Stuff Happened!

I'm not the most prolific writer at all but I think it's time to actually give Tension a shout out.  This requires a bit of backstory though.

(cracks knuckles)
Okay, here we go.

First off as a reminder I'm doing this...arg (??) called The Tension Experience.  There are two factions I know of:  the Oraculus Order of Anoch (OOA) and the Brothers of Seraph (BOS).  I'm currently with the OOA and I'm actually one of two people that are Sentry of the Council (moderators on the forum).  

Rewinding a bit: back in mid or late March I created a chat room via Slack.  I invited I think 16 people to the room, people that I trusted OR were referred by people I trusted.  Tension Experience made it very clear that they were not happy about Slack's existence, citing that it was dragging away activity from their forum.  Personally I thought that was a load of crap because all we did was basically talk about our personal life with like a bit of theorizing here and there.  After note:  those theories would be posted on the forum, if they made any sense.

One day, I think it was in April, I got an e-mail from a user on The Tension Experience forum from an individual with the handle of Mr. Ohio.  He briefly explained to me that he's new and fairly good at puzzles and just needed to have an avenue with like-minded people to hive mind about what is going on with The Tension Experience.  Initially I ignored him but he persisted and honestly I thought "if he's that genuine about joining, sure, he seems nice".

That was a big ol' effing mistake.

As soon as I let Mr. Ohio (his name was Tom Donovan) in he immediately started shit and was not listening to people that were trying to come up with team strategy.  He apologized but he just didn't seem to get it.  After a few weeks we basically had enough and I kicked his ass out after he was being a dick to another player.  Of course all that banishment stuff was happening on my brother’s birthday WHILE at dinner (thanks Mr. Ohio for impeccable timing).

Oh and my last words to Ohio was YOU SHALL NOT PASS.  lol I am a DORK.

So I think a week or so later, on forum, a Tension Experience character called Gatekeeper4 pretty much let the cat out of the bag that she was Mr. Ohio.  Gatekeeper4 mind you is a character that prides herself on her chaotic and angry persona.  Personally she actually intimidated me on the forum.  And so all the Slackers in my group were like "holy crap we were infiltrated, wow".  And then silently I did my groaning over the fact that I private messaged Mr. Ohio with more brute force style questions (long story but I was playing investigator for a task that was fucking impossible). 

Gatekeeper4 (or ~four as she called herself) left Tension June 3rd and since then we've gotten hints that she is still hanging around....somewhere.  As of late Gatekeeper3 (III), who took over ~four's job, has been a terrible person.  Basically III has been inferring that he has killed several OOA staff on the grounds that he didn't "like them" and besides that just sleeps or eats mac and cheese.  When I think of III, I think of this:

Poo lantah, oh. Manama tohtah.

Ya I'd honestly have crazy train ~four than asshole III.  Two days ago III was cranked up to asshole level 11 and more or less making most of the Tension community unhappy.  He fired Mike Fontaine of My Haunt Life, OOA's only Scribe and probably OOA's biggest asset.  AND III was hitting on another player which was just creepy.  Many people on the forum were PISSED including me.  Of course I can't do much so I started a hashtag campaign #IstandwithFontaine, several people followed suit in quick succession. That's when ~four PERISCOPED a threat against III but the title of the Periscope was #IstandwithFontaine.  

I was so fucking pumped and kinda flattered that ~four would acknowledge the campaign.  :)

But then III fucking deleted the periscope as soon as it was posted. :(   III is such a dick!  But this did not stop ~four.  This is where it got even cooler for me.

I got an e-mail from Tom Donnovan (yes last name was spelled a little different but whatever).  The same e-mail address that I used to invite Mr. Ohio in.  The title of that e-mail?

~four you from an old friend.  

!!!

THEN as I was trying to figure out how tactful I should be with this message and which file share program to use I got a PHONE CALL from Tension.  The caller said "we, I mean SHE wants to confirm that you got the message".  

The e-mail contained the audio file of ~four's message on the periscope video that was just posted.  She specifically said in the e-mail to spread her message and so I did on the forum, with some stealth as not to blow her cover wide open.

And so ya, Tension, I was so incredibly pumped when you did that.  THANK YOU!!! <3

*note here:  yes I talk in this blog as if these characters are real but this is an arg so....I totally get ~four, III, Mr. Ohio are just characters.  So no, I haven't lost my mind, yet?