NOTE: In the same way an honest reporter must feel dumber for having interviewed Donald Trump, I feel dumber for having replied to this, but I think some context is necessary here.
The phrasing "channel for their girls to post RL photos in" sounds quite creepy. For clarity's sake, a Discord channel that was created
by girls as a feminine outlet and response to Riot's "Soft Meat n Hard Wood" channel (which is a bunch of guys posting pictures of their woodworking projects and grilled meat). The channel, dubbed the Glitter Castle, is basically just a place for girls to talk about makeup and post pictures of themselves wearing EQ-themed make-up. Undeniably dorky, but not creepyweird like you're trying to make it sound.
Here is the exchange in question, not taken out of context or spun:
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After his comment, Tawanda posted another photo of her daughter and replied to Smashh, "Smashh you realise thats my daughter in both those pics right ? Not sure how to take your above comment." What Smashh said was in poor taste, undoubtedly, but it was in reply to a woman dressed as a dwarf, complete with a unibrow. Obviously a joke, and regardless of how bad the joke was, the whole thing was pretty innocuous.
On the train thing, you absolutely
did try to train Riot's Koi engage, as evidenced by an earlier Loststalker corpse (when you failed to make it past the wyverns), you just failed. As for your second, "successful" attempt, Koi died as you were running past Vyemm's lair--sincere doubts that you were trying to time that for least impact.
No one lied about anything that happened at Koi--the facts are this: Riot was displaced by your train to move to Koi. Riot tried to get out of the way, Windbardy was late to move and happened to be standing in an inopportune place. Windbardy DID get agro first, but your guild would have trained itself regardless of whether or not Windbardy was there, as you had several members of your own guild standing there (as seen in your fraps).
For historicity, Riot was trained by a member of Azure Guard who was in a nearly identical position (monk whose name I forgot at the moment) on a prior Lady M engage. AG/F was presented with fraps of that train from Liia's perspective and proceeded killed Lady M anyway--this was an actual train, as there was no reason for that player to be where they were (Riot hadn't displace your raid) and no other member of Riot standing in line of sight of those drakes until they were agroed and moved up the hill onto the monk. That went to petition, but I can't recall if it was overturned or thrown out when the blanket ban was put in place.
On the toxicity tip, we don't agree--that's just the way
you feel. Not really sure what, specifically, you're referring to when you say the guild is "too toxic?" Maybe sometimes comms do get a little feisty--competitive players lash out from time to time when they lose, yourself being no different on that accord (yourself being kind of big on naming and shaming).
Are there some weirdos in Riot? Yep. Are there weirdos in your guild? Yep. Based on interactions, I'd reckon there's a higher percentage of weirdos, per capita, in Freedom than in Riot, but so long as this server runs on warmbodies and alts, there are going to be weirdos in every guild. I don't think there are as many unhappy people in Riot as you would like others reading this to think, which would explain why Izrd is the only member of Riot to voluntarily leave and join your guild after the initial three-ish? people left.
Despite your insinuation that Arcler "constantly" tells people that we need to do things for PR, that's not really true. Arcler's been on the receiving end of our competitive player's ire a pretty decent number of times for inviting other guilds to join Riot for raids--he's not inviting TSS or Kittens or AEGIS or Lighthouse to raids or sending the guild to help other's Ring Wars for PR, he's doing it because he's actually just a pretty decent person. As with just about everyone, he's not without fault, but he's also not the fella you and others are trying to make him out to be.
You're equating malicious intent with a mistake on the Wyman/Settila comparison. Settila played a toon that had never been Riot tagged to help friends kill Zlandicar whilst Riot was raid banned, not knowing that it was an issue because the toon had never been guilded. That was an honest mistake, and given the murky circumstances surrounding your own situation--the fact that you are "banned" and still continue to play, lead raids, and post on these forums further muddies the waters on the topic of what being banned
means. Are
characters raid banned or are
players raid banned?
Regardless, what Wyman did was malicious and intentional. Since Riot's inception, Arcler has been very clear about one thing: if you intentionally break a rule, you're gone. Wyman intentionally interfered with your raid which is pretty serious violation of trust and [thankfully] a rare occurence on this server. Wyman knew what he was doing and he what the consequences of his actions were.
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