Don't Play in the Arm of the Dragon.

This is going to be a bit of an infodump.

As all should be aware, the updates to the help death file detailed here are a direct result of this dialogue I've had with staff. Adhira promised me that the team would be discussing and potentially reconsidering their stance on player resurrections; and so they have, with the sole intentions of covering their asses and being able to explicitly deny anyone who comes hereafter demanding the same accountability as I have. You see, the first two identifiers...

• Staff mistakes -- This would be a PC death that is a result of an unintentional staff error.
• Game bugs -- This would be a PC death that is directly attributable to game code not working the way that it was intended.

They exactly fit the scenario that happened to trigger this entire discussion.

I sent in a question form, because I had sadly gotten my hopes up that the staff team could have potentially learned and improved from their failure.

And the response I received (my italics my words) was:Reassuring, right? All of the sacrifice I have made in entertainment, status, and invested time has only led to the construction of yet more bureaucracy explicitly intended to suppress what I have tried to express.

With all that in mind, let's take a step back. When I was banned for my Shogun post, I called out Adhira when she said she felt that if people sat down and talked, she felt that they could come to an understanding. So it happens, I joined the teamspeak and talked with her for a long while. She told me she felt both the forum ban and the game ban were unnecessary, and that there had been an over-reaction. She told me that if I really wanted to return to the game, she would have a discussion with the Terrible Two and perhaps let me back in. She also told me that she would give me a karma review; this was because Nyr had (and I quote to the best of my ability) "probably closed that request needlessly because he was still angry at you." She also told me that, in a month's time after I had chilled out, the forum ban could be lifted.
I was very disappointed when I got this response, as its tone and promised goals were very different than when we had spoken on Teamspeak. Perhaps I had misled myself, perhaps she changed her mind, or perhaps she didn't want to ruin the conversation by pressing these points. I'll not know.

Over the past 23 days or so, I've had the following forum ban appeal open. It was ignored.
To which I got the following response: Following this, the karma check request that I had opened after Adhira told me she intended to check my karma was closed with this reason:If it had not been made clear beforehand, I was promised in email and via spoken word that I would be getting a karma check. I immediately sent in the following request:It was closed with the following reason:This is that famous Nessalin reputation that precedes him so well. I had almost fooled myself that this could be a constructive discussion. How do you respond when you're told that your issues with the staff team are self-entitled, and you're a petulant troll? Everything I have done, all points I have made, have not been for my benefit -- they were and still are for the benefit of my fellow players who suffered needlessly from the staff team's inability to follow through their own actions. I'll also admit that I'm too proud to let such a left-field, sophomoric insult as this be tolerated. I submitted the following new request: My response:Can you really call someone a self-entitled, petulant troll and expect them not to retort out of their own self-worth? Nessalin can. Nessalin can insult you and then use your defense against you. Nessalin can overstep the promises of his supposed equal, and speak for her, even when he's said not an hour before that no one's actions other than Adhira's are a reflection on Adhira.

I was then greeted with this gem.
What a gobshite.

My account has been scrambled.

Do I deserve this? I'm not banned; my account's password has been scrambled. You see, a ban can be appealed. With a scrambled password, Nyr can pull with me the same thing he pulled with shadycharacter, with the same vitriol and toxicity. It's more of an insult to be @toad'd than @newt'd.

I guess I do deserve this, for challenging Nyr and Nessalin to potentially learn from their mistakes. I deserve this for expecting any improvement out of this staff team. They have taken the snippet of "There's nothing in the rules about being fair" and turned it into an excuse to... just be needlessly rude dictators. They've made a shame of the story and integrity of the game that they've inherited.

This truly is the end, my friends. I deserve everything I got. Everyone who continues to volunteer on that team, and everyone who continues to play, deserves this admin team... they deserve everything they get, also. If you have the predisposition to lick boots, Armageddon is the game for you. But if you have any value in the time you invest in this game, or hold anyone accountable for their actions, you'll be disappointed.

I know I am really disappointed.

Not sure what you expected to come from intentionally antagonizing Nessalin. Poke a sleeping bear with a stick enough times and it'll eventually get up and maul you.

ivory angel owns fuck you

This isn't about who gets to put in what resurrection request, damnit. Cavaticus dropped the ball, Nyr dropped the ball, Talia dropped the ball when dealing with a situation where a bug in the code caused three players to lose the effort they put into their characters. For daring to demand some sort of change to the policy to prevent something like this happening again, I have lost everything I put into this game. It has been made clear that the staff team holds no value in the player experience & has no value in a character's life aside from the sponsored ones roiling in favoritism. And I've got no clue who this Ivory Angel you're talking about is, you're trying to link me to because I cared about my players in this game. I might as well say you sound like Nyr because you're spouting lies and coming to conclusions with willing misinformation.

I intentionally antagonized Nessalin after he called me a petulant troll? So your wisdom is to just take needless insults from one of the three "authorities" whose decisions you're arguing against for the betterment of the player experience? I don't put it past Nessalin, since he's got a reputation for being an asshole as much as Nyr does. I came to the conversation willing to make good on a promise that had been made to me, and I was met with a direct insult. How anyone like that could be in any sort of leader position is a travesty.

It's worth remembering Asan/PPP had played a grand total of 3 characters at the time. Most people get introduced to staff fuckery under less severe circumstances much later in their play.

Jesus let it go. You are going Kronibus with your reaction. Seriously. Almost everyone has lost characters for shitty reasons at some point. Just chill out or move on to a different game which is either static or with different staff. Maybe EoE if you want staff more open to player appeals. It can't be healthy to care this much about an event on a text-based game.



That being said, I do think you bringing it originally to the playerbase's attention was the right thing to do as it is clear you got fucked by someone not understanding the crime code and setting the giant to civilian. But it seems every post now gets more and more subjective and actually works against you.

I am glad the staff have cleared up the resurrection files and I do think this was in large part to this event. So you have affected the game for the better but I feel nothing else is needed.

That was awesome.