Aren't you glad you don't live in this fictional society?

[Setzer]

This is why I really, really want to figure out a way to flood the fricking HTE with JIA*, KGB and other sundry agents and figure out how to unite all those aliens in opposition, but no, he has to keep his home universe hidden...


* My United States does not have separate CIA and DIA offices but rather a singular Joint Intelligence Agency. It was quite a bit more more effective than the historical CIA.

That's not hard to do.

[Steve]

Ah, so I should post this then, to explain the significance:

Founder Bryan: well I can say that tonight I wont stay up until 2:30
Founder Bryan: discussing silly things
Founder Bryan: so can we discuss something meanignful
Founder Bryan: yes Bryan I think we can discuss something more meanginfu
Founder Bryan: like what Bryan
Maj Svetlanna: Well, is the seating arrangement fixed then?
IceBergr: Bryan, are you talking to yourself?
Founder Bryan: well maybe like the articles of the treaty
Founder Bryan: of which we haven't finalized yet
Founder Bryan: now THAT is a hgood idea bryan
Founder Bryan: thank you bryan, I know
Founder Bryan: you're very welcome
Founder Bryan: so
sbbigsteve: He's done this before.
sbbigsteve: In IPARTY.
sbbigsteve: I still have the transcript.
Maj Svetlanna: He needs to be the Grand Duke of a small European country.
Founder Bryan: so far we have bioweapons (which we cant sign, you see why), international space (which we cant sign you know why), and then trade, POW treatment, and stuff like that
Founder Bryan: oh, very true Bryan
Founder Bryan: did you tell them why we cant sign the first two?
Founder Bryan: Yes I did, but they wouldn't listen
IceBergr: So who am I talking to now, Sybil?
Founder Bryan: why not?
Founder Bryan: because they do not see that if the HTE signs a treaty without the aliens of its galaxy being bound to it then it is a death sentence
Founder Bryan: ah, very true
Founder Bryan: you make a lot of sense Bryan, the others should listen to you
Duke Silence: I am still here. Thought at 11 I am going to be watching Cowboy Bebop
Founder Bryan: yes I know, they do not see my genious
Founder Bryan: vbery few do
Founder Bryan: yes I know
Founder Bryan: indeed
sbbigsteve: So.... tempted....
Founder Bryan: and you also cant sign the bioweapons because they want international oversight
Founder Bryan: like that wouldn't be breeching all forms of secrecy and classification
Founder Bryan: because we both know that our enemies would seed the inspectors with spies
Founder Bryan: dirty spies
Founder Bryan: yes
Founder Bryan: but you cant blame them, we would do that too
Founder Bryan: very true
IceBergr: If Bryan stars talking about his Precioussss, I'm gonna brain him.
JediPhong: So, will you start babbling about the Precious?
JohnSlone314: yeah, i think i'm gonna leave now before my brain explodes
Founder Bryan: it is the smart thing to do
IceBergr: Great minds think alike.
Founder Bryan: my precious empire will not fall
Maj Svetlanna: Steve...
JediPhong: ::has a hobbit steal the precious::
Founder Bryan: before we attack
Founder Bryan: we will have to blind them, stab out their eyeses
IceBergr: Nasty, tricksy little hobbitsses...
Founder Bryan: these other people in the chat ar talking about something called a "hobit"
Founder Bryan: I dont know wtf that is
Founder Bryan: I think they are crazy
Founder Bryan: indeed
Founder Bryan: exactely
Founder Bryan: we need to plot their destruction
Founder Bryan: should we do it here?
Founder Bryan: They cant see us
Founder Bryan: are you sure?
Founder Bryan: positive
Founder Bryan: okay
Founder Bryan: first
Founder Bryan: we will destroy them all
Founder Bryan: okay
Maj Svetlanna: I'm reporting him for death threats to AOL.
Founder Bryan: second
sbbigsteve: Bryan, shut the fuck up.
JohnSlone314: please, do so
Founder Bryan: lol
IceBergr: Seconded.
Founder Bryan: see how stupid this thing is
Maj Svetlanna: Yes, how stupid YOU are.
JohnSlone314: or make sure his empire somehow ends up with a 'z' as the second letter of its romanization
Maj Svetlanna: God.
Maj Svetlanna: That was beyond asinine.
Founder Bryan: Marina, you're acting like a stuck up old loser who has to have fucking seating arrangements
Founder Bryan: that doesn;'t fucking matter
Maj Svetlanna: It's an enjoyable thing to debate.
Founder Bryan: I swear to god this is the most stupid AOL conversation ever
Founder Bryan: it is not enjoyable
Maj Svetlanna: We're getting down into the nuts and bolts of diplomacy.
Founder Bryan: it has no significane
Founder Bryan: it is a waste of time
IceBergr: You haven't heard stupid AOL conversations, Bryan.
Founder Bryan: well if I had Ice, this would take the cake
IceBergr: *mouse pointer hovering over the "ignore" button*
Founder Bryan: and then some
Founder Bryan: good, I'm leaving,
IceBergr: It's only stupid because you're hijacking it and making it stupid.
Founder Bryan: it started stupid
JohnSlone314: no it didn't
Founder Bryan: unless you want to discuss something of meaning
Founder Bryan: like the articles we have to discuss
JohnSlone314: just because you do not appreciate the fine aspects of diplomacy doesn't make it stupid
Founder Bryan: mr. senator
Founder Bryan: these are not the "fine points of diplomacy". May i point out we are not diplomats, we are merely pretending to be
Founder Bryan: we are not engaging in diplomacy
Founder Bryan: if this is fun for you, you have strange fun
Founder Bryan: SDing is fun, writting stories is fun
IceBergr: Every part of diplomacy - even parts as seemingly mundane as catering and seating - establishes relationships of power between nations.
Founder Bryan: but arguing over SEATING ARRANGEMENTS is NOT fun
Founder Bryan: hm
JohnSlone314: It's not fun for you, so now i get called strange?
Duke Silence: neither is listening to your babble.
Founder Bryan: like these relationships will matter?
JohnSlone314: if i were a power, i would consider that a slap in the face
IceBergr: Yes, they will.
JediPhong: Indeed.
Founder Bryan: Silence, my babble had more meaning then this
Founder Bryan: No, they wont
JediPhong: What food gets served is important, even. Though we may not delve that deep
Founder Bryan: because everyone here has already determined who they shall be friends with and who they will not be friends with
Founder Bryan: the HTE will neve rbe buddy buddy with the FRE, ADN, OSE, or USA
IceBergr: Every detail establishes which nations are more powerful and which are less.
Founder Bryan: or anyone besides a few others
JohnSlone314: i'd say those powers are weaping
Founder Bryan: none of you will be buddies with me
Founder Bryan: (which is fine)
Founder Bryan: the relationships have already been established
Founder Bryan: and this conference
Founder Bryan: will only undermine the position of the HTE
JediPhong: OTOH, you do have a nice power bloc going up, don't you?
Founder Bryan: I swear, if I wer emore paranoid, I would consider that its purpose
JohnSlone314: bryan, have you ever built a wooden ship, or constructed a 2,000 piece jigsaw?
IceBergr: Bryan, it would be impossible for you to be more paranoid.
Founder Bryan: to destroy the alliances the HTE has
Founder Bryan: by isolating it with this inane treaty
JohnSlone314: actually, the purpose is for me to take over the HTE, clearly
JohnSlone314: by assassination
Founder Bryan: i bet it is
Founder Bryan: why dont we actually discuss something that will have significane at the treaty
IceBergr: Here, Bryan. *hands you a seemingly plain gold ring*
Founder Bryan: like what we are going to talk about
Founder Bryan: it's a bad idea to make this international treaty with too many ideas
Founder Bryan: trade, space, weapons, diplomacy, pows, etc
Founder Bryan: It is being drafted by powers that already support this
Founder Bryan: all it is is an attempt to hegemonize the galaxies
Founder Bryan: under the provisions the democracies support
Founder Bryan: if I were the ADN
Founder Bryan: I would be pulling this same stunt to isolate one of its enemies
IceBergr: The purpose of any form of diplomacy - be it by words or by guns - is to increase the power of one's own nation.
Founder Bryan: yes, this is so insanely obvious
Maj Svetlanna: Well, it can increase YOUR power, too!
Founder Bryan: the ADn and FRE and OSE are hegemonistic empires
Founder Bryan: no, it CANT increase my power, that is the problem
IceBergr: Pot. Kettle. Black.
Founder Bryan: I dont PRETEND NOT to be hegomonistic
Founder Bryan: I embrace it
Founder Bryan: you pretend not to be, but act it, which is hypocrisy
Founder Bryan: the FRE, OSE, and ADN are stopping the HTE from normalizing relations
Founder Bryan: I want to be freindly with you three
JediPhong: I'm pretty sure everyone knows that the FRE, OSE and ADN are hegemonistic.
Founder Bryan: but you are being overly hegemonistic and authoritarian
Founder Bryan: the Emperor could care less what you all do
Founder Bryan: but he sees Rubicon as a place to expand the holdings of the empire and expand trade
Founder Bryan: but when he sees treaty organizations being signed
Founder Bryan: and treaties drafted by nations they know the HTE cannot sign
Founder Bryan: it destroys any developing trust
IceBergr: If this is going to be nothing but Bryan whining, I have better things to do right now.
Founder Bryan: actually
Founder Bryan: this is what this chat should be about
Founder Bryan: where we can discuss our problems with the treaty
Founder Bryan: you asked me into this chat, and that is an invitationt o express my opinion and support it
Founder Bryan: if you don't want to be courteous then leave
Founder Bryan: I will use this opportunity to state the opinion
Founder Bryan: of the Empire
Founder Bryan: because Iceberg, you always bitch about everything I do
Founder Bryan: and threaten me
IceBergr: The last 30 minutes or so have been little but you complaining about how unfair the FTO powers and the OSE are to the HTE.
Founder Bryan: you might as well do it in real time chat
Founder Bryan: Iceberg, prove me wrong
Founder Bryan: I know the Empire has greatly offended the FRE
Founder Bryan: (buy attacking it duh
IceBergr: I haven't done anything toward the HTE since the battle of Oberon except for maintaining forces on the FRE-HTE border.
Founder Bryan: me too
Founder Bryan: The formation of the FTO would of course undermine relations the HTE had with other major powers, despit ehow little relations they were
Founder Bryan: having a presumably hostile enemy now in a treaty organization with 5 others would not be taken lightly
Founder Bryan: so you must understand the HTE position here
Founder Bryan: because I don't want to repeat it in the SD and then have a problem
Founder Bryan: so unless anyone else has anything to say
Founder Bryan: my concerns are justified
Maj Svetlanna: I'm going to take care of something. I'll be back in about thirty minutes.
Maj Svetlanna: I expect the conversation to be basically the same then.
Founder Bryan: my concerns are justified by silence
Founder Bryan: well, I guess I'm right then
Founder Bryan: evenif I am sounding full of myself
Founder Bryan: if someone wants to disprove it, I'd be more then happy to now my fears are unfounded
IceBergr: Well it's not like you've done a thing to allay the fears of the other GPs. Your territory is described as a military fief and you keep trying to impose your own preconceptions on an international conference.
Founder Bryan: true on point 1 about rubicon
Founder Bryan: I just explained why I have fears about the conference
IceBergr: Your idea that your own concerns are paramount and those of foreign powers mean nothing is arrogant to say the least.
Founder Bryan: because those that are drafting it already support it
Founder Bryan: my concern is that the other powers will not understand the terrible situation I am in in my home universe
Founder Bryan: I am almost better to sign the treaty and ignore it
Founder Bryan: I said I would sign certain parts of it
Founder Bryan: the conference itself is doomed to failure
Founder Bryan: but I doubt anyone is reading this
Founder Bryan: eventhough I read what everyone else wrote
Founder Bryan: *sigh*
Founder Bryan has left the room.
JohnSlone314: there is a God

[Hotfoot]

How much of Bryan's attitude is IC and how much is OOC? He seems rather...touched...

[phongn]

How much of Bryan's attitude is IC and how much is OOC? He seems rather...touched...

The lines between IC and OOC for Bryan blur.

[Stormbringer]

How much of Bryan's attitude is IC and how much is OOC? He seems rather...touched...

I think it's all his warped version of the world. He's a fundy and delusional.

[Pablo Sanchez]

Yeah, BigBryan is a dickhead.

I would have joined your little SD, but you guys refused to recognize my superconservative caste-defined Empire of semi-functional idiots

[phongn]

Yeah, BigBryan is a dickhead.

I would have joined your little SD, but you guys refused to recognize my superconservative caste-defined Empire of semi-functional idiots

Well, I recognized it! You could always try again, though it's going somewhat slow right know (even though I have a war of annihilation going on in my universe).

[Pablo Sanchez]

Well, I recognized it! You could always try again, though it's going somewhat slow right know (even though I have a war of annihilation going on in my universe).

Well, I came up with a different concept, influenced by STGOD-II and Deus Ex. Some time in the future, one of the galaxies which the SD is played creates a super-powerful AI network to moderate all activity, to end war and institute a Utopia. But after they actually put it in place, they think better of it, and there ensues a war of total annihilation. The AI is technically victorious, but the warcripples the AI construct's processing and reduces the general tech level to an acceptable point. So, you end up with countless people under the total control of an computer program which is both sublime and ridiculous.

If you think that's okay, then I'd be willing to devote a bit of time to fleshing it out and posting it your Great Game discussion thread.