<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=229541.msg11332468#msg11332468">Quote from: Kunoichi on 08-06-2015, 04:09:14</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">...And of course something like this has to happen while I'm busy at work and unable to take the time to post anything.  Oh well, at least it gave me the time to think over the issue without getting dragged into it right away.<br/><br/>My main opinion is that this is entirely an OOC issue, and that people need to stop trying to fix it with IC methods, because they're only making it worse.  More specifically, it looks to me like it's entirely an issue miscommunication and misinterpretation.  Both PaleEnchantress and lockepick seem to have been actively attempting to de-escalate the situation in their own way, but each one also misinterpreted what the other was doing as an attempt to escalate the situation instead, and now everybody else is starting to misinterpret things as well and it's becoming a huge mess.<br/><br/>Can we all just calm down, step away from what everyone's character is doing currently in the IC thread, and instead try to figure out exactly where this tangled little knot first started, so that we can start working from there to untangle everything?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I wasn't going to post until tomorrow so I might be able to calm down and make more sense of it all, but I believe you just did that for me.  After the first few posts I was rather certain Lockpick actually wanted Methu to provoke Atroxica into attacking him or intended to wait until he could feel provoked. (Obviously that wasn't the case but it's where my perspective was when writing). I didn't understand why but figured that since it would be his character that would be killed off if it came to that I had no real reason to oppose it.