I can't claim perfect memory either. I just feel that it would be more fair if TH included
all messages from the players involved, including the ones
he sent. But perhaps that is not practical. That would be a lot of messages to read through.
I believe the argument was that some nobles were ICly refusing to recognize Silnaria as a realm. Then TH chimed in OOCly that game mechanics trumps RP, and therefore Silnaria is too a real realm. And then I said, "Exactly, game mechanics trumps RP, so CE is still allied with Coria, not Silnaria." I can't guarantee that it was TH who sent the message, but I'm pretty sure that I didn't start the whole argument. I was responding to someone else.
Anyway, if you arrange the messages chronologically, I believe everyone will see that the timeline is:
~4 weeks ago: Merlin founds Silnaria
A flurry of OOC jokes about the realm name and OOC criticism of Merlin in the League of the Eagle guild.
Merlin sent this message:
Out-of-Character from Merlin Silverfire (31 days, 8 hours ago)
Message sent to everyone in "League of the Eagle" (50 recipients)
If the 5th strongest realm on Atamara isn't real, then I don't know what is.
At any rate, I think these conversations can be kept out of the realm of OOC. If you want to hate on my character, do it in game so that there are repercussions for it.
TH
A few occasional IC jokes about the realm name and IC criticism of Merlin in the League of the Eagle guild. Which stops after about two weeks.
Wansu (Jason's player), who was not in the guild (not to mention I'm pretty sure he was paused at the time) and therefore
not privy to all these messages, sent his OOC messages.
And speaking of Wansu's messages, while I agree that they were fairly offensive by Western standards, we have to remind ourselves that we have players from all over the world. I hear that, in some less civilized corners of the world, "fag" means "cigarette".
These incidents should be treated as teachable moments (for both the speaker and the listeners), not opportunities to whip ourselves into some righteous, politically correct fury.