Ms. Lenz,
I don’t normally interject myself into squabbles that arise but I feel the need to rise to this occasion. I do this for multiple reasons that I shall endeavor to explain with a level head and fairness. Firstly, I would like to say that it saddens me you have come to this conclusion in your opinion about Mizahar. I really am sorry you feel that way. Those writers who enjoyed your company will certainly miss the stories you embarked upon with them.
To that, we send you off with a fond farewell.
Secondly, I am slightly confused and more than a little skeptical not to mention mildly irritated. Mizahar caused you anxiety? Mizahar caused you momentous levels of stress? Be that as it may you are hardly without blame in this situation. Let us take a look at the situation that has presented itself, shall we?
Yesterday, under the guise of Xylona, a post was made to Gossamer’s Scrapbook attacking what was posted as a satirical jest.
Gossamer responded in the fashion that I think we all knew she would. She called you out. It’s that right there. Plain and simple. I was both shocked and more than a little irritated when the list of the characters registered to your IP was revealed.
Let’s examine some of them.
Ollic Rimesage.I role-played with this character for a brief time. I was looking forward to it! I even got a box code from this PC. It was great! Then, quite suddenly, I received a message explaining a much needed departure to handle personal issues. That’s fine. Go take care of all that you need to. I harbored no ill will in that regard whatsoever. Who was I to speak on such matters especially given my history on the website?
But after seeing the IP list and seeing that PC on there I did some digging. You were consistently active on several of the accounts listed there during the period you told me you would be away. You lied to me. It was a lie that had been entirely unnecessary because discontinuing any threading would have been as simple as saying you no longer felt motivated nor inspired to write that particular plot. I still have the PM from Ollic in my inbox.
Nevertheless, maybe something did come up. Maybe Ollic really isn’t your character. It is irrelevant at this point.
Moving on.
Tais and Lavine.Those names seemed very familiar to me when I saw them. Why? Because both characters registered to the
Zeltiva Character Registry. This season. That strikes me as entirely odd for a number of reasons. The first is that, all speculation aside, it is expressly stated in the rules that two characters controlled by the same player cannot overlap each other in a city at the same time. Regardless of whether or not they are you or “someone else” me thinks it would have been wise not to register two characters under the same computer and IP to the same city. In the same season. At the same time.
Catastrophe.I am saddened. The community adored you from what I could tell. There was nothing but praise and happiness every time you graced us in chat. I never heard anything but positive, supportive, and wonderful things about your work and how incredibly helpful you were.
What is my point in all this?
That this anxiety, these problems, this stress, seems entirely self-created. At least in regards to Mizahar. You
knew some of the things you were doing were against the rules. You
knew that you weren’t supposed to do them. You lied. You made a spectacle. You were caught. Whether all of this was you the player or “other people using the same computer” wiser decisions could have been made.
Good luck in your future endeavors. I personally wish you nothing but the best. I know there will be those who will miss you.
Warmest Regards,
Aoren
