Right in the middle of it, there was a true MUTINY…. *ARRRGH!*
So, I mentioned the other day that the guild was great, with good
people, and good roleplay…but the guild leader wasn’t very good?
OK, so…The Captain called a meeting for last Thursday night, but then
had to go out of town (to Texas) to visit family, and directed the First
Mate to handle the meeting instead.
Thursday rolls around, and the meeting goes down…”what is right with
the guild, and what can be improved?”
Mostly, people like the people in the guild…but there is a feeling tha
the captain is the weak link.
Fast forward to Sunday night… The Captain is back, and I got elected
to bring our concerns forward for action…
The Captain was VERY resistant to the things that her crew wanted from
her…so it was decided that we (the most active, vocal, and mature
players) were going to leave and form a new guild.
Fast forward again to yesterday afternoon… The First Mate and I were
helping the Captain’s brother through a section of game, when the First
Mate suddenly made a short speech and departed the guild withour
warning…followed almost immediately by two more members who were
online who believed that this was “the secret handshake”… I made a
speech about how we’d brought our concerns to the Captain, and the
Captain had no interest in fixing things up to our satisfaction,
so…this was it…and those people who wanted to be in touch knew how
to find me, blah blah blah…
Then I realized that I did not know how to leave the guild… *egg on
face*
The Captain (who turns out to be a 12 year old girl named Amber – no big
surprise, we’d all figured her to be a 14 year old boy…) grabbed the
computer from her brother, and messaged me (identifying herself) and
said I “could have the guild”…Logged out of her brother’s account,
logged herself in, and handed the whole kit and kaboodle over. Then,
realizing what she’d done, she spent the next, roughly, 6 hours or
so…messaging this that and the other person trying to get the guild
back…including using her brother’s account, and creating a new
character… I felt sorry for her for…oh…long enough for me to make
the (most generous) offer of her new character being able to join the
crew…as crew…under the new name, with NOBODY but me and her knowing
that it was her. She refused. I pretty much got over it shortly after
that.
I really truly hate children.
Especially whiny 12 year old girls that really think they are a Pirate
(the brother was saying yesterday afternoon that she was outside hanging
Jolly Rogers off of their treehouse in the backyard…), yet expect
their crew of Filthy Pirates to “play fair” when they themselves screw
up and make hasty decisions.
In the meantime, now that the majority of the drama is over, the guild
is stoked about having “management” that listens, isn’t concerned about
“rank” (the guild now has a selection – Buccaneer, Corsair, Pirate,
Mercenary and Swashbuckler – player’s choice upon joining.) and has
something of a plan moving forward.
On the agenda:
* Getting in touch with the guild of a similar name on the Horde-side of
the server and offering an Alliance – Pirates know no Faction
Boundaries.
* Teamspeak Server
* Ships
That is all.
=)
OMG, that’s hysterical. Poor, foolish girl. And twelve? No wonder you were having problems. Girls are an absolute terror at that age (take it from me – I was one!) I’ll bet she learned a lesson about letting her temper get the better of her. She might actually even remember it someday.
I laugh. But I really wonder about people sometimes. Sort of a “what the hell were they thinking?” kind of thing.
My 6 year old plays WoW. He started playing when he was 5 with his father and with me. He’d been online on his character for all of maybe 3 days when he got invited into a guild. No big deal. People do ninja-invites all the time. But keep in mind that my son can’t read. He never says anything, except for occasionally typing some totally random keystrokes for the hell of it. Fast-forward two weeks later, and he’d been made an officer of this guild.
My FIVE YEAR OLD was an officer.
I found myself laughing hysterically wondering what in the world these people were thinking. But then it got better.
Evidently this guild had sort of a 3 tier thing for their guild members. There were regular members, first tier officers and top tier officers. Oh, and guild leader. So 4 tiers, I guess. About 3 weeks after he was promoted to officer, they promoted him to top tier officer. He got an in-game mail from the guild leader asking him if he’d like to be the guild treasurer. He’s never spoken a single word in guild chat or tells except for things like “w ashioweh wkeite82y” and “sjt4ie wjtoiweh wweieiiiitalslhg” and they wanted him to be in charge of all the guild’s money. And it wasn’t like there were 10 people in the guild or something. There were more like 50.
That was the point when I sent the guild leader an in game mail and told him that my son was only 5 years old, couldn’t read, and although he was on a second-grade math level, he certainly had no business being in charge of the guild treasury. The guild leader mailed back saying he was really surprised that my son was only 5 because he had apparently done a ton of guild invites and they thought he was a great officer. I suppose we’re all lucky he only figured out how to do invites and hadn’t figured out how to deguild anyone. Imagine what kind of chaos that would have caused. I had to ask the guild leader to move him back down to regular member and take away his ability to do guild invites. I can only imagine how many people he ticked off by doing ninja-invites when I wasn’t looking. That must have been what he was doing when he was supposed to be healing me. *sigh*
I think that is, hands down…the FUNNIEST thing I’ve EVER read… *grin*
Thank you. That made my day, Lirren… =)
Drama follows people no matter where people run to hide from it. 🙂
Had some drama last night with my (now former) guild. Me and four others, each with a main and about 3 alts felt like the guild was populated by children (turns out to be partially true as it is with any guild) and that the children were the most vocal.
When we first started with the guild everything seemed cool. Overtime, and as we got higher in levels, it seemed that the attitude had shifted away from helping other guild members to doing only raids and discussions that revolved only around that.
OK. That’s fine. But when all of the ‘experienced’ and ‘mature’ level 60s couldn’t be bothered to even reply to a request for help (No is a perfectly legitimate answer) when the guild charter states specifically thta officers are supposed to help when reasonable and possible we’d had it.
We had spent several weeks helping others with their alts (some of them are the level 60s that couldn’t be bothered to help us) and we felt betrayed and insulted.
We mass quit. Considering this guild had almost 500 members, over 60% of which were 60 I’m sure we made no dent whatsoever (since none of us has a 60). I was the last to leave in part to document the various rude comments that were made after our departing. It was that final confirmation we needed to know we’d made the right decision.
Now we’re in a guild full of people we know in real life. All are genuine and nice. The guild is small and likely won’t be able to mount its own raids in the end game but we’re sooooo much happier with the way things are now.
Long story short – I feel your pain and it looks, by and large, like you did the absolutely correct thing.
Well, two of the things that we decided are just plain and simple Good Ideas…
First: We have a forum, and you MUST be willing to take the time away from game and register and post, and keep up on Guild News there…
Second: You MUST be willing to share your real name… There was some discussion and objection during the meeting, that mostly fell along the lines of “I’m afraid you won’t like me”…
My RL Friend Cyrus brought up an interesting point the very first night I played on the same server he was on (also turned out to be his last night playing, ever…)
You cannot POSSIBLY hide who The Real You is all the way to Level 60. Yes, early on, you can take a “persona” that is your polar opposite but…you can’t sustain it for the MONTHS that it takes to get to the end game…
So, if we like you as RedefiningSelf, we’ll like you as Kevin, too – and there’s no reason to “hide” behind a pseudonym with your guildmates.
We, too, believe that a small, excellent guild is the way to go. =)
This seems terribly complicated. Must be why I don’t play WOW. That and them wanting money every month. 🙂
Actually, looking back a week later, and all things considered, it was pretty darn fun having a pretend mutiny of pretend Pirates in a pretend game. =)
The short writeup (had it been a PnP gaming session) is here and more from a couple days later, when Amber (the former Captain) tried to arrest me with her new character.
It was truly great fun. Definitely got my $15 worth this month. *grin*
Actually, yes, it does sound like fun. I suppose that it also keeps you from wandering the streets at night, so it’s probably worth it. Keep up the good piratical work!