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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 2400067" data-attributes="member: 2855">Okay, here is an interesting one, sort of...Was running a game every Sunday. Player shows up for the  three sessions, no problem. Sort of built a couple of plot lines around him...Week 4, get a note from him that says he got called into work....Week 5, get another note that says he has to work..Week  6, he shows up, spends half the time talking about other things rather than playing.Week 7, get a note saying that he has to workWeek 8, repeat of Week 7Week 9, repreat of Week 7Week 10, repreat of Weak 7At this point, I am kinda fed up about having to drag his character about as an NPC, so I email him an ultimatum. He needs to start showing up more or I will remove his character from the game.Cut to several months earlier ---Setup: I belong to a private mailing list of ICE authors and playtesters. I am one of the three mods for the list. One of the things we decided, at the suggestion of ICE, no less, was that no ICE employees would be members of the list. One of the authors on the list announce that he is going to start working for ICE soon. He is reminded about the rule that says no ICE employees (note: this was around the time that a couple of authors were having legal issues with ICE over products that they had written).  My problem player, mentioned above, was also on this list.Well, the author who started working for ICE was removed from the list, against his will, so he was not pleased with us.After being removed from the list, this author was not very fond of us, to say the least.Over the course of the next few months, we also discover that somebody on the list is feeding our discussions to ICE. The editor, and the author now working for ICE, have been mentioning this in their posts that they should not have had access to. (IIRC, one of the things mentioned was an email sent to the private list detailing the author's side of the story - which the editor later obliquely refuted publicly - that letter never being made public...)Now we had our suspicions as to who the leak was, and the other moderators set a trap for him. I stayed out of the process, because.... you guessed it, the leak was my problem player. He was a good friend of the author removed from the list, and had moved to my area and joined in my game. Well, of course, things all came to a head at the same point. I gave him the ultimatum, and his response was not a very nice response. He said that his schedule had been changed (first I had heard of it), and that it would be that until after x-mas, several months away. Told him sorry, but that I was going to have to remove his character from the game then. When he was able to play regularly, he would then be welcomed back.A week later, the other mods got the proof that he was the one who had been leaking the private conversations. We held a vote, 2 for removing him from the list, and I abstained as he had been a member of  my group. A few days later, I get a blistering, nasty email from that author who went to work for ICE. He was not very happy, called me all sorts of names and things. Blamed ME for removing his friend (and source of information) from the private list and for telling him that he was out of my game (since he could not be there every  on a regular schedule). He pretty much accused me of everything but killing Santa Claus....So... in short, I got a nasty letter from a an employee of a game company for kicking somebody out of my game...*Note: this was all before TE killed the old ICE.</blockquote>

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