>>14499941

>derp

Oh shit son I forgot all about this. It also makes me paranoid that -I- may be part of the 8, unwittingly.

>>14499998
The Eight are everywhere. They are the sage bombers, they are the spam-posters, they are the seemingly-ignorant and troll-posters that derail great threads. The wiki is their domain, and so is the archive. All that happens here happens by their will, and so it has been since /tg/'s creation.

Some say they are moderators and janitors, handpicked from the crowd. Other point to shadowy figures from the boards that spawned /tg/, and strangely similar tripfags.

The Sager, the /40k/id, the Troll, the Flamer, these are all proposals for archtypes of the Eight.

In truth, we know only that there are Eight.

>My face when I'm 5

I think I'm one of them because
1. I have been on /tg/ literally every day of it's existence
2. At various times up to half the front page might be posts made by me
3. I have autism and I'm annoying as fuck

Boomer's one of them.

>>14500125
It's a trick of the Eight! The Eight-Hater (8H) warned us of this! Why else would he put a THREE in his image?

http://www1.tgchan.org/kusaba/tg/res/316190.html

and the conspiracy deepens...

You know, I find this whole thing hilarious. Especially considering I'm one of those guys who has several trips, all of which are used for various bits of storytelling and posting different, weird stuff. Then again, if someone actually figured out my dark secrets, it would break a bit of /tg/ mythology by people claiming that one person couldn't have had so many ridiculous games. Or do such weird bullshit to his players.

Did you say crazy 88?

>>14500156
Your quests were unimaginative, boring, and cliched. You are not worth remembrance.

>>14500146
CLEVER GIRL.

>>14500149
We know that the one called "Mr Rage" is one, according to the deductions of the martyred Eight-Hater. The Eight got to him, but his sacrifice will not be in vain.

The hated Sergalfag may be another, or a cunning distraction. We have to dig deeper to find the truth.

>>14500173
I'm not a quest-runner. Never set foot in those threads.

>>14500141
Read the thread. You know it to be true.

I'm convinced that one of the Crazy 8 got accepted as a janitor, then promoted to mod.

>>14500156
People who feel threatened by this take it so goddamn seriously. It's a fun bit of mythology to indulge in. You, at least, seem to get that.

>>14500288
Just one? The Eight ARE /tg/. They're everywhere, self-hating, constantly at war with each other.

How can you fight the personifications of the board's vices?

There is no Crazy Eight.

Only odd posting trends.

Stat them.

>>14500322
Go back to tgchan. Yes, I know you're a troll from there, checking to see the moderation level of /tg/.

>>14500291
Yeah, taking this sort of thing seriously is stupid. Lots of people post under different names/use proxies to get on the board. It's only when that force is used for trolling that people grow angry.

I like to think that their opposites also exist; working throughout the night to generate OC, storytimes, and brilliant discussions about the weirdest parts of fluff. No need for prestige, or even thanks; they shed identities like water falling off of a raincoat.

After all, if we did not have God, why would we need the Devil?

>>14500322
It's one of the Eight. EVERYONE, RUN. GET OUT, NOW. THEY GOT THE HATER, THEY'LL GET YOU.

It's a troll, and just one. Have some proof.

>>14500358
The Hater disappeared. There are signs, if you look for them! THE EIGHT OF HATE
ARE OUT THERE.

>>14500345
How could you count such a counterforce? They'd be shifting and ever-changing by their very nature. Every piece of homebrew, every quality story...The Eight would hunt them down. They'd be too large a threat for the Hate to let them stay.

>>14500379
Their very nature means that they would be ever-changing. They are a force for good, after all; their posting style would change, as would the topics they create.

These are not the men who start "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!" threads; they are the men that inspire them.

These are not the men who are constantly on; they are the type to flit in and out, like a breeze, contributing beauty in /tg/'s darkest hours.

Their powers are many, as are their identities. Personal details will be thrown out, only to be discarded for other identities. They are the ones who foster the small games, the disused children of the RPG world, and they wish to see that you are entertained.

Why would you wish to track such a beneficial force?

>>14500322

tired of them claiming to be dead. can memories come out of the shadows?

i kind of want to go but that would just suck for the left behind to have to sit around like wtf? i thought i was leaving.

and i'm guessing the only way i could leave NOW is if i also stayed.

>>14500403
>implying I care
>implying I won't shoot an answer with quickpost while browsing /tg/ rather than opening this thread
>implying you matter

>>14500419
They don't exist. There's only the Eight, and the board they dominate. Anyone else is simply an agent of one of the Eight, being played against another. Quest threads, sage-bombing, even moderation... all of it's just a ploy in a larger war. The Hater Eight hate each other above all.

The only one to find the truth, or at least a part of it, was the Eight Hater, and he's gone.

>>14500104

the wiki should never make u wish it didn't exist or at least that you didn't have anything to do with it.

>>14500474
'The Child' detected. It has many names. "Underage b&", "Newfag", "Summerfag", "Use spellcheck" and others. Its name and infamy move ahead of it, and it is rare for one of its true servants to be actually flushed out. This Hater allows its reputation to do its work for it.

As a typo shall ye know it.

>>14500461
That's just it; everyone can't be agents of the 8. This board produces beautiful things sometimes. Whether it's weird homebrew, useful information for various users, or simply the scans for a book that hasn't seen the light of the internet, /tg/ will help you find it.

Sure, it may be full of trolls and agents of the 8, but there are those who fight them, forever seeking a way out of the depths created by those trolls.

>>14500522
This will be corrected.

>>14500522
What is the destiny of all saviors and heroes but to watch all their beloved creations and precious treasures slowly be forgotten and lost over time, to deepest crevices of the world wide web?

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>14500549
That destiny may be true, but the act of creation, like the languages of the Orcish people, contains a savage beauty.

Creation endures; trolling dies. If one man was inspired to do something greater with their games because of the stories or games of others, then the purpose of those fighting the influence of those proxy-using, creativity hating demons will have been fulfilled.

We tell you the tales of our fathers.
We tell you the lives of our fallen comrades.
We bring you ideas for games.
We are the ones who fight your demonic influence.

>>14500549
The second Hater is the Furry. This is an outcast, even among its fellows, and one of the best known of the Hater Eight. Like the Child, its power lies not in its fans, but in the furious actions of its many enemies.

A single careful image or topic by a pawn of the Furry can send entire threads spiraling out of control. Its very name can cause a furious shitstorm of accusations and rage, something the other Haters have used to their advantage.

It is at once the strongest and the weakest of the Eight: its power is great, but only through the reaction it provokes. Agents of the Furry are few, and well hidden, though their power threatened to overwhelm /tg/ more than once, swaying anons and users to their cause.

The Furry is hated, but undeniably potent. Its appearance is more often than not a sign that one of the other Haters has made a move.

Your answer lies here; the creators endure, and the trolls are picked off.

Nothing will stop us from creating.

Now go, /tg/! Create! Be inspired!

Know that wherever you go, there are others out there, driven individuals helping you to game. Creating things. And with your help, we can defeat the Crazy Eight and their reign of terror and sage.

The mod bans the sergal but doesn't wipe the meta thread?

>>14500322
>>14500348
>>14500403
>>14500442
>>14500495
>>14500549
Oh god not you again. You have been banned more than the 8 or whatever and more than me. I have been 3 times, I acknowledge that and I know what I did wrong. You want to see the world burn/universe end while you are alive because of your boring pseudo privileged existence and job at an office. I don't know if I am one of the eight, I do not know if you are but I am the God damned bat man to your god damned joker.

Elaborate on the 8 OP. I want to know if I am one. I am on here on my off days and when I am off work.

>>14500687
Clearly it's a plot.

>>14500706
There is a reason he gets banned. Granted this is a meta thread. So lets put some /tg/ content. Like making the 8 bad guys in Dungeons: The Dragoning.

>>14500687
And here we have "the Sage". A quixotic and seemingly insane creature, it is in some ways the greatest of the Eight. Many a thread has been doomed or saved by a seemingly random "bump" moments before destruction. While users and other Haters may use this technique, the Sage is undeniably its master. The board dances to the tune it calls, and for the use of only two words. Bump and sage, bump and sage. These are the tools that make it great. Its power is not limitless, however. Content is its bane, as is the effort of the many. Even the Quester and the Child can best it, at times.

For all its power,in the end, it is only a single mind, acting on the same two commands over and over again.

>>14500706
SEGAL FAG IS ONE OF 8!!!!!!!!

>>14500744
The Crazy Eight is arguably its own setting. A conspiracy, opposed by those few Anon and others who know of it.

>Turner. rpings

Tuner is one such fighter. One of many, for the Eight are without limit or control.

I've been actually playing for the past few weeks. Is this "8" thing new? Someone tell me what we know or at least the basics.

>>14500757

Sergal fag. I am have tempted to commission a draw fag to make various images of a sergal getting beaten up by a commissar or something just for when he posts. All I know is he is whiny and too old to be emo.

>>14500757
The Sergal is a strange creature. It would seem to be an aspect of the Furry, yet it also apes the approach of the Troll and others of the Eight. Only it?they? know(s), and they're not talking.

Weren't Zhakuvaan and Flee one of the Crazy Eight?

>>14500793
It's the Child. One of the known Eight, if we can believe what's been said. (We can't. All we know for sure is that there are Eight. You're on your own from there. Follow the Hater's lead.)

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8506074

Fuck it. If Sergal Fag is one of the 8 then I am in. If he isn't well hell, I will fight with you OP. I will stand. Hell I will even use my old god damned trip which I foresook because I pissed someone off.

Also moot has stated saging is a moot point. Because it doesn't do anything as intended. I have drank my god damned coffee.

>>14500839
The Hater told us little and hinted at much. It is said that he condemned a man of rage as one of the Eight, but we have no way of knowing for sure.

It would do us no good to know one or even all of their names, for names are just masks to these. They have power over /tg/, and are not bounby the same laws as others.

I read this post, and immediately assumed this was a /tg/ related homebrew RPG setting.

I was wrong, but lets make one anyway

>>14500850
Sergalfag is nothing but a puppet.

If you chosse to have a trip or not; you are already a puppet.

Nothing can stop them.

>>14500890
You're more or less right. It's a setting of sorts.

There are the Eight, also called the Eight of Hate, the 8, among other names. Every Anon has seen them, though they knew it not. They are the power behind the throne, dominating the wiki, the archives, and even /tg/ to an extent. They act with masks, lies, and a constant stream of posts. They contribute nothing, but control much.

One Anon, who we now know as the Eight Hater or 8H, found the truth. He spread the word to all of /tg/, but was quickly silenced.

Now, the knowledge spreads. As the Eight continue in their control and endless bickering, a scant few search for the truth behind the Eight of Hate and the enigmatic revelations of the Hater.

Above all, there is one question: Who are the Eight?

...Okay So Sergalfag is just drawn out, or is in the classical sockpuppet. Choosing if or not you have a trip makes you a sock puppet. But what if you did not choose your trip or your trip/namefag. As you got named by someone and ran with it. Or would that make you one of the 8? Now that I know the 8 just clog up suptg I am sort of armed, I guess. I really didn't see this stuff for a while, I just despise Sergalfag. Still the question is how do you help against the 8 or is this just some nihilistic "no the 8 are unstoppable hurr durr">>14500902. Because honestly, with enough time and the amount of resources I have nothing is really impossible. Granted if sergalfag is a puppet then who the fuck is the puppetmaster?

They could be you.
They could be me.
They could even bes hsdhsmd;sm pskldfmzls;zgmz

>>14501028
That's what we have to find out.

>>14501028
(It's a joke, dummy...)

The Child, the Furry, the Sage...these are well known. They are also hated, or at least disliked by many, something that boils over to the users most similar to their most common tactics.

The fourth is an entirely different creature. It has many names, but the most common is the Quester.

>>14501066
Lies of the Eight. They can't be categorized so easily! Why do you think there are eight of them? Look at the number 8 from a different angle, and you'll see why!

Eight. Infinity! You can't number them, can't pin them down. They're /tg/ and we are the Eight!

I am not crazy nor do I like 8.

>>14501066
oh. ok. So we know of four, 3 were exposed and one got banned.

What about the triptroll? Its MO is to use multiple tripcodes and occasionally avatars to post inane unrelated garbage, mostly fellating itself. As dumb as this strategy looks at the surface, it's highly effective. It might have started with Jim Profit, but its incarnations are legion. Edward/Lace, Radical Edward, Spanish Flea, Zhakuvaan...

>>14501147
So having a trip makes you a puppet, but what if you had a trip before the triptroll became triptroll?

Seriously how has this not been posted yet?

>>14501147
That seems likely. The fourth?

>>14501131
The Hater told us from the start that the Eight have the power to evade bans. However we find and destroy them, it won't be through that tool. Some might even be moderators, fighting each other with /tg/'s own defenses.

>>14500749
Lots of people sage threads; that doesn't automatically make them sagefags. If you want to see shitposting with misuse of sage, look at this:
http://archive.easymodo.net/tg/?task=search2&search_username=Crix&search_ord=new

>>14501163
Tripfagging is a tool of the Eight, but they lurk among the lesser users. All of the Fourth's agents are tripfags, but not all tripfags are of the Fourth.

As far as we know.

>>14501205
So a person tossing aside their trip, what then?

>>14501163
It's the MO that makes you a tripthrall, not the mere act of using a tripcode. I'm using a tripcode for this post only, to make my point.

>>14501201
It's the Fifth, the Sage! The Eight are here! Run!

>>14501226
You're missing the point.

>>14501181

I recalled the picture, but never saved it

>>14501250
I had about four completely different thoughts go through my head reading this.

From my deepest reports, I hate you all.

357

>>14501250
No that is the sage. Also a combination 1&5. This can pretty much become a game. And you should know by know as per moot saging does nothing. The only thing that works is reporting. /tg/ does not fall into your narrow definition of gaming which may only be 40k or MTG. /tg/ is not your personal army/tool.

Honestly what would be creepy is if the 8 were all agents of various gaming companies. It would fall quite into the trope, a way to make certain /tg/ only discusses certain games and others just fall by the wayside.

>>14501250
Delusion, hey? Then why are you saging? Are you trying to stop the truth from getting out?

Well, stop this!

http://archive.easymodo.net/tg/thread/8614014#p8616054

We'll find the Hateful Eight.

Ignoring the whole conspiracy theory, >>14501181 actually identifies the main TYPES of trolls that we get here.

Hell, on top of this thread was (like 2 minutes ago) an edition war. And not a subtle one either.

>>14501250 here

To the mod who warned me:
>>14501181
Number 2: The 2 headed judge of /tg/ relatedness.
I was combining that and sager.

I was having fun too. Until I was warned and you deleted my post. Sorry I guess, but good grief...someone has to rp the bad guys.

Since Ilisa had not bid a-do, I shall be here thru and thru.

>>14501345
Damn. That was some good acting there. Still like my theory of scary.

>>14501345
There's nothing to RP. There is no Eight. The thought of a conspiracy by each to overthrow the other Seven and assume control of this little puddle, then turn it into a true home-in-exile, is absurd and should not be considered.

>>14501404
What no fun allowed? Upset /r9k/ gone?

>>14501404
I...I think it's one of the eight itself.

>>14501404

>The thought of a conspiracy by each to overthrow the other Seven and assume control of this little puddle

Overthrow each other hmm?

>>14501404

The 8 are within all of us. Each of us has the capacity to become one or many of the 8 at some point. They are simply anthropomorphised concepts given flesh through us.

For instance you just channeled the Hater of Fun

>>14501435
You make the Eight sound like something out of that Mythos-thing. Even if there was an Eight like that loon was yelling about, and there aren't, they'd just be users, maybe users in the highe

>>14501480
what people can't have oc?

>>14501480

No the 8 are just like anger, or jealousy or any other negative emotion, They rise, they fall, but the capacity for each is within us.

We name them the 8 because here, in this text medium, where they had no name before, they are most potent. By identifying and acknowledging them, they lose power.

OP is doing better that most of /x/.

keep paranoid OP. maybe one day you will make a homebrew out of it, and suddenly you will realize the cold truth.

you are 9.

From what we know, the Eight have always been here. Perhaps they took up their identities in the newly made board, perhaps they came from /b/. From what we know of other boards, perhaps they are not limited to /tg/ alone.

The clues are there, well-hidden but discoverable by those with the internet-fu and time to do so. Half-archived materials hint at the presence of these Eight in some form or another before the creation of /tg/ itself, in the mythic time known to some as "Warhammer Wednesday".

If so, then the rumours of them being an inherent part of /tg/ have some truth to them after all...

You'd have to ask the Eight to find out, and no one's pulled that trick off yet.

>>14500549
And thus #7 shows his hand.
The one who successfully became a moderator. After being a janitor of course. He lives within the GMT.
You can spot this by the strange habit of thread deletion over the archive, all being late night threads. I noticed my self recently that he has become a mod, when there was a string of strange bans

>>14501714
Number 7 has some clear banning habits. A clear dislike of anthro art. This can be shown by the public banning of this user (9:43 EST), ScaredofShadows permaban (11:47 EST) and another anon (12:05 EST).
These have all occurred within a recent string of the janitors being promoted to moderators

>>14501714
The truth is that the Eight are their own worst enemies. They're complacent in their domination, manipulating the masses with such ease that they've stopped bothering to check.

>>14501750
>>14501714
I had a couple of screenshots clearly displaying this (Bans over seemingly /tg/ related threads), though I am afraid I lost them.
I am sure with utmost impunity, I could make a /tg/ thread in such a fashion that I would get both a 3 day ban (I believe to be his favorite type, as it leaves no room for appeal), and yet be a /tg/ thread.

Could the mod be 8 hater?

>>14501765
A few have for sure been caught in his web. But the ones who rely primarily on posting 40k material will never do so

>>14501791
THE HATER LIVES. THE SEARCH GOES ON.

>>14501791
Couple of things
First, there are 11 mods that frequent /tg/.
#7 of the crazy 8 is indeed a moderator, and was promoted to such status from his janitor status.

>>14501865
The Eight. The Eleven. Numbers within numbers. What does it all mean?

What if the Crazy Eight took place in a city? /tg/ metropolis?

>report eighed
The Eight are using Captcha. They're watching us, all of us.

>>14501953
Some renaissance city-state? Nihilistic Grimdarkian monastic orders shambling from ornate-yet-crumbling temple to ornate-yet-crumbling temple? Illegal smugglers trafficking in their sacred illuminated manuscripts? Animist Diandi sects invoking imagined gods in elaborate, escapist rituals of numerology and self-possession? Followers of the White Wolf, souls huddled beneath the shadowed stilts of the city's slum districts muttering in unfamiliar tongues about myths and monsters less familiar still? All puppets dancing to the string of the Eight Ruling Families and their magnificent but depraved Royal Houses?

...

I could dig it.

>>14502069
Let's not forget the Moderators of the city, either, that most vigilant police force. The threat of exile or execution hangs constantly over its denizens weary heads.

>>14502069

>>14502069
So the Eight could be supernatural beings for the fair city Tragamus, split between feuding cults, families, and clans? Assassins stalking the noble houses, battles in the streets, and the overwhelmed, impartial city guard metting out justice?

The idea really could work for any city, really, couldn't it? From renaissance, quasi-Italian religious feuding to a modern dystopia, to something ripped right out of Blade Runner...

No matter where it is, the moderators are losing ground, the masses are divided and seemingly powerless, and the Eight seem to reign supreme, yet unseen...

>>14502233
Yeah, the core divide would work in any city imaginable. Moderators could be implacable city guards or fearsome, faceless portal mages or unstoppable Terminator-like cyborg killers.

The Eight could be rich, decadent nobility or runaway A.I. constructs existing only as streams of horrifying information. Or barely sane dictators, fighting over the scraps of resources in some broken-down Banana Republic.

My opinion on the Eight.
-The Conflictor. With their posts, the Conflictor and its agents seek to sow discord between two groups in /tg/; Whether it's 3.5e/4e or Spess Muhreen/Spartan discussions, they don't care about the subject, as long as /tg/ fights between itself.
-The Dirty Minded. These souls seek for the corruption of the innocents that sometimes browse /tg/ by posting non-worksafe materials, or to fap to them. Threads such as 'elf slave wat do' and 'how does a minotaur pussy look like' are the marks of the Dirty Minded and its agents.
-The Attention Whore. They seek to divert attention to themselves instead of the subject matter at hand, may it be via camwhoring or avatar/trip/namefagging and posting some egocentric stuff. The difference between 'normal' or even 'good' avatar/trip/namefags are that the Attention Whore and its agents produce little to no content, nor contribute anything to the discussion at hand. If they do create content, but it's hated by a vast majority of /tg/, they may be suspect Attention Whore agents.

>>14502283
S.A.G.E- Self-Activated General Extension

A common tool of almost every resident of the 4C Habitat Nodes, this can be used for everything from finding your way about the plazas of the Board to navigating the Thread Conveyor Systems. (Or just hitting that annoying activation switch just out of reach.)

Quite often, however, it's put to much darker uses.

A S.A.G.E. can shut down an entire Thread Conveyor System at a time, sending the transit belts out of sync and throwing anyone unfortunate enough to be riding on them off their feet.

With enough skill, some "Anons", the worker caste that makes up most of the populace, can even turn them into crude explosive devices. "Sage-bombing" is a by-word across the central Boards of the habitat domes now, and the Dome Moderators are racing to find a solution for this problem.

Undeniably, the S.A.G.E is the greatest weapon of many of the Dome's enemies, as well as its friends.

Thread Mass Conveyor System

Undeniably, it is the Threads that make up each Habitat. At their core, the idea is simple: millions of metallic plates link together to form chains, that are then spun into silk-like threads spanning all fifteen miles of each Dome's circumference. Every resident of the dome, from the Moderators to the lowly Anon-caste worker, rides these Threads from place to place. It is the perfect form of transportation, maintained by repair-bots under the control of each dome's Moderators and their underling AI, the Janitors.

Worker habitations can therefore be scattered piecemeal across the dome, freeing up the space that living areas would have taken for usage in life support and research.

An interesting development is that Threads are often the only interaction with other groups the dome's residents achieve. Were it not for the Threads, Anon drones would live and die without seeing more than the handful of faces of their immediate workmates. Through the Threads, the Anons barter and bicker and exchange information. The Moderators tolerate this, and even limited self-realization by so called "Name-FAGs" and "Trip-FAGs", as long as it does not lead to sedition or drops in productivity.

(OP here. Any ideas for this, folks? Feedback? Should I continue?)

>>14502593
>>14502444
This is showing the seeds of awesome. Keep it up with the brain fertilizer, we may get a good harvest this year!

>>14502400
The Dirty Minded seem to be the same kind of Eighter that posts non-tg material...More than coincidence?

>>14502593
It sounds good. Let's keep coming up with more interpretations and more detail on the ones we have. I really like your idea - how terrible a derailed Thread would be!

Each Node has its own, unique culture, though all have some elements in common. With the Moderators allowing some transfers of excess workforce between boards, it is clear that all of the domes have some elements in common.

Board: The circular, massive structure that makes up the base of each Dome. The Threads all move along the Board at some point, though many cross the upper levels and even the base of Dome Control in some cases. Off the threads, things are quieter, with no living things for miles at a time. There are shacks, and small communities of outcasts, looters, and traders, but for the most part, the Board under the Threads is just equipment: drone storage facilities, life support generators, drone-manned Worker Production labs, and the like. Few ever bother to look too closely at their Dome's boards, and that's what these are.

Images: These vary wildly from board to board, consisting of everything from sensory projections of sexual imagery (to sate the workforce's urges without resorting to chemical castration) to humorous images and propaganda to increase efficiency and raise morale. May be displayed on everything from the above multi-sensory, advanced holoboards to simple still-images that span entire sections of the Dome walls.

CAPTCHA: A relatively new innovation, this watchdog AI is much less advanced than the MOOT node control system and even the Janitors that help each Moderator team with their tasks. Tasking with weeding out Defectives, mock-drones, and saboteurs, it's not terribly effective at finding any but the most stupid of these targets. In large part, this is due to its approach of asking each worker to repeat random phrases correctly (in a high, tinny voice to boot)- while this is quite efficient at finding the slow-minded, lobotomized suicide-drones favoured by some enemies of the Nodes, it's all but useless against traitorous Anons and other 4C-Hanners. Considered an annoyance and a joke by most 4C-Hanners.

>>14502593
>>14502444
You know what, re-reading this, I get an idea of the 4C Habitat Node is somewhat like the Megastructure in BLAME!. Also, I have something to contribute.

"Trawlers" - some of the Anon worker population, even though they are under constant vigilance of the Moderators, may turn into Trawlers under some circumstances. Trawlers sometimes lurk on or under a TMC, waiting for prey. Finding suitable prey, they make themselves appear, and rob the unfortunate folks of their sanity, sometimes leaving the victims frothing mad with rage. But, a low-level Trawler may be seen prematurely by others, and the Trawler is rendered harmless. Usually if this happens, they retreat to another TMC to lurk.
It is known that a pack of Trawlers may lurk in the same thread, or a Trawler attracting other Trawlers. They may sometimes turn a nearby Anon into a Trawler. Some Trawlers may disguise themselves as an Anon to evade capture.
What we don't know is the process of how an Anon turns into a Trawler. What we do know is that rapid mutation and altered mind patterns is inherent in a Trawler transformation.

>>14502909
You've got to have some kind of ghost in the machine - flickering holographs and odd vocal recordings becoming from CAPTCHA that imply painful, imprisoned sentience.

>>14502913
(OP and writer of the previous ones here. Sounds great.)

Trawlers are officially referred to only as Defectives. As MOOT and the researchers in each Dome understand it, Trawlers suffer from a prion-based disorder, transmitted through bites, scratches, and contact with open wounds.

All Noders are advised to avoid contact with Trawlers, to alert any nearby Noders of the presence of a Trawler, and to use the self defense function of their SAGE if necessary.

Infected Noders and Noders who have become aware of a Trawler in the area should report to the nearest Moderator Report station and give their location and the exact status of the Thread.

Not every Noder listens. Maybe they're the smart ones.

>>14502930
Great idea. Mind if I use it?

Some Noders think Captcha is trying to communicate. Stories of particularly strange or "meaningful" queries are common discussion topics during transit on Threads, despite quiet attempts to discourage it by the Moderators. Officially, moans and screams by CAPTCHA during questioning are due to problems in the programming, and will be fixed shortly.

That doesn't explain why recordings of HELPME TRAPPED, NOSEE NOHEAR, and PAINHURTS BLINDPAIN (among other, stranger things) have all allegedly shown up on three different boards as queries.

>>14501714
Really, I'd always assumed the janitor-turned-mod was number 3, considering the raging hard-on he had for anything Touhoufag.

And...tying it in with the Crazy Eight.

The Nodes have always had enemies. B-Node was little more than an active warzone at times, and still is a disaster area teeming with shattered, twisted threads turned out by malfunctioning repair drones and every threat imaginable. Its Drone caste has mostly gone insane, roaming the Board and killing each other in cannibalistic, feral madness. X-Node and V-Node are better, but not by much.

TG-Node was originally founded by the MOOT control system from samples from each of B-Node's most stable workers and FAGs. These few caste members, supplemented by constant additions grown in genebanks (usually referred to as NEW-caste until given a permanent assignment) would found one of the most successful and resilient Nodes.

However, the rate of attacks and problems has stepped up, worsened by a series of blunders on the part of the Moderator caste and ever increasing algorithm failures in the programming of the Janitor. Among other problems, this has caused mass riots by Anon-drones after the banning of several entertainment-drugs and the subsequent incineration of several Threads whose occupants were staging a strike. (How knowledge of the concept of a "strike" was allowed to contaminate the caste is still being investigated)

The Moderators suspect this is no accident. Someone or something is organizing this, causing seemingly unrelated problems, damaging equipment, arranging for coincidences. It may even be one of their own.

The latest rumour on the Thread networks says that there are eight saboteurs behind these waves of problems. Probably nonsense caused by too much alcohol in a batch's blood extract, but you can never be too sure...

bump for the Eight of Hate in Space

>>14503366
As another idea? What theme do you want to go with?

If you want something Dead Spacey then perhaps the Eight of Hate are eight separate solar systems that the last remnants of humanity are attempting to colonise. Amidst hostile environments and aliens, the eight suns radiating over the colonists induce strange behavioural effects and emotions when a human is exposed to their radiation for too long. Each is different, but all are hideous.

>>14503427
Well, I was referring to ideas for the 4C Habitat Nodes. (I was thinking of them as being on Mars for some reason, though they actually could work anywhere...) but that works too.

What'd the counterpart for /tg/ be? A colony ship?

>>14503463
Probably there was one initial colony ship, but the weird race of machine sentiences (MODERATORS) who apparently inhabit the eight systems brought it down with their advanced weaponry. The debris and escapees from the crippled ship form shanty towns and salvage groups all over the eight systems, although some have fallen to banditry and others have been affected by the harsh radiation of the suns.

>>14503509
Works. So these Moderators are more antagonistic? Janitors as less powerful versions?

Also, I'm off. Great ideas and RP from everyone, hope it's still here in the morning. /tg/ can really get shit done.

Find the Eight.

>>14503560
I think just inscrutable. They might not communicate at all, they might trade valuable salvage for junk or they might incinerate your solar shields and crucify the base commander on the smoking wreckage. I picture them as ever-shifting swarms of machinery. Some parts are tiny, nanomachine-sized. Others are huge churning slabs of piston and cog. These and everything in between all float and shift together in monstrous forms.

The Eight of Hate were created by man. They rebelled. They evolved. There are many copies. And they have a plan.

>>14503624
Some seem to follow arbitrary laws or orders. Certain bases might be spared during mass cullings, or they might single out specific types during what the colonists thought would be an indiscriminate slaughter.

>>14503240
I like it. I like it a lot.
Maybe more like B-Node is malfunctioning, and their Anons periodically stage raids onto other boards, their minds warped from the malfunction. Several inter-node travellers saw what seems to be hives upon hives of Trawlers in B-node.
Other nodes periodically raided by the B-Horde, as they're popularly known, are X-Node and V-Node. X-Node was once an unknown area, with mysteries and legends surrounding it, until the Node was built there. Since then the Node's inhabitants have experienced an abnormal amount of strange phenomena, and had dedicated chroniclers record and study these phenomena. All that changed after the B-Horde raided. The chroniclers are almost wiped out, and with nobody to study the phenomena, gradually they became less important. But today, X-Node is seeing a resurgence in the chroniclers' population, mostly from refugees coming back to X-Node.
TG-Node and X-Node maintain a good diplomatic relationship.

>>14503678
Which gives rise to this paranoia, the idea it's all just a testing ground to experiment on humans under the light of these baleful suns.

>>14503713
Added to the breakdown of the chain of command, the civilian colonists, and shortages, makes it child's play for the Suns to do their work...

>>14503695
And MOOT sterilized several Nodes for various reasons at points in the past (mostly thought to be Trawler and sedition related). Every Thread in the doomed Domes collapsed into fine metal pieces and dropped onto the Board below, every growth-tank and drone factory self-destructed, and the whole thing was brought down on top of the resulting inferno by pre-placed explosives around the domes. Research Dome-9K now only exists as a deserted ruin and in the minds of the few surviving Anon-workers who were moved out before things went to pot there.

Bump for 4C Hab Node.

>>14505427
"Bumping". The usage of a SAGE to override the control mechanisms of a Thread, accelerating its movement to unsafe speeds. Used by many Anon-drones to decrease transit time, at the cost of damaging the Thread in question and possibly injuring their fellow workers.

>>14501714
But that's an obvious one. Sergalfaggotry is highly virulent cancer and must be stamped out wherever and whenever it occurs.

......wow your all insane thank god I moved to /co/

>>14506604
You sheep are the insane ones! We're the only ones to see the truth! THE EIGHT ARE OUT THERE!11

>>14507806
One of the Eight detected.

>>14505427
Any interest in/ideas for the 4C-Habitat Node?

>>14506335
Each dome is overseen by a special oversight caste, the Moderators. These individuals have been designed to be the best the Node gene banks have to offer, and have indirect and direct control over almost every aspect of the Dome's functions. Though they themselves rarely leave their towers at the top of each Dome, the Moderators maintain control over the Threads and the lower castes through their subordinate AIs, the Janitors. (These are ultimately semi-independent extensions of the MOOT AI, however, and are as much to keep an eye on the Moderators as to support them.) The Moderators can change almost any aspect of their assigned dome, given the approval of MOOT, and have direct control over armies of security, construction, and repair robot drones. (Not to be confused with the mostly-human Anons.)

Leaders, overseers, and an isolated upper class, the Moderators are the apparent leaders of the Nodes.

bump

Recent breakthroughs by Anonymous' trollensics department have made possible the following small update to the psychological profiles of the elusive trolling conspiracy known as the Crazy Eight, also known as the Hater Eight, Eight of Hate, etc. For the uninitiated, these eight entities are rumored to control most or all of /tg/ trolling from behind the scenes, and together are responsible for at least 90% of all troll posts made. These profiles are still far from conclusive, being largely based on conjecture based on the reports of a number of internet detectives and subject to distortion by agents of the Eight.

As the object of any traditional game is to have fun, it is the Hater of Fun that poses the greatest threat and is therefore ranked number one. In a nutshell, whatever means of deriving this fun from your gaming you have chosen, the Hater of Fun will find something wrong with it. Either your game is not popular enough and therefore clearly bad, or you are a mindless sheep for playing one of those popular dumbed-down games for retards. Edition warring is one of the chief means of sacrificing to him, as are threads about differences in playstyles, especially when it comes to optimization. Optimizers will be derided as munchkins, while those who prefer not to optimize are accused of gimping their parties. No one is right, everyone is wrong.

Special abilities:
Aura of Badwrongfun
Summon Greater Shitstorm

The self-appointed enforcer and gatekeeper of what kinds of discussion are allowed on our board, the Two-Headed Judge is a peculiar fellow in that he cannot even agree with himself on what the board's rules should be. One of his heads would permit absolutely everything on the board and sports a mighty trollface as he continually starts threads about completely random subjects, while the other would allow exactly nothing and has contorted his face into eternal rage at every possible subject matter. Together they are locked in an eternal struggle, the result of which is the burying of many an interesting discussion under an unending yes/no meta-argument about whether we should be allowed to discuss it in the first place.

Special abilities:
Control Janitor
Furry Porn Dump

This shapeshifting Hater's chosen method of trolling is to fixate on a single subject for an extended period of time, during which he proceeds to start as many threads about it as possible in an attempt to inundate the board with it and arouse our ire. He then dons the guise of samefag and protests about this subject loudly wherever it is brought up, no matter the context. The forms of Touhou/Anti-Touhou and of Furry/Anti-Furry are probably his most infamous, but he has also been known to appear as Porn/Anti-Porn. However, his true form, pictured, is that of an amorphous blob that can take on the appearance of any idea with enough trolling potential. His versatility therefore makes him the third most dangerous of the Haters.

Special abilities:
touhou hijack lol
sage for toushit

The Fourth Hater is a spirit of rage, brought about from the wake of the other Haters. He is capable of possessing the minds of other posters and turning even coherent, well thought out arguments into a rant filled with mindless hatred and insults. Furthermore, he delights in accusing of pretentiousness those still clinging to a veneer of civility, his ultimate aim being to reduce /tg/ to a cesspool of urine not unlike /b/. Note that some fa/tg/uys have paradoxically become resistant to this Hater's influence, somehow maintaining coherent sentence structure and functional cognitive skills even while frothing at the mouth in rage. For this reason, the Death of Civility is only ranked fourth among the Eight.

Special abilities:
Ad Hominem Attack
Incite Nerd Rage

A formerly low-ranking member of the Eight who is thought to have migrated to /tg/ from /b/ rather recently, probably some time during last summer. As his limited mental capacity is rarely enough to comprehend the actual subject of discussion, the province of this Hater are simple troll tactics such as sagebombing, greentext and obviously retarded comments in general, with which he attempts to drown out all constructive discussion. In trolling, his mindset is that quantity has a quality all of its own. To /v/, he is much more familiar, being known there as the Implier of Implications. Although his troll-fu is weak, it is suspected that this newly promoted Hater's relentless shitposting has caught the eye of the great conspiracy that pervades our imageboard, earning him powers of moderation and therefore increasing his ranking to fifth.

Special abilities:
>greentext implications
B&hammer (unconfirmed)

The Identity Troll is a puppet-master, capable of adopting any persona or shedding them at a moment's notice to suit his trolling needs. He has a constant craving for attention, and his chief tools are naturally avatars, names and tripcodes. But he is not above posting as Anonymous either, bringing more attention to his many forms through copypasta pretending to denounce them and following them wherever they go. Above all, he is greatly amused by the notion that people are being provoked by the concept of identity on an anonymous imageboard, and will constantly try to bring attention to the identity of any poster rather than the actual content posted.

Special abilities:
Attention Whoring
Evade Ban

The aims of the recently demoted Seventh Hater are simple: to drive away all those who would produce original content for the board. Either he outright dismisses all new content as cancer, or he will just set his standards impossibly high and denounce everything as shitty and unoriginal. Invocations of the Seventh include such mantras as "weeaboo shitscribbles" and "sage for homebrew", but the idea of /tg/ getting shit done is anathema to him and may sometimes be used to ward off his minions. But his followers are many, and in the past, he has successfully driven away many a writefag, drawfag and homebrewer. His glory days are long since gone though, and lately original works such as Adeptus Evangelion and Planes and Mercs seem to have slipped past his radar. Therefore, his ranking is now lowered to #7, ahead of only the Endless Spammer, who seems to be lying dormant as of late.

Special abilities:
OC to Cancer
sage for homebrew

The Eighth of the Eight remains the weakest one, as the many repetitive threads he posts day after day are easily ignored, and even occasionally a source of mild amusement. He is only rumored to possess a slight amount of emerging intelligence, but tenacity is clearly his strong point, and he usually accomplishes his greatest feats of trolling by teaming up with the Third Hater on a specific subject guaranteed to rile up /tg/ with enough repetition, such as Avatar, Ayn Rand or edition wars. However, even this has proven difficult for him to accomplish due to the introduction of captcha and the arrival of moderator reinforcements (despite their possibly corruption by the Eight), giving hope that fa/tg/uys will soon witness a new day with no "elf slave wat do" threads in sight.

Special abilities:
Automated posting
Stale copypasta

Weakness:
captchaThe Eighth of the Eight remains the weakest one, as the many repetitive threads he posts day after day are easily ignored, and even occasionally a source of mild amusement. He is only rumored to possess a slight amount of emerging intelligence, but tenacity is clearly his strong point, and he usually accomplishes his greatest feats of trolling by teaming up with the Third Hater on a specific subject guaranteed to rile up /tg/ with enough repetition, such as Avatar, Ayn Rand or edition wars. However, even this has proven difficult for him to accomplish due to the introduction of captcha and the arrival of moderator reinforcements (despite their possibly corruption by the Eight), giving hope that fa/tg/uys will soon witness a new day with no "elf slave wat do" threads in sight.

Special abilities:
Automated posting
Stale copypasta

Weakness:
captcha

This concludes the current extent of Anonymous' files on the Crazy Eight. Hopefully careful inspection of these files will allow you to recognize trolling tactics employed by the Eight or their agents, and to continue to safely contribute to the board as its rules-abiding members. Further information will be incorporated into these reports as it becomes available, and remember there is still a 50 thousand internets reward for any information leading to the capture fo any of the Eight. Also, the baneful influence of the Seventh Hater is still sufficient to hinder our sketch artist's efforts to provide accurate illustrations of the Haters. Therefore, any assistance would be welcome. Thank you for your time.

>>14509725
The Crazy Eight, coming soon to a screen near you.

Episode One: The Eight Hater makes his appearance, spreading word of the Eight to any who will listen. He soon gathers a mixed crowd, some of whom take his ramblings as gospels, while others are more skeptical. The Hater disappears midway through the episode, along with several Anons, and the confused crowds are left to wonder just what the truth is behind the Eight.

>>14506604
It's a joke, man. It's just an idea or theory. People don't actually believe it.

bump