The Strategist backed off a bit, not expecting this much aggression, but he gave the Artificer the benefit of the doubt; everyone was pretty high-strung at the moment.  [color=fff200]The name's Sartorius,"[/color] the Strategist introduced himself, [color=fff200]"Although I suppose you can tell,"[/color] he shrugged, referring to the words that float above his head to anyone who was looking at him, [color=fff200]"The GM's are mishandling the situation, when dealing with the unknown, we need data, instead of panicking, players need to cooperate and keep tabs on each other.  If anyone manages to log out, we need to know why and how so that we can maybe let everyone else log out.  We also don't know if this 'bug' has any other symptoms.  I just wanted to know if you had a party that you could keep tabs on, or if any of your friends are on."[/color]

Meanwhile, the Bulwark, named AilanthusAltissima, wandered over, picking up on the conversation.