I don't know what you guy's definition of fighting is. People who are fighting don't usually use such polite language. 
It's just a standard nerdwar. We try to outnerd each other. Bonus points for concealed threats and vague implications of another's supposed lesser intelligence or character.
And yep, that's what matters... But we're trying to get it figured out, and at least we're making progress. I think
this is probably the best explanation of what happened to make all that go down. lol (save me, I'm hopelessly trapped in TVTropes, and I still can't find what I was originally looking for)
edit: btw, that refers to the previously unknown plot point,
not Mr Frog.
@Mr Frog - again, sorry if I upset you.
What I wrote:
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I'm going to attempt to ignore a logical chain of events and see what
might have happened, given what we have now.
- Boatmurdered, Headshoots, Syrupleaf
- Parasol goes back in time and puts syrupleaf in stasis to appease armok and save the world for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Then, for some bizarre, inexplicable reason, they sit around and do absolutely nothing but twiddle their thumbs for over a hundred years.
- Ballpoint arrives and gets to the Holistic Spawn first. Mr Frog takes it, modifies it, and releases it into the world as a test. Then he stumbles into the wrong room and gets himself locked in a cryogenic storage device for the next two hundred years (think carbonite). When he emerges, he promptly gets his ass fired, suffering severe sporadic amnesia at the same time. Or perhaps he overdosed and toasted his nut with a memory wiper do-gadget.
- Ballpoint continues to monitor the experiment, and Parasol gets a whiff of what's going on. Instead of using their vastly superior technology to create a virus to eradicate the spawn threat, over the course of whatever's left of those two hundred years they take Ballpoint's version of the Spawn instead of modifying their own uncontaminated samples of the species. Then for some bizarre reason they release them.
- In an uncharacteristic fit of illogicality and suicidal remorse (possibly due to brain trauma from the freezing process) (or another overdose), Mr Frog travels to Spearbreakers.
- By the time Mr Frog arrives at Spearbreakers, Parasol has already stopped twiddling their thumbs and decided that the experiment is theirs, and not Ballpoint's. Ballpoint doesn't really care either way, but they'd like to see why Parasol's recently-released version of the Spawn are tougher than theirs - which is what they'd wanted in the first place.
- Thus begins the great timewar, where Parasol both tries to destroy Ballpoint and protect "their" experiment, contrary to their purely academic nature. Ballpoint, on the other hand, just wants their Spawn buddies back so they can run more tests.
- Spearbreakers is located either on, or near, a thing. This thing does the other thing, that, you know, gets more spawn stuff to appear from nowhere. Stuff. Thing. Thingy stuff. Basically there's more Spawn, and bigger, at Spearbreakers than anywhere else. Thus, it's the central location of the timewar.
- As a result of being at the epicenter, secretive agents are sent into Spearbreakers to try to tip the scales. Contrary to what you'd believe with Ballpoint's military and espionage, it's Parasol who sends the majority of these.
- Eris shows up and decides to put an end to both of them through subtle manipulation. Joseph discovers Mr Frog, goes "Hah, what luck" and takes him on board. At the same time, he believes Vanya - basically a passerby, but she knows too much - is dead. Also at the same time, Urist saves the fortress (and by extension, the timewar (and by extension, the entire universe from Armok's wrath)) from a rogue agent (predictably, from Parasol). Armok assists him in this.
- Enter Rose (origin indeterminate) and Draconik. Draconik, ironically, is yet another Parasol agent, but who cares. Parasol is good with agents. I guess Ballpoint's strategy is to stumble blindly into combat without sending anybody in to scout things out. Perhaps they, like Draignean, value the element of surprise. "SURPRISE!" (By the way, nobody take Kannan. I've already planned him as a Ballpoint spy for over a month now, but I was going to leave that as a surprise. Whoops, spoilers.)
This
appears to work, from a story standpoint. Logic standpoint, no.
Alright. Now, seriously, everyone with a stake in this scifi plot please pm your full interpretation of the plot up to this point, along with what you see as problems with the continuity.
Splint, i point out once again that this is about the politest site on the internet, which is why being called obtuse seemed to get talvieno going. "affably evil" says the trope page. Very nice, but capable of great darkness. That was a little of the nice darkness coming out, there.
ninja'd. Xahnel, yes. I have a bad habit of getting defensive and striking back when I feel someone's attacking me unfairly.
Obviously I'm not good at working on that. This is the third time it's happened in the past six months or so, which for me is pretty bad.
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