Hmmm….I see where your going with this and I like the idea but, add more of a backstory to where it was found and what it’s original purpose was.
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I had not seen your post sooner, and without the "item" tag your item would not appear on the front page. Without adding your item to the arsenal page it is rather difficult to find.
You know, I would analyses it, point out fun uses and stories that could arise from the premises, but you actually have given me few things to work with.
All the things I feel are missing/unexplained:
- Why would we keep something like this and not just sell it of as a curiosity?
- You say it is alive. If so why would it try to end its own existence by attacking a body that can be replaced, when the only real way to death would be the destruction of the mask?
- If the mask just wants to kill people, there are easier ways to do it than kill its current host and wait for a new one.
- Why would we not lock it in a box and restrict access to the key?
- When you say "Hacker Mask" I assume you mean the "V for Vendetta" mask that was later co-opted by Anonymous. That is a reference you have to know or else you would have no idea how the thing looks.
- Considering the nature of the mask it can not be very old. If so the intelligence in there, should be a human that can be reasoned with. If the mind of the mask becomes one with the body, we could actually brainwash the ghost of the mask like any other human.
You can do mask stories, but you actually have to measure up to our other possessive mask Shanalick. I am not sure you wish to compete on that front for your first entry.
Please Sandbox your story and let someone look at it before you post it and it has no initial attention on it.
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I am new to CI and this is my first page so it is not so great yyet I know
Have A nice day.
_Drmarcussir (1)_
Do you want help?
I can offer some if you want. Have you read a few articles already?
Fighting Monsters and Language since 2016.
only a few
Have A nice day.
_Drmarcussir (1)_
May we take up this conversation here? I suspect it might be productive. Depending on what you want out of the Insurgency experience, we might be able to get you there faster.
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I hereby begin the 5 day deletion timer, at -1. (The author self-upvoted.) Should the Item reach the threshold of 0 the deletion will be cancelled.
I urge the author to move this to their sandbox.
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Replying to myself not because of an undiagnosed dissociative identity disorder, but because of protocol and revealing conflict of interest and yada yada yada:
I'd like to request rewritting this thing. Considering the time I took for my last rewrite, 48h would be woefully short, but I think i can work this into something, if the author has no plans yet.
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I believe you are a bit to quick on the draw, since the author has as of now not stated whether they would rather expand on the idea themself.
I would suggest you help out rather than take over. Fresh authors with only one leg in the Insurgency should not be expected to give up that leg to a well established senior.
Plus points for honesty thou and should the author indeed not object, I will not stop you.
Fighting Monsters and Language since 2016.
you can, permission given
Have A nice day.
_Drmarcussir (1)_
Thanks a bunch. Does this means I'm now under an anxiety-inducing 48h countdown? Or may I apply selective blindness to the rules and just stash this somewhere until I am done?
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While a countdown sound more fun, I believe that simply moving to the sandbox would suffice.
I will save a copy of this conversation for future reference.
Drmarcussir, if a page is deleted its associate communication is as well. That is the reason I wanted to relocate our conversation.
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Hold on, that's what happens? That's not what happened with the other rewrite (I can't believe that in my time here there ever was one rewrite), and from how I interpreted the Deletion Guidelines, this is basically a 48h extension to see if the rewrite redeems the pages back into positive levels.
Eh, more for the rules initiative.
EDIT: Looks like Drmarcussir's account got deleted. I hope this wasn't because of us.
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After expiration of the extended deletion timer, this page was moved to deleted: but will remain here for the time being.
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Do we have a time window or do we just keep it until you get your rewrite going?
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Stop asking me such emberassing questions!
I think yes? It worked last time, and I wouldn't want to erase the happenings in this thread willy-nilly. I only advocate unpersoning in justified cases.
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So… this thing has been here for almost a year by now.
I may have forgotten it needed a rewrite. But now that I remembered it, I shall do that posthaste!
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Is this really rewrite material?
The reason we have not taken it down was the comments and since the cat drama is very over and I have my copy no the discussion we could just say that the page is going to be gone in 5 days.
Fighting Monsters and Language since 2016.
I mean, I didn't had much to work with my last rewrite, and that one also took ages (even without me completely forgetting what I was doing). Interestingly enough the memory region for this was never freed, I slowly begin to remember plans that I had.
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How dare both of you have the audacity to delete our post! Too much pressure succumbed onto the lad. Never repeat this action again, or we, your solemn operative team, will take immediate action and contact the owners of this site. Yes, we do have immediate contact to the owners (why not?!). This is no threat, do not be offended by our words or anger upon them. We, are angry. You all posted 11 comments of how “it should be fixed” and how “to put this on sandbox”. Do not repeat this action, let them be, the members will delete the article if they disliked it. The admins are to monitor this site, not to post victual comments. Make articles, logs etc, do not interfere too much with new members. Give them a warm welcome and simply tell them where to put their articles and stories, period.
In case anyone is confused, this is the user previously known as "Cat Spy Union", and not "Drmarcussir". You can check the ID of an deleted account through the data-id attribute in the "printuser deleted"-span of the HTML document.
As for the content of your post: I am confused. We haven't recently deleted anything from you, CSU. Also, the term "victual" seems to be missplaced here. And you are grossly missrepresenting the thread in question here.
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I have not deleted anything.
I believe the problem lies with me mentioning that a page that gets deleted Wikidot also automatically deletes the associated tread. "Page per page discussion" only works if the page still exists.
I will also point out that at no point was there any indication that we were trying to do anything but help, so I do not understand the angry response. I firmly believe that staffs duties entail helping newcomers and upholding site deletion rules. Just letting newcomers run into deletion without assistance may lead to articles being deleted wrong. I find written responses to posted work always preferable to a simple up-/down-vote.
I also suggest we do not delete this page in case one of our missing authors wishes to explain themself. Put 5 more days on the clock, that should be enough.
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