Post-Vresun Era
[1]First Conflict: HisSleepiness Strikes Back!
Description: Shane's death was a tragedy, but nobody expected HisSleepiness to return the way he did. His goal? To put an end to the Vresun Conspiracy once and for all, through finding decisive evidence that Astrum's members are sockpuppet accounts.
Summary: HisSleepiness takes over Astrum and managed to gather screenshots, proving that most of Astrum's members were sockpuppets.
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}There was a contest for Astrum’s new logo. Between KingofDespair’s logo and Alfasketer’s logo, Alfasketer’s logo won the contest.
The Eternals returned in Symfora (at the time known as Symfora GX). Cosette appeared on 2nd September. The day after, the others showed in the following order: Aimee, Lynn and Michelle. Chances are, it's possible that they were secretly unbanned by Shane or one of the other Masterminds.
Shane ‘died’ on 30th August. Ellen proceeded to mourn this, with Kushagra lampooning her for his self-pitying behaviour.
HisSleepiness (known at the time as RainyDay) took Astrum (known back then as Vresun) under siege in search of a ‘mastermind’. They didn’t even show up, meaning that RainyDay’s attack was for nothing.
HisSleepiness managed to succeed in gaining evidence that most of the members were sockpuppets. Sadly those screenshots didn't survive and were covered up.
King of Despair, despite helping HisSleepiness then tries to stop in a crisis of consciousness. His warnings come too late, for HisSleepiness has already succeeded in his goal.
Alfasketer reverted HisSleepiness’s siege and life went on.
[2] Second Conflict: Kushagravation
Description: Unfortunately for King of Despair, he hasn't seen the last of Kushagra and neither has anyone else. HisSleepiness and Kushagra have formed an alliance, one that has Karjam as one of it's enemies.
Summary: Kushagra proceeds to be a thorn in King of Despair's side, during his attack on Lunar Shadow. As such, King now has both HisSleepiness and Kushagra as his enemies.
{Spoiler}{Spoiler} Ghost_Account (formerly Pierre Bruno aka King of Despair) insulted Kushagra with a poorly done meme and removed it. RainyDay saw it and got offended with Kushagra joining in.
KingofDespairSS edited one of Ellen’s posts as a joke. In response, Ellen used her powers to remove his post count, causing him to declare that her powers should be removed.
At some point, Ariana got to work on the Lunar Shadow mod with KingofDespairSS helping her. In a few days, they improved the Lunar Shadow Project Wikia.
Ghost_Account changed his name to Deleted_Account and started speaking in binary.
Ariana and King of Despair got into a brief spat over Kushagra(who had been trying to get unbanned) being allowed a second chance. KingofDespair no longer had a reason to help with the Wiki.
KingofDespairSS and Gwyneth created new forum rules to quash Kushagra’s influence.
Kushagra tried to get unbanned so he could set up a forum RPG even though he had his own forum where he could do that.
Gwyneth returned to Astrum and updated the rules.
[3] Third Conflict: The Sockpuppet ExodusDescription: With new rules in place, King hopes to dissuade Ariana from wanting Kushagra to have a second chance. However she's banned and soon enough, so are most of the members, who are now forced to move elsewhere.
Summary: Gwyneth proceeds to ban everyone from Velkyzr, which causes Kim to ban King out of spite. After that, things change significantly...
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}On 12/11/16, Dark Sorceress and Ellen were banned for quoting Kushagra, a banned member responsible for Vresun’s slow death. On that same day, Kim and Crizelda were banned for asking the previous two to be unbanned, which was also against the rules.
Deleted_Account was banned from Lunar Shadow by Kim out of childish spite, giving him exactly what he wanted.
On 13/11/16, Caitlin, Claire, Evelyn, Luminous Witch, Xarcire, XiON and Σнεκдτℓ were banned for angrily demanding the unbanning of the previous members which increased the number of banned members to 13. This was later elevated to 27 due to members not reading the rules.
On 14/11/16, the number of banned members rose to 45. Eleanor created her account to try and get her siblings unbanned. She got banned for breaking the rules. This was later elevated to 52 members, effectively reducing the member count to a handful.
KingofDespairSS and Gwyneth reviewed the rules and rewrote them to be less totalitarian.
LuminiousSky was promoted to Global Moderator.
[4] Fourth Conflict: Resurrection of SDescription: Shane returns, revealing that he faked his own death because he had gotten in trouble that required him to be taken into protective custody. Suffice to say, nobody was pleased, with King of Despair now on the warpath on who he believed to be Shellen.
Summary: Shane comes back and things quickly spiral into chaos. King of Despair is now on the warpath on who he believes to be "Shellen."
{Spoiler}{Spoiler} Shane comes back, having revealed that he faked his own death. Nobody is amused, and King of Despair even believes that Ellen is simply impersonating him, nicknaming her Shellen in the process.
A member named ‘Paradigm’ tried to get into Astrum under the claim that they were from the Cave Story Tribute Forums. A quick bit of research revealed that no such member existed.
On 17/11/16 Dianke wound up in hospital. This wasn’t the first time she had been there. On that same day, LuminescentSky revealed that she had a brother. He died when she was 8 and was the reason why she was interested in gas masks.
Kim emailed Gwyneth asking for her fanon stuff. Gwyneth threatened to delete them if Kim bothered her again.
Predictably, Shellen and co relocated to Lunar Shadow. The only other time this happened was during SN-10, back when Rita wasn’t so warmly welcomed.
On 19/11/16, Lumina signed up on Astrum GX as Darth Gasma’Skyr and caused a small ruckus. Charlotte claimed she didn’t know she was banned. When Darth showed her the reason, Charlotte said she hadn’t used her email since October.
On 19/11/16, Ellen decided to revive Symfora (aka Astrum GX). As a result, OmegaAtma lost his Forum Guardian status and KarjamP, Xion and Eleanor were given the status instead. Ariana was made leader of the Global Moderators and Karina was promoted to Administrator.
OmegaAtma, Darth Gasma’Sker and Zijdenkousen spent some time infiltrating Symfora GX which lasted a few weeks.
KarjamP returned to Symfora, OmegaAtma, Darth Gasma’Sker and Zijdenkousen were banned for ‘precautions’.
On December 21st, ‘Shane’ claimed to have faked his death and wasn’t actually dead. While it may have seemed false at the time, it turned out to be true.
On the 23rd of December Lucy called Ellen out for taking over Shane’s account.
On Christmas Eve, Re:KingofDespair decides to fight back against Shane while trying to ally himself with Lucy.
Lucy is convinced that everyone on the internet is a sockpuppet except her. Re:KingofDespair is sick of her hostility and decides to cut off ties to her.
Lucy implies she’s drunk and Ellen was still pretending to be Shane. Re:KingofDespair doesn’t let up and keeps grilling Ellen over her lies.
Ariana comes in and doesn’t do much of substance before Bloom returns and does her thing.
[5] Fifth Conflict: A False Finale
Description: Shane returns, revealing that he faked his own death because he had gotten in trouble that required him to be taken into protective custody. Suffice to say, nobody was pleased, with King of Despair now on the warpath on who he believed to be Shellen.
Summary: Shane comes back and things quickly spiral into chaos. King of Despair is now on the warpath on who he believes to be "Shellen."
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[6] Sixth Conflict: A King's Disguised Madness
Description: With King and Kurumi sent to the Ghost Group, King of Despair goes crazy before eventually being given the boot. He then tries to return to Symfora through impersonating other members before giving up.
Summary: King of Despair impersonates several members in an attempt to get into Symfora before eventually giving up.
{Spoiler}On the 24th December, Lumina joined Astrum and calls herself Dokugasu. All her posts are spoken in Japanese.
After some misunderstandings, Bloom Seymour, Luminescent Sky and KingofDespair SS get together as a group to end the madness.
As it turns out, Gwyneth had given Bloom Seymour emergency powers.
On 28th December, Rainy Day returns and rebrands himself Re:RainyDay. He joins Bloom Seymour and Re:KingofDespair in their quest to expose Ellen for what she really is.
On that same day, Re:KingofDespair revives Memejams and creates a thread for them.
Re:RainyDay is unbanned from Astrum 5Ds where he is named Mono.
OmegaAtma and Kurumi behave weirdly in Symfora GX’s Shoutbox causing it to be killed for a short time. As punishment, they’re put into the Ghost Group.
OmegaAtma starts messing with people in the Shoutbox and is eventually banned when he mentions Memejams in Hexidecimals.
KingofDespair starts creating alternate accounts in order to infiltrate Symfora GX. Starting from the 17th January, he starts impersonating various people they know starting with ‘Amy Van Der Skyff’.
On the 18th January, ‘Fatih’ had been sent in to infiltrate Astrum.
After multiple attempts at creating alternate Outlook Accounts to impersonate people the Symforians are familiar with, King of Despair gives up and moves on with his life.
KarjamP comes to the belief that Outlook is a fake email program despite it being owned by Microsoft.
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First Absence Arc: The Great AbsenceDescription: Shane and the Masterminds have disappeared, leaving Velkyzr, Astrum and Symfora mostly empty. King makes it to Symfora with his final disguise Nathaniel Magdelyne, where only Kushagra and Karjam remain
Summary: Everyone else seems to have disappeared, leaving only a few members left...
{Spoiler}{Spoiler} Shane Neumann was last seen on February 2017, Kim Tyranto is last seen on January 31st 2017, Ellen Van Zyle was last seen on April 22nd 2017 and Bloom Seymour was last seen on 13th February 2017. With them gone, everyone else seems to have disappeared…
On 9th March, King of Despair uses a different Email service and creates a new account called Nathaniel Magdelyne.
On 11th March, King of Despair logs into Symfora GX and finds out he succeeded. Nathaniel introduces himself and takes a good look around. All of the members aside from KarjamP and Kushagra have disappeared. It seems that Velkyzr and Symfora GX are in similar situations.
Kushagra still believes in the ‘Shellen Conspiracy’. Of course it’s unknown if he’s aware that the Velkyzians also believe in that same conspiracy theory.
King of Despair is continuing his mission to extract information of Symfora GX designed to take down Shellen once and for all.
Shane knows that Anel’s real name is Annelie, which up to this point is something that only her friend and parents knew.
On 26th March, Nathaniel learns that KarjamP is a Protestant and that Kushagra is Catholic/Agnostic
DespairingKingSoulOS submitted two screenshots of KarjamP’s words to r/iamverysmart
On the 10th April, King of Despair found a video by The Unhappy Orchestra called ‘Response to KarjamP.
On the 11th April, CrimsonDarkness SS started a conversation with KarjamP on The Unhappy Orchestra’s Wrong Enemy!? Video. KarjamP accused him of being a troll before engaging him in conversation.
DespairingKingSoulOS had slowly been bringing Memejams to Reddit in hopes of getting the knowledge of KarjamP into their hands. The subreddit was eventually stripped of it’s content and given away to another member, once King decided he wanted it gone.
On May 10th, King of Despair impersonates KarjamP on Proboards Support in order to ask their moderators to give him access to the real KarjamP’s Symfora GX account. When his attempt at social engineering falls flat, he decides to interact with the other members.
Second Absence Arc: Arise, Discordians 2.0 (The Second Discord Alliance)Description: With King and Kushagra's friendship renewed, King gets into contact with AuroraDash and Mono. As the Discordians 2.0, they spend time trying to decipher the mystery of Vresun while coming up with theories both regular and game changing.
Summary: King's swallows his pride and asks Kushagra to help him. Things then start to look up for him as a new cause is born...
{Spoiler}{Spoiler} King of Despair and Alfasketer meet up. Alfasketer joins Velkyzr and the two of them talk for a bit.
On June 2nd, CrimsonDarkness SS uploads the first episode of his new Vresun: Ciraian Ruins series.
On June 11th, the last account sent out to Symfora GX is called ‘Vapour’.
With his options exhausted, King of Despair decides to get into contact with Kushagra. The two eventually start talking on Discord. He also gains contact with AuroraDash.
King of Despair returns to TV Tropes, and calls himself Vapour. His account was created on June 11th 2017.
Vapour creates the Main and YMMV TV Tropes page for Vresun Ciraian Ruins on 1st July 2017. The Character Page was created on the 3rd July with the Trivia page created on 7th July and the Quotes Page created on September 17th.
The Velkyzr Forums are temporarily revived on September 2nd via Alfasketer and Mono. That day is dubbed ‘The Day of Hope’. King of Despair gets into contact with RainyDay via Discord.
Vapour gets into contact with AdricDePsycho during 27th September and proceeds to report Shane for sockpuppetry on 28th September.
King of Despair creates the Vresun Ciraian Ruins Wikia on 28th September.
On 24th October, RainyDay joins the General Chat on Discord, effectively forming the Discordians 2.0. On that day, they all discussed about the Conspiracy. It turns out The Eternal Darkness was fake but Shane was real.
The Great Absence 3 (Road to Re-evaluation)Summary: The Discordians 2.0 hit a snag, and realise that they may have to re-evaluate their theories. Much time is spent trying to figure out where they went wrong.
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}On 27th July, King realises a potential problem: The Discordians 2.0 had miscounted the number of Masterminds. It's possible that only 3 Masterminds exist, and that Ellen is actually a sockpuppet created by Shane. With that in mind, it's possible that Shane never died, and that as Ellen, he had been watching while faking his own death.
On 28th July, King (2.0) tries to negotiate with Karjam, hoping to gain his help on the The Vresun Conspiracy. The negotations never get off the ground, and King decides to leave Karjam to his own devices.
The Great Absence finally ends, when Kim Tyranto makes her long awaited return on Cave Story Tribute Site Forums during August 15th 2019. It had been 2 years, but the wait was finally worth it.