Response to Sajanzv's Accusations

Since Sajanzv has
chosen to make this issue a very public one, I will try to address as
much of it as I can for everyone's benefit. I also want to quote a
couple of applicable forum rules here for the public's information
and ask that we all abide by them:

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3. A. Thou shalt not flame,harass, demean, insult or slander your fellow players in public or private view. Flaming is defined as: posting ANY material that is deliberately hostile,insulting, inflammatory, vulgar and or socially charged which is being done for the sole purpose to incite anger and/or debase another's character- the only exception to the flaming rule is in character role play as long as it is not excessive and reaches the level of harassment. Accusations of inflammatory content will be weighed on the basis of both content and any established history between the posters to determine intent. This applies to abusive, obscene and or hateful Private messages as well as the forums Any post or Signature that contains current politics, phrases, and/or terminology such as Internet, AIM, computer, America,Canada etc will be classified as OOC and ANY such OOC flaming will be removed for content. 13. The usage of outside messaging services such as MSN or AIM are optional for Players of the RK and may not be REQUIRED as means of communication to hold any position of the Kingdom either ingame or forum related. Thou shalt not post ANY IM conversations quoted or paraphrased that include ANY REAL LIFE information. Any game related conversations that are posted into the RK forum are subject to the forum laws and will be edited or removed for any violations of forum laws contained therein.

Sajanzv wrote:

I just want to inform the people of Glasgow that I have had enough of all the namecalling, the destruction of intellectual property, and incompetence leading to leakage of information by some people in RK, and therefore I am resigning as Duke of Glasgow. For the last two days, I have been staring at a MSN status message whenever I log into MSN : http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i287/sajanzv/gdad.jpg

What Sajan
neglected to mention is why this message has been staring at him. I
believe this one can be best responded to by the Goblin family, but I
can assure you that this response on Goblindad's part was not
unprovoked. Any decent husband would have risen to his wife's defense
as a result of the RL personal nature of Sajan's attacks upon
Goblinmami.

Sajanzv wrote:

Next, I am tired of all the hypocrisy. Some of you may know there is a site that Erin_of_the_lake once started for the RSA Glasgow when the new version of the RK forums came into place. http://rsaglasgowregiment.makeforumfree.com On November 17th and 18th, Bevin thrashed my name and accused me of quite a few things, and yet on November 16th, Bevin was busy deleting threads in that forum, apparently on Goblinmami's orders. http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i287/sajanzv/Deletions1.jpg

When Sajanzv
resigned from the RSA, he forfeited all rights to that organization's
private forums, onsite and offsite. Because we trusted him, it never
occurred to the offsite administrators to completely remove his
access right away. We were unaware that Sajan was still accessing the
information in that forum until he accessed personal, confidential
information pertaining to our soldiers and began an email campaign to
their private email addresses. Out of concern regarding the illegal
use of this information, a joint decision was made between the
general and the two band leaders who still had mod rights to that
forum. All personal data was cleared and deleted. All other
information was copied and removed from the site. No documents were
destroyed. Yesterday, I received an email sent by Sajan to my
personal email account, not IG. This email was sent to a usergroup
that did not define the addresses in the mail I received. This is a
copy of the mail sent to my soldiers:

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Vandalism on the site‏ From: sajanzv (sajanzv@gmail.com) You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as unsafe Sent: Sun 11/23/08 12:16 AM To: ardencapleshields@hotmail.fr The following message is an email sent to you by an administrator of "RSA's Glasgow Regiment". If this message is spam, contains abusive or other comments you find offensive please contact the webmaster of the board at the following address: ardencapleshields@hotmail.fr Include this full email (especially the headers). Message sent to you follows: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So everyone may please note, This site was started by the RL person behind Erin_of_the_lake because of the massive RK forum problems. During my time in the RSA, I was made an admin on the site. I never deleted or edited anyone's posts or deleted anyone's access without informing them. I left the RSA over 2 months ago, and this site was not used much by the RSA since then. Along with Erin, I had compiled and posted a lot of guides for soldiers and armies, along with intel reports regarding criminal organizations and other issues. On November 16th, my account was deleted from this site by Argorian. When I asked him about it today, he said he was only following orders to remove my account because I no longer was in the RSA. This despite there are plenty of people who have access to this site who are no longer in the RSA. I contacted the RL person behind Erin, and she checked and confirmed that only my account was deleted. Not only that, but a lot of threads were deleted by Goblinmami and Bevin on November 16th. The RL person behind Erin reinstated me and removed Argorian's rights as admin. After that, Goblinmami ordered the deletion of the entire forum and this was carried out by Argorian. All that hard work that Erin and I had put into making guides and what not were entirely deleted. Such sheer vandalism all because they do not like a person is unbecoming of people. Therefore, this site is no longer available to the RSA. Considering the fact that the RSA leaders destroyed a lot of important work, they are getting off lightly. Sajan If you need any further information, please contact me ingame or via MSN.

Since there was
no way to know for certain which soldiers received this email, we
sent the following response to all Glasgow RSA members:

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To Glasgow Regiment, You all may have received a mail recently telling you about the offsite regiment. This post is to make all the soldiers aware this situation and to be able to have the facts of what occured. The mail that was sent to you all states that the General and the Captain of the Regiment destroyed files and information from the off site forum. Let me make it clear that the information that was deleted by myself was the Stats of the Soldiers. The security of this information, the infomation you all trusted to us was of importance. We felt that we could not leave it on a forum that we as your General and Captain had no administration rights to. No vandalism occurred. No files have been destroyed. All pertinent information contained within the offsite forum has been saved. While the offsite forum was a great site, and very useful when the forums were inaccessible to so many in the RSA, it is no longer needed. People were being required to check both the offsite forum and the RK forum, and were being asked to post in both. This was both time consuming to the Soldiers of our regiment. I as General made every effort to insure that all RSA soldiers have access to the RK forums. The message sent to you made assumptions and the person that sent it made no attempt, that I am aware of, to get any confirmation prior to sending out this email. I know that I was never asked. Any questions about this or anything else pertaining to the RSA may be directed to myself or your band leader. Again, let me reiterate that NO FILES were completely DESTROYED as ascerted in this email. Copies were made and stored. The offsite forum was stripped of the information because people who no longer had a right nor a legitimate reason to access personal information about you, the soldiers of the RSA, were continuing to access and using this information. The decision was made as a security measure, not because someone was disliked.

Sajanzv wrote:

Goblinmami then got Argorian to delete my account from that site. http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i287/sajanzv/Accountdeleted.jpg When I asked him why, he said it is because I am no longer in the RSA. Yet I had left the RSA over 2 months ago, the site has not been used in quite a while by the RSA, and I am not the only non-RSA person who has access there. My account was the only one deleted. So I mailed the RL person behind Erin_of_the_lake asking about it. She confirmed mine was the only account deleted. She also confirmed the post deletions. I got her to accept me back as a member and took the screenshots. And Goblinmami, Bevin and Argorian responded by wiping out the entire site, all the threads and posts. Some sample screenshots are : http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i287/sajanzv/Deletions2.jpg http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i287/sajanzv/Deletions3.jpg http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i287/sajanzv/Deletions4.jpg A lot of the guides both Erin and I had made, a lot of the intel reports that Charles, Erin and I had made were all deleted. None of it was RSA material or property, and they had no right to delete any of it. If this had happened on a RK forum, they would have been banned by the admins.

Most of this has
been addressed already. Erin, although the creator of the site, was
no longer a member of the RSA by virtue of her IG death. Therefore,
she had no legal right as a member of the RSA to do any of the things
that Sajan requested of her. The guides are not lost. The intel
reports are not lost. Any material submitted to the RSA becomes the
property of the RSA, just as in RL.

Sajanzv wrote:

I do not spend so much time on RK helping people, making guides, and what not only to have people call me names, destroy my work, and tamper with accounts and forums.

Sajanzv has in the
past been a tremendous help and mentor to new players. His wealth of
information and knowledge about the game has been invaluable to many
of us and we will be forever grateful to him for that. Nothing has
been destroyed. The forum still exists. There simply is no
information in it. Had he not abused his access privileges, we would
have never been forced to take action.

As to the rest of his
accusations, he is certainly entitled to his opinions. I personally
do not wish to fight with him or those who support him. I've had
enough of being wrongly accused and having my own name smeared and my
own reputation drug through the mud by the Duke. The only reason I am
responding at all to this post is to clarify the many questions being
addressed to me by my soldiers and my friends about the issues he has
raised. One question in particular has been asked and that is why is
he doing this, and why are the soldiers being drug into the middle of
what seems to be a personal issue. I'm not sure I can answer that, as
the general and other officers have tried to shield our soldiers from
the worst of his attacks. I apologize to any and all of you who feel
that you have been used or abused by this process. It should have
ended long ago.

Come One, Come All - to the Glen at the Weald

View from the Chief's table

Actually, at time of writing it's a 'view from a node somwhere in glasgow' as I am stuck on a node with about 8 other people as we work out what we're doing. Am learning more and more about travel on this trip, not being a leader and all it has been quite interesting.

RK Scotland seems to have recovered from the forum earthquakes though you still hear the occasional whinge about it. There are still problems in the RSA organising access to appropriate subforums (mainly due to constant changes in the officer ranks rather than the forums per se) so the Regiments have their own offsite forums ticking over.

Speaking of the RSA, MacTavishes are the band leaders of the two largest bands in the three counties - Lanark and Whithorn (Bevin and Hebrin MacTavish, respectively). Rage was a General in Galloway during one of the recent emergencies, also a Captain I believe. I am still on High Command as a Councillor. Rage and Luci are level 3 army way, I believe Aelin is also but we don't hear much from him these days. We do need to keep gaining experience in the military as much as possible so that when we need to form a clan army (not if, but when) we know what we are doing. So keep eating that meat!

In the National Assembly there are lots of words being exchanged between rep's in the public chambers about reforming the institution. All the options I've seen would reduce the power of the clans so I'm not keen on any of them. We'll see how that evolves. In the Council of Clan Chiefs (of which I'm a member) the general feel is that the clans will agree to disagree with any of these regressive changes. If we all hold true to that, should be safe.

Our clan remains fairly stable on 58 living members. Without an influx of new blood, our age profile is aging. Many of us are now level 2, more and more of us are close to level 3. Our clan subforum keeps ticking over fairly regularly, most of us who are active on the forums visit their regularly.

All in all, things are going good for MacTavish. I think we will need to do something big as a clan in the next few months to pull us all together again though, unless the various possibilities for national chaos comes to fruition (eg clan war between macgregor and forbes in galloway, NA strips clan rights away, England border closure turns into active hostilities, rebel army forms).

There's No Place Like Home

I do have to say that I heartily thank those of you that encouraged me to travel. If I hadn't I never would have realized how little heart I have for traveling, and how much I love my hometown of Whithorn.

Officially, I have told Bricksand that i will not be moving to Girvan, despite JO's standing down (he begged me for another chance) because I cannot and will not support someone who was AGAINST my family and friends - all the people I love.

Those of you who love to travel - Jah bless you. Watch for MY next adventures coming from a Whithorn weaver's shop or front porch near you...

Love,
LadyRobin

Current events - outbreak of civil war?

I'll do my best to summarise present situation as I see it.

Julius Campbell has kicked off what looks like becoming a civil war by making a grab for power in forums and ingame. To do this he has assumed that those who support the idea of a monarchy or a regency will go along with him. I think he is finding out that those of us who are royalists hate dictatorship as much as the best of the republicans. As a result, he is aligning with and recruiting outlaws and bandits into the army which he had the control of due his captaincy of the galloway regiment. No doubt, he is using his charm to bring in ignorant RSA members to fight for him, and those of his clan who would put their name above the good of the land.

Ragehammer has been made interim general for galloway regiment, which is the forum equivalent of the ingame captain (I guess). He is marshalling troops but things are a bit of a mess so he has his work cut out. The folk of dumfries and kirk will be on their own until the legitimate army under Rage can come to their rescue.

Just to make things interesting, there are intelligence reports of an english army lurking just south of the border.

In the Northern Counties, Ayr and Glasgow are rallying their armies. By the time they are strong enough to crush the rebels (and crush them they will) the first battles of dumfries and kirk will likely have occurred. I'm not sure about Clan Forbes, or whether their clan army is able to be of use in this situation or not.

So, you picked a nice time to look at the countryside Robin!

Scottish Style

Another quick review of events around the Kingdom.

Our clan numbers seem to have stabilised (60), albeit with a few of us having gone into retreat around the time of the recent forum changes. As our age profiles develop it might be an idea to again start scouting the young ones we meet to see if they might be MacTavish. Particularly to hear from her place of retreat that Ladyrobin indeed still watches over us.

MacTavishes fought in both RSA regiments in the recent Battle of Muirkirk. Various of us were individually successful on the battlefield. Of particular note, Gryphon MacTavish joined up just for the fight and then managed to get a fatal wound in on Tosher MacGregor, the rebel leader. Well done! Cheatley MacTavish was associated with some of the rebels before the battle, recently was the latest of a long line of successful rebels in Wigtown, Galloway. He isn't welcome in our hall anymore, and would be wise to avoid meeting up with certain of his cousins if swords are in play. I think we all agreed that even good families like ours have our black sheep. Hmmm.

Asbgas and Destrata, our newest Assembly representatives, are posting and voting. They're also giving us 'nutshell' guides to the issues being debated (freedom of information and clan armies, by the sounds of it). Thanks guys. I should also again here mention Lucifera who certainly kept the buggers honest during the closing stages of her assembly membership. Thanks heaps Luci.

Nationally, debates continue about the form of government. There are glimmers of common ground being found amongst the factions. But it seems to me that there are a lot of potential fracture lines. I truly hope that common sense prevails.

Here's to "Lots of quiet days in the renaissance! Scottish style!"

Raises glass

Locating our Forum

Things have been crazy with the new forum set up. It will take a while to settle down there. I am hoping people give it a go before throwing hands up in the air.

We now access the forum through the game, and everyone's forum account is now linked to their game player account. New players will have an account automatically made for them. Us old characters must link our old accounts to the new system.

Click on 'forum' in bottom left of game screen. This will lead you to a screen with three major choices, beneath a 'box' which has to do with 'NPC's (Non Player Character).

To 'activate' your old forum account, click on the THIRD option. It will then ask you five simple questions to link your game character to your forum account. You should only have to do this once. Once you've activated your account you should be able to access forums.

If you click the FIRST option on the 'forum' screen from which you chose to activate your account you will be taken to a small forum board which contains those public forums to which you have access. In theory this will be Highlands Hall, your County Inn and your Town forums (plus FAQ and a few others). Please note, our forum is NOT under 'The Gathering of the Clans' in this forum.

If you click on the SECOND (French) option on the 'forum' screen from which you chose to activate account you will be taken to the much larger 'second' forum board, containing all the private subforums. You will only have access, of course, to some of these. Our clan forum is about half way down the (huge and chaotic) list of private forums. Still in the 'Kingdom of Scotland' section (about a dozen entries down).

NB among the various 'glitches' are the following:
- your avi has dissappeared, will be back later
- you will have to set up your 'profile' again for your account, adding back your banner/sig
- the 'second' forum is a strange blue colour, change it back if you want (through profile)
- the link between your character and your town isn't always correct if you are travelling. This is a big bug I think they will try and fix very quickly.

There are lots of things to complain about the new system. I'm not trying to stop you, but please be careful on the forums to complain if you must about the changes, rather than admin.

The dogs of war

If you hadn't noticed, there's a few armies kicking around Scotland at the moment. I believe they include Forbes (Clan army in Drummore, Galloway), 1st Galloway Regiment (Royal Scottish Army), 'Fury' (rogue army led by Tosher MacGregor, last heard of in Ayr City) and I hear rumours of the Glasgow Regiment (Royal Scottish Army) forming in Glasgow somewhere and Ayr Regiment (Royal Scottish Army) forming in Ayr. On top of this, an english army either in or heading to Cumberland.

Forbes army, not doing much except flexing muscle in Drummore area.
1st Galloway Regt, mustering and about to march.
Fury, recruiting in Ayr City before continuing to head South.
English army, stepping up provocative verbal threats at Captain of Galloway Regt.

Tosher army formed in Ardencaple. Gathered many thieves and rebels to its ranks. While it recruited the town was on alert and therefore lost a week's production. Glasgow Regt said it would deal with it. Galloway raised its Regiment in case Glasgow didn't. Ayr scrambled to raise its Regiment but a little hamstrung through lack of high level characters.

Tosher marched south, declaring it only wanted to get to England. English threaten scotland, saying this would be cause for war if we let Tosher through. Glasgow Regiment not formed and so Tosher gets his army out of Glasgow county. Rumours of deals being done behind this. Ayr military beg Galloway to come and help it. Ayr politicos threaten Galloway to stay out. Galloway continues to muster therefore. English start stepping up the threats.

In the Galloway Regiment at the moment the soldiers are pretty pissed that it looks like we will have to fight (and some of us will die) do defend england from invasion by scots. Those who have so far done nothing to stop Tosher's march threaten Galloway with anathema if we let Tosher through as they don't want a war with england. Ayr on high alert, Glasgow marshalling.

That's the present situation. If I had to I'd put money on it I'd say it will come down to Tosher either making a move on an Ayr town and us having to seige him out, or a battle on a node in Galloway as he makes a run for the border. Whether the english then invade will probably largely rely on how large our losses are in the fight to defend their property.

Confused? Aye. Do I sound cynical? Aye.

And all of this on top of instability in our national government (see post below).

Interesting times indeed.

Days of wine and ....

Rage MacTavish recently started a petition to retire the present membership of the National Assembly. This has caused some fairly major dispute across the land, including within our own clan hall. At time of writing this, there were about 60 odd signatures on the petition (it requires 100 signatures to have its effect). At this exact moment, of course, the forums are not working (as they are being reorganised). Lucky Assembly.

There are quite a few MacTavish signatures on the petition. The other obvious group which has signed en masse is composed of members of Tosher's rogue army (see post above this one). Highly ironic chuckles. It's interesting to also note that a lot who signed this petition also had their name on the petition which sacked the Regent in the days immediately preceding the first gathering of the Assembly.

The petition itself is on Highlands Hall thread, along with a discussion on it in a separate thread. There is another discussion on it in 'Holyrood House' forum, in the public area of the National Assembly subforum. I haven't signed it yet, not sure if I will. I don't wish to stop others making up their own minds, and certainly won't hold your decision against you if you do or don't sign.

The petition is the only constitutional means by which the people of Scotland can discipline an Assembly with which they are unhappy. And a lot of people have been unhappy with the Assembly of late....

The grim reaper

We've taken a bit of a hit in terms of our numbers, back down to less than 60. Four of the recent five departures were because of death (Firesage, Pasqualina, Natura and Sweetmeg), one due to permanent retreat (Wognot). Pas had language difficulties, Natura was noob, not sure about Firesage and Sweetmeg (both from drummore), Wognot's work took him away.

Oh well.