Is always MerMay in my heart and I never got much mermaid related done within May anyway. And instead of despairing over feeling I can never figure out any good sea creature designs myself, lemme just indulge in existing designs I love!
@bloo-the-dragon’s Geggy and Tiaki are just such cute little murder fish, I love the amount of lore and story telling Bloo puts into their creations.
I hope I did them justice, do enjoy!
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Geggy here… I felt like responding because I somehow knew my name would come up. A certain someone, especially, likes to bring my name out whenever he can, so it’s not surprising I’m seeing it now.
First off, I haven’t seen anyone defend me - here, or anywhere else. I haven’t asked anyone to defend me, and what I did is indefensible. The ‘other side of the story’ is that I abused my staff powers about 13 months ago. I had recently been promoted to Admin, and the staff had a major fight, so in the heat of the moment I decided to quit everything - the staff, and the game. Instead of a big giva-away, though, I gave about 600 things to a few friends (I am a major hoarder). I didn’t announce that I’d quit beyond that, and nobody else even knew I was on staff until I quit.
About 5 days later, after calming down and missing the game, I decided to come back. I asked my few friends if they would be kind enough to give my things back - they didn’t have to, of course, but I’m sure most of you can appreciate wanting your stuff back. They (3 friends) said yes, and gave me my stuff back. Since I was on staff again, I knew exactly what I’d traded away (have I said I am a hoarder?)…and noticed that one of my friends had missed a few things. She didn’t keep them on purpose, and I was too afraid to ask for my things again since she’d been so kind enough to give most of the things back.
I didn’t need the things, really…they were more of a checklist type of thing…there was about 10 things, I think (a couple snowmen, room pins, ppr waterfall, and a few orange gumdrops, if I remember correctly). So, I logged in as her…found those few things, and traded them back to my main account. It was wrong. It was an abuse of power.
When Lisa, and another few staff members who didn’t like me at the time, were trying to get me fired (for things like saying I’m opinionated, and saying that I somehow had too much power and control over the game…which I still don’t know how I would), they went digging on my accounts…my wife’s accounts…my brother-in-law’s account…and finally found the one thing that was actually a bad thing: I’d logged in as someone else w/o their permission. Not knowing that a close friend of hers had already said something to her, I went to my friend and explained to her what I had done. It wasn’t malicious…it wasn’t anything more than me being impatient and having a dumb list that was incomplete…and me being afraid to ask for my few remaining things back after she’d been so gracious as to give everything else back.
I apologized profusely, and acknowledged my wrong-doing, and my friend accepted my apology. I’ve never said I wasn’t wrong in doing it. Because of my actions, I was demoted when I came back from the subsequent 2-month haitus. I lost the trust and friendship of the person I hurt, and dealt with the consequences of having tarnished my name. Amy and the team was very kind to have me back, even though some of them (mainly Lisa) didn’t want me back.
I didn’t know it at the time, or since, but each time a new staff member would be hired, Lisa would “warn” them of me - that I’d stolen stuff off of a player’s account and couldn’t be trusted. I’ve been told by no less than 5 current or ex-staff that Lisa told them similar things…there was tension between Lisa and me, as you can imagine, but I was never even given a chance to prove myself to any new staff. The discord was sown, and we had a completely divided staff…until the breaking point came this week.
So…my friend accepted my apology, but things were awkward after that for a while, as you can imagine. I don’t blame her. It was my fault. Others thought I would have a problem with her, given our story, when she was being considered for staff… I didn’t have a problem with her. I wanted her to have as much of a chance to prove herself as anyone else did. I don’t know how she feels about me anymore, though…but I do know that when this blog blew up about me a long time ago, she and I talked about it. I told her she can tell people what she wanted, because I was in the wrong, and she was sure to be asked. So…now you know the story from the source as best as I can tell it. I’m sorry if I have lost anyone’s respect or friendship because of my actions. It truly pains my heart, but all I can say is that it’s my fault. :(
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I was asked to mention, by a certain someone, that before I rejoined staff after my 2-month haitus, that I first found my friend in game. I hadn’t played for 2 months because I had perm-banned all of our accounts, so I hadn’t seen her in a while. Well, I found her and specifically asked her if she would be okay with me joining staff again. I didn’t want her to be uncomfortable with it, so I wanted to ask her permission first… she, again, was gracious enough to say that rejoining staff was okay with her.
