Four hours? Has this ever happened? All the griefing episodes I ever recall last about 20 minutes on average, 30 at worst. Then you have people crying on the forums “oh, this episode of griefing lasted 5 hours!” and you were there and it lasted 20 minutes. So I’m going to press X doubt on that one.
The dice was drawn. They came there for the PvP, and were disappointed when the event was cancelled. I’d count that as RP-PvP griefing, because it was meant to be PvP - if you had done an /emote fight, they wouldn’t have even bothered arriving. Of course, they were bad people and you should not stop doing RP-PvP because griefers exist - Im not arguing against that (in a perfect world they’d receive a suspension) - but it’s just to show that RP-PvP griefing is way worse than others.
At the same time, I’m sure you were also crying in their chat or something, which helped to fuel the flames.