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2021-02-26

by shaenon on February 26, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. Alphaghoul
    February 26, 2021, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Huh, about halfway through I thought something else was wrong with Baron but it was just a Red Herring, well played.

  2. Frank
    February 26, 2021, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    Baron has brought attention to it befor

  3. adam
    February 26, 2021, 2:45 am | # | Reply

    It seems that the Baron may be either more neglectful or more treacherous than we thought.

    • Robert Nowall
      February 26, 2021, 6:30 am | # | Reply

      Maybe he’s just seeing someone else in VR Whimsey World on the side.

  4. Trivena
    February 26, 2021, 2:57 am | # | Reply

    Why does he need an ISP when he’s plugged in directly?

    • Doug Relyea
      February 26, 2021, 5:19 am | # | Reply

      ISP takes up less space than IP addy? (IP address, the identifier on the network card the ISP uses.)

      • soft
        February 26, 2021, 10:11 am | # | Reply

        Would be better to just say “IP” in this case, though I’d wager Shannon and Jeff just don’t realize that.

        • soft
          February 26, 2021, 10:14 am | # | Reply

          And actually, to take it a step further, as IPs can change (unless he has a reservation for that IP and always (can only) jacks in to connect), MAC [Address] would be better than IP.

          • VillageWizard
            February 26, 2021, 1:13 pm | #

            Not really. Unlike IP addresses, MACs are only visible on the local network. If Baron normally goes through an ISP, then the MAC would not have been available to Aimee before now.

          • soft
            March 1, 2021, 9:35 am | #

            @VillageWizard, well, I guess that would depend on if the server is even internet accessible, and we have seen Baron locally jacked in before, but otherwise yes, you are correct on that and I wasn’t thinking of the server as internet accessible at the time I wrote the post.

    • VillageWizard
      February 26, 2021, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe Aimee isn’t saying that Baron is actually using that ISP right now, just that the account was created from and normally accessed from that ISP?

    • Max
      February 26, 2021, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

      Exactly what I was wondering. ISPs are for connecting to stuff that ISN’T RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.

    • David B Huber
      February 26, 2021, 5:56 pm | # | Reply

      I’d expect Baron to be his own private ISP. We know he has wireless capability but the Aimee’s World VR server doesn’t so he connects via cable. Doubtless he anonymizes his activities through Whimsy Corp. firewalls and leaves no traces for auditors.

  5. Doug Relyea
    February 26, 2021, 5:22 am | # | Reply

    In parallel with Trivena’s post, is “Blame your ISP” that much of a meme across all the RPGs as a taunt?

  6. Robert Nowall
    February 26, 2021, 5:56 am | # | Reply

    Probably was bragging about it.

  7. jdreyfuss
    February 26, 2021, 8:40 am | # | Reply

    That’s ridiculously oversized for his meatspace appearance, where it’s more of a nub, and seems a lot smaller than his VR horn was.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 26, 2021, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      Consider who chose the name. He was going more for shock value than accuracy.

    • Manifesta
      February 26, 2021, 10:59 pm | # | Reply

      Having heard many men exaggerate their size, this does not surprise me at all.

  8. mickeyjf
    February 26, 2021, 10:53 am | # | Reply

    When they realize that that ‘server’ in the VW bus is not plugged into a power source, will that be kinda like when wile e coyote realizes that he’s run off the edge of the cliff and there is nothing underneath him? Never mind – that’s TigerlIly’s bus. No Problem.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 26, 2021, 7:13 pm | # | Reply

      That server hasn’t been plugged into an external power source since the beginning. Whimsy had undoubtedly installed some Mad tech to power it before they gave it to the Baron.

  9. Robert Nowall
    February 26, 2021, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

    Indigo?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 26, 2021, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

      Indigo Montoya? Prepare to die? That Indigo?

      • BRGR
        February 27, 2021, 9:51 am | # | Reply

        You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. — Inigo Montoya

        Conceivably it refers to a color.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 27, 2021, 10:59 am | # | Reply

        Congratulations on missing the joke.

    • OneUniverse
      February 27, 2021, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

      Big Red is already taken? I’m sure “puce” wouldn’t be as catchy.

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