My story begins today, about 5 minutes ago. I browsed the forums, hesitating before I entered Drama. Off-topic was a rough place, the kinda place where you can step on a bunch of blokos and never get a single offer of assistance. The kinda place where one bad post means a ban. But I didn't care, it may have been 5 years but it was the same place it'd always been. I saw a topic, "RIP Blockland". Some noob who needed to be taught a lesson. Except it wasn't, it was the man himself, Badspot. Upon clicking, I breathed a sigh of relief. Joke topic, Badspot was up to his usual tricks. But eventually I saw a post that made my blood run cold:
no pine tree, obv faked
When I saw this, I knew I'd heard it somewhere before. It'd been many years, but the familiarity was unmistakable. So I used the search function, typing "pine tree fake" (without quotation marks) and setting the drop down menu to "oldest topics first". What was there to find? How could something from so long ago surface right now? This was the first result:
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=85275.0The source was Block Builder, aka Tc572, aka Mr. Resetti, formaly known as tcxxx572. Aka, PredatorOoze. It had been me the entire time. A past self, whose words echoed in the present. These people claimed I was a stranger, yet I heard my words repeated from beyond the ban. My mind swirled with questions, but I knew one thing: I'd track down Camel, whoever he was, and he'd either give me the information I wanted or get banned trying...
