techa-moan-ials

A list of techa-moanials that have been encountered.

March 15th 2022

I will not get into MY specific character's name or the names of my guildmates as i'd like to maintain my anonymity, but he entered our guild as Brasco. I was the one that recruited him. He seemed like a decent enough guy at first but all it took was a couple of days for him to start his shit. It ALL started when I logged on after some duel he and my guild leader had. As soon as I logged in, Brasco was talking about it. I defended the guild and my guild leader, reminding him that though they had not previously been formally introduced, that person was indeed the guild leader and talking as much shit as he was about him probably wasn't his best decision.

Regardless of anyone's personal stance, my past extends into the military, as does a good portion of our guild. The lack of respect he showed, 2 days into being accepted in the guild was enough for me to bring attention to it. I cited that in the military there is a rank structure for a reason. He went off on me and my guild leader about how rank doesn't mean shit. He's entitled to that opinion, but I was entitled to mine as well, which he just disregarded as 'wrong'.

He has a habit of saying that to anyone who would seek to disprove him. That conflict ended with me logging off and just attempting to ignore it. Then the next day came.

He spends a GREAT deal of time in General channel on EQ2 and seemingly knows everything about everything. He's forever calling newbie players "idiot", "stupid" or telling them "learn how to read", making mysogynistic jokes, racist jokes, nitpicking at everyone's grammar or spelling, just overall being a grade A douchebag.

He apologized for the previous day, and my response seemingly set him off onto a mission to be the biggest asshole in the history of EQ2. I simply told him that I didn't accept, that he started off on a bad foot and until i saw different from him, I would not accept his apology. This did not make him happy, as I'm sure he would have preferred I just accepted it and moved on.

Days came and went in blurs. He constantly inserted himself into conversations I was in, whether in game or on discord. He would come up with stories, after asking a name, of old toons long been gone, of how shitty they were, why he was better, and that anyone that defied him was just "wrong". He steadily came after me, trying to call me out in General channel about a private conversation I'd had with my guild leader about him and his form of harassment, and basically said to sit down and shut up. This went on daily. I couldn't escape him.

I tried, with all my might, to take it with a grain of salt, and ignore it via my guild leader's request, until one day i just couldn't. He had been tagging me directly in posts on discord, picking fights in guild chat for no reason, giving me the hardest time over the dumbest shit and I finally just snapped on him. I had taken enough and I finally spoke up. It caused an issue within the guild dynamic.

People were wanting him to stay due to all his raid knowledge, and others wanted him to go, but again, I was told to just let it go and don't rile him up by my guild leader, and i snapped on him too, feeling ostracized and unheard in regards to the harassment, and like Brasco has somehow won because I was unable to defend myself, so I responded that if no one else was going to do anything about him, I was at least going to defend myself.

Eventually it got so bad that I had to block him on discord so i could at least get peace there. I never feel that blocking a guildmate is the right solution, but in this instance, it was my only way of shutting him up. I went to him a day or 2 later, after he'd inserted himself into another conversation on eq2, where i hadn't blocked him yet, and asked him why he hated me so much. His response was to deflect, flip the conversation and point the blame at me, saying that I'm no better than he is, and made it out as if i had sat myself on some make-believe pedestal...which i hadn't. He'd done that, and projected his own issues onto me all on his own. He then ran away and ended the convo there. It wasn't until he had a decent day where he was being helpful with the other guildmates, that I decided this shit needed to end, we need to get to the bottom of this shit, or idk how long I can stay here.

Keep in mind, his jabs, harassment and obnoxious behavior was going on almost daily at this point. I was willing to lay down my own pride and handle this like grown folks just to have some form of peace within the guild. Finally, something got through and for a couple days, we were on decent terms. But just 2 days before that took place, a guildmate had made a simple joke, and I took it personally, as an attack and got defensive. I just broke down....I was on the verge of tears over the fact that I had been so mentally fucked with, that I couldn't even take an innocent joke. That's when I knew this had gotten bad. So, we talked...like adults, briefly and seemingly worked things out for a couple days.....until today. 3/15/2022 guildies are all talking in the guild text chat and i saw a msg about turning master spells into grandmaster spells. I'd never heard of this so i asked how it's done.....Brasco to the rescue comes into the chat with links to each recipe book, and i state that I'd have to wait until I got the VoV expansion before they'd be of any use to me. This convo turned into me contemplating what character to camp to. I have 4 alts and 2-3 of them are relatively decent but i was trying to pick between 2. Here comes Brasco to the rescue again, unsolicited, asking how many am i good at, so i tell him my BL and my Zerker are my strongest atm as far as my skills go, and i explain that I have 2 other alts and what they are. This is all while I'm on my lvl 120 (maxed out up to the expac) Necro, by the way..and he says "If I were you, and you want to go to VoV, I'd pick just 1 toon and focus on that. My brain did a quick "no shit sherlock" but instead i replied that my necro would be going to VoV first and foremost, and that most of my alts are in the lvl 30 range. Then he went to nitpicking about Necro specs and that if you spec right, you should only have 1 heal. I have 3, and a resurrect as well as a feign death. This, was something I was passionate about and had worked on for years. My Necro was and is my baby, i know it front ways backwards and inside out. You're not gonna tell me I'm wrong about her, or that my spec isn't more than decent. I got defensive, he got irate and said "If you're smart and wanna go to VoV, then you'll sit down and shutup and take advice when it's given to you".

I may not have every quote over the 2wks he has been around, but you can base all the harassment and jabs on that last quote and then imagine what I put up with. I don't know why I was made out to be his enemy, but he's a real piece of work...Oh.....more info if you want...apparently he's been in Demon Dragonz as well, admittedly from the horse's mouth...and had an old alt at that time named Allotah.