Betrayal So Base

I was watching the end of Alien: Resurrection (for some reason my family is into watching these types of movies...) and saw the part where the mother, Ripply, (grandmother? whatever...) killed her evil alien child in order to save the world and I thought those lines to myself. Then I thought how cool of a blog title that would be and that I was very fortunate that I'll never ever have to use it.

Well... I was wrong...

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As most (if not all) of you know, I play World of Warcraft. In that game I'm in a guild of 80+ people of whom I'm in a leadership over. I love being in that position. I love making their game as enjoyable as possible. For me... it's not about the loot, the raids, the whatever... It's all about the people. I've come to know many of these people and have become friends with them.

Last Thursday (or Wednesday... the days blur...) was the start of our misery. The Guild Master (Droggles) had been acting strangely for the past couple weeks. It all blew out that night and the arguements and whatever between him and the rest of the officer team spilled out into guild chat. Finally being able to all agree to give it a night's rest, I logged for the night thinking that things could be repaired.

Unfortunately that was not the case. Over the next couple days, we took over the guild banks contents and took the GM powers away from Droggles. Upon inspection of the guild bank, we found that several items of extremely high value were missing. Droggles and his RL friend had taken them and sold them for self-profit. I don't know if he himself did it but he covered over it and didn't tell his "trusted" officer team.

They were promptly removed from the guild.

Of course that was an outrage and harsh words were said. From then until last night, I've been running damage control trying to piece things back together. This entire debacle ate me up inside and almost pushed me back into my depression but I have a responsibility to the guildies, to the friends that I've made. I must say that without the constant private messages from them offering their support and encouragement, I would have just given up.

We put up polls asking the guildies opinion on reinviting Droggles back as that was split issue. After offering his defence a little of then half wanted him back to give him a second chance though not necessarily in a position of power. Bound by their wishes, we (the officer team) decided to do this. However there was just too much bad blood between us that we each decided, for our own personal reasons, that we would /gquit after bringing him back.

While I could and can forgive him, the way he has treated the officer team and the members is unacceptable and I'm not willing to bear the same guild tag as him. Also... my friends feel the same way and staying is pointless as they are a large reason why I play.

We announced this to the guildies last night and to our surprise they were all for us. The vast majority decided /gquit as well and follow us. Their support means a great deal to me. One of the things that was weighing heavy on my heart was the thought of abandoning them but they decided to follow. Sticking with us til the bitter end. And truth be told my one good eye was filled with more then one tear.

I feel so relieved now! I hate drama and that is drama of the worst kind. As one of the guildies described it, "It's like finding out that your true love is cheating with your neighbor." What do you do?

However we've made a clean cut. We relinquished the RoA name and all of the guild bank contents back to him and we are starting anew. Our guild name is now and my heart is much lighter.

So... that's what I've been dealing with this past week. That's the main reason why I haven't posted.

Now that this is taken care of, I can focus on more important things... like duel graduations... *shiver*