Seems like someone said it before me, Zuw, but it had a nice ring to it and I probably &quot;did&quot; steal it! It sounds like something I'd say though maybe. It was probably a wine night. 

Viviann's real life persona has always been that of such a laid back and easy going person to me, that I hate to see harsh message board posts directed at him. His speediest form of communication involves a lot of acronyming and grammar/spelling mutiliation that normally makes me throw some judgement on someone due to my own firm beliefs in &quot;Communicate clearly and correctly if you're going to do it at all!&quot; but in Ian's case I know he means well and no insult. I don't like forum squabbles where people start firing off pot-shots at each other via keyboard though I confess I stop to read them from time to time to get a chuckle. However, it's like pausing while flipping through the channels to watch transvestite-circus-couples-who-cheat-on-each-other-with-their children on Jerry Springer before coming to your senses and finding a good episode of Buck Rogers on TV. Nobody's perfect, hell in forums I'm the master of run-on sentences and comma splices! My sisters also ruin my life at Scrabble. 

I edited (and to some folks' regret, though I was thanked) some harshness by Zeph one time a year back in hopes to squash an ensuing cat-fight and ease the sting of words delivered in anger. Only reason was to help the atmosphere a little, and the overall message he intended was left intact. I won't do that here, but I just ask you all to respect each other a little bit. It gets ugly once you start insulting people online, and I speak from experience. I think I referred to someone as semen one time with a lot of colorful adjectives in a drunken rant when I was 21. It was hilarious, but embarrassing!

Viv has left FSE before, but can we really blame him or anyone else who's left?  He was looking for some content beyond that which FSE could deliver. I left FSE onceas well. and when I came back you guys still totally hit on me a bunch. So it's not like I had an STD (which I may have had).  If you're not linked close by real life ties, then what fuels your fire in enjoyment offered up by a guild will be the amount of activity that guild helps provide for you to experience what you want out of the game. You guys with those ties where you call and speak with each other on the phone will probably lhave a bit more of a link that keeps you together than the ones who don't see you, work with, or talk to you. 

FSE was always a casual guild focused on &quot;smaller content&quot; such as Zul'Gurub and Ahn'Qiraj in our peak days and Karazhan with a little Zul'Aman thrown in during our Burning Crusade days. It was pretty fun to me, and with the exception of a few people I considred to be pretty crappy, I liked hanging out with my fellow gaming nerds (Those people I thought were cruddy were usually just rude, loot obsessed spazzes, or kids that wouldn't shut their pie holes!). 

Now when twilight (for the Burning Crusade) starts falling around Summer time it gets lonely in FSE if you're subscribing to the game that is starting to get old for some. What made FSE worthwhile to me was that I was sharing the enthusiasm of the game with others. I know for a fact many of my friends in FSE won't be returning to play with me any time soon. The number was enough to make me think to myself &quot;FSE in WoW is over for now, for me&quot;.  If no one's going to log in and make some noise in guild chat so that you've got someone keeping you company in there, it's good odds those still subscribing are going to look for some more folks to share the experience with with another guild. I was logging in during peak play hours and I'd be the only guy online. That's just depressing. Star Wars Galaxies doesn't suit my fancy, and Conan hasn't been able to lure me away.

I was unable to recruit players to strengthen FSE and replace those that left. On Boulderfist (The only pvp server I have experience with) it was a hell of a task to wade through the pwners and find people who had what I considered good sense. Leadership can't really pass from real life friend founder types, else what would happen if they returned to the game only to find FSE had gone into the mouth of madness! Bolstering ranks for a guild is tough work, I actually put more effort into than the results show it seems! But I enjoyed trying!

Heck look at our application section, there's only like 2 of those in entirety who really stayed long enough to be considered successes! :)

Disloyalty may be something we can throw around at those who don't decide to keep the tag over their head in hopes that everyone returns some day. If so, then I suppose you'll all consider me some sort of gamer club traitor. I hope not, as I had a lot of fun doing what I thought was fun with all of you even if my not-so-orthodox standards chased someone off every now and then! It was a pleasure to help Sean and Chris (People who I met through Senjaya 'Warlorc' years ago) build a World of Warcraft guild and I like to think for my part I helped to make it a good one with them. 

I didn't want to see FSE come to a halt in WoW, since I still play, but I did get a strong sense that it was coming to just that. 

Not to sound like some babbling prophet, but I would say that FSE will quite possibly be reborn on Azeroth again. I'd be happy to help out and play some World of Warcraft with all of you again if that day comes. 

It really doesn't take me long to whip out one of these storybook posts, but I figure you were dying to read one so I pooped it out for you. Yes, you. Only you can read this. No one else. Yes, those pants do make you look fat. Wear the capris. Please stop wearing those ridiculous blouses with the frilly sleeves. Guys do not like them. In fact, we don't like anything frilly what-so-ever. The 90's are over. It'd be like me wearing hammer pants and getting a bowl cut. Just stop it.