An Abuse of Power

[Kilo]

In the many years that I have played Everquest. I have never felt so unwelcome amongst a community. Not by the community at large, but a select number of individuals who abuse power in order to slander my name. I have been informed that never again will I be able to get into a guild, never again will I be accepted in the community, why?

Today on my level 11 main I went ontop of trainer hill to find the camp empty, and the trainer was up. So I snared it and began kiting. When it got down to about 20% health a person named Trake walked up to me and told me his group had wiped with the intention of killing the trainer. He suggested that I should either gate or run so that his group could have it. Mind you I had no prior knowledge that the group had been there before me. Trake claimed that there were corpses laid about on trainer hill, but considering how many abandoned corpses there are in the zone I mistakenly did not consider that some of them could have been fresh, so I did not notice them. I politely refused to gate or run because as the camping rules state here the camp was open, and I could claim it. http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2653 heres the reference.

This is the way Everquest has always functioned, if nobody is there to claim the spawn it is safe to obtain it. Or so I thought. Unfortunately I made the false presumption that when I came into this community I was being a part of a community of equals. Evidently this couldn't be further from the truth. Trake revealed to me that he was the guild leader of Dark Ascension and began to go zone to zone slandering my name. This utterly shocked me that someone who claims to lead a guild as powerful as DA would resort to such measures, and incite drama and harassment on new players.

The time that was taken to slander my name could have obtained Trake 20 maybe 30 SBSes. Another false presumption that I had made was that the high level community consisted of only rational adults who would have moved on from the drama, waited ten minutes, and looted a shiny brass shield that was rightfully theirs, but yet again I was sadly mistaken.

For some reason I do not think I would wish that my guild leader would act in such a manner. If this means I cannot get a guild then so be it. Considering the behavior and overreaction of this person I don't think that being in the high level community would be enjoyable. I've been advised by this individual to re-roll, apologize for following server rules, and submit to the authority of someone who is not my guild leader. I've even been told not by Trake himself but another individual that I might get banned because i've been informed that Trake has been instructed to "root out" and police "rude horrible" people like myself that threaten the good nature of this loving community.

My intention was to get my character to 50 and do nothing but spend my precious time helping new players as many before me have.

If I am not banned, I am still not sure if its worth my time to play on this server anymore. I was told by Trake that MY intention was to loot the SBS and sell it. Actually I was setting it aside for the warrior alt I planned on leveling up, however that is irrelevant to the situation.

I find it absolutely interesting that this person who claims to lead Dark Ascension, and I don't know if they do or not, but they claim to nonetheless, can find the means to obtain/afford the ingame equivalent of buying a yacht yet someone with 8 platinum pieces in their coffers cannot kill a mob in an open spawn, and loot a shiny brass shield which can be relooted in about ten minutes.