Apologies to the Role Playing Community

[ArturiaSaber]

Dear Role Players of Balmung,

I, Arturia Saber, come to you speaking on behalf of myself and several other invaluable leaders to our link shell The Magistra. We four have come to the notion that our exclusivity has caused much drama within the role playing community of our server. It has come to the point where we have held a meeting and have decided that it would be best for us to separate ourselves from our current shell and begin anew under a different leadership. We would like to create a shell that encourages role playing with others, and multiple shell ownership will be acceptable. I, personally, apologize profusely to those who we have outright rejected from our social circle within FFXIV. I do not expect forgiveness, but I would like you to know that I am sorry, and was always acting under orders. I believe our actions have put me to shame concerning our exclusivity, I do not desire this, which is why I, have decided that it would be best to join under a new name along with Kurisutina Rintarou, Anna Volfield, and Whispering Wind of Balmung. We will be the new leaders of a great community that encourages regular activity, friendship, working together, role playing, and participating on friendly terms with others in the role playing community of Balmung. Any members that come into our new link shell will be welcome to join other link shells, and even keep The Magistra under their names, but that is their choice. I simply wish for happiness and peace for all of us, and to begin anew on friendly terms for the benefit of each other. Again, I, Arturia Saber of the Balmung Server apologize, and I hope that this new step will help to amend those grievances that we may have brought upon the role playing community.



A personal message from Kurisutina Rintarou:

I, Kurisutina Rintarou, have decided to leave The Magistra. I believe that the community that I once knew and loved is not the same as it once was. I feel that The Magistra is trying too hard to become a well known link shell as opposed to the family environment where we all loved and knew each other. I used to sign on and know every person that was in the link shell, and now I only know about 20 out of 90, and only talk to about 10 of them. I do not like the turn that The Magistra has taken. All of this drama has gotten way out of hand, and I apologize profusely for it.~ I do not believe that anything that I can do personally will help to fix everything, but I hope that time will heal all wounds so that we can more actively participate in the role playing communities of Balmung and not be so exclusive from other link shells. I have felt for some time that The Magistra literally goes out of its way to attack other link shells, and I do not believe this is right. V_V I only want people to be happy, and right now, the people I love most are not happy. Which is why I would like to start this new link shell along with Arturia Saber, Anna Volfield, and Whispering Wind of the Balmung server.~ I think this is a turn for the better. I hope that the role playing communities of Balmung will accept us and role play with us. ^^



A personal message from Anna Volfield:

^^ This. Also.
I think The Magistra has gotten way out of hand. We work so hard to build something up under a leadership we think is great, and for what? To be hated by other link shells? I think it's time that we STOP all of this drama and make a new link shell. This is getting to be ridiculous, and I personally apologize for any attacks we have made against anyone. (Not saying names, but you know who you are.) After the meeting with Saber, Kuris, and Wind, I think it's time we build a new link shell under a new leadership that is based off of more acceptable rules. We don't want to be under a dictatorship. This is just a game, and we have offended so many for being so exclusive, and I apologize for that. I apologize to everyone. I apologize to The Magistra, to other link shells we may have offended, to my friends, my family, and anyone else in Balmung. I apologize to those people who have just read this entire wall of text and have no idea what is going on and is not even included in this! I apologize... I have only ever acted under the directions of authority. Perhaps I should have done a little more and stepped up a little sooner before this got out of hand. But we will fix it NOW. I am the kind of person who goes out of my way to help others. I don't want people to hate us anymore. Please forgive us. We hope to make this new link shell a place that people have good images about mentally, and that people WANT to join. That's all I have to say.



A personal message from Whispering Wind:

I am writing this formal letter of apology for not seeing with eyes unclouded and for not leaving sooner, before things got so out of hand. I have grown close to some of the individuals and have considered them as close as a real family. Things have happened or supposedly happened and it has started a feud of sorts. What has transpired is petty, unnecessary, and childish. It should not have even come to this. If two people have a disagreement, fine, deal with it between yourselves. There is no need to drag others into it, much less entire link shells. I am leaving Magistra Empire as it has become a link shell I am not proud to be in any longer. I have extremely high standards of honor and I believe that there are things that should not be said in public chat or link shell chat, as we don't know anyone's age, beliefs, or customs and certain things are considered offensive to others and some should not be spoken of in front of children. I treat others as I want to be treated- with honor and respect. However, the rules that were laid out about respecting others has been made a joke and I can't abide by that, nor can I tolerate it. The link shell I cared for is no longer the link shell I helped create. It has become a degradation and more closely resembles a brothel. I will not be a part of this, nor will I associate with such. People are free to live their lives as they wish, but subjecting others to this type of lifestyle in link shell chat which is against the rules, and being asked repeatedly to refrain from such behavior in link shell chat shows those individuals have no respect for others or whether there are children present. I have no wish nor desire to be in a link shell of that nature, nor around those individuals.

[ArturiaSaber]

Thank you for taking the time to read our apologies.

~Arturia Saber

[Istaro]

If this is the way of it, I say that I am pleasantly surprised and impressed by this course of action, and would like to extend my sincerest apologies to those of you I have offended or led into misunderstanding my intentions. To many who know me I am a man of high moral honor and would prefer to clean up any messes that suggest otherwise. This goes for Miss Saber as well as anyone loyal to her, and any attacks on my part are not at all the reflection of Garden, I as tactless and enraged by the rumors and attacks I had recieved by individuals I have never even met, and understand that I was wrong, and had all too late realized that not everyone judged by what they heard.

To conclude, I would just again like to say I apologize for my own faults and would like to put the past where it belongs and just make an attempt for a better future where we can play and enjoy the game we all love in peace, Garden takes no side but their own so I cannot speak for everyone involved in this mess, but I am sure my students and fellow Hunters can agree when I say that we can stomp the drama and flame wars now before it spreads again. Thank you for your time.

~Istaro Dintari (Lunos Lupus)~

[Riku_Toiiku]

As sad as it is to see a linkshell break up in this manner over such things, to see work going toward finding a solution to the issue is definately a good thing. I would certainly forgive all those who apologised, had I felt any illness from their actions in the first place; fortunately, however, I was neither offended nor upset by any of the actions over the past week or so, only worried for the community. Worried and sad that there was fighting.

What I would like to ask is that nobody holds any hard feelings over any of the actions that have occured as part of this drama. What has happened has happened, and clearly from this thread, all those involved want to peacefully move on. And that itself is a good thing. I suspect the RPC is happy to put this behind them and forgive and forget, too.

And thus I'd like to finish off by saying that all my hopes are that things will remain peacefull for the future. We can all get along and be happy, as the open, free, friendly RP community that we should be.

Huggles for everyone!

[Molly_Millions]

/em wonders what could have happened to spur a public apology.

[Molly_Millions]

Wow, drama from the top down, eh? LS drama sucks for sure, it's worse when the leader is involved. I'm sure a few folks can attest to that from when I was having it out with the old leader of WTS.

Remember, it's just a game. I realize friendships get tested in times like this, and that makes things tough. Just remember why you are here in the first place and try to move on.

Good luck to you all!

[Volfield]

Good luck to you all!

Thank you for the kind words.

It's not as much friendship testing as it is patience testing and over ambitiousness that started the downfall of the LS.
And then drama came to put the nail in the pearl-coffin. The friends we made here and people in general asked of us to do something about it, so we did.


So yeah, hopefully tomorrow and the day after will be brighter and better days.
Now it's all about remaking our LS but filtering the bad people and drama queens.

[YakushiHinata]

Thank you all for the kind words~<3 ^^ I'm glad to see we put all this behind us and work together for a better community.

[Aegishjalmr]

As any1 with experience in MMO's can tell you attacking your community is damaging and foolish. To strive for a better gaming experience requires some level of cooperation on every1's part especially for ppl who are playing in Role Playing groups and like Kuri Arturia Whispering and Anna i apologize for the reckless behavior of the Magestra (even tho im a reletively new member) and hope with the new shell we can put the past behind us

[ArturiaSaber]

Anna. I thought we weren't going to point out certain individuals?