Long story, lots of not real drama. Online friends fighting of silly game we call torn.
I am far from perfect in this mess, my biggest error was to trust someone with a gambling problem. Noso and I had to fix the faction vault for him in the past but he did not lie about it or try to make it look like someone else did it. When I took a long break from torn, I said I was going to try to not come back. Rich was not even in Rawr when I went to leave, I asked him to come back to get someone active that I trusted to run Rawr. But truth is I just wanted Rich back... but it was nice to get away from torn and then real life happened. I even talked about selling the faction and splitting the money with Rawr members. But Rich said time and time again that he was just going to keep Rawr safe for me when I got back and that it was always mine. The whole time I was gone, Rich was given my bank investments to buy xanax for members and to chain if he wanted.
I went to come back a few times and did not like what I saw, Rich was pushing out good members. He claimed no one respected him and they still saw me as leader. He would tell me that I needed to come back and then he would push me away saying that I need to spend time with my family. All in the same day... I would ask for access to stuff in Rawr and he would get mad and say that it took time to give access and that I was not active. I never removed his access when he was to busy or not able to log in for months. But he has his own trust issues and no one had access to any thing when we came back.
The last straw was when Smidget saw that her vault funds were deleted from the forums. She talked with him and said what he wanted to hear and after about a week he added her funds back to the forum but the vault was short. He did win in the casino and dropped 10 bil... that fixed the vault but his greed got the best of him and the vault went from 17 or 18 bil to just under 8 bil in a matter of days. Since her money was in the forums I told her to ask the co leader to send it to her before she did not have money. She had the most to lose and the one person in torn I can't help as she is my wife. We stayed for a few days after she got her money but it was clear that Rich was pissed that he did not have her money to gamble with to try and win it all back with. I never asked for Rawr back, I asked how bad it was and if he needed help paying back what he owed the vault. He told me where to stick the faction and said I would never get it back. He later offered me co leader but still would not talk about what he did with the vault or that he was going to pay it back. Just went off on me about how I never said hello and now I am trying to take over. Even before we left Rich was saying that he could make it look like we scammed Rawr but he has no leg to stand on. If I was leader I would have kicked him for the crap he pulled but he had the faction and made it clear he was not going to give it back so we left.
Rich was not even playing torn when I started Rawr. The name and group came from another game we played. Rich did play the other game but not in Rawr and not even when we were all active there with Rawr. I thought he was someone else but that part does not really matter. He later joined Rawr when he saw us talking on the other game's irc about torn. He was not even active for over a year when he started. He did work his way into Rawr leadership and was part of our 3 way cash/faction share. His chaining shows how hard he works and cares for Rawr but what you don't see is all the people that left over some thing he said or did. I always backed him up even when he went after my wife (smidget). I told her he was just drunk and he did not mean what he said. Rich did try to make up with her but it was never the same but she stayed for me.
Sadly now Rich will not even sell me Rawr, so yes I made a new faction and no... we are still not set on a name but for now we go Rawr! What makes me the most mad about all of it, not the years put into Rawr.... but the friends in the middle. I am grateful of the factions and players that have helped us. Please don't war them unless you were going to anyways, it wont help.
Thank you,
T-Rex