Platypi Anonymous:About

From Platypi Anonymous

In 2300 b.c., tHe Platypus avengeR and the_crimson_epitaph had a vision. They had lived through all sorts of strife in other clans, including a short while in each of Exploding Muffins, For Aiur, Cool Kids on the Block, and other such graveyards, although none of them worth mention. They spotted three distinct, different, and major problems in each of the clans. Exploding Muffins was full of assholes and quickly disbanded because of major leadership issues. For Aiur consisted of no one but themselves and someone names kikyo_the_soultaker, whom neither of them knew and neither of them remembered letting in to the clan. Cool Kids on the Block, avengeR remembered as being generally inactive but with a really devoted core of active and intellectual players, about 5 or 6 of the same guys who were always in chat. But, alas, one of them and his multi discovered WoW, another went to college, another decided that his family was cooler and went to their clan, another started playing Go online, and the last decided that she hated avengeR's main character. So epitaph and avengeR decided that they would make a clan of their own, with a few old friends of their's. They named it Platypi Anonymous, because avengeR was probably half-asleep, as he has a history of being. The next neccessary action on the part of our heroes was to form their leadership circles. So, they called upon old friends and new. AvengeR had much experience as a recruiter, so he looked in chat for people with intellectual thoughts who were not yet spoken for, and not yet experienced. Those called initially, of those worth note, were Squids, something about Turtles, Nik, MAcewiNdu, Dr_Oblvious, and dusty_lane90. When asked for advice in the running of the clan, avengeR got responses almost always along the lines of "get more people who are like this, and the place'll be awesome" from all but one person. Dusty_lane 90 begged for more daily expendible karma. Unlike a few of the others, dusty_lane90 was not an old compadre of either of our heroes. AvengeR had found him in chat, where he was spouting off pro-socialist ideals in complete sentances. So avngeR saw fit to take him on, even though avengeR himself was a good red white and blue-blooded capitalist. Well, even though he had alien blood, avengeR was not an idiot, nosiree. He immediately put a stop to the shennanigans. He firgured that, by raising the daily expendable karma limit by 50k, the looter would get done with it and leave. This act was later referred to, in the noble words of epitaph, as "that, platypus, is why you never make clan decisions AT 2:00 IN THE MORNING", and likened to having a loaded pistol in one's back pocket and a loaded wallet in the other, and, when stopped by a mugger, handing him the wallet rather than shooting him. In any event, dust_lane90 spent his 53k karma, on the day on which he chose to loot, on 53 dense meat stacks. Considering that, in his time at Platypi Anonymous, dusty_lane90 had given them the rough equivalent of 60 dense meat stacks in items, it was no large loss. AvengeR merely deleted any messages that showed the existence of dusty_lane90, withdrew and deposited a spooky mushroom god knows how many times to delete any evidence of the looting from the clan log, and, with the help of multiple clan looter and scammer reporting sites saw to it that dusty_lane90 never made a business transaction again. Dusty_lane90 pormptly retired to a clan called "Looter's clan". You've got to wonder how that works. What do they do, scam each other out of items day in, day out? And how do they do it if the other guy's excepcting it? These were the mysteries that avengeR faced in the days to come. Wuickly, he got several followers. After a few months, Platypi Anonymous enjoyed the company of PastaLancer, Bastole, Fastback, cookylida, mintwithextrabacon (also known as MAcewiNdu, svenlol, and STU_padidiot, buxtehude, and kirbiker. All of them but STU, buxtehude, and kirbiker are still in Platypi Anonymous. STU left in a huff after he was booted for no apparent reason by the administration of the clan (one of our darker moments), buxtehude just left for no apparent reason, and kirbiker swore at SillySally in a manner that seems to have been unbelievably bad. This resulted in a booting. The were about 20 others, who were deemed unworthy. Mainly because they either couldn't post in three day's time (thus signifying that they were inactive) or because they proved to be too hostile. We want people with humility and intelligence, mere intelligence is not good enough. We have a high standard to uphold. After the large cleanout, which included the parting of some old old friends (we lost Squids and whoever that turtle guy was, and Dr_Oblvious left us but returned a month or so later in the form of his main character, Dr_Obvious). Also, one of our best members, MrCyborg, NIk's younger brother (makes sense, the gene pool must secrete coolness). In the end, he created a wiki account for us, Nik completed an HC run, we ammassed loads of meat for the clan by making avengeR spend hours at his computer pulling items out of the stash on-by-one, tHe Platypus avengeR changed his name to tHe platyPus avengeR and then to The Platypus Avenger, and commented that it "has about the same effect as shaving one's beard..." and then he wrote this in the third person.

Hope to see you out there,

Avenger