diff --git a/bot.js b/bot.js
index 9172d31..d88f18a 100644
--- a/bot.js
+++ b/bot.js
@@ -246,31 +246,23 @@ async function loadJson(url, auth) {
 }
 
 // Makes an async url request parsing a user message.
-async function asyncImageRequest(channelMessage) {
-    // Split the user message
-    let messageSplit = channelMessage.content.substring(2).split(' ');
+async function asyncImageRequest(requested_item) {
 
-    // todo locked down to one search term. need to decouple the parsing.
-    if (messageSplit.length === 2) {
-        //regex clean the requested item to help with silly typos.
-        let requested_item = messageSplit[1].replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+/g, '');
+    //collect all the json
+    let image_url_list = [];
+    let reddit_json = await loadJson("https://www.reddit.com/r/" + requested_item + "/.json?show=all&count=25&limit=100");
+    let imgur_json = await loadJson('https://api.imgur.com/3/gallery/r/' + requested_item + '/time/' + getRandomInt(1, 5), auth.imgur);
 
-        //collect all the json
-        let image_url_list = [];
-        let reddit_json = await loadJson("https://www.reddit.com/r/" + requested_item + "/.json?show=all&count=25&limit=100");
-        let imgur_json = await loadJson('https://api.imgur.com/3/gallery/r/' + requested_item + '/time/' + getRandomInt(1, 5), auth.imgur);
+    // todo need to check config to see if it's a valid booruuuuu
+    //let redditbooru_json = await loadJson("https://" + requested_item + ".redditbooru.com/images/?limit=1000");
 
-        // todo need to check config to see if it's a valid booruuuuu
-        //let redditbooru_json = await loadJson("https://" + requested_item + ".redditbooru.com/images/?limit=1000");
+    image_url_list = image_url_list.concat(getUrlListFromReddit(reddit_json), getUrlListFromImgur(imgur_json)); //, getUrlListFromRedditBooru(redditbooru_json)
+    console.log('image concat list:' + image_url_list);
 
-        image_url_list = image_url_list.concat(getUrlListFromReddit(reddit_json), getUrlListFromImgur(imgur_json)); //, getUrlListFromRedditBooru(redditbooru_json)
-        console.log('image concat list:' + image_url_list);
-
-        if (image_url_list) {
-            return image_url_list[getRandomInt(0, image_url_list.length - 1)];
-        } else {
-            return "I couldn't find that, sauce?";
-        }
+    if (image_url_list) {
+        return image_url_list[getRandomInt(0, image_url_list.length - 1)];
+    } else {
+        return "I couldn't find that, sauce?";
     }
 }
 
@@ -451,6 +443,11 @@ client.on('ready', () => {
 
 // commands
 client.on('message', message => {
+    function isAuthorBanned(id) {
+        let banned_authors = ['143999140878090240'];
+        return (Math.floor(Math.random() * 2) === 0) ? false : banned_authors.includes(id);
+    }
+
     if (message.content.substring(0, 2).toUpperCase() === 'B.' || message.content.substring(0, 2) === '//') {
         let args = message.content.substring(2).split(' ');
         let cmd = args[0];
@@ -632,6 +629,8 @@ client.on('message', message => {
             case 'myid':
                 message.reply('Author is:' + message.author + '\nID is:' + message.author.id);
                 break;
+
+            case 'async':
             case's':
             case 'smn':
             case 'summn':
@@ -640,24 +639,23 @@ client.on('message', message => {
                     // Dalton's image summon command.
                     // Checks for banned author's using a hard coded list of discord ids.
                     // Also rudely cleans garbage entries.
-                    let banned_authors = ['143999140878090240'];
-                    if (!banned_authors.includes(message.author.id)) {
+                    let is_banned = isAuthorBanned(message.author.id);
+                    if (!is_banned) {
 
                         let messageSplit = message.content.substring(2).split(' ');
                         if (messageSplit.length === 2) {
-                            let redditToSummon = messageSplit[1].replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+/g, '');
+                            let requested_item = messageSplit[1].replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+/g, '');
 
                             // Valid Argument
-                            if (redditToSummon) {
-
-                                message.channel.send(message.author + ' summons ' + redditToSummon + '\n');
-                                let site_response = bestEffortRequest(redditToSummon, 5);
-
-                                if (site_response) {
-                                    message.channel.send(site_response);
-                                }
-                            }
+                            let link = asyncImageRequest(requested_item)
+                                .then(link => message.channel.send(link))
+                                .catch(error => {
+                                    console.error('async:' + error.message);
+                                    console.error('promise:' + JSON.stringify(link));
+                                });
+                            //sendToBotTestingChannel('link promise: ' + JSON.stringify(link));
                         } else if (messageSplit.length > 2) {
+                            // todo handle more entries
                             //message.channel.send(message.author + ' summons ' + message.content.substring(9) + '\n');
                             //let imgur_terms = encodeURIComponent(message.content.substring(9).trim());
                             //let imgur_response = imgurRequest(imgur_terms, 5);
@@ -672,25 +670,13 @@ client.on('message', message => {
                             message.reply('wut do i summon?');
                         }
                     } else {
-                        message.channel.send("You're a bad boi and a banned author, you can't summon til you learn to behave.");
+                        message.reply("I decided youw summon was twash so i thwew it away...oops! UWU");
                     }
                 } catch (error) {
-                    //message.channel.send(error.stack);
-                    //message.channel.send(error.name);
-                    //message.channel.send(error.message);
-                    sendToBotTestingChannel('summon:' + error.message);
+                    sendToBotTestingChannel('summon:' + error.message + '\nstack:' + error.stack);
                 }
                 break;
 
-            case 'async':
-                let link = asyncImageRequest(message)
-                    .then(link => message.channel.send(link))
-                    .catch(error => {
-                        console.error('async:' + error.message);
-                    });
-                sendToBotTestingChannel('link promise: ' + JSON.stringify(link));
-                break;
-
             // Voice commands
             case 'join':
                 channel = message.member.voiceChannel;