Dear Dani,
You and I have had a couple years, now, of back and forths on various issues. I feel that you shouldn't have, after all this time, and the concessions we have both made in favor of the other, chosen to simply ignore my overtures. But I also understand why you have.
You are one of the only reasons I am still involved with the Empires community at all. After the drama and the upset of the MAD schism at the beginning of 2007, I never thought that I would return to the mod at all.
You brought me back. You, and sloop, sitting in #cwclan -- a channel turned into a base of operations from which you sniped #empiresmod. Bant from #empiresmod? Sit on #cwclan and commiserate with your fellow patriot, sloop. In the darkest hours of CW, you kept the hearth lit and the door open to any CW that should happen to stumble in. When I was weakest, you held strong.
I came back, on a whim at first, and sat with you. You made me laugh and remember what had been so golden about the clan before Bitchslap turned everything sour. You freed me from the burden of some of the mistakes I had made, simply by being so here-and-now. I began to forgive myself for some of the trespasses, some of the mistakes, I had made. I can reinvent myself, CW can be stronger than before. These were the words I said to myself.
Lately, there has been stress between us. You nearly got #cwclan removed from Gamesurge, which would have been a major pain in my ass. You protested my "tyrannical" attempts to assert more control over the IRC channel. You finally fled when I became upset when you trod the fine line, the line I've always turned a blind eye to when it comes to you, and it caused -- in my PERCEPTION -- to cause a favourite friend of mine, flasche, to quit the channel. He did not, in fact, quit because you changed your name to Adolf Hitler and exclaimed racialist statements in the channel. I perceived wrongly, and I became angry wrongly, and I raegquit the channel wrongly. I am sorry, because the subtext of our relationship made that raegquit a more powerful insult than it would have been towards anyone else. I apologize because I knew that when I did it. I apologize because it was wrong.
I am putting this apology before absolutely everyone's eyes, because it will show you that I am sincere. And because I know that someone will show it to you, and that you cannot ignore it.
Dylan