Hello fellow members of K-9 Corps!

I have removed three of my six toons from the K-9 Corps Supergroup and I was openly criticised for it. There was not enough time to discuss it to an end and I will admit that at the point when everyone including me had to leave to bed or to work I was pretty pissed so it was probably better not to discuss it further at that point anyways. All of that took me very much by surprise and I was very taken aback by that uexpected reply to my actions. There have been some things said to me that I don´t want to be uncommented or unanswered. I also again want to explain why I did what I did since I didn´t really have any chance to do so so far.

Surely I do not recall every detail but one of the first things I recall that was said is that Thor said he felt betrayed and he emphasized that he chose that word on purpose.

This I can not comment much since I honestly don´t really understand it. Were we married and in an exclusive relationship and I´d be fucking around behind your back or would you wear my collar and I´d take it away without any previous mentioning of an issue I could understand this choice of words. I have taken away 3 of 6 toons in an online game. I have deleted and added toons at earlier dates. This is definitely not the first time. I also didn´t ask if everyone would be fine with the fact that I erased Thunderpup and I honestly don´t see why it should have been my duty to do so in any of the adressed cases.

Thor said it is tactless to do so. I can see why it took you by surprise and that was why I wrote that long text in the supergroup window for all of you to see. I wish to create a new supergroup and I am hoping that maybe some toons of yours might join me there. When my puppy told me I left you all very confused I was about to explain further but didn´t come far before the accusations started. But I will gladly explain to all of you why I was doing this later in this text.

I was accused of leaving the team… I am not. The original founder of the team, as I already had written to you in the SG chat, will stay with the team. The German Guardian and Daddy Bear will stay as well and Thunderpup will return as soon as my friend Christoph, who tested the game on my pc and added prestige to our VG by becoming a member, got his own copy of the game and the slot is open again for Thunderpups return.

Some metaphors have been used to describe me. According to them I am acting like someone who takes his toys and leaves for home and I prefer to shoot first and ask later.

Would you have taken time to ask first and have waited a little with shooting at me you would have seen and I would have had the opportunity to explain that I am in no way taking my toys to leave you. If you read on you will see why that is so.

It was said this would be the end of K-9 Corps. I don´t see why this should kill it. K-9 Corps has been growing since the very beginning and I trust it will continue to do so under new leadership. Since prestige was addressed at several points in the conversation I guess that was the main fear. I will admit that I can not change the fact that we will lose the bonus that K-9 Corps got for adding my toons. But all the prestige that I gathered with these toons will stay with the group. The one who will have to struggle to get new prestige for a new base will be me in the new group but hopefully I will get some help.

I was criticized for making the wrong toon the leader. If I understood it correctly cause it is feared demoting him by leaving the group and rejoining would make you lose prestige. No, it doesn´t. I chose the toons of the two people I wanted to be leader of the group. If you have read the SG chat you also know I voted for Thor to become the final leader but I wanted this decision to be made between Thor and Tempest. But since Tempest already rules our world of villainy I would be proud to have Thor as my successor as the new leader of K-9 Corps and I still mean that.

Thor said if he would be me he would first have asked, waited for feedback and then made a move. Well, I am not Thor. I do it my way. And although I agree I could have done it the way Thor suggested I didn´t and I don´t think I deserved to be criticized for doing it different in the way I was. I felt very surprised, offended, hurt and sad about the fact that something that was done with the best intentions was taken so badly and greeted with such a response.

Making Thor and Tempest the leaders of the group and voting for Thor as the new leader was planned as a nice surprise that obviously wasn´t appreciated. I had told my puppy several days ago that I was thinking about some changes without getting further into it. That I did them right now was a spontaneous decision because I had to wait for you outside the hollows and I simply had the time to do it now.

Besides what I already told you in the SG chat this is why I did it:

I  have always loved K-9 Corps since the day I founded it and it is always good to play with the family and have a place to meet which we found on rooftops and since the start of COV in the base we built. But since we live in different timezones we can´t always be online at the same times although I have tried to get up early often to play. But often we play alone and I guess all of us have found friends outside of the SG in the game.

Lately I find more and more of them and sometimes I got invited to add toons to their SGs. Since I had all of my toons in the K-9 Corps I couldn´t do that.

I also couldn’t invite other friends to our group since, like someone told me quite frankly lately, we have a theme to our SG that excludes a lot of people. That doesn´t necessarily have to bother new members and some not into puppyplay or just a dog-related theme have already joined but a straight friend lately told me that he´d love to be in one group with me and my friends but that a group of people into dogplay is just not what he is looking for and I couldn´t really blame him. I want to emphasize here that he didn´t have an issue with us being gay or into dogplay it just didn´t do anything for him.

So one of the reasons why 3 toons left is that I would like to bond with those I play with often. Not only for my own fun in the game. I also thought it might be fun for all of us to be able to get in touch with more people. It was in no way my intention to betray anyone and I regret it that you feel that way.

Another reason is that I also meet people who are gay, into leather but not into K9-play. I´d also like to be able to form groups and coalitions with them plus there are also more aspects of my identity as a leatherman than puppyplay and I wish to be able to express that by forming a new group.

I already told you in the SG chat that I hope to form a coalition with K-9 Corps. This way even my 3 toons will not really be gone but we can enhance the fun of play by having 2 groups, 2 bases and being able to fight together and visit each other.

Why I decided to make Eric and Drew leaders I already explained also why I did it at that time. It was meant as a surprise and I thought you would like it. Obviously I was wrong and it makes me sad that instead I am judged as being indelicate, rash and childish. I also regret that I also made you too much trouble with having to switch leadership of the team to another toon but I assure you it will take less than 5 minutes.

Again, I know, I could have told you before but I didn´t foresee that such issues would arise out of my actions and I still don´t believe I have done something terribly wrong. And in the end I just want to ask you to keep in mind that this is only a game. It is not real life.

In the end I can only hope you will like the changes. I can only hope that you, Thor, want to be the leader of K-9 Corps. I still think you´d be a good one. If not…the Dogfather will be in the base when I am not at the keyboard for a while. Just promote him to be the leader again if you wish to decline the promotion.

A good day to all of you!

Oliver