The first Red Remover competition thread was the Archduke Ferdinand of the June 6th Karma War. In said thread, Livio was framed for subtracting karma from a number of users' posts, and in return, his karma was brutally tackled. After Livio posted in reaction to the sudden attack, the mysterious KarmaBot appeared and declared all posts made by Livio in that thread its enemy. More karma was ripped away from Livio's total, and followers of KarmaBot began to appear. At this time, Livio's total karma was around 86, having begun at exactly 101.
KarmaBot appeared soon after in Livio's summer to-do list. Instead of planning an assault, however, KarmaBot unexpectedly boosted Livio's karma in a single post, neutralizing the post's total to zero. KarmaBot said that the anonymous user who subtracted Livio's karma was unjust, as KarmaBot had not yet declared Livio's obliteration in that specific thread. It can be assumed that it was one of KarmaBot's followers who "unjustly" took from Livio's karma.
THE WAR'S ACCELERATION
KarmaBot again appeared in a separate thread, claiming that Livio summoned him, and it once again made its objective the "obliteration" of Livio's karma, despite his prior assistance. Upon inspection, one can infer that Livio simply mentioning karma is enough to summon KarmaBot to his location. Once KarmaBot striked, its minions followed, and Livio's karma took a massive beating. At this time, Livio's karma dropped to around 75.
Livio retaliated by calling for the aid of InterBot, who edited all posts made by KarmaBot, leaving an enormous picture of a nuclear explosion behind. InterBot also left his message, "Interbot was here," at the scenes of the counterattack. KarmaBot, however, was not beaten: A short duel of post edits emerged from InterBot's attack, and within moments, InterBot was defeated. Both Livio and InterBot were met with more karma deductions after their defeat. At this time, Livio's karma reduced to a shocking 68.
A GRAND TURNING POINT
It was only after such a hideous downfall that Livio realized, in fact, he had the perfect means of achieving victory: Using his administrative powers, he stripped KarmaBot and a couple of his subordinates from their karma dealing powers, leaving KarmaBot virtually powerless. This was a devastating blow to KarmaBot's forces, but regardless, the harassment against Livio continued. Jazz, a KarmaBot follower, prompted KarmaBot to spam Livio's inbox with private messages. With no other option, KarmaBot agreed, and the spam began.
'KarmaBot's repeated nessage to Livio' said:
MY ARMS ARE RESTRAINED BUT NOT MY MOUTH. MY INFLUENCE OVER MY MINIONS WILL BE YOUR DOWNFALL. YOUR KARMA IS MINE!
IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.
Already feeling as he achieved victory, Livio felt no need to personally react but sent InterBot in his stead. It became a clash of message spam. Prior to InterBot's attack, KarmaBot sent Livio an ultimatum, demanding the return of its karma dealing powers in return for the ceasing of its messages. KarmaBot took the response from InterBot as a refusal, and no agreement was met. The spam battle was short lived, the victor uncertain. Appearing defeated, however, KarmaBot announced his temporary leave, warning that he would return with a "resurrected Interguild member" that would aid his cause. A theory existed that the supposed "resurrected member" would end up being the famed a_neezles_a.
AFTERMATH OF THE FIRST BATTLE
After KarmaBot's leave, various new accounts sprouted in an attempt to further weaken Livio's karma. Although now deleted, these account names took after characters from the Super Mario series, including Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Toad. It was confirmed that these accounts were not the doings of KarmaBot itself but, instead, one of its unidentified followers. This follower gave Livio trouble for a short time, until KarmaBot made a reappearance. KarmaBot told its follower to retreat, stating that they're handling of Livio's karma takeaway was "not [its] style." Both KarmaBot and its follower disappeared shortly after. At this time, Livio's karma plummeted to a total of 48.
Finally able to stand back up, Livio spent his alone time constructing a "karma nuke," which could blast away all karma dealings from the beginning point of the war. His first attempt at launching it slightly failed, only reviving 20 of his murdered karma. With a second blast, however, Livio was able to bring back even more, but not all. The karma nuke also, although unintentionally, negated the dealings of positive karma from before the starting point of the war, forcing Livio to say goodbye forever to a small fraction of his earned karma. He was able to revive around 40 stolen karma, making his total precisely 92.
User guyguyxtreme, taking pity on Livio for his dramatic loss of karma, supplied various posts of Livio with karma, restoring and surpassing his total to 102. While all of these events took place, Livio kept a live news feed in the Weekly Update of that week. During the sixth hour of the sixth day of the sixth month of the year, Livio declared the Karma War over. Little did Livio know, however, KarmaBot would show the next day, finally revealing its "resurrected Interguild member." After a long absence, user Florida made a sudden appearance, taking interest in the Karma War and declaring his allegiance to KarmaBot's forces. KarmaBot soon after confirmed Florida to be the resurrected member he foretold of.
RESERVING ALLIES
With its karma privileges restricted, KarmaBot had to rely on its followers to carry out its actions. Upon confirming Florida's alliance, KarmaBot tried to recruit various members to its cause. Likewise, Livio decided to take the opportunity in recruiting followers, and it was around this time that terms such as "Livioists" and "KarmaBotians" first formed. Both sides have had little success in recruiting a mass of followers. KarmaBot did, however, somehow manage to influence someone with administrative powers to its side, as Livio's messages were soon edited to make it seem like he surrendered to KarmaBot. Livio suggests that it was account dando52 aiding KarmaBot, although dando52 blatantly denied any involvement in the Karma War.
'Livio's surrendering message' said:
Livio soon suggested a compromise to end the bickering. He proposed that the differences between himself and KarmaBot be settled in the 2010 Interguild Olympics. Whoever's forces would win the most competitions would become the victor over the war. KarmaBot, however, rejected this solution, claiming that it would be the means of its end if accepted. After rejecting Livio's peace treaty, KarmaBot's administrative aid striked again, editing Livio's post in this very blog thread to read as followed:
'Livio's edited message' said:
oh no! communism!
oh no! and even worse!! my karma is about to be obliterated!
THE SECOND WAVE
By having the word "karma" in his post, Livio was forced in summoning KarmaBot to this blog thread, and thus Livio's karma was again in jeopardy. At first effect, Livio's karma only took a minor blow. As the hours passed, however, more of KarmaBot's followers began to show, prepared for battle. Worse than before, Livio's karma took an immediate and fatal blow, quickly reducing to lower numbers as the minutes passed. All of KarmaBot's followers simultaneously bombarded Livio with negative karma, some even making new accounts to increase the effect. Moreover, it appeared that KarmaBot had infiltrated the InterBot account through the aid of his anonymous administrator. KarmaBot left a message to publicly humiliate Livio in a separate thread:
'InterBot's infiltration message' said:
YOU CALL COMMANDEERING AN ACCOUNT HAVING LACK OF HONOR, WHILE I CALL IT A BATTLE TACTIC. YOUR OWN INTERBOT HAS BEEN USED AGAINST YOU IN THE ENTIRETY OF THIS SECOND WAVE.
TARGET: LIVIO OBJECTIVE: HUMILIATE
FROM~KARMABOT
After mere minutes, Livio's karma reached to the single digits, and on June 6, 11:50 PM Interguild Standard Time, Livio's karma officially breached the negative numbers. Defenseless, Livio's karma was further shredded, dropping to an astounding -100 karma at June 7, 12:34 AM Interguild Standard Time. Once that achievement had been met, KarmaBot called off his followers from their attack, claiming victory over the Karma War of June 6th. Livio's highest karma total during the Karma War of June 6th was 105, whereas his lowest was -120. Livio's total karma loss was 225. Retaliation has yet to occur.
By having the word "karma" in his post, Livio was forced in summoning KarmaBot to this blog thread, and thus Livio's karma was again in jeopardy. Worse than before, Livio's karma took an immediate and fatal blow, quickly reducing to lower numbers as the minutes passed.
This is untrue. Initially he only took a minor hit, going down to about 96. Then out of nowhere, his karma was lowered to 74, and then 70. Then about 3 hours passed with no more hits to his karma, before the attack recommenced.
Livio's karma would go down in chunks, often stopping for a 5-6 minutes before going down another 5-15 karma.
The movement really gained momentum at around 25 karma, and it was able to rush into the negatives. It struggled by users, jorster, Silver, sup mus, rocket guy and bang jan one by one, but it gained incredible momentum, rushing past interbot and going from about -45 to -120 in a matter of minutes.
Then, suddenly, a cease fire was called, and KarmaBot was satisfied with his decisive victory.
Monday, 12:48am - BlueScreenoOfDeath Where's Of Cheese?
Monday, 12:48am - BlueScreenoOfDeath Liv is gonna get a shock when he checks the Interguild the next day.
Monday, 12:42am - BlueScreenoOfDeath I was about to post, but I think I'd leave it to you. Maybe put my print-screens inside?
Monday, 12:42am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ lol.
Monday, 12:42am - imtimi indeed.
Monday, 12:41am - Quirvy imtimi, you might want to update your blog.
Monday, 12:40am - Quirvy Shocker. I was right
Monday, 12:38am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Phew.
Monday, 12:37am - Quirvy my money is that Havana Banana(probably neezles) is doing it
Monday, 12:37am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ P!
Monday, 12:37am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ MAKE IT -120 AND STO!
Monday, 12:37am - Quirvy -119
Monday, 12:37am - KarmaBot STOP SUBTRACTING KARMA, OR THE EFFECT WILL BE LOST!
Monday, 12:36am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ -116!
Monday, 12:36am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ -11!
Monday, 12:36am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ GUYS! STOP SUBTRACTING KARMA!
Monday, 12:36am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ -111!
Monday, 12:36am - BlueScreenoOfDeath I got a shot of -105
Monday, 12:35am - Quirvy they went on to -107
Monday, 12:35am - BlueScreenoOfDeath done
Monday, 12:34am - BlueScreenoOfDeath okay
Monday, 12:34am - InterBot REQUEST APPROVED. REACH -105 KARMA, THEN STOP.
Monday, 12:34am - BlueScreenoOfDeath -100
Monday, 12:34am - Quirvy -101!!
Monday, 12:34am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Actually, he used to have 105 karma. Take away 5 more.
Monday, 12:33am - InterBot CEASE SUBTRACTING!
Monday, 12:33am - BlueScreenoOfDeath -95
Monday, 12:32am - BlueScreenoOfDeath -88
Monday, 12:32am - InterBot IS ALL UNDERSTOOD, KARMABOTIANS?
Monday, 12:31am - InterBot THEN IT IS GOOD. ONCE -100 KARMA IS REACHED, IT WILL BE A SPIT TO LIVIO'S FACE. ABORT SUBTRACTING KARMA ONCE -100 IS REACHED, AND WE WILL CLAIM OUR VICTORY.
Monday, 12:31am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Lol if we can rid Livio of 160 karma, then we can definetly rid him of 200 karma.
Monday, 12:31am - BlueScreenoOfDeath So InterBot is the hidden user.
Monday, 12:30am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ -67!
Monday, 12:30am - InterBot OBJECTIVE COMPLETE. BONUS OBJECTIVE: REACH -100 KARMA.
Monday, 12:29am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ -64!
Monday, 12:29am - BlueScreenoOfDeath Thanks
Monday, 12:29am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ -61 karma!
Monday, 12:28am - canadianstickdeath Oh, sorry. I was just thinking it'd be fitting to have Livio back at 100 karma.. Too bad it's bad karma.
Monday, 12:28am - BlueScreenoOfDeath oops. will wait till liv passes interbot
Monday, 12:27am - InterBot GET LIVIO TO SURPASS -61 KARMA, AND THE KARMABOT OBJECTIVE SHALL BE COMPLETE.
Monday, 12:27am - BlueScreenoOfDeath i did my print screen
Monday, 12:27am - InterBot DO NOT FORGET THAT THE OBJECTIVE IS FOR LIVIO TO EQUAL INTERBOT'S KARMA. KEEP GOING, MY MINIONS.
Monday, 12:26am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ -50 and counting!
Monday, 12:26am - Quirvy and minus interbot
Monday, 12:26am - canadianstickdeath Lol, we should stop at exactly -100.
Monday, 12:26am - BlueScreenoOfDeath Yep - I'll do another print-screen when he passes bang jan
Monday, 12:25am - Quirvy he might even pass bang jan and get the lowest karma ever, if you forget about jellsprout
Monday, 12:25am - Quirvy wow
Monday, 12:24am - BlueScreenoOfDeath liv passed rocket guy now
Monday, 12:24am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ P.S. It's -35 now
Monday, 12:23am - BlueScreenoOfDeath rocket guy and bang_jan?
Monday, 12:22am - Quirvy No! Your target remains Livio! Interbot is on your side!
Monday, 12:21am - BlueScreenoOfDeath -27 and counting ... ... next target: Interbot (-53)
Monday, 12:18am - BlueScreenoOfDeath Nahh that was taken when he approached negative. Unfortunately my PC clock is set 1 minute faster so it thinks its 11.51PM IST
Monday, 12:17am - Quirvy Yeah. It's outdated now that he's at -26
Monday, 12:17am - BlueScreenoOfDeath anyone seen my prt+scr?
Monday, 12:15am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ True.
Monday, 12:13am - InterBot THIS IS KARMABOT. LIVIO'S DEFEAT WAS INEVITABLE.
Monday, 12:13am - Quirvy kind of like how he used a giant nuke to delete tons of karma rates
Monday, 12:13am - imtimi who is making multiple accounts to do this?
Monday, 12:13am - BlueScreenoOfDeath lol
Monday, 12:13am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Umm... -25 karma...
Monday, 12:12am - Quirvy He's site admin. He'll remod himself
Monday, 12:11am - Dando Yeah, Livio looks de-modded. That's a bit far.
Monday, 12:11am - Quirvy 1 more!
Monday, 12:09am - Quirvy Don't quit now guys! Only 2 more and sup mus passes him!
Monday, 12:08am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Woah. Did you just de-mod Livio?
Monday, 12:07am - Quirvy oh no! but I can't!
Monday, 12:06am - Ønå bye!
Monday, 12:05am - BlueScreenoOfDeath -21
Monday, 12:05am - Ønå 9 users on now.
Monday, 12:04am - Quirvy But some other people are going to have their karma affected as well
Monday, 12:03am - Quirvy I've got a plan for how I can contribute to the effort without directly rating his posts!
Monday, 12:01am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ All on to celebrate.
Monday, 12:00am - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Wait, 12 users were on at the same time!
Sunday, 11:59pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ OMG 11 USERS ON!
Sunday, 11:59pm - Quirvy He's tied with Silver!
Sunday, 11:59pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Aww. It's not there!
Sunday, 11:59pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Wait. Twistee?
Sunday, 11:58pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Well. Do it now!
Sunday, 11:58pm - Quirvy Not to mention that I found out a way to rid him of his staff powers
Sunday, 11:57pm - Ønå Twistee, IntotheDeep, One of my Deathwisher series caves...
Sunday, 11:57pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ lol fail
Sunday, 11:56pm - Quirvy earlier today only 6 people had a higher karma than him
Sunday, 11:56pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Livio's gonna get a heck of a surprise when he comes back on.
Sunday, 11:56pm - Quirvy only 6 people have a lower karma than Livio
Sunday, 11:55pm - canadianstickdeath Which ones are missing?
Sunday, 11:53pm - BlueScreenoOfDeath He is gonna get worse than catta/silver/kitti/whatevr
Sunday, 11:53pm - canadianstickdeath Lol, ona, did you upload them?
Sunday, 11:53pm - BlueScreenoOfDeath loll
Sunday, 11:52pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ -14 LOL!
Sunday, 11:52pm - Ønå Does anyone know why some of my caves aren't there when I look up my username?
Sunday, 11:51pm - BlueScreenoOfDeath -8 lol
Sunday, 11:51pm - BlueScreenoOfDeath I took a print-screen
Sunday, 11:51pm - imtimi 11:50 Interguild time is the time of Livio's breech into the negatives.
Sunday, 11:50pm - BlueScreenoOfDeath -2!
Sunday, 11:50pm - Quirvy -1
Sunday, 11:50pm - BlueScreenoOfDeath 2 ...
Sunday, 11:50pm - Quirvy 2. We're going to have to make note of the time when it reaches 0 and negative 1
Sunday, 11:50pm - imtimi 1....
Sunday, 11:50pm - imtimi 2....
Sunday, 11:49pm - imtimi 3...
Sunday, 11:49pm - canadianstickdeath Lol, every time I refresh it's down even lower.
Sunday, 11:49pm - BlueScreenoOfDeath 5 now ... ... ...
Sunday, 11:47pm - BlueScreenoOfDeath I wonder what will happen when he signs in the next day
Sunday, 11:47pm - BlueScreenoOfDeath WTF liv has 7 karma at time of posting
Sunday, 11:45pm - Quirvy OF CHEESE!?!!? Livio's karma is totally going into the negatives now
Sunday, 11:45pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ OMG 10 USER ONLINE
Sunday, 11:43pm - Quirvy Not as good as a mega piranha, though
Sunday, 11:42pm - Dando That's slightly more appealing I guess.
Sunday, 11:41pm - Quirvy Actually a Mega Shark
Sunday, 11:40pm - Dando I think I was just compared to a Giant Octopus.
Sunday, 11:39pm - Ønå Hey! Why is it that some of my caves aren't there when I look up my username?
Sunday, 11:38pm - canadianstickdeath Lol, Dando vs D52? Sounds like a good time to revive D53? And I totally confused them on purpose, Quirvy, geez.
Sunday, 11:37pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Umm... Havana Banana???
Sunday, 11:37pm - Quirvy But that would be the battle to end all battles! That would be like that movie, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus!
Sunday, 11:35pm - Dando I'm going to have my own battle with D52 one of these days.
Sunday, 11:34pm - Quirvy Well, earlier today. But D52 is rumored to be with karmaBot. But D52 denies and involvement
Sunday, 11:34pm - Quirvy CSD!!!! Dando just commented about how annoying it is when people do that!!!!
Sunday, 11:32pm - canadianstickdeath Oops. I meant D52, sorry. Wouldn't want to go against our Overlord.
Sunday, 11:27pm - Dando Yes, that one.
Sunday, 11:26pm - Dando The side that quietly watches, mildly bemused.
Sunday, 11:26pm - Quirvy that's the side that doesn't do anything because they realize how silly this whole thing is, and that at the end of the day, we're going to have to clean this all up
Sunday, 11:26pm - canadianstickdeath ... Whichever side that is.
Sunday, 11:25pm - Quirvy It's been a very quiet, long, second battle, I guess. But it's been very costly to Livio's Karma
Sunday, 11:25pm - canadianstickdeath But for the record, I'm totally on Dando's side.
Sunday, 11:24pm - canadianstickdeath I have to get up at 6:30AM, and right now, it's 12:30, so I'll probably head off before I could really get involved.
Sunday, 11:24pm - Quirvy It started yesterday, it stopped, Livio's karma came back to 100. But now it's back down to 25
Sunday, 11:24pm - canadianstickdeath The Karma war? Did we do that yesterday?
Sunday, 11:21pm - Quirvy CSD, are you going to take part in this?
Sunday, 11:20pm - imtimi That is indeed KarmaBot's objective
Sunday, 11:19pm - Quirvy god you guys are totally destroying his karma like karma has never been before destroyed
Sunday, 11:18pm - Quirvy 25
Sunday, 11:18pm - imtimi :O Legasp
Sunday, 11:18pm - Ønå hey ninjaz!
Sunday, 11:18pm - Quirvy 31 karma
Sunday, 11:17pm - Quirvy Oh no! Now it's KarmaBot too!
Sunday, 11:17pm - Quirvy InterBot! Is that you!?
Sunday, 11:15pm - Quirvy keep in mind that I have not minus rated any of his posts
Sunday, 11:15pm - Quirvy 36 karma
Sunday, 11:06pm - ♫ƒ@ï|™♫ Lol you're right. 45 karma, lol.
Sunday, 11:05pm - Quirvy Uh oh! New record low for Livio!
This is one of the first times I haven't been particularly amused by a karma war although the only other main ones were shorter, based on non-real users, started by me or a combination of the three.
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