Post by black_dragonet on Sept 2, 2008 2:03:59 GMT -8
The Merovingian line is not involved in this per se. A few of our members have chosen to involve themselves, and are free to do as they wish in this, for reasons I will not go into. For some to disparage the whole line is inappropriate at best.
This is not a move against Meph, and or Gen, by us. If it were, there would have been more attacks involved.
Black Dragonet, I understand your line of thinking here, and from your stand point, it is fully justified. But, it is inaccurate. Perhaps look to the clan level, rather than to the direction another has pointed.
I agree with you, Bug. I have not said, and will not, that the Merovingian line is involved, nor that is is dishonourable.
As you said, some bearing that name are, though, and their behaviour, then their refusal to give an explanation or stand for what they did managed the rare feat to get me angry.
My reading on this is that Syph had an issue with Meph, who happened to be in shadows, so some Syph members decided to attack Genevive in stead of Meph. Either they did without the clan leadership knowing or approving that, or the clan leadership knew or approved. Either way, there is nothing honourable in that behaviour. I don’t think that would have happened with a clanned and stronger vampire, like (for the sake of the example) me. They just wouldn’t have dared. They did because Gen was weaker and unclanned. That constitutes plain bandwagon bullying.
I have two issues with that: First, you have a problem with a vampire, you settle it with said vampire, you don’t go attacking weaker other ones. Second, Meph might be an ass, but Gen certainly is not, which is why I asked what rational reason for an attack there could be.
Then I got angered some more at the way the two originally attacking vampires behaved. Meph and Gen did the right thing in such situation, they went to the attackers and asked why. The attackers refused to name their leaders, hence Meph and/or Gen went to the one they (mistakenly) held responsible for that. Gevurah also did the proper thing to do, which is to civilly decline any sort of responsibility it the matter and point towards another direction.
From there, I feel it was justified to publicly ask. However much one may dislike Meph, one should not forget that the attack was on Genevive, and that in the handling of this, Meph has NOT been the ass he has been in other occurrences, times and matters.
Instead of answering Gen’s question, Syph leadership tried to evade them and behaved like… whatever name you feel fitting there, but certainly NOT like leaders of a respectable clan, neither like members of the respecteble bloodline they belong to. Their attitude is actually disparaging the whole line, which is why I said that I expected more from those bearing the Merovingian name.
That refusal to either aplologise for letting the two attack Genevive or state that they had attacked on their own and would be left on their own was followed by another dishounourable act in my eyes, that of ganging to attack Gen again, this time with HW.
Combined with the zeroing of Meph (which I find perfectly understandable and don’t really need an explanation about) this ensured that Cathrina and Karmann could not be brought to pay the price of their deeds, that is if they acted without their leaders knowing ,which if true proves leadership isn’t that good at Syphs (after all, they appointed Meph as 2IC, didn’t they ;-) ). You don’t gather 10 warriors without giving a reason for the attack. Which reason has been given ? What did Gen do to warrant such a punishment ? I fail to see.
Beyond that… You know that I am not one to look towards the direction others point *winks*.