Quite a long weekend full of twists, turns, and hard work.

• • Friday
    • Another Failed 10-man Lich King raid day. Once again we were refused help from Co-GM (Call her “Liartyme”) in our guild (more on this later); even though the majority of people in their raid wished to help.
      • Logged off early.
• Saturday
  • Early morning heading to my parents’ house.
  • Replaced 4x shocks on my truck
  • Rotated tires
  • Cleaned, sanded and rolled on a bed liner to my truck
  • No online time spent Saturday
• Sunday
  • Morning spent putzing around Azeroth.
  • Eventually a good friend in the guild logged on to fill us into the drama that had occurred since the moment we logged off on Friday.
• Monday
  • Liartyme Quit.
  • Rejoiced!

Drama

At one time, our guild had enough members for two 25-man raids and four 10-man raids in Ice Crown Citadel. As time went on the turn out for 10-mans dwindled as people needed less and less gear from them. The guild eventually began to run one 25-man and two 10-man raids. I lead one 10-man raid (Team B) and the other was run by Liartyme (Team A). Our groups competed for first kills, we each received our fair share. Then Team A killed Arthas.

That was the final nail in our coffin.

With Team A having killed Arthas, everyone in the guild wanted to run with them. Members of Team B were telling me that they were on a “reserved” list for the Team A and couldn’t go with us. More and more people began to wait for the chance to run with Team A, and soon my group was running their alts/second spec to run our raid.

Since this is the end of an expansion, and the leaks of Cataclysm are ever present, people simply stop playing. Players see that early dropping items are better than the best gear that drops off the bosses. No one cares about the experience; just the gear (it’s sad but true). Our guild slowly lost members until we could only support one 25-man (barely) and one 10-man group.

But there in lies the problem:

We have two distinct groups, each with half a core group; one was hit and miss on Hard-Modes (Team A) and one was perpetually saved to the Lich King encounter (Team B). The notion to join the two groups, kill Arthas and then continue on with Hard-Modes was suggested by me (repeatedly), and had been shot down by Liartyme for weeks because:

“We don’t want to go backwards on progression.”

Apparently everything came to a head the moment I logged off on Friday.

Liartyme began her assault against me, and everyone in my raid group:

• Accusing me of Verbally Abusing her
  • Yelling, swearing and insulting
  • The GM was still under her spell at the time, and said he had no choice but to kick me from guild
    • A loyal raider of mine talked to him and they came to the conclusion that I wouldn’t have done that
    • It’s a game, I’m not that concerned about it to yell at someone
• Accusing me of wanting to ruin their raid
  • “Stealing” members of their raid
  • Not allowing members from my group to go to theirs, even at the end of the week
• Accusing me of wanting to prevent her from raiding
  • Not taking her to our raid
  • How we hated her

Her lies caught up to her once she began trying to stir the pot; loyal members of my raid began to stand up for me (I love them). That is when her tower of lies fell apart:

• She began to talk to people about transferring servers, and tried to bring a lot of members with her. Which was overheard by my raiders.
• All the guys she had flirted with began to realize that she was flirting with all the others
  • She had told all of them that all the others were “stalkers” and “just let them be, they’re harmless”
  • Every one of them she told was “the one” she wanted/loved/cared for.

I only know what I am told, but from what everyone has told me Liartyme had lied, manipulated, and conspired against the guild. Liartyme left the guild after being revealed to be such a bad person.

Team B knew for months how bad for the guild she was; but everyone else was under her spell. With her gone, I feel that we will be able to salvage the 10-mans and begin to rebuild our 25-man raid.

She was the poison in our guild, and she has been cleansed.