I Wouldn't Walk These Streets Alone: When Membership Becomes Necessity
7Virtues
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Being a crewless Bootlegger has become a loser's game in today's virtual world.
I say this as a leader of the fallen 'harvest' empire formerly known as “The State.”
After multiple failed attempts at re-establishing ourselves as a fledgling gang, many of us chose the underground life, whereupon some of us opted to remain apart from any crew (not to be confused with “None!”).
To date, as most any individual who made the mistake of re-registering on or around the date of our demise has reached the rank of Respectable Boss or higher, he or she has been indiscriminately killed by Heroes, Enemy of the State, or one of their associated factions (to include all but one or two of the existing crews, families and gangs).
Many if not most of the individuals who have fallen victim to this form of systematic slaughter have been completely unaffiliated with The State; however, because of their sign up dates, it was assumed that these individuals were our guys, and therefore they were deemed a threat.
"WTF M8?!?!" said Zen, who was killed at random by Nordy, an executive of “The Company,” in an attempt to take out State shooters.
While those of us who ‘mean business’ warmly receive this showing of fear on the part of “The Conglomerate” as a compliment, I can't help but feel bad for the harmless and innocent Bootleggers who have been killed over and over again as a result of said fear.
Arsenalfanv6 -- a self-proclaimed pacifist who refused the opportunity to receive free gun upgrades when he was a high ranking member of our family -- serves as a prime example. When we were first killed, he was the original Arsenalfan. He has since been killed five times due to his prior affiliation and sign up date, despite the fact that he was never a threat to anybody given his exclusively peaceful intentions toward others.
Certain aggressors from the current dominating conglomerate take a somewhat more reasonable approach to their agenda of systematically terminating all unidentifiable crewless players on the map.
For instance, Nation Don AllSaintss reportedly reaches out to crewless players he intends to execute prior to taking the shot.
While arguably a more risky approach, Nation Don Aaron's willingness to give harmless and/or friendly players a final chance to speak up for themselves is far more respectable than killing players at random solely because of their rank, sign-up date, or prior crew affiliation.
