Actually thinking about it, jokes about Geese aside, and they were hilarious, the Hallowed Ball was a really good example of how it doesn’t -have- to be this way. It was fun, there were a few PCU guilds there, and non PCU guilds alike, there was also, I noted, a pretty record number of nonguilded folk there, who were getting just as involved and weren’t being shunned for a lack of a Guild Tag over their heads. It was a pretty chilled occasion, and people made a lot of effort to get with the vibe, (Although clearly the best Elf won the costume contest #humblebrag ). There were probably grudges underneath, I know Brigante was a bit anxious about interacting with some, and yet -not- anxious about interacting with others -of the same guilds-, and likely vice versa, but it was all an IC occasion, and it really did seem like any beef had been left at the door.
We can do it at a ‘fairly’ Light Hearted festival (albeit the whole thing of Hallows End kind of is celebrating the end of a period of slavery for a Horde race, so not really that light hearted, but you get what I mean). We should be able to do it in general RP also. I think there were a lot of misunderstandings between various groups and guilds, and harsh words spoken ( and heck knows I’m as guilty of that as anyone else) which we’ve all kind of let fester, and so have become more entrenched, so rather than everyone being inclined to let bygones be bygones, those attitudes have solidified, leading to a ‘them and us’ mentality, which given that Horde is only, what 30% of the server population, we can’t really afford so much.
It would be interesting, and probably beneficial for everyone if we could draw a line under things, or an amnesty, call it what you will, and go forwards without any preconceptions or angst OOC towards each other. Maybe we could pop our heads over the trenches and have a jolly kickabout on Christmas day? (That was a joke, in case anyone thought I was serious, I’ll be far too busy eating Christmas dinner and getting drunk).
Basically this thread is just going round in circles of “You!, No! You!” so at the risk of sounding all Taran Zhu about it, nothing’s gonna change, until we kinda go “Alright, that all happened, it was a mad couple of years, lets just put it away in its box and get on with telling collaborative stories that are fun for everyone concerned, collaborative, not competitive. (Although obviously characters will disagree, I more mean the OOC gripes)
Reckon we can all do that, or have things gone too far?
waves olive branch.
P.S. I did not go to University,.
