Can we NOT act like children? ~blinks innocently~
There is this rather small but fun fantasy Roleplaying Multi-User Dungeon(MUD) called Cities of M'dhoria. Some Imms (short for Immortals which means staff on a MUD) were complaining about some Roleplay done by the player-base but somehow everthing seem fine and handily resolved until... Lo and behold, players suddenly get this message as they logged on the 13th(as close as my memory serves): "M'dhoria is closing on Sunday, May 15. Say your goodbyes". From information gathered on the grapevine, it seemed that Verayes and Marrius basically told off the creator Sativa in the board about his vision for the game. Sativa threw tantrums and decided to delete the entire thing (Sadly, the first to go was the board so I have no copy of this). Then in a span of a few hours another announcement came on, the game will not go down but the reason is now announced to all and sundry by another mod by the name of Graven:


Okay, now a little bad news. Yes, children characters will remain removed from the game. That was not actually my decision, but agreed on by many of the staff. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way it’s going to be. Like Sativa said to many of you, that’s just a philosophical difference we’ll have to agree on going forward. Also, an overall raising of the maturity level and the intensity level of the game will slowly begin. More on that later and in the coming days. It’s going to happen, and the wild part is that I know that so many of you would be more than up to the challenge. A little more bad news. Because of their unwillingness to accept these changes, the following members of the staff are removed effective immediately: Verayes, Jakh, and Marrius. More may follow. The remaining staff we have will each have the decision to stay or go all on their own. I will not encourage or discourage any of them, though they will each have to accept the new terms of service for being on the staff. However, the trio listed above are gone, period. I will take whatever steps needed to ensure they cannot access the game. That’s a harsh thing to say and do, but it’s clear that their goals for this game no longer matched ours, and I won’t have them back to meddle and stir up more trouble. I sincerely apologize to all the players who had characters that followed them, and we will do everything we can to assist you in dealing with IC repercussions.

Oh well, facing the Apocalypse was fun. There was a MUD-sex orgy at the town square and several tearful notes of goodbye. Also, Clan Aschal decided to assimilate everyone into the fold before deadline in a crazy fashion without restraints of Roleplaying conventions, since it was an Out Of Character fest in the streets anyway. You could end up snogging folks by just walking up to 'em and have your allegiance and person suddenly hijacked by just bumping into the "We Shall Takeover the World!" officers of Aschal.

In their defense, this is the first time I've seen the CoM Imms become wanky, they're usually a most boringly adult bunch of mods I'd ever seen even when the player-base has gone wanking on more than one occasion. I'm glad that sanity has returned in time to save the game.