Byn

Mazzel was the well-muscled man
Berlian was the broad-shouldered man
Kroz was the rangy, ashen-skinned man
Gowynn was the tall, white-haired elf
Iltrin was the hunched, bald man that spoke with the best lisp ever.

Basically, the Byn was doing really well.

There was a faction within that Byn group who would have liked to have branched out into another group, and there were two main ways that this was thwarted:

1. They would not allow us to get a warehouse. 

2. They stalled on a cloak for what would have been the group before finally answering my mastercraft submission witng a very generic looking cloak whose recipe did not even function correctly. It was frustrating. 

Meanwhile, as they are stalling/outright blocking attempts to splinter off, they are simultaneously orchestrating a very bloody RPT of serious death. They planned to kill PCs; it was a "kill off" RPT to reduce the size of the Byn, which was fucked up because, at the same time, Bynners were trying to break off and do their own thing. The staff was completely aware of this and just decided that killing off a bunch of Bynners would be better than letting them start a new group.

Within short order of the kill off plot and blocking of a splinter group, I quit playing, Koman quit the Byn, Armali quit the Byn, and basically everyone else either stored or left. 

It was exceptionally lame and in large part due to staff manipulating events for the result they wanted. Just really disappointing. It really was. I don't think the way all of that went down was really cool at all.

I would like to think that I'm not alone in that, too. 

I'm not sure, but someone - and I'm not naming any names here - who had just spent half a decade running Tuluk into the ground had just been put in charge of all of Allanak not too long before those shenanigans started.


Around this same time, also in Nak, was when RogueRogueRanger was having his templarate play tampered with heavy handedly, too, so I mean... Here you have two veterans players saying that their play was manipulated in heavy handed ways in the same place, at roughly the same time, right around the time after [redacted staff member name] assumed control of Nak. I mean, it's not like we are making this shit up. 

Many many months?

No, I quit shortly after the murder RPT, left for a bit, and came back within a month or two, only to find that Koman had just left after being browbeat by the staff. Quite literally, he complained ICly about the higher ups in the Byn had been tampering with hiring practices/exerting too much control over his unit. 

By the time Harar came back from that absence, no one was in the Byn who had been in the Byn, except the marred raven haired guy. Everyone else had stored, died, or quit. We're not talking 6 months... It was like a month or two. 

Pretty sure the murder plot happened in February, and then I came back in March or April and the Byn as I had known it was absolutely toast. 

Edit: I am not playing [staff member name redacted] and going to fact check all the dates from my previous GDB posts, but that time line is close. If Koman and Heejo left the Byn together, then the former may have come back or something... I don't know and don't really wish to speculate on what has happened in the game in the past RL year.  

As someone who played in the Byn around this time... Koman had like 20 people in his unit and was taking contracts that the Byn don't take, according to the Byn docs. Grebbing missions and other stupid shit.

So if a lot of PCs died, that's because Koman had a shitload of PCs in the first place. How is the world supposed to react to a small army marching in dangerous territory? NPCs get loaded by the staff to attack. Maybe if Koman went with quality instead of quantity, no one would have died.

Then he left and made a grebbing group, doing what he always wanted to do with the Byn. And now the Byn is doing proper Byn contracts instead of grebbing missions, and has good leaders who hire everyone that has their three small, unlike Koman who would reject elves purely because he wanted to (because they have to walk on grebbing missions), not because staff told him to.

Oh look, another "let's blame Staff" event that can be easily traced back to player fuckeries.

I remember what Koman wanted, he wanted his little scouting group which was -really- nice. I liked the idea of the Byn having a small scouting group they could send ahead or something if there was trouble. It was a smart thing.

However it turned from that too them starting too take contracts on grebbing and such after Sefaj had died.