Armageddon MUD crumples to the ground.

Usiku coming in to paint the last three staff members as bullied victims? Mind blown. Here comes Armageddon’s own version of the Dead Three fighting for control of the elderbrain, as the chaos spills from the shadow realm into the real world—completely bonkers. Especially when you consider that Usiku mocked my mental health in the same way she suggests this board needs to shut down because it’s "old and weird." The cognitive dissonance? Off the charts. Saying “BULLYING ISN’T HARMLESS” in one breath and then questioning someone’s sanity for reporting harassment in the next? Classic “do as I say, not as I do.”

I didn’t bother reading that whole diatribe, but it's amusing to hear her talk about how hard she worked as a "volunteer" during the game's lowest point. Like, maybe take some accountability for why it was at its lowest point? Spoiler: it was due to harassment and cheating by multiple staff members that Halaster allowed to run wild.

Blaming these boards is just… sad. It’s another pathetic display of failed leadership. Real leaders own their mistakes, not point fingers and hop into the first lifeboat. From that screenshot, it almost looks like Halaster was trying to take some responsibility. Then along comes Usiku.

Armageddon’s a sinking ship because it sheltered cheaters, abusers, and lied to its player base for years—despite being repeatedly shown evidence of wrongdoing. Someone shouting pause and showing you a crack in the carbon hull?  That's what's called a fail-safe. That was the cue to handle an endemic problem. Instead, the staff ignored and actively hid those fail-safes, and now the game has unsurprisingly failed.  It has imploded like a submersible at the bow of an ancient shipwreck.

Let's not forget, Halaster was actively posting on the GDB that no staff members occupied sponsored roles, while Shalooonsh occupied a sponsored role for like two real life years with metal and magickal powers.  A fail safe isn't even needed for that.  You know you're not telling the truth.  How the hell is that the Shadowboards fault?

The problem isn’t these boards; it’s the staff’s inaction, indifference, and cheating. Newsflash: if nothing shady was happening, there’d be nothing to report here or anywhere. It’s giving “I’m not sorry it happened, I’m just sorry the staff keeps getting caught.” Too little, too late. Blaming the boards? Total lack of accountability. I don’t know if Usiku was even on staff when the original harassment happened, but she sure jumped in, inserted herself, and kept on touting the staff that earned this scrutiny as the victims. Gotta question the logic of someone who does that, especially at this point.

One thing Usiku did get right—it’s the opposite of fun. Which they might’ve considered when stepping into a leadership role in a community that was burning to the ground because it was protecting men in their 30s who dated teenage girls, stalked, harassed, and abused players of all genders for over a decade. Not having fun? Shocker. Most of us are here on these boards because we weren't having fun either.  In a game.  We played for fun.

It wasn’t fun to experience that. It wasn’t fun to have staff like Usiku question my sanity to push a narrative that the game’s culture was magically cured because protecting a hobby was more important than protecting humans. And now here she is, ranting on these boards, just like the rest of us. Funny how that works out. Even now, she can’t accept that it's not fun because the staff made it not fun by ignoring all those fail-safes. Instead, people like Usiku keep blaming the players who refuse to silently accept terrible treatment and being booted from a community that they were part of for years, all so the staff can keep their little ant farm.

We wanted to have fun in a community we spent countless hours on.  We wanted to feel safe.  It didn't work out that way because the staff ignored every red flag and outright report.

Now, the remaining three are even hinting that Armageddon might come back—if they can root out just one more problematic staff member. WILD. And beyond toxic. Somehow, they still don’t see how they’re perpetuating the problem, even as the whole thing crumbles around them. I’ve said I’d (mostly?) withhold judgment of anyone who went back to the game, but at this point—seriously, why?

The remaining staff still have a chance to end things with some grace, but instead, they’re closing it (again) in the same way they ran it: without finality, transparency, honesty, or leadership. Just more shouting, threats, code-gatekeeping, and finger-pointing into the void. And now that they’ve shut down their own game? Here come the staff, flooding the very boards they blame for its downfall. You honestly can’t make this stuff up.

There’s no goodwill left to plumb or trust to mine from the shrunken player base and the tiny inner circle of remaining staff.

For old times’ sake, I’d love to hear from IsFriday—was there ever any discussion about mending fences with whistleblowers like me? It doesn’t matter now, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disturbed that the go-to move to ban a whistleblower, then spin a narrative that the game was "healing" while excluding people like me who were directly impacted by harassment, bullying (to borrow the phrase) and cheating.