VF did not "just die" simply as that. They died because I orcastrated their demise. You see, when McNabb5 got kicked from VF for being a spy, Gabros and Xaf promoted me to Baron of the southern members. Then that idiot leader Bwja came back and demoted me for no reason other than he was a power hungry moron who wanted things done his way. Naturally upset over this, and the recent dismissals of Colpo and Ackbarisaworm, I started to plan their downfall. Working fro mthe inside as a council member I knew everyone who was loyal, non-loyal, inactive, active, sitting who, ect. All it took was some late night MSN chats with a group of unloyal people and my plans were starting to come together. Myself, Colpo, Scaramanga, and Deborien(the ex-leader of aradth and another VF baron) all came up with our plan to backstab VF. In the middle of the night we all left the tribe along with any sits we had. If the people we were sitting we liked, we kept the sits and brought them into our new *I*. If they were loyal to VF we left the tribe with them and then dropped the sit. Our new tribe quickly brought in any discountent people with VF, as well as all of aradth and a tribe made up of old *I* members that already existed called MOO. We then inherited PTT-R since they were in the south, told them they were our academy. If they did not like it they were free to leave, but we made it known the tribe itself would not last long. It served to show us who was worthy of an invite to *I*
Noone fell for Jason's BS. If anyone told you otherwise then they were lying(that is what we did best afterall)
We all knew it was Filius, it was obvious. He stopped posting in council chats, stopped posting in the forums, and was flatlined forever. The only mistake that was made was not taking away his council privs sooner. Also, Mast3rpiece trusted him to sit him which was obviously a mistake on his part.
The funny part is how much this disbanding plan actually hurt PTT in the long run. Sure they got rid of *I* and saved themselves for the time being, but it only made them weaker from when the exact time would come. I got a new account in TFB, Colpo had a new account in PTT-B, and our goal was to bring down PTT no matter the cost. We planted about 5 spies in PTT-G and another 3 in PTT-R since they got invite happy after a week or so. These people remained in those PTT tribes and knew their job was to leak info on PTT to Colpo and myself. Eventually colpo got bored of PTT and left the game. I as you can see have continued on. These same players that -G invited ended up joining -we- once we destroyed PTT-G. The plan had worked.
As stated in my first paragraph, the downfall of VF was orchastrated by myself, ackbarisaworm, Colpo, Deborien, Happyboy, and Scaramanga. The only reason Iris thinks she had a part is because we contacted her and tricked her into agreeing to NAP us so we could help PTT-G beat up THOR. Once THOR died she meant nothing to us anymore. She was merely a pawn that was created and used so that -G would not attack *I* upon us leaving VF
During the last week of *I*'s existence, it was heavily discussed between both TFB and *I* that an alliance(despite distance) would be beneficial to help take down PTT together. However, *I* was disbanded before this could happen.
I want to correct a few things here.
VF's death, as far as I recollect, was very sudden. It was never a long-planned thing, but rather it was surprisingly short. There was disagreements between Xafilah, Gaborien, and myself, Mordecai, Akbar, and a few others, but they were disagreements, and they were things that both sides, as far as I could see, thought could be worked out. However, for one reason or another, Akbarisaworm and myself were dismissed from VF (I believe Bwja did it before deleting, but I'm not positive, nor do I know the reasons behind the dismissals). From there, things kind of went really fast. From my end, Akbar and Mordecai both contacted me, as did Masterpiece, all within the six to ten hours of my dismissal (I was given an invite to PTT-G, and I was later informed that this was in part because Bwja requested Irispiece to give me the invite, but those are Ben's words). From there, Scaramanga and Deborien were also brought into the conversation (As was Netraa and Rektger in the last thirty or forty minutes of it). After that, it snowballed; the whole 'demise of VF'/'*I* betrayal' scandal was 48 hours of planning, and another 24 originally where we were figuring out what the hell was going on in the south-east of the world. There was never a 'plan' to destroy VF, I think that's misleading. The best I could describe it, from what I saw, was that we were more concerned with getting a focus on the south part of VF (K77/78 and south), but I swung invites for K68 members who were fond of me, which made the whole thing seem more of a betrayal than it was. If you feel the need to place the betrayal tag on anyone, I deserve it for the K68 part of the rebirth of *I*, the rest was surprising to everyone, particularly those involved.
I have to agree with Mord about Jason. We were never fooled, although I admittedly believed there was a tad more goodwill than there was. I knew 98% of what we heard was BS, I didn't expect it to be 99%.
As far as Filius' is concerned, and the whole death of the second *I* thing, I'm honestly still not sure what happened. I've suspected it was indeed Filius since it happened, but as far as why, who suggested, anything else, I'm still out of the loop to this day.
Yes, I was given an account in PTT-B, I played Skeletorus for a while (Having known him continuously to this day for several years), he was also one of several of the spies Mordecairule previously mentioned. I also admit I was only on the world for a short while, whenever Happyboy nobled the Colpofortress village was around when I left (It was only a few months), though I also later came back to co-play with Mord on the Beaza account.
Irispiece and her role in the rebirth of *I*: As I previously mentioned, she sent me an invitation to PTT-G after I was dismissed from VF. Admittedly, this probably did play a larger role than people realize, as I was in a position to be nobled, quite easily if I may add, by a number of PTT members in K67. Bwja has said before to me that he was responsible for getting me that invitation, so in a way as well he's responsible for the death of VF as much as myself. If Irispiece hadn't let me into -G for the few days I was there while the VF/*I* things were happening, they could very well not have happened, or at least not happened the way they did.
As the world went on, I struck up a fantastic friendship with a number of TFB members, notably Kylan (Although the whole relationship started with KaerAzure back in the day, before the LB family died), and we realized we had a general agreement of what kind of world we wanted to play in. Alliances were unofficial at best, and while we joked about merges, I for one didn't take the discussions seriously. We were however mutual visionaries, if not exactly allies, and we wanted the same things from the world.
As far as *I*'s community, I think Mord's done a good job describing it. I wouldn't say we were friends, and a lot of people had a lot of disagreements with each other (A lot of that, from what I could tell, stemmed from ARADTH members feeling like they weren't as important, and everyone else feeling like ARADTH members were too damn cliquey). I think the most important thing was that from day one we established an us-against-the-world mentality, where even if we hated each other, we weren't in any position to worry about that with enemies everywhere else as well. On that, our leadership team did an absolutely fantastic job at bringing together a lot of different kinds of people and different kinds of goals and visions of the world, and merging them into a single vision that all of *I* was able to buy into. I'd like to take a lot of credit for that, ego-building and what not, but I'm also serious.
As far as mindgames and bull like that goes, I do like to be selfish along with Mord and claim the mantle of making TW less fun in the 'respect-for-your-enemy' aspect. We did play mindgames, and quite frankly we got a little hard from doing so, because the anger and the nasty reactions towards the *I* leadership in response was exactly what we wanted. It goes back to the paragraph before, about the against-the-world mentality; our leadership, and myself especially, found a way to channel a personal dislike and disgust of how our leadership was running the tribe, and how our public figures were portraying us on the forums (Again, most notably myself), into an identity and a personality that all *I* members ate right up.
(It's also worth noting that *I*'s issues didn't start occurring until tribes like TFB, THE, and SF all became 'friendly' with us. It arguably made it a lot harder for *I* members to ignore inner disputes, because there was no real outside threat to take the focus away.)
And for old times sakes, here's two maps for comparison:
February 1, 2009,
June 29, 2009
