You recently joined a guild. Meeting all of the requirements. Especially being the key job for a difficult raid. Everyone likes you. You like them. Then, when you least expect it, they remove you from the guild for a pointless reason just to make themselves look good. You don’t know why. You did not break the rules. I’ve been on that road before…

It was two years ago. I joined a Linkshell from a guy who helped me on Bastok Mission 2-3. He seemed really nice. It was a Linkshell with a bunch of friends that he knew in real life or in-game. We talked for a while until I logged off for the night. It was a nice evening.

Two days later, I equip the Linkshell to see what was up. The LS leader and another member was online. After a while, I decided to switch Linkpearls to my best Linkshell to check what was going on with them. Nobody was on that Linkshell but a few of AFKers in bazaar mode. I switched back, and the leader was online again. Five minutes later, he asked a rather stupid question: “Where were you?” I responded to him with “I went to switched Linkpearls for a minute to see what was up.” He asked a few more questions that were unnecessary. When he finished asking, he responded: “Keep your Linkpearl equipped at all times. People will like you more.” The next thing I know, the Linkpearl next to my name had vanished! What the hell?

To be honest, kicking me for that reason was just plain stupid. I was so disappointed with his decision to kick me just like that. I bid him farewell in a tell, followed by a /blacklist add command. Another member was kicked thirty minutes before I was for the same reason, but I did not pay any attention to the detail of their conversation. If he wanted friends, he could have asked “{Can I Add You To My Friends List?}”

The Linkshell feature in Final Fantasy XI is designed where you can communicate with more than one group of people, than just one guild/clan in another game. I can’t help it if I had more than one Linkshell.

I was better off without him and his cult.