Curmudgeon Abandons

Yesterday morning, Curmudgeon and his alt, Mac Soith were abandoned after allegations of grooming leading to a police visit to his house. He posted the following in the comments section of the Telegraph:'sorry for being melodramatic, but I'm done. I've just had the police at my door accusing me of all sorts because it was reported that I spoke to someone aged under 18 in game about sexual matters, therefore I am a peadophile. 16 is legal in my country and I am 49 and happily married. Shame on the idiots who accused me'

The chat in which he is alleged to have spoken to someone in a sexual manner is reportedly an external chat on a website such as slack chat though it was based around Illyriad.

GM Stormcrow appeared in global chat at 1:18 and said: 'Um. Nothing to do with us. Whilst we have had legal requests for account details in the past; nothing of that sort has occurred for at least 2 years...'

This seems to confirm that the chat was on an external site.

Curmudgeon was recently threatened with a ban from GM Rikoo for innuendoes towards myself. I did not find these in anyway inappropriate as they were clearly harmless jokes and I believe that this is probably similar to what happened in the external chat and someone just over reacted. However, I have not seen what was said and this is solely based off of my impression of Curmudgeon from talking to him.

He was an excellent player and was a lot of fun to talk to. If anyone who knew well would like to write him an obituary, I would be happy to publish it here.

Author: Eowan The Short

YARR! in turmoil after RUM/Hell incident

On the 9th of June, Josh's PublicRelations[YARR!] account sparked controversy when he attacked a Hellfire[Hell] player called Squirrel. Hell is a training alliance in the Broken Lands which has close ties to TUF though is not a training alliance specifically for TUF. Within seconds of HR's attack, TUF retaliated by declaring on RUM, a trading and crafting alliance which is closely linked to Yarr. RUM contained at least one war runner, in the form of SamODell.
When Josh was interviewed by Dakota, he gave this statement on the events:'What happened was that Agalloch had payed for a Terraform, the terraform account landed 5squares from him, which meant the terraform would have to join TUF, which it did. So the town had to be razed and Aga was at war.. so he contacted squirrel in Hell to do it for him, hoping we wouldnt kill it. But I saw what was going on and killed it. That caused a lot of drama and ultimately it caused Agalloch to attack RUM, then a lot of the RUM players got upset (lots of different people in there) which then made Curm angry, since he is the leader in RUM.. lots more but thats generally it'

After the declaration of war, RUM's ranks were purged, leaving just Mac Stoith (Curmudgeon's alt) and Muad'Dib, and its name was changed to Deadmen Walking[dead].

Tensions simmered for a few days, within YARR! until they came to a head on the 13th when Curmudgeon left due to a confrontation with Josh over how the  Hell/RUM incident was handled.

Soon after this, a peace was offered by TUF to YARR! though this was soon withdrawn by Agalloch. When asked why, he refused to give a comment claiming he didn't have the time to explain his reasoning fully. It is thought that any kind of peace with YARR! would involve the disolution of the Pawanallpa Land Claim.

After the peace negotiations were started, Josh moved his HR and PR accounts into TUF. Around this time, other YARR! players also started to move out or look for other options.

Around the same time, TUF declared on The Fremen[DUNE], citing the presence of Stilgar as the cause. Stilgar is believed to be at least partially controlled by Curmudgeon and reportedly had attacked TUF.

YARR! then started to bring itself back together under Ranalos though neither TUF or YARR! have mounted any significant operations since.

Currently, Curmudgeon is in Deadmen Walking, Mac Soith is in  a new alliance called Hog Hunters[BACON] and Stilgar has changed his name to Rigor.Mortis and joined Deadmen Walking. TUF have also offered DUNE peace, possibly as a result of Stilgar's move to Dead

Author: Eowan The Short