Unclear
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| 13 May 2014 08:38 PM |
Hey everyone, this is Unclear. I am resigning from all of my positions in F.E.A.R., effective immediately. My resignation thread will, like many typical resignation threads, include a long, boring, and over-dramatized story about my clan career in F.E.A.R. However, unlike other similar threads, this one will attempt to tell my career in its entirety, ugly truth and all. Except I fail at telling stories. Whatever. Fun fun fun. -- This is a story of how I played a game in F.E.A.R. and wanted to see if I could create significant positive change in ROBLOX’s biggest group.
I lied, cheated, and lied, and cheated.
o and lied.
and cheated.
-- Some abbreviations for reference… F.E.A.R. – The First Encounter Assault Recon HCOM – High Command ATC – Armacham Technology Corporation HD – Honors Division MP – Military Police FTC – F.E.A.R. Training Council FMA – F.E.A.R. Military Academy SpC – Sparrow Corp -- Act I - Beginnings In December, I heard of ATC from then ATC Programmer Sunstaff. Having just returned to ROBLOX from an extremely long hiatus I dedicated towards actually learning Lua, I immediately felt a sudden urge to go back to clans. After thinking it over, I accepted his invitation and added him on Skype. He arranged a meeting with SHADOWTHEHEDGEHOGXX, then a co-director of ATC, and I gained admission after exploiting my exposures on the ROBLOX blog and my experience in SpC. However, I arranged a deal that I would only serve under the username Estceque. He promptly accepted, and I started as a regular Programmer, sharing the rank with Sunstaff and EchoReaper.
At that point, I decided to be serious about F.E.A.R. I purchased the uniform and did everything that I did in every other clan for about a day. Then, I contacted Wizard2268, an old friend from 2012 when I was last in F.E.A.R., and asked for his assistance and advice in creating a “better F.E.A.R.”. After quickly learning how F.E.A.R. operated, I set my long term goal as achieving the title of Director of Training, which I figured would be the best position to utilize in order to force the change I wanted to create. Wizard2268 complied and together we formed the first draft of my proposed training reform. Knowing that nobody would listen unless I was ranked Major or higher, I decided to keep it a secret with Wizard2268 and revise the proposal while achieving the ranks necessary to have a voice. Around this time I met HD188753. After I got to know him and I befriended him, he spoke to me of his plan with Andrew2899lee to create a database for F.E.A.R. and he personally showed me his own attempt at it. Immediately, I drew the connection that this would be a vital tool for me to monopolize if I wanted to become the Director of Training. So, I playfully suggested that I would be willing to take a shot at it if he wasn’t willing to. A few days later, sure enough, HD188753 came to me and I began to get to work. A day later, I finished the basics of the database and showed it to Andrew2899lee. He liked it, and I earned a promotion from Specialist to Major for my service. Act II – Preparations Having acquired Major, I decided that it was time to put out my proposal. I posted it on the wall and I got it shouted. Unfortunately, my ideas received a bit of competition; at the time, Disav0w had posted his own proposal. Of course, his ideas were treated with more respect and seriousness than mine because he was a Colonel. Nevertheless, I succeeded in doing what I set out to do; get others to know that I was looking to become a candidate for Director of Training and that I had a plan. A week or two passed, and during this time I solidified my position in F.E.A.R. as an ATC Programmer. I wrote a few easy training scripts, then open sourced them and got high ranks to shout it occasionally. This, I think, played a crucial role in at least getting my username known by some of HCOM.
Then I helped SHADOWTHEHEDGEHOGXX gain full control over ATC. We prepared reasons as to why Wizard2268 was unfit to lead ATC and I prepared the reform papers. In almost an instant, it was done and SHADOWTHEHEDGEHOGXX was the sole Director of ATC, with all of the past administration exiled.
I was promoted to Officer by zach2222 a few days into January. Blazeman54 told me he had it arranged, and to this day I’m not entirely sure what exactly happened. Although it was outside of F.E.A.R. Meeting, SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX approved the appointment and I was officially an Officer a week after being promoted. In the start of February, I decided I would actively work towards eliminating my competition, Disav0w. For the sake of my plan, I honestly could not have let him take charge. Stuck and wanting some review of my attack plan, I decided to turn to ATC Programmer EchoReaper for advice. Together, we formulated the basics to the plan to create a stronger and better F.E.A.R. through the acquisition of power. Through positions and roles, positive change could be instigated.
After that discussion with EchoReaper, I created an alliance to secure the Department of Training with luitenant245 and devinzeth. With luitenant245 as the major influencer, I was able to get Disav0w to come along with the plan, under the condition that the role of Director of Training would be split into four co-director roles. I agreed, merely to have Disav0w sign onto the plan. Together we formed FTC. Around the same time, Blazeman54 admitted that he would be going into a state of inactivity, and so he asked SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX to promote me to Overseer to lead HD in his place. I was the successor of HD, and Blazeman54 wanted me to lead the moment he quit F.E.A.R. This plan was short-lived; only a few days later, Blazeman54 was demoted and removed from his position as Head of HD and replaced by videogame102. At this crucial moment, I lost control over my Internet connection because my father decided to reactivate the router program blocking ROBLOX. For nearly a month, I was unable to connect in-game and finally decided to withdraw from F.E.A.R. and enter a state of inactivity. A few weeks later, I began using a VPN and regained control over my connection. I came back to a completely changed HD. duckdude1123 had essentially been left in charge by videogame102 and changed HD into a specialized division focused in all fields. videogame102, on the other hand, had no evident hold on the situation. So I decided to read up on the changes, and got back to business. -- Act III - The “Takeover” of the Honors Division
At that moment, I decided that it was time to start retaking HD. The system, at the time, had an administration that voted based on majority rule. I knew that if I wanted to regain complete control over it, I would unfortunately have to oust videogame102. So, I met with paulshadow and johnsnic333, collectively forming an alliance in HD. The goal was simple; to rid the system duckdude1123 had set up and to appoint a new Head of HD: me. At first, I attempted to take advantage of the majority vote system with paulshadow and johnsnic333. Unfortunately, we did not possess enough of a majority to create the change I wanted. It became evident that new Supervisors were necessary if the plan was going to be successful. More Supervisors introduced the potential to tip the scale of majority rule. I decided to invest more time into HD and followed along with duckdude1123’s system to maintain a good image in the eyes of the administration; at least, enough to introduce new Supervisors. When the time came, I first approached 4Pros and asked if he would be willing to take a part of evolution. He agreed, and I promised him Supervisor.
I talked to videogame102 about the Supervisor ideal, and started by stating that we needed newer Supervisors who were more dedicated. In addition, a few of the older Supervisors needed to be removed due to their inactivity in the division. He agreed on both points, and so we named a few Supervisors: 4Pros (chosen by me), ZubairRahman (chosen by me), and jacecold (chosen by videogame102).
A few days passed by, but still we were at a standstill. There wasn’t enough power for the plan to succeed, and it appeared that some of the Supervisors had lost track of what the original purpose of the plan was. I decided it was time to put a rest to the HD plan for a while.
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Act IV – Rise
While the HD plan was being executed, ATC Programmer EchoReaper was becoming inactive due to schoolwork. At the time, he was the lead programmer of Alianor III. So, SHADOWTHEHEDGEHOGXX decided to approach me with the project. I immediately saw my chance to take advantage of the project and exploit its necessity for my own means, and so I accepted the proposal. It was the beginning of April and I received the work EchoReaper had done.
Unfortunately, the code that EchoReaper had written wasn’t much. At the most, there were hardly-functioning and generic guns. I decided that I couldn’t work under these conditions, and deleted all of EchoReaper’s work.
Starting fresh with Alianor III was probably the best decision I made with the project. It gave me a feeling that the project was my very own and gave me the drive to actually attempt to complete it and possibly reap even more rewards from its completion. In only three weeks, I finished most of the core mechanics of Alianor III and impressed SHADOWTHEHEDGEHOGXX and SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX greatly.
Nearing the end of April, I decided it was time to revive the HD plan. On a whim, I asked SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX if I could lead the division in place of videogame102, who was only allowing duckdude1123 to lead the division however he wanted. Despite having accidently mentioned the word “seize” during my convincing, I managed to gain sole leadership of the division.
The first thing I did was decide how I wanted the division to be run. I asked Andrew2899lee if my plan of splitting HD up amongst division representatives would be stable or not and finally decided to settle with that plan. Since the current division structure did not fit my plan, I began with the division purge and exiled all non-HCOM members on the spot; the only exception was 4Pros, who I appointed as sole Advisor of HD. He, being the one who stood by my side despite time, remained due to sole loyalty. A few days later, after Andrew2899lee picked who he would sponsor, I purged the rest.
The ex-HD members were enraged, of course. They had no clue what was going on, and thought I had exiled everybody except for my friends. Of course, none of them decided to do the rational thing and actually read the new division guide conveniently placed in the division blurb, but instead decided to complain. In particular, I remember duckdude1123 complaining on the RF wall about how he had his division stolen from him. l o l.
Around this time, I decided it was time to permanently break up FTC and prepare for obtaining the Department of Training. This, I think, was justified by the fact that I ultimately created FTC. I think I had the right to destroy it.
On the 1st of May, I was promoted to Colonel.
Then the real fun began.
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Act V – Pentagram
I had achieved Colonel, which was the recommended minimum rank to achieve Director of Training. However, I wanted to create a strong Department of Training prior to achieving Director of Training.
For this purpose, Pentagram started on the 8th of May.
I decided, for organization purposes, it would be best to put together all of my affiliates into one location. Recycling one of my old development groups, I began recruiting members from my experiences in other clans and some members from F.E.A.R. The members I recruited outside of F.E.A.R. were, for the most part, entirely loyal to me. This was my sole requirement for a member of the Department of Training; without complete confidence in my own department members, I could not trust them to carry out the plans necessary to create the change I wished.
When we started, I made it clear that our plan was to create a strong Department of Training, following EchoReaper and my ideals we had planned months before. With some core powers on our side, we would control elements necessary to create a Department of Training strong enough to actually monopolize training and regulate it without opposition. This was the change I initially seeked to create.
On the 10th of May, I was named Director of Training.
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Act VI – Aschente
New training regulations were put into place. We went in and out of trainings, made a bit of a presence, and first worked to stabilize our position in F.E.A.R.
We employed RC boosting to get certain members to ranks necessary to proceed with a stronger Department of Training.
On Sunday, iroctheworld approached me and requested that MP serve a purpose in the Department of Training. This coincided with my own plan to use MP as a strong police force underneath the Department of Training, dedicated to training regulation. Of course, I accepted his proposal and was granted Chief Advisor to control the initial roster of MP members the eventual Military Police Disciplinary Squad.
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Act VII – Fin
fin.
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So now that I am stepping down, what of the parts of F.E.A.R. that I control or have a significant part of?
What will happen to the Database? Alianor III? The Military Police Disciplinary Squad? The Honors Division? Armacham Technology Corporation? The Department of Training? idk u guys figure it out
Checkmate, F.E.A.R. Good game.
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dotdotdotdot - limitex ^_^ - alexis >:) - dragon96xx sami was here - reverentia
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tl;dr watch code geass
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