I don’t know where to start!
I think the beginning was in LOTRO, our (previously amazingly awesomesauce) kinship imploded. There was four or five people that just decided to split which left a small number in the guild. A few of them had been complaining for weeks (behind that person’s back) about one of the leaders and how they bitched and complained and yelled and treated people badly (there has already been people previously that have left because of this person, including one or two of the ‘veteran’ members), and then they’d been complaining about Josh and his attitude during runs (majority of which was directed towards the RNG - remember the Wi Flag?), then there was drama over him giving me a roll he’d won that I’d given the same item to him three weeks beforehand the same night that I’d won something else (oh noes, morons, use your damned brain for a change instead of your egos). To top it off, the people that were talking shit and ended up leaving had spent two weeks running instances and raids with us without any problems while talking shit about people that weren’t there. [head_asplode] We were going to stick around since we really liked the leaders and remaining people (there’s about three or four of them), and really enjoyed doing things with them and everything…. and then they mentioned that they were going to go group with the dicks that had left and we weren’t welcome. At that point, I went and threw a few holes in the already holed up bedroom door and my head really did asplode. It really sucks a big fat dick when you discover that people you really liked and thought liked you instead would rather kick you to the curb so that they can get in on the cool kids club. I’m not sure why exactly - I figured maybe they’d just been lying to our faces about things, but if that was true they could have just kicked us or whoever they didn’t like from the guild. I guess it was just more expedient to stay with the dicks that had left and run with their rules and to hell with the rest of the world. Fucking assholedickery. To top it off, one of their remaining members ran a raid with us last night because he couldn’t get in on the run with his own guild this weekend!
The whole situation left that really awful taste in my mouth, about the same taste that I last had in the seventh grade when my group of friends started splintering and part of them didn’t like another part, and that part didn’t like a third part, and the first part liked the third just fine but couldn’t do anything with the second part if the third was around… Hopefully your brain is asploding. We ended up just saying goodbye, have a great life, and walking away (which was definately the higher ground). I felt like shit for about a day, then really started to think about things and realized that the entire reason the guild had fallen apart was due to something that had occured before we even joined. (which one of the dicks that left had pointed out, but I hadn’t given much creedance to at the time, since it’s a real assholey reason) We started looking at WoW seriously, and we’ve decided that it’d be dumb to check it out right now (we’d have to buy me a whole new account since I gave mine to Sean years ago) plus both of us the Burning Crusade expansion (since I’d *have* to play a Blood Elf). If we wait, we can hope that with Wrath of the Lich King that they finally bundle the original and second expansion in with it. If not, meh. Warhammer’s already gone gold and open beta starts the 7th.
We also resubbed to AC for the 100th patch. There’s a decent (for AC) amount of active people running around, and we’ve actually seen more than a few people that haven’t hit the level cap yet. I guess not everyone is a dirty cheating macro whore. There’s a huge amount of content just from this latest patch, and we’ve got almost two years worth of patches (some were far more sparce than others) to catch up on. I’m hoping it’ll keep the bulk of our attention at least until Moria comes out (the LOTRO expansion). At least there we know practically the entire server, and there’s not the same bullshit guild drama that we’ve finally worked our way out of in LOTRO. I might not like everyone on Solclaim, but at least I know where I stand with them (and vice versa).
Next. You remember that Brian hair entry two or three entries ago? My parents flipped the hell out. Oh my god, you’d think I cut off his leg. “You cut that baby’s hair off! He had such a beautiful head of hair *cries*” Good.god. My mother had her mother call me and wanted her to continue the tirade, but instead I got compliments and support, telling me that it was my kid to do what I wanted to with, etc. They later called back after looking at the pictures and saying how they don’t understand at all why my parents lost it, that it looks great. (And my granddaddy said that boys shouldn’t have all that much hair anyways, lmao.) Kevin’s mom liked it, said that it suited him. Kevin said that I should take him to a barber and have it cleaned up and it took some getting used to. Josh’s mom was really disappointed, but she didn’t bother saying anything. Instead, she took offense to the fact that I smacked his ass after finding a book (that was one of my books when I was a kid) that he’d torn up - binding torn off, pages ripped up, cover in shreds, etc. I didn’t even ask a question, I picked it up and looked at it and then reached down and smacked. She just turned around and walked out the door and we didn’t hear from her for about four days. My only response was clearly Josh influenced - ‘Whatever, man.’ She finally called (didn’t say a word about the day she’d stormed out of here) this morning and took him to the park this afternoon, so I guess all is right with the mojo again. Or something.
We also got in contact with people from our old LOTRO guild and discovered that they still hadn’t completed the Rift (it’s the 12 man raid instance). I wrote up a supergreat guide for them, and we went out last night and guided them through it. Three tries, each one better than the last. Third one had a great chance of success (that’s after the burglar had too much lag and didn’t make it in the instance) and being short a Minstrel for part of the fights. Some stupid PUG Champ ran out and disrupted things during the last damned part of the whole fight, and things followed from sugar to shit from there. I’m hoping in the next week or two to finally get them the kill. After that (and after this festival is over with), LOTRO can go rot until I can get the dirty guild drama taste out of my mouth (and Josh’s). I hate feeling like we’re (temporarily) leaving a game because of other people, but in a way, we are. It’s no fun when you feel like shit and someone tells you that they are going to do things without you (because the other people said you couldn’t come) and that they don’t care one way or another about you staying or going from their guild and all that, you know?