[Unsurprising. Karkat's embarrassment retreats with the hue to his cheeks, leaving him more serious, if still frowning.]
No shit. You think I don't know? I'm the one with this blood, Redglare, and I would not be saying what I do without reason. Where do you think the grey thing came from?
But anyway, this isn't the first time the Grand Shithead has shown up. He appeared once before, about a half-sweep ago, and we took care of him then. Then his reappeared and the plan was repeated, but altered. Basically - we, meaning my team primarily with a few others, fled up to the island to hide out for general safety concerns. Not perfect, but better than sticking in the bubble. A secondary plan was then made to lure him out, distract him, shoot him with a dart of concentrated sopor slime, and thus keep him relatively calm and out of it. From there he was to be kept on sopor to keep him compliant. And we did luck out - there was some curse going on about irrational fears, and I guess he was terrified of falling over? Made it easy.
But anyway, round two went a bit different. Aside from needing a different gunner and some incidental details, the Signless and Summoner somehow got it into their heads that we couldn't keep him on sopor against his will, as it amounted to "torture".
[He makes finger quotes.]
More the Summoner's idea there, if I recall right... But anyhow, a deal came from that. Either he minds his business and doesn't go on kill sprees, or he gets put back on sopor, end of story. Of course, being based on faith, optimism, and benefit of the doubt, it was absolute shit and eventually failed. Assblood killed Summoner, Darkleer said he would "handle it" - [Again, finger quotes, and quite the scowl.] - and we went into hiding. Off-island, since that's where the murder happened.
Then, despite my advice against killing the Grand Highblood for it, given he'd probably just be angrier than before when he revived, Darkleer went straight ahead and did it anyway. Even though he had acted like he accepted the advice at the time.
[Eyeroll.]
Add to that, he failed to actually make any announcement about this, meaning that at least Eridan and I were left staying at a friend's until we heard things were over from someone else on an entirely unrelated post. Then Darkleer had the nerve to make sad woofbeast faces at me when I called him out on it.
[He breathes out a thick sigh.]
And from then on, my hands have been out of it. If murderclown fucks up, it's their responsibility, not mine. If anything's happened since it hasn't hit me, and my sniff node is thoroughly kept out of it.
[Action!]
No shit. You think I don't know? I'm the one with this blood, Redglare, and I would not be saying what I do without reason. Where do you think the grey thing came from?
But anyway, this isn't the first time the Grand Shithead has shown up. He appeared once before, about a half-sweep ago, and we took care of him then. Then his reappeared and the plan was repeated, but altered. Basically - we, meaning my team primarily with a few others, fled up to the island to hide out for general safety concerns. Not perfect, but better than sticking in the bubble. A secondary plan was then made to lure him out, distract him, shoot him with a dart of concentrated sopor slime, and thus keep him relatively calm and out of it. From there he was to be kept on sopor to keep him compliant. And we did luck out - there was some curse going on about irrational fears, and I guess he was terrified of falling over? Made it easy.
But anyway, round two went a bit different. Aside from needing a different gunner and some incidental details, the Signless and Summoner somehow got it into their heads that we couldn't keep him on sopor against his will, as it amounted to "torture".
[He makes finger quotes.]
More the Summoner's idea there, if I recall right... But anyhow, a deal came from that. Either he minds his business and doesn't go on kill sprees, or he gets put back on sopor, end of story. Of course, being based on faith, optimism, and benefit of the doubt, it was absolute shit and eventually failed. Assblood killed Summoner, Darkleer said he would "handle it" - [Again, finger quotes, and quite the scowl.] - and we went into hiding. Off-island, since that's where the murder happened.
Then, despite my advice against killing the Grand Highblood for it, given he'd probably just be angrier than before when he revived, Darkleer went straight ahead and did it anyway. Even though he had acted like he accepted the advice at the time.
[Eyeroll.]
Add to that, he failed to actually make any announcement about this, meaning that at least Eridan and I were left staying at a friend's until we heard things were over from someone else on an entirely unrelated post. Then Darkleer had the nerve to make sad woofbeast faces at me when I called him out on it.
[He breathes out a thick sigh.]
And from then on, my hands have been out of it. If murderclown fucks up, it's their responsibility, not mine. If anything's happened since it hasn't hit me, and my sniff node is thoroughly kept out of it.