by MarpTarpton » Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:54 pm
This is Marp, definitely not TotalyMeow after having successfully beat Marp's password out of him in his absence due to being locked in the basement.
Meow is correct, especially regarding the timeline of how Popham went down. And, if I may be so bold, I will continue the tale with further details of what transpired.
Not 24 hours after I, who am definitely Marp, created the witchcraft quest on Popham. That was a lot of fun, and many of you devoted hours to solving it. But you know who had ZERO interest in it and kvetched up a storm?
Darwoth.
Darwoth, in no uncertain terms, questioned the validity of my parentage and suggested I should attempt to copulate with myself before he would work to solve the quest. And I don't blame him. The quest (any quest really, or riddle, or series of tasks that require thought) are best solved by a group of people, because it spreads the chance for success among all of them. Now, clever individuals did, I know, solve the riddles eventually, but in the end it was a group who solved it all first. But further, dear Wothdar didn't have it in him because his days, as he put it, of riddle solving were over and that wasn't the kind of Salem he wanted to play.
So, the scourge of Salem literally let the existing Popham competitors solve the quest for him. Then, when Popham's numbers had further dwindled ("Hey, these guys are just going to release livestock on Prov eventually - screw this, let's go plant potatoes!") in comes Darwoth. At this point there were still a small handful of people making an attempt to build the Ark, but without the Biddas-like fervor such a small group would need, they failed.
The mechanic will eventually spread, at Darwoth's pleasure or our own, but for the time being I'm very content to let Darwoth continue to enjoy HIS victory because he definitely earned it. None of you can even be bothered to assault him and your fear, which is usually so ridiculously misplaced, will allow him to continue to dominate you. You have no idea the hassle, the art investment, the hours animating, the coding and its hourly worth that went into the entire livestock industry. But I do. And if you aren't willing to even make one solid attempt to liberate the animals from Darwoth's grasp, to topple him as the unfair overlord he's being in covetously spooning insufficient dollops of livestock as he feels like it, then you don't deserve them.
Procne wrote: Devs have again proven that they dont give a crap about untalented and lazy players.