Well, I really intended to get back on a regular schedule with my rants, but I screwed up. Anyway, some things happened yesterday and today that I can't resist talking about, thus the new rant.
Recently, all of my Gaming Club friends have gotten into a website-based game called Kings of Chaos (do a search for it if you're interested). The basic gist of it is you build up an army by posting a web link in a highly visible place (such as a profile, but there are rules about where you can and can't put it). When a person clicks the link and then the number it tells the user to click, the person who's raising the army gets another soldier. In addition, you get gold periodically every day which can be spent to upgrade and fortify your army. That's about the extent of my knowledge since I don't actually play it. My refusal to play is the direct cause of the subsequent shenanigans.
Basically, this whole debacle began with my college friend, Adam, who was one of the first people to make everyone else in the Gaming Club aware of the online game. Then, as others began signing up, people began trying to recruit officers for their armies (officers being players who are subordinate to the "general"; officers also give the general a boost in men and gold, I believe). Adam was the first one (on March 15, to be specific) who tried to make me an officer under him and then, three or four days ago, the president of the Gaming Club, Taylor, followed by my future roommate, Hans (I may have Taylor and Hans backwards). Not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings and not wanting to start my own army because I wasn't interested in the game, I refused to participate in the game. I was badgered by people (especially Taylor) for a couple of days and expressed my desire to just be left alone about the game. As Hans pointed out, these proceedings paralleled my housing search where both Adam's group and Hans's group tried to get me to live with them next year (they both needed a fourth), so, while this was amusing initially, I quickly became exasperated with it. Then, the unthinkable happened.
Last night, at
Hello shadowbat [shadowbat being the name of one of my D&D characters],
Thank you for signing up to play Kings of Chaos.
Not remembering ever signing up for Kings of Chaos, I quickly logged into this account to find "shadowbat" was under another Gaming Club friend of mine called Kara who was under... Hans. Since Kara had only joined that day and since Hans had been bugging me about joining, I decided that my vengeance for this outrage would be directed towards him (I've now come to the conclusion that it was a joint effort, though as to just how deep the rabbit hole goes, I'm not going to speculate). And, conveniently, the next day happened to be April Fool's Day. The perfect circumstances. Now, I just had to think of how I would exact my revenge.
The opportunity practically fell into my lap. I was in Hans's apartment, about to get dinner, when I decided to go check out his computer. As it turned out, he was gone, leaving the computer unguarded and giving me an easy way to mess with him. After getting on (through methods I won't reveal, in case he doesn't know), I proceeded to change his wallpaper, screensaver, and away message, each with messages to the effect of "Shadowbat was here." As icing on the cake, I made a quick program (as he's in my comp. sci. class and had the same text editor/compiler as I did) which printed to the screen in an infinite loop, "Shadowbat's revenge!" Ah, revenge is sweet indeed. Too bad I couldn't stick around to see the look on his face. According to my sources, he took it well. Guess I'll find out in comp. sci. class tomorrow. Hopefully, I haven't just started an infinite loop of my own making, this one involving retaliations. Hans, if you're reading this, I hope you're not mad at me, and I hope for a truce.
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