I'm trying to remember,is this a game...?

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Lafatme

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 03:22 pm Click here to edit this post
kp, you're either missing, or ignoring, the point.anyone is welcome to play the game and be here on the board WELCOME!

vyk can have supporters too-WELCOME!

my question is "how can so many people seem to KNOW him? from BB boards? okay, i'll accept that.

how did he, as a newbie here, KNOW how to get in touch with gail and kearie on aol?

why did gail invite someone who she couldn't know well to chat?, especially about something as personal as her mother's health? how did she know how to contact him outside the game?

my gut tells me that some posters who have been here awhile KNOW vykin better than they should based on his postings here. my gut tells me that they know him under another name on this board. we are not supposed to have more than one name but we now know gail has at least two, how do we know vykin/optics isn't familiar to us under another name.

if he is then i want to know who he is. if he has not posted here under any other name then i apologize to all of you for my paranoid ramblings.

i know i could be wrong, but i FEEL right. i guess we'll find out eventually. in the meantime, for my own satisfaction, i'm trying to investigate my suspicions.

if i discover anything i will post it, if i don't please forgive my suspicious mind.

it's not personal at all. i absolutely have NOTHING against vyk, or his supporters. i just want to know who he is, and i don't think i do now.

Noslonna

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 04:10 pm Click here to edit this post
vasix
xenia
vykin



coaxial!

Xenia and Vykin are both Optic masquerading as Vasix!

It is so obvious. They all share the uncommon "V" or "X" and the common "i" and/or "a"

Kpritch

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 04:30 pm Click here to edit this post
Laf, again I can only speak for myself. I know Vykin from the BB chatrooms. Vykin is not his AOL name. I will not give out his AOL name. Vykin is the name he picked for the game. Before that he posted on this website as Optics. I don't know Gail or ArReal. When I looked up the name ArReal in the Members Profile on AOL, it came up with another screen name, but with ArReal as the members name. I don't know if it's her or not. If you have AOL, check it out. I have no idea who Gail is. I don't know if Gail is on AOL (it doesn't really matter since you can use AIM) and I have no idea how they met or who contacted whom.

Katie, I believe Roger is correct in his post about the Host's answer about Vykin/Optics. They all are playing with 2 names.

Kpritch

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 04:32 pm Click here to edit this post
Nos, I know the made you post that. lol

Norequerdo

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 04:32 pm Click here to edit this post
Ok guys, check out the post in the truth is revealed. Admin posts that Vykin is one person and the answer yes was made in error. So that solves that one.

Lafatme

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 04:45 pm Click here to edit this post
kp, thanks for your post. as you said, though, you don't know gail. somehow gail knew optics aol name, as well as arreals. and arreal knew optics aol name too.

i'm not suggesting that you have an answer for this but think you should be wondering too.

Noslonna

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 04:48 pm Click here to edit this post
Darn! Just when I was sure Vykin is really a Norse god released from Valhalla to play with us.

Vasix

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 04:53 pm Click here to edit this post
noslonna ewwwwwww. Norse gods playing with us? bad visual. Hey Thor knock it off with the lightening bolts! You're burning holes in the furniture.

Vasix

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 04:57 pm Click here to edit this post
i'm really disappointed Vykin is only one person. I was hoping Vykin would be revealed to be co-joined quintuplets. Then Vykin could marry all the multiples of the that chick. It could be like one of those mass Moon weddings. It would have been a great reception. Friend of the grooms or friend of the brides...

Norequerdo

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 05:00 pm Click here to edit this post
What is interesting is since the host/admin posted in the gameplayers area the post about Vykin only being one person and apologizing. Arreal posts an apology for starting the whole mess and hopes in time that vykin will forgive her. This sounds a lot to me like the Bette Davis movie, you know the one...All About Eve, the vicious understudy waiting for her time to pounce. I have to tell you ArReal doesnt seem to be all that innocent to me, I think this whole thing has been calculated. I think she likes to play the perrennial victim and this time it didnt work. That is just my opinion and you can all come after me for being cruel but that is what I think

Kpritch

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 05:01 pm Click here to edit this post
Laf, it doesn't really concern me. Like I've stated before, I got to know Vykin in the BB chatrooms. If Vykin is like everyone else, he has friends from other chatrooms or message boards as I do. I don't know how they met, but I don't feel that it matters to the game. For all we know, the others may be talking too and just not telling. Regardless, the cat is out of the bag. They all seem to have moved on except for Xenia. Time will tell how this plays out.

Nos and Vas, you two are cracking me up!

Admin

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 05:09 pm Click here to edit this post
This IS a game, but like any game, I guess people get serious at different times and people have emotions. These emotions can't be ignored, in real or over the internet. I hope when all this ends we can look back and say "That was a blast!" If not, then I guess we'll just hide it all in the closet as some Frankenstein experiment that didn't work! :)

I have no alterior motives for starting this game..in fact, posted here for the first time is my original message to moderators about the game:

My Original Message to moderators about the game idea
September 18, 2000

Okay, I just thought of this:

We hold a game of our own, right here in the Discussion board.

We pick maybe 10 contestants. They all send in a photo, which I post into their own little discussion area. Each week or each day, we post a question or a challenge or something like that. Each contestant has to give a good answer or something......the internet people get to vote on who they like and don't like.

Each week or day or whatever we banish someone, until someone is left. We have a prize of a walkman or a CD player or something. Maybe we even charge money for people to vote? Or charge money for people to be a contestant?

What do you think? This is just a very rough sketch of my idea.....the details could be a lot different, it's just a brainwave I had.

Let's brainstorm!

Katie

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 05:10 pm Click here to edit this post
I think Arreals reaction is normal. A lot of us had the same one. We need to remember that the Admin did say yes to Vykin being more then one person. It was an honest mistake but it one that it is reasonable to be concerned about if true. All we had to go on was the Admins word. I personally believe him when he says something and so when he said yes I believed him and went from there with it. It was easy to do when you read his posts because they seem so very different. At times he seems like a stern father type and then the next like a little kid playing.

Norequerdo

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 05:12 pm Click here to edit this post
Admin - I am new to this whole thing. But what strikes me is everyone is making mountains out of molehills and they do seem to have found themselves trapped in the warp. I wonder about some, I think they are beginning to believe this is all real. Its a game folks and the prize is NOT a million bucks.

Katie

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 05:14 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanks Admin. Nice to see you are human like the rest of us.

Lafatme

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 05:39 pm Click here to edit this post
nor, are you suggesting there should be no rules? you don't care so everyone else is making mountains out of molehills?

watergate was just a two bit burglary. lol

Norequerdo

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 05:53 pm Click here to edit this post
Are you kidding, my friends compare me to mel gibson in that movie conspiracy. I still believe that Richard Nixon had Martha Mitchell killed. LOL. No I am just saying lighten up. I am trying to inject a little humor into this. It is a game, rules get broken but it is not the end of the world.

Admin

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 05:58 pm Click here to edit this post
I am a fun guy. I try to have fun. This whole place was created because I like to have fun.

Sometimes I have to post serious messages, I hope you can differentiate between when I'm serious and when I'm having fun. It's tough being me because I'm expected to be the 'serious father figure' like Katie said above, so when I'm having fun people don't trust me or something. I'm not complaining, but it's something I don't like.

I have a regular user id named 'ENB' but whenever I post with it, I invariably end up just being admin again....so I give up! I'm going to go join Mantastic wherever he is! :) (just kidding..just kidding!)

Lafatme

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 06:13 pm Click here to edit this post
nor, you are probably right (about nixon-lol) and i should lighten up. i live "lightened up" normanlly but this is irritating me more than it should.

all i want to know is that the "secrets" be spilled and the game continue above board. i'm sorry that i have suspicions as i don't want them, i just want to do what i set out to do-enjoy this game.

instead i find that one person was allowed to "fool" us, although the club rules don't allow it. it makes me wonder if other rules can be broken on a whim too. i have asked admin to level the playing field and tell us that we now know any secrets that exist. i am waiting and hoping that happens.

once trust is broken only honesty can return it. allowing us to believe that only one screen name is allowed, then allowing gail to post under two, is a breach of that trust, IMHO.

i want assurances that this is the ONLY breach of trust that admin is aware of. that's all. i want to hear admin say it directly to us.

Admin

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 06:59 pm Click here to edit this post
Lafatme: I explained this in the topic called 'Talisker (moderator) discussion started'

Gail was the intentional 'Mole'. She was going to inject some spice and controversy in case things got boring. Apparently she ended up liking the game and has gotten more involved. There was never any attempt at deceit or any attempt to manipulate. It was intended as a fun thing, and now I can see it's gotten out of hand. It was assumed that she would eventually get found out and probably get booted out, but was not planned for her to reveal her identity the way it happened. She was never supposed to 'win' the game!

Should she be replaced? I don't know. Should we halt the poll and let everyone vote again? Maybe. Should we trust her? Yes, she has always been a trustworthy and honest moderator of the board, this 'prank' was never intended to be hurtful or insulting to anyone.

stay tuned....

Lafatme

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 07:26 pm Click here to edit this post
admin, never mind. you aren't answering my question and i'm getting sick of asking.

i'm trying to find out if optics EVER posted here, on the outside board under any other name. can anyone give me a direct answer? i'm not asking again.

this is becoming very tiresome

Lafatme

Friday, October 13, 2000 - 07:28 pm Click here to edit this post
admin, i just found your answer on another thread-THANK YOU!

sorry for being a pest, i just wanted to make sure i now know who really is playing the game.