Bloody Hell!

File in: Things I hate.

I hate when I go to use the photocopier and notice that I have blood running down the back of my hand from a medium-sized gash, but have no idea when, how or where it happened.

It's not a serious cut, but it irks me that I have no idea how it happened. It's one thing if I can point to a cut and say, "That one was because nobody loves me, and this one was a cry out for attention," but these mystery cuts are troublesome. >.>

Something evil is afoot

I have a mug of pens that I keep on my desk, all of which have worked reliably for years. In the last couple of days when I have needed a pen, the tip has been dry on every single one of them. How can every pen go dry at the same time? They worked fine until I moved into this little office.

Couple that with the occasional whiff of brimstone, and faint sounds of screaming that occasionally wafts from the poorly-sealed portal to Hades in the corner of the office and one might be forgiven for thinking that evil afoot.

(Well, the part about the pens is true anyway.)

The few!

We had a bit of loot drama last night when some of our guild mates discovered that, yes, even armour tokens cost GP. A couple of them insisted that there were many guilds - none of which they could name off the top of their heads - who did not charge for tokens. Some research on-line revealed that not only do guilds charge for these tokens, but we are near the low end of what they tend to charge in GP.

Anyway, one of our officers is a very nice person, and as such he has become a real target for anyone in the guild who has a gripe because they know he will not wig out on them. He took the brunt of the displeasure from the malcontents last night, much of it in private whispers. This morning he posted that he was seriously thinking of stepping down just so he could log in and enjoy the game again without being the target of a flood of angry /tells every time he popped into the game. One of the things he said is something I've heard mirrored by other guild officers at other times. "I used to really enjoy logging in to play this game. Now some days I dread it."

I suggested that we should create a new officer position called "Target Dummy". This would simply be the person to whom all gripes, complaints or suggestions should be directed. His job would be to hold the position until he got burnt out, then choose a replacement. The idea got shot down, of course, but that didn't stop me from doing up a recruitment poster anyway, just in case the GM and other officers change their minds down the road.

Below is a copy of what I posted to the Officer forum this morning.
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Okay, so building on my earlier idea of adding another officer - here is a recruiting poster for the general forum. I'll post it here first to get your feedback.

:D Fame! Glory! Gold! Huzzah! :D
( Poster behind the cut )

The Few! The Elite! The Insane! The Officers!