[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

This thread is to appreciate III. I would welcome you to argue or insult in another thread

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

Okay okay we got the point across, lets stop with the ciphers folks

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

Basic description:

Typing sound in background, camera points at something being typed repeatedly (missed what it was). 4 bashes III, expresses appreciation for @mike. She claims that III is about to see her best and that “she”, referring to another woman besides 4, will end III

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

Enough saw it that the word will spread, that can’t be deleted.

We missed you, you crazy bitch

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

I used to speak with Aleister rather frequently. The feeling that I got from him was that he had no or little power of his own, but he acted as a liaison between us, the Gatekeepers and other OOA higher ups. Through speaking with him we were enable to enact some change, although I suspect that it was more through passing the message along to those who had the power to do so rather than him doing it, himself.

At no point did he reveal his position to me, I believe that he existed in a role outside of what we say on the organizational chart or was on one of the roles that we’ve never had properly defined.

Out of respect, I never questioned him on the Ellis name but I am definitely regretting now that I did not

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

I will shortly after work. I’d like to do a little of my own work with it first but I’ll hand it out before the end of today

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

Yes. Made it a little hard to hear for me since I have to step out of my office into the windy street to hear him, but that’s correct.

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

No. The entire call was short, basically amounting to confirming that he had information about me then stating that the OOA has done so much good for him, and that I should not listen to the detractors.

I got about halfway through asking a question before he hung up. Entire call took maybe.. 30 seconds?

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

For some it’s a case of “the enemy of my enemy”

For others, they didn’t really care for Addy’s well-being in the first place

Still others just straight liked 4.

Note that the few who valued Addison over the Path and the Gatekeepers aren’t really here to welcome 4 back

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

Melissa has a penchant for ciphers. You may want to look into that one.

Some tools if you need it.

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

@mike was not only your Scribe, he was ours as well. We built this community for you and the Institute. You may influence it but it is not yours to control. You’ve in one way or another dealt with every Institute liaison that we had connections to, stripped one of our own of a place of honor, and isolated others in ways that is both confusing and creepy as shit.

You are a Gatekeeper, but you’ve taught us nothing, you’ve only taken away. You are first and last and only counted because you’ve made yourself as such by exiling those that actually mattered to us and given us nothing to fill that void. Gone are the teachings that we all originally came here for. Gone is the insight that your predecessors and associates gave us into what we yearn to understand.

Perhaps you are the only disruptor here, III. No… disruption implies that the change to something ultimately leaves it with the same substance as it did before only in different configurations. You’ve taken away from the Experience, you’ve taken away from us, and you’ve taken away from the Institute.

We’re here for you, stop begging for attention and drawings from one of us, take a break from your naps, netflix, and pasta and give us something instead of just taking it all away. You’re a damn Gatekeeper, not an infant to be swaddled and cared for lest he throw another tantrum.

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

Rough translation:

I am worried about you, which is weird because I don’t normally worry. My Regents are already working on something like this, but yours is probably better. Please don’t be jealous or angry at me/them. If you like it, that’s cool though.

I hope you like me. If you don’t, then I was just joking and don’t like you.

I forgot, your hair is pretty

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by  Sean (@TheGilded). Reason: Pronouns are hard

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

If the reports are wrong and it turns out this was the work of III or 4 or the Barrows or Addy herself or anyone else, then I’ll be the first to apologize and lead the damn funeral march in his honor.

But all we’ve got to go on is what we’ve heard so far, so for now

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

I should clarify my statement, then. The man was foolish in life, but I respected his struggle. He was fighting for something that he cared about. For that reason I even supported him to an extent, despite the fact that he and I were on different sides of all of this. I support and honor anyone who would fight against whatever they view to be an injustice, and anyone who would struggle to better the lives of others. For a while, I thought that’s what Mark was doing. In his eyes, he was the little man fighting against the big evil and regardless of whether I agree with his assessment or not, I honor the fight.

But he stopped fighting. His battle began and ended with one person, and fuck everyone else whose lives are (again, in his point of view) in danger. His battle began and ended by whining twice on a forum over the course of what, a month? Then rather than continuing the fight, changing tactics, helping the others he knew in his mind to be in danger, or fuck… even just walking away he did the most cowardly thing a man can do and ate a bullet. The woman that he claims to love more than life itself is in danger and rather than fighting for her in any way that is more significant than the equivalent of asking us real nice to maybe please convey a message to her if we felt like it, he swallowed the barrel of a gun like a bitch. His actions in life didn’t mean that he deserved death. But his actions at the end of it mean he deserves dishonor.

So fuck Mark, and fuck his memory.

[Sean (@TheGilded)Moderator]

Disagreeing seems to be the in vogue thing to do, so I’m going to chip in as well. If Benny was worried about us, he’d do something about it. All he’s done so far is complain about the woman that he lost that, by all accounts, he introduced into this “oh-so-evil cult” to begin with. He tried to get us to deliver messages to a woman who we are not sure even wants to see him anymore. In his mind, the OOA is this hugely dangerous thing and when faced with the idea that there is a whole new class of disciples, he opted to share _nothing_ with us and attempt to use us for his own gains.

Don’t get me wrong, I pitied the man when he lost his girl. I would continue to pity him right now if he is alive, as that is a rough thing to go through and something we can all relate to. If he was killed, then I would pity him in fighting for his love and losing.

However, as it stands, the man came here to use us, gave us nothing that would help us from the fate that he believes awaits us, then introduces the insides of his head to the wall when the woman he claims to love supposedly needs him the most.

It is sad, but I do not mourn him. He gave up when the battle got heated. He did nothing for anyone that didn’t benefit him and his own goals. He was selfish in life and selfish in death. If what we have heard is all true, then the bastard is better worm food than he ever was as a man. He’ll end up as a footnote in this story of ours and even that is too much for him.

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