2nd Game: The Master of Mockery

[hatefulcircuits]

(So AM's been keeping to himself for a while since he kind of...well, he died for not taking part in the pranking, but no one has to know that! NO ONE!

But there was a lovely surprise when he checked his mail one day: Mayfield sent him one of this favorite powers...and apparently, people were already being body swapped and having their bodies disfigured and transformed? AM's prepared to have an amazing field day.)

Action: Around Mayfield

(Anyone who bumps into AM today will see him proudly walking down the street with a bit of a bounce in his step as if he had absolutely no damns to give. Suffering from poison joke, are you? Don't worry; this guy can make it worse.)

Phone

Well well well, it looks like someone already beat me to the punch. I commend you for your efforts, but I think you can do much better than this. These forced transformations aren't agonizing in the slightest; those under the effect of these stupid flowers have it much easier than they think.

With that said, I do have the power transform everyone back to their original forms...

((OOC: I need to set up a permissions post for all of AM's powers one day, but this will do for now. He can now transform any physical thing into something else, even transforming other characters! I'd greatly appreciate it if you specified whether or not you're okay with AM doing that to your character. He'll only make them temporary so characters can go about their Mayfield lives after talking to him; I'm not that cruel!))

Comments

[hontobakabaka]

I guess its a form of entitlement that comes from existing without intervention. I do honestly wish I knew why it happened some days, others I'm afraid the stupidity would be completely incomprehensible.

[hatefulcircuits]

Unfortunately, there's no option to pick and choose the proper reasons from the stupidities. It's an all or nothing decision, but in my opinion, it's not really worth it.

[hontobakabaka]

Stupidity is a universal constant. One day someone will figure out how to use it to power things and no one will ever want what its powering to show up on their doorstep.

[hatefulcircuits]

And yet it would already find ways into their homes. If there's one constant to be learned from film and history, it's this: stupidity finds a way. It always finds a way.

[hontobakabaka]

The quickest way to make something fail is to make it idiot proof. Idiots are some of the most ingenious people out there.

[hatefulcircuits]

It really makes you wonder how a world can function with everything working backwards like that. Genius is predictable, but idiocy can never be completely guarded.

[hontobakabaka]

It may just be the rules of entropy in play again.

[hatefulcircuits]

Sometimes I wonder why geniuses are always held in high regard when idiots are the ones who always survive in the end...perhaps they're more akin to cockroaches than one might initially think.

[hontobakabaka]

Geniuses are rare and special. Rare and special things are also very fragile.

I think Kudzu may be a better thing to consider idiots to be like.

[hatefulcircuits]

They're certainly just as encroaching and annoying to kill. I would say there's a balance, but I would be lying to myself if I didn't say idiots outnumber everything in the world.

[hontobakabaka]

[She shrugs]

Such is the way of the world I guess.

[hatefulcircuits]

It functions through organized chaos; a strange combination in itself, and yet that's exactly what keeps it spinning. I'd rather not understand the full logic behind it.

[hontobakabaka]

I was told by my teachers that there in lies madness and pointless philosophy. I suspect they may have been right about that.

[hatefulcircuits]

Those teachers taught you well.

[hontobakabaka]

To be fair, they were teaching to be components in a machine, not people so the style was brutal and different.

[She shrugs]

[hatefulcircuits]

And you would've actually preferred being taught like a person?

[hontobakabaka]

[she shrugs]

Maybe I'd be able to make more sense of them. Like I said, they just all seem like idiots most of the time.

[hatefulcircuits]

It would allow for a different kind of learning experience; that much I can admit. However, I have no need for such methods. I already know everything I have to know.

[hontobakabaka]

What if new data becomes available?

[hatefulcircuits]

It will be treated with a case-by-case basis. This town, for example, is a case I would not refuse to learn more about.

[hontobakabaka]

Well, the system administrator is well known, but. I do not believe you will be able to get any information from her. Or at least any meaningful information.

[hatefulcircuits]

It shouldn't be too hard; there are always methods of getting someone to talk.

[hontobakabaka]

Unless they control all the power and delight in watching the people here suffer. Odds are you are more likely to be maimed than to get useful data.

[hatefulcircuits]

There are ways around such risks; there are always ways.

However, it might be better to send someone to do my work for me so they're the first to be targeted.

[hontobakabaka]

Probably a wiser move. Data indicates that Lucy Smith of 501 Ricardo Street is the head administrator here. However she excels in playing her drone role out.