A reminder of how fun things used to be.....Follow

Upon reading that story which is in my signature, and what has happened to me lately, please read:

I once told someone I thought was close to me that he was as a friend to me as anyother friend that I have met IRL. But he told me I was shocked but what can you do.

This is something that happened to me recently, and it makes me very sad. I started playing this game 3 weeks since the PC launch, one day I was coming from Mhaura on the boat and had to walk the dreaded beach of Valkrum Dunes, so Gob aggros, and I start to run for daer life. Someone gave me a /tell saying (hello), so I responded, I began to run and talk and once I was in La Theine Plateau and was safe we began to get into deep conversation which ended up having him meet me in Jeuno and I getting a pearl from him. The reason I began to play was my RL friend showed me the game and I fell in love, and we started to lvl together, one day he met another guy and I was made a sack holder to the LS and I gave them both a pearl. The linkshell leader (the guy whom spoke to me while running in the dunes) had 2 white mage friends and a war and we all became a static party until we were level 30. At 30 we all got advanced jobs and kinda broke up the static party. He had a falling out with one of the white mages and the LS got broken, he went to Iraq and we stayed.

My friend decided to make a new LS and we invited the white mage that stayed and the guy my friend met while leveling. The LS grew very big up t0 50-60 ppl at one point. Family problems drove me to leave the game. I returned 3 months later to find the LS a very different group, the people that I had helped get to jeuno and get their subjobs were already in their 70s, and was still 54, so they in turn payed back the favors and helped me.

I have always been a jackass, and tried to brind humor into LS chat, somepeople became bulgar, etc. but those are things that people deal with IRL. One of the new members decides to leave the LS cause she cant deal with it. And so the old members including 2 of the original members have a secret meeting, where they decide to create a new LS. One who is the closest person in game becides my RL friend tries to mediate, to no avail, and they make the new LS.

The mediator seen that our LS leader (my RL friend) cannot be on as often since he is getting married, decided under the remainder of the LS' approval to make a new LS under a similar name. I was and still Im disappointed and depressed that people would leave not cause they should have loyalty to me, or my friend. No it is because that we thought that we were freinds enough to be able to talk and patch things up. Thats the facts of online friendships, those that are your friends today may not be your friends tomorrow. It just sucks that I thought I really was a liked person, and my jokes were seen as offensive, and that all the warning signs were there and I saw them and I pointed them out to the whole LS and yet it still happened. Our LS thrived in giving a home to those people didnt like, a home to those that all misunderstood people in the game can go and vent. I love the new LS that we created, we are a family, very disfunctional family but a family indeed.

Aarial I am disappointed at your new friends' actions but I still love you. I will always remember. Just read my signature and that story I dedicate to all whom have had this happen to them. And know that ForgottenDream will always be there as a place that will always welcome you all if you decide to come back. Even Karaya is welcome, even if we had problems together.

If you see me in game say hello Im Seriph and Ill try to help you all.

I don't know. You run into people you've lost touch with in the oddest places.

I had the odd pleasure of taking part in a low level alliance (we were all like lvl 5-7) in Palborough Mines the first week I played the game. We didn't have a CLUE what we were doing, noobs in the extreme. We went hunting fetich pieces, and we got 1) lost, and 2) wiped out. In fact I died, ran BACK to palborough, met up with them, and died again.

But it was a great time. I lead one pt, two other folk led the other two. And we learned a whole heck of a lot on how to work in pt and alliances that served us well when we went on to the dunes.

I lost touch with the alliance leader for over a month, and then randomly bumped into him in tahrongi canyon.

and we sat down and chatted it up, found out how each other was doing.

Nothing is forever.