@STD said in How dangerous is VASpider?:
Do you happen to recall what it was about Ivy that Rapier didn’t like?
Doesn’t matter. Rapier had these ideas of how things were going to go, and when things didn’t follow his script, he got passive aggressive and sulky.
Boo-hoo, you torpedoed my favorite NPC, he sulked, and I was like, eh, your NPC knew the risks when you set up this plot this way, and it’s not my PC’s job to bail your NPC out of the choices he made, and why are we even having this conversation it’s a goddamn NPC and your habit of playing it like a PC doesn’t actually make me sympathetic.
And then later, he was like, describe for me how you’re going to fight this evil Bird of Prey jargon, jargon, jargon and I was like, uh, can I make a tactics roll? Because I had to look this shit up on the Star Trek wiki. My character has points in this; I don’t. And he was like, no! Describe how you’re going to attack these things! And I was like, fuck you, no, tell me the difficulty on the tactics roll, fuckhead. So he set the difficulty to pretty goddamn hard, and I hit the roll, and he sulked for the rest of the session.
He also got mad at me for doing statistics on his dumb dice system. Even with plenty of points in Tactics, the odds of hitting that target difficulty were 1 in 6 (about 17%). And when I published a couple of graphs that let people easily visualize where it wasn’t worth putting more XP into something, he ranted and sulked at me. I was like, dude, this is just math, and it’s not cheating to do math. Also, this isn’t school, so if I wanna let my friends copy my math homework, I’m gonna.
As for Spider playing there, they played under the radar for a while and then it came to light and because Rapier refused to remove them from the game it broke his long term OOC/RL friendship with Starfleet (an ex of Spider), and in turn broke my friendship with him as well as I fed into what Rapier would say to justify choosing Spider over Starfleet.
Interesting. I was completely oblivious to any of this.
Of course you were. Because it was all pretty indefensible. Abusive relationship on top of abusive relationship, essentially. Also, as I recall, Spider used his/their/her feminine? wiles to get Rapier to give Spider money he couldn’t afford to give away.
Rapier was delusional and hugely convinced of his own cleverness, and Spider played him like a children’s piano: easily and to the chagrin of all in hearing range.
Which once again comes back to why Spider is dangerous. Spider finds the weakest link and manipulates and uses it, making everyone else in range miserable and/or annoyed.