Of My Leaving Camelot...

As a quick reply because I am away for a few days,

To start off, dates were posted ahead of time and as people have seen written down, at the basis, all who missed were supposed to await disqualification.

I have been quite nice organizing these events, titles, dates and spending the last two weeks just doing this and taking care of you guys, barely playing. Now, though I understand real life issues, most of you could not attend the games on time, or did not attend them at all, which even though it disappointed me regarding the efforts I put to create them, I understood and swallowed as real life issues. I certainly did not hold grudges against anyone, nor did I ever thought of... leaving the guild.

The games stop the 31st if we follow tradition and I was about to hold off Wisdom for one more day, but as the evening passed I realized I could not log on until the end of the Games, so I decided to finish them as soon as possible. They were scheduled to end Saturday anyway.

Now, something wrong i did and understood, something I will do for the next game is address the date of each game directly into the candidate list so that you are directly aware of time and day as you register and can ponder if you can attend ahead of time. Sorry guys, it was my first shot with these games, and nothing is perfect the first time. I still believe it was not too bad. And as the Romans used to say: Errare humanum est.

Now, though I understand your disappointment, I ask you to ponder it facing the one I had every day, as I was waiting for people for hours, postponing, or cancelling games I gave so much joy into preparing. But I am not the one to consider, for as I said, in the end, I understood my wrongs and believe the event could have been better prepared, though it takes a few absences and tardiness to transform a happy event into something less funny.

No... I want you to ponder the disappointment you have missing a game that was not too important, a disappointment which is directed at me (fine... I can survive it), facing the disappointment i am sure every one will have when they will realize that we lost an Officer in which we had placed the most blind hope from day one, and who let the ones he calls friends down because of something I consider a detail, compared to the role we all hoped he could take for the sake of us all.

You think it is me that you hurt in leaving, and I understand your will to do so, but it is us all you let down in the end.

Now, I am, have always been, and will always be leading this guild, and I do not fall into bargain and blackmail as a rule of honor. Nevertheless, my trust in you has not withered, and I am ready to welcome you back among us if such is your wish. Since I believe the matter at hand not to be overly important, I am even ready to let you face the Loremaster (something I could have done if you just have asked) and see who is best, because after all, this is the type of fun these games were all about.

Now since leaving a guild out of such impulse is nothing but fun, when speech can always make a difference, I wish, if you want to join us again, that you understand that such behavior is not really appropriate for the role you have and in which we put all our trust.

And remember our policy: 'People can leave the guild once and come back. They cannot do so twice.'

In the hope that you'll come back to us soon, because if you leave we will suffer an enormous loss, I give you my most sincere apologies if I have hurt you, because I was far from wishing that to happen.

Enjoy the end of the year properly,

-Ced