I came on tonight after a very stressful day and I found myself accused of a wide variety of heinous acts. I don't have anything to say to just about 99% of them except that I plead innocent.

What I do have to say is as follows. I admit, as I always have, to having edited Sin's posts for spelling and grammar when I was a GM. I apologized for this when it was found out and received a warning for this action.

I further admit to having started my petition with the sole intent of bringing the situation with Dan out into the open. I did this because I felt that the wrong which Dan had done to me was not duly punished, framing another member of the community ought to warrant at least a temporary ban in my mind.

The details of this situation have been kept quiet, as I said in that petition thread, on the request of Sibeiko. Apparently someone who knew of the situation didn't keep quiet about it and since I can only assume our crew is more reliable than that I am forced to conclude that Dan himself let out the version of the story that Ego posted. I will post the facts of that story in an edit provided Sibeiko grants me permission to.
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Beyond that I refute all of the remaining accusations that have been made against me.

- I never faked pics (wtf?) from the Spring 2001 Macy's Catalogue (again wtf?)

- I do not own the account Yuki Eiri nor have I so much as logged in on his account. I also do not understand why Ego decided to accuse me of this six days after she secured her "proof." I don't know why Yuki's only non-guild posts are in my thread, I met him here in the Sniper Game way back whenever his first game was.

- I did not send PMs to Dan claiming to be in the game to annoy him. In point of fact while sign-ups were still going on I sent him a PM knowing of his animosity towards myself asking him if he would mind my participating in his game before I signed up.

- I did not file a complaint about Dan's attempt at framing me, his warning came as a result of the investigation into his complaint. I believe the evidence that was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back was that I allowed Sibeiko to log in to my account and see for himself. I did however file a complaint about his use of his updates to harass me.


- I did not create the NIU memorial post style, I got that from Yuki god knows how long ago. I was in the thread Meiko's Grab Bags attempting to come up with a commemorative post-style of my own and talking to people on AIM, one of whom happened to be Yuki, and he offered me his ending my post-style creation attempts. I do admit that at the time I was not thinking about the reactions that Ego educated me on which later resulted in my retracting my support of that post style.

- I was wrong, I admit that I advised Ego to seek mental help, but this was back when she maintained that she was cruel to people for enjoyment purposes.

- I do not own Yuki's AIM account, I am unsure what Ego's logs seek to prove other than that I had to go to bed and Yuki was on. If that is her point, that he logged on after I left (which he didn't) I would remind you that I used to be one of those people who was running about AIM pretending to be the Sniper/CK. I managed to multi-login then, I could sure do it now. Meebo still exists, you can still have AIM version 5 installed and running at the same time as version 6. I would not need to log out.

- I did not send Sin those harassing images (Why is that coming up again? I thought they settled who that was when I was on hiatus?). I do not get along with Sin but I am really not cruel like that. If I HAD made those images I would have apologized on the spot when she reacted to them the way she did.

- I did not hack the Post Secrets mule. I'm not even sure exactly what that's all about so all I can say on the topic.

I cannot say whether comments I made were considered flaming and I got off on technicalities or not. If that is the case I apologize to everyone whom that affected.

Because this situation has ruined the fun of the Sniper Game for me I will almost definitely be leaving the guild. I will definitely be dropping out of this round of the Sniper Game. I hope the people who seem to be out to get me gone are happy now. Gaia, and moreso the sniper game, used to be a safe haven from my IRL problems, now it's been ruined for me. I don't know when, or if, I will return. If I do, I hope that this will have been resolved in my absence. Today was a day in which I learned some things about people I know that sadden me, the internet is a horrible place where a person can pretend and friendship but really be your greatest enemy. If I leave for good you may attempt to contact me but be forewarned, I will not talk to anyone whom I don't want to be involved with. Attempts at contact that I do not desire will be ignored and/or blocked.

Goodbye,
Dukes
(at least for now)

Edit: I would post my version of the story of the PMs but the crew moved the relevant thread out of the crew forum and into the council/complaints/suggestions subforum.