I won't let this pull me overboard (part I)

So, this one's slightly different from my usual. For one, it's only partially anonymized, as the name of the troll in question I'm leaving in full view. Second, it may be longer than usual, to capture the whole of it, so it may turn into multiple parts.

[10:05] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident) wonders around the new region, looking for "Opportunities"

Meet the maledictor in question, Mr. Ronin.

[10:05] Dxxxxxxxxxxxxx Exxxx hides the heirlooms
[10:06] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): don't worry. if they are tide down.. I would get them

"Tied".

[10:06] gxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: A new region in Caledon?
[10:06] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): for Me,. aye
[10:06] Dxxxxxxxxxxxxx Exxxx: a new resident
[10:06] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Which?
[10:06] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): lets put it this way.. Old / new resident

So, what I'm getting from this is, he's had other names before this one.

[10:06] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): New region, or new resident?
[10:07] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): can't say that after 11 yrs.. I am new
[10:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) stares fixedly at the profile that says "six months old"

Yes, I know alts exist. Yes, it's clear he is one. I'm just making the point that this particular avatar, with this particular name, is only six months old.

[10:07] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Returnee?
[10:07] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): aye.. but this can be easy changed .. if you want
[10:07] gxxxxxxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: New to Caledon
[10:08] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): more of a new (criminal) element at Caledon

And this was when the mood of chat began to sour. He was so insistent that he was a big, bad, criminal who would never be caught, an all-around evildoer on the loose, muahahahaha. Right. Whereas most of us listened to him and concluded 'troll'.

Also around this time, Lady A IMed me and mentioned he'd been playing this game since six am this morning. So...four hours of his nonsense. Hardly surprising people were tired of it.

[10:08] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx turns his gaze
[10:08] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx: "oh really."
[10:08] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): just tie things down and lock/bolt doors and your good

"You're".

[10:09] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): then I can look at your neighbors
[10:09] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: AR-worthy person?
[10:09] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Not if he's a tenant.

Though at this point, post-conversation, I'm wondering if I should change that conclusion. True, he hasn't done anything to me yet that would earn a direct abuse report from me to the Lindens, but...there's nothing saying he couldn't do something that would get me to send in an AR to the Lindens. I'll just have to stand back and observe.

[10:09] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): well at My age.. I am known and skilled...

Oh, and that's another thing that makes me think he's just a troll. Reading through his profile--and this chat--tells me he's a wannabe dom. He constantly refers to himself as 'Me' and 'My', which tells me he expects anyone not dominant to immediately kneel in supplication at his feet.

I've met this type before. I am not impressed. Respect must be earned, and with the way he started out, that's just another checkmark on the 'person to avoid like the plague' list.

[10:10] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): I am renting. so does the Gov demands
[10:10] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Tenant may still be abusive.
[10:10] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx: Known by whom?
[10:10] Hxxx Sxxxxxx: criminals...in Caledon?
[10:10] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): none.. sins I didt give you My name

"Didn't", again, and I am ashamed to admit, it took me some time to catch on to what he meant. I thought he was just putting on airs.

[10:10] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx narrows his eyes.
[10:10] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): yet
[10:10] Hxxx Sxxxxxx: I thought we shipped all the degenerates off to one of the islands...
[10:10] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx: So you are Known By None and Skilled at?

Nothing, apparently.

[10:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Ah, now see, you're treading perilously close to "Why do we care" territory, Mr. Ronin.
[ 0:11] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): I don't know criminals but at least 1 now
[10:11] Hxxx Sxxxxxx: do we care?
[10:11] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): don't know yet.. but time will tell..
[10:11] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx: I think we are seeing the establishment of some RP, perhaps.
[10:11] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) smiles. Pretty sure we're still figuring that out.
[10:11] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Mad scientists are one thing but threatening people?

I know. It's just not done.

[10:12] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): I don't hunt ppl.. not My thing.. more anything not tied down or bolted..
[10:12] Hxxx Sxxxxxx looks for the popcorn...
[10:12] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Mmhmm. It may help, Mr. Ronin, in case you've forgotten this about ISC chat--it is as frequently IC as OOC.
[10:13] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): aye.. that may be its use..but I prefert to stick to RP

"Prefer". And that's fine, I know people in and out of Caledon who never break character, and that's acceptable--IF the character is interesting on its own. If it's not--if the character one is attempting to play is abhorrent to the core--then it truly doesn't matter if they never break character, because no one with half a brain is going to care enough to interact.

[10:13] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): But wandering around openly saying you're going to steal everything is not exciting, innovative, or shockingly new.
[10:13] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): and I still didt tell My name

Again, "didn't".

[10:13] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Also, it makes you a fairly bad thief.

It does. It's equivalent to walking into a bank without mask or weapon and standing in front of a security guard, screaming "I am here to rob this bank!"

[10:13] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx tells all his automatons to hunt potential self-proclaimed thief down with extreme prejudice.
[10:13] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): just good in bieng bad

"Being". And possibly even "good [at] being".

[10:14] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx sharpens a wing claw.
[10:14] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): ha. only if your fast.

"You're".

[10:14] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx digs up old blueprints based of Kafka's story Penal Colony.
[10:14] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident) grins
[10:15] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): You keep threatening us with revealing your real name. I'll ask again, sir--why are we interested in knowing who you were before who you are now?
[10:15] Hxxx Sxxxxxx: maybe it is a clue?
[10:15] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): don't know why you think that way.. I never met you all before..
[ 10:16] Hxxx Sxxxxxx: well mr. ronin...nice to meet you...
[10:16] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx: Yes, well, Mr. Not-Soaron-Ronin-nor-hoffMastersr-apparently, if I catch you.. RP or otherwise.. skulking about peoples homes or businesses - and in particular my friends, it may go. Poorly for you. They will drown you in a tea and shower you with ambiguous compliments.
[10:16] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Ohhh, no, my apologies, the penny dropped.

Because I suddenly caught on to all this folderol about 'you don't know my name'.

[10:16] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): He's not saying he had another name, gentles--he's saying we don't know his name because we haven't seen him. Because of course that's how this works.

Here's the thing. I get how, if you're that hard-core for character living, you can walk around amongst other avatars and insist that no one knows your name if you haven't formally introduced yourself. Fine. Occasionally ridiculously stupid with SL's culture and conventions, but fine.

But in ISC chat? In any group chat? We are reduced solely to the text-based environment. And in that text-based environment, names are given. Names cannot be avoided. And only an utter fool, or a malicious primitive, would ever think that people seeing printed names are not going to see printed names. I'm not sure which Mr. Ronin is yet, but it's entirely possible he's both.

[10:16] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): I do know My meal today is a turkey I found at kitty
[10:16] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx adjusts the frequency of Elder Signs in Caledon to repel Lovecraftian ronins.
[10:16] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): You might not want to eat that--or, at least, take care. Turkeys have a tendency to explode...
[10:17] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx: ah yes
[10:17] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx: The Turkeys
[10:17] Soaron Ronin (hoffmastersr): I know.. I met one that kicked Me..
[10:17] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx adds account to list of people to be ejected from Oxbridge.

It could well be a good idea. Best for Oxbridge, in fact, and their collective student body.

[10:18] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): for the record. I am that guy you mother doest like. but I do not lie..not about that .. or anything else

"Doesn't".

[10:18] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx: I just don't want him disappointed that most of us aren't going to RP that eek a thief stole my hatpin collection and will rather ask him to a dance or offer helpful suggestions for adjusting his ascot.
[10:18] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): You keep this up, you know you're going to be bounced from a great many places in Caledon...
[10:19] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): only if you get proof of Me doing anything illegal

Oh, no, not at all, and you're massively deluded if he believes that. Ban lines are considered beyond the pale in Caledon, but individual bans can happen on any parcel, on any sim, at any time.

[10:19] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): that stil didt happen

Again, "didn't".

[10:19] exxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: Threatening behavior is enough
[10:19] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): boring RP aswel

"As well".

[10:19] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): smile
[10:20] Ixxxxxx Dxxxxx: You DO know that many of us even in our "light RP" guise have no great law enforcement role or even many qualms of bending any such "laws" if they existed, right?
[10:20] Soaron Ronin (hoffMastersr Resident): but if Gov gets Me a parcel.. pretty I am trusted

No, all that means is you have the Lindens to rent a parcel.

Here's the thing. Desmond Shang is very forgiving for an estate owner, perhaps more forgiving than he needs to be at times. But he is very willing to help, and willing to rent to anyone who's interested. He does not judge potential residents of Caledon, but that does not mean he automatically trusts every new resident deeply. And it is possible for residents to get banned, even if they own land in Caledon, because there are rules for behavior in Caledon, which are clearly posted in the Covenant. Which every new tenant is reminded to read, to understand, and to click the little box that says that new tenant has read the Covenant. It's not our fault, Caledon's fault, or Desmond's fault if Mr. Ronin just skimmed through it and hit accept at the bottom.

(And with that, we move the rest to the second entry.)