Shattered Illusions

Chapter 1: The Masks

1. Summer 2008: in the head contest four accounts won almost everything: dst, No one, Venger and an alt called gogu. SoulTear accused them of passing heads to each other. That summer dst and No one swapped accounts: until then a man played dst and she played No one; from then on, dst is her.
2. 23 July 2008: the News thanked dst and No one for a series of very important exploits. dst became the Master Bug Researcher.
3. 26 September 2008: with a fast-click bug and No one's scripts they turned creatures into heat, the heat into alliance loyalty, the loyalty into leadership, and threw the members out of four alliances in one evening. They spared one alliance and saved every list so Mur could restore it all. The News called it a planned attack by master spies.
4. Her protector in those days was Shoeps, soon the Game Manager. By November she sat on the committee that hunted head-hiders to the Gazebo.

Chapter 2: The Renegade

1. February 2009: Game Manager Shoeps held dst in a dream prison to make her inform on Rex Umbrae Killer. She refused and posted 'A Prisoner's Journal'. Players took sides. Mur answered: 'ITS NOT DEMOCRACY'.
2. 14 February 2009: Rex was banned and dst removed from the team for 'disrespect, instigation to riot, repeated heavy offences towards Shoeps'. Her new title: Renegade Team Member. Seven weeks later Shoeps was no longer Game Manager.
3. April 2009: she was shamed in the News for taking creatures from the Demo Account. June 2009: the Dimensional Shifters refused her, and 25 days later Mur gave her Shattered Illusions, the first guild of the Underground.
4. October 2009: her team won the Lost Code. November 2009: she ran for the crown of Marind Bell and lost to Lifeline, 18 votes to 52, then received a gold forum moderator medal.

Chapter 3: The Trial

1. January 2010: Fenrir Greycloth opened a public thread named after dst; she did not answer. March 2010: she took the Dimensional Shifters from its old leader 'out of revenge' and let the guild die.
2. 16 May 2010: dst sued Fenrir for slander, harassment and threats, the realm's first trial by jury. 15 September 2010: Fenrir guilty of all charges, a month in jail from the day of his return; he had already left.
3. 17-18 November 2010: she exposed a secret training ground inside the closed Drachorn Lair. King Lifeline was penalised, the drachorns went back to eggs, the chase spell was taken from everyone. The same day Seigheart sued her for stalking; he withdrew four days later and was pardoned.
4. 2011: Seigheart rose to lead the Treasure Keepers. In September 2011 dst exposed rule-breakers in chat and was jailed a week herself, 'for her way of causing scandals'.

Chapter 4: The Kingslayer

1. August 2011: King Jester of Necrovion jailed half the realm, dst among them; Necrovion was closed. In October the hidden Council ruled on him.
2. 28 October 2011: dst posted 'I do use words as weapons'. Between 11 and 18 November 2011 the queen of Marind Bell and the kings of Golemus and Loreroot all resigned. Mur asked if it was 'the kingslayer rumor spread by granos'.
3. 20 December 2011: dst was named Investigator, with full access to the logs. 17 January 2012: a kingslayer medal to dst, Granos and Eon 'for classified missions of obvious nature'. Mur would not say who slew whom.
4. 2012: someone took her alliance; Seigheart died and was revived, then quit in September. Pipstickz called her 'the closest thing we've got to a police officer'.

Chapter 5: The Log Room

1. September to December 2012: Seigheart's heir Fang Archbane led the Treasure Keepers, resigned and was jailed a week for abusing their stock. dst knew the exact count: 'You've only been dragged twice.' A new leader was chosen by public vote.
2. April 2013: the dreamweaver Phantom Orchid dreamed dst at five in the morning while she was offline and silenced her. Phantom Orchid lost her dream power and was jailed. dst: 'YOU didn't leave ME alone which in the end lead to you losing your role.'
3. 2013: dst published Fang's insults and he was jailed the same day; in December he received a final warning. dst: 'Eye for an eye.' Mur made her a Sky Scouter for the Underground.

Chapter 6: Diplomatic Immunity

1. June 2014: Granos, Ailith and dst became Full Authority Judges, with warrants for final decisions against anyone, themselves included. dst: 'Morality is subjective.'
2. September 2014: Mya Celestia died. 21 October 2014: the Guardians of the Root, Loreroot's great alliance, fell. dst later: 'Remember mya's death? THAT was a good planning.'
3. 1 November 2014: DARK DEMON's quest 'The Ring Has Been Stolen!' was broken up by teleports to the Gazebo and to Deathwhisper. The Council resigned. 27 November 2014: Mur announced 'Why nothing happens to dst': diplomatic immunity, for her previous role as a secret psychological assassin.
4. 22 May 2015: the first judge's decision: Aethon killed for using a quest power to kill a player he had quarrelled with. 21 November 2015: Lintara was crowned Queen of Loreroot; she died the next day. Eon: 'I killed Lintara with DST.'
5. December 2015: Eon held the Guerrilla Golemicarum for ransom; Grido jailed him and was ruled to have made 'a big mistake'. February 2016: dst won the Christmas points.

Chapter 7: Ninety-Three Seconds

1. 4 February 2012: Mur told the Necrovians that a land which lost all its alliances would get 'a special plan ... one that land WONT like'. dst saved the line and kept it four years.
2. December 2013: a new player, Ary Endleg, joined dst's Christmas quest team. He was Liberty, an old ally everyone thought gone. In June 2014 King Azull invited him into the Tainted Warriors, the last alliance of Necrovion. dst ground Necrovion loyalty until she stood above the king.
3. Saturday 5 March 2016: Eara Meraia left the Tainted Warriors and her seat stayed empty overnight. Sunday 6 March, Mur's birthday: at 10:28:02 dst left her own alliance, at 10:28:10 Ary invited her in, in forty-eight seconds she threw out nine members, the King and the Queen among them, and at 10:29:43 she left. Ninety-three seconds.
4. Chewett: 'no bugs were used'. dst sent Mur his own words of 2012, and he kept them: 'Dst managed to make this happen, in a very legal way.' The gates of Necrovion shut and the land became a wasteland for 3867 days. dst: 'I wanted to knee you and your hive. And I managed.'
5. 25 March 2016: the Death Patrol killed Ary Endleg in Necrovion. 28 March: dst revealed that Ary was her spy: 'He's the best spy in all MD History! REVENGE!' Mur: 'you should prepare being the queen of the underworld one day ..willing or not'.

Chapter 8: The Guardian

1. 6 February 2017: dst murdered Fang Archbane and Blackshade Rider four minutes apart, the only two Gateway Keepers, and posted 'Gateway Keepers disbanded'. Asked why: 'nope, I did it because I wanted to'.
2. 17 to 19 February 2017: Mur called the veterans to the Obelisk and named the Gateway Guardians: dst, and on the same list Blackshade Rider.
3. 2018: she killed Fang Archbane again. 6 September 2018 and 12 March 2019: each time Aia del Mana raised the Children of the Eclipse, dst killed her and posted the disbanding herself.
4. April 2019: her protégé MaGoHi took the Gateway Keepers. She would not kill him: 'how can I kill someone I nurtured'. Then she went quiet.

Chapter 9: Watching You

1. 14 April 2021: 'Thank you dst': Chewett and Mur retired her from all her official roles after a period of inactivity. May 2021: alliance leaders were now nominated, which ended takeover bids 'similar to days of old'.
2. October 2026: at the Stone of Twisted Souls the realm remembered the exile of Necrovion; Syrian: 'she was the reason NC closed'. On 13 October Syrian, the queen dst once threw out, was crowned again.
3. 12 November 2026: Sephirah Caelum: 'dst is super vilain.' Mur: 'dst needs her own comics story.' The next morning, after years of silence, dst logged in, bought the chronicles of the realm, one of them the story of how she emptied Necrovion, and collected every trophy her past had earned. She said nothing in chat. Her title still reads: Watching you.