I'm a very confused PCU member right now. Coalburnt/Shewp is going around one of our discord channels stating that he's been feeding information to CoAD to influence the narrative you're painting and that as a result he can control some content delivered on this blog.
One of my friends thinks he's lying and just running damage control. But you never know within someone like Coalburnt, he's quite a manipulative guy and I've known him to go to extremes over the years. I wouldn't put it past him to attempt to feed false information to you.
I'll probably end up leaving the PCU before the drama associated with the collapse gets too intense. I think Coalburnt's scared, he was supposed to be a 'chief enforcer' and 'grand inquisitor' of the PCU and he's failed to keep it all together. His fear is what is starting to worry people, Coalburnt effectively has a PCU-nuke in his hand with all of the information and screenshots he has of various members and officers.
My friend and I think he'll deploy said nuke and send over a massive data-drop or dump to CoAD and then use the editor teams focus on that to flee from the PCU and start anew. He's probably the most craftiest of our officers and if anyone will escape the consequences of this blog and the fall of the PCU, my bet would be on him.
Hardly a surprise that Shewp/Coalburnt is doing this, if this whole piece of information is actually valid to begin with. He has shown considerable paranoia increasingly over the last few months.
Evidentially, Coalburnt is probably under considerable strain and stress, the dying days of a cult are usually when the higher ups find themselves exposed by their minions and/or cast out. The signs in public are actually not as subtle as one might think, disagreements with one another publicly (unthinkable when Perroy was around), a breakdown in cooperation between guilds, many more dropping their PCU tag entirely when recruiting.
Lurid tales from high ranking officers and long time leaders only add to the cracks. It would have been undreamed of even last year for Morsteth's rape threat """joke""" to have been outed publicly and shown from his own insiders (or perhaps was this one of Coalburnt's moves? How tantalising.)
Lately however we have been getting a slew of bizarre posts sent through to our inbox, most of them are nonsense and don't even render properly as images send in tumblr require a click through. We've yet to get condemning material given to us from that clearly shows discussion, dialogue that could come from within the PCU officer team.
Oddly, we aren't even sure why such a move would be done. Surely Coalburnt knows the only way to show he has truly moved on from his toxic hobby is a public act of contrition like an apology to the server? Aside from radio silence like his former Dear Leader did that is, remember Perroy went silent after we exposed his collusion with Gnome ERP on F-List.
Additionally, any 'data dump' would also prove to us that we are clearly something that occupies the minds of the PCU more than they would ever be willing to admit. We have turned down dozens of interesting pieces of information before here purely on the fact that they have no external corroborating evidence.
Largely our sourcing requires clean and unvarnished chat logs, preferably collated via something like Elephant which is considerably harder to manipulate or undoctored DMs from things such as Discord, names available and all.
Alas, it won't stop some naysayers, of which Coalburnt has repeatedly and hilariously been one for years, spouting counterclaims and falsehoods with absolutely no evidence to back up their own accusations.
No, he won't escape consequences here, perhaps from his own ilk but we have a special file on Coalburnt already just waiting.