The Connection Curse

Every group has a player who vanishes mid-sentence. Here it was prop, and the culprit was always the network.

Airtel

In February 2022 prop complained that Airtel had been broken all day. ¹ BotFragx explained it as a nationwide problem. ² Two weeks later came a celebration: “kira got airtel back”, and prop was suddenly getting “8ms ping”. ^{3 4}

Timed out

When prop dropped on his college wifi, the server did not say he left. It said “⌛ProPlayerPlayz timed out!” Kart asked the question the whole chat was thinking: “how do u always ‘Time out’ and not log out”. ⁵ Prop’s brag a few days later was a record: the longest time on the server on that network without timing out. ⁶

The curses

In September 2025 k1R4 announced a personal beef with the same wifi, which would not play nicely with Tailscale. ⁷ Prop’s mobile data on Airtel fared no better, and he sent it a long, creative stream of abuse. ⁸ When a zombie killed him mid-lag, nYx called it “The curse of ra”, and prop replied in the server chat with “airtel”. ^{9 10}

The curse followed the friends into The Return. Prop reported pings of 300-400 and again blamed the network: “college internet is fuicked up man”. ¹¹