About Reveille

[Shemeska]

The more I stew on this, the angrier I am to be honest.

Rev/Fru isn't quite into "stepping out of the books" territory with the crap he pulled, but damn if he isn't trying his best, and he easily did it in a much more callous, hurtful way.

 

[meomwt]

I have no idea what his motives were, but I am more sad than angry.

RC

As the man said.

I did a sopt of moderating, some time ago, on a non-RPG board. It's a hard job. Mods need the trust both of the Community and the guy who runs the show. It's a job where I always felt that I was looking over both shoulders.

As for what the Moderating Staff have done in this instance, I appreciate 100% what a difficult decision it was and support them whole-heartedly.

I'd also like to suggest that alternat accounts should be banned, and everyone here lives and dies by one account and one account name. Other boards I'm on enforce this rule, and disobedience is punishable by a temporary ban.

It would make situations such as this less likely to occur again.

 

[jdrakeh]

Rev/Fru isn't quite into "stepping out of the books" territory with the crap he pulled, but damn if he isn't trying his best, and he easily did it in a much more callous, hurtful and deceitful way.

I propose the above friendly ammendment to your statement. At least with that other guy, you knew what you were getting up front. Part of why this was so hurtful is because Fru/Rev wasn't the kind of poster that people expected to abuse their trust and emotions like he did.

 

[Treebore]

Now being made aware of what he was doing in the HIVE I am now OK with permanently banning him. I am far less interested in forgiving him as well, and definitely have no interest in ever visiting him in Phoenix and participating in any games with him. Trust will never happen.


On a different note, I wonder why a person in a coma talking about the gods of faerun would set off alarm bells? A person in coma does talk, and they often talk about things that happened in their life, or things that make no sense to family members. So a gamer, talking about deities from a game he was prepping for while in a coma, is a very real possibility. So I am curious as to why that was suspicious to people.

 

[Mark]

Dang, too bad there wasn't a Rickroll at the end.

Perhaps in the future, people will link to this thread and say that someone has been RevRolled.

 

[S'mon]

Don't lecture me. Don't crucify me. Sure, I was willing to give him a second chance. That was before the HIVE's side investigation revealed that a good deal of the people who posted there never existed. They were all alts. of Rev. A lot of us had our suspicions but we never wanted to investigate before last night..

Sadly, our little corner of ENWorld is the most devastated.

So, you've changed your mind now that he's hurt you personally?

 

[Pbartender]

So, I don't know Rev very well, except by acquaintance and reputation here. When I first saw the other thread, I read through the first page or two, but didn't really follow along after that... I was just waiting to see how it fell out in the end.

When it locked, it looked like there was some sort of resolution, so I went scanning through to catch up on the whole story. the following post stopped me cold:

As soon as I walked into his room, he started to have a spasm. I took his hand and tried to talk him down. Alas, it had no effect. I broke down and cried. That’s when I heard his heart monitor flat line. I couldn’t stop crying and was saying ‘Oh God, oh god’ over and over. The nurses and doctors held him down and administered defibrillation. They brought him back thank god.

No one, especially not doctors and nurses, would ever defibrillate a heart that has flat-lined. It is a myth of the television and movie industry. It does nothing. You cannot defibrillate a heart that is not fibrillating (beating randomly and erratically).

I knew then and there that somebody was making something up... Only to have it confirmed in this thread.

Hrmph... What a shame.

 

[S'mon]

On a different note, I wonder why a person in a coma talking about the gods of faerun would set off alarm bells? A person in coma does talk, and they often talk about things that happened in their life, or things that make no sense to family members. So a gamer, talking about deities from a game he was prepping for while in a coma, is a very real possibility. So I am curious as to why that was suspicious to people.

It's not that implausible that a gamer girlfriend would hear her boyfriend muttering FR gods in his sleep, recognise them, and post that to her favourite RPG board.

Here, we have a supposedly non-gamer girlfriend, hears words she doesn't recognise, and feels it's so important that she recounts them - lots of them - here, onomatopoeiacally (sp?), where posters can recognise them. It wasn't plausible at all.

 

[Voadam]

Is there a list of his alts? I play in and run a number of pbp games here and want to know if anyone won't be showing up now.

 

[Darkthorne]

For the people that had something similar have this situation really happen to them or someone they loved, you have my sympathies.
To the mods, I applaud you on how you handled what was a difficult situation.
As for Rev, he has my pity. Maybe he'll learn something from this self destructive act. If he doesn't, it'll be a sad lonely place for him.