Tragedy
Hello All , My name is Erin . Alot of you know my brother Michael i.e. Erinsuin / Truuth . Some of you know me as well (from the old days ) . Im here today because I could not get into the game (patching) and have a very limited time to spend .
This morning , around 8am EST , Michael stoped on his way to work to Childrens Mercy in Boston at Dunkin Donuts (coffee shop) . He got his usual and headed for his car . In the parking lot across the street where he was parked, he bore wittness to a horible event. A senior was being mugged/carjacked . Michael took it upon himself to try and help the man and stop this act . In the process he was beaten with a pistol and shot 3 times , twice in the chest and once in the lower abdoninum area. He is listed in critical condition.
I arrived at the hospital moments before he was to be rushed into the operating room . He was very coherant and his last words to me before the drugs took effect were " Dont worry sis , i saved before leaveing the house". It was a statment that both made me smile inward and laugh at this little personal joke and it made me cry uncontrably .
It has now been 5 hours since that moment . I was forced by family memebers to come home and relax till they had him out of surgery , but i could not just sit . I had to talk to someone . I dont know why , but i decided to let his online friends know what was happening . Maybe i could find some sort of comfort from the joke he made to me . Unfortunatly the game is down for patching and i could not start a private chat with all in his friends list . So now i post this on the forum .
Michael held one mentality in this game " It is only a game ". Him and me often discused some of the politics surrounding things and we always chatted about things that have happened . I asked him once if any of these people truely made him mad and he held tight to his mentality . Things that i saw as personal grudges against him he saw as Community role playing . He always had a bright outlook for all that happened.
One thing about michael though , he could never get his point across to people. Try as he might he always made more trouble then smoothing things over . He always had a unique way of argueing with people (even in RL ) . He has always been stuborn and yes , sometimes downright blunt/ rude about things . He can make me mad so much to the point that i just want to smack him ..... but that is michael .
Azz / Apoc : I know you think he holds a grudge against you . He dosnt . The arguments and acusations were purely fun to him . You just provided an easy target.
Disciple / Red : Stick to your guns . Mike respects you for the leader that you are and for haveing the Balls to do what you Did . I know he is standing behind you 110% on this issue .
Cyblade7: Stand strong . Stand proud . But above all else Stand with your Guild .
To everyone else , just remeber that this is only a game .
Im sorry this is such a long post . In writeing all this i was for a breif moment forgetfull of what was happening .
Sincerly ,
Erin Nadolny
