Black Tuesday: Part 2/The morning after the night before.
MrSpicyD
I got to the office early as I couldn’t really sleep. It was either excitement or nerves, or maybe both. But whatever it was, it kept me up. So in I walked thinking the office would be dead, maybe even still locked up. How wrong I was. The place was buzzing with adrenaline. Some people were there in the same clothes as yesterday. JonSnow called me into his office. He looked rough himself. ‘Didn’t get home last night then?’ I asked. ‘Yes’ he replied, ‘Why do you ask?’ Oh. Awkward. Moving on! I told him about the meeting I had had with PlusTwo and that I was expecting replies from the other crews today. He then informed me that all my replies were in on my desk, waiting for. He then let out a knowing laugh and pointed to my office.
As I walked in I instantly wanted to walk out and go home. It was a mess of paper, letters, envelopes, the lot! Some addressed directly to me, some for the Buzz, some completely blank. I didn’t know where to start. It took me about an hour to sort through what I had. Some organisations had responded, some hadn’t. Some were first hand accounts of what happened, some was told second hand through someone that knew them as they had died in the fighting. As I had got a response off of PlusTwo yesterday, SO were no concern of mine. I thought it best start with those that instigated the shooting. So I was looking for TV, DV and TSE. Aha! TV was easy to find, I knew Ragabonz’ seal on the envelope. He spoke very bluntly and direct, as usual. Here is a transcript of what he wrote.
3 crews shot.
12 from TV
10 from DV
8 from TSE
We shot becuase a shooting was being planned on us and (they) knew that (they) would need to take down TSE aswell. DV had a member in the meetings. The member told us and TSE what had happened. We decide to be proactive.
Ragabonz said
I turned the page over hoping there was more. There wasn’t. He was being very closed about it. But if that’s how he wanted to play, then fine. Atleast he answered. Next was finding something from DV. I had tried to get in contact with bother DasShrooms and 14k but nothing was there from them. Until I found it. A dark grey envelope, with DV on the front in thick black ink. Always so subtle… The envelope was not signed by anyone so I had no idea who had sent it to me. It looked like a copy of a letter that had been sent out for the crew members eyes only. Nonetheless I had been sent it, therefore I will use it.
The Events Of Last Night
As you may have realised, there was a big ass shoot which occurred last night and you all deserve and explanation as to why that happened to keep you all in the loop.
As you are well aware, our alliance consisted of TSE/MW/SO/ETS/TC/LZ/TO which was initially created to stop DI/TS/EH/TP and other associated crews from playing which we had managed to do very well and very effectively so far.
However over the last week or two, there was plan by some parties in our alliance to shoot The Vanguard, which I admit, I had all intentions of turning a blind eye too until I starting thinking. The Vanguard have been very good friends of DV for years, and to turn a blind eye to this, was turning our backs on a crew which have supported and worked with for so long. On Monday night I had a change of heart and admitted to TV and also the rest of DV (as I was the only one who knew), that I knew of the plan. We then had a brief discussion on the night, searched in the morning and then shot in the space of 24hrs.
We were forced between a rock and a hard place and no matter which decision we made, it was going to upset people. We have lost many new friends who we all still regarded as great and tremendous people and we didn't take this decision lightly. We did what we thought was right which was standing by our long term friends and at no point was this our plan all along (no matter how much people say it was).
We apologise to you guys for getting you mixed up in this and also leaving you in the dark about it. This has been a very unfortunate event, one which we take no pride in and to lose the respect of so many people is very upsetting to all.
However this is bootleggers and this shit happens from time to time. We now need to stand stronger than ever, as we have most likely just doubled our enemy size, especially since DI, TP & EH has now made a re-appearance to the stats. Again, we apologise for dragging the crew through this as I know a lot of you (including the council) will have friends in many other crews.
~Death Valley~
anonymous said
Wow. I don’t know who sent this to me. But I’m pretty sure I should’t have it. That’s insane. They just did a 180 degree turn on everything they have done so far. I understood where they came from but man that must have been a hard decision. Anyway the last of the shooters need to be accounted for, TSE. But I couldn’t find their statement. I walked out into the office and found the writer I had asked to go and see AbuRaghebV2. He was sitting there in silence, looking as white as a sheet. 'What happened with Abu?' He suddenly snapped out of his trance like state and looked up at me. He carefully pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to me. 'If you change a single word of it... Abu will find me and my family... He said he'd...' 'It's fine.' I interrupted him. 'Not a word will be different.' So for the safety of my colleagues family. Here is word for word what the letter said.
A lot has been going around, but I will give you a short version.
TSE has vowed to keep it's word and have made a big deal out of backstabbing after last round's events. This round, we have had agreements with both TV and The Alliance.
As you have witnessed throughout the round, both have shown tremendous success. Each in their own way without any issues arising. That is until a while back when rumours started escalating to TV about ETS and MW (Most Wanted who were UG as the family MIIS) wanting to shoot them. We refused allowing TV to take action and took responsibility. In contrast, we made it clear to the alliance that we would not tolerate shooting TV and will go to war for it.
A lot of debates followed, but our intentions were clear. A few days ago while we were just debating team play with the alliance and being attacked, I received word from both DV and TV about proof that most of the alliance had started a different chat from behind our backs and word of conspiring against TSE and plans to twist our arms to push for a TV wipe without us being able to do anything about it.
It was exposed that Mackin (The Outsiders) would be funded by MW, TC, ETS and himself to wipe TV and take the blame for it. A majority vote would follow to allow Mackin to remain in the alliance regardless of TSE's statement.
We were not going to tolerate such behaviour or actions especially when TSE has been put under fire for free alliance refunds that they were being used behind our backs to shoot TV. So with TV and DV, we took action that led to the big shooting.
If you have any other inquiries, please let me know. I am more than happy to explain.
AbuRaghebV2 said
With all the statements from the shooting side in I sat back and rubbed my eyes. What an incredible chain of events. The alliance split in two for wanting to take on TV. What would have happened if they hadn’t have gonna against their partners, their alliance members, their friends. Would TV be gone? 6 State Dons and a Nation don. Let alone how many don accounts they have ranging all three levels. How many bullets would that have been? I guess we won’t know. For now anyway.
My attention then turned to the letters left on my desk. These I would find more difficult to read I feel, as most of the interviewees were now dead. But their side of the story must be told just as these have had there turn. I wonder what they will say, if anything, to try and defend themselves from what seems like a fair shooting of a potential threat...
