I was SOL too, and the infighting, and general disrespect towards "leaders" was gross to behold

What I find is that several small "groups" of members inside the group as a whole, go off and "do what they want" and usually that leads to war, and a lot of lies are told in SOL back and forth to each other. (I was there, I've seen it happen, I know the drill)

How can you claim to be a family, when noone knows each other, and noone is remotely honest with each other?

Most members will start wars out of their own personal dislikes fabricating larger tales of the actual occurence, dragging everyone else in, usually I find the general mass doesn't want to be involved, but a small "group inside the group" become raging zealots for their falsified cause.

At one point I had OpenUpShop in my pledge, as well as XNightpowerX, and I had it confirmed, CONFIRMED, with BBKnights, that Only they would be hit, noone else in my pledge. Yet members such as Relic, COLLECTION, and a few others let their personal dislike of me (even present when I was their active "brother") and my brothers, infect their judgement and respect of their leader, to start hitting everyone.

Relic had ended NightPOwer, and it was known in my pledge that if SOL attacked, OPen and Night would fend for themselves. At one point, SOL brought a group of members, with intent to engage my entire group under the pretense of us taking action against them in defense of Open or Nightpower. Relic made an attempt to cancel OpenUpShop, me and my other members seperated ourselves from the activity, Relic moved in (aggro status mind you) to engage close up with both Open and Night, and suffered 2 sunbursts and a meteor from Night, while being hit by open.

Before anything could have POSSIBLY be decided, or discussed, we were ALL attacked by the members present from SOL. Later...according to Relic, he was meteored twice. Moonmist (my real life brother, who sits 3 feet away from me) had apparently "assisted" Night in his demise, apparently 2 SB, a DK knight hitting you, and a meteor is not enough to kill one mage. Well I can, and did see Moon's screen, and his MP NEVER dropped below full.

Alas, my being present, and witnessing for myself the events was not nearly convincing enough to combat with the fabrication presented by Relic. My suggestion..."Write support, ask them for the details of your death, but you'll have to provide your original credit information, and you'll find you died to 1 mage." Yes you can very much ask support for those details, and either, he knew it was a lie and had planned to attack us all, or he lacked to credentials to ask support for that information because the idea was refused.

Fastforward some, we've removed Open and Nightpower from pledge, but they stick to the Moonmist stories. We don't fight htem, when hit we ignore or venz. We never run our mouths (a difficult task for those that know MoonMist) but repeatedly they say we "talk trash to them" and claim we "attack SOL"

Once they claimed we "helped veng fight SOL" O.o we happened to be hunting in an area and stumbled into a full blown SOL 10 man assault on changbogo, and promptly left the scene, only to be stalked and attacked. Another occurence (we've all kept detect scrolls, or spells on hotkeys when hunting solo) LivinLarge was chased by Zuluuu, who was in FV during a KNOWN Superman burning spree (he wasn't their first victim that night) and Livin, his buffs fading off him, in a slight nervousness hots the wrong hotkey, and detects, and zuluuu is blasted by 3 burns and lordkraken. I can see how suspicious that looks, but I was there to watch it, Noone mentioned any "plot" to him. He panciked (he's 13 for christsake, adrenaline pumping in an engagement we try to ignore makes a lot of people jumpy)

Fast Forward a little more. My brothers attempt to hunt together on FI, i3aby (with healer mage) attacks them while hit with a decent level of mops. The idea is to leave them for dead to the mops. Rather than allowing that, my brothers defend themselves in a situation they cannot otherwise escape. Moon mets and kills the mage (i3aby was angry bcuz they had no meat for the mages regen after that...cost his hunting time) cancels i3aby and generally tries to get away. Livin manages to kill the offending monsters, let's his combat "time" run out, and restarts (back to the start of island) Moon attempts to avoid i3aby long enough to restart as well, instead of disengaging, i3aby continously ebony wanded Moon.

I stood there and watched this...over their shoulders. I was standing in the SAME room not 5 feet away. What I3aby had told SOL though, was that Moonmist and LivinLarge and attacked him on FI, and ended his mage. Considering, we've never hit SOL first, never engaged them at all, and generally venzed or ignored all of their attacks, you'd think an assault, on a combat zone island that generally has no worthwhile effects, would be a stupid gesture. All of SOL took i3aby at his word (of course)

When I talked to i3aby he told me the same lies, and when I told him that I had witnessed it from the same room, he still insisted that he was attacked. When I persisted that he was lying, he quickly decided he didn't want to talk about it anymore, and that I should "take it up with BB"

I feel sorry for BB when I look at the position he is in, and how the pledge that was once respectable, has crumbled around him. But I also say "shame on you" for always catering to your members, and never drawing that line in the sand for them not to cross. You let it get the way it's become, and never raised a hand to stop it. A ban here or there, or a stern threat would have set most of these people aright, now they've become egomaniacal monstrosities that feel they have no limitations in what they can say/do.

These are my examples of SOL's actions of fabricating stories to generally move forward a motion they otherwise wouldn't partake, for the sake of a few high up members benefit.


                                                                                                              -XXmonicaXX