Constituent -27

I was one of the last to join, I think, if not the last outright. I had some friends who stumbled on the ARG and joined and got second hand stories and jokes and story from them over months and, eventually, decided I wanted to join too. I was really excited to get involved since it seemed like this huge impressive cool thing at the time. I even ended up waiting to join to get the number I wanted, -27. I was going to do some sort of theme with the number 3, since 27 is 3x3x3. I think I was hoping that the writers or whatever I'd call you would slot me into a major plotpoint or something, use my whole rule of 3 things to have me spit out a prophesy or something. I dunno.

Also I wanted to base my rat off of this cool image I found. I can't post images because I don't have an account and don't want to bother but it was the seventh image on the third row if you google image 'witch mouse.' The little felt plushie with the hat and broom, with a lil poster in the background.

Shit kinda fell apart not long after that though. One of the friends who invited me got callout posted by Salad because he had a buncha racist shit on his steam profile from when he was a shitty middle schooler, another one started dating my ex, and the last just kind of drifted away from me and the friend group we shared at the time. I haven't spoken to any of them in years now, but it feels like it was longer ago than it actually was. I think I joined towards the end of 2017, which was only barely three and a half years ago now? It feels like a different life now but things from even further back feel like they were yesterday.

I didn't know anyone else at the time so basically all the weird story and drama and whatever else went over my head. I was just there for funny jokes and the cool shit that -17 would post. I was mostly just a spectator tbh, I could never keep up with the whole server, but I tried.

At some point after it officially ended or whatever someone proposed a dnd group, I was nerd-starved for dice, and I joined that and left the server because it was a bit too much for me. Apparently the worst drama happened after that and I don't really know what any of that was about but I was still in that dnd group with a few others.

We stopped the dnd a bit later but I'm still friends with three of the people I met there. They're basically the best, closest friends I've ever had now. I can't really imagine not knowing them and it's weird that my introduction to one was them rping being drowned in the river styx or something???

Like I said, it's been years since then and I still don't know what the fuck SCR was. I never understood what was happening and honestly I probably never will. I read everything on this wiki at the time but it feels like 99% of SCR was based off of interpersonal relationships I'll never be privy to, and tbh? Thank god for that. I'm in a call with those aforementioned friends listening them talk about stuff I wasn't there for and holy shit, y'all lived like this?

SCR and everything about it is in the past from my perspective. I was in it for all of a few months, talked with a dozen people, and left without interacting with anyone but the three in that DND group. At the same time, it was a huge part of their lives. It was how they all met, it was how we met, and it will always be a small part of our collective existence.

It's so bizarre when I hear about it or remember it. It's this huge thing I'll never understand that had an equally huge impact on people who are themselves have had a huge impact on me. It's like looking at a family tree and realizing that your parents only met because of some huge event somewhere else in the world. It's like looking at your hands and knowing they're shaped by the genes of people you'll never know. It's this bizarre, unfathomable thing that didn't hit me, but its aftershocks did through the people closest to me.

I don't know what to think or feel about it all, but thanks for letting me meet those people. I don't know where I'd be without them.

-Constituent -27, 6/4/2020