Okay, seeing as we are washing the dirty laundry and besmirching my honor in public then, for the first time I'll publicly explain exactly WHAT caused you to be asked to leave. Neutral observers feel free to skip this diatribe and return to your normal programming.
Gilfane has a very egalitarian policy to IDOCs, just as with most things. We have people who go round and find them, and these are reported on our boards. When the IDOCs are due to fall, anyone is welcome to come along and share whatever we can get.
The house in question was probably the biggest IDOC we have ever had. Not only was the plot highly valued (we consider Skara as almost a part or Gilfane city-state, we wanted it for our official vendors; you wanted it for your own vendors, which is fair enough), but it was also rumoured to have a lot of valuable items inside, not to mention the gold that could still be on the vendors.
Unfortunately, the vendors at the plot caused it to go OSI. That meant it would not decay until the vendor contracts expired, which could be up to a month. Thus started weeks of wearisome vigil, with several of us spending up to eighteen hours a day parked next to it, waiting for the drop. This included Becca, Ginsu, Sara Dale, as well as the two of us. And PLEASE don't delude yourself with the "I spent more time than anyone else" thing again. YOU had a job, I didn't.
Then around three weeks later as I recall, the plot finally dropped. It was late at night, and few were on other than yourself. Being the only person at the IDOC at the time, you were able to immediately place the house. Well, good luck to you. You wanted it, you got it, and you had every right to it. That was never an issue. What WAS an issue is that you did not tell anyone else who was on at the time that it had fallen. You brought all the stuff into the plot and just kept it all for yourself.
Even Sara Dale and Wee Willie, who were in Vent with you, did not get advised of the drop. As it happens, Sara came back to the location a few minutes after the fall and saw you inside with all the stuff. She stood outside the dirt plot waiting to be admitted, but she went ignored. Even your wife came by and spoke to her on her way into the plot, but still Sara was left standing there. To cut the rest of the story short, the bottom line is that the most eagerly anticipated IDOC I can remember had fallen, after hundreds of man-hours by the alliance to monitor it, yet we never even found out what was in it.
And when I questioned you the next day, you started with the excuses:
You didn't tell anyone because you thought everyone had gone to bed. Hello? Could you not have checked Vent or the guild roster? (and yes, they were in vent with you)
You were tired after a long day at work and didn't see Sara standing there. Seriously? Your wife did, anyway. And although so tired, it did not stop you customizing the plot to make an almost exact replica of the house that had previously stood, for reasons that still escape me.
The contents were nothing but trash. Then why not let Sara in?
Bottom line is that your greed got the better of you, a condition that alliance members from days long past have affirmed. You had the most valuable thing about the whole thing fair and square - you had the plot. But that wasn't enough, you wanted EVERYTHING INSIDE too. Sharing was not an option. Oh, sharing is fine when it belongs to other people. You were happy to learn all about IDOCs from us, to go to the IDOCs we had spotted, to share in the loot we had recovered, to be told when they fall, and what happens to OSI ones, etc. But you never reported the IDOCs you had found. You just kept those between yourself and Kaisa.
So that is why you were asked to leave. You had shown no affinity to the Gilfane, having hopped your characters back and forth between an allied guild depending on what you thought suited you best. You did not want to be part of the community, unless it suited you. And you left one of the most senior and well-respected members of the guild/shard, who would not hesitate to share her worldly possessions with you, twiddling her thumbs whilst you were in your counting house. In deference to your past service, you were asked to leave rather than officially being booted. But at the end of the day you had become, I think, only the third person ever to have been removed for gross misconduct.
And the real irony was that you could not have picked two better guildmates to have on with you when that place fell. Sara is hardly interested in anything that isn't to do with plants, and Willie just cares about fishing or treasure maps. You could have kept just about everything with no damage to your reputation.
Oh, and...
*tips hat*
