Hostilities this week all started with a simple, anonymous Hitlist posting. This 'hit' indicated that The Sacred Empire were poised to shoot The Inivisibles. Information posted on the Game Forum post-spree confirmed the the following conversation had taken place between leaders of the two crews.
Refunity (TSE) wrote:
‘Hey, when you have time can you drop me a bm back please.’
Himmel (TI) wrote:
‘howdy’
Refunity wrote:
‘There have been a rumour through the hitlist that TSE was going to wipe TI.’
Himmel wrote:
‘lol i saw it, i assume it's just someone trying to cause trouble right?’
Refunity wrote:
‘Correct, its nonsense. Just wanted to make sure you know we are not planning it. Besides why would we tell it like this lol
Maintaining the peace between our crews’
After the chaos of the shooting and the reveal of the above conversation, The Buzz first caught up with Himmel of The Invisibles
The Buzz: In your own words, what happened?
Himmel: For some reason an ETS member (Salma) inside TSE's council layer started shooting at us, killed 9 of our first layer before attempting to shoot Pat and dying in backfire because he was layered a few days before....So WizardOfFire and I spent 50 or 60 mil I had on hand and in the Crew bank and both searched TSE immediately from a Crew structure list someone had randomly sent us about 12 hours ago. About 2 hours into our searches Koenv shot one of our layered guys to keep the crew structure locked, and 25 minutes later we started finding their members and shooting based off that crew structure we happened to have.
I assumed they would have wiped us long before we could have wiped them, but apparently they weren't very quick when the first guy failed....or maybe Koenv ran out of bullets after he shot to keep us locked down. Either way we managed to make the 22 required kills to drop them with only 2 shooters, and only myself dying on the third to last kill.
Having established a timeline of events, The Buzz then focused on reasons, post-attack relations between the two crews and what will happen next.
The Buzz: Is this the start of a new feud? And how were the relations between you, TSE and ETS (Enemy of the State) now?
The Buzz: Any idea why you were targeted?
Himmel: Thanks Pure dumb luck that they messed up so badly in their shooting, but I'm not complaining.
As I told their alliance back when DV shot one of our R. Don's Garth unprovoked, I had no intention of getting involved in the feud between the two groups....once Garth was shot I had no choice. I funded a good percentage of the wipe of The Company in retaliation shortly after, which until after wiping TSE today and informing them of my involvement they were unaware of.
So why they targeted me since they didn't know that, I have no idea. I had what I thought were good relations with TSE at least prior to today, their crew even contains several of my former members that I shot around (and one that I shot by accident not realizing who it was)....so to me their actions were pretty confusing
Eager to get both sides of this developing story, we then spoke to Sharp of The Sacred Empire.
TheBuzz: Did you envision them to shoot back the way they did? Is this the start of a long war or solo shooting?
Sharp: TI was targeted in order to make room for an ally to hit the the stats.
We did not expect them to return fire as fast as they did. They had to have fast searched us, spending alot of money on PI searches to do so It was very well planed in the time that they had.
This entire game has become a war. One we are all getting sucked in too, in fear of one another, and in fear of the unknown. This is my first round back in 5 years, things have changed alot.
In order to save the crew, I attempted to join DV within seconds of witnessing my friend Koenv get shot, and seconds after being layered, was able to return fire on Himmel resulting in his death. "You're welcome David." Unfortunately other shooters still had the remaining council searched and wasn’t long till they finished us off.
As we can see this is just another development in the ongoing feuds, wars and bloodshed that is continuing to shape the BL landscape. Only time will tell if these hostilities will continue, and if we will see The Invisibles return.
We at The Buzz will continue to report as this story develops.
