by Diekan » Fri May 28, 2004 10:05 am
Waaayyyyy back when... I had taken some time off to move (maybe a month or so) and when I got back my old guild PoF (Paragons of Fury - for you newbies who don't remember that old school group of ass kickers) had disbanned. Well, being with no guild and wanting to raid I thought long and hard about a home. I had made my mind up that Crimson Tempest was where I wanted to spend tthe rest of my EQ days, but they didn't have a need for an extra Rogue at the time, so all I could do was wait for my chance to apply. Well, time went on and I began to get bored, and more or less lose interest in the game... then I was asked to try out of Euphoria. At first I was hesitant because I knew that the first chance I got to try out for CT I would... But, at the time Euph's recruiter made a good impression on me and I thought it best to at least raid some and then move on to my first guild of choice when the time was right.
I had made some good friends in Euph and had some good times, and for a time I started to comtemplate staying with them on a perm basis. When the time came that CT had a Rogue spot open up... I was informed by a my oldest EQ friend (a member of CT at the time)... I had to make the choice to either stay with Euph (with the new friends I had made), or to deguild and apply to be with some of my oldest friends in the game. It was not a choice that I could easily make... I felt like I was betraying my friends in Euph and Euph herself, but at the same time I knew that CT was where I wanted to be in the first place.
Then it dawned me.... this is a fucking video game, and I wasn't about to be distressed over it. And, what does it matter what guild tag one wears when it comes to 'friendship?' Well, apparently to Tiriella it means everything.
I had deguilded to apply for CT and this is when my 'friendship' with Tiriella came to an end. She was upset at my leaving, and well I don't blame her, but on the same token I had expected our friendship to be stronger than the binds of a guild tag. But, rather than let the 'friendship' continue, she puts me on ignore and never spoke to me again. I kept in contact with Afton for the longest time after my leaving, hell I kept in contact with a lot of folks after that... none of which stopped being 'friends' with me because I changed guilds. Well, none except one. I enjoyed Tiri's company and our chats... it's to bad she let something like a guild tag destroy a 'friendship' regardless of how non 'face to face' it may have been.