The timing of this absolutely amazes me. We were still working on the kinks last night, and I posted pretty much right after the end of DM was announced, but I’m really pretty happy with how things are turning out. Just before Dyna, Star poked me and said that Arrey, our old dyna leader–he left probably half a year ago? I’ve done a few odd things with him outside of dyna as well, he’s a nice guy–was starting a new dynamis linkshell and was trying to recruit Clim, one of DM’s red mages. Omni also told me that he applied, and was approved, to join another end game linkshell who’s times and lotting rules suit him better.
After Issy made his announcement, I poked Tuabug, a good friend of Arrey and his girlfriend — all 3 used to be in DM. She was shocked that it ended, and we talked about her joining Arrey’s ls…and somehow Star and I ended up seriously considering joinig them as well. He had gotten names of 12-16 people from DM who still wanted to do dynamis, and Arrey’s linkshell was only at 18 people. They’re events are Sun/Thurs rather than Sun/Weds…which really isn’t a huge change, and their dyna runs are at 8pm rather than 9pm–which means I’ll actually get to bed at a decent time (hopefully)!
They’ve yet to start–their first dyna run is scheduled for May 17th. Everyone will be starting off with zero points, and everyone from DM will be accepted, no questions asked. I’m really quite pleased with this — it’s not like our points went to waste, we did get gil for any unspent points. It will be more than half of DM, as well as some old friends we’ve not seen in ages. The very first leader of DM is actually in this ls — I was only in DM with him for maybe 2-3 weeks, so it’ll be nice to get to know him now! I know and respect Arrey, and I adore Rev and Tua, who will both be officers. I’m pretty excited.
For all that I never would have wished that DM would break…this is the best possible outcome, I think. Rather than a mixed leadership with some people that I like and some that I can’t really stand (as well as a few members I don’t care for), and late events I get to trade for fun and approachable leaders and better event times with a mix of current dyna friends and old ones that I’ve missed. Of course, there’ll be a few people I like that don’t switch to this new LS, I’m sure, which is sad :< And I won’t get to do Sea with these people, or any other end game events really…but all things considered I’m pretty content with how things turned out.
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