Weisnubs posted a lot, so bear with me as I try to cover it all sequentially. I see Scrappy/BRATSTER's little mind-game at work and it saddens me that Weisnubs would buy into it and post it all for him since he's banned on multiple forum accounts.
The comment about him not being a liar I find extremely hilarious, but I'll get to that. Gotta stay in order or my post will become a giant mess.
I should start with some background history on PITA and -KP- as that's where it all started. Now contrary to what Scrappy said, I knew him before I knew he was the infamous BRATSTER, and even before the mods explained who he was. I ran across him on W55 where he argued on the forums as Mental Health until he got banned. That was my first encounter. Then I later met him when someone was unhappy with the blog, and Scrappy decided to jump in on the argument. The argument itself is irrelevant, but its precedence that I had previous experience with him.
It wasn't until after PITA made an alliance that I learned the Scrappy Dum who had been annoying me so much on the externals was playing in -KP-. I talked to Eternal Love, who was then duke of -KP-, and he pointed him out as ReaverofSouls in-game. When PITA first took members from -KP-, the Reaver account was left out. It was a point that was argued over in the joint PITA/-KP- council, but I didn't want a player like that in the tribe to begin with. We discussed it for weeks, and finally I conceded with the exception of placing a few stipulations on Scrappy. I talked to him on the mic and laid out some rules for him. No more posting on the externals. He already had two accounts banned on the externals that I knew of, BRATSTER and Scrappy Dum at this time. Not only was he a nuisance on the externals, but there was another issue that isn't as well known. People that have a history of constant ban evasion on the forums also face the threat of an in-game ban. No duke wants a player in their tribe getting banned, especially over something stupid. Second was that he was not to send any more of his infamous "tribe breaking" mails in-game. One was personal morals. Scrappy mailed people on a constant basis with no other purpose than to insult them. You can see that easily enough in the mail that Weisnubs posted above. There's a difference in-game between good natured trash-talking and being deliberately arrogant and insulting. He can do that on his own, but as long as I lead PITA, I'm not going to put up with nonsense such as that. He was also on an ego-trip from his mails. Destroyed 7 tribes on his own? With just mails? Does that even sound believable? He claimed credit for winning the =X war. I guess his tribemates nobling all around him and the final merge negotiations were completely irrelevant. On many occasions he wanted to mail One, Shave (before we even declared) and even GotRob, claiming he could break them up, claiming he understands player mentality. I for one know if I got that mail, I'd simply attack and remove that annoyance, which is exactly what would've happened. You might get away with insulting little rim tribes your tribemates are nobling, but you won't against larger, better formed opponents.
Scrappy agreed to both, and in no time at all was breaking both agreements. He started posting as ReaverofSouls, and when he was confronted by both James (my baron) and myself, he swore that it was his coplayer Andrew posting. Later it came out that it really was Scrappy and he got banned on a third forum account. Case 1 of him lying. We also caught him on multiple occasions sending out mails with no purpose other than to insult, breaking the second part of the agreement. We voted in the council multiple times on that alone whether to kick Scrappy or not, but never had a unanimous vote.
Now the status of our alliance with GotRob keeps coming into question, people accusing PITA of making a move on the sly. On the contrary, its been around a good deal of time and we were open about it with our tribe and Shave.
*Note that I ask you please excuse my poor cropping job. Not often that I have to do it and its something somewhat new to me.*
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So as you can see, it was not very recent. It was sometime before the hostilities between GotRob and Shave started. Upon making this alliance, one of the first things we learned of was the unhappiness with both GotRob and Shave in their alliance. I feel like I'm beating a dead horse with how many times I've repeated this story, but it keeps coming up. PITA found out GotRob was entertaining the idea of ending the war with One and turning around on Shave. We warned Shave about this and asked them to negotiate a new deal with GotRob to avoid this situation. We also warned that if an agreement could not be made, PITA would stay neutral as it would be two allies going to war, and how could we pick one side without betraying the other.
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For those of you who don't know, Tarbin is Holyang in-game. 7pm for me translates to 1:00ST gametime, so the alliance was ended early on April 14th.
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Death By Facepalm on 14.04. at 22:56
Myself and [player]Rhost[/player] are wanting to join your tribe we are both tired of our tribe doing nothing and wanting to join the game again and think your tribe would be perfect place to do that
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This was the first mail sent to be my Death By Facepalm. He contacted me, and it was nearly a day after the alliance was dropped by Shave. I proceeded to talk to him and Rhost. Drod asked the join the day before we declared on Shave, and Tepsudes joined later. James never talked to DBF, Rhost or Drod before they joined the tribe, and the talks didn't start until after the alliance had been dropped, so Scrappy's bit about us talking to them for weeks prior was nonsense.
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BlackRoseShard on 15.04. at 21:25
Hello everyone.
Today I went through and deleted any noble claims I found in the planner put on Shave villages. The council has not declared that we will be going to war with Shave yet. I know many of you would like to, and I would include myself on that list, but we need to play this game smart.
Shave got upset with us and ended the alliance with us because we refused to hit GotRob. We told them before their conflict started that we would not help them. One reason was because we were allied to both tribes. The other was because we are also busy elsewhere, and can't force ourselves into more wars than we know we can handle. It was the same deal with BS. We didn't attack until the =D war had been concluded. Shave didn't like our decision back then, and they didn't like it now, but it's the reason that PITA is in the strong position that it is today.
The council is still discussing what to do in regards to Shave, but as of right now, we are not going to war with them and no one should be making any claims until told otherwise. Any claims made will be deleted.
-Justin
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This here was a circular sent out to the entire tribe, as we did have some issues at first. People were jumping to conclusions and making claims on Shave as soon as they heard the alliance dropped. We hadn't decided to go to war yet, and had to keep people in check. The final decision wasn't made until a short time before the 7 day waiting period ended.
Scrappy brings up the old alliance with Skype, an alliance made out of necessity and riddled with problems from the very beginning. Early world PITA got marked out in the southwest as a tribe that needed to be brought down. As a result we had a bunch of family tribes attempting to cat us before nobles. We made the alliance with Skype both as a source of aide and to take away a potential threat. We did not receive much aide, but instead ended up supplying it in their war with Onfire. We were often mislead and given false info when sending support, being told we were sending it to join support from others with a level 20 wall and full techs, yet several D villages would be wiped out within a couple of attacks. It was easy to sim and see that we had been lied to. Then when PITA began planning attacks on Onfire, Skype merged with them with no prior discussion with our council. On that pretext, we dropped the alliance, though we did not go to war for some time as we were occupied in the south.
So now we come to the circumstances under which Scrappy was kicked from the tribe. He was already on thin ice. As I stated before, he constantly broke the agreements he made to get into PITA, and would often come into the tribe chat drunk and verbally abusing everyone, and was kicked on multiple occasions. The content of those skype chats would be prohibited on the forums though. With all of this, we were already discussing the possibility of kicking him yet again. He was a liability. Then we had a mail forwarded back to us that put the final nail in Scrappy's coffin.
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ReaverofSouls on 24.04. at 07:23
Sorry for bothering ya, but i have noticed one thing. The player [player]Batzz7[/player] has posted my mail with him on his tw profile. I am not denying it as i did say all those things he has said. But i will say he is spying on your tribe for pita.
If you wish to learn more add me on skype scrappy371, I am coming to you in good faith and privacy. I hope you keep it the same. Lets chat on skype and ill show you the full details.
Please do not let this out if you really want the truth
Thanks
RV
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It was all the evidence we needed. Scrappy denied ever sending that mail, claiming he didn't even know who Zeta, his conversation partner, was at the time. Later he turned around and started pointing the finger at his coplayres. Only days later did he finally admit to sending the mail.
He calls me two faced now? Let's liken this to another situation. Say you have two kids. One misbehaves, breaks something, talks back, gets bad grades, whatever. You punish him by grounding him. Now your other kid didn't do anything bad, so you let him go outside and play and hang out with his friends. Is it unfair that one has to stay inside? That's two-faced? No. Break the rules, abuse a privilege and you face a punishment. Scrappy continued to break the rules and faced further punishment, and then tried turning it around as if he was picked on.
And I see Scrappy posted the mail he got from Notanothernoob2 in-game. Truth is, he was playing games. He would insult James on skype, then block him. Unblock him later, insult more, then block again. In essence hiding. James let his anger get the better of him and made a mistake yes, but what Scrappy fails to show is the rest of the conversation where he shows his true colors, making real life threats against James. I was not surprised James reacted in the way he did, but I was surprised it was so mild.
Now to add on to some things not covered by Weisnubs
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Scrappy claiming others were going to leave the tribe with him. No one left. Surprising, huh?
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ReaverofSouls on 26.04. at 16:43
Hello geani,
I relly dont care if you like me or not ma'am, but I thought you should know this.
I am no longer with PITA as james and justin are not playing this game fairly, I will not go into full details as this isnt a pissing match. But I am just giving you a heads up that PITA is getting ready to turn on gotrob. Yes i know you guys are allied, just like PITA was allied with shave and are still allied with TUFF. even thou they say they arent. I know differently as i was in pita.
you can believe this info or not i relly dont care. But its the truth of whats really going on with PITA.
Have a nice day ma'am
Scrappy
ReaverofSouls on 27.04. at 03:29
Geani,
you really think james is going to tell you the truth by forwarding this mail i sent in good faith, dont believe it I know differently. yes i know you sent this to james cause hes bragging he thinks he was able to try and prove im wrong
its gonna happen i promise you ma'am
geani29 on 27.04. at 07:44
happen what?
ReaverofSouls on 27.04. at 12:42
if you have to ask happen what when i clearly said what would happen, then your profile pic is true and you are blonde
geani29 on 27.04. at 12:50
get lost spy
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Here's another fun one. Scrappy making up more lies.
Lose a loyal member? Perhaps. But he wasn't loyal to PITA. He was loyal only to himself.
I will close this with two final points.
My own view on this game:
I'd rather win (or lose) because of skill and how well the game is played. That's how it was meant to be played. I've been in the winning tribe on two separate worlds now. I don't have any need to win one and get my name out there. I want to do it on my terms. At the end of the day, I want to know I played to the best of my abilities and that I beat the other guy because I was the better player. I don't want there to be any excuses about spies and betrayals and all of that. If I lose for playing this way, so be it. I still have fun.
The last point is food for thought. Scrappy still claims he's innocent. If he was really innocent, don't you think he would've made an appeal to his ex-tribemates in PITA, trying to explain the situation to them and the truth would have come to light then? Instead he suicided his troops into the nearest PITA villages he could find, even attacking those he claimed would be leaving the tribe with him. He claimed he would tear PITA apart, but PITA is stronger than ever now that we have gotten rid of the source of so many problems.
As always, I believe I have covered everything. Should anyone feel that I may have missed something, that I didn't elaborate enough, or simply wants to discuss a point further, simply say so here or message me.
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