing room nonsense will have money behind it This is in fact true and I would go on to explain a little about it to Sofia; there is a plan in place to monetize this stupid community I started. Naturally I cannot share deets with YOU clowns, you'd take the idea right out from under me and do it better, faster. (6:37:52 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> So I want to keep my word because it's my word, and because you're involved, and because I don't want trouble from anyone much less aqua... but also because my nose has got to be clean, ne? (6:38:22 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> and so: first and foremost is that players are happy and comfortable. (6:39:29 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> ...and so you have the schemes of an anxious schemer. (6:40:26 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> who cannot seem to stop fucking up with this one particular person, for better or worse, accidentally or not. If i get a little intense about it - I'm ... really really sorry that you're caught catching the full brunt of my whining at the moment (6:41:33 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> a-anyway I'll just go ahead and shut up about it now! (6:41:37 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> but... this is kind of accomplishing the opposite. you're two people who dislike each other who happen to be roleplaying in the same space. it happens in every rp ever about a billion times per day. i don't see how treating it as something SUPER SPECIAL that needs special precautions is making it less wanky. (6:42:55 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Frankly, because the last time I tangled with Aqua, I picked up a reputation as rapist stalker who spams people with tag nags and who is a bonafide creeper. I'm happy to let the incident be water under the bridge, but I can't afford a second one. (6:44:00 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> It's not a problem as long as I stay out of tagging people who I don't know, right? So let's just do that and everyone has a good time. That's a fair solution, isn't it? (6:44:18 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> well, i mean (6:44:39 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> it's up to you what you do At this point I was just fucking shitting myself. Oh jesus, have I pissed off Sofia. (6:45:27 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Yeah. Probably that should involve a little less thinking aloud in the future ne. (6:47:01 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Anyway the whole business will be funny drinking stories in a few months. And in the meantime fff I just hope everyone who comes will have fun and play what they want to play. AND SO I CONCLUDE WITH: sofia, aside from having to endure my insensible ranting, how are you. (6:53:19 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ...honestly? a little frustrated. (6:53:35 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> i understand you wanna be done talking about it, and you seem to have made up your mind, but. (6:55:26 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Ah. As far as talking about it - I don't want to run out of your patience on the subject and I feel like I've already made you sit through too much. (6:56:01 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ...if this was going to be such a huge issue, why did you give me the go ahead to get aqua into NDD's sexbutt in the first place? Oh jesus she's furious with me. (6:57:06 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> This particular incident was kind of a perfect storm, and I failed to anticipate any such thing. And I'm almost embarrassingly eager to just do whatever it takes to make more room for her and to compensate for this dreadful faux pas. (6:58:28 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> And, of course, I overthink everything. And the sooner I stop going on and on about it, the less of a big deal it will seem like to me. (7:00:06 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Really I should have just withdrawn my post quietly and shut the hell up from that point on. I apologize very much for getting so terrifically up in your face over it. She was silent. For a long time. (7:06:34 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Look let's just say: I won't change anything, we'll pretend the whole thing never happened, and I owe you one for putting up with my idiocy in general. Can we do that? She was still silent. For an even longer time. (7:26:32 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> Ah - thanks for listening to me and for being the dude in the middle, and let's don't even worry about it anymore. Unless you're epically pissed at me in which case we'll figure something else out. JESUS CHRIST SAY SOMETHING. (7:27:11 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> fuck, i just-- look, i just feel like i dragged you both into a bad situation without even realizing it, and in addition to this my being upset is making you shut up and never say anything again. and i'm taking horrifically long to articulate myself because i dont' even know what i can offer aside from my own whining, but. fffffffffff. (7:27:46 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> the only person who did any dragging was me! (7:28:27 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> you're not responsible for my insane overplanning or delicate ~*~feelings~*~ any more than you were responsible for anything else that ever happened between me and aqua. (7:28:48 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> I absolutely dread the idea that I've manage to compound my error by making you more uncomfortable with every stupid sentence. (7:28:59 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> but i did enable her to come over, and in retrospect, i feel like i should have known a little better (7:29:09 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> I asked you to! (7:29:32 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> And immediately overreacted as a result. This is all just me being silly. (7:29:54 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> really, i just wanna have my cake and eat it too. i like you and i like her and i really like the comm, but i know you two aren't terribly compatible, so really... (7:30:27 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> So really I'll check with you before I jump on a post that looks like a sapphire in the water, and otherwise business as usual, okay? (7:32:11 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ffff but ARE you comfortable with that, or are you just consoling me here because i made virtual puppy eyes at you VIRTUAL PUPPY DOG EYES?! I HAVE SHIT ALL OVER MY PANTS AND YOU WERE MAKING PUPPY DOG EYES?! (7:33:12 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> it's really fine. really. honestly. (7:33:47 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> also lol puppy eyes I've been sitting here nearly pissing myself with fear thinking that I'd mangled this whole business so badly that you'd leave and never come back (7:35:59 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> l-like that would happen (7:36:30 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> sofia ;_; /GAYEST POSSIBLE INTERNET HUGS (7:36:59 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ;_;/ (7:37:08 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> ...wow, that is a horrible emoticon (7:37:47 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> but anyway, thank you. (7:38:24 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> okay so anyway uh I'm going to pour myself some tea and good lord why are you thanking me I should be thanking you ha ha did i say tea, it was actually some brandy in a snifter. like. a snifter FULL of brandy. (7:39:17 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> w-well for all of your scheming you are still always terribly considerate, so for that (7:40:13 PM) <font color=0066cc><b>NDD:</b></font> sh-shut up i'm totally hard and a bastard now let me sip my tea and pet this kitty and thank you sofia (7:40:43 PM) <font color=cc3300><b>Sofia:</b></font> :3 &#9829; I kept trying to apologize for the vastness of a blunder that nobody else knew was so vast until I explained the whole thing. I am so very very smart. BTW Aqua is now a very high-volume and well-liked poster. It didn't take her very fucking long, did it! Sofia continues to be excellent company; I'm really enjoying watching Mifune crack a couple of uke skulls in one of our big group posts. And I am just about to launch the next stage of community expansion. The mistake with Aqua - that was a big mistake. But belaboring Sofia was a much bigger one. There are people who, if they left - rather if I drove them out - it would kill any interest I have in maintaining and growing my community. Aqua could not possibly stir up enough trouble that I couldn't, with time, get it under control - but without Sofia, I would have so much less reason to bother. PP says this is a scary weakness to have, but I like having scary weaknesses. :3c It adds zest to life![/quote]