I was also in contact with Ballzy for a while (Last contact was Dec 19th), it was mostly a long Q&A session, mostly about how he's been able to convince Chris, how he got in..etc. , I have sent the full info dump, including full convos with Ballzy to
@yawning sneasel.
So let me try and shed some light here:
1. How Did Ballzy Get In?
The way this troll plot worked is basically this: Ballzy gave Chris affirmation of his escape fantasies to get his "In".
I don't know how he originally contacted Chris, but Ballzy approached him as
John Yamada, a soldier from CWCville, and claimed that there was a war in CWCville between the Russians and the Neptunia goddesses (Basically the stuff in Operation BARBarossa).
How did he convince Chris that it was indeed happening and not a troll plot? He made fake photoshop news casts:
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He also made an audio file with Neptunia (and other video game) characters fighting Russians, including some voice samples of Chris himself he obtained from an interview. It's attached here, and I advise you to lower the volume before listening, the sound mixing is rough..
He also used images from what I presume to be the TV Series, Man In The High Castle, in order to convince Chris that Nazis invaded CWCville.
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Here's Chris relaying his side of things in unfinished pages of what would've been Sonichu #16:
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2. How Far Did It Get?
Very far, You've all seen how much edgy stuff was put in the comic (A lot of this "content" is completely new to me BTW, like I got mentions about some of them like Angelica converting religions, but seeing them drawn is very.. disconcerting). But Ballzy got Chris to break quite a few personal taboos:
- The transRosechu affair we all know about.
- The Jamsta/Punchy molestation.
- Magi-Chan/MewTwo marriage stuff.
He also got Chris to make rule34 stuff, among other things:
How did he sell Chris on doing this picture, which violates so many of Chris's personal taboos? He presented it as Magi-Chan's prophecy of how Crystal would be conceived, and he told Chris that if he does it in the comic, he won't have to do it in real life.
He also gave Chris a lot of powers-related lore and promises of meeting Neptunia characters in real life, which possibly emboldened him to actually do or try to do things in real-life, some of them are:
- Ballzy once told Chris that Neptune would be waiting for him in *a* Gamestop, so Chris went to the Forest Lakes Gamestop, the one he was banned from, honked the car horn, screamed her name multiple times, he also "carefully scanned" the interior from behind the glass windows.
- At some point, Chris wanted to go confront Cole in New York, completely through his own volition (And probably em), with his intention being to make Cole apologize to Barb and help him take care of her. Chris was expecting some new medallion in the mail that would help him in this task.
- Also, Chris really wanted to visit @Trickie, apparently he's a fan, and he wanted to get a autograph from her (I have no idea why he wanted it in person, given that she mentioned that they're already in contact), in both this and the preceding occasion, Ballzy managed to get Chris to back down.
I advised Ballzy to talk to
@Marvin,
@Alec Benson Leary and
@MasterDisaster. Because they were all more experienced in dealing with Chris. I did this because he was clearly doing something he clearly wasn't prepared for.