Recall how much I enjoy rambunctious young’uns and how much I enjoy the disruptive nature of the Warcraft mod, Whispercast. (recall)

So a few weeks back, we had this young’un in the guild — high schooler if I remember correctly and how the hell can I ever forget — who was a BIG FAN of Whispercast. In fact, to hear him tell it, he’s the one that birddogged this mod down and introduced it to much critical acclaim! Best. Mod. Ever. per him.

Anyways. He was constantly spamming the guild boards with these autobiographical opuses. Months after joining, he’s still writing these Intro to Me! posts. Fuck.

Plus, he’d always come up with these fabulous strats for our raids that he just had to introduce MID-RAID. “Umm hey everyone. I had this great thought in study hall today about these mobs. We have a few minutes, right? I can outline it for everyone. First, I was thinking today in study hall …”

The one raid, I stopped him in the middle of one of his little strat speeches and /told him to shut up and not to speak again until we were all in Ironforge. Seriously. Every last player must be in Ironforge before he could speak again. Or else.

I regretted that immediately. Not because I was too rough on the tyke, but because he spammed threatening and angry tells cuz I had disrespected him. (Whatthefuckever.) And I’ll quote … Don’t you care that you disrespected a guildmate?? Me: No. No I do not.

Few weeks after that, he left the guild to join his mythological brother in another endgame guild, and let me just say now that I hope I played a very big role in his decision. If he left because I had “disrespected” him during that one raid, I would really enjoy that. I’ll never know, of course, because we never spoke after that. (Mutual /ignores donchaknow.)

Fast forward one raid after his departure. Maybe the guild was missing him. Maybe we needed to emotionally heal. Maybe some were in mourning. So I did my best *DepartedGuildie* impression for the raid, to aid the healing:

Ya, I was reprimanded for that. But like so many reprimands: Worth It.