[006 ★ voice] backdated to yesterday

[guiltapalooza]

I've been thinking about what to do about the giant spider everyone's been getting eaten by lately, and I think I came up with something. I'm going to ask the admins to get rid of it in the suggestion box. They keep saying they want to help us, so they should put their money where their mouth is.

To anyone that was wondering what it is, someone posted saying it was a lusus? Which is like a big animal thing that acts as a guardian for a troll. Not that that explains why it was eating people, which brings me around to--

Okay, I hardly know you, but Vriska Serket, what the heck where you thinking?! If it's your lusus, you can't exactly have missed what was going on! How could you just let it eat people? I don't care if they came back, it still ate them.

Are all of you that got attacked okay?

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[Video]

[dragonspooker]

...wait.

Y'mean there's someone to blame for this - someone that isn't one of those sneaky hiding jerks?

[Someone she can dish out payback to?]

[Video]

[guiltapalooza]

I don't know if she's to blame, exactly, but if you go back a little way in the network, there's someone talking about it being her lusus. So she had to at least have known about it.

Kind of like if your pet spider was also your mom, I guess.

[PRIVATE]

[chronomancer]

the suggestion box is a good idea
maybe they wwill do somethin about it
but if its really a lusus...
it did look like one
sort a
but maybe you should make sure before callin people out on it?

[PRIVATE]

[guiltapalooza]

I'd rather talk to her myself. I'm tired of being sneaky, and honestly I'm not any good at it. I'm not going to attack her or anything even if it was her, but I might yell a little.

And you can't tell me that this conversation doesn't look more than a little suspicious. She sure doesn't seem concerned.

[Text.]

[hystericull]

crazy eight ain't just letting the motherfucking bitch run fuckin wild

SHE'S ALL UP AND KNOCKING MOTHERFUCKERS THE FUCK OUT

dragging their nappy sorry motherfucking asses all to where's the fat beast's up and snoozing at

FEEDING THEM STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS TO HER HER MOTHER FUCKING SELF

or so a brother is all coming to hear at up through the mother fucking grapevine

[Text.]

[guiltapalooza]

She's what? How sure are you of this, Gamzee?

[Text/Private]

[caliginous]

[oh god he really doesn't want to talk to gamzee again, but right now that doesn't matter because DID VRISKA REALLY START THIS SHIT...]

BACK THE FUCK UP.
WHO THE HELL TOLD YOU THAT?

[wwaterboy]

wwait
no
wwill dont
lusi are lusi you cant do much about it
but you cant touch that fuckin suggestion box

[guiltapalooza]

I don't know what else to do. I don't want to fight it, and I don't want anyone else to get hurt, so I'm taking a risk. They shouldn't be able to mess up a suggestion like this. I hope.

It's too late, anyway-- I already did it. I'm sorry, but it'll be okay.

[midgarhorizon]

Hey, uh, Willow, I wouldn't go confronting her on your own if she's the one behind the spider. You'll need backup.

[guiltapalooza]

I wouldn't say no to back up, but I can take care of myself. Anyway, why does everyone think I'm about to go charging off and hex her into oblivion? If I wanted to do that I wouldn't be wasting time with a network post. I just want to talk to her.

[ text/private]

[pushedaround]

wE CAN'T, rEALLY CONTROL OUR LUSUS,
aRE YOU SURE SHE DID IT ON PURPOSE?

[ text/private]

[guiltapalooza]

She could've warned people. The fact that she didn't looks pretty bad.

Gamzee said that she fed them to it on purpose, and while he might not be the most reliable source, he apparently saw it himself. It's a little hard to refute that.

[moontothetide]

Do...d-do you really think they will? I mean...I, I-I kinda got the impression that they want us to die. Like...a lot. People talk about it like, l-like it's really no big deal, here.

[Death will always be a big deal to Tara.]

[guiltapalooza]

[Her voice unconsciously softens, because this is Tara.]

I know. It's gotten... kind of cheap to some people. [To Willow, it still caused a visceral reaction, though she could understand getting jaded by it from being here long enough.] But they've always said that we're here for our own good, and they do listen to suggestions in non-horrifying ways sometimes. So I thought it was worth a shot.

I don't know what else to do. Buffy isn't here. [And it's such a relief to finally have someone to say that to that gets, immediately, why Buffy not being here makes Willow feel helpless.]

PERMATEXT.

[theresnosuchthing]

Why are you mad at the big spider? It's only trying to help! That's not very nice of you. (u_u)

[guiltapalooza]

Killing people is not helping! Did you miss that memo? The nice train has left the station.

[fabricates]

[Ugh shit it's everywhere now.]

If you want to try to control a 8east that 8ig that's pissed, 8e my guest.
You o8viously don't understand troll-lusii rel8tionships.
8ut it's 8ullshit anyway. That isn't my lusus.

jackety jack for one sec [ALSO PRIVATE FOR REASONS!]

[hystericull]

oh it fuckin ain't
WHO ALL MIGHT THAT DISGUSTING MOTHER FUCKING BITCH BE BELONGING TO
if it ain't mother fucking you

[guiltapalooza]

I don't understand a lot about what's going on, but I understand one thing.

You knew this happening, and you didn't warn anyone. You didn't ask for help. Instead, you fed people to it. In what world does that not make you accountable for murder?

[ voice ]

[chainsawn]

... Is that why everyone was talking about spiders earlier? [ she's a little slow on the uptake, yes. ]

It sounds like it wasn't a spider that could help people reach Buddhahood like that one person said.

[ voice ]

[guiltapalooza]

No. It wasn't. [Willow is tired, and exasperated, and busy dealing with everyone else thinking she was trying to appoint herself vigilante of justice and then critiquing her on her methods. The reality was that she didn't want to be in charge, at all; she was just doing what she couldn't in good conscience not do.]

Whoever that is seems... like they either don't have a full set of marbles, or think it's fun to harass people in the middle of a crisis. So yes, there is a giant spider, and it's eating people. Been eating people.

voice;

[ofdewandglass]

And I thought that was the tower screwing with me by making a monster look like a lusus. I wasn't going to call anyone out on it.

But that glubbing beach. How dare she?! I died because of it.

voice;

[guiltapalooza]

It killed you?! Oh, no. Are you okay now? [This is some very sincere and immediate worry, followed up by a nervous question.] You're not going to... go do anything rash, are you?

AFTER ALL THE OTHER THREADS- also [video]

[fractus_animus]

[ ... Sighing. After sifting through all that was public, text and otherwise, Minato... takes the time to try to contact her. ]

I'm fine, for the record. I managed to get out of the web and get away using my Persona. ... Willow-san, right? I think we need to go speak with Serket-san. I don't know her that well, but there isn't anything to be gained if we don't try to talk it out.

[video | awesome filter of awesome]

[guiltapalooza]

[She stifles the reflexive urge to ask what a Persona is, knowing that that is a whole separate conversation they don't need to be distracted by.]

I'm glad you're okay, and yeah, that's me. [Her four words of Japanese gleaned from obsessive researching in the past let her gloss over the honorific.] I'm talking to her right now, and she's pretty adamant that it's not her fault. I don't know what to think.

[papshooshing]

FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT TROLLS, DESPITE HOW OFTEN YOU SEEM TO TALK TO THEM.
WHILE VRISKA IS A FESTERING BITCH, SHE CAN'T CONTROL THE BEAST.
IT'S NOT LIKE SHE HAS A CHOICE IN WHAT HER LUSUS EATS.
ON OUR PLANET IT'S EITHER ABIDE BY THE LAWS OF NATURE OR THEY'LL GET YOU.

[guiltapalooza]

I know enough to say that there's no excuse for not asking for help. You have no idea what I'm capable of, or what anyone else is, and neither does she. If it really needs to eat people and not monsters and not anything else, you know what, I can come up with something. I can try. I don't want to watch anyone's mom get killed, no matter what it's done.

But people have died! I can't sit here and think about how sad I am for her and whoever else was involved with this when it means more killing would happen.