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How the pig saved Live-evil

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Sindobook:
In early July of 2008, Tofu, who among his many roles in live-evil, one of which is to manage the live-evil trust fund, had to look after the pig for a few days.

Tofu did not realise that the pig was looking over his shoulder as he was managing the trust fund online and when he left to get some dinner, he left the computer turned on and logged in to the ETRADE website.  The pig and his buddy quickly jumped on the computer and sold all the stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other assets that Tofu was holding in the account.  Instead they put all that money into buying a massive number of baby carrot, lettuce, timothy hay futures, and when they figured it was far more than two pigs could eat in a year, they also decided to buy up a bunch of bamboo futures for Tuan Tuan, all deliverable in June 2009.  Then the pig logged out and when Tofu returned from dinner he was so preoccupied with the pig and his buddy that he had forgotten about his duties managing the trust fund until he no longer had to look after them.  By the time he noticed what had happened on the trust fund, it was already well past the 3-day waiting period, the futures were 'locked in' and could not be taken back.

When Tofu relayed this information to the rest of the group, he was stripped of his duties of managing the trust fund due to his incompetence.  In September the market crashed and many other groups saw their trust funds which were heavily invested in the stock market dwindle, causing them to lose key personel or halt operations altogether.  Live-evil would have fallen into the same boat had it not been for the pig's mischief, the interim manager was able to take out loans on the futures to support operations.  

In time Live-evil's leaders decided to let the pig take full control of the trust fund and more recently, when the futures became closer to deliverable, the pig was able to trade most of them at a slight profit.  Enough to pay off the loans and still throw a very big party for Tuan Tuan and his panda friends, as well all of the small animals within a 2 mile radius.

In this way, when others first assumed the pig's actions bordered on mischief or pure selfishness, in truth he had saved the group once again.  Once this became obvious, the leaders apoligized and gave him Tofu's old position.  The pig understood that sometimes you have to be willing to risk reputation or short-term personal gain for the long term survival of the group, which is something that even today few fansubbers understand.

Sindobook:
Ben ignores Tofu's threats at first, but in the end is forced to capitulate by the pig.

In years past, Otakon has held a 'fansub and industry' panel which was highly attended by fans.  Recently, however, Tofu bungled in filling out the registration form and was unable to properly register the panel with the Otakon staff.  To make matters worse, Mr. Sparkles decided to hold a "Small animal meet and greet" panel at the same time, which caused the rep from Funimation and other industry reps to abandon the panel in favor of attending the small animal meet and greet.  Ben, the prevailing late-term administrator at Otakon, cited Tofu's improperly competed forms and, as fan support dwindled, pulled the 'fansub and industry' panel to make room for a 'hello kitty' cosplay and tea party event.  Tofu tried threatening Ben over Skype, but Ben just laughed it off and ignored him.

The pig, however, remembered his old rival fondly and wanted to help Tofu.  After all, the pig would not be where he was today without Tofu's gullibility and malfeasance in his own position.  He called up Ben on Skype and asked nicely that Ben simply reschedule the fansub and industry panel to a different time.  Ben accused the pig of being a 'Tofu Lackey' and would not talk to him.  The pig insisted that this was not true and to prove it had Tofu issue a written apology to Ben for improperly filling out the forms and beg him to take the pig's advice on the matter.  This did not work either, and Ben did not appear willing to listen to reason.  So the pig had to turn to his friend Simon, who led the famed "bunny brigade" to get Ben to comply.  The pig quoted a rumor that Simon was going to be in town and that if Ben did not comply, he could expect the brigade to 'make their move' and storm the convention hall while all the Otakon staff was distracted or otherwise occupied during the small animal meet and greet panel.  Ben reportedly paused, looking at his list of volunteers and other associated lackeys and noticed that he would be seriously understaffed during that period.  Most of all of his volunteers and most of his staff were taking their breaks then, to attend either the small animal meet and greet or the hello kitty cosplay and tea party.  The event he himself had scheduled at the last minute!  At this point Ben realised his own stupidity and was forced to capitulate to the pig, he rescheduled the fansub and industry panel to a later time and everyone else went home happy.  Even Tofu breathed a sign of relief, and in the end he was forced to acknowledge (once again) his eternal gratitude to the pig. 

Sindobook:
What happened with Yue-bing, part 1 of a series.

Years ago, Mikey, the neighborhood ferret in charge of local small animal security, set up several "virtual honey pot" accounts on a variety of different servers in order to serve as an early warning system against any kind of malcontent attacks.

Holly, Mikey's "Bunny de jure", or "right hand Bunny", was given the task of running most of these virtual honey pots.  They laid dormant for years, drawing little to no attention at all.  After the Bob/Yue-bing/GE999 affair, Mikey asked Holly to use her knowledge of Yue-bing to entrap her into attacking one of the virtual honey pots in order to assist in tracking down her actual location.

At first, Holly was unable to even contact Yue-bing, as it was obvious Yue-bing was 'laying low' after the Bob affair.  Even with Vincent's help, providing old pictures of Yue-bing to be doctored and parodied, drawing her out of hiding seemed like a lost cause.  Yue-bing was simply not biting at anything Holly did.

Sindobook:
What happened to Yue-bing, part 2 of a series.

Holly wasn't able to get Yue-bing attention until she dug up an old story of how Yue-bing had once had a 'special' relationship with a feral jackrabbit known to the locals as "Mr. Buns".  It was said that, during the day, Yue-bing could be seen 'crazy-boxing' Mr. Buns, a type of female courtship that typically only female jackrabbits (not bunnies) indulged in.  Holly's assertion that Yue-bing must have therefore had at least 'some jackrabbit blood' in her veins got her riled to the point where she would contact Holly's virtual honey pot accounts through online chat to demand that she stop spreading rumors.  Still, most of these contacts were done through layers of proxies, making them hard to trace and, knowledgeable of Mikey's capabilities, she never stayed online long enough to be tracked down.  

Holly asked the pig what to do and he said to tell him the next time Yue-bing was speaking with her online and he would join in on the conversation.  It wasn't long before Yue-bing contacted her again, and this time the pig and Taun Tuan also joined in on the conversation, with a planned 'good cop, bad cop' scheme.  While the pig constantly pressed Yue-bing's buttons, Tuan Tuan insisted he just wanted the small animals to get along peacefully and that it was unfair they were all ganging up on Yue-bing and saying nasty things about her.  Even after the conversation had ended, Yue-bing and Tuan Tuan continued to talk in private.  Tuan Tuan reported that Yue-bing was really opening up to him and seemed in need of 'a friend', anyone, after so long being alone and on the run.

So Tuan Tuan completed his part of the plan, giving Yue-bing the access data for some of the virtual honey pots Mikey had set up (including the accounts Holly was using to defame her).  Yue-bing simply could not resist, and the next time she was detected online, she promptly took over Holly's access to one of the honey pots and mistakenly believed she had turned the tables on Holly.  What followed was a 20-hour posting and ranting spree where Yue-bing proceeded to post online, bragging that she had 'h8ck3d' Holly's account with her 'l33t skilllz' and a rather poor attempt to post defamatory info about practically every small animal he had ever known in her sorry existance.

Mikey got on the task of tracking her down, while the pig, Tuan Tuan, Holly, and friends just sat back and laughed that Yue-bing had taken the bait.  With access requirements to the virtual honey pots set up correctly, Yue-bing was unable to hide behind all the usual proxies she used and was eventually tracked down to a small, 24-hour cybercafe, in a seedy, south-side district of San Marcos.  It wasn't long before the pig, Mikey, Mr. Sparkles, Simon, and about ten other members of the Bunny Brigade hitched a ride on the "Daily Pet" delivery van and got dropped off in the Vicinity of the cybercafe where Yue-bing had been connecting from.

Sindobook:
What happened to Yue-bing, part 3 of a series.

The small animals were not able to find Yue-bing in the cybercafe, but Mikey picked up her scent leaving the cafe and followed it.  This led into an alley and then down an animal trail that exited into a small park.  Simon and the rest of the bunnies broke off the trail and formed a perimeter in the park while the pig, Mikey, and Mr. Sparkles followed the trail as it exited into the park.  There were several bunnies in the park, but it wasn't too hard to spot Yue-bing.

Seeing that Yue-bing had nowhere to run, Simon ordered his bunnies to move in.  Yue-bing turned around hopped back toward the natural trail, but Mr. Sparkles saw her coming and hit his old nemesis midair, knocking her off balance.  Yue-bing tried to regain her footing while Mr. Sparkles bumped her again from the side, and then kicked her with his back legs.  Mikey had taken this opportunity to circle around behind her, then proceeded to jump her, landing on her back and sinking his teeth into the nape of her neck.  Yue-bing tried in vain to escape, but after a few seconds her body went limp.  Death came quickly.

Thus ended the legacy of Yue-bing, who perished at a middle age of 5 years, seven months.  Yue-bing's rise to infamy and subsequent fall began with her stunning defeat in the first round of the bunny caucus, though she would once again find power working in the shadows as a result of the "Frompy" affair.  While the scars of the damage that Yue-bing did while in power are still evident today, perhaps now the world can begin a healing process toward a better tommorow. 

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