Ultimately I believe viper's post to be 100% contentless regarding this current game, and so I was reading into it for tone and mental state rather than content. If references past history, shows that viper is uncomfortable with his past failings, and then it simply asks apricity to claim scum if he's scum. Obviously he's not going to do that, obviously viper didn't expect apricity to do that. This means either viper was going for a weird introductory post that put past history on the table above all else or viper is scum and is trying to throw the target onto apricity because of his past behavior. And well, subsequent viper posts have been trying to do just that. Overall, viper posts identify really only one potential threat, that threat was introduced by him very early on with no reason, and all of his justification has happened after that.