Mudae in ATK

Mudae, like previously explained on the ATK Discord page, is a Discord bot with many features but is most notably known for its character roulette, ranging from anime characters to game characters, male to female. It also has many other features such as fun minigames you can play together, but many primary events which took place on the bot in the ATK-server specifically had to do with the character roulette, which would change general opinions about many of the members in the server. One thing which should be noted before discussing the following content is that not all of the members of the server played with the bot, and the members were the following: Aman, Shiva, Fardeen, Saiyan, Shaniel, Yasu and Chris. Sometimes Timothy and Tarun would pop up but wouldn't really do much.

Prelude
In the absence of certain games the entire server could play like Minecraft, Aman decided to add a new bot. They didn't want to put up with the entire Dank Memer situation like Tarun, so Shiva recommended using Mudae. He did in fact warn Aman that Mudae might cause fighting between friends and all sorts of server drama, but Aman thought they were prepared for it. When Mudae first appeared in the server, no one knew how to use it, so Shiva helped Aman set the bot up with the basics. There wasn't much usage of the bot for the first few weeks and was only being used by Shiva to refresh his memory for a bit. Gradually Aman and Fardeen also started playing but not as much in the beginning. Shaniel also came along but didn't contribute to anything either. Both Yasu and Saiyan also came later but would only roll once in a while. For the most part, Mudae was in the server like any other bot with minimal usage, but this would change in the near future. One thing to keep in mind before reading the events is that the Mudae bot in our server uses default settings and did not have any special additions to make the runs more interesting and experimental for the first part. The kakera badge prices were only adjusted later but nothing else.

Shiva's Rise and Beginning
While Shiva did not remember most of the specific features of the bot at the time, he was still invested into it since the beginning, as he was the one who recommended the bot to Aman. Because the others weren't too serious about it at the time, Shiva took this chance to grow on Mudae by collecting high ranked characters and farming some kakera. Back then, this was a very big deal because kakera badge prices hadn't been reduced and this was a dedicated effort. After Aman, Fardeen, Saiyan and Yasu started playing a bit more routinely, Shiva was by far in the lead, character and currency wise. While Aman wasn't as present as Fardeen and Yasu, the two started cooperating with each other and started getting much of Shiva's kakera and rare characters because they had certain characters that Shiva really wanted. Since Fardeen also got his share from these trades, he started helping Yasu collect her Hololive characters which she really wanted. Fardeen either gifted these or demanded trades, and sometimes also took kakera loans from Yasu. After this the activity with the bot started growing and both Aman and Saiyan also continued rolling routinely. This is regarded as the real beginning of the first Mudae run.

Competitive Nature
After Shiva had lost some of his hard earned currency and characters, he decided to take a step back and just collect his wish list characters and max out his perks. He also became less active in the trades for the most parts and just observed whatever happened, occasionally giving others some tips on what to do but stayed outside of main affairs unless he specifically wanted a certain character. Slowly but surely, the participating members continuously tried to one-up each other by collecting high characters and maxing out their badges as fast as possible. For the most part, there wouldn't be as many issues as there would be in the near future. Both Fardeen and Yasu used their alt accounts to progress faster and also have additional rolls. This at first annoyed Aman and Shiva as they didn't have alt accounts with the former not even able to make one due to previous Discord issues. Fardeen also put his status to offline so he could watch from the sidelines to snipe someone's character, which of course annoyed the others that he went to such lengths. Yasu also for some reason invited her boyfriend to also participate in Mudae, he barely talked in other channels and only used Mudae and nothing else. There was also a moment which would be important in the future. After Yasu had claimed a very wanted character of Shaniel whom he didn't put on his wish list, he became upset about it and asked her for a trade which she declined. She called Shaniel "petty, salty and childish", because according to her he could've just rolled her himself and actually put it on his wish list to add validity to his point.

Chris Entry
As a member who was only active in the server to play games, Chris was only invested in the bots but didn't see anything he liked. That's when he discovered Mudae. Initially, he was quite skeptical of the bot as he was discouraged after seeing the strangeness of what was happening in the channel. However he asked both Aman and Shaniel in VC about what he was supposed to do and they assisted them. With time, he became one of the regular players of the bot. However, he became conflicted after Fardeen and Yasu again treated him as if he was an idiot, as he did not know the full extent of the bot. Something which would permanently have an impact on Chris was sniping. While sniping was seen as an issue personally, it did not contribute to other major issues. However, Chris was very upset at their way of thinking. Whenever he'd snipe one of their rolled characters, they'd have a small fit, which Chris didn't respond to. To the contrary, when they sniped one of his rolled characters, he wasn't allowed to have an issue about it and they'd call him names, primarily Yasu. He was also confused as to why they wouldn't roll when he was there, as he was unaware about the entire competitive nature of Mudae and the fact that they knew that he was cooperating with Aman and Shiva. Chris was even warned for spamming one time after being annoyed for a long duration of time. The other party was not satisfied about this though.

Even after the warning this still continued, and when Chris finally had enough after dealing with their whining, he created a channel for himself in that same category, to roll his characters without anyone seeing. He invited the ones he trusted, which were Aman, Shaniel and Shiva, saying that only these three were allowed to see what he was doing as they were the ones who helped him in the beginning and stood up for him. This continued without the knowledge of the other three, but was eventually discovered when Chris claimed a character which was wished by Fardeen and many others, with him expressing his confusion as to how he didn't get any notification. Chris then either accidentally or purposely told Fardeen about the secret channel, and even though Aman tried to cover this up, Fardeen saw the audit log and was forced to delete a channel. On the contrary, he created a second Mudae channel so sniping would be a little more difficult to ease the issue. Chris promised to Aman that he wouldn't create another secret channel and accepted that he was wrong in all of this. The main reason that this channel was kept in the first place was because all of the once which Chris allowed to view the channel were also annoyed by the behavior of the others and wanted to get back at them in some way. Chris now resorted to using his many alt accounts which he created for the sole reason of rolling on Mudae, which also continued to annoy Fardeen and Yasu because the two of them needed something to get mad at, while they themselves had been using alt accounts and the effect would be the same. This cycle continued on after this until it was announced that there would be a possibility of Mudae being reset, so everyone would get a new start.

Incoming Reset
While the others continued to play Mudae and collecting their characters and having small fights, Aman and Shiva were continuously learning about new perks and commands. Aman also discovered that if someone with moderation perms had ill intent, they could use that to do as they please, so Aman later implemented a rule that such perms could not be used unless a majority of the players agreed with the usage of the perm. They also began expressing interest in a reset, as many wanted characters that others had but wouldn't trade for them. This could also be to establish new relations between players and encouraging cooperation. Aman held a community vote in the Mudae channel if they should reset the bot or not, in the beginning there was a 3-3 tie, with Fardeen being very unsure if he should agree to the reset or not after his torn relationship with Chris. Even when Saiyan and Shaniel did not vote, Fardeen eventually decided he was okay with the reset and it became 4-3, officially starting the second Mudae run. After the second run had started, Yasu's boyfriend left the server because he did not like the fact that everyone had been reset and their purchases refunded.

Division
After everyone had repurchased their badges, Aman decided to ease the expensive prices after discovering that it was a command. Aman then again refunded everyone's kakera and many were able to almost max out their badges. The first one to do so was Yasu, who together with the total kakera from her second account managed to do so, with Saiyan also giving his kakera to her for some reason. Fardeen asked Yasu to give him 5000 kakera in loan so he could also max out his account, which she reluctantly agreed to. Aman, Chris and Shiva had managed to max out their badges after a combined effort of reacting to kakera and some trades. It became clear that Yasu had become the number one player in terms of currency and characters, so most of the others tried to surpass her in several ways. This was however not as easy because the one who assisted her was none other than Fardeen, who was also not too far behind her. Fardeen would later describe that he had grown to dislike working together with Yasu, most probably due to her behavior with other players and the fact that she had not given Fardeen as much as he had given her during their cooperation together. He also felt a sense of regret towards the way he had treated Chris in the past when he first started, so he wanted to collect as many characters that Chris wanted and gift them to him as a sort of apology. He also wanted to annoy Yasu was continuing to lurk around and snipe any of her rolled characters which were of any value.

Sniping Debate
As more and more time passed, collecting the high ranking and favorite characters had become a priority. While there were many ways of increasing the chance of rolling a wanted character, it wasn't all that easy. One method of getting a character which you didn't roll was sniping, which became the norm by now. Fardeen was especially fond of sniping and put his profile to offline so people wouldn't be as wary. During this time, most if not all of the active players would stalk the two channels to see if some wanted characters would appear. As previously said, there was no official Mudae rule against sniping in the server, while there was an option to disable it, no one initially had an issue with it so they decided to keep it. Sniping the characters who others had rolled was generally looked down upon, but it only resulted in small personal scuffles. There was one particular chain of events that would lead to the next section. This was also a way of seeing how others could act when the situation wasn't in their benefit. For one, Yasu would snipe the characters of others and when they had to say something about it she'd blatantly call them "salty, petty and childish", which might've been fit in the scenario if not for the following statements. Whenever one of her characters was sniped however, she didn't like it when she was called out and started throwing a fit in which she'd accuse the others of not managing the bot correctly and disagreed with the fact that sniping was allowed in the first place. This would escalate even further after Fardeen started "justice sniping" primarily for Chris because he had felt bad about his past actions concerning him. However Chris was still reluctant to trade with him as he was decent at scamming others. Yasu kept getting upset and kept making lengthy discussions as to why sniping was allowed. One of the most notable moments was when Fardeen had sniped another one of her rolled characters and made the vague remark that "the ones form above have ordered this", which gave a very bad implication. Yasu then made the bold conclusion of saying that everyone was siding against her and they were being biased and that "they were acting like slaves if they were following orders", while not knowing the validity of remark. She then proceeded to say that the staff was very inefficient and instead of stopping such arguments which she caused they promoted them. After this many of the high ranked characters had already been claimed but there were still some remaining, so there weren't any other notable events such as this one except for the next paragraph.

Yasu's Departure
After the small argument that Yasu started due to her rolled characters being constantly sniped, most of the things went back to normal for the most part, with Yasu still making certain remarks about the situation. Shiva had previously considered disabling sniping all together, because he too had been annoyed with his characters being sniped by Fardeen especially, but had kept it because Aman refused and he wouldn't get to enjoy getting back at Fardeen eventually. For the most part characters would still get sniped here and there and the occasional scuffle happened, but nothing too bad. One night while most were playing Brawlhalla, Yasu happened to be rolling and rolled the #5 character on the claim rank, and Aman happened to be watching because he was waiting for the others to load, spotted it and claimed it faster, sniping it. Because the last sniping debate had left a sour taste in Yasu's mouth, she didn't argue and just complained and decided to leave. Though she couldn't leave her collected characters behind and decided to give them to Saiyan as he did not snipe her characters and was the only one who supported her efforts. Her leaving the server was not that big of a deal anymore, as it was expected since the last sniping debate. And there would be less arguments in the server and that would be appreciated. Though did this remind some to maybe write some more in-depth explanations in the near future to avoid misinformation and have more obvious guidelines, though there would always be those who see themselves as superior such as Yasu. After this, the tensions started to fade and Mudae would slowly die down as many of the high characters would have already been collected in the past few months after the 'war'. The bot would remain partially used but not as much as before.

Quiet Period & Mudae Future
After the many unnecessary debates stopped and Yasu had left the server, the remaining Mudae players continued playing but did not talk as much as before, most likely to avoid another confrontation as before, but still happened occasionally. For many weeks after July, Mudae was starting to be rarely used and just served as a way to pass the time for a short period. Just like before most of the characters had already been collected and there was no use continuing this run, so another reset took place on 20 September, instead of 8 October which was the original date but would take too long. After the reset, it was clear that not many were motivated to continually grind on it as much as before except Saiyan, who's only goal now was to be at the top of the leaderboard. The first day was a very busy day, as most members had low hopes on the first day. Saiyan on the other hand had the most success the first days and collected many high ranked characters. Fardeen likely stopped playing because of this, but came partially back to mock Shiva if he got one of his wished characters. For the passing weeks, Saiyan continued collecting characters and the others did not even try to put in effort. Some did deal with Saiyan if they wanted one of their wanted characters, but at a high cost. One thing to also note was the presence of Shawn now in Mudae, yet he only rolled in a newly created staff commands channel in order for Saiyan to avoid interfering with his rolls, but did not have much presence in general.

Aftermath
To Be Written: Later