This is the linchpin of my doubt. I have been in every Church of the Holy Light discord since mid-legion. My RP with them has been sporadic and sparse, and has been diminished greatly in the seven years since this was relevant, but I still stick around, because I like to keep an eye on things. But seven years ago, I was more active, and I was even approached with the original browncloak pitch. At the time I said no, for various reasons, but I still saw the development. And if the PCU was involved, it has got to be the sneakiest involvement I have ever seen.
First of all, the timeline is wrong. If I have understood it correctly, the PCU did not start properly before BfA. The Church kerfuffle was late Legion, and it did not start with the void elves. They were very unpopular before that too, due to their somewhat conservative view of death knights and warlocks, and some interpretations of the lore. A lot of people had a chip on their shoulders against the Church, and when void elves were released, the Church was practically overrun with void elves going “Heehoo you can’t touch me I’m a part of the Alliance now”, to which I believe the only response was “Ma’am this is a place of prayer.”
Bottom line is, the actual ‘lynchings’ happened during the content drought, I believe. During BfA people had more important things to worry about.
The second point is that at no point did the PCU have any representation in any of the discords. If they did, they had secret channels in which they schemed and plotted, and the average guild member was not made aware. Perhaps not so weird that the average member did not find out, since the PCU was not created yet. You’d honestly be better off blaming Berach, he was at least in the discord server.
Anyways, all of this to say, this is the main issue with PCU critique. They are ascribed with a ton of crimes that they supposedly did, but without any evidence. How can I trust the rest of your post when I know you just said a falsehood? I don’t think you lied on purpose. I think you’ve heard it from someone you know, who heard it from someone they know, who heard it from someone they know, who misremembered it and conflated two groups of IC bigots into one.
The PCU truly has become some sort of boogeyman, where they are consistently made out to be the enemy of fun, who comes in just to harass and ridicule your RP. We saw this exact thing happen when Dark Rangers released, and you had two factions pointing at each other claiming “You are PCU, you want to destroy my fun!” whilst none of them were PCU.
Now, my history with the PCU hasn’t been all pleasant either. I had my own little clash with them during BFA, which I do think severely hampered my RP for a while. But also, I’ve come to the conclusion that that was six years ago. People change during that time. I am a completely different person to back then, and I imagine a lot of the PCU members are too. Even if they’re not, so much of the membership and leadership has rotated out. They are different people now. So, I have forgiven them and found out that most PCU members I meet today are generally pretty chill.
Yeah, that’s my ted talk.
To bring it back on topic to something a bit more constructive, I’m still interested in what Bulletchewer’s RP event outline looks like. Last I asked, I got a list of vague requirements, but that’s not an outline. That’s a goal. An outline would describe where it is, what the theme is, what the vibe is, who’s invited, that sort of thing. So, here’s to hoping it’ll be released soon.
